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It took me till the 80th minute at Parkhead to be convinced we’re actually aiming for 5th and an extra ECL round and £350k.

Didn’t expect them to alert the authorities we’d thrown it. 2-0 would have done the job.

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So...... here's the current Europa conference league round 2 potential oppoments

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Som easier teams as we will be seeded. Ideally a team like the Wales or RoI teams. If we can build up some momentum then maybe  just maybe, we can make it to the play off round.

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As ever, we would need a couple of good draws to stand a chance. You never know.

But it's worth remembering the 'seeding' can be rather farcical. Our coefficient comes almost entirely from the performance of the Old Firm, two teams who are maybe in our league but are on essentially on another planet. Yes, we could get a real diddy - who knowing us we'd still struggle against! - but the notion we're favourites as 'seeds' to beat the third side from Sweden, second from Slovenia etc, because we have the OF in our league and they don't is obviously absurd.

However, being in Q2 at all gives a much better chance of a 'run' as it will be very, very close for being seeded in Q3. Based on last year's numbers United would be one of the top non-seeds and with the wrong draw you're very much one and done.

 

 

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Following on from the earlier post:

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Budgeted for £1.25m, off the record expected £1.56m, actually got £1.68m.

£430k up

Budgeted for 3x OF at FP, got 4.

£150k up

Good chance of 2x ECL at least

£800k up

Saved wages from players OOC.

£400k approx.

UEFA Solidarity Payments.

£250k rising to £350k if they win.

So on paper £2m to play with, in reality I think the club expected a higher finish than 10th and we did open the wallet last summer so I reckon we have £1m to go raiding with. Certainly think we’ll need it.

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We will learn our fate on the 15th June (a month from tomorrow).

Speaking of the preseason, I wonder if the club will have friendlies again? As in ones with fans. We used to go to Northern Ireland as well as Dalrington as part of the pre season and now we don't have the League cup as our warm up for the league.

 

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I realise that you can pretty much put this down to shipping 6 today and 6 against Rangers (along with the 4 against Celtic at Fir Park) but that's us with the joint 2nd worst goals against column in the league.

By a fucking distance too...

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Here's a nice graphic showing when we've scored/conceded.

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Actually, the home/away split of that data is an eye opener.

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Also, this info on home/away is quite interesting.

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1 hour ago, Phillips455 said:

We will learn our fate on the 15th June (a month from tomorrow).

Speaking of the preseason, I wonder if the club will have friendlies again? As in ones with fans. We used to go to Northern Ireland as well as Dalrington as part of the pre season and now we don't have the League cup as our warm up for the league.

 

Would be foolish not to have a couple especially as you’d hope to do some summer business.

As for the circumstances, would not be surprised if we go warm weather and maybe take the WAG’s along as the closed season this year is so short. Help build the family spirit always mentioned as a thing about the third most hated club.

As for friendlies, I suspect it will be probably be former teammates of Alexander who are now managing themselves.

One thing is a definite, closed doors against St Mirren. Queens Park as a fallback.

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I realise that you can pretty much put this down to shipping 6 today and 6 against Rangers (along with the 4 against Celtic at Fir Park) but that's us with the joint 2nd worst goals against column in the league.
By a fucking distance too...
1034497511_ScreenShot2022-05-14at20_25_27.png.50428f666a68100fc467bcb5ddf766cf.png
Here's a nice graphic showing when we've scored/conceded.
1328144628_ScreenShot2022-05-14at20_27_34.thumb.png.7b9de177eac8004e5d691737b10ec226.png
Actually, the home/away split of that data is an eye opener.
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Also, this info on home/away is quite interesting.
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Looks like very much the "shitfest the first half, go for it after half time, then hold on for dear life" that is #alexanderball. Although admittedly I'm steaming right now so may be interpreting the data wrong [emoji23]
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