KnightswoodBear Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 23 minutes ago, Romeo said: ...... Open goal and you've ballooned it over the bar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBo10 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Ah, sorry.Don’t be. If it wasn’t for that, your explanation would have been the end of my curiosity. Very poor performance tonight. Everything was very slow and to an extent predictable. Only bright side I could take would be if it dampens the hype around the season so far. The reaction from the team on Saturday will tell us a lot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Couldn't do the gif on my phone...[emoji36] Open goal and you've ballooned it over the bar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, Romeo said: Couldn't do the gif on my phone... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Treble, three trophies...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) Running through some numbers for the league (feel free to correct if any of those numbers are out): We currently sit on 47 points from 17 games. Celtic have 34 from 15. During our collapse last year, we averaged 1.7 points per game (17 from 10 games). Celtics recent collapse has earned them 1.5 points per game (9 from 6 games so far). Celtic can earn a max. points total of 103 points. We can earn a max points total of 110. If we averaged 2 points per game from now until the end of the season (which would be winning our homes and drawing away, and wouldn't be good form), we'd be on 89 points. If two of those wins were in the Old Firm games at Ibrox, Celtics maximum points total would be reduced to 97. Draw the one at Parkhead and they're down to 95. The Old Firm games are going to be so important in deciding who wins this league. If we win 2 and draw 1, Celtic basically have to win out to win the league, even if we go on a pretty bad run of form. Edited December 17, 2020 by G51 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, G51 said: Running through some numbers for the league (feel free to correct if any of those numbers are out): We currently sit on 47 points from 17 games. Celtic have 34 from 15. During our collapse last year, we averaged 1.7 points per game (17 from 10 games). Celtics recent collapse has earned them 1.33 points per game (9 from 6 games so far). Celtic can earn a max. points total of 103 points. We can earn a max points total of 110. If we averaged 2 points per game from now until the end of the season (which would be winning our homes and drawing away, and wouldn't be good form), we'd be on 89 points. If two of those wins were in the Old Firm games at Ibrox, Celtics maximum points total would be reduced to 97. Draw the one at Parkhead and they're down to 95. The Old Firm games are going to be so important in deciding who wins this league. If we win 2 and draw 1, Celtic basically have to win out to win the league, even if we go on a pretty bad run of form. 9 points from 6 games is 1.5 ppg. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, Ranaldo Bairn said: 9 points from 6 games is 1.5 ppg. Jesus aye. Can you tell I woke up without my brain working properly this morning? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, G51 said: Running through some numbers for the league (feel free to correct if any of those numbers are out): We currently sit on 47 points from 17 games. Celtic have 34 from 15. During our collapse last year, we averaged 1.7 points per game (17 from 10 games). Celtics recent collapse has earned them 1.33 points per game (9 from 6 games so far). Celtic can earn a max. points total of 103 points. We can earn a max points total of 110. If we averaged 2 points per game from now until the end of the season (which would be winning our homes and drawing away, and wouldn't be good form), we'd be on 89 points. If two of those wins were in the Old Firm games at Ibrox, Celtics maximum points total would be reduced to 97. Draw the one at Parkhead and they're down to 95. The Old Firm games are going to be so important in deciding who wins this league. If we win 2 and draw 1, Celtic basically have to win out to win the league, even if we go on a pretty bad run of form. I think 95 points for us is the golden number. Get there and I think we will win the league. So with 21 games remaining, we'd need 48 points. Can we win the equivalent of 16 games out of our next 21? That would work out to be 2.29 points per game. I believe we should have 11 of our remaining 21 games at home so our home form has to remain solid for us to make it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, AJF said: I think 95 points for us is the golden number. Get there and I think we will win the league. So with 21 games remaining, we'd need 48 points. Can we win the equivalent of 16 games out of our next 21? That would work out to be 2.29 points per game. I believe we should have 11 of our remaining 21 games at home so our home form has to remain solid for us to make it. Yeah, by my reckoning winning 5 of our remaining 10 away games should get us there, assuming the home form holds up. Our away games: St Johnstone St MIrren Aberdeen Motherwell HIbernian Hamilton Livingston Celtic 2 post-split games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, G51 said: Yeah, by my reckoning winning 5 of our remaining 10 away games should get us there, assuming the home form holds up. Our away games: St Johnstone St MIrren Aberdeen Motherwell HIbernian Hamilton Livingston Celtic 2 post-split games. Yeah, I think the ones in bold have to be games we make sure we win regardless. Then focus on picking up 2/3 wins from the remaining 6. If we drop points in any of the bold ones above then I think we will be making it difficult for ourselves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, AJF said: Yeah, I think the ones in bold have to be games we make sure we win regardless. Then focus on picking up 2/3 wins from the remaining 6. If we drop points in any of the bold ones above then I think we will be making it difficult for ourselves. I really don't think we win at Livingston. Old Firm teams have a terrible league record at the Spaghettihad. P7 W2 D3 L2. We got the two wins - Celtic haven't beaten Livi away from home since they came up to the top league. A win at Fir Park feels more likely than a win at Livi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 8 minutes ago, G51 said: I really don't think we win at Livingston. Old Firm teams have a terrible league record at the Spaghettihad. P7 W2 D3 L2. We got the two wins - Celtic haven't beaten Livi away from home since they came up to the top league. A win at Fir Park feels more likely than a win at Livi. Yeah, I think Motherwell and Livi can be interchangeable but regardless, I think we NEED to win one of them along with the others I mentioned. It's going to be a tall order regardless. I believe (hope) however, that the required total will be less than 95 though. Even if we were to draw 2 of our last 3 remaining fixtures v Celtic, they would essentially need to win 19 and draw 2 in their remaining fixtures to reach 95 points. While not unachievable, I think they'd struggle with that as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, AJF said: Yeah, I think Motherwell and Livi can be interchangeable but regardless, I think we NEED to win one of them along with the others I mentioned. It's going to be a tall order regardless. I believe (hope) however, that the required total will be less than 95 though. Even if we were to draw 2 of our last 3 remaining fixtures v Celtic, they would essentially need to win 19 and draw 2 in their remaining fixtures to reach 95 points. While not unachievable, I think they'd struggle with that as well. Celtic are a chaos machine, it's almost impossible to predict what they'll do next. Their away fixtures: Hamilton Rangers LIvingston Kilmarnock St Johnstone Dundee United Ross County 3 from 5 post split, which I think will be us, Aberdeen and Hibs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 13 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: Treble, three trophies...... Did her triple anal penetration video survive the Pornhub purge? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik's tongue Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 If Rangers blow this seasons league title it’ll be the biggest slip since Stevie G slipped in the EPL. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 15 minutes ago, Henrik's tongue said: If Rangers blow this seasons league title it’ll be the biggest slip since Stevie G slipped in the EPL. Well, we do have previous for it. I'm sure in the 11/12 season we had a 15 point lead at one point, only to utterly collapse and finish well beaten in second. Of course, there were some additional factors in play that year but we were done before any points deduction was applied. More recently however, I get the feeling Gerrard has the team a little more head-strong compared to the last couple of campaigns. I'd be extremely surprised (and heartbroken) if we suffered a similar collapse this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Guys, you've had basically one bad performance and it coincided with us being on a bit of a streak and actually playing well against you for once. Absolutely zero chance you're not winning this league. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 The SPI Index at FiveThirtyEight calculates an 87% chance of Rangers winning and a 13% chance of Celtic winning it. I think that's too low on Celtic. But it does illustrate how much of a hole they've dug for themselves. I said earlier Celtic are a chaos machine and the effect of that is you never know what you're going to get from them. Celtic selling the likes of Edouard and Ajer in January would lower their ceiling quite significantly though. I'd obviously be gutted if we didn't win the league from here, but if we didn't it would mean Gerrard wasn't the right guy and it would allow Wilson to bring in his own manager. Which I'd completely trust him to do - he's the guy who brought Hassenhuttl to Southampton. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sortmeout Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, G51 said: are a chaos machine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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