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1 minute ago, medals said:

Our home form as we all know has been right up there. Here's the stats.

Home table

    GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Celtic 12 12 0 0 37 7 +30 36
2 Rangers 12 10 2 0 32 7 +25 32
3 Hearts 12 8 1 3 28 19 +9 25
4 St. Mirren 12 7 4 1 16 8 +8 25
5 Aberdeen 12 7 1 4 27 13 +14 22
6 Hibernian 12 6 3 3 24 14 +10 21
7 Kilmarnock 12 6 3 3 16 17 -1 21
8 Livingston 11 5 3 3 10 10 0 18
9 Dundee Utd 12 4 1 7 15 22 -7 13
10 Ross County 13 3 3 7 13 22 -9 12
11 St. Johnstone 11 3 2 6 12 14 -2 11
12 Motherwell 11 1 3 7 10 19 -9 6

Jeez, didn't realise Motherwell were so bad at home. We had a terrible spell at home after moving to the new ground, seemed to hardly ever win there. This is probably the first time in my life where we can almost use the word 'fortress'.

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The away table not so great but improving. Some surprises though e.g. the Fakes and Motherwell.

Away table

    GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Celtic 12 10 1 1 37 10 +27 31
2 Rangers 12 8 2 2 24 15 +9 26
3 St. Johnstone 13 5 1 7 16 24 -8 16
4 Motherwell 12 4 2 6 16 16 0 14
5 Hearts 12 3 5 4 14 15 -1 14
6 Livingston 12 4 2 6 14 23 -9 14
7 Hibernian 12 3 1 8 12 24 -12 10
8 Ross County 11 2 3 6 6 14 -8 9
9 St. Mirren 11 2 2 7 10 24 -14 8
10 Dundee Utd 11 1 4 6 10 18 -8 7
11 Aberdeen 12 2 1 9 9 33 -24 7
12 Kilmarnock 12 0 2 10 4 24 -20 2
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2 hours ago, medals said:

The away table not so great but improving. Some surprises though e.g. the Fakes and Motherwell.

Away table

    GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Celtic 12 10 1 1 37 10 +27 31
2 Rangers 12 8 2 2 24 15 +9 26
3 St. Johnstone 13 5 1 7 16 24 -8 16
4 Motherwell 12 4 2 6 16 16 0 14
5 Hearts 12 3 5 4 14 15 -1 14
6 Livingston 12 4 2 6 14 23 -9 14
7 Hibernian 12 3 1 8 12 24 -12 10
8 Ross County 11 2 3 6 6 14 -8 9
9 St. Mirren 11 2 2 7 10 24 -14 8
10 Dundee Utd 11 1 4 6 10 18 -8 7
11 Aberdeen 12 2 1 9 9 33 -24 7
12 Kilmarnock 12 0 2 10 4 24 -20 2

Tbf there is only a difference of two or so wins between us and 3rd

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7 minutes ago, smellthepaw said:

Tbf there is only a difference of two or so wins between us and 3rd

Until just after Christmas we had only taken points in 1 away game, post Christmas 4 away games have seen us get points in 3 of them. 
Our season was always going to turn on what pattern maintained longer, good home form or poor away form. 
 

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1 hour ago, smellthepaw said:

Tbf there is only a difference of two or so wins between us and 3rd

So we have a game in hand to Hearts against Motherwell which could take us to within 3 points of them in 3rd - its hard to believe. 

Before then we play Hibs on Saturday while Hearts are at home to Utd. 

So even if we beat Hibs and Motherwell, if Hearts win and continue to do so, it could take more than a few wins to overtake them.

Let's not kid ourselves, 4th would be incredible. For 3rd to happen Hearts would need to drop off a bit or we'd need to up our points average enough.

And we cannot discount Livingston, or others if we don't take wins.

It's just brilliant that we're up there and competing for the top 6, and Europe for a change.

Who laughed at Tony?

 

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2 minutes ago, medals said:

So we have a game in hand to Hearts against Motherwell which could take us to within 3 points of them in 3rd - its hard to believe. 

Before then we play Hibs on Saturday while Hearts are at home to Utd. 

So even if we beat Hibs and Motherwell, if Hearts win and continue to do so, it could take more than a few wins to overtake them.

Let's not kid ourselves, 4th would be incredible. For 3rd to happen Hearts would need to drop off a bit or we'd need to up our points average enough.

And we cannot discount Livingston, or others if we don't take wins.

It's just brilliant that we're up there and competing for the top 6, and Europe for a change.

Who laughed at Tony?

 

Top six still has to be the only priority for now. There are 10 games (for us) until that split.

I don't even want to consider anything beyond that for now. It's quite feasible that there will be a team in the top six that loses every game and scuppers all chances of finishing in the European places so lets not be getting too far in front of ourselves.

Let's finally get over that line and if we get there, worry about what ramifications are there to finish as high as we possibly can.

These times don't come around often for clubs like ours and they invariably don't last long when they do, if we can get a couple of seasons of being one of the better sides in the country, it would be long overdue.

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8 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

Top six still has to be the only priority for now. There are 10 games (for us) until that split.

I don't even want to consider anything beyond that for now. It's quite feasible that there will be a team in the top six that loses every game and scuppers all chances of finishing in the European places so lets not be getting too far in front of ourselves.

Let's finally get over that line and if we get there, worry about what ramifications are there to finish as high as we possibly can.

These times don't come around often for clubs like ours and they invariably don't last long when they do, if we can get a couple of seasons of being one of the better sides in the country, it would be long overdue.

Yes, it's typical of St Mirren fans (myself included) to always fear the worst. Never believe it will happen until every hurdle has been jumped.

After all, we have a few out with injuries already (Ayunga, Shaunessy, Tait). So we're only a few more injuries away from a crisis.

Oh, the life of a St Mirren supporter !!

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9 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Yes, it's typical of St Mirren fans (myself included) to always fear the worst. Never believe it will happen until every hurdle has been jumped.

After all, we have a few out with injuries already (Ayunga, Shaunessy, Tait). So we're only a few more injuries away from a crisis.

Oh, the life of a St Mirren supporter !!

Not going to lie, I'm still looking at our 33 points and my first instinct is that we need another six to make sure for definite that we don't finish in the bottom two.

It's impossible not to be like that. It's conditioned in at this point.

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19 hours ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

Observations from me….

1. Guni was from Finland. News to me.

2. Griff sold the jerseys when he duffed his specialist round.

3. The Hull City boy needs to get out more. He was a freak. 
 

It wisnae my specialist round , I stepped in for someone that didn't turn up . My Specialist round was St Mirren 1976 - 77 season , I was magnificent .

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2 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

Not going to lie, I'm still looking at our 33 points and my first instinct is that we need another six to make sure for definite that we don't finish in the bottom two.

It's impossible not to be like that. It's conditioned in at this point.

Join the club. I look at it tables and go, oh wait only 13 points off the bottom.

Then I realise that Motherwell and Dundee United have taken 23 games to get 7 more points than that!

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14 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

Not going to lie, I'm still looking at our 33 points and my first instinct is that we need another six to make sure for definite that we don't finish in the bottom two.

It's impossible not to be like that. It's conditioned in at this point.

Safe by the split, whether that meant top or bottom six was always my primary ambition and I don’t think we have ever achieved it, apart from the shortened 19/20 season. 

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16 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

Not going to lie, I'm still looking at our 33 points and my first instinct is that we need another six to make sure for definite that we don't finish in the bottom two.

4 minutes ago, flyingscot said:

Join the club. I look at it tables and go, oh wait only 13 points off the bottom.

Then I realise that Motherwell and Dundee United have taken 23 games to get 7 more points than that!

2 minutes ago, DumbartonBud said:

Safe before the split, whether that meant top or bottom six was always my primary ambition and I don’t think we have ever achieved it, apart from the shortened 19/20 season. 

Oh man, maybe we should have budgeted for 10th 😂

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11 minutes ago, DumbartonBud said:

Safe by the split, whether that meant top or bottom six was always my primary ambition and I don’t think we have ever achieved it, apart from the shortened 19/20 season. 

2011/112 was pretty comfortable. We had 35 points pre-split and 2 teams didn't get above that!

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5 hours ago, djchapsticks said:

Put this in the Hibs match thread by mistake.

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Fab really does love a St. Mirren tweet, it's now clear to see.

Yeah he's not going even for 7 figures.

Hope there is not a buy-out clause, and that a contract extension will be on the table and signed at the end of this season.

First impressions pre-season were worrying. Now though, he's the man.

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