linwood buddie Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 16 minutes ago, munoz said: Last time we done it , i was still delivering papers. Some achievement. Can you bring me a Sunday Mail and the Post tomorrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint in exile Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 Firstly, its great that we're top 6. A fantastic achievement. But todays performance was shocking. Never in the game at any point and never looked like getting anything out of the game. If we repeat that display in the last 5, then we'll stay 6th ans xan forget about Europe. We can only hope it was a bad day at the office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougJamie Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 3 minutes ago, saint in exile said: Firstly, its great that we're top 6. A fantastic achievement. But todays performance was shocking. Never in the game at any point and never looked like getting anything out of the game. If we repeat that display in the last 5, then we'll stay 6th ans xan forget about Europe. We can only hope it was a bad day at the office. Dons, Hibs, Hearts have had far worse days at the office than we have recently...if thats our blip then i am happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 Realistically i reckon 5th place is now our goal. Exactly all this talk of 3rd and 4th was possible but always unlikely (especially with our away form). Our first goal was top 6 box ticked done now let's target the next place up. Anything higher is a bonus. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portmahomack saint Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 6 hours ago, Smithers Jones said: That was the worst by some distance for a long long time. Worst since we lost 3-0 to Q.O.S at home about 5/6 year ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboys Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) Think when we all wake up on Sunday morning and the euphoria of making the top six dies down, we will all realise the full impact of yesterdays result. Assuming nobody takes anything from the ugly sisters, we have only 9 points to play for and we are well behind 4th, a win was needed yesterday. That should have been the focus, winning gave us top six automatically but more importantly kept our challenge alive. Sadly I think we are now playing for 5th or 6th. yesterdays game was not simply about top 6, Dundee United secured that for us, it was about keeping in touch with Hearts and Aberdeen and we failed the test. hopefully the extra cash for improved league position and better gates in the run in will help the finances. But all this talk of Europe after yesterdays result is surely gone. Edited April 23, 2023 by bonzoboys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Let's aim for Europe [emoji16][emoji849] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 5th is achievable but If you offered me 6th at the start of the season I would have bitten your hand off. We have the lowest budget of any team in the top 6. If we get 5th then it will be superb but I expect us to end up 6th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Think when we all wake up on Sunday morning and the euphoria of making the top six dies down, we will all realise the full impact of yesterdays result. Assuming nobody takes anything from the ugly sisters, we have only 9 points to play for and we are well behind 4th, a win was needed yesterday. That should have been the focus, winning gave us top six automatically but more importantly kept our challenge alive. Sadly I think we are now playing for 5th or 6th. yesterdays game was not simply about top 6, Dundee United secured that for us, it was about keeping in touch with Hearts and Aberdeen and we failed the test. hopefully the extra cash for improved league position and better gates in the run in will help the finances. But all this talk of Europe after yesterdays result is surely gone. 5th place gets us Europe and you said we can still get it. Why do you think nobody will take anything from the ugly sisters??? We have took points from both as did Motherwell yesterday and they have absolutely nothing as far as league goes to play for unlike the other 4 teams. I think your being a little harsh on the team Dundee United didn't secure top 6 for us we secured it ourselves over 33 matches. Yes, yesterday was disappointing as was losing out on 3 points but that one result won't define our season we now have a 5 match season with one aim to finish above Hibs do that and it will be an amazing season. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunterian Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 8 hours ago, saint in exile said: Firstly, its great that we're top 6. A fantastic achievement. But todays performance was shocking. Never in the game at any point and never looked like getting anything out of the game. If we repeat that display in the last 5, then we'll stay 6th ans xan forget about Europe. We can only hope it was a bad day at the office. I agree, it was the significance at the end of the game that made it easier to swallow. The game itself was dreadful, one of the worst I’ve seen for a few seasons. I don’t want to blame Killie but I’m afraid the time wasting, injury feigning and high balls didn’t help. None of the players were anywhere near their best. Better to get that sort of performance out of the way because the proverbial 5 cup finals await. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunterian Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 21 minutes ago, Ethan said: 5th is achievable but If you offered me 6th at the start of the season I would have bitten your hand off. We have the lowest budget of any team in the top 6. If we get 5th then it will be superb but I expect us to end up 6th. A realist, welcome aboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleySaint Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Said yesterday it was about getting 6th place, I really don't think we have the squad or money to create a squad that could do Europe this year. Take the opportunity this year to get the squad sorted out early, get us right for pre season and League Cup then top 6 for next season and a push for the euro spots in earnest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 On 4/15/2023 at 7:58 PM, elvis said: We will get pumped but make top 6 due to Livingston not winning in Dundee. Oh look at that I got it right at last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledfan Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Top 6 mission achieved. One area that we do need to address though is how poor we are when going in favourites against struggling teams. Like the Dundee cup game we never showed up here. We don't seem to be able to stretch teams and use the width to make runs and get in crosses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maboza Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) 6th place is an achievement in a sense but it’s just an extra league position and some extra cash at the end of the day. Partick got it a few years ago and celebrated it as a huge success and then plummeted immediately after the split and have still never recovered. With 5 places on the go for European football, the real prize has to be securing that. That’s what would make a real memory for me and generations of fans who have never seen us in Europe. If we don’t get it, it’s essential that the club/manager/players has the mentality to use the top six finish as a springboard to repeatedly challenging, rather than as a one off success. Edited April 23, 2023 by Maboza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledfan Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 42 minutes ago, StanleySaint said: Said yesterday it was about getting 6th place, I really don't think we have the squad or money to create a squad that could do Europe this year. Take the opportunity this year to get the squad sorted out early, get us right for pre season and League Cup then top 6 for next season and a push for the euro spots in earnest. That is a very good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Ronnie said: 5th place gets us Europe and you said we can still get it. Why do you think nobody will take anything from the ugly sisters??? We have took points from both as did Motherwell yesterday and they have absolutely nothing as far as league goes to play for unlike the other 4 teams. I think your being a little harsh on the team Dundee United didn't secure top 6 for us we secured it ourselves over 33 matches. Yes, yesterday was disappointing as was losing out on 3 points but that one result won't define our season we now have a 5 match season with one aim to finish above Hibs do that and it will be an amazing season. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk If we finish 5th and ICT or Falkirk beat the Ugly Sisters, we will not qualify for Europe. If we finish 5th, we'll surely all be supporting whichever Sister gets to the final? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Tommy said: Well put, but i an of the opinion that Saints fans think we are far better than most of the other clubs. I just don't think we are, although the league table would disagree with me. I don't know of any Saints fans who are arrogant enough to think that. However, over the season so far, we clearly are a bit better than the teams that are in the bottom six. I just don't get fans that constantly belittle any positives that happen at the club. Why even bother "supporting" us? I'm not including you in that category. Edited April 23, 2023 by FTOF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougJamie Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 5 minutes ago, W6er said: If we finish 5th and ICT or Falkirk beat the Ugly Sisters, we will not qualify for Europe. If we finish 5th, we'll surely all be supporting whichever Sister gets to the final? Hear you... but whatever half of the OF get to the final will thrash their opponents.... 5 going on 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 36 minutes ago, exiledfan said: Top 6 mission achieved. One area that we do need to address though is how poor we are when going in favourites against struggling teams. Like the Dundee cup game we never showed up here. We don't seem to be able to stretch teams and use the width to make runs and get in crosses. Big Ayunga is a huge miss for us in that respect. When he's on his game he causes defences a lot of problems. Sadly Watt has turned out to be as much use as Brophy so far. I live in hope...................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 13 minutes ago, W6er said: If we finish 5th, we'll surely all be supporting whichever Sister gets to the final? NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwaystrue Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 The amount of doom and gloom from certain individuals over what is a first for the club, top 6 finish, is shocking. We were pish yesterday, no question, but we beat the champions elect at home, nobody else has done this. We beat Hearts at Tynecastle, had rangers worried for 75 minutes and took a point of them earlier in the season. This season we have also beat Aberdeen twice and hibs once. So who is to say we can't make a go of it in the last 5 games. Cheer up miserable sods, even if it's not realistic we make top 3 or 4, we are at the business end of the league instead of wondering if we will get sucked into a relegation battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Big Ayunga is a huge miss for us in that respect. When he's on his game he causes defences a lot of problems. Sadly Watt has turned out to be as much use as Brophy so far. I live in hope......................Said that a few weeks ago if he hadn't been injured think we would have got top 6 before yesterday not for his goals just his all round play. Look at the teams above us the 5 biggest teams in Scotland by an absolute mile with everyone of them having at least one 15/20 goal per season striker (Aberdeen have 2 WTF) yet we are the best of the rest with Curtis Main on 7 goals. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 1 minute ago, Ronnie said: Said that a few weeks ago if he hadn't been injured think we would have got top 6 before yesterday not for his goals just his all round play. Look at the teams above us the 5 biggest teams in Scotland by an absolute mile with everyone of them having at least one 15/20 goal per season striker (Aberdeen have 2 WTF) yet we are the best of the rest with Curtis Main on 7 goals. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk Unfortunately finding and being able to afford a goal scoring striker for a team like us is like finding the holy grail. If Main goes and we could somehow find some club daft enough to take Brophy off our hands, every penny should be put into finding a striker that can score double figures, ideally towards the 15-20 goal mark. Motherwell seemed to have lucked out with Van Veen, although even he was getting pelters from their fans earlier in the season. So there must be suitable targets out there. This should be Foyle's priority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Unfortunately finding and being able to afford a goal scoring striker for a team like us is like finding the holy grail. If Main goes and we could somehow find some club daft enough to take Brophy off our hands, every penny should be put into finding a striker that can score double figures, ideally towards the 15-20 goal mark. Motherwell seemed to have lucked out with Van Veen, although even he was getting pelters from their fans earlier in the season. So there must be suitable targets out there. This should be Foyle's priority. Nisbet was attracting interest from almost every top flight club before opting for Hibs, Akinyemi of Ayr United is in the same category will have interest from England and Scotland but would the prospect of European Football tempt him to St Mirren??? First priority is to keep Robinson and O'Hara as the downside to a wee diddy team punching above their weight is a slightly bigger diddy teams wants your manager and players and have more money. Be Surprised if Hearts don't have a serious look at Robinson although their fans don't seem too keen on him. Sent from my T610K using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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