Think one of those left backs has to be able to cover the right. Would also say anchor midfielder can wait til summer, we just need to rotate Shinnie/Nilsen and put Polvara or Palaversa next to them. Stewart may be worth a look at anchor? Blair Mckenzie recalled as 1 CB?

How have we fallen behind Switzerland? If we started the week ahead of them then our 2 draws and their 1 win would give us equal coefficient points and keep us ahead?

Gap is currently 4 pts. Rangers playing 5/8 away from home with Celtic being one of the home games, I don't expect them to close the gap before the 15th.

Rangers league fixtures for same period:
County (A)
Dundee (H)
St Mirren (A)
Motherwell (A)
Celtic (H)
Hibs (A)
Dundee (A)
St J (H)

Aberdeen league fixtures before Ibrox:
St J (H)
Hibs (H)
Killie (A)
Dun Utd (A)
County (H)
Motherwell (A)
Hearts (H)

Ah OK so comparing him vs Devlin, McGarry, Milne from this season and maybe some past season full back data for us as well? Be interesting to see how our average compares with other teams averages for the same roles/positions if that works.

This looks really interesting, just trying to wrap my head around what each stat means and at what point figure players can be deemed a good match for their role. Like why is Mackenzie a bad fit as a full back and what is the best role for him based on the model?

Having pitchside interviews in that weather would have been funny.

Is this based purely on this season's figures?

Celtic are simply not going to drop enough points for someone to challenge them this year. They look capable of hitting 100pts sadly.

Looking at fixtures, Stuttgart and PSG are probably the only sides not in the top 24 who could overtake Celtic. Not obvious who drops out of the 24 for those 2 sides though and feels like 9pts won't be enough to go through.

To get to 85 (2nd place last season) we need a PPG of 2.12 in remaining fixtures but I don't expect 2nd to need as many points as that this season given Rangers form (currently at 1.92 PPG compared with 2.38 last season).

As bad as that 3rd goal was, you have to credit Hibs for not folding when Sokler scored. For a team in their positon and having only just got level, I was shocked they still had some fight in them (sadly so was our entire team).

Not sure, feel like neither team has done enough. Draw a better reflection. We are lacking energy.

Brilliant article. Nice to finally have a manager to capitalise on the good work happening off the pitch.