[Tubbs]

I think livingston were a real test !..............who do S tJ play next

[Jie Bie]

Ah well we were bound to get beat eventually... but the manner of defeat concerns me. First half, no problems. We got an early goal and were more than a match for st. johnstone. agree wholeheartedly about the ref thinking we'd paid to see him. he was a joke.

2nd half st johnstone really rose to the challenge and once the penalty went in their spirits lifted and the accies heads went down. accies never really got back into the game until 3-1 and just couldn't put the ball in the net, despite playing some decent football in spells.

so well done st. johnstone. based on the 2nd half you deserved the win. we on the other hand have been given much to think about ahead of next weeks clash with dundee.

[SaintSam]

Accies good run was always going to come to an end with a defeat, but I agree with Jie Bie, the manner in which you were beaten cannot be brushed off and taken lightly. You weren't just defeated by your bogey team away from home, you shipped four goals in one game and never looked like scoring beyond your early opener.

All good teams lose, but you have to worry when you are beaten 4-1. I feared the worst today given the difference between the form of the two teams, with the only saving grace being that the game was at home. Never in a million years did I expect to watch such an easy and comprehensive victory. I said on WAP if you mark Gilhaney out of the game, nothing gets into Offiong and if you mark Offiong out of the game, Hamilton have no plan B and the outcome is inevitable.

If Accies get any injuries to these sort of key players this season, they'll struggle.

[OneJamesMcCarthy]

Best team won,thats all there was to it.
We WILL beat Dundee next week.

Btw,what happened right at the start of the 1st half in the Saints end,seemed to be a scuffle with police and stewards running over??

This post has been edited by hafc75: 29 September 2007 - 18:24

[saint_markperth]

hafc75, on Sep 29 2007, 19:21, said:

Best team won,thats all there was to it.
We WILL beat Dundee next week.

Btw,what happened right at the start of the 1st half in the Saints end,seemed to be a scuffle with police and stewards running over??

3 hamilton neds decided to come in the saints end, They started pushing saints fans and one of them knocked over my 6 year old son, Dirty scummy b*****ds

[badgers apprentice]

wow! what in the wide wild world of sports did coyle say to saintees at half-time? they were a totally rejuvenated side and had us on the rack for most of the second half, well done and if you keep playing like that for the rest of the season both us and dundee are in serious bother!

as for us, what in the hell happened at the back? as for badgers substitutions- offiong had to go savo as he was playing mince,cannot understand taylor being taken off as he was playing a blinder and was replaced with a defender! mcleod coming on for winters when it was obvious mccarthy was fecked, come on badger get a grip.

[SaintSam]

AcciesBhoy, on Sep 29 2007, 19:20, said:

What p1sh you talking? Accies caved in after 63 minutes when you lot got a 2nd. Yer third had a great deal of fortune to it too, whilst your 4th was a well worked goal. Such and easy and comprehensive victory?

take your head out the clouds pal for just a second....

Good win for the saints but dont exaggerate...

After your first goal, you didn't look like scoring.

After we equalised, in the 48th minute, only one team was ever going to win it. What sort of team with championship aspirations "caves in" after going 2-1 down? I'll correct you, what pish are you talking?

[ACADEMICALEEDS]

Two wins from eight games is hardly championship form St johnstone. Dundee are our main challenge. After next weeks game we will be back to 4 points clear. I predict Livingstone 4- 0 Stjohnstone which will then equal two wins from 9 games.

[SaintSam]

ACADEMICALEEDS, on Sep 29 2007, 19:40, said:

Two wins from eight games is hardly championship form St johnstone. Dundee are our main challenge. After next weeks game we will be back to 4 points clear. I predict Livingstone 4- 0 Stjohnstone which will then equal two wins from 9 games.

You are soooooooooooo bitter. It makes todays comprehensive and easy victory so much sweeter.

[academical]

Are there more posts by SaintSam on this thread than she's made since the start of the season?

I wasn't at the game, but from what I've heard the better team won and that's that. I don't have time for much analysis, but I wanted to make a point of coming on here and acknowledging defeat with the same grace (I hope) as when we win. From what I've been told it was a game of two halves, but the second half clearly a bit of a disaster from our point of view, shipping more goals in 45 minutes than we have in the entire season to date.

Was it a blip or has our bubble burst? Who knows, but we're still top of the legaue and in no danger of going into the Dundee game next week with any complacency.

Well done, Saintees. We'll have to wait till you come to NDP for our revenge.

[SaintSam]

I have no shame in admitting I'm absolutely revelling in the victory today. I'm not sure I would be quite so eager to mock if the margin had been slimmer, but we absolutely trounced the so called best side in the league, and they looked very much like last season. Predictable one man up front, play wide to Gilhaney, slip in to Offiong, boom. It never seems to work against Saints though, it delights me.

I have been reading this forum every day as per, but not posting as much for the simple reason that there's not been much to post about, there's not been too many threads about Saints bar the pre and post match analysis. All of the focus has been on Hamiltons admittedly good start, but don't think the thread about "Can the Saintees get any better" had escaped my attention. They didn't, I did read them. The simple answer to that one is yes, we can get better, and what a game to do it in!

Get it right up the lot of you! We will probably lose to our very own bogey team Livingston next week, but in the mean time, I'm going to enjoy that 4-1 lesson in how to play football, and I'll not apologise for it.

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[Steve McQueen]

For the last 87n minutes of the game there was only 1 team in it.

1st half was poor & spoiled by a picky ref. Accies cored from a cross from a soft free kick & the defended a 1-0 lead.

We weren't good but had 2 or 3 good chances to equalise.

2nd half was completely different , best 45 minutes of football all season & well deserved win 4-1. Accies very poor 2nd half.

[SaintSam]

AcciesBhoy, on Sep 29 2007, 19:53, said:

Mark Gilhaney shot narrowly over the bar in the 2nd half after some great wing wizardry, Brian Wake was one on one with Alan Main in the 2nd half and chipped it over the diving keeper but it went narrowly wide. That was our other two clear cut goal scoring opportunities with James McCarthy shoting wide from the edge of the box in the 1st half - but I would only call that a half chance.

not bad for a team that didnt look like scoring....pish boy

Narrowly! Narrowly! FFS!

[CheStadium]

SavotheGreat, on Sep 29 2007, 18:54, said:

A gracious Accies fan, well done sir, nice to see, your behaviour marks in stark contrast to that of the rest of your support.

A sweeping statement that does you no credit at all, sir.

St Johnstone thoroughly deserved their victory today, especially in the 2nd half.
Deuchar was excellent in the air all day. There is no doubt for me that he has what it takes at this level and I have rarely seen a striker give big Marko such a tough afternoon.
In short, the first half belonged to an absolutely shocking referee and the second to St Johnstone all the way.

In the dark days of supporting Accies, a 4-1 defeat felt like your knackers getting slammed in the door. These days, its just like having something in your eye. Still a good time to be an Accie.

[badgers apprentice]

Matty_True_Dee, on Sep 29 2007, 19:52, said:

2 points, mainly directed at Savo.

To say Hamilton have failed at their first real test is arrogant and simply untrue.

Secondly, how can a side concede one goal in their opening 6 matches and be called a one man team with the "one man" being a striker?

Cracking result for the Saintees but in this league a succession of small wins means far more than one big win.

offiong has not scored since the partick game and since then we have won two, drew one, lost one,scored 8 and one of the wins was against spl opposition.
does that sound like one man team, eh savo?

[ACADEMICALEEDS]

saintsam you need to get out more. You are getting too excited in front of your computer. Your team won today. Thats twice since the start of August in the League. Get yourself out and try and calm yourself down. Its only a game. You will be back to normal next week

[SaintSam]

CheStadium, on Sep 29 2007, 20:00, said:

A sweeping statement that does you no credit at all, sir.

St Johnstone thoroughly deserved their victory today, especially in the 2nd half.
Deuchar was excellent in the air all day. There is no doubt for me that he has what it takes at this level and I have rarely seen a striker give big Marko such a tough afternoon.
In short, the first half belonged to an absolutely shocking referee and the second to St Johnstone all the way.

In the dark days of supporting Accies, a 4-1 defeat felt like your knackers getting slammed in the door. These days, its just like having something in your eye. Still a good time to be an Accie.

Let's be fair to Accies here, they only have one or two deplorable fans whilst the rest of them have just been quite rightly enjoying the great start to the season they've had. The result today is more of a get it right up you to the fans of other clubs who have been prematurely ejaculating about our struggling start this season, than a slight on the bulk of the Accies support.

I still enjoyed it thoroughly however. To return your chants of "Easy! Easy! Easy!" after the third goal went in was just fabulous. It's all banter.

badgers apprentice, on Sep 29 2007, 20:00, said:

offiong has not scored since the partick game and since then we have won two, drew one, lost one,scored 8 and one of the wins was against spl opposition.
does that sound like one man team, eh savo?

I really don't like the whole one man upfront approach, I'd hate to see Saints play it. Regardless of Fast Actions comments, I do believe Gilhaney is your biggest threat in attack. Every time you move forward, you do it through him and up against Gary Irvine today it was no contest. Gilhaney eventually switched wings in search of more glory. Irvine was outstanding keeping Gilhaney contained, meaning nothing got into Offiong. He still looked good in the opening stages though. I was most impressed with him back in April when we beat you on the last day of the season. He was a one man tank up front.