Mark Warburton has put his side’s 27 points deficit with Celtic down to randomness!
The former city trader is clearly far more at ease with spreadsheets and power-points than he is with getting the best out of 14 athletes over 90 minutes.
Randomness and small margins have been deciding sporting events since time began.
All the preparation and training in the world counts for nothing if a sprinter is left on the starting blocks at the start of the Olympic finals.
Frank McParland can scout the best midfielders in the world from Burnley, Liverpool and New York Cosmos but if they have to work with Andy Halliday and Rob Kiernan their talents will be wasted.
While he loves his favourable stats there are a few that the former city trader does his best to avoid such as 12 wins in 24 matches in the top flight and the three goals that Joey Garner has scored for the £1.8m fee paid to Preston North End.
Given the platform of his club’s media service Warbo sounded as if he was back selling photocopiers in the city of London as he discussed his side’s latest failure.
“I learned a lot from our previous owner at Brentford,” the Evening Times reported Warbo saying. “He’s a mathematician and we learned a lot from him in terms of how he looks at games.
“The randomness; the ball goes to the back post, Kenny heads it to Jon Toral and it could go in. Joe Garner’s header pops off the goalkeeper, it could go in. Joe in the first-half at the far post is a stud away.
“There were so many random natures that didn’t go our way. Was their goal offside? I don’t know, it was tight. Not worth complaining about now.
“So these are the random natures you look at and you hope over the course of a season they even themselves out.
“The key point as far as the fans are quite rightly concerned is that we dropped two points to Ross County.
“I quote the stats and, as always, you get misquoted. The fact is we had 15 corners, 26 shots, 18 on target and nine times out of ten we win that game of football.
“The fact is we have to be clinical in the final third, we need to trust our technique and take our chances. There were lots of good things but there is no denying the fact we dropped two points at home.”
Having drawn three times, with matches played at home, against Ross County most mathematicians would conclude that the two clubs are well matched
Having drawn twice and lost once against St Johnstone, again with the advantage of two home matches most mathematicians would suggest that the Perth side are better than Sevco.
On March 12 Warbo will hopefully still be in charge to test out his randomness theory against Celtic.
Over 270 minutes of play so far this season Sevco have been on top for 25 minutes against the champions elect, conceding seven goals and scoring two.
With his banking and mathematics background Warbo should be able to send out a team to win 5-0 to prove his theory of randomness!