Maine Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Nisbet looks quality, his turn and shot that hit the post would have been a cracking equaliser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Nisbet should start next week's against the DABs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase drop Welsh and go 2 in midfield for next week! Pogba for Boolan, and Amoo for Welsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 'N Yellow Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Amoo was terrific when he came on, happy to beat his man and use his pace. Why doesn't he ever do any of this when he starts?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Interesting how different fans see it. I thought thistle were poor, toothless and lacking anything up front for most of the game. We restricted them easily and the majority of their attacking play resulted in shots from 20+ yards flying high or wide. Thought we should have been out of sight with cerny making a few good saves and Ainsworth being unlucky after a few great runs. The typical gifted set piece goal aside made it a tricky last fifteen but I never saw anything from thistle that made me too concerned. Ref was howling for both teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casagolda Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Thistle looked neat and tidy and played some nice stuff but most of it was played in front of us and lacked a cutting edge. Which often resulted in them firing in shots from distance as they struggled to break through, think I read at full time that they'd had 14 shots and only 4 on target. Which pretty much summed it up. If they were going to score it was always going to be through a set piece, which we still struggle to defend. Ripley seemed to make a c**t of it for their goal but he did make up for it in the final 10 mins by coming off his line to collect a lot crosses that were being slung into his box. 1st half I thought wasn't much different to what we'd seen in recent weeks, good work by Ainsworth and a slice of luck for the goal. Thistle had most of the ball but we probably had the best chance which Johnson fluffed. Lawless unlucky with a couple of good efforts. Enjoyed the 2nd half much more, in most part due to the performance of Ainsworth. Some fantastic runs where he was tearing Thistle apart on his own, should have scored that one at the start of the 2nd half after his mazy dribble through the Thistle defence and if he had it would have been one of the goals of the season. Another assist too with a lovely ball for Skippy's goal. When he's in the mood he's fantastic to watch. Bonus points for Craigan for spotting two of our biggest weakness in recent weeks, benching Law and punting the anonymous Taylor out the squad all together was inspired management. Obviously it was a massive bonus having Pearson back, even half fit he's still our best central midfielder by some distance and added some much need bite to the midfield. Kennedy was also a colossus at the back, shame he can't find a Motherwell player with a pass. Also with McLean allowing Seabourne and Frans to batter the shite out of Moult, I thought it was sensible management by Craigan to take him off before he got sent off. Was only a matter of time until he reacted again and got a 2nd yellow. Lot of perplexed faces when he replaced him with Leitch but within 5 mins of moving McDonald, who was having another nightmare in midfield, to his natural position up front he scored. Who'd of thought playing a striker with McDonald's track record up front would result in him scoring goals? Crazy stuff. Overall not massive strides made but given Craigan's only had a couple of training sessions with them I wasn't expecting much. Was always going to be about the result today and we got the 3 points, solid enough performance and job done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Interesting how different fans see it. I thought thistle were poor, toothless and lacking anything up front for most of the game. We restricted them easily and the majority of their attacking play resulted in shots from 20+ yards flying high or wide. Thought we should have been out of sight with cerny making a few good saves and Ainsworth being unlucky after a few great runs. The typical gifted set piece goal aside made it a tricky last fifteen but I never saw anything from thistle that made me too concerned. Ref was howling for both teams. We have been such a disaster that getting a few shots on goal is seen as fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I struggle to give Thistle a sentence these days. Two good posts above, tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgieshaws2nd Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 got to agree with the posts above we knock the ball around in front of other teams defences then punt in a cross to no one totally toothless really really concerned for the season now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgieshaws2nd Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 also the ref again was unbeliveably bad today cock ups on both sides but the one with seabourne throwing the elbow was unreal he looked at him first then threw an elbow couldnt belive he got away with it, if that was against us id have been livid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nizzy Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 He blocked off the run. He didn't throw an elbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweed275 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Steven McLean is one of the better referees but he had an absolute shocker today. He should have booked Lasley at least twice. The 'tackle' that injured Johnson was worthy of at least a yellow card and as has been mentioned the treatment dealt out by Seaborne at times without punishment had to be seen to be believed. Don't think you could argue with any of the cards he did dish out mind you. As for the game, Ainsworth is a match winner and in a game between two ordinary teams he won as the match with his running and his ability to cross a ball. Kennedy had a great game in our defence as well. Got to Thistle are far from the worst team I've seen this season. Miles better than Kilmarnock, a bit better than Dundee Utd and although I think both have improved since we played them, I think they offered more than either St Johnstone or Inverness. But if you can't score you leave yourself with a problem. Good three points for us. Hoping with another week if we have Pearson and Fletcher a bit more fit, we can kick on and get something at Dundee next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Was Seaborne the hairy guy at the back? Good at the wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nizzy Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 The 'tackle' that injured Johnson was worthy of at least a yellow card. You're having a laugh, right? The only person responsible for Johnson's injury was...Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweed275 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 The guy made him a back and sent him sprawling from height. Unless you think he shouldn't have bothered running at all, it was reckless at best, dangerous at worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy_incognito Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Just watching the highlights back. Some own goal that, clear it anywhere other that the top corner of your own net. Was always going to be a tough fixture, despite thistle offering some decent play in spells early in the game, I always felt we were comfy as we were restricting them to long range efforts. Felt we would likely have a moment of madness at some point, cue Ripley. Fair result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgieshaws2nd Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 He blocked off the run. He didn't throw an elbow.il have a look again at it but i was right in line with it and i thought he definetly elbowed him the elbow does come up unbeliveibly stupid i thought, at the time i thought hes going off for that really all we needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 You're having a laugh, right? The only person responsible for Johnson's injury was...Johnson. I would agree with that. Johnson seemed to jump over the Thistle player head first and landed awkwardly from where I was sitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweed275 Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Just watching the highlights our second goal should never have stood. McDonald just pushed the defender away as the cross was coming in to give him space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Personally I thought Jake Taylor was instrumental in our midfield today. Jack Taylor put in the same performance yesterday as he has all season. Completely anonymous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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