Who will be relegated this season

[Caol jag]

Personally I think it's st mirren or hearts

[Caol jag]

How will be

Relegated

[WYNESS101]

St Mirren and County

[ICTPaisley]

Probably just St Mirren.  Hearts are already doing well this season so should sneak out of the danger zone.  Not convinced there is 2 teams in the Championship good enough to be promoted this season so can see the playoff going to the premiership.

[bdu98196]

Midden down with hibs scraping the play off.

[Kingsmills]

Can see St Mirren going down automatically with Hearts surviving via the play offs.

[Biggin]

Certainly not looking good for the Mirren and I think Hearts will survive the play offss

[Alex MacLeod]

Personally I dont think Hearts will even be involved in play-offs. I believe they'll come good enough to make the top of the bottom half. St Mirren is hard to judge. Killie can't score to save themselves and County dont seem to be in it either yet.

[RiG]

Hopefully St. Mirren so we are spared having to watch that brute Goodwin ever again. Hibs look rancid as well.

[Gavroche]

St Mirren. Hearts or Hibs for the play-offs but I think they will stay in Premiership, regardless of who will play the play-offs.

[KingBeastie]

C*unty.

St. Mirren know how to get out of a relegation scrap.

Derek Adams knows how to start a scrap.

[LSimpsonICTFC]

I'd like to see county get relegated but i think st mirren will. I think hearts will stay up. 

[lukemackay]

id say crystal palace are in for a long season, as are sunderland, and hull.

[HeScoresWhenHeWants]

For me it has to be St Mirren unless they can find a new manager soon. Hearts will make the play offs and probably stay up. In EPL I think Crystal Palace, Hull and Fulham will be relegated.

[AJS]

St Mirren for me, looked dejected from day one. Im certainly backing Danny Lennon to be sacked first this season. 

 

County better watch themselves, have started very poorly and dont seem to have the same solidarity about them from last season, for me Adams has tried to make too many changes too soon to a team that was pretty settled. They will probably pick up but you never know.

Edited September 2, 2013 by AJS

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

A lot depends not just on footballing skills but increasingly on financial skills. Remember the parlous state Dunfermline got themselves into last year during the campaign.

 

Our next game against Killie is very important for both teams. If Killie win, that eases pressure on a pretty inexperienced Manager. Lose and the legs will wobble a bit more and the Killie fans will start getting vociferous again about the Board.

 

Heffernan's transfer was quite interesting. He questioned it himself. The suggestion was it was to free up a high wage. Michael Gardyne is a loannee. So cash saved there. I believe Killie suggested Heffernan could not play alongside Porky the Boxer up front. 

 

Killie's finances are probably worse than Dunfermline's and they operate a model very similar I believe with Chairman's guarantee on debt. I could be wrong but even they had issues last year about attendances and cash flow suggesting all was not well behind the scenes. So if we can beat them, they are my tip to go down because in terms of risk under the fair play rules, they are most likely this season to go into administration and be deducted 10 points.

 

We do not know where the Hearts saga will end and whilst they played well against us they have some major financial hurdles to climb. With such a youthful squad, sustaining 34 more league games when the hammerings start to come, as they inevitably will, their great escape will not be easy. They are massively reliant on about 4 experienced players (especially their keeper) some of whom may be subject to bids in the next window. They are ripe for cherry picking.

 

So Hearts remain in a very precarious position. 

Edited September 8, 2013 by CELTIC1CALEY3

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Time for an update.

 

Which teams will finish 11th and 12th? It is certainly lining up to be exciting. Hearts take on Celtic in their next game and sod's law is that Hamell scores in the 29th minute to stop Forster beating Bobby Clark's shut out record by one minute!! However, they remain firm favourites for the Championship. 

 

At present Partick are probably the favourites to join them albeit for a play off. 

[Kingsmills]

Agree. Not only are Partick off form but they seem to have very little luck. Play off candidates in my view.

[KingBeastie]

Agree. Not only are Partick off form but they seem to have very little luck. Play off candidates in my view.

They used a season's worth of luck when they beat us! 

[cantankerousoldgit]

Hearts and County and our attendances will miraculously rise next season. So good riddance.

[Sneckboy]

Hearts obviously down but 2nd-bottom's still wide open. But I think the team who does finish 2nd-bottom will retain still their place over a two-legged play-off.

[Kingsmills]

Hearts obviously down but 2nd-bottom's still wide open. But I think the team who does finish 2nd-bottom will retain still their place over a two-legged play-off.

 

Given the way the play offs have been skewed in favour of the Premiership club, that's very likely.

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

Having a laugh reading some of the comments re hearts staying up from earlier in the season lol