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If you're unhappy about our transfer window and want cheering up, head over to the St Johnstone thread.
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12 minutes ago, buddie06smfc said:
Dunne needs papped on the bench, he’s rubbish. His passing is atrocious.
We won’t score many goals this season probably. We had more than enough chances in the first half. The early one we did score today that was disallowed, linesman made an arse of it.I thought Dunne was decent today. Admittedly he wasn't up against much in Hendry and May but defensively he was sound. His passing isn't great though, I agree.
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Our discipline is terrible. Tired and lazy from Erhahon, getting caught in possession and making a stupid foul. No complaints with the red card. We should've been ahead in the game, then end up finishing by hanging on for a point.
Why does Middleton not start more for St Johnstone? Always seems to make a difference when he comes on. We don't have anyone who can come on and change a game.
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Just now, Sh*teAndMuck said:
Craig booked now. All set up for our usual red card away to St Mirren.
Calum Hendry could've had that already when he caught Dunne with an elbow. The ref must've completely missed it to not even book him.
Been a reasonable game so far. We've had the better chances and should be in the lead. Some save from Clarke at the death.
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Knicker wetter are out early this year. There were folk calling for Goodwin's head last season after a poor run.
Today was a tough watch, but we're the second team Celtic have hit for 6. I imagine we won't be the last team to get a doing at Parkhead this year either.
I'm not convinced of 3 at the back and I worry about the lack of pace in our team but it's certainly not time to panic yet.
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Well, thankfully that's over. It was always going to be tough today but Alnwick flogging two goals, Power stupidly getting sent off and you're right up against it.
On another day Power might have got away with a yellow but if you dive in then you're taking a risk. Such a needless challenge to make too. I've not been overly impressed with Power so far, I'd sooner have Flynn or Macpherson playing.
I actually think there were a couple of positives too. With 10 men we created a couple of decent chances and had a perfectly good goal chalked off. Of course, immediately after Main's goal was ruled out Celtic score the third. Not that it would've made any difference to the outcome, only the scoreline.
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45 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:
This Celtic Hearts game should act as a huge klaxon to Goodwin in that if we try to defend deep with 5 at the back then we could be on the end of a very humiliating scoreline.
I'm pretty worried about next week. Hearts improved when Ginelly came on and they had pace running at Celtic. I struggle to see who can do that for us.
Celtic are poor at the back as well, we have players that could cause them some problems but it means we need to get the ball into them.
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5 minutes ago, TheJTS98 said:
Did you see us play?
I didn't to be fair. It wasn't particularly a criticism of Hearts fans, more just an observation.
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2 minutes ago, TheJTS98 said:
To be fair, last time we got off to a great start in the top flight, Neilson was in charge.
Yet plenty of Hearts fans would've had him binned last season.
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3 minutes ago, Shteve said:
Souttar is probably the best player in the league, might sound a bit over the top just now but it's likely more and more people will start agreeing with that.
Behave. He's probably in the top 3 or 4 centre halves, hopefully for him (and the national team) he keeps improving. But he's not the best player in the league.
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To be honest I think that's probably a fair result. We had all the pressure in the second half but we asked so few questions of Hearts. Hearts were content to sit in and hit on the break and we had no answers. For all our pressure we had two shots straight down Gordon's throat before the goal. If McGrath goes we could struggle as he's the only player with a bit of guile we've got. I'm also not convinced with this formation.
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Just now, Silvio said:
Hearts are extremely... 'streetwise'
I was about to say that we need to get 'cuter'.
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Need to see that again but it looks a ridiculous red card. Haring obstructs Dennis, looks like Dennis lifts his arm but is it an elbow?? Kiltie went for a header in the first half (on Haring I think) with a raised arm and didn't even get booked.
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Hearts are probably worth their lead. We've come more and more into the game, no surprises that it coincided with McGrath getting on the ball. We've not created anything clear cut which is disappointing.
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35 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
In return we've had utter dugshite like Stuart Carswell, Greg Denham, Jim Gardener, Andy Roddie.
You forgot Andy Dow.
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14 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:
Is that a penalty? Cummings puts his arm across and the bold boy collapses. Total pile of bullshite. IMO.
It was soft but it was nowhere near the softest foul in the game. The ref gave soft fouls throughout. Cummings took a shite touch then put in a clumsy challenge. Henderson was happy to go down but it's probably still a foul.
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3 minutes ago, Saint Shug said:
I can see why the Dundee boys are so giddy after that.
The game was there to be won for us and with the exception of a 15 minute spell at the end of the first half we were in total control.
Bit of a worry that our substitution after the red card was a guy who had barely even played in pre season and who is predominately a defender rather than an attacker. Attacking reinforcements in the wide areas are definitely required.
I thought that. Henderson was the right man to take off as he wasn't making enough of an impact. Had McAllister been on the bench I think it'd been him to come on.
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Just now, btb said:
Point of interest (to me anyway) - does the penalty count as a shot on target?
Yes
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The red card changed the momentum in the game as Dundee were in the ascendancy. After that it was all St Mirren. Thought we had the better chances throughout the game and should've won, we really need to be more clinical.
The penalty was a bit soft but the ref gave soft fouls all day. The penalty wasn't even close to being the softest foul in the game.
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2 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Yeah, that's all I spotted. Won the header then straight to the crowd.
He didn't win the header.
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The ref is having a shocker. Adam's booking was laughable. So many soft fouls given as well.
Dundee deserved their equaliser but I feel they've only really threatened from set pieces. Dunne should clear his lines but trips over the ball giving away a needless corner. 48 corners later we concede.
Shame for Danny Mullen, hope he's OK.
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31 minutes ago, RiG said:
We've confirmed the signing of Jamieson. Season long loan. Will be interesting to see how he gets on.
That'll be a good move for him provided he gets a run of games. They've got McKay, Duku, Sutherland and another couple of boys who can play up front.
Edited to include: working with Billy Dodds could be good for a young striker's development.
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12 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Tbf Dreyer scored a shit tonne of goals that season and was being chased by multiple clubs around Europe.
Fair enough and Brighton were a Premier League team too. I'm not saying that Erhahon should go for more than Dreyer, just that if teams from other smaller countries can hold out for decent cash then we shouldn't be in a rush to sell our most promising stars for peanuts.
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Brighton paid £1.5 million for Anders Dreyer, who had one full season in the Danish second tier under his belt.
We (and by that I mean St Mirren but also Scottish football more generally) need to stop selling ourselves short.
If Erhahon was to go for a few hundred thousand it would be a scandal.
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The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread
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Anyone that thought they were getting £3m up front for McCann is deluded. There might be a decent sell on (there certainly should be), which is how clubs like ourselves and St Johnstone will operate. I'm also not convinced the two cup wins would have added that much to any St Johnstone player's value for teams in England. They'll look at what a player has done over a period of time and make a judgment. Hence why Edouard still went for a good fee despite being pretty poor recently.
As for our window, most people were content to get a lot of business done early, we signed some reasonable players with experience of this division. I wonder if we'd brought in Power, Main, Tanser and Kiltie at 11pm last night - rather than a month ago - if everyone would've been happy and excited.
I agree that there are areas where we are lacking and I'm still to be convinced of 3-5-2, but I don't think we're anywhere near panic stations.