Saint@Johnstone
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The wind definitely spoiled the chances of a good game. Having said that, Saints were poor and rarely looked like scoring. Hearts are no great shakes either though, and certainly nothing to be afraid of. However, our recent form seems like the end of last season and whilst it’s good to be in the top half of the league, the possibility of no further wins has to be considered. All In all though, a decent season. I’ve witnessed far far worse. 😁
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I was at that game but couldn’t remember the goals other than the o.g. 😁
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4 minutes ago, BigYardsAndBasher said:
If my memory serves me well, Scotland fans "booed" the national anthem of Liechtenstein. Their national anthem has the same musical melody as the national anthem of England and Northern Ireland I believe but with different words.
I personally believe booing other countries national anthems are a "no-no" but that's just my view and I thoroughly understand that won't be other people's thoughts on the matter.
I do take your point that not all of the Northern Ireland team/management sang it.
I understand the feelings surrounding this verse. My view is as the late, great Roy Williamson once wrote "Those days are past now and in the past they must remain."
I'm also a fab of something that another great Scot, Hamish Henderson, once said which was something along the lines of "Love your country for what it is, not because you hate another one."
My personal view is "God Save the King/Queen" should only be performed at an event when the monarch is present at and England and Northern Ireland should have their own individual "national anthems". All of that is probably for a different thread though.
I also wish "Scots Wha Hae" or "Dark Lochnagar" was the Scottish national anthem but that again is probably more suited to another thread also.
Well said. 👍
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13 hours ago, BigYardsAndBasher said:
Likewise my Grandmother.
The booing of national anthems is a disgrace! What a small minded country we really are! Embarrassing behaviour from the so called "Fun, cuddly and welcoming Tartan Army"!
In general you are correct, but you may have noticed that only a couple of the Irish players joined in the singing with their fans. I would also be very surprised if Scotland fans were to boo any other anthem than that despicable ditty. Plenty of proper jeering at the end of each half, deservedly so, for the pathetic display by the Scotland players who have thrown the towel in from the minute they qualified for the Euros. I do not exempt the manager from criticism either.
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Rarely see a full Scotland match( thanks to satellite tv) but team looked even worse than I had suspected. Germany will massacre that lot in the Euros. This latest defeat was in effect by an English second and third division select. Does not bode well for them.
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7 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
You say that, but they have only scored 3 more goals than us all season which means that before yesterday they had scored 2 less 🤷♂️
Many thanks for putting me right. Don’t know what I could have been thinking.
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Agree with earlier posts about team selection, which ought to have been changed but when you play Killie you know exactly what to expect. Our team were like children being shoved aside by men, totally embarrassing.Killie were brilliant second half and thoroughly deserved their win. I honestly couldn’t see our team fight back from a position like that. Final point, I can see both old firm teams dreading a visit to Rugby Park to face a team who get stuck in and have bona fide goal scorers.
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Great result. The last two minutes were tremendous. 👍
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3 hours ago, FTOF said:
Not quite as pathetic and unsurprising as your post though.
How droll
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Losing to the team bottom of the league was certainly no surprise, nevertheless a pathetic result.
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25 minutes ago, guinness said:
Really disappointed. Celtic were not very good. We lost two very poor goals and simply cannot score. Gogic the only one who looked like scoring. Two or three great efforts one brilliantly saved by Hart. Killtie missed an absolute sitter. Mandon played very well but did not look like scoring. Ayunga came on and looks more and more like a pub player. Fraser was also very poor. Rest all played OK but we lack quality going forward. Missed Bolton who , I think , would have stopped the first goal. Boy who came on for Elvis was not impressive. Three huge games coming up against the three bottom teams. Win less than two and season could crumble away.
Surely the transfer window would have been the time to offload Ayunga and Olusanya, both of whom are very far short of this level of football. On the plus side, Gogic is some player does the work of two men. Hope for much more from Scott. Fingers crossed.
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You just can’t pass up sitters against Celtic, which we did on a couple of occasions. Game rather fizzled out in the second half but probably the better team won in the end. Thankfully much better than the previous game against them.
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By far the better team and deserved the hard fought win. Well done Saints.
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Our last two good results have both come at the unlikeliest of venues. It’s hard to predict what this team might produce. Here’s hoping they put on a good show next week. 🤞
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20 minutes ago, W6er said:
Of course! It was just my opinion that it's not overpriced and I stated my reasons why I thought that. This is a St. Mirren discussion forum, people will not always agree with you. However, if you thought I was somehow being rude, please understand that I was just offering my own perspective. It was nothing personal.
👍 no problem. Think we should be in good spirits just now, heard we are 3-0 up at half time in Edinburgh 😁
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2 hours ago, W6er said:
https://www.stmirren.com/tickets.shtml
I don't think it's overpriced. It's £25 to watch us play the Scottish Champions. A league game versus Ross County would cost about that!
There probably won't be a big crowd, which is a shame! Those who lobbied the club to give the Old Firm one stand claimed it wouldn't affect attendances. In future, if our own fans aren't willing to attend in numbers, it would make financial sense to revert to giving them two stands - at least for Cup games.
It’s only my opinion that it’s overpriced, if that’s ok ?
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On 1/31/2024 at 12:07 AM, shull said:
Disgraceful pricing.
TWENTY FIVE POUND A FECKING TICKET.
Prediction
Saints 1 Green Vermin 0
Estimated Attendance 4887
Think this is overpriced as well and as the ticket office is closed until Monday, it may be too late to purchase my own seat for the match . After the cup massacre last season and the recent league match which was surrendered within five minutes, missing out might not be such a bad thing. Unless away fans are able to acquire some Saints tickets, I think there won’t be a big crowd at this match. Saints have only themselves to blame.
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1 hour ago, Hunterian said:
Keep the faith. Hibs have a terrible defence
Will try, but unfortunately we have a terrible attack. 😬
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Manager seems content with the squad as it is, hence no additions. Hibs have swapped half a team in the last few days, mostly reserve players of course, but have a feeling we are in for yet another away defeat tomorrow. Fingers crossed that doesn’t come to pass. 🤞
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A rather less painful result than usual against Rangers, and we made a game of it in the second half but lack of a goal scorer as said earlier will ultimately cost us dear. Scott looked promising and Gogic was best man on the park but I cannot understand Robinson persisting with Ayunga. Maybe Scott will take his place, I sincerely hope so, as lack of pace, inability to trap a ball and jumping with divers boots on ,combined with minimal effort do not make for a footballer. A few of the teams near us have some games in hand and we could find our fifth place vanishing very soon if this awful form continues. Vast improvement required.
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2 hours ago, Albanian Buddy said:
Perhaps you might want to consider putting your viewpoint to the manager at the Q&A that takes place soon.
Perhaps you might want to ask big Ayunga to visit your workplace and then you can listen to him critique your performance. 😜
Perhaps you ought to ignore my posts as they seem to annoy you. 😁
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2 hours ago, Albanian Buddy said:
The injury he has recovered from historically ended players careers. He cannot be expected to be operating at peak match fitness. These injuries can be both physical and mentally challenging to recover from.
It’s not as though he was scoring like KVV of Motherwell before his injury.Agree with you, but he is not good enough for this level of football, nor was before the injury. Cannot afford to have a passenger , best give a free transfer back to England non league.
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The forward line is generally quite poor but in my opinion, Ayunga should be dropped at once. He had his chance as perhaps a sympathy vote after a long injury, but he contributes nothing, is slow, cumbersome, cannot jump, tackle or pass. Times up, get rid during the window, as at least Mandron has a football brain and much more likely to score or make a telling pass. Was impressed with Lewis when he came on as sub. Fingers crossed for the draw later, no old firm please.
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Certainly won’t be on my, or I should imagine, most peoples tv. Just as a comment on the Celtic game ,which was covered by Sky tv, I could imagine the executives holding their heads after 6 minutes of a live match realising that thousands would be turning off as the game was over by that time. I cannot afford to subscribe, nor have interest In the vast majority of their output anyway, so no sympathy for Sky, or the other companies.
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The expected defeat- no such thing as a “free hit”. - and it seems every other team is still fighting apart from us. Very disappointing despite reaching the top 6 and with five games remaining it’s hard to see other than sixth place. However, with a dodgy defence and poor attackers we have certainly punched above our weight. Let’s see what the remaining fixtures provide.