Gloryhunter

Frequent traveller to the Netherlands?

I am not very keen on the keeper but the defence sold all the goals tonight, not him

I actually thought we played more football tonight than the rest of the season combined.
The change of shape was a simple tweek crying out to be made and it helped us create chances.
What undid us was criminal neglect at the back for two of their goals and Hutton deciding to gift them a winner.

Really enjoyed the Match
Shit score, but very optimistic for the future
HURRY UP GUS

I purchase a top most seasons but don't understand what the big rush is its not even the school holidays yet and would imagine the new strips will be out well before the school holidays. Probably down to end of season nothing much to debate on the forum.

Its been the same for the past few seasons.
Shit manager
Miss out on signing targets
Make shit signings
Lord Pityme & Froggie point this out
Forum happy clapping mob defend manager and BoD to the hilt
Forum happy clapping mob abuse anyone who disagrees with them
Shit start to the season
Forum happy clapping mob continue to defend and abuse
Season gets worse.
Forum happy clappers start to turn on manager and BoD
Lord Pityme & Froggie point out that they were right. Yet again.
Forum happy clapping mob abuse them.
I predict the same again.

Agreed. One could argue that we did enough offensively to earn a point... But when you "defend" like that you deserve nothing.
Everything we did well against Falkirk went out of tbe window... and worse still... we repeatedly made the same defensive errors.
Look at the "line" for their first goal... I wondered how on earth it could have been onside.
Young Mr Baird provided the answer...

I'll be back to see how he goes about organising the current dross , and I'm hopeful he'll have enough contacts to get rid of a few in January and get some more in !

Maybe the BoD are quite happy running the club and think that, in the absence of them getting their cash back, that they are in the best position to run the club?

I thought the clip was standard stuff and fair enough.
It certainly got the message home.
Next.

Bonkers? It's far from "bonkers"
Or maybe they've looked at previous Friday night attendances which were positive, especially considering they were televised live?
We've travelled in large numbers to Thistle for live TV Friday night games. Almost 2000 at one game and the attendance was just shy of 6000.
No apparent reason and bonkers right enough...
Football is so stale and it's not really to do with how we're performing. Even the week after winning the cup our next home game attendance was pish.
All credit to both clubs for trying something a wee bit different.
If it doesn't work then at least they tried.
Me personally, I'm much more likely to go to a Friday night game than a Saturday afternoon game.
I can enjoy the game Friday PM and then have the rest of the weekend free with the family.
I don't need to drag my 6 year old to the game if he doesn't want to go. When I do drag him it's a nightmare as he's not really enjoying or wanting to go, hopefully this will change as he grows up.

The mists of time seem to cloud the memories. Yes we had a couple of very special days at Hampden with Danny in 2013 but in actual fact the league campaign that season was an utter shambles and what happened the following season was even worse. That is why Danny was let go.
Let's look at some cold hard facts here.
The fact is that from Jan 1st 2013 to the end of the cup winning season we actually won 3 league games out of SEVENTEEN.
Danny's transfer dealings in the summer were an absolute shambles and we started the next season without a win in our opening 8 games (7 league).
That meant from 1st Jan 2013 to 5th Oct 2013 we won 3 league games out of TWENTY-FOUR.
In season 2013-2014 we also left both cups in the 1st round, and we went on a run where we lost 8 out of 9 games in the middle of the season.
Yes we won a cup under Danny, and it was very very special and he'll always be fondly remembered for that but he actually STARTED the rot.
Any notion of bringing him back is frankly absurd. IMO.

Whoosh?

Because an assistant is there to assist the manager. The buck stops with Murray. It is Murray that is picking the team and the tactics that are failing. The only way Spalding should be going is if Murray is going with him.

In the name of God!! It isn't the fault of an assistant manager if the team, tactics, selections etc are pure rank rotten. First and foremost its the bloody manager. Seems Spalding is a bit of a scapegoat here. Oh well. Here's to yet another shitty appointment whoever it may be.

Ach Billy, that wasn't how I saw it. They took of Howieson who I thought was having a good game and they put on McMullen. The shape went to a 4-5-1 but it wasn't defensive. McMullen and Gallagher were supposed to be used to get the ball wide into advanced areas of the park - I guess to try to take more advantage of the kick outs that Langfield appeared to be having some success with in the second half. McMullen is a bit of a luxury player in that he doesn't track back and he doesn't appear to like to tackle so I don't think the substitution could be considered as defensive even though the tactical change may have looked it.
What opened up the game for Livingston was the change Burchill made 3 minutes later when he brought on a forward (White) for a midfielder (Gibbons) and went more direct. They were able to put far more pressure on Baird, who wasn't having a good game at all, and it certainly created more goalscoring opportunities. Goodwin and Agnew also dropped deeper and stopped challenging so far up the park, I guess to try to provide some protection to Baird and if I was going to be critical of the changes at all it would be that it took far too long to get Carswell on for Agnew who clearly isn't fit enough to last 90 minutes.
St Mirren never looked comfortable in the game though. The passing was poor throughout and I really can't remember St Mirren having any good spells of possession and, particularly in the latter stages, the game intelligence to take the ball into the corners and to hold onto the ball in there just wasn't there.

Trigger "driving the bus" after scoring against Raith to win the league in 2000.

Got this amazing update this afternoon from David Woodall, father of our Player of the Year 2015 winner Aaron Woodall.
How about that then !!!!

Well you just replied to it...

Watched from Dubai:
Black screen when I logged on, but picture appeared once I refreshed it.
Too late to see any build up and switched off as soon as game was over, so cannot comment on that, however, the picture quality for the match itself was pretty good and Mr. "Bubble diddnae Burst" Turner assisting with the commentary was a good idea.
TV broadcast was better than the two young lads who were on Saints Radio pre-match, but I am sure they'll get better with practice - which Im sure is the whole idea of the venture.
I'm looking forward tot he next match already.

The picture quality of the broadcast was very good - didn't get much of a chance to see if there was any build up and didn't hang around after the full time whistle. Looks like there was a recorded interview with Ian Murray at HT. Commentary was good - Tommy Turner ( i think it was he) was pretty good as the side-kick although some of the English maybe wasn't the best. "Ah've seen them given so ah huv" when Saints appealed for a penalty for handball.

If you are being harsh you could lay some blame at Ridgers door for every goal we lost on Friday.
The first one he didn't come for the corner even through the cross was just outside the six hard box.
The second one was a very tight angle and the ball went right through his legs.
The third one he made a good save but then palmed the ball straight back to Shiels who put it in with his knee
I know that is harsh. He did make a couple of good saves in the game but I think it's a wee bit much to say it was a great performance.

Thought this new club were far better than that actually. Maybe the mistake I made was overestimating Hibs , because I seen the game between them and yeah... 6-2. Therefore I assumed the newest team in Scotland must be really good, but yeah, they aren't.
Didn't think we had a chance of the title before this evening. Now... I'm not sure.
Didn't think we played at our best, but goodness me we should have got something tonight. Penalties are shanked over the bar at all levels of football, be it the World Cup Final or the Scottish Junior Super League. Thommo had one tonight, no reason to castigate or scapegoat him for that but it's very frustrating. He won't take a penalty again in his career.
That goes in I think we would have at least have drawn the game but it wasn't to be.
Never expected anything tonight, our season starts at home to Dumbarton next week. That's a game we need to win. Promising signs were the performance of Baird and Kelly at centre back, thought they played well. McMullan is a baller too, he's a head down and run at them dynamo who will get us plenty more assists and goals this season.
Enjoyed the game, looking forward to the season.

Its great to be back at ibrox and hearing that wonderful follow follow song, the lyrics I particularly like are "Dundee Hamilton Fùck the Pope and the Vatican", how I miss this in Scottish Football.