This piece is from yesterday's Buddies Briefing newsletter, which is emailed out at 6pm every Thursday. To receive our full, free St Mirren newsletter straight to your email inbox, click here.
I'll admit, I've spent quite some time deliberating on how to tackle the newsletter this week in the wake of the VAR Independent Review Panel's most recent update stating three decisions against St Mirren were wrong - and you can make that four over the season as a whole.
After consideration, I have determined the outcome - correct or incorrect - matters little. Well, until the Buddies Briefing Independent Review Panel deem otherwise...
There have been plenty of wayward lines of thinking, much backtracking and some incredulous theories since the bombshell statistics dropped on Wednesday.
Let's tackle that first. Yes, St Mirren have been dealt a raw deal with VAR decisions this season. The worst impacted by calls, clearly.
Does that necessarily mean the league table would look completely different and fourth would already be in the bag? Absolutely not.
Should supporters, club officials, players and staff be angry and frustrated by the later Scottish FA communication? Of course.
(Will I stop asking and answering my own questions now? Maybe)
There is no doubt a penalty against Hearts when Conor McMenamin was felled in the box would have helped - so too would a spot-kick in Dingwall for an obvious handball.
James Bolton not being sent off for his full-blooded challenge against Dundee would have been nice too - or just for the defender not to miss another match as a result.
But when it comes down to it, retrospective admissions of error mean very little for St Mirren. It doesn't change results and it doesn't change the league table.
It does, however, offer the opportunity to shift the narrative.
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Forget the VAR errors for a second, if you can pause the endless highlight reel haunting your mind, and this season has been a huge success.
Top six already in the bag and a shot at Europe. Wow. There won't have been many bookmakers expecting that at the start of the season.
To achieve top six, and perhaps Europe, with FOUR major 'key match incidents' going against St Mirren. Then the achievement is only elevated.
In some ways the recent Scottish FA release on VAR could serve to benefit St Mirren - even if that statement could be retrospectively retracted in a wordy release a few months down the line dependent on future results.
Stick with me, here. There are few things that bond players together behind a cause quite like the sense of injustice, particularly if it hasn't sent the season into oblivion.
The club and supporters could start a pity party and demand something be done but any such course of action would be fraught with inevitable disappointment.
There could be cries of a conspiracy, but that would be frankly ludicrous if at all genuine - officials have made mistakes but certainly not on purpose.
The best course of action in my mind would be to adopt a siege mentality for the final few outings of the season.
Stephen Robinson has a special squad at his disposal - budget disparity, only being given a puncher's chance and VAR errors haven't been able to deny them so far this season. It can't happen now.
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St Mirren head to Dundee this weekend, potentially with Europe on the line.
The players, staff and supporters ought not to go there discouraged by the VAR shambles, but rather even more determined to achieve the unachievable.
St Mirren weren't given a chance at the start of the season. Being the worst affected team by wrong VAR errors suggests St Mirren were, unfortunately, given less of a chance by decisions.
But yet, heading to Dens Park, St Mirren have every chance of defeating more than just the odds.
On Saturday, the VAR errors column won't be corrected on the pitch, but the players and staff have the opportunity to secure the right outcome (without the need for independent review) by themselves and without any helping hand.
Get the key match incidents right on the pitch - without VAR - and St Mirren's season against all external factors will be simply remarkable.
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