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No the European slots are awarded on merit, champions first then cup winners but if these are the same the cup runners up take the 4th best slot, does that make sense?

With Utd dropping points, the rest of my predictions sees them edged out of the top 6 by Killie on goal difference. I now have 6 of 11 predictions wrong!

The scores since my guesses now mean that my prediction is 'Well 56 ICT 50 County 48 Utd 46 St J 45 pts Interestingly of the 10 games that have been played since then involving the teams vying for top six I got 5 of the results wrong - thats why i dont gamble

Higdon scored his penalty in the cup

Never saw a slap was it during Higdon's altercation with McPake or was it the reason McFadden went to the Ref later on?

MFCTV has extended highlights which show the stud rake

Do we put him back on penalties now so that he can reach his 25 goal target

Of course I will renew

Ah, so no credible source!

Is that Is that correct, a top six payment is physically made at the point of the split, just assumed the benefit is that the end year payout has a guaranteed minimum and therefore there was some certainty going forward.

The difference between 6th and 9th could be around £150,000 which could be one or two salaries or could be an extra £20k on the offer made to 3 or 4 key players.

I fully understand the point about playing teams with smaller supports but even more reason to strive for a higher league finish to maximise the money earned by league placing.

How has the place money been diluted, surely even 6th place pays more than 7th.

Utd can only get 48

I see Saunders came on in 90th minute, was this in an effort to hold what we had in the last few minutes, if only that tactic had been used in the two previous visits to Aberdeen.

Yup, a draw on Friday should see us over the line on goal difference. In my speculative scores I obviously didn't have Ross County winning today, in my scenario St Johnston would now drop out the top six and be replaced by County

So to summarise, he has said that Motherwell have good players and if Rangers are looking for good players they should look at the ones that are out of contact at Motherwell. He hasn't exactly revealed any secrets or dissed any of our players or our club. I guess it just takes a bit more than a Mark Hateley article to get me worked up.

Yes, that was my point too. We need to be careful to use valid arguments when making a point and not mis-represent the facts. I know this is an Internet forum but if we are passionate about an issue we should get it right. For me the thing that is missing is the confirmation of what will happen in subsequent years. If this is a first step to a fairer distribution then I can see some of the logic to it, most teams will do better out of this set up than they would from the previous one. How much of our anger is because we have a shot at second place. Are Dundee fans angry? None of this addresses the issue that the communication has been poor on this but I am prepared to give our club the benefit of the doubt that they have a better view of the bigger picture than I do.

How does every other team get ther money reduced?

If only he had struck 20 goals against Hearts on Saturday

Tonight's result means St Mirren ( as well as Dundee and Hearts) cannot catch us for top six. A draw on Saturday takes out Aberdeen. Small victories but it keeps me happy.

The first of my speculative scores was wrong, I had Saints down to draw tonight, doesn't change the final six.

Because we didn't expect to sign McFadden?

Just worked out some speculative scores for these last games and we go into the split in 2nd then ICT, Utd, St J, Hibs Could be oh so different tho

So how many has he scored this season? A bbc report quotes 18, a stats site I looked at quotes 19, and people on here are saying 20. I haven't gone back and counted.