Fife Saint Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 You can't stop O'halloran. There's no stopping what can't be stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Anyone have a decent view of the McGowan booking? Looked like a nailed on penalty from my perspective, though I was sat at the other end. I was sitting in the GF lower near the shed, and from there it looked like a stone-wall penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perthsaint1977 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Thought o halloran had one of his poorer games and was surprised he didn't switch over to the other flank especially when McGowan was on a booking. Can't be bad though when he has had a poor game yet still involved in both goals. Still learning the role of winger/wide player and still needs to work on final balls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costanza Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Funny how folk see games differently but thought Dixon was pretty good for United today, certainly least effective MOH has been for a while. He kept up with him well and seemed to offer an attacking threat, at least in the first half. Always rated him as a player, I know United fans have said he's been nothing like as good since signing again but he looked decent to me. John Rankin is an utter scum bucket on the other hand. Should have been sent off either at penalty or second yellow for blatantly taking MOH out the game as we counter attacked. That Thomson gave nothing was no surprise as he gave a refereeing display to match even Bobby Madden in the first game in Perth. This included falling for blatant play acting from Rankin on the touchline right at the end. Is this guy really the chairman of the SPFA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelsjfc Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 All credit to St Johnstone. They are a powerful team. They play for set-pieces, and they play for those long balls that they're good at." Ghost of Jackie Mac lives on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 We're very streetwise. We rely on Michael O'Halloran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabFC Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Funny how folk see games differently but thought Dixon was pretty good for United today, certainly least effective MOH has been for a while. He kept up with him well and seemed to offer an attacking threat, at least in the first half. Always rated him as a player, I know United fans have said he's been nothing like as good since signing again but he looked decent to me. John Rankin is an utter scum bucket on the other hand. Should have been sent off either at penalty or second yellow for blatantly taking MOH out the game as we counter attacked. That Thomson gave nothing was no surprise as he gave a refereeing display to match even Bobby Madden in the first game in Perth. This included falling for blatant play acting from Rankin on the touchline right at the end. Is this guy really the chairman of the SPFA? John Rankin? Of course no Saints players cynically fouled their oppo! I Jest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazas_ Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 I thought Dixon was decent tbf especially going forward it was more the fact that we left him 1v1 against one of the quickest and most in form players in the league when we had enough bodies to double up on him. Wasn't as if Shaughnessy was providing a threat either so we definitely could've done more to at least try and stop him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 We're very streetwise. We rely on Michael O'Halloran. Stuffy St Johnstone. Easier to spoil than create etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 It's good that Yinited are getting pumped before the 'warchest' is being opened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron_t Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Reaction of players often a good indication of whether was dive or not. To a man every saints player responded immediately signifying that he dived. Think he skinned his man but failed to control ball and went down hoping for penalty. Hopefully camera catches it and more importantly BBC decide to show it. On another note, why did united player not see red for conceding penalty? Was it not deemed to be a goal scoring opportunity??The 3 other players in between him and the goal would say it wasn't a clear goal scoring chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 The 3 other players in between him and the goal would say it wasn't a clear goal scoring chance You must have had a better view than me because it looked fairly clear to me that the nearest united player was well inside-probably around the penalty spot-and never getting to Kane before he got a shot away with only the keeper to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 The first 40 minutes is the best football I've seen us playing this season. Despite the formation and personnel we were really good and for the first time in ages I feel we deserved to win a game that we actually lost. That said there's no excuse for the poor defensive errors and I want to see the two goals again together with the McGowan incident before making criticisms. On a different day we could have won this, some decent performances but yet again Durnan was a nightmare Donaldson must be totally depressed to think that's he's worse than this. Telfer was poor but in fairness he's had hardly any football this season and Fraser offered nothing better when he came on. Souttar started well but in the second half reverted to his usual posing style performance and attitude; it was the best I've seen Dixon play in a long time and the wing back role suited him well. We still have a long way to go and need to fill a number of gaps, not the least of these being a big striker that can play along side Billy McKay, Christ knows what would happen to us if he suffered a long term injury. I thought the referee was poor and upset both sets of fans, but it amazed me that there were a number of people in the upper Eddie Thompson stand who had a go at him for awarding the St Johnstone penalty! The 'playing out from the back debate' is bizarre. Fine, if Mixu wants this it's OK but you have to give the keeper discretion and have a keeper mature and experienced enough to use that discretion. It looked like Szromnik had been told to play it short regardless of the position of the opposition players, that's just daft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 United fans in delusion shocker ! Deserved to win the game my arse, draw at best you old fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 do united fans really think being 6 points adrift at bottom of the table is a good time to be focusing on playing 'nice' football ? Not a single Utd fan thinks that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 United fans in delusion shocker ! Deserved to win the game my arse, draw at best you old fool. Diddy club fan in personal insult shocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Same old Unitit, trying and failing to be better than diddy teams. The rat > Mixu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Van Dyke Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 On the McGowan pen/dive my first instinct albeit from the away end was that it was a dive. I'll stand corrected if the highlights prove otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Cheers for that, Dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 This whole 'deserved' thing confuses me. Unless there have been exceptional circumstances in which the referee has made dreadful decisions or disallowed legitimate goals, the only team which 'deserves' to win is the one which scores most goals. That's literally the focal aim of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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