Livingston v St Mirren League Cup Semi Final 24/1/21

[magnus 2,868]

Gutted with that. Wrong starting line up. Too defensive.

[saint in exile 2,276]

Just now, elvis said:

Goodwin to blame for that.. 

Absolutely. Gave up with the formation to start with.

[Ethan 1,075]

We never laid a glove on them. 

[Sonny 9,260]

Goodwin to blame for that. What has Ilkay to do to get a start? Mason never kicked a ball and should have been off at half time. And Ethan and Cammy were sitting too deep. First half was a shambles.

[delpierro 736]

Goodwin has to take ownership for his team selection and formation.
And for the luv of baby Jesus, someone explain Brandon Mason, for me. Eatch who's marking Robinson, for their goak.

[saint in exile 2,276]

Good luck to Livi in the final.

[zurich_allan 1,194]

Pathetic. And Goodwin to blame. Beat Rangers last round, Aberdeen the round before, have beaten Livingston twice in the league and go into the game with a lineup and tactics like that? Not good enough, and the blame is squarely on the manager.

[turrabuddie 1,713]

Much better in the 2nd half but overall didn’t do nearly enough in the final third to threaten Livi’s keeper and the correct result.

And so we move on. JG needs to work on us creating chances.

(Fakes to win this Cup)

[oaksoft 13,678]

Two stonewall penalties denied.

Two clear chances to shoot and we pass instead.

At least we went down giving it everything.

I'm afraid the quality just isn't there in the midfield at the moment and that has cost us today.

Tait was our best player IMO and if we had a team of players as good as him we'd be in a different place.

The back 4 all played very well actually after a shaky start.

Livingston were utter shit and we've dominated possession for most of the game and that'll be the cause of the pain for the players tonight.

Oh well.

[billyg 5,838]

Where to start ?  We gave them too much respect. How they could go 10 in a row unbeaten , I'll never know , they are rotten. A hit and run championship team . Looks like Brophy and whoever else we have for forward roles are not the answer. If ever a game was there for the taking , that was it ! 

[W6Saint 1,072]

I have no doubt Goodwin will be in the press afterwards giving the usual Bafta-worthy performance but the blame is on him for this one.

All eyes on him now in a big few weeks, just as far away from relegation as we are top 6... interesting times ahead

[ford prefect 281]

Just now, Sonny said:

Goodwin to blame for that. What has Ilkay to do to get a start? Mason never kicked a ball and should have been off at half time. And Ethan and Cammy were sitting too deep. First half was a shambles.

Absolutely. We're beat before we start with this do not lose mentality. Ethan and Cammy need a break. We were outfought. I have no idea what Foley and Flynn need to do to get a game.

[Russian Saint 1,309]

Embarrassing from Obika stay on feet and get us a chance to score.

I wouldn’t mind seeing that again, but from the replay it looked like Obika had his foot clipped............or maybe I need new specs.

[delpierro 736]

I wouldn’t mind seeing that again, but from the replay it looked like Obika had his foot clipped............or maybe I need new specs.

A smart forward would cut across the defender.

[antrin 5,044]

Just now, oaksoft said:

Two stonewall penalties denied.

Two clear chances to shoot and we pass instead.

At least we went down giving it everything.

I'm afraid the quality just isn't there in the midfield at the moment and that has cost us today.

Tait was our best player IMO and if we had a team of players as good as him we'd be in a different place.

The back 4 all played very well actually after a shaky start.

Livingston were utter shit and we've dominated possession for most of the game and that'll be the cause of the pain for the players tonight.

Oh well.

Possible pens, aye - but not stonewall...

 

And Tait - great.  Agreed.

 

If more had his heart and strength and self-belief it may have been different.

 

Livvi really wanted it from the start.

[the barrhead teacher 759]

The second half was a major improvement on the first but we really don’t look like scoring. We have scored so few goals this season for a reason. We are better with two up front, no doubt, and there is not much between most of the teams in this league as demonstrated again, by too many hopeful high balls, limited real inspiration and l do struggle at times with Goodwin lineups. Too worried about losing, but it isn’t working

[[email protected] 75]

Was utter misery listening in, but the fact is yet another game without us scoring. It must be some kind of a record. Anyway, poor show once more by Saints. To make matters worse, the woman presenter on radio utters so many errs, umms and ahs that she could be Johnson’s speech writer. Our chance to win a trophy with no big guns left and we are just not up to it. That leaves the Scottish cup and relegation dogfight. Happy days. 

[Ronnie 1,255]

Didn't see a foot clip was looking to see if he was pulled back which he definitely wasnt.

I wouldn’t mind seeing that again, but from the replay it looked like Obika had his foot clipped............or maybe I need new specs.

[Ayrshire Saints 4,783]

Was utter misery listening in, but the fact is yet another game without us scoring. It must be some kind of a record. Anyway, poor show once more by Saints. To make matters worse, the woman presenter on radio utters so many errs, umms and ahs that she could be Johnson’s speech writer. Our chance to win a trophy with no big guns left and we are just not up to it. That leaves the Scottish cup and relegation dogfight. Happy days. 

A record, 2 without scoring ????

[faraway saint 31,066]

3 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

Two stonewall penalties denied.

Two clear chances to shoot and we pass instead.

At least we went down giving it everything.

I'm afraid the quality just isn't there in the midfield at the moment and that has cost us today.

Tait was our best player IMO and if we had a team of players as good as him we'd be in a different place.

The back 4 all played very well actually after a shaky start.

Livingston were utter shit and we've dominated possession for most of the game and that'll be the cause of the pain for the players tonight.

Oh well.

[Micky 64]

Dreadful negative team selection, dreadful hit n hope tactics, dreadful defending and ‘too little too late’ subs.

One of the most pitiful semi final ‘performances’ I can remember from any side. Felt we were always going to lose from the second minute onwards.  Jim deserves all the stick he will undoubtedly get for this. 

He’d better shake this safety first bullshit. The month of January has been a disgrace. If we don’t reverse our fortunes sharpish we can easily get sucked back into the mire. Long gone are those performances against Aberdeen when we actually started to look like a good team.
 

[W6Saint 1,072]

As a side note; what is with the play acting?

Seems to be creeping in to our games a lot, and we rarely benefit from it

[herman_munster 771]

7 minutes ago, delpierro said:

Goodwin has to take ownership for his team selection and formation.
And for the luv of baby Jesus, someone explain Brandon Mason, for me. Eatch who's marking Robinson, for their goak.

aye we lost by the odd goak

[mattman 1,355]

That was horrible nothing positive just pure shite. Seen it coming all day long 

[herman_munster 771]

6 minutes ago, Russian Saint said:

 

I wouldn’t mind seeing that again, but from the replay it looked like Obika had his foot clipped............or maybe I need new specs.

 

it was a definite dive, that wee balloon morias would have been proud of it