zurich_allan

Roger Delgado was my favourite.
 

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

I thought everyone was tremendous today. Just a couple I'll single out - personally I'd have given Stelios the MoM today, thought that literally one or two passes aside he was outstanding. And Baird, who in my opinion has been our most improved player this season, he was very composed and in control at the back. The only gripes I'd have today are the decision making in the final third, which was suspect throughout, and the lull for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where we stopped closing down quickly and were too static. The majority of the game we were excellent.

They need to go back to the 1980's shorts...

Result was what mattered today after last week. For info, Morton squad are currently drinking the bar dry in Glasgow Airport. Wonder where they're off to.

Result was what mattered today after last week. For info, Morton squad are currently drinking the bar dry in Glasgow Airport. Wonder where they're off to.

I have to comment on one thing, in defence of Stellios, as I've read a lot of really negative comments about him that I think are incredibly unfair for two reasons. First of all, our defeat today has nothing to do with going down to ten men, as really it made absolutely no difference to how we played. Our defeat was down to:

Atrocious control and passing.
Constantly lingering on the ball, being very slow to release the ball, and often not looking up to see who was looking for the ball.
Not competing physically.
Being second to every ball.
Panicking on the ball for absolutely NO reason several times.
Trying to play a long ball game instead of getting the ball on the deck, even though we were being beaten in the air to everything.
Constantly slipping and losing possession when trying to do too much with the ball needlessly.

Essentially, we were terrible all over the park in every position at even the most basic of football technique today from start to finish.

The ONLY player that should get pass marks today in my opinion was McShane. Nobody else.

As for the actual sending off, it happened right in front of me, I hadn't looked away, was looking right at it. There was contact, but it wasn't his elbow, it was around his forearm, and was absolutely unintentional. It should have been a booking, it absolutely was not a sending off. Again, it was right in front of me, I saw this very clearly, and unless I see video evidence that shows me something I somehow missed, my opinion won't be changing on it. Never a red card.

I have to comment on one thing, in defence of Stellios, as I've read a lot of really negative comments about him that I think are incredibly unfair for two reasons. First of all, our defeat today has nothing to do with going down to ten men, as really it made absolutely no difference to how we played. Our defeat was down to:

Atrocious control and passing.
Constantly lingering on the ball, being very slow to release the ball, and often not looking up to see who was looking for the ball.
Not competing physically.
Being second to every ball.
Panicking on the ball for absolutely NO reason several times.
Trying to play a long ball game instead of getting the ball on the deck, even though we were being beaten in the air to everything.
Constantly slipping and losing possession when trying to do too much with the ball needlessly.

Essentially, we were terrible all over the park in every position at even the most basic of football technique today from start to finish.

The ONLY player that should get pass marks today in my opinion was McShane. Nobody else.

As for the actual sending off, it happened right in front of me, I hadn't looked away, was looking right at it. There was contact, but it wasn't his elbow, it was around his forearm, and was absolutely unintentional. It should have been a booking, it absolutely was not a sending off. Again, it was right in front of me, I saw this very clearly, and unless I see video evidence that shows me something I somehow missed, my opinion won't be changing on it. Never a red card.

Well, that wasn't very good...

Well, that wasn't very good...

I'd expect better from you Oaksoft. You're trying to oversimplify a complex issue. Of course young men cause most accidents. However this is due to conscious and objectively dangerous / reckless driving behaviour.

The type of accidents, of which there are a significant number, discussed in this thread are sadly unconscious behaviour.

The former is a huge culture in driving behaviour that is very difficult to influence. The latter on the other hand, whilst impossible to stop completely, might be able to be reduced through implementation of a capability / reactions type test at a particular point where it can be established that there is significant reduction in capability on average.

Remember that research can be both inductive and deductive. Peer review might or might not exist, but that doesn't automatically invalidate the hypothesis either way. Especially not when trying to compare two different problems...

I'd expect better from you Oaksoft. You're trying to oversimplify a complex issue. Of course young men cause most accidents. However this is due to conscious and objectively dangerous / reckless driving behaviour.

The type of accidents, of which there are a significant number, discussed in this thread are sadly unconscious behaviour.

The former is a huge culture in driving behaviour that is very difficult to influence. The latter on the other hand, whilst impossible to stop completely, might be able to be reduced through implementation of a capability / reactions type test at a particular point where it can be established that there is significant reduction in capability on average.

Remember that research can be both inductive and deductive. Peer review might or might not exist, but that doesn't automatically invalidate the hypothesis either way. Especially not when trying to compare two different problems...

I'd expect better from you Oaksoft. You're trying to oversimplify a complex issue. Of course young men cause most accidents. However this is due to conscious and objectively dangerous / reckless driving behaviour.

The type of accidents, of which there are a significant number, discussed in this thread are sadly unconscious behaviour.

The former is a huge culture in driving behaviour that is very difficult to influence. The latter on the other hand, whilst impossible to stop completely, might be able to be reduced through implementation of a capability / reactions type test at a particular point where it can be established that there is significant reduction in capability on average.

Remember that research can be both inductive and deductive. Peer review might or might not exist, but that doesn't automatically invalidate the hypothesis either way. Especially not when trying to compare two different problems...

Not legally classed as a hate crime. Would be classed as a hate incident.

The amount of morons around me that can't seem to grasp that Irvine is not part of the defence here today, he's at right mid with three at the back...

The amount of morons around me that can't seem to grasp that Irvine is not part of the defence here today, he's at right mid with three at the back...

FT 4-2

Bit of a frantic second half. At the hour mark a basketball game broke out. ICT scored one, then we ran up the park and scored another.

Easy and much deserved win in the end. ICT used to be one of those teams that used to be really stuffy and hard to break down. What's happened up there?

Looks like we've as good a chance as any of the top half of winning this league. When you have Lewis Morgan (motm for Scotland u21's during the week and motm again today) there's certainly no reason why we can't.

That's us gubbed Falkirk, Dundee Utd and ICT already. They were the experts favourites before the season so yeah... why not go and win it.

The amount of morons around me that can't seem to grasp that Irvine is not part of the defence here today, he's at right mid with three at the back...

I'm going to get sore hands if St Mirren make me keep clapping every Saturday for nearly 2 hours! Get it sorted Jack Ross, this isn't on!!

I'm going to get sore hands if St Mirren make me keep clapping every Saturday for nearly 2 hours! Get it sorted Jack Ross, this isn't on!!

Even if it finished 7-0 Dundee Utd couldn't complain it was underserved. Utterly dominant!