Now that pre season is complete, how about having a go at predicting the final 'Premiership' table with a view to seeing who gets it closest come May. Personally, I see Dundee being a bit of a surprise package while we succumb further to  efforts to make us play in a style which is outdated and to which we are unsuited so my prediction is;

 

Celtic

Aberdeen

Dundee United

Motherwell

Dundee

St Johnstone

Ross County

Partick

ICT

St Mirren

Hamilton

Kilmarnock

Celtic

Aberdeen

Motherwell

Dundee United

St Johnstone

Dundee

St Mirren

Hamilton

Ross County

ICT

Partick Thistle

Kilmarnock

C*unty to be relegated.

6th or 7th for us I feel.

 

I'll go for:

 

Celtic

Motherwell

Aberdeen

Dundee Utd

Dundee

St. J

ICT

St. Mirren

Partick

Hamilton

Killie

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1. Celtic
2. Aberdeen
3. Motherwell
4. Dundee Utd
5. St Johnstone
6. Inverness CT
7. St Mirren
8. Kilmarnock
9. Dundee
10. Partick
11. Hamilton
12. Ross Co

1. Celtic

2. Aberdeen

3. Motherwell 

4. ICT

5. St. Johnstone

6. Dundee United

7. Dundee 

8. Kilmarnock

9. St. Mirren 

10. C*unty 

11. Hamilton

12. Partick Thistle

Celtic

Aberdeen

Motherwell

Dundee United

St Johnstone

Dundee

St Mirren

Hamilton

Ross County

ICT

Partick Thistle

Kilmarnock

 

Brave.  You are the first to put the "who put the O and Y in County?" above us!

Considering the way Yogi wants the team playing, and the players we have, I will be happy if we stay clear of any potential relegation places. On the other hand, if he can sort out our decisions in the final third I would be looking to 5th or 6th place.

Edited August 5, 201410 yr by caleyboy

Celtic

Aberdeen

Motherwell

Dundee United

St Johnstone

Dundee

St Mirren

Hamilton

Ross County

ICT

Partick Thistle

Kilmarnock

 

Brave.  You are the first to put the "who put the O and Y in County?" above us!

Read the first post on the thread .

 

 

Celtic

Aberdeen

Motherwell

Dundee United

St Johnstone

Dundee

St Mirren

Hamilton

Ross County

ICT

Partick Thistle

Kilmarnock

 

Brave.  You are the first to put the "who put the O and Y in County?" above us!

Read the first post on the thread .

 

 

Ooops. 

I don't see where all the pessimism is coming from. I went to the Fleetwood game and was impressed by the way we controlled the game - if we can do that we will create chances and score goals with Doran's and Christie's in the team. I am unimpressed by rival clubs transfer business - whereas we've retained our key players. I can see another successful year ahead - and hopefully a trophy! But I suppose you morbid souls will think I've been on the happy juice!!!

1.Celtic

2.Aberdeen

3. St.Johnstone

4.ICT

5.Dundee United

6.Motherwell

7. Dundee

8.Kilmarnock

9. St Mirren

10. Ross C**nty

11. Partick Thistle

12. Hamilton

1.Celtic

2.Aberdeen

3.Dundee United

4.ICT

5.St Johnstone

6.Ross County

7.Motherwell

8.Dundee

9.Kilmarnock

10.Partick Thistle

11.St Mirren

12.Hamilton

Bump!

Well, this is embarrassing!

I'm sure I'm not the only one that totally underestimated Hamilton. I also had County as having a comfortable season. Plenty can happen yet, but it's always interesting to look back at your predictions! but, happily, I'd forgotten I had us for a top-six finish, but I didn't see the demise of Motherwell.

Scrolling down, I think most folk would have been stunned at 'well not being top 6, let alone in a relegation battle!

Yip. As the OP I have cause to be more embarrassed and more surprised than most.

Can't remember why I didn't risk embarrassing myself with a prediction, but I see that Dougal predicted we would be 10th behind County and Hamilton would be bottom.  Perhaps that is why he has been so quiet recently. 

A quick look at this and it seems that everybody (except one*) got five of the top-six correct. Motherwell being the team to 'let down' most predictions.

 

*That one person was CELTIC1CALEY3, who accurately predicted all 6 clubs!

 

Will re-visit this at the end of the season and see who was most accurate for the whole final table, in terms of clubs' finishing positions.

Not only has AJS 'penned' a song for ICT's final - he's only gone and won the prediction competition!!!

 

He had the most correct 'finishing positions' from the pre-season predictions, with 6! A few others got 5, but nobody beat AJS!

 

1. Celtic

2. Aberdeen

3.

4.

5.

6. Dundee

7.

8. Partick Thistle

9. Ross County

10. Kilmarnock

11.

12.

*hangs head in embarrassment*

However, on a 'most overall accurate' system, the winner would be lukemackay. (despite having only 2 correct!)

This, despite being the only person not to have Celtic winning the league!!!

This system is quite simple - the fewer points accumulated, the better. e.g.  ICT finished 3rd. If you predicted they'd finish 5th, you'd accumulate 2 points.

lukemackay's pre-season forecast:

ICT
Celtic
Aberdeen
Dundee utd
Motherwell
St Johnstone
Dundee
Partick
Hamilton
County
Killie
St Mirren

Will post the 'breakdown' in a second. Apologies for errors and/or omissions.

*hangs head in embarrassment*

Not as abjectly as I hang mine.....

Edited May 26, 201510 yr by Sneckboy

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Love it! Btw ... Just wondering ... did you used to appear in a paisley patterned dressing gown on a programme with a football slant presented by Frank Skinner and David Baldiel?

Statto?! Aye, he made my coffee!  That was a wonderful program - un-miss-able! (no catch-up TV or YouTube then!)

Skinner & Baddiel... and Statto!!!

Fantasy Football League!

Phoenix from the flames....legendary!

Edited May 26, 201510 yr by Sneckboy

Statto?! Aye, he made my coffee!  That was a wonderful program - un-miss-able! (no catch-up TV or YouTube then!)

Skinner & Baddiel... and Statto!!!

Fantasy Football League!

Phoenix from the flames....legendary!

A few times I've searched in vain for the sketch with one of them dressed up as Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma with the words that went something like

"We hoped so much that Italy had learned a lot from Germany.

We thought they'd play like Klinsmann, Sammer -

Instead they played like Kuntz."

 

1. Celtic
2. Aberdeen
3. Motherwell
4. Dundee Utd
5. St Johnstone
6. Inverness CT
7. St Mirren :laugh:
8. Kilmarnock
9. Dundee
10. Partick
11. Hamilton
12. Ross Co

 

Some great shouts there.

I simply feel that we have the squad to be Top Six again. I am also confident that we will have another good Cup run.

The best predictions are the simple Seer ones