Last year the answer was
Win league
Qualify for champions league
Win scottish cup
Win league cup
Qualify for Europa league
Now that no. 2 has been achieved it moves to no. 4
The debate on the other thread is comparing a period of time for us to a one off event for St Mirren, on balance the sum of our high points in the past 6 years outweigh the equivalent period for Saints.
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
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.
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.