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houston_bud

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  1. No chance he was miles off. The replay on Kilmarnock TV he looked onside, I can't say 100% what would've happened when they drew the lines, but on the replay he looked quite clearly onside.
  2. I think we'll still make top 6, although not a certainty. I - only half joking - said 'watch us finish 6th now' after the Aberdeen game and looking at the fixtures all the teams have. I could see the season fizzling out, especially if we've got players carrying injuries and missing games. Bolton injured, Tanser possibly, and I can only assume that Kwon and Baccus aren't 100% as they're our two best centre midfielders and both spent the whole game on the bench today.
  3. Fair play to Kilmarnock, I didn't think there was much in the first half but the second half has been men against boys. Saying that, Mandron missed a sitter at 0-2 which could well have killed the game. Simple ball over the top has done us time and and again.
  4. I think the game has been fairly even, we've just caused havoc from corner kicks. There's been a few decent bits of play but the ref seems intent on giving a lot of pretty soft fouls. Any defender that falls over is getting a free kick.
  5. I actually laughed when I saw in on Sportscene, the boy just falling over on the line was pathetic. OK, it should've been a Hibs throw, but they're still defending a throw in almost at the half way line and conceded a goal.
  6. With 4 games to play we're 7 points ahead of Hibs and 6 ahead of Dundee. We've got quite a tricky run of games but even with that, Hibs would need to pick up 9 points from their 4 games to have a chance of catching us. It would take a pretty big swing for us to end up bottom six.
  7. Does no one else quite like the fact that a grass pitch changes throughout the season? I don't think any of the grass pitches (in the top flight anyway) are horrendous, but I don't mind seeing teams have to deal with a tricky pitch.
  8. I'm just not sure how it works. It wasn't a snarky or loaded question, apologies if it came across that way.
  9. Probably been answered already, but is there no copyright issues with sharing these?
  10. Grieve was a complete punt who gave everything and did reasonably well. He's not making it into anyone's best ever St Mirren 11, but he was a decent player who chipped in with some important goals. There won't be many fans with a bad word to say about him.
  11. As for one Aberdeen player (I'm assuming Miovski) is worth more than the whole St Mirren team, I don't think that's particularly controversial. Consider our best players: Baccus, currently worth nothing as he'll leave for free in the summer, same for Gogic and Strain. No one is coming in with decent bids for any of our players. As for Warnock, strange situation all round. I can't help but think, what was the point?
  12. He could've been booked twice before that in the game as well. Quite funny that he managed to get away without a booking for nearly 90 mind, then talks himself into the book and out the semi final.
  13. Shinnie gets away with murder, was the same last week.
  14. Does a couple of top flight teams having an artificial pitch give kids more opportunities to play? Most high schools have them as well as councils having ones. I'm all for having more and widening access, but I don't think there'd be a noticeable drop in kids' participation if Kilmarnock and Livingston had to switch to grass pitches. Maybe I'm wrong. I was surprised to hear that only one highland league club has an artificial pitch. I'd have thought a lot of these clubs would've done well from being able to rent out their pitches.
  15. I dunno, there's something I like about a grass pitch. I like how a grass pitch will change with the season, and will vary from team to team. A good grass pitch just looks much better too. I'm not particularly strident and I think there are more pressing issues to deal with in Scottish football, but I would prefer to have all grass pitches. Possibly just being a bit nostalgic. Edit: I agree with the point about football snobbery.
  16. It's a very tall ask for a team finishing 5th, or even 4th, to make the group stages. There are some very decent sides in the later qualifying rounds. Hibs last year met Villa and Hearts lost to a pretty strong PAOK team. Like you say, any sort of away day would be brilliant. A team in the Baltic states would be a good trip, hopefully we could progress and draw a decent outfit. It would be unbelievable to see us play in a big European stadium. Wait to see us finish 6th now.
  17. I'm not sure many folk are saying that we are massively overperforming. Based on our resources finishing in the top 6 is a good achievement, to do it 2 years on the bounce is excellent.
  18. I agree with you, which is another reason why I think if he was offered a job like Aberdeen, he'd most likely take it. I just don't think Aberdeen will come for him this time. There might be some English League 1 clubs that would be interested, but there's such a massive amount of out of work managers down there. And most of these teams would probably plump for someone like Wayne Rooney over Robinson. Hibs maybe, when they inevitably sack Montgomery. I think Northern Ireland is a more likely step up for him.
  19. Totally agree, but if someone offers to double or treble your wages it's a different story. We also know how fickle football is, one bad run and he could miss the opportunity for a move.
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