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  1. Regale your stories

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    Leaving Tynecastle after a  2 nil defeat in the early 90's, heading back to the bus we were confronted by  few Hearts casuals. One guy on our bus took a couple of punches. Police arrived and broke it up.

    Said young guy, while walking to the bus, snapped every car aerial off that he passed. Must have had about 20 or so of them.

    I found it amusing back then but would be f**kin raging if it had happened to my car. 

  3. Hibernian v St Mirren Sat 1 February

    in Matchday & Travel Club

    Posted

    With 2 possibly 3 players coming in this week , it will be interesting to see our line up for this one.  
    Our first fixture at Easter Rd this season was very frustrating,  with us having plenty of chances and then getting hit by a sucker punch late on. If we're to get anything in this one, we'll have to start taking our chances. 
    Start with Mullen and we'll have a better chance of scoring.

  7. St Mirren v Broxburn Athletic 18/1/20

    in Matchday & Travel Club

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    If he was scoring fifteen, he'd be at a bigger club.

    He is fighting back from a NINE MONTH lay off through injury... and improving.

    The first goal was classic Obika... He only scored because he couldn't get out of the way to stop the ball bouncing off him and into the net!

    But... He WAS in the right place at the right time!

    THAT is instinctive.

    I feel there is better to come from him and am happy to support him whilst he does his best.
    As I said, being in the right position is a skill and important to a striker, but his ability to score under his own steam is, unfortunately, lacking.

    As for being out with injury, I was unaware he had been out for 9 months but as he has played pretty much every game since he joined us, I would expect him to be up to speed by now.

    I'll support him but I stick by my opinion that we need better.

  8. St Mirren v Broxburn Athletic 18/1/20

    in Matchday & Travel Club

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    My word. You really are criticising Obika for *only* scoring 2 goals today aren’t you? And you seem to be criticising the timing of his goals too. Do goals count more if they’re scored earlier or something?[emoji38]

    Some of our fans are truly unbelievable. Thankfully most of us realise how lucky we are to have him at our club and our manager clearly believes in him. He rightly plays 90 minutes every week and will continue to do so.

    That’s him on 7 goals already this season. I wonder how many more he will have to score to get the fans off his back? He’s already had the best goal scoring return of any of our strikers in a top flight season since Steven Thompson in 13/14, but that hasn’t been enough.

    Of course the reason he gets so many ‘lucky’ goals is because he consistently gets himself in the right positions. As anyone who has played football before will know, that is a skill in itself. I would say I’m surprised at the amount of stick he’s getting but I’m not. Our fans have done this before to other goal scoring strikers and I suspect they will do it again with others we have in the future. Bizarre.
    Sure, Obika scored 2 today and 7 for the season, but surely you cant be happy with his finishing ability? He is a useful presence upfront to bully defenders but hes not a goalscorer

    If he was half decent he would be sitting on 15 goals so far.

    I have played football to a decent standard as a striker and you are right, that getting into the position to score is important but you cant rely on the ball bouncing off you all the time. A striker should be using his skill and ability to score not rely on luck all the time.

    He isn't the answer. We need better upfront.
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