Originally Posted by
Red Zone
It might seem like everyone else has regressed but that's not what the league table says. If we assume celtic beat St J at home in their game in hand (your aforementioned sixth place team game in hand) then the league table after 21 matches this season compared with last season as follows (1st number is current year points) for the top 6 plus hibs
celtic 45 v 50
sevco 42 v 39
killie 41 v 25
Aberdeen 39 v 42
hertz 36 v 29
St J 34 v 26
Hibs 29 v 34
So celtic, us and hibs are all down on last year but the others all have more points and in total the top 6 have dropped fewer points this season than last season, hence why it looks more competitive this season.
Having said that, I know what you are saying about regressing as despite us having a reasonably similar points total and exactly the same 34 goals scored, our football has been more brutal (functional maybe a more polite word) this year than last. The loss of Christie and McLean who played really well first half and second half respectively is a lot to do with that as their footballing ability has been replaced with more physical and less skillful midfielders.
We badly need to sign a more skillful midfielder as soon as possible