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  1. Might just start copying and pasting this, but I am genuinely amazed at how our strikers cannot grasp the fundementals of playing up front.

    I've said it so many times before, if you accept that Chris Kane is deeply unlikely to score then there's a lot to like about his game, his role in the team is built around that and I don't have a big problem with his inclusion going forward.

    I feel dreadful for the ghost of Stevie May that now plays because it looks like all the fundementals of his game have been stripped away and he's just a shell, he tries hard and puts people under pressure, but he's essentially a less-good Kane at this point.

    Callum Hendry is a special mix of neither where he doesn't use his aggression in a positive way, he makes no movements short or long, doesn't strike the ball with conviction and tries to just shoot or cross through his marker without trying to create any space so he offers nothing.

    We must be the only team I've ever seen who actively look for strikers to flick the ball on, only for the other forward players to seem astounded that the ball going forward is something we can do, so they're 10 yards behind the play and have no momentum. That's one of the fundementals that sunday league players understand - you play it up to a target man and get someone to run onto it, it's not difficult but we don't have anyone who can do it

    Not sure how it can be fixed, Eetu sounds like an alternative for Spoony/Middleton so there's still nobody to get on the end of the ball when anything does open up, but just watching the forward movement today for about 20 minutes showed a real cowardice in our play - not in terms of being a human pinata and taking bumps, but actually making a movement to get on the ball and give us an outlet - players sprinting towards the corner when the pass is never on, or coming really short into a crowded area where nothing is on, so our movement actively makes the players unavailable for the ball rather than the opposite.

    This happened after the cup win in 2014, we immediately killed any enthusiasm and increased crowds by scoring less than a goal a game and generally they cam through set-pieces. I've supported Saints since I was 4 and have a season ticket so I'll keep going, but I struggle to see what's there to make the fairweather fans come back, so if we lose on Thursday the European attraction is gone, and a bottom half slug-fest without the ability to score quickly takes over and that's very difficult to sell.

  2. 1 minute ago, mizfit said:

     


    If any manager in Scotland was going to have an early link to the English championship it would’ve been Davidson.

    Even if he does want to move on, I think he’d rather go to a club that’s not a complete basket case like Nottingham Forest.

     

    In fairness it seems to be coming from an utter sh*te source, plus I'm sure they go through several managers a season so surely not attractive

  3. I've got a really bad feeling about LASK. We're great against teams who we can force into wider positions and offering no space inside, but they just look direct and much more physical/fast than our defenders so we might not get a chance for the back three to be settled and organised.

    Not a chance Liam Craig can start this one, we can't afford to cheaply give the ball away and then have no pace to get back in to cover

  4. I've actually forgotten about this from last night until now, there was a moment at 3-1, we got a break of the ball in the midfield and some tried to slip Hendry in behind. He just stood there, didn't offer short, didn't try to get in behind, just stood and sort of laughed at whoever tried to play the ball when they went nuts at him (Want to say Muzz but can't be sure) before just standing still on the spot as they brought it out of defence and the Gala player was able to take all the time he needed to knock it into an attacking area again

  5. 2 minutes ago, tree house tam said:

    Mind games, if his team perform they win , it's that simple.

    I liked the bit about 20 degrees difference and he doesn't know how they'll cope. Then he's reminded it was the same for Saints last week and changes it too how rocking the place will be, a bit like what Saints had to endure last week. The boys at it.

    Is it mind games when all he's doing is handing excuses to a fractured squad who are in a bad run and could implode if things go against them?

  6. Our attacking play is actually something to behold, but mainly for the wrong reasons. Consistently making the wrong choices, honestly not sure if it can be put down to bad coaching or just stupid selfish decisions, but the amount of times someone ignored the obvious ball to try something that was never going to come off definitely went into double figures today.

    Perhaps it's a mental block and the players have something in their mind that it's harder to open teams up in the final third so we must then try the hard ball, but Middleton is the only one who looks like he'll consistently make a good decision and hold others to account for their bad choices.

    Someone needs to read the paragraph in Zlatan's autobiography and test it out with Stevie May - Capello just took him out and had someone fire balls at him on the instructions to shoot and nothing else, that moment at the start of the game when he was central, in the clear, steadied and had a clear path to goal and still didn't want to shoot was worrying

    MOH has zero goalscoring insticts so it's pointless playing him as a forward to get on the end of crosses, he also needs a few seconds to react to anything and by then the ball is gone

    Defence is strong enough to cope with most, but we simply can't score from open play unless something is gifted to us

  7. 3 minutes ago, perthsaint1977 said:

    90 minutes from life changing monies for the club.
    Win on Thursday and we are guaranteed at worst a place in the Europa conference which brings nearly 3 million euros just for qualifying.
    If we were to take out Randers, then it would be 3.6 million euros just for qualifying.
    Win on Thursday and we have another 8 games guaranteed in Europe.
    4 at home and you would imagine near capacity for all 4. Say 7500 per game at 25 quid a pop, you are looking at 750k just from gate receipts. Throw in money from hospitality and TV rights, it could easily be worth another million.
    Then we come to potential earnings per win/draw in the group stages. Europa League is 660k euros per win, 210k euro per draw.
    Conference is 500k euros per win, 166k euros per draw
    Next Thursday night is probably easily worth 4/5 million quid.
    Remarkable

    Ali McCann plays like that again and it won't be the only 4/5 million that the club makes from this run either

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