northstbuddie

Very impressive showing from Baccus. Tackling skills plus a superb work rate. No wonder he was knackered when subbed. I think we may finally have found another John McGinn.
Also enjoyed watching young Fraser Taylor's contribution. This wee lad can obviously deliver a tasty cross ball. Let's hope he gets his chance to show us more this season.

Better performance today.
Playing with more width in defence and attack.
Baccus is making a difference and the midfield in general is more creative.

Maybe we're aiming high this afternoon and going for a blank sheet.

Maybe we're aiming high this afternoon and going for a blank sheet.

We have 3 choices today for OAPs like myself:-
PPV @ £15
Attend @ £5
Or stay at home and watch the grass grow in the rain.
I know which one I'm going for - so I'm likely to get soaked.
However I'm going in hope more than anything else - but hope to see our strongest team in the first half and then perhaps the younger players coming on to show their worth. Maybe the likes of Reid and Henderson will stake a claim to be in the first eleven in the coming weeks.

I think you’re underselling Ethan here, imo he has been the only bright point of an otherwise dire LC comp.
 He’s showing a great deal more maturity and awareness. 

One of our major failings is our lack of width in both defence and attack.
90% of the time we have noone playing wide on either wing (especially on the right) and we also give the opposition far too much room to attack wide on either flank.
As a result everything goes through a crowded centre of the park when we (try to) attack and when that breaks down we are exposed because of the space we allow the opposition to counter attack.
Equally our passing is woeful - one paced and normally misdirected. Only Erhahon has the ability to pick out an early and penetrating pass.
And as for tactics - your guess is as good as mine.
Gogic would at least  help to win possession in the middle of the park.
 

One of our major failings is our lack of width in both defence and attack.
90% of the time we have noone playing wide on either wing (especially on the right) and we also give the opposition far too much room to attack wide on either flank.
As a result everything goes through a crowded centre of the park when we (try to) attack and when that breaks down we are exposed because of the space we allow the opposition to counter attack.
Equally our passing is woeful - one paced and normally misdirected. Only Erhahon has the ability to pick out an early and penetrating pass.
And as for tactics - your guess is as good as mine.
Gogic would at least  help to win possession in the middle of the park.
 

One of our major failings is our lack of width in both defence and attack.
90% of the time we have noone playing wide on either wing (especially on the right) and we also give the opposition far too much room to attack wide on either flank.
As a result everything goes through a crowded centre of the park when we (try to) attack and when that breaks down we are exposed because of the space we allow the opposition to counter attack.
Equally our passing is woeful - one paced and normally misdirected. Only Erhahon has the ability to pick out an early and penetrating pass.
And as for tactics - your guess is as good as mine.
Gogic would at least  help to win possession in the middle of the park.
 

Never mind - this has to be the turning point of our season.
If not, relegation is a certainty.
This must have been the worst performance by a Saints team in living memory - no matter what age you are.
I'll leave it to Elvis to come up with some positive spin.

We have missed Power and Gogic in the midfield so far this season - although Erhahon has performed well and O'Hara hasn't been a failure.
Even the likes of Arbroath and Airdrie can dominate us in midfield. We sadly lack a ball winner (amongst a few other things).
Hopefully Baucus will improve things in that department when eventually bedded in.
And there is also the return of the revitalised Curtis Main to look forward to.
However, the biggest concern at the moment is the paucity of our defence which was previously our strength under JG.
I will leave it to others (even Elvis) to come up with plus points.

We have missed Power and Gogic in the midfield so far this season - although Erhahon has performed well and O'Hara hasn't been a failure.
Even the likes of Arbroath and Airdrie can dominate us in midfield. We sadly lack a ball winner (amongst a few other things).
Hopefully Baucus will improve things in that department when eventually bedded in.
And there is also the return of the revitalised Curtis Main to look forward to.
However, the biggest concern at the moment is the paucity of our defence which was previously our strength under JG.
I will leave it to others (even Elvis) to come up with plus points.

Never mind - this has to be the turning point of our season.
If not, relegation is a certainty.
This must have been the worst performance by a Saints team in living memory - no matter what age you are.
I'll leave it to Elvis to come up with some positive spin.

Eh? He’s been our best player by a country mile, which I absolutely accept is faint praise. 

Available as PPV - good clear picture + sound - unlike the Cowdenbeath dbacle.

The Blue Brazil have a cheek to charge £10 for this non-stream.

In line with our dinky little (second tier) stadium - this gives a new slant on the term "Executive BOX".
Don't have any problem with the principle - but as with Boris the problem is the delivery.

In line with our dinky little (second tier) stadium - this gives a new slant on the term "Executive BOX".
Don't have any problem with the principle - but as with Boris the problem is the delivery.

In line with our dinky little (second tier) stadium - this gives a new slant on the term "Executive BOX".
Don't have any problem with the principle - but as with Boris the problem is the delivery.

Shaughnessy, Tanser, Kiltie (despite his deep-lying role), Erhahon, o'Hara and Henderson when he came on, all performed well.
We were set up too defensively in the first half and were fortunate not to go in at half time a goal down. We had no natural winger playing wide on the right.
In the second half we turned the screw a bit and were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions.
Some clown behind me was calling for Erhahon to be substituted after his only bad pass of the afternoon - whereas he was our best performer today by some considerable margin followed by Kiltie.
It's obviously too soon in the season to write us off, but what is certain is that we will have to improve on this level of performance to survive in the SPL let alone finish in the top six..

Good display today from Erhahon. I'm usually one of his harshest critics, so I'm eating some humble pie tonight. 
Clearly we are still a work in progress and we know that there are a few players to come in that I would expect to be regular starters. Things will get better. 
Nevertheless, on B&WArmy we've got the normal early-season hysteria (surprise, surprise) mainly from the usual suspects. It's far too early to be wetting the knickers. The league campaign is my focus and that's three games away.
KTF.

If only we had Gogic for midfield !