KILMARNOCK
May be one of the most inconsistent teams in the league but in Jim Jeffries and Billy Brown they have the most experienced and shrewdest managerial team of the lot. They also have in Kevin Kyle the one player of genuine quality plying his trade in the nether regions of the SPL. For those reasons, I believe that Killie will rally to finish in 8th place.
ICT
If I was making this prediction 8 weeks ago I would, without doubt, have tipped us to finish the season rock bottom with 2 trips to Dingwall to look forward to next season. However, Butcher and Malpas have brought the sort of managerial nous so obviously lacking in the pervious management team and that, combined with the shrewd aquisitions made, to be fair partly by Brewster, during the January window should be enough to keep us up possibly with a few points to spare just as long as nobody becomes complacent and the players continue to focus and graft for 90 minutes of every match.
ST MIRREN
Possibly have the poorest squad in the bottom 5 and will not be helped by the fact that the talismatic effect of being previously unbeaten at their new ground has now gone but with Dorman and Dargo they carry a bit of a goal threat and are likely to have three home games post split. For those two reasons I believe the Buddies will narrowly escape the drop and finish 10th.
FALKIRK
Despite the fact that they have beaten us twice recently, the second time comprehensively to say the least ! I believe that Falkirk are the least effective team in the league and now that Brewster is in Semi retirement at Victoria Park they have the poorest manager who seems to have lost the confidence of the majority of the players and the vast majority of the fans. The Bairns are in great danger of playing first division football and may only be saved by the fact that Hamilton are in freefall. I predict that they may well survive by the skin of their teeth in 11th spot with their superior goal difference possibly being crucial.
HAMILTON
I don't think that Accies are the worst team in the league and, in my opinion they have a very competent manager but, unfortunately for them they are on the sort of horrendous run that we were on in the final dark days of the Brewster era. They can't find a single goal just now never mind a point. All teams, especially towards the bottom, have bad runs but Hamilton's has come at just the wrong time. Despite the fact that they currently top the feeble 5 confidence at New Douglas Park must be rock bottom, the team are young and lack a sufficient number of wise old heads which Falkirk have in abundance. For that reason I believe that Hamilton will be this season's fall guys.
In what order do you predict the teams will finish ?