St Johnstone v St Mirren Sat 29th Aug

[munoz]

17 minutes ago, lenziebud said:

H e needs to get his best players on the park. Starting Morais and McAlister should stop now. If he doesn't have enough in his squad to put these 2 on the bench for a good while then we are in trouble. Durmus is probably another we could do without. We need Dennis to come good and Connolly to shape up. Hope that Flynn and Macgennis can get up and running quickly but think they will take a while.

We are strong defensively and have a reasonable amount of quality in midfield.

So far this season and most of last we have been utter cr@p in the final third. JG has a few transfer windows now to get that sorted and so far we are still waiting. If its not sorted then we will be down in the last 4 again battling to stay up

 

Thought Connolly looked half decent with plenty of pace and backtracked well to win possession. I feel we're not far away from a good starting eleven,  but Goody needs to sort out his tactics. 

Definitely cant be over critical of the front players today because the service was woeful. 

[buddies1877]

Terrible performance for what has been a great start to the season
alnwick and tait only pass mark from me most were very poor including the tactics.


Still happy with the start to the season overall as a whole though.

Hopefully just an off day.

[paul torfason]

Not mincing my words tonight we was absolutely shit and to go 70 mins against a poor st.johnstone team with a shot or corner is criminal: this team and this manager are getting relegated as they brutal,:a no it's only August but after listening to Goodwin shittin his pants at ibrox a didn't expect the same inept performance against fakes,was he going for another 0-0 borefestas for junior McAllister durmas il pay for them to leave as 3 passengers:so a wonder what shit Goodwin says tonight as he like listening to a tape recorder and a believe you reap what you sow or get out a game what u put in and we got NOTHING 

Edited August 29, 2020 by paul torfason
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[HSS]

Terrible performance,we weren’t interested until we went a goal down.

[Tommy]

Predictable I suppose as after the pundits bigging us up we fall flat on our faces.
Goodwin is still inexperienced at this level and sometimes gets it wrong. He definitely got it wrong today.
As much as I agree with Goodwin not rating Baird. If taking Foley out of the midfield causes so much disruption , then maybe Baird at CH is the least worst option.

Agree with you about not playing Baird and weakening the midfield by moving Forly to C/H. Haven't seen any of the game so not going to ruined my sat night by doing so

[Guest TPAFKATS]

Simply not good enough.
Manager must do better

[Hendo]

9 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Agree with you about not playing Baird and weakening the midfield by moving Forly to C/H. Haven't seen any of the game so not going to ruined my sat night by doing so

In the first half Foley was in midfield. The problem was the midfield today lacked balance, with two many attacking players and not enough ball winners. For those claiming Goody was too defensive today, it was actually a very attacking line up. The problem was we lost the midfield battle and only looked like challenging in there when Foley and MacPherson were playing at the base of the midfield. When Fraser went off and Foley had to move back, we lost the battle again.

[Dare]

Poor performance and second best all over the park - thought we were woefully short in the middle of the park Need Flynn and Magennis back in there.

Positives  - keeper and Tait played well. Dennis showed some nice touches and held ball up well but no real service to him so hard to judge.

 

[buddies1877]

Simply not good enough.
Manager must do better

Players must do better too.


Was a pretty terrible performance all round tait and Alnwick apart imo.

[northstbuddie]

Let’s get one thing straight - we have not had a good start to the season.
Most will acknowledge that we were fortunate to win the games we did against some of the weakest teams in the league.
Apart from Sevco, we have still to play the stronger teams and our only glimmer of hope is that Magennis and Flynn return soon and that the new signings help to make a difference.
Yes we are comparatively strong in defence but our midfield has been consistently overrun in every game so far.
Tactically we are as negative as any team in the league.
Let’s hope things improve drastically within the next few games, otherwise we will be heading back to the Championship.

[santaponsasaint]

Sorry but Goody picked the wrong team again. But this time he never got away with it. Baird should have been at CH freeing up Foley to get back in midfield . Morias has had his chances. He's not good enough. The supply to Obika was non existent. Again trying to rely on our defence to get us a result. All good having a good defence if the midfield and attack is poor. But as usual Goody will say we played like Barcelona and were unlucky. We were not we were poor.

[Yardley]

Morias offers nothing. Dennis done more and linked play quite well. 

McPherson has to start as he seems the only one capable of getting close to opponents and can also put his foot on the ball and pass.

Foley is wasted in defence. 

You couldn't get a Paisley Daily Express under Obikas feet when he challenges for a header. The long ball tactic can only work if you have someone wh o can actually win a header and\or hold up the ball to bring others in. Obikas best work is in the penalty box.

 

[Sue Denim]

2 hours ago, TPAFKATS said:

Simply not good enough.
Manager must do better

Insightful post 😂

[Sue Denim]

1 hour ago, santaponsasaint said:

Sorry but Goody picked the wrong team again. But this time he never got away with it. Baird should have been at CH freeing up Foley to get back in midfield . Morias has had his chances. He's not good enough. The supply to Obika was non existent. Again trying to rely on our defence to get us a result. All good having a good defence if the midfield and attack is poor. But as usual Goody will say we played like Barcelona and were unlucky. We were not we were poor.

Get this guy in charge. 😂

[lenziebud]

3 hours ago, truesaint said:

Unfortunately it is the case where we are very short on quality. We have 7 players of decent quality. 2 still injured and 1 not available for selection. New boys still to prove themselves but thought Dennis looked much better at hold up and link up play than Obika and Morais who both had shit games.  WTF was Sheron doing not sliding in to block/clear the ball for the goal or was the tv angle just making him look as if he could. Jim should have had the balls to go with the new boys from the start. Durmus and McAllister were howling. So many things wrong with selection and formation etc. Think we will be ok when Flynn and Magennis are back and Jim will change the dimension of the type of game we play. He will be raging at the performances of a few and think he will drop a few next week. Thank feck for the international break so we can watch Scotland lose instead.

Highlighted the key words in your post.

Agree with all of it

[Desperately Seeking Susans]

There's a Horror Show on tonight in Alba at 11.

[Ethan]

1 minute ago, Desperately Seeking Susans said:

There's a Horror Show on tonight in Alba at 11.

Think i will skip it

[TPAFKA Jersey 2]

4 hours ago, munoz said:

Thought Connolly looked half decent with plenty of pace and backtracked well to win possession. I feel we're not far away from a good starting eleven,  but Goody needs to sort out his tactics. 

Definitely cant be over critical of the front players today because the service was woeful. 

You were watching a different game to me Munoz. I thought Connolly was absolutely honkin. 

[Tommy]

In the first half Foley was in midfield. The problem was the midfield today lacked balance, with two many attacking players and not enough ball winners. For those claiming Goody was too defensive today, it was actually a very attacking line up. The problem was we lost the midfield battle and only looked like challenging in there when Foley and MacPherson were playing at the base of the midfield. When Fraser went off and Foley had to move back, we lost the battle again.

My mistake. From the team lineout I assume Foley was at C/H.

[Tommy]

Sorry but Goody picked the wrong team again. But this time he never got away with it. Baird should have been at CH freeing up Foley to get back in midfield . Morias has had his chances. He's not good enough. The supply to Obika was non existent. Again trying to rely on our defence to get us a result. All good having a good defence if the midfield and attack is poor. But as usual Goody will say we played like Barcelona and were unlucky. We were not we were poor.

Now I am confused, was Foley playing C/H or not since other posters think he wasnt

[santaponsasaint]

Get this guy in charge.

Thanks. But i have a job

[Long John Baldy]

On 8/23/2020 at 6:06 PM, Long John Baldy said:

Just watching St Johnstone v Hibs, still 0-0 but we better watch out, they are not as bad as I thought.

Play down the wings almost every time they attack and deliver a decent cross.

They've had a goal wrongly chalked off and are equal to Hibs all over the park.

 

Aye, reasonable summary, although I never seen us being so poor.

 

[Hendo]

9 hours ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

You were watching a different game to me Munoz. I thought Connolly was absolutely honkin. 

He was anonymous, but wasn't alone there and it was also his first competitive game in almost six months.

[magnus]

Very similar to the Rangers game. No ambition. Poor passing. Awful tactics. We are a shadow of last year's side. 

[Long John Baldy]

5 minutes ago, magnus said:

Very similar to the Rangers game. No ambition. Poor passing. Awful tactics. We are a shadow of last year's side. 

Let's not get carried away about last year.

A one goal victory saved us from relegation.