Cumbriansaint72 Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 1 hour ago, CraigyBoy said: Clutching at straws with the anti Robbo posts... we were shite most of this season and this bollocks about 4th place was some mere second in time - we were in the hunt for top 6 in spite of some dire and woeful pre Robinson results. We were only in contention for top 6 because Aberdeen & Hibs played absolutely no where near there level - we didn't deserve it and we are where we are because we cannot defend and have zero intent going forward. This is not down to 1 manager and a handful of fixtures!!!!. Compared to last season this was a real disappointment and this goes back to the summer transfer window and our style of play when JG was in charge . Things haven't improved I grant you but it was not pretty this season loooong before Robbo arrived 🤷🤷🤷🤷 What you got to remember is as I have previously posted we, as many other SPL can't attract 'big' name players but finances and status don't allow it so whoever manages them has to get the best or worst out of them depending on having some tact or not. I'm not saying that the footy pre robbo was great BUT they played as a unit. Made difficult to beat and maybe grab a win. The players got it and did bloody well imo. Nowadays the same players absolutely drained of all confidence, look lost in whatever instructions they are given. Surely can't be many saints fans thinking robbo is doing a great job. More or less went in the same way as cloughie did at Leeds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew87 Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 We literally didn't have to beat them to make top six, we were in the top six having not beaten them. Motherwell have won just one game since Boxing Day (against us of course) and they're in the top six. You remember the County game very differently from me incidentally: More posession, more shots on goal (27 ffs), more shots on target. We weren't great that night but if anyone deserved to win it, it was us. We had two shots on target on Saturday by the way, the drop off has been unreal. We might have had lots of shoots on goal but part of a good performance is the quality of finishing. Incidentally Jak saw it differently from you too https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19759584.jak-alnwick-pulls-no-punches-bleak-assessment-st-mirren-situation-amid-dire-run/As for not having to beat these teams to make top 6, we didn’t win the recent games against them and we’re not top 6. Of course there aren’t teams we have a divine right to beat but if you don’t beat the teams around or below you in the league top 6 isn’t going to be possible. The 1 point we took off the top three would leave us struggling.I fully recognise that under Robinson the performances, other than 45 minutes, against United have been dreadful but I don’t think we were world beaters under Jim. The difference is under Jim we were able to grind out results which we don’t look capable of at present 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted April 28 Author Report Share Posted April 28 14 hours ago, andrew87 said: I fully recognise that under Robinson the performances, other than 45 minutes, against United have been dreadful but I don’t think we were world beaters under Jim. The difference is under Jim we were able to grind out results which we don’t look capable of at present Exactly, and grinding out results is all that's needed to be top six, as we showed up to February, when we were 4th on PPG. The ability to grind out results in this league is the difference between mid table obscurity and relegation. We certainly have never been and never will be world beaters - no one in Scotland is. We were however a competent mid table Scottish top flight side, as the league in the last two years has consistently showed. Something we weren't for over 30 years prior and something it seems like we no longer are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted April 28 Author Report Share Posted April 28 16 hours ago, CraigyBoy said: Clutching at straws with the anti Robbo posts... we were shite most of this season and this bollocks about 4th place was some mere second in time - we were in the hunt for top 6 in spite of some dire and woeful pre Robinson results. We were only in contention for top 6 because Aberdeen & Hibs played absolutely no where near there level - we didn't deserve it and we are where we are because we cannot defend and have zero intent going forward. This is not down to 1 manager and a handful of fixtures!!!!. Compared to last season this was a real disappointment and this goes back to the summer transfer window and our style of play when JG was in charge . Things haven't improved I grant you but it was not pretty this season loooong before Robbo arrived 🤷🤷🤷🤷 A mere second in time? When Jim left we were 6th, one point behind 4th with a game in hand (Against Dundee, which we went onto win). Had the season been called at that point due to a 18th COVID outbreak, we'd have finished 4th. What second are you talking about? Call it one point behind 4th with a game in hand against bottom of the league if you want, the point is the same. Your second point is literally how league tables work. Your league position depends on how the other teams perform, are you saying that Ross County, United and Motherwell only made top six because Aberdeen and Hibs have been rubbish? Suppose you're right. St Johnstone are 11th because Dundee have been even worse than them. Killie just won the Championship because they were less rubbish than everyone else. You get compared to your peers, and a lot of them aren't very good, 'twas ever thus. Welcome to Scottish football. 'Compared to last season this was a real disappointment' We were literally on exactly the same on points after 25 games this season as the previous season That's the table on the day Jim left, 4th on PPG, and 13 points ahead of St Johnstone. Here's the table from the season before after we'd played the same amount of games: As the figures show, there hadn't been any kind of decline, we were motoring along just fine, comfortably mid table, for the second season in a row. Then Robbo got his hands on us, and dragged us kicking and screaming into a relegation fight. Lose on Saturday that gap from St Johnstone will have went from 13 points to 2 points in a 10 game period. An absolutely remarkable decline, and it's his fault. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 1 hour ago, TopCat said: Had the season been called at that point due to a 18th COVID outbreak, we'd have finished 4th. Best yet, absolutely brilliant. 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted April 28 Author Report Share Posted April 28 25 minutes ago, faraway saint said: Best yet, absolutely brilliant. 🤣 And the inconvenient truth 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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