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Absolutely all of the above 👍 That same XI better not take the field in the second half. It is absolutely not working. Olusanya and Greive on for Mandron and McMenamin. Dunne on for Taylor. And in the second half if Gogic doesn’t pull his socks up, get him hooked for Bolton.

Replica of the Hibs game so far. Shocking. Ropey at the back, laboured and predictable going forward and some horrendous passing as well.

Defence was shambolic on Wednesday and they’ve just picked up where they left off.

I wish we were sorted. Terrible start.

I’ve switched to Dundee TV for that reason.

Don’t you normally go to games in Dundee mate?

O’Hara obviously one of the players with the bug, but no one else significant appears to be missing.

Just realised this is the first matchday for a while where we could lose our 3rd spot. Don’t see it happening though. Not only do I fancy us to win, Killie have a tough away game at Hibs who will be smarting after throwing away their lead on Wednesday.

I’m still for the principle of VAR, but I agree it’s largely being applied by useless idiots in Scotland and I’m pretty sure having the cheapo version isn’t helping that. However, as a more general point, I don’t think the image of VAR is being helped by the actual current rules of football. Take offside for example. It should be a simple black and white decision, but people are still moaning about an offside being given because someone is a bawhair offside. Simple. Change the rule to there having to be clear daylight between the players. This also gives the benefit of the doubt to the attacking player which can only be good for the game. The handball rule is another minefield. Some of the rules relating to that are are absolute joke, but I’m less clear on how to resolve that one. My biggest issue with VAR now is the ridiculous increase in the number of red cards which is completely ruining games as a spectacle. I would stop the use of VAR for giving retrospective red cards. It’s way to subjective and the severity of a challenge is far too easily manipulated by the use of TV, especially slo mo. I would keep it though for overturning incorrect red card decisions by the ref. Finally, and finishing on a positive, my favourite thing about VAR is the giving of penalties for shirt pulling in the box. The refs eyes can’t be everywhere and shirt pulling is a pet hate of mine, or should I say the getting away with shirt pulling is a pet hate of mine. Simple message to players, if you pull someone’s shirt in the box, you’re giving away a penalty, so don’t f**king do it!

Yup, I’d be a lot more comfortable if Robbo had acknowledged the inadequacies tonight. He could still put a positive spin on it with the old “sign of a good team when you can still pick up a point against a tough opponent when you’re not at your best”, but hopefully behind the scenes he knows that wasn’t good enough tonight.

https://x.com/spflwatch/status/1722370028673126671?s=46&t=sYFXrynTDEj4OIr03Q_lqQ Wasnae Alex Greive and wasnae last kick of the ball, but otherwise well done Andy ya fanny. 🤣

I’m going to say something that’ll sound a bit daft (no like me), but I think being fortunate to get the draw and deserving to get the draw and two different things and I think they both apply. We deserved a draw because we put as much into the game tonight as Hibs, but make no mistake we were fortunate because we were largely f**kin honkin tonight and a better team would have seriously punished us. We defended terribly, in particular Gogic and Strain. We had players falling all over the place and losing possession in dangerous areas. Baccus was terrible when he came on. Barely did a thing right. The midfield generally had a very rare off night. On the upside, Tanser was once again outstanding for 90 minutes. Greive was excellent in the short time he was on, as was Jamieson. I thought McMenamin worked hard and put in a good few dangerous crosses that no one got on the end of. All in all though, I think we should be pretty grateful for that point, especially so late in the game.

Immediately let them right back into the game as soon as we scored.

Hibs TV commentators making John Hartson sound cool calm and collected.

Out of jail there 👍

Has Gogic got a bet on Hibs tonight?

Baccus and Olusanya required second half. Only real bright light so far for us has been Tanser who has been his usual brilliant self. The others must do better.

Aye but at least it’s oor pish.

Anyone else only getting Hibs TV on their IPTV. Commentators are gettin on ma tits.

Ffs

My bad.

I know. And the attendance is listed as something like 11000. My arse. 🤣🤣 And that was at a time when the stadium held at least 27000.

Oooft. What an occasion for your first night game. Atmosphere was electric that night.

Ha ha. I was on that same bus!! Think this was my first unsupervised away game. http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1977&GameID=197710050