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  9. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    I've never really understood why Celtic Rangers games can't just be organised separately.  Let them play each other twice in the league and then let them play additionally wherever and whenever they want, as many times as they want. Take it around the world for all I care, in a big angry petty travelling circus. Sky will pay because there's enough grunty people want to watch it. Call it the Two Cheeks Trophy Challenge Tour. 

     

    You don't get this out-of-the-box thinking from Doncaster

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  10. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    As I've said before, the premier teams have just as many games to play between now and then as the team finishing second. And after Sunday's result there's every chance that their regular season will go down to the wire, and the Premier team coming into the playoff will be off the back of a bruising experience 

  14. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    So it's debatable whether our playoff spot is now "secured" or otherwise,  but obviously we're nearly there, and third place over Airdrie is now the main question. That question is unlikely to be settled until the very last game.

    I'm wondering what Kris Doolan should do now. Our squad is incredibly stretched, Brian Graham is playing every minute, some other key players not looking their sharpest. 

    The playoffs are obviously bruising and personally I don't think we're currently in shape to get through them. Though a late season drop off to 4th place would do nothing for morale.

    Would you:

    (a) Prioritise 3rd place and continue with the strongest 11 available through to the end of the regular season, or

    (b) Rotate the squad, even if it means trialling a few very inexperienced players, to give key players a chance to recover and focus on the playoffs?

    I think I'd go for the second option. I might be tempted go full strength against Airdrie just to give us the best chance, but regardless of that result I think I'd use the last two games as a reset opportunity, and que sera on 3rd place. Appreciate the financial implications, but I think performance in the playoffs has to be the priority.

  15. The King Of The Slams

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    Currently 9 points ahead of Dunfermline and 9 points ahead of Ayr United, with 3 games left and a healthy advantage in goal difference over both.

    Every single goal in the Slam and Hogan is essential to our current position. 

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  16. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    4 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:

    To make it a bit easier, it is only 3 games. Very unlikely, but can’t quite guarantee it yet. This is the Jags we are talking about 

    I mean it's six games as in we have three and they have three. The goal difference would accumulate over all six games. Wee bit more complicated than that as we play Ayr (so that games counts double? :thinking:)

    Anyway, either way, I reckon we'll get there. Don't fancy us when we do, but who knows

  17. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    4 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:

    Not quite 1 more point to be certain.

    Strictly speaking yes. And I'll be honest and say I'd forgotten about Ayr United, and their goal difference took a huge boost today. 

    But overturning a 14 or 15 goal difference in 6 games,  which is what Dunfermline or Ayr would have to do, is a big ask. I'm an anxious football fan, but even I'm saying that's never going to happen.

  19. Taking on the WringRaiths

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    Posted · Edited by allyo

    6 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said:

    Not quite. We need to get 2 points more than Dunfermline to be secured. If we draw and they lose, they can still draw level on points 

    Technically yes. But a 14 goal difference is a lot to overturn in just 6 games.

  22. Pars v. Partick - 6 April 2024

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    4 hours ago, exiledjag said:

    Winning the final game of last season and finishing second would have meant playing two fewer games in this daft and unfair play-off syetem.

    I am convinced finishing second would have meant promotion.

    The first signs of fatigue I noticed were in the second half of the home game v Ross County followed by our 'late collapse' at Dingwall.

    Okay I have to bite.

    What is daft or unfair about our playoff system? It rewards finishing second over 3rd or 4th which seems fair enough to me. It equates to a 15% promotion ratio per league size, which is reasonable. And it equalises the number of league games to be played by the Premier team and the second placed team (if they make it), to 38 games. A 3rd or 4th placed team plays just two more. And when we finish our regular season on 3rd May, the Premier teams will still have four post split (usually competitive) games to play before the playoff final on 23rd.

    If you finish 3rd or 4th in a league of 10 it should be very difficult to succeed through playoffs. The current 4th placed team has only won one more game than it has lost. 

    I accept that it's difficult for a team in 3rd or 4th. I don't accept that it's unfair

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