St. Mirren away, Sunday Aug 11

[KennyFuckinPowers]

Here’s  my take. Watched the game then went to work (coaching of all things) but still thought all day about the shite game I witnessed..

 

Wilson - fucking joke getting sent on when he did. Should have started, worst case on at half time for McLennan or Wright. Kick in the teeth that a teen recovering from injury plays ahead of him. Given we signed Wilson permanently I’m assuming there are no training or attitude issues, wtf happened here?

 

Main - never have rated him and can’t stand the style of battering ram football he tends to play. Didn’t want him signed. Can’t blame him about today though, that’s unfair. Zero service.

 

Wright and McLennan - yes young but so inconsistent. And that’s a compliment. The clock is ticking on Wright and not a McLennan fan. Dribble til you lose it and far too often miscontrols the ball. Painfully predictable too. These two can’t be in the same team as there’s a good chance they’ll be non existent and we’re playing with 9.

 

Ferguson - needs rotated/rested. Thought he was shit today and complained too much, a bit like a spoiled child. Needs to be rotated, fight for playing time, and be fresh enough to work his balls off whenever he plays.

 

We’re not a strong defensive team, we have 1 clean sheet in 7 games so far. Our strength is not to play defensively like we did in Europe the last two away games. Typical poor over thinking DM tactics. Much like our old firm games we sit in deep and defend until we lose a goal which happens most games. Rarely works. We have pace and skill as a front four if we are encouraged to attack and should defend in the opponents half much more often. I just don’t think we play any teams that are that good we have to park the bus.

 

DM killed our momentum with the shambolic Croatian tactics and today we should have been so hyped and fired up to play it’s a game we win in the tunnel. Yet we are slow and boring, uninterested, and got what we deserved. Manager fucked up the last two games now in my opinion. He prepared us for today and we were garbage. Today we should have pasted the relegation favorites. Don’t get how DM can get what he got out the players today. Totally unacceptable.

 

Credit to the management for the summer recruiting but the same shit tactics reappear and cost us. No knee jerk reaction, same shit different day/week. In my opinion, this Thursday you psyche them out in the tunnel and blow them away from kick off. But DM will shit it I suspect, sitting in not to lose an early goal.

 

Season is far from over but it’s the same old tactics and the same complaints. Not sure why we’d think things would be different.

 

Shirley not? We need 3 without reply, so containment won't get us anywhere, even McInnes must know that, for his many flaws, he can't be that fucking stupid? Hoping we come out, high tempo and intensity, get a goal, preferably 2 before HT, and take it from there.

 

We need to get in their heads as soon as possible on Thursday night, a goal in the opening 15-20 minutes would put the shiters up them, they'd end up deeper and deeper, noisy crowd and as I said, high tempo and intensity, it's not totally outwith us, of course, it does all depend on the way we're set up, and he's been known to shit the bed before, surely this time he's learned?

[LA-Don]

That was a fairly poor performance. The better team won. I wasn't convinced by all the chat about having assembled the best squad in years. The first 11 looks pretty good when fit, but the squad players look a different prospect. I don't get the clamour for Wilson to be given a start yesterday, he was fucking atrocious against Hearts - the worst player on the pitch. I wasn't happy with him being re-signed based on one half decent game post-split last season. Those wages (and arguably added to those of Main), should have gone on a far better striker. Like Taylor in defence, it was very high risk to be buying guys like Wilson and Main to be your fringe players. With Cosgrove a doubt for Thursday we've got to rely on them now and they've shown in the past that their not that reliable. Main would have probably been fine on his own as a cheaper alternative to May, but Main and Wilson just doesn't cut it. As others have said, taking in one of Wright or McLennan would be fine (and an ideal way to bed in your young players) but to have them both starting was always going to end in them both being taken off. I understand that the trip to Croatia would have been tiring and so freshening the team up was a good move, but we simply don't have a good enough squad to expect to win away from home with 4 of our first team players not playing. The signings have been better this season, but risks have been taken on Main and Wilson (and Taylor) that just didn't need to happen. We'll wait and see over the next few games however, we're not the first and won't be the last team to struggle and be very flat after a European away so once we get papped out on Thursday it'll be onwards and upwards!

 

I don’t expect us to come out high tempo, as much as we should. DM will shit it and be cautious.

[manc_don]

Watched the highlights again last night, truly abysmal. Although I'd like to see the main goal from a different angle. Didn't look like the keeper had both hands on the ball.

 

As it stood, whilst we were unlucky not to get something from the game, we were honking and didn't deserve it. The buddies missed a number of chances similar to Sam in the first couple of euro games. Truly lucky to go in just the one goal down.

 

Seriously need to buck up our ideas on Thursday. Dm cannot be that pig headed to think we can sit in and hit on the counter. They're really not that good.