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Picking up where we left off last time in Perth with the chaotic defending.
Haven't adapted to the conditions at all well.
Hopefully the equaliser will calm things down but we look vulnerable attempting to play it out from the back.
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9 minutes ago, paranoid android said:
Harsh on Cochrane to be left out, imo - he's been great.
He has. I guess the thinking is that Halliday offers more of a goal threat and can shift over to midfield if we want to swap to a back 4 for whatever reason.
Ginnelly is also a bit of a surprise given he's not done much this season.
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54 minutes ago, The Saintee said:
Jambos- Why do Craig Levein and Michael Stewart not like each other?
One thinks the other is a shite manager, one thinks the other was a shite player. Both right, both egotistical, thin-skinned wanks.
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21 minutes ago, PauloPerth said:
Now come on, that relegation turned out to be the best thing to happen to Hearts surely?
The publicity surrounding the relegation made sure that lad ploughed millions extra into hearts, with that financial doping resulting in a squad of players you probably couldn't really afford without it.
Obviously that part was a joke, but it's an interesting question. We'd probably have started last season with Stendel and some players who might have been more difficult to shift (bad) but I think Joe Savage's appointment was in the pipeline pre-COVID, and that's been the main catalyst for positive change.
As for James Anderson, I think it's a bit of a myth that he ploughs loads of money into the first team. He's put millions into the club, but my understanding is that's gone towards the new stand and partially covering COVID/relegation losses and legal fees. I've never got the impression he's motivated to spend on short term success. In any case, I'd expect our wage bill for this season will be <60% of turnover as usual, and donations from him and FoH don't count towards that figure.
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45 minutes ago, Zamora Fan said:
Edit: just to add that I have really fond memories of these 3-3 draws people were talking about, even tho Hearts got late equalisers in both they were complete Scottish football chaos and a lot of fun. Particularly enjoyed the Hearts keeper’s jelly wrists in the more recent one and Alan Mannus grabbing Ryan Stevenson by the neck in the other
We should probably be worried if it ends 3-3 given how those seasons turned out.
That most recent one summed up that season pretty well for us. One half an otherwise decent performance let down by a defensive/goalkeeping lapse, the other half a laughable shambles where we could have lost 6.
Actually, it would have summed up our season better if the ref had blown for full-time on 80 minutes, thereby preventing our miraculous late escape.
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4 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Since we last won there in the league St Johnstone have six 1 nil wins, a 2-1 and a 2-0.
There have been 2 0-0s, 2 2-2s and 2 3-3s.
All to say your feelings might not have been statistically on the money but pass the estimation test very well.
So 71% depressing defeats/draws where we scored a grand total of one goal and 29% goalfest draws. 91% of our goals have come in that 29%. Not too far off.
Failing to score in 9 out of 14 is truly horrific. Hopefully our current team (which only scores via defenders or penalties) will have better luck.
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17 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Feels like these games at McDiarmid always see plenty of goals or excitement tbh, although the 1-0 slogfest that saw Levein punted was one of the worst games of football I've ever seen at any level in my life.
Stevie May seems able to feast off John Souttars soul and regain some of his 2014 swag too, so a 3-2 Saints with with a May hat trick seems a solid bet.
I feel like this fixture at McDiarmid in the last decade has been 80% soul-destroying, could've-played-all-day-and-not-scored 1-0 defeats and 20% 3-3 draws.
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Saturday was arguably our first really poor result of the season and losing a goal so late was a bit of a sickener, so it'll be interesting to see the reaction here. It also feels significant that this is the last game of the first round of fixtures and, after this, we'll either have won the majority of our opening games or failed to do so. If we do win it'll restore some confidence that we're in the top 3/4 to stay, while if we get a poor result/performance people will start to reassess how good our start has actually been.
I thought we generally played well on Saturday - in line with our usual level of performance this season - and from back to middle we are definitely miles better than last season. As others have said, final ball/decision-making in the final third has been an issue and if Boyce is missing for this then that problem looks significantly worse. I actually don't think he suits the system we play especially well, but Gnanduillet's risible substitute appearance on Saturday showed he's far better than the current alternative.
I've only seen St Johnstone in the European games this season but I'd be quite confident they're much better than their current position suggests and it's been so long since we've won at McDiarmid that it feels like 3 points would be a real achievement. I can see a frustrating game where they let us have the majority of the ball but we struggle to break them down, so a 1-0 either way or a low-scoring draw feels like the best bet.
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2 hours ago, DC92 said:
I also feel like Gnanduillet has earned a go from the start but it's very difficult to accommodate both him and Boyce at the moment. It's also arguable that he's most effective off the bench.
Not sure I've been more wrong about anything. Worse than hopeless when he came on.
We'd better pray that Boyce is ok, otherwise we're fucked.
Woodburn coming off at half-time was probably the right call but GMS was anonymous when he came on aside from the shot off the post. McKay, on the other hand, was very good and we were immediately less threatening when he went off.
As for the result, I'm not surprised. We've been good at dominating games which will see us get the result more often than not, but we haven't necessarily been that good at killing them off. Sometimes you get punished for that, especially when the other team has a striker who always scores against you. We'll draw and lose plenty of games because of this and it's why we'll be nowhere near 1st place come the end of the season.
I wasn't particularly impressed by Dundee but they stayed in the game and they've got some dangerous players who can capitalise when a chance comes along. I'd definitely fancy them to finish above Ross County at least, and they've got more about them than Livi.
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That had been coming for the last few minutes. Unlike last week, the subs made us worse today (not that I argued with them at the time).
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We're deservedly in front been a bit sloppy at times for my liking.
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1 minute ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
According to the SATF Podcast GMS was carrying a few niggles for Ibrox so was rested. Don’t be surprised if he gets a bit more than the last 10 minutes this weekI did hear that actually, so it probably makes sense. I'd agree with others that it feels like Woodburn needs a goal to kick on.
I also feel like Gnanduillet has earned a go from the start but it's very difficult to accommodate both him and Boyce at the moment. It's also arguable that he's most effective off the bench.
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Quite surprised to see an unchanged line-up for us. Woodburn has been quiet recently and I thought Neilson might use this as an opportunity to rotate the front 3 with a game coming up in midweek.
Also, good to see Mr "we're so under their skin" is still thinking about my post from well over 24 hours ago. "Delicious tears" indeed.
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11 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
It was my post he replied to back in the day. Do you know how the search function works on this forum?
Sounds like you're a bit of a simpleton tbh.
I'm enjoying the tears tbh.
I'm glad you think your response to someone being mean about a wee racist creep is any less tragic because of how efficiently you were able to retrieve some very old and extremely tenuous quotes in retaliation (not to mention the avalanche of Kickback drivel). Tbh.
Anyway, I'm sure JT doesn't need me white-knighting for him, but I thought his post was quite nice about Dundee - he predicted a score draw! I'm inclined to agree on the basis that we're probably due a result that has everyone calling for Neilson's head again.
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2 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Cry more.
A guy said something nasty about a wee creep who played for our rivals and sang racist songs about one of our best loved players, so you decided to trawl through about 18 months of his posting history. Very normal, non-rattled behaviour IMO.
I was ready to retaliate by going on the Dundee forum and hammering my ctrl+c keys but all the posts were about how they were looking forward to a nice clean game and hoped football would be the winner.
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"LOL it's delicious how much we get under their skin"; proceeds to dive into their P&B dossier on someone who's posted once on this thread to dig up ancient posts and then creates a mega-compilation of random dribblings from another forum that no-one asked for.
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9 minutes ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Griffiths scores against us all the fucking time.
2 in 9 for Hibs, 7 in 15 for Celtic apparently. Not quite as many as I thought, but I do always feel like he's going to score against us. Cummings has 4 in 8.
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4 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
Hibs had the title won with ease by january and completely took their foot of the gas. Something the more pragmatic sides didn't do as much.
At the halfway point they were 2 points behind in 2nd place, having dropped points in 8 of their first 18 games. Their PPG only dropped slightly from 2.0 to 1.94 in the second half of the season but Dundee United had completely fallen away. They only ended up with 1 more point than they got in 14/15 when they finished 21 points off the pace.
If anything your description applies more to Hearts last season, who were 12 points ahead at the halfway point, averaging 3 goals a game and having won 11 out of 14. They then looked like they couldn't be arsed anymore in February and March.
We didn't win it in style, it was largely eye-bleeding shite, but Hibs most certainly didn't either. They scored less often and won less often. I'm sure even Hibs fans would agree.
The point about it being a division teams rarely win in style is a fair one, though. Hardly anyone gets over 80 points and a steady 2 points per game average usually does it comfortably.
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15 hours ago, parsforlife said:
Hibs we’re probably the last team to win the title in style, doing just enough to edge out games most weeks is what champions of this league tend to do.
15 hours ago, PB1994 said:Yeah that is true. Considering the money that Hearts, County and Dundee Utd must have spent to go up you’d think they’d have been able to do it in style. They all won it fairly comfortably but none of them ever looked that good.
On saying that we have played we for about 60 minutes this season and are 5 points clear, so long may scrapping your way to the title continue.
Hibs won it with 71 points (1.97 PPG), failing to win 47% of their games.
No-one has won it with a lower points per game since. Hearts and Dundee United got 2.11, St Mirren 2.06 and Ross County also 1.97.
Hearts last season scored 4 more goals than Hibs 16/17 despite playing 9 fewer games.
Stylish.
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1 hour ago, johnnydun said:
I would rather wait for our win against them to be the last game of the season, when they need a point to win the title....
Not Kidding.
Somehow the most absurd part of this scenario is the idea that Dundee will make the top six.
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1 hour ago, Johnstoun said:
Naismith a better footballer but Miller scored more goals, and Scotland could do with a poacher.
Miller averaged 0.26 goals a game for Scotland (1 in 4). Hardly poacher material, and actually slightly worse than Dykes' current 0.3 goals/game.
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1 hour ago, John Lambies Doos said:
That pic looks very dodgy but who cares
All this picture shows is that the ball was sort of near his arm at some point. The replays don't shed too much light, but it looks like it hit his chest to me, and there's certainly no way they conclusively show it hitting his arm, which is why we survived the lengthy VAR check.
1 hour ago, 2426255 said:I think we have had the rub of the green in general throughout the group with VAR and others teams (Austria) having injuries to their players etc.
I'd say VAR has prevented bad luck rather than providing good luck. If the penalty v Austria and equaliser v Israel had been given in the first instance without VAR then no-one would have batted an eyelid. I won't pretend I wasn't sweating at the time, but looking at last night's one objectively it would have been pretty wild if VAR had overturned it given the available evidence.
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Just now, Meeniedee said:
a win is a win but christ that was a hard watch far too slow doing anything,lucky not to be behind at the break...70 mins gone needing a goal and he brings on macgregor....terrible.
100% the right change, and it should have happened earlier. Introducing a player who will help us pass the ball better and gain more control of the game is a way of helping us win.
Barring us scoring an early goal, I was always expecting this to be a hard game, and we've essentially achieved exactly the same as a much better Denmark team did in this fixture.
The disappointment is that we're getting the odd big performance/result under Clarke and I keep expecting us to kick on and improve, but we don't. Produce a similar performance against a rotten Moldova team and our current good position is in danger.
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3 minutes ago, eez-eh said:
The group he had us in was a piece of piss - and we still nearly cocked it up. Needed a late goal in our last game against Lithuania to get second place. Germany when they were at their lowest level in living memory (they dropped points to everyone bar the Faroes in qualifying and got sent packing with 2 points in the tournament itself), Lithuania, Iceland before they got good and the Faroes.
I’m fairly confident that every manager since Bertie would have gotten a play-off place out of that even with the same players available. The Smith/McLeish team would have qualified automatically.
We also dropped 5 points to Lithuania and the Faroes, something which would very probably have been fatal to our chances in any other qualifying campaign, so "you can only beat what's in front of you" doesn't apply.
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Haven't adapted to the conditions at all well.
St Johnstone vs. Hearts
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Ok, that's enough draws now Hearts.
After a ropy first half we were well on top in the second but I still never felt we were going to score despite plenty of chances. The lack of goals from the front three is a fundamental problem which will ultimately mean we're nowhere near the top of the league when everything's done (which most of us never expected tbf). Gnanduillet was much better tonight but we need a big signing in that position if we want to be sure of third.
Halkett had an a bit of a nightmare, especially in the first half. I'm pretty sure every St Johnstone spell in our defensive third could be traced back to one of his terrible passes. He's done well this season and has enough credit not to be dropped but I wonder if Moore might eventually take his place.