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That’s such a cheap booking for Fraser to pick up. Hope we don’t end up regretting that.

Mixed bag from the defence so far. They are actually defending very well, but they are consistently giving the ball away after winning it.

First game of the season where I think Robinson needs to take a huge chunk of the blame. Tactics were absolutely shocking. It was clear the players were sent out to play predominantly a long ball game. Unfathomable against a team like Ross County.

Absolutely what we deserve

This is really difficult to watch. Combination of mainly useless hopeful punts to no one, interspersed with the odd decent move that ends with a terrible final ball. Really, really poor.

Just read these after I posted. Funny how we all see different things.

Well I swam against the tide on Saturday when most folk thought we were shite, but not tonight. That was truly woeful. Our passing is diabolical. Again the defence looks ok but everything else is murder polis. Hard to single anyone out either, but the front two have been poor, just not their night. I’d persevere with Mandron a little longer, but I wouldn’t be gutted to see Greive getting hooked at half time.

Really? I was just thinking we had a decent run coming up. Obviously the next one is hard, but after that we’ve got St. J (A), Ross Co (H) and Motherwell (H). Surely we’ll be targeting 9 points from those 3 games?

I’m sure you’re right and I also think we’ll win comfortably. I bet United thought the same mind you. 😄 Suppose they had to play away on the plastic right enough. Big leveller.

He made an error with a bouncing ball in the second half that almost let Anderson in on goal, but other than that, I thought he was back to his solid best in Saturday.

United oot the cup. They really don’t like penalties do they 🤣

Hope that’s not too serious for Taylor. He’s been excellent today.

We should be winning this comfortably. Got all the hallmarks of one of those games where we’re totally in command and then give away a late equaliser. Badly need a second goal.

I’d say that’s been a very solid if unspectacular performance. Good to see the defence looking strong again, particularly Gogic and Taylor. Kiltie and Tanser both been very good. Superb pass by CBM to set up the goal. So far so good. 👍

Yes but crucially wasn't in the 90s. 😃

I suppose it was probably good that Baccus picked up that yellow as if he was going to miss any game, surely we’d want it to be when we’re at home to the bottom team.

Yep. You are both correct lads. That was the game. It was live on Sky which was a relatively rare thing for us. I must admit I thought when we were already in the first division when that game happened, but clearly not.

Did not remember that. Would’ve put my wages on it being at Parkhead. 👍

Think this was the only Live on TV St. Mirren game I saw in Jersey in the whole of the 90s. Certainly can’t think of any others. http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1994&GameID=199501280

Hmmmm. Probably not going to be a popular comment, but I think these displays are a bit tinpot. Not the fault of the lads though, I just think they only really work on a much bigger scale. The flag display ahead of the Killie game towards the end of last season was decent because it was the whole west stand, but “tifo” type displays don’t work on that small a scale.

Probably my lowest ebb as a St. Mirren fan from the point of view of engagement with the team. When I first moved to Jersey is 1986, I made it my mission to come back for at least 6 games a season. I achieved this for the first few years, but by the time the 90s came around, I’d started having kids and simply couldn’t afford to come back that often. So the only games I saw were the odd games I managed to coincide with family trips back to Scotland. In addition, this was obviously also at a time when TV coverage was at a bare minimum, especially when we went down to the first division. Even when Football First came around, I couldn’t even watch that as I couldn’t get STV in Jersey. Started catching it towards the end of the 90s when Sky Digital came in and you could tune in regional ITV channels. But for the most part of the 90s, other than looking out for the scores (including sometimes literally sitting “watching ceefax”), I was pretty detached from the team. Other than our top players from the time, I’d probably struggle to pick most of them out in a line up. Fortunately those dark times are well behind us now. In terms of actual memories of games attended during the 90s……. A very cold 1-1 New Year game at Cappielow when Eddie Gallagher scored a cracking header for us. A Wednesday/Saturday away double header. Beat Airdrie 3-1 at Broadwood (one of Mark Yardley’s first few games) and then followed it up with a 2-1 win at Dens. A 2-2 draw at home to Stirling Albion (Think I remember Alex Bone scored for them and they played the last part of the game with their reserve goalie playing centre forward 😩). Last and very much least, an absolute 5-1 spanking at home to Morton. Horrendous.

To be honest, given how horrendous a performance yesterday was, I think generally the criticism has been fairly measured and I think that’s because supporters DO recognise what has gone before. But just because we’ve been good so far, shouldn’t excuse the players from criticism when they are as bad as they were yesterday. As has been said though, hopefully the break is coming at a good time for us and we can sort out what has gone wrong in the last couple of games. My main concern is the possibility that other teams have worked us out and started playing us at our own game. If that’s the case and they end up being better at it than us, Robbo is going to need to come up with a different plan.

So we can praise them when they are good, but we can’t criticise them when they are utter shite? Aye, Righto.

The warning came on Wednesday night. Clearly we didn’t heed it.

Please get Gogic off the f**kin park. Absolute liability.