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Balmullo Bud

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  1. Wow, what a half. Long way to go but this could be massive. 🤞🤞🤞
  2. Bolton, Tanser and Bwomono out is a blow. Hopefully the guys coming in do a job. Can’t remember seeing us having such a strong bench.
  3. Can’t remember a bounce like that at the new stadium since the play-off pens win against Dundee Utd. It was rocking. Great strike for them to take the lead then they resorted to hoofball, diving and time wasting. Shinnie should’ve been booked much earlier in the game and some of McGrath’s antics were sad to see. Made the late late goals so much sweeter. We tried to play much more football than them but didn’t look like scoring in the second half. The subs played their part, especially Olusanya (again). O’Hara’s penalty was ice-cool too although I couldn’t watch it live. What a way to win an important game of football. Still absolutely buzzing but feeling my age. Needed to pop into a garage to get some paracetamol before the trek back to Fife. 😂 The celebrations at the end just confirms the brilliant spirit in our squad. COYS!!!!!
  4. Thought we deserved a point. We were well off it tonight but County offered absolutely nothing and only scored due to a terrible mistake. Hemming didn’t make a save that I can remember. The pen we didn’t get was a disgrace. We’ve played much better and lost this season. Thought Scott was going to win it for us but totally fluffed his lines. Well done Olusanya. Gave the travelling Buds something to celebrate at least. Chance to go 4th missed but would’ve taken a point at HT.
  5. Finished half slightly stronger. Should've had a pen. VAR not working tonight??
  6. We are well off it unfortunately. Long trek up there? Look rusty and leggy. Not winning second balls and passing really poor. Next goal massive. 🤞
  7. Draw at Pittodrie probably the best result for us tonight.
  8. Heeds up Buds. We’ll play worse and win this season. Scoreline flatters Celtic. We didn’t take our chances unfortunately, especially Kilts header. It’s a sore one because with a bit of luck and a decent draw I think we could’ve gone quite far in the cup. Big push for a European spot now. We have the players and manager to do it.
  9. Very professional performance tonight, other than Bolton and a massive result. In control for the majority of the game and played some nice stuff. Wonderful to see Carson flap at our first and chuffed for Olusanya bagging his goal that sealed it. Exactly what he’s there for with his pace. It was clearly onside without VAR and a cool finish. Inspired sub by Robbo. What was Bolton thinking firing in like that on a yellow? Wasn’t a red but a stick on yellow. Dundee have really good attacking players but couldn’t register a shot on target. Credit to the whole team defending from the front and big Gogic mopping everything up at the back. Celtic will not be looking forward to their visit to Paisley at the weekend. COYS!!
  10. Gogic has been superb for us. As you say, his goal yesterday just typifies his attitude on the pitch. He’s the top player in the league for tackles/ball wins and his energy must rub off on the rest of the team. He’s rarely injured (touch wood), has great experience at international level too, can bag a goal, great engine and is versatile. I’ve got mates that support teams like Aberdeen and Hearts that say they would want him at their clubs. Wonder if some of the reported big bucks that we would have been spending on Van Veen can be used to get him signed up on a decent contract. I know there’s an offer on the table at the moment. What a brilliant result yesterday. A win against a strong Dundee team on Wednesday would be massive for our top six push. Some big games coming up for us.
  11. Sad that it didn’t work out for Stav. I think there must have been personal circumstances, wasn’t showing the effort in training or maybe an attitude/issues towards systems/formations. After watching his performance partnering Ayunga in the win against County, quite a few of us thought we had a real player on our hands. Hope he kickstarts his career but not with another Scottish team.
  12. Scott Burns saying Killie front runners for Van Veen now but not finalised and we’re still in discussions with him.
  13. Thought we started far too slowly and sat off them. Lundstrum was strutting about with acres of space and time first 15 and that’s where the goal came from. We upped it after they scored and missed 2 great chances from Jamieson and Kwon before HT. Started really slowly again second half then grew into it. Gogic was brilliant yet again. He should be a huge priority for signing an extension. Kiltie very good and Scott looks very promising. Thought we had a massive shout for a pen but not much been made of it so it must’ve been my black and white specs. Thought we were a bit off it in midfield (Kwon and O’Hara) but solid at the back. Big Ayunga needs to hold it up better too. Could easily have edged a draw today and should be confident going forward into the second half of the season.
  14. Potentially a very good signing but depends on Robbo doing a Curtis Main transformation on him. Remember his goals against us for Well. Obviously got technical ability on the deck and imagine a scoring threat in the air too at 6’2”. Can play wide or CF, so versatile (which our manager likes). Supposedly a few teams up here were after him. Fingers crossed he he can reach his full potential with us and if he does we could have a very good player on our hands. Well worth a punt🤞
  15. If we can go more than a minute without conceding and keep 11 men on the pitch, then we have a wee glimmer. Terrible draw for us, especially when you see Aberdeen and Killie’s draws.
  16. I watched the whole game and he was miles better than 5/10. I was pleasantly surprised at how comfortable he looked at that level, not just breaking up the play, but also how he used the ball, not something we necessarily associate him with us. He was heavily involved in the starting of a lot of the good stuff that Australia did going forward and they were very unlucky not to get something out of the game, albeit that it was a friendly. Agree he can be hot and cold with us but he is capable of playing at a higher level.
  17. Baccus got MOM today for Australia. Was brilliant against England at Wembley in that friendly recently too. No way he’ll be with us next season but hope we get the best out of him for the rest of the season, unless we get a really decent offer this window. Maybe a pre contract with someone. Be interesting to see what happens with Strain with his current injury and fitness record. Small chance we could get him to sign an extension? Would be massive if we could keep him.
  18. Big defensive midfielder. Not made any headway at Celtic. Doesn’t look any better than a fully firing O’Hara, Gogic or Baccus from these clips but must have something if Celtic took a punt on him. Good luck to him and hopefully he gets the games he’s after and is a valuable addition and not a replacement for Baccus.
  19. That’s it official now; on loan to Utd for the rest of the season. Hope he gets the extra game time that he’ll be looking for and develops his all round game further. No questioning his attitude/work rate and he has scored some decent goals for us. Good luck Alex👍.
  20. Sore one. Strange set up from Robbo to start with. Having Flynn and Boyd-Munce (who doesn’t look fit) who are not mobile, matched up against Celtic’s central 3 seemed mental. Surely move Gogic in there and Dunne or Bolton into CB. Olusanya unlucky with the red but was a red nowadays. Noticed there was a high Celtic boot in the second half and not even a foul. The ref’s obstruction of a saints player and waving play on when it stopped a great break was a joke as well. Can’t blame the ref for today though. Positives were Taylor, Bolton, Hemming again, Gogic again, it was only 3 goals and Elvis did ok when he came on.
  21. Wow! Unbelievable, I had no faith in us today but the team has pulled off a superb result. So chuffed for the buddies that believed and travelled up there to back us, the team and staff. COYS!!!! Happier New Year now buddies!!!🍻
  22. 3 goals in our last nine games and 2 were own goals. That’s our main worrying problem. Robbo lamenting prematch that we don’t have a Miovski or Shankland doesn’t fix it. We need to create more chances. Next 3 games look a big ask to get a point from but Saints sometimes surprise us when we least expect it. 5th for the moment is our only bonus on current form.
  23. Wasn’t hopeful of getting anything today as our away form is shocking, as it was last season and Hearts have been on a good run. Didn’t see the game but the live updates and stats don’t look horrendous. Big O’Hara is a worry. We know he’s a really good player, was brilliant for us last season, but it’s either confidence or he’s carrying an injury or both. He’s our captain and an important cog in the team. Maybe a rest and regroup coukd see the player we know in the new year. We are missing Strain too and Baccus will be a miss next month. Even with the fat lazy Shankland we had years ago you could see he had quality. He was the difference between the teams today, as well as a massive difference in budget. Killie game is massive now. Hopeful that we can get a result. Motherwell game was poor but thought we played really well against county. Big crowd and atmosphere will hopefully kick us on against an improved Killie side. We need to keep our heeds and find some goals from somewhere.
  24. Refs job isn’t easy with players like Brown, County’s no4. What a cheat that boy is. His playacting designed to get free-kicks and our players booked. Just noticed watching the highlights that in the corner building up to our first goal he deliberately stepped into Gogic’s path and collapsed holding his ribs after minimal contact (that he engineered). He was at it the whole game with some success. Big Taylor flattening him into the hoardings right on HT was tremendous.
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