Aberdeen v St Johnstone -Boxing Day

[Baldie1980]

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Na, I agree with JB. A foul at worst, he got the ball. Never a yellow.  Right in front of the benches and its accompanied by the usual hysterical screaming from the bench that sways a terrible ref.   Fair play to Aberdeen, it serves them well.
 

[Derry Alli]

7 minutes ago, Mr Positive, sometimes. said:

If Saints were farcical what were Aberdeen? Played for about 20 mins the whole game. 

This has to be one of the strangest flexs I've ever seen. 

[Baldie1980]

we won the game,you didn't

If Saints were farcical what were Aberdeen? Played for about 20 mins the whole game. 

[coprolite]

4 minutes ago, betting competition said:

Think Ash Taylor is a lot better than some fans rate. We have so many players missing but got 10 out 12 points and defence of Considine, Hoban and Taylor have been excellent in defence especially with the lack of creativity in the team.

Definitely his best form in a red shirt for the last three games. Hope he can sustain it. 

[DukDukGoose]

2 minutes ago, Widge said:

Moving away from the awful trolling and hysteria in this thread, I agree. Also though Shaun Rooney was excellent and Kerr’s got a serious issue trying to get back in the team. 2 strikers gives us a chance to hold onto the ball and create at the right end. Don’t see where Conway and O’Halloran got back in, not that it’s necessarily a bad thing. 

Rooney not the RCB who missed at least 3 goal kicks as he either misjudged the bounce it the jump?

 

[HibsFan]

[Steve McQueen]

Think having Craig in midfield helped not being outnumbered for once.

You'd expect Aberdeen to have a few more chances than they got, maybe we were protecting Clark after midweek.

[Radford]

Improved performance from Saints today and merited something from the match. I said last week you can't get too wound up by referee decisions as they go against every team but when you get them on consecutive Saturday's, it's a stinger. 

In saying that, we make a complete hash of dealing with the corner from which the winner is scored, so a degree of self-reflection required as well. We make too many mistakes that lead to cheap goals and it undoes so much of the decent stuff. 

Despite being at fault for Taylor's strike, Liam Craig made a difference and it lets McCann and Wotherspoon play. It's maybe not about picking one formation or another but it showed a bit more flexibility and that's definitely required. 

Subs strange again though. Thought Kane was doing well and Hendry hasn't shown enough to risk the change with the game balanced. Not sure what his first yellow was for the second is far more stupid that O'Halloran for me. The Melamed sub is just pointless for all involved. 

Agree with others that Shaun Rooney is really coming along, almost a shame that he might have to move to the right. The back three haven't really put a foot wrong today and yet we've still conceded twice. Feel for them and Clark, who recovered well from midweek. 

Two massive games coming up and hard luck stories won't cut it. 

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

Given that we're in poor form, that we had 3 games in a row against teams that we generally hate playing and that we have had to re-jig the team week in week out, 7 points in a week isn't a bad return. 

 

[Frank Grimes]

Stinking first half but better in the second 

RandomGuy having a standard cranium detachment is the icing on the cake

Ref was poor for both teams today, clearly some c**t got him a new whistle for his Christmas 

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

Big Ash looking well.

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by Bob Mahelp

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

Looks like he swings to the right as well. 

[glenrothes 1884 saint]

Del boy likes his Mrs ,has to get a game 

[Dons_1988]

Still think back to middle we’re fine but the top end of the pitch is killing us in games. we can’t get the ball to stick and that is on main and cosgrove. That start to the second half they actually started to hold the ball up and Lo and behold we developed a bit of sustained pressure. That’s an area we really need to sort in January. 

st Johnstone looked decent in all honesty. Much improved from our first game and deserved a point you’d probably say. 

Edited December 26, 2020 by Dons_1988

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

4 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:

Still think back to middle we’re fine but the top end of the pitch is killing us in games. we can’t get the ball to stick and that is on main and cosgrove. That start to the second half they actually started to hold the ball up and Leo and behold we developed a bit of sustained pressure. That’s an area we really need to sort in January. 

st Johnstone looked decent in all honesty. Much improved from our first game and deserved a point you’d probably say. 

First half we were back to the horrendous bad old days of knocking the ball around our defence for 20 passes, then hitting a hard long ball to Main or Cosgrove who were 40 yards from the Saints goal facing Joe Lewis. 

5 seconds later Saints were on the attack. 

We've seen that virtually every week (with the exception of the first few months of this season) for the last 2 years or more. 

Both Cosgrove and Main aren't bad players, but Watkins proved that we desperately need another type of striker. 

[Dons_1988]

41 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

First half we were back to the horrendous bad old days of knocking the ball around our defence for 20 passes, then hitting a hard long ball to Main or Cosgrove who were 40 yards from the Saints goal facing Joe Lewis. 

5 seconds later Saints were on the attack. 

We've seen that virtually every week (with the exception of the first few months of this season) for the last 2 years or more. 

Both Cosgrove and Main aren't bad players, but Watkins proved that we desperately need another type of striker. 

I would say watkins started almost every attack back before he got injured. Ball into his feet, touch, pass into hedges/Wright then on the move again. 

you’re right, main and cosgrove are ok players but they don’t provide us the focal point we need for this formation to work. 

Edited December 26, 2020 by Dons_1988

[BucksburnDandy]

Important three points today. The first half performance from us would have got football stopped but fortunately Hayes and Kennedy switching wings sparked some life into us for 10-15 minutes to get us the winner before we reverted to being mince again.

Main takeaways from today would be Main and Cosgrove don't work together massively (albeit no real service today), we severely lack creativity without Wright and McLennan (which is currently a negative but a positive that we have two of our own young lads growing more influential), Taylor is much better now he keeps his game simple and Alan Muir is still one of the most frustrating officials around with his inconsistency.

[RandomGuy.]

9 minutes ago, BucksburnDandy said:

Alan Muir is still one of the most frustrating officials around with his inconsistency.

He's consistent all right.

He's given 3 penalties against us in the last 3 league games hes reffed in our matches, and your one today isn't even the softest.

[Steve_Wilkos]

I have  watched the highlights back and  just noticed that clown Craig for the winning goal. 

[BucksburnDandy]

He's consistent all right.
He's given 3 penalties against us in the last 3 league games hes reffed in our matches, and your one today isn't even the softest.

Consistently shite I will grant you. Think most teams could name a fairly long list of weak Alan Muir decisions against them.