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12.   What does it mean?   Not the number of players SEVCO have on the park at any one time (for once).   Nor the number of stars on the European Union flag (appropriate on the night that the UK commits its final act of self-destruction). No, it is the number of players who started games for United from the Inverness game to the Dundee derby eight matches later.   If you widen this out a bit longer, the number goes up to 15 (if you count Peter Pawlett’s re-enactment of the movie ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ against Partick as an appearance (I wonder if he got a win bonus that night)) if you look a couple of games further back post the Queen of the South 4-0 debacle (to think I appealed for calm heads after the Alloa game too).   Is it a coincidence that our best run (and the one which appears to be decisive in terms of the league) happened with the same group of players week-in-week-out?   The back 4 hardly lost a goal, the midfield was the same five players competing (only changing due to Sh