Season 5 Review
End of Season Headlines
Dundee Utd takeover is complete. My job is under review. Just a Edinbugh business man not a billionaire from Russia or such like unfortunately
St Johnstone sack Terry Butcher despite surviving the relegation play off while loosing coach Alan Archiebald takes over
Dundee Utd 2017/18
Season stats
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SPL - 2nd
Scottish cup - Final
Scottish League Cup - Quarter Finals
Europe - Europa Group
Key Players
Aaron Cowan - MC
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Not good enough for Man City or Carlisle but he tore up the SPL making a goal every 2 games adding goals and man of the matches
James Collins - AT
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Struggled in the league well i say struggled he got 20 goals but in Cup and European competition he was incredible. 18 goals in 17 games including 2 games with Celtic & Arsenal
SPL Review
Celtic - 7/10 Two more defeats than last year. after selling 4 starting players and 5 youths they replaced them with semi skilled English loanese. A big summer for them.
Dundee Utd 7/10 - An extra 10 points was the minimum i expected but in the end 2nd was my target and 2nd is what we got.
Inverness CT - 8/10 - Only just missed out on returning to the Champions League. A Decent addition of good youth loan and decent SPL players solidifies them as a top 6 force.
Aberdeen - 7/10 - Back into the top 6 thanks to the goals of loan striker Gareth McDonagh. Back into Europe as well. So over the summer they need to add a striker!
St Mirren - 6/10 - Another small step back from there solid top 2 finishes from recent times. Still nothing wrong with what they were doing but ourselves and Inverness have overtaken them.
Rangers - 6/10 - comfortably made it into the top 6 for the 1st time. No major additions to the squad but perhaps a good loan class? We will see next year.
Hearts - 6/10 - Another season another step forward nothing significant to report at all from here.
Ross County - 6/10 - The highlanders did well to recover from just surviving the religation playoff last season to being in the top of the bottom half this time around.
Motherwell -
6/10 - Up till sacking Alan Thompson Motherwell would have been lucky to get 1/10! but under former Arsenal coach Stuart Gattings they got out of trouble and with the right work in the summer could challenge for the top 6.
Hibs - 4/10 Hibs went backwards again and cost Craig Levine his job. failed to address the major problem in front of goals so deserved to bite the bullet.
St Johnstone - 2/10 Spent big in the summer but got no where fast and will have a relegation play off to get through.
Dunfermline - 3/10 - Looked like they could stay up during the 1st half of the season before Motherwell woke up and suddenly Dunfermline looked no better than the other yo-yo sides we've seen recently
Champions League Final
Chelsea 0-1 Paris SG
View attachment 389459Chelsea may be dominating the English game but there is a very rich team in Paris who wanted to win the trophy in there own stadium.
Europa League Final
Real Sociedad 0-2 Zenith
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The mega ritch Russian side win there 2nd Europa League title against the best emerging side in La Liga
Season Awards
Player of the year
Marko Pavlovski
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My midfield protegy from Parkhead is a deserved winner in my unbiased opinion!
Young Player of the year
Niko Spoljaric
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Signed up with some decent looking stats and coming from the legendary Dinamo youth system to settle in the squad as my left winger. A 1st national cap cant be far off.
Top Scorer
Gareth McDonagh - 24
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The on loan midfielder from Blackburn denied my boy James Collins from being only the 3rd player in the SPL era to retain the top scorer status
Manager of the Year
Darran Donald
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Utterly delighted to get my title back despite Celtic's domestic domination.
Team of the Year
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Only James Collins makes it again. Shame for Cowan who was worth a place
Continental Standings
National Coefficients
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Scotland stay in 12th but keep catching up with the next targets Belgium and Portugal
European Places
From 2019/20
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Same as last year and the way it probably will be for the next few years.
Competition Rankings
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The SPL jumps again with a 3 place jump to 13th as we get closer to the Belgian, Ukraine and Portugese top flights
