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    Scotland v Denmark

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    What a night, absolutely buzzing.

    They were rattled AF in that first half, what sight to see, genuinely great teams getting the fear at Hampden.

    Che edges Souttar for MOTM for me. Him and WBG have been the real difference makers in us kicking on to another level. All the usual suspects brilliant but some of the unsung heroes were incredible. SoD solid as a truck. Souttar, immense she what a fairytale. McGregor possibly best I've ever seen him, seems to love playing with WBG. Even Christie was decent. Did get the fear when I saw McKenna coming on but we, and Che, finished with aplomb.

    This team FFS, didn't imagine I'd ever not be relentlessly pessimistic and cynical about the national team again, but it's happened! [emoji3590][emoji1316][emoji1022]󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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    Scotland v Denmark

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    He took his goal brilliantly after a frustrating overall performance.
    It was a good header for Armstrong a minute later too.
    Tell me you know absolutely nothing about Association Football, without telling me you know absolutely nothing about Association Football.
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    Double Winning St Johnstone FC Thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    Aye absolutely no complaints from me. Combined with a bit of a bottle job from us, you've been on quite a sickeningly amazing run since we were a bit fortuitous beating you in the game Kerr got sent off. Never thought you were that bad even when some of your own fans were knicker wetting early on.

    Of course Gerrard will get it but Davidson should be right up there in the Manager of the Year conversation IMO.

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    The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    Erwins deal runs for another year I think
    Aye, exactly. Can't imagine clubs will lining up to take him off our hands, looking pretty criminal to give him a 2 year deal.

    We've hopefully to see the best of Denis and Brophy. Ideally for next season I'd have those two, one of Obika and Quaner (purely based on his pedigree) kept on and add in another forward signed in the summer.
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    The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    Sickening way to lose out but those are the breaks.
    Simply put, we didn't do enough in the run of games in February where we turned so many potentially winnable fixtures into draws. We have the base of a good squad but there are fartoo many players in forward areas who are dead weight. Brophy of course is here next season and Dennis should be given his chance but it's time to say cheerio to guys like Obika, Erwin and Quaner who has been a total WTF signing. Others like McAllister and Flynn are probably done as well. Flynn through injuries and McAllister just isn't good enough. Connolly too can probably move on. He's explosive as f**k but you know within a minute of him being on whether he's going to be an asset or anonymous and it's usually the latter unfortunately.
    Looking back further up the park, we have far too many central midfield options who are strong players but not attack-minded. The only definite attacking mid we have (who is actually good enough) is McGrath. 
    Erhahon, JDH, MacPherson, soon Dylan Reid (who by his own admission isn't that attacking and doesn't score enough, but I hope he means more in a John McGinn sense as that is what we need) will be staking his claim for a spot in that team too. Quite simply, that's too many to play the one role. So who gives in that regard?
    We heard and saw a lot said about JDH but if I'm giving an honest appraisal, outwith the first 8 games where he was excellent and played as a sort of box-to-box type, he's not been very good. This doesn't mean he's not a very good player, quite the contrary but he's completely wasted sitting in front of the defence and knocking 5 or 6 yard sideways passes about. That one falls at the feet of Goodwin who has a technically very gifted player in his ranks and won't play him in a way that benefits him or the team. I can honestly say I wouldn't be bothered with JDH moving on if we insist on him sitting in from of the defence as he has much more than that to offer.
    I'm satisfied that we don't need a full rebuild in the summer, nothing like it, and that's a bit of a rare position for us to be in but we're most definitely needing to say goodbye to 6 or 7 of that squad before loanees. We probably need minimum of 7 or 8 in as we ran very, very short in bodies this season and it cost us in February with that run of games we had.
    Aye , very fair and would agree with most of that Chappers.

    For those out of contract I'd say;

    Definitely Keep - Durmus , Fraser

    On the Fence - JDH, Obika, Quaner. I'd maybe advocate keeping one of Obika or Quaner if we can get rid of Erwin.

    Definitely Bin - Connolly, Flynn (for fitness/age reasons).


    It also did take a pretty unforseeable sequence of events that lead to the squad being so being so depleted and us having such a huge number of games over a short period of time, I'd wary of spending too much of the budget on quantity not quality.
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