1. Why would St Johnstone or Dundee United focus on a cup final that is 5 weeks away? If anything they will want to pushing up as far as the league as they can because obviously if St Johnstone win the cup then Dundee United will want/need to finish 3rd. I can't see them struggling.
2. Celtic will play a mixed side I would imagine and not a whole team of youngsters. A draw would be a great result IMO.
3. Aberdeen won't be tired if anything they will be focusing on making sure they finish second place.
4. As I said above I can't see Motherwell slumping now because they are on a bit of form at the moment.
For me personally, I would be happy enough with a 4th place finish as it's a bit more cash for ICT than a 5th place finish. If we finish 3rd then absolutely fantastic but as the saying goes whatever will be, will be!
Both teams will not want to get their players injured so they might back off and not try as much so they have a fully fit squad for the final
sure a draw would be great but out of the 3 fixtures we have played them apart from the 5-0 one it has always been close even that one at times we played better football than them, so i would say a win should be our target cause it's very much achievable
After playing yesterday then they won't have the same time we have to train and get fit, plus some still might be angry at the result and put in a bad challenge on his own player
Nah Motherwell will be our hardest game as i said before they still have everything to fight for
1. Why would either team "Not try as much". Our final game of the season vs St Johnstone could be interesting because it will be the week before the final and as you say they could have their eye on the final. In no way will either team not be 100% committed because of the cup final.
2. If we get anything from Parkhead then I will be happy. I agree with you when it's been close games especially the first game at Parkhead where we should have got 3 points.
3. Regardless of playing yesterday, Aberdeen will be like a wounded animal and want to regroup.These guys are professional footballers will be fully fit for Friday and as I said they will want to finish second in the table. I think they are a win or less away from securing 3rd place. We will need to be top of our game which I think we will be after the well needed resting period.
4. Playing away at Fir Park is always a difficult task and they aren't safe to finish 3rd.
I know I am reply to your points and you may think I am being negative - not at all. It was when you said 15 points out of 15 is achievable. Absolutely it can be achievable but it's a tough ask and if we get Europe then great but we've had a great season so far and if we don't get Europe then it won't be the be all and end all. There's always next season
Both teams won't want key players injured for the final i.e. Stevie May so they might not always play him the full 90 minutes
I think celtic will be in holiday mode already so we should win a lot easier
Aberdeen yes will be like a wounded animal so when they are trying really hard we should let them, our defence can cope with it so all we need to do is just break on them and with the pace on the wings we should be fine either way, cause they will be trying to make up for Sunday and they will make mistakes in what they are doing
Fir Park are gonna be our toughest game cause they still have everything still to play for
it will be tough but we can achieve it as long as we start playing the way we did at the start of the season. Next season will be even better all our main players are signed up so we should with a couple of new signings push and achieve europe i would say quite easily