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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.

We haven't won 1-0 all season!

The smoke bombs did not add to the atmosphere, they just caused a reduction of visibility, a terrible smell and attracted the attention of the stewards. The singing added to the atmosphere, the smoke bombs were an own goal. Although I never saw that one was thrown at a steward I thought they were each let off within the crowd.

I can understand McFadden and Fitzpatrick (out of contact) and O'Brien (visiting family?), but why would Slane be training with us?

One night out planned all year (so far) happens to be Friday 15th March

9 days instead of 10?

Against St Johnstone he made a great run with the ball right down the middle of the park from left back, if Murphy had played the 1--2 he would have tapped it in from the six yard box (Murphy put it narrowly wide). The exposure he is getting to the first team can only make him a better player and if he continues to progress I would have no issues with him as a regular.

That stats website that was posted tells me that we haven't lost a league game that we have scored in but equally we have had to score 2 goals at least to win any game. Interesting.

Had a good enough game away to Dundee United

Consensus that he should stay then