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Are you insinuating that Dundee operate with a lower playing budget than Thistle? If you are am suggesting you are a bit deluded mate.I would reckon if we took a poll on this topic, there would be an overwhelming result indicating Dundee had the bigger budget. If it makes you feel better to mask your teams under achievement based on low budgets etc. Go for it

please quote the post where anyone suggests Dundee have a lower budget than Partick Thistle, Thank You
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Dunfermline seem like a pretty apt comparison. Top flight regulars and European football around the turn of the century before yo-yoing for a bit and eventually slipping down to the third tier like Leicester.

Aye, but Leicester managed it without being thieving, cheating b*****ds.

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To answer the question .....a team playing in blue and white .... A team that just avoided relegation the previous year (projection required here)....from an eclectic town ......with an eccentric manager ......a team with the letter L in the name ......a team with a scavenging piece of vermin as a mascot ...

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To answer the question .....a team playing in blue and white .... A team that just avoided relegation the previous year (projection required here)....from an eclectic town ......with an eccentric manager ......a team with the letter L in the name ......a team with a scavenging piece of vermin as a mascot ...

KILLIE

Ladbrokes , Betfred, Corals , bet123, 88,125,66 etc prepare to get rooked

 

 

When you factor in that we have a better striker than they do (Magennis > Vardy), a better backup striker (Boyd>Ulloa) and a better goalkeeper (Jamie>Kasper) then I think we are a shoe in.

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When you factor in that we have a better striker than they do (Magennis > Vardy), a better backup striker (Boyd>Ulloa) and a better goalkeeper (Jamie>Kasper) then I think we are a shoe in.

Shoe horn IMO

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In historical terms we've never seen something like Leicester - no club has ever won our top tier after finishing below 10th.

 

These are only cases below 5th:

 

1965-66 - Celtic finished 8th the season before

1961-62 - Dundee finished 10th

1954-55 - Aberdeen finished 9th

1953-54 - Celtic finished 8th

1926-27 - Rangers finished 6th

1903-04 - Third Lanark finished 7th

1902-03 - Hibs finished 6th

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What Leicester have done is magnificent. They've had a perfect storm of conditions. Big teams having transitional seasons, a very competitive league with a lie points tally required, luck with injuries to their key players, recruitment going perfectly.

A middling English team can now afford the players that, given the right set of circumstances and luck, can see this happen. I think it's possible in Scotland but the likes of Dundee winning it up here would be just as big an achievement relatively

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In historical terms we've never seen something like Leicester - no club has ever won our top tier after finishing below 10th.

 

These are only cases below 5th:

 

1965-66 - Celtic finished 8th the season before

1961-62 - Dundee finished 10th

1954-55 - Aberdeen finished 9th

1953-54 - Celtic finished 8th

1926-27 - Rangers finished 6th

1903-04 - Third Lanark finished 7th

1902-03 - Hibs finished 6th

How many teams were in the league then though?

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If Celtic make a hash of their new manager appointment and Rangers fail to adapt to the top division, it's not inconceivable that someone else could win the league if they manage to keep their shit together for the whole season. Aberdeen and Hearts would be best placed to do that, obviously. It would take some serious investment in any other team to sustain a title challenge, even against an ineffective Celtic.

Aberdeen and Hearts are, in the context of the question asked, more of a Scottish Arsenal or Liverpool. 🤓

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Aberdeen and Hearts are, in the context of the question asked, more of a Scottish Arsenal or Liverpool.

I'd say Hearts were like West Ham.

A big club in the capital, that have outgrown their home and are back in the top half of the top flight after having a season in the second tier, mind it was about 3 years ago for West Ham. And they both play in similar colours.

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Celtic - Man United

Aberdeen - Liverpool

Hearts - Chelsea

Hibs - Arsenal

Dundee United - Nottingham Forest

Dundee - Notts County

Rangers - FC United of Manchester/MK Dons

Partick Thistle - Fulham

Motherwell - Crystal Palace

St Johnstone - WBA

IMO

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