Scottish Premiership Season 2016/17 - 85 Point Target

[Tord31]

We are BACK..... AGAIN!! Let's go 85 points as target again as we know it is a total that has won the Scottish title on a couple of occassions.

 

Derek McInnes record

1st Season: 68 points

2nd Season: 75 points

3rd Season: 71 points

 

So quite a bit of improvement required to come up to the next level BUT we have shown in many spells over those seasons that we are more than capable. If we have one bad result huge importance to make sure it's a one off and as McInnes identifies we need to use the January window to bring fresh guys into the squad to help us maintain the last part of the season which has been a problem for him previously due to reliance on a core group of players.

 

Again break down the 85 points into four manageable chunks. Four 'quarters' of the season being three rounds of 11 games and then the five post split fixtures.

 

The target to achieve the 85 points we'll map out as 25 points from each round of 11 and grabbing 10 points from the post split. Last season we achieved the side target of being at least neutral against Celtic and while we need to aim for this again I don't see it being quite as important (will be a controversial comment I'm sure) this season with Hearts and sevco likely to take points off them also.

 

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A)

Hearts (H)

Partick (H)

Celtic (A)

Caley (H)

Dundee (A)

Rangers (H)

Killie (A)

County (H)

Well (H)
​Hamilton (A)

 

FUCKING THIS TIME. COME ON YOU REDS !!!!

[King Street Loon]

Keep p the good work Tordbot.

[Chewie37]

I really want the team to be looking at this and actually thinking it's doable

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Come on yoooooooooooooooo reds!!

 

All this talk about never having a better chance than the last couple of seasons is pish if you look at it. We just need to approach the sevco games as we do rashellik and try to take more points from them than they take from us. Then the other games take care of themselves like they did last season.

 

If we can take more points from the huns than we took from pish like Inverness last season then that would be a start.

 

Pretty certain the Premiership, Scottish Cup & Challenge Cup are coming home

[Donmacca]

Big factor in achieving 85 points will be the clubs port split form which has been shocking under McInnes but also sure he knows that himself.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

At least that's the 1 draw out the way

[GlezgaRed]

 

 

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

 

 

 

Dropped the losses from that line.....a more positive outlook and will keep the less positive from moaning about achieving a loss.

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

 

TARGET 8 wins - 24 points

 

Partick (H)

Celtic (A)

Caley (H)

Dundee (A)

Rangers (H)

Killie (A)

County (H)

Well (H)

​Hamilton (A)

 

As we can see we are already playing catch up if we have any aspirations of pushing for the title

[robbojunior]

Not playing catch up if we win our next 8

[fine-n-dandy]

Not playing catch up if we win our next 8

True but until we are averaging over 2 points a game we are playing catch up.

 

We are currently well below average

[Dandyesque]

2 draws in place of 2 defeats- 2 points ahead- do the maths

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

 

TARGET 7 wins - 21 points

 

Celtic (A)

Caley (H)

Dundee (A)

Rangers (H)

Killie (A)

County (H)

Well (H)

​Hamilton (A)

 

First league win of the season is a huge relief! Up and running

[fine-n-dandy]

2 draws in place of 2 defeats- 2 points ahead- do the maths

Nothing wrong in what I said. Yours is based on (if) mine is based on what HAS happened.

[CalgaryDon]

2 draws in place of 2 defeats- 2 points ahead- do the maths

 

Thats how I viewed it too. Traditionally we start the season slowly.

[The Boofon]

 

Thats how I viewed it too. Traditionally we start the season slowly.

Traditionally since 1991-1992 we have generally started slowly. However during the years since then we've generally been pish.

 

It's a poor start. Should have 7 points. I can take the opening 0-0 as St Johnstone away is a tricky start. We should not be dropping home points so Hearts was a major disappointment.

[muttonhumper]

2 draws in place of 2 defeats- 2 points ahead- do the maths

 

[Dandyesque]

?

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS

 

TARGET 7 wins - 21 points

 

Caley (H)

Dundee (A)

Rangers (H)

Killie (A)

County (H)

Well (H)

​Hamilton (A)

 

Things are not looking great at the moment. The team don't look as good as last season at the moment

[Bamber]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS

 

TARGET 7 wins - 21 points

 

Caley (H)

Dundee (A)

Rangers (H)

Killie (A)

County (H)

Well (H)

​Hamilton (A)

 

Things are not looking great at the moment. The team don't look as good as last season at the moment

 

That said you say we should be looking for 21pts from 7 games to be on track are there really any games in those 7 that hold any concern?

[fine-n-dandy]

 

That said you say we should be looking for 21pts from 7 games to be on track are there really any games in those 7 that hold any concern?

Without a couple of decent signings all seven of them in all honesty.

 

We are nowhere near ruthless enough to scare any team

[Tord31]

As above we need to fix the midfield in next few days.

 

Would think a strong possibility we'll buy from within the SPFL. Murray Davidson, Tansey maybe

[starryfish]

As above we need to fix the midfield in next few days.

 

Would think a strong possibility we'll buy from within the SPFL. Murray Davidson, Tansey maybe

Would have thought replacements for Flood and Robson would have been sourced by now?

[Dandyesque]

To let Flood go, McInnes must have a few possibilities in mind- we now need to sign 2 of them rather than 1

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS

Caley (H) 1-1 DRAW

Dundee (A) 3-1 WIN

Rangers (H) 2-1 WIN

 

TARGET 4 wins - 12 points

 

Killie (A)

County (H)

​Hamilton (A)

Well (H) TBC

 

A bit behind the run rate but winnable games coming up

 

COYR

[Dynamo]

The Motherwell game has been postponed.

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS

Caley (H) 1-1 DRAW

Dundee (A) 3-1 WIN

Rangers (H) 2-1 WIN

Killie (A) 4-0 WIN

 

TARGET 3 wins - 9 points

 

County (H)

​Hamilton (A)

Well (H) TBC

 

If we could win the 3-4 games before playing Celtic it would fairly set up a cracker to look forward to at Pittodrie.

 

Winnable games so shouldn't be beyond us

County - Hamilton - Morton

[Tord31]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW
Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW
Partick (H) 2-1 WIN
Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS
Caley (H) 1-1 DRAW
Dundee (A) 3-1 WIN
Rangers (H) 2-1 WIN
Killie (A) 4-0 WIN

​County (H) 4-0 WIN

TARGET 2 wins - 6 points

​Hamilton (A)
Celtic (H)

[Chewie37]

Looks doable! Next two matches will be exciting

[Tord31]

18 points after 9 games this season and obviously we were on 24 at that point last season

 

however

 

25 points after 13 games last season.

 

So we should hopefully manage to be better placed...

[The Boofon]

First 11 Matches - TARGET 8 wins and 1 draw - 25 points

 

St Johnstone (A) 0-0 DRAW

Hearts (H) 0-0 DRAW

Partick (H) 2-1 WIN

Celtic (A) 4-1 LOSS

Caley (H) 1-1 DRAW

Dundee (A) 3-1 WIN

Rangers (H) 2-1 WIN

Killie (A) 4-0 WIN

​County (H) 4-0 WIN

 

TARGET 2 wins - 6 points

 

​Hamilton (A)

Celtic (H)

 

 

You cannot count that in the first 11 games min. Has to be the rearranged Motherwell game for fairness otherwise it completely messes up round 2.