EKFC v SMFC LC 20/7/19

[FTOF 10,177]

We did not lose.

It was a draw, and EK earned a bonus point as a result of a penalty shoot out.

Still a horrendous performance though.

[Lord Pityme 6,721]

EKFC did not win...!

they just made us look like smirk-faced tits!

[Bud the Baker 7,462]

I'm sure plenty folk were arguing last season that the results against Spartans & QP were victories - I'm fairly sure I was..

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Just checked the Edinburgh City/Dunfermline result from Saturday @Eric Arthur Blair - EC certainly seem to have come a long way in 3 years, which perhaps is not surprising as they'll be the most attractive choice for P/T players in the Embra area, I'm just glad they got into the SPFL before Spartans!

Spoiler

Fuck Spartans!

 

Edited July 22, 2019 by Bud the Baker

[HSS 11,168]

1 hour ago, WeeBud said:

A loss is generally rewarded with zero points, we got one!!

A win is generally rewarded with three points,EK got one!!

[beyond our ken 3,455]

43 minutes ago, Lord Pityme said:

EKFC did not win...!

they just made us look like smirk-faced tits!

have the smirkers been outed yet?

[fmckinn 215]

I wonder if GS and GMcP are as embarrassed  as we are

[Yflab 2,199]

4 minutes ago, fmckinn said:

I wonder if GS and GMcP are as embarrassed  as we are

What hurts most with the lack of progress in this cup is the financial benefits of qualifying for the later stages. There is more sponsorship prize money in the Betfred cup than the Scottish cup. 

The prize money for getting to the later stages would have been added to the player budget and would have been significant.

 

[BuddieinEK 7,951]

A win is generally rewarded with three points,EK got one!!

Didn't they get two?

[magnus 2,247]

13 minutes ago, beyond our ken said:

have the smirkers been outed yet?

One man's smirk is another man's grimace. No point in outing anyone. The players will know it's not good enough  Pretty sure the fizzugs of the die hard fans looked less than photogenic. I have looked like a torn faced tit after most Saints games.

Edited July 22, 2019 by magnus

[HSS 11,168]

They got one for the 90 min game time ending up as a draw.

[antrin 3,506]

2 hours ago, paul torfason said:

A draw is when two teams share the points,but a do believe we got one point and they got two,and if you look at every paper etc it says east kilbride WIN on pens,so a do believe am correct and you being,he you......

Once upon a time, I too believed what I read in the papers.

 

In mid-June, 2012, EVERY paper reported the death of Rangers.

(this helpful football- related link shows a selection - https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/the-death-of-rangers-fc-lest-we-forget-tomorrow-we-play-sevco-rangers/    ).  It was very sad for fans of Rangers.

No papers will report that death anymore.  Newspaper sales have plummeted, mostly because they are out of date, but for me it’s because they print lies and ignore the truth.  

The papers have been corrupted... But Rangers is still deid.  

Newspapers now pretend that the new club (TRFC previously named sevco) is morally entitled to the trophies won (occasionally by cheating) by the deid club, whereas most fitba fans know the only thing that sevco has won is the Petrofac cup, not bad for a new club.

Don’t blindly trust the papers.

 Instead listen to... and read the posts of... older, wiser heads.  (Eg very much older and wiser, HSS)

[The Original 59er 821]

23 hours ago, HSS said:

We didn't get beat,the score was 0-0.

I will accept it is a mute point, but the simple fact of the matter is that St Mirren FC failed to beat a non-league 5th-tier football club and we are arguing over a simple arithmetical anomaly that the wonderful SFA have dreamt up.

I'm not saying that we can't occasionally deliver up a below-average performance, but in general terms I don't think, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs or the terrible twins would have stumbled at EK. We are a full-time professional team and we should, 99 times out of a hundred, beat a 5th tier team!  (Maybe this was the 1%, but that 1% is happening too often).

We stumbled across the line last season with not very much to spare, and since that time we have weakened the squad by a significant amount. I get the firm impression that players are just not interested in coming to Paisley as; (a) we are very unstable as a Club, (b) they probably think are hardly likely to raise their profile and (c) we don't offer enough money to make them commit.

My suspicions are that as we get nearer to the deadline date we will see another raft of loaners and maybe one or two new signings after the deadline with players who have failed to find a home. Same old, same old, I'm afraid and from what I've seen so far this season, a MAJOR overhaul is required!!! 😣

[St.Ricky 7,813]

6 hours ago, The Original 59er said:

I will accept it is a mute point, but the simple fact of the matter is that St Mirren FC failed to beat a non-league 5th-tier football club and we are arguing over a simple arithmetical anomaly that the wonderful SFA have dreamt up.

I'm not saying that we can't occasionally deliver up a below-average performance, but in general terms I don't think, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs or the terrible twins would have stumbled at EK. We are a full-time professional team and we should, 99 times out of a hundred, beat a 5th tier team!  (Maybe this was the 1%, but that 1% is happening too often).

We stumbled across the line last season with not very much to spare, and since that time we have weakened the squad by a significant amount. I get the firm impression that players are just not interested in coming to Paisley as; (a) we are very unstable as a Club, (b) they probably think are hardly likely to raise their profile and (c) we don't offer enough money to make them commit.

My suspicions are that as we get nearer to the deadline date we will see another raft of loaners and maybe one or two new signings after the deadline with players who have failed to find a home. Same old, same old, I'm afraid and from what I've seen so far this season, a MAJOR overhaul is required!!! 😣

So.. Go on. Spell out what you would do to remedy what you outline. 

[antrin 3,506]

9 hours ago, The Original 59er said:

I will accept it is a mute point, 

 

 

2 hours ago, St.Ricky said:

So.. Go on. Spell out what you would do to remedy what you outline. 

I know Ricky - it should be MOOT point, not mute.

And I thought that I was the only pedant on here...

[BuddieinEK 7,951]

I know Ricky - it should be MOOT point, not mute.
And I thought that I was the only pedant on here...

That's a mute (sic) point!

[antrin 3,506]

Aye - and YOU should F'in mute up! 

 

[BuddieinEK 7,951]

Anton Brady scored for EK tonight to give them the win.

[The Original 59er 821]

On 7/23/2019 at 3:58 PM, St.Ricky said:

So.. Go on. Spell out what you would do to remedy what you outline. 

The starting point would be to have a Board that is grounded, financially astute, well balanced and knows how to deal with people, not just some football folk who have maybe walked the walk as a player or a manager at some point and are considered to be above criticism.

So far I have seen nothing in the last 2 years to convince me that there is anything near that level of quality. The financial mistakes, the squandering of money, the inability to keep good Managers, and loose tongues, points me in the direction of thinking that we are unlikely to see any kind of stability, a good consistent football team or any difference in the managerial Carousel.

Is that plain enough for you?

[belfast billy 394]

Just watching footage on you tube of East Kilbride game long way away so far McPherson not a left back hf
Ladky brilliant keeper and Djorkaeff another Lewis morgan

[belfast billy 394]

Also it’s on East Kilbride tv commentary very unbiased puts our lot to shame vis-à-vis also excellent streaming