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  1. 1 hour ago, Dare said:

    Not sure why we don’t just get Joe back into centre of that defence and move Gogic into the middle of the park. We are struggling in midfield and think Ohara in particular would benefit from having Gogic doing his share of the hard graft.

    The treatment of Shaughnessy is just odd. He’s clearly a better defender than Gogic, but for some reason the manager would rather play Alex out of position than play our captain. It’s simply hindering the team. 

  2. 1 hour ago, beyond our ken said:

    Why would it be good to keep Watt?  He does a few things well, one thing he doesn't do is score.  

    Watt’s been a dud, so far. Thought he was terrible again yesterday. The game against Celtic next week will be his last for us till April. Our only other game in March is at Tannadice, and he can’t play. I’d be amazed if he was playing for us next season. 

  3. 1 minute ago, Ronnie said:

    I'm not saying he would have solved our goalscoring problems but when he joined Ross County I stuck up for him when alot on St Mirren forums/social media were giving him a hard time.

    His only start this season was away at Kilmarnock and due to Erahon red card got subbed before 15 minutes.

    Trying to remember the stats he was on the bench around 16/17 times used only 11/12 and pretty sure when he came off bench quite regularly it was from 80 minutes onwards.

    Just think he didn't get enough minutes on pitch this season.

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    Spot on. He’s clearly a very capable striker at this level, as he’s showing with Ross County. 
    Let’s hope we give him more of a chance next season.

  4. One for the stattos. Eamonn Brophy scored two and set up two today. Or scored one and set up three depending what the dubious goal panel says. When was the last time a St Mirren striker had four goal involvements in a Scottish top flight match?

    Meanwhile our strikers continue to struggle to find a coos arse with a banjo. Zero goal involvements between the two of them today, for the fifth (5th) game in a row. 

  5. 10 hours ago, Callum Gilhooley said:

    Oh dear , you’re having a mare here 😂.
    Let’s compare this seasons figures (2022-23 to date )as per the attached pic.
    As not all of the players listed were here last season, I feel it’s only fair that we use that as comparison .  
    Just to ensure fairness I’ve included Brophys single goal so far at County in the figures .

    Minutes on the pitch . 
    St.Mirren 277 - 0 Goals. 

    Ross county 188 - 1 goal . 
     

    Total in all competitions for season 2022-23 for both clubs .

    532 Minutes on the pitch for an incredible return of 1 Goal ……. Wow !! 

    That’s significantly less than Ayunga, Grieve, Main, Watt & Even Mark Ohara . His shot accuracy is also worse than our current strikers .

    When Brophy joined us I desperately wanted him to succeed, it simply hasn’t worked and it was best for both parties that he move on. 
     

     

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    I was clearly not referring to just this season. Now do the same work with all their minutes played for St Mirren and work it out 😂

  6. 1 hour ago, faraway saint said:

    You're funny......................how many minutes, never mind games, have the three you mentioned had "on" the park for us? 

    Brophy had 43, aye 43 appearances for us scoring an astounding SEVEN goals. 

     

    His goal to minutes ratio is similar if not better than Main and Ayunga. Despite him being injured for long spells during his time with us. Maybe one day we will actually sign a goal scoring striker. 

  7. 15 hours ago, Callum Gilhooley said:

    Why ?  You do know he has never scored at St.Mirren park ?   I’d be more wary of Whytes aerial threat and the creativity of Dhanda .

    Quite a weird obsession with this statistical quirk of him not scoring at St Mirren Park, as if goals at home count differently from those scored away from home. He scored a fantastic goal for in a win against County last season. He's certainly scored more St Mirren goals than the three strikers we are likely to have available today - watt, jamieson and offord.

  8. The annoying thing about that is IU don't even think that Motherwell got their new manager bounce. They were hopeless, as they have been all season. Still managed to beat us comfortably right enough.  Same old guff from our perspective, our form really is terrible. If our opponent gets a player sent off in the first half we can win, if they don't we are really going to struggle. Last nights game was similar to Hibs, Dundee and various other terrible performances since October.  Dull as dishwater hoof ball, completely lacking in creativity, and we are now soft defensively too.

    Richard Taylor is not good enough to play for St Mirren. I thought he was at fault for the goal we conceded in his debut at Tynecastle, and I wasn't surprised he was bombed out the team after that. Out of nowhere he comes back in and starts at Parkhead, where he sells the first goal, gets sent off while giving away the second, and he starts again last night.  Surely no one - including Robinson - was surprised when he sold the first Motherwell goal?  I hope he never plays for us again. 

    Our next two games will decide if we got top six or not. County home, St Johnstone away. Really we need six points but four will do. After those fixtures we have a difficult run in to the split. We go to Ibrox, Tynecastle and play Celtic at home in our remaining six games. 

  9. Very important game for us. We've only won three games against two separate teams since the 1st October, and Motherwell are the only team we have beaten who have ended the first half with 11 men in that four and a half month time period.  The Well are certainly the worst squad of players in the league IMO, but you have to fear the new manager bounce. 

    Win here and we will go 4th and be in the driving seat for top six. Draw or lose and we will stay 6th and it will be a chance to use our game in hand missed.

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    On 2/6/2023 at 10:14 AM, TopCat said:

    I don't get why they didn't wait till after the Scottish Cup games this weekend before rearranging this. If we both go out at the weekend - which is not unlikely - we could have played this on Saturday 11th March, quarter final weekend. If one of us got through there's plenty of other free midweeks between now and the split. 

     

    Lo and behold, we are both out the cup. Could have played this on a Saturday afternoon in spring, instead we are playing it on a winters Wednesday. 

  11. 14 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said:

    Really? 

    That will be why he had a very catchy “do do do do” song belted out regularly at Saints games home and away.

    There was also a group of his friends who traveled up to see him in action and were warmly welcomed by the crowd. 

    I personally do not recall him getting “booed”.
     

    Maybe it’s the company you keep as you always seem quite negative.

    Oh yeah he got loads of stick from the north bank. We had a song for Kenny McLean and various other boo boy favourites too 😁I was a big fan of Dorman, but i think he's more popular now than he was when he actually played with us. 

  12. Interesting to see the revitalisation of Dorman in our support over the last couple of years. I liked him a lot, but goodness me he was a big target for our boo-boys back in the day. I suppose he was a rare luxury player in the usual pragmatism of Gus' newly promoted teams. Would float around doing not very much for 90 minutes, apart from scoring a worldly that won us the game. 

  13. 10 hours ago, Slarti said:
    20 hours ago, TopCat said:
    No chance they will rearrange with four days notice. Like every match, it'd be much better for both sets of fans to have it played on a Saturday afternoon. All they had to do was wait till Monday when they'd have had their pick of pretty much every mid week in the next two months if one team got through at the weekend. 

    Then you run the risk of other games being postponed and ending up with a congested fixture list immediately pre-split.

    Not many games are postponed beyond March, and pretty much every midweek is free. Wednesday 22nd February is free, Wednesday 1st of March is free etc etc. In the unlikely event of a league game after the cup game being postponed, there would have been no fixture pile up. 

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