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Ha ha. Reading it back there was a bit of that wasn’t there? 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve been to 5 games so far this season. I’d suggest I’ve spent considerably more money going to those 5 games than anyone has on an entire season ticket. I appreciate that most of that cash doesn’t go to the club but it still comes out of my bank account. I’m also a SMISA member. I sleep ok at night knowing I watch St. Mirren games on IPTV.

You wrang m’lord?

Not sure why you’re just having a go at @FTOF mate. You are very much a lone voice on this one and I’m going to add my name to the list of dissenters. The ref wasn’t just bad, he was absolutely abysmal. If you are happy with that standard then you’re easily pleased.

Now that my victory induced euphoria is starting to subside a little, I’m allowing my natural, default grumpiness to creep back in and thinking that todays result and performance makes the last 2 games even more annoying. Should’ve bloody had another 6 points.

Observations from today…. Henming - flapped at a couple of corners but was generally solid and pulled off a cracking save at a time when going 2-1 would’ve made for a very nervy end to the game. Small - massive improvement on McMenamin at RWB. Tanser - not his best day by his high standards this season, but still decent. CBs - Hmmmm, still some very ropey moments (especially Taylor) but a clean sheet means that they can’t have been that bad. Midfield - Much better all round. Especially after Baccus came on. Ayunga and Nahmani a triumph up front. With better finishing they could’ve had a least 5 goals between them, but genuine signs of a proper partnership and I’m sure goals will come. Was delighted with Nahmani and just wish he could’ve got a goal.

We’re still missing sitters but it looks like we might finally have a bit of a natural partnership up front. They’ve played really well together.

We still look ropey as f**k at the back, but so far much better today going forward. Nahmani looking sharp.

I’m not sure what you mean by wrong side. We play him on the right which could be considered the “wrong” side for a left footed player, but that is exactly where he’s played in most of his NI appearances and where he played with Glentoran. We also know that it is common for left footed players to play on the right and vice versa. As for the Denmark game, he played on the left, but only played for 12 minutes, so despite getting a good assist I’m struggling to see how he could’ve achieved “great acclaim”. Either way, on Wednesday night he played on both the right and the left for us and was equally shite in both positions.

This fella is fast becoming the exception to the idea that Robinson makes great signing decisions. We’ve all been saying he’s been off it for weeks, but for me on Tuesday he was one of, if not the worst of our players. He looked completely bereft of ability, energy (despite only playing 2/3 of the match) and more worryingly, interest. Needs properly benched for a while. The fact that we spent (by our standards) serious cash on him, just adds to the focus on him and consequently, expectations.

Agree. I think Dhanda should be our number one target in January or the summer. Whether we can get him or not is completely another matter. Whilst I’m not writing him off just yet, I’m beginning to wonder if that cash we potentially wasted on McMenamin would’ve come in very handy for signing a player like Dhanda. 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing though.

Oh I absolutely agree we deserved a draw in both games. All teams involved were equally shite in both games. I just happen to think we played against a better team in Ross Co than we did last night. St. Johnstone last night were the poorest team we’ve played this season. They were much worse than they were when we beat them 4-0. Fortunately for them we were much, much worse!

Yeah we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one mate. I thought we were absolutely shocking last night and considerably worse than we were against County. I think you have to factor in that County (IMO) are a far better team than that horrendous St. Johnstone side. You’re comparing apples with apples and I don’t think that’s the case. An absolute testament to our current form that we couldn’t even manage a draw against that shambles.

Totally agree. Absolute nonsense to suggest Tanser has downed tools. Hew has literally been the one consistently good performer in our team this season. I was thinking that the other day. That game was very much the start of the slide and the result at home to an abjectly poor St. Johnstone team was nothing more than a false dawn. I've been looking over on P&B and I cannot believe the amount of people saying they thought we played ok last night. Honestly, what f**kin game were they watching?? It was a horrendous match contested by two horrendous teams incapable of playing any sort of cohesive football at any stage. The game should have finished 0-0 as no team deserved anything from it and I'd support a new rule that says when two teams serve up something as garbage as that, neither team gets any points. To think that either team actually gathered points from their performance last night is a travesty.

Tonight was the night my view changed from thinking we were going through a sticky spell, to thinking we have real problems and we’re going to start sliding.

Well there you have it folks. That is rock bottom so far this season. Fraser, Gogic, Dunne, Bolton, Kiltie, O’Hara, Boyd-Munce, McMenamin, Ayunga, Jamieson all woeful. Fraser was infuriatingly bad tonight. When Baccus came on I had genuinely forgotten that Kiltie was on the park. That St. Johnstone team is absolutely shite and we were too shite to even get a draw off them. Really don’t know what the answer is. Whatever footballing ability our players had earlier this season seems to have evaporated.

A really hard watch once again. We are playing against a woefully bad team and we still look like we couldnae score in a barrel of fannies. We seem to have lost the ability to play any football whatsoever. It’s really bizarre. 🤷‍♂️

I reserve the right to change my opinion having just seen our starting line up. WTF! 😩😩

I was at the 4-0 game at oor place. Does that coont?

Hod the bloody bus!!! Are you seriously saying that anyone who expects us to win tonight is harbouring “unrealistic expectations”?? Really? If that’s the case you better add William Hill to your list of people with unrealistic expectations as they have us as clear favourites. You can talk about form all you like, but whilst I can’t speak for anyone else’s views, my overriding point on this thread was simply to say that I will NEVER be happy with a point against a team like St. Johnstone and I cannot fathom the mentality of anyone who would be. I have already said I don’t believe we have a divine right to win, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think we will. To me, the thought of going into a game against St. Johnstone being happy with a draw, is more depressing than losing the game.

I guess that's where we differ. Their form over a handful of games is not enough to make me "happy with a draw".

No offence mate, but I can't be doing with this happy with a point bollocks (and by the way, I'm not picking on you because you're not the only one to have said it). We are the team sitting in 4th place playing against the second bottom team. That doesn't mean I think we have a divine right to win, but I certainly won't be "happy" with a draw. On the contrary I'd be very disappointed with a draw in a match such as this (if this isn't the type of match where we should be targeting/expecting a win, I don't know what is). I'd be more than disappointed with a defeat.

Centre half??? He's a midfielder is he not?

I think you know what I meant smartarse. 🤣

Yeah it was pretty shite again. Passing was shocking. You could probably give pass marks to 3 or 4 players, but overall it was poor again. Feels like a missed opportunity too because that really is not a good Rangers team.