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  1. Can anyone find the actual study anywhere?
  2. Aye you're right enough, just looked on the killie tv replay and he lines up there right from the start. Even stranger.
  3. I don't think I'd agree - I don't want to bore folk with a forensic analysis, but the cliffnotes are the guy is just totally out of position for our first goal on the wrong side of Vassell, the second is a tackle that should never be made, the third the whole defense is far too narrow (world-class header from Watkins in the end though), the CB that played Vassell on for the 4th should be shot, and even if you allow the run from Watson for the fifth he should be brought down as drags it inside the first player. I know I sound hugely negative but the drive and character shown in the second half was nothing sort of superb - we were clearly determined if we were going to lose then we were going to leave it all on the park regardless, but we really didn't exactly have to work creatively for the goals. Or to put it another way, if we'd lost those goals I don't think we'd be putting our hands up and saying that we were just beaten by a better side on the day. I mean our defending against Aberdeen was awful, but it was prime Milan compared to that from St. Mirren.
  4. The "fair reflection" thing is a real bugbear for me. There weren't any major bad decisions made by the referee (probablyt the best referee we've had this season), which is the only part of the game outside our ability to directly influence. Beyond that, whatever the scoreline is is a fair reflection of the game to that point. We defended two corners really badly and paid the price, and they defending horrifically in the second half and paid the price. I'll say it till I'm blue in the face - outside of bad refereeing there has never been a lucky win or unlucky loss in football. We get exactly what we earn from games and so do the opposition.
  5. But we do, he could have played Wright there as he has recently and just played Ndaba on the left. Watson didn't start on the right either, he was only over there from about 20 minutes in.
  6. The bigger question is...why? A bit like at Dundee where we hung Ndaba out to dry man-marking in the midfield for no apparent reason, why did we sacrifice Watson to man-mark Kiltie. He's a good player, but has Kiltie become some sort of transcendental talent since the last time we played against them that needs to be stopped at all costs? DM is doing brilliantly, but he doesn't half overestimate specific threats sometimes, between the individual players and his allergy to facing long throws. I know it won't be a popular opinion, and for sheer euphoria that second half is up there with the best I've ever seen, but I'm not really as enamoured with the performances as the thread seems to be in general. I think that second half had a lot more to do with St. Mirren than it did us. We were pretty ruthless in exploiting it, but their defending in that half was akin to our notorious Gretna game under JJ or the early capitulations under Locke. Brilliant fun to watch though.
  7. I think it's maybe the 4th best pitch in the league at the moment, and I would keep it long-term unless we can afford a hybrid pitch and the maintenance required to keep it in good condition in the worst of months (and I'm not sure that's entirely possible in Scotland). The questions should be asked not just of Dundee but of Celtic, the richest club in the league by miles, why their pitch is one part ploughed field, one part sand dune.
  8. All I would add is it's also about time Yousaf started calling for sanctions - I'd like him and the SG to break with the UK government on this formally and loudly. This needs to be opposed by every available peaceful means, and then start calling for UN peacekeepers.
  9. Mcinnes classic so far. Watson at fullback, Deas at left, no one seems to know where they're supposed to be. Get Cameron, Ndaba and Mckenzie on at half time and stop playing people of of position and stop protecting an ineffective captain.
  10. Would have like to have seem further changes personally, but looks a strong team, Armstrong and Kennedy will need to make sure and track their fullbacks though.
  11. Unfair to Yogi, his teams are usually decent to watch if ineffective with a low budget, Goodwin's United side are horrendous to watch, not very good, and really expensive.
  12. I think it's also worth bearing in mind we're the third most miserly team in goals against so far as well, and have a positive goal difference. While I think it's fair to say Vassell should have scored more given the chances created for him (and by him with his movement), I don't think our team is in any way setup to have one talismanic prolific striker. I think his general play has been a lot better in the last few games (albeit he really needs to stop that thing where he half-chases someone back then gives up as it definitely causes confusion) and would actually say all-round he's been contributing more than Watkins in those games. And that's not a criticism of Watkins. There's absolutely loads we could have done to prevent those goals. Findlay doesn't misjudge the long ball, the situation never arises for the first. If we don't act like we're blind terrified of a long throw at the second, the situation never arises. If Mayo doesn't get overcommit in the challenge and get skinned wide or Wright doesn't step off the man at the front post when there's no run behind at the third, the situation never arises. These were not unlucky goals, they were bad defending either by individuals or the setup.
  13. I cannot stress this enough...whit?
  14. Absolutely, the way he managed to manipulate the ball to bounce off the back of Findlay's heid into our goal is the mark of a true criminal mastermind. It's clear to me that during his time out of the game that McInnes mastered the art of Derekinetics, allowing him to manipulate the ball with his mind to create seemingly innocent deflections and ricochets to get the results he wants.
  15. It of course has to be put in context of an otherwise really good season, but I thought it was pretty disasterous from the manager through to the players yesterday. I've really no idea of what logic led to that setup. Aberdeen (limited though they are) are a top-heavy team, yet we flooded the middle of the park in the first half as if we were expecting a possession game and left Ndaba to cover an entire flank by himself, and didn't press a weak defense at all, in spite of that being the primary reason we beat them last time. Ndaba had probably his worst game for us, but it's the second time in a row he's been hung out to dry by the manager after the truly bizarre decision to put him in central midfield in a man-marking job for the first third against Dundee. The first goal although the setup isn't great is just a plain old-fashioned screw up from the players. Findlay's I think is our PotY by a mile, but that goal is 98% on him for completely misjudging the long ball. The second goal is way more concerning though - did McInnes lose a loved one to a long throw at some point in his life? We're so terrified of them we flood our own box and give up the rest of the pitch, even though Aberdeen don't really have anyone that can do a decent long throw to begin with. We completely surrendered the situation and that goal is definitely on the setup rather than the players. After that, I thought the changes were all wrong, Watkins needed to go left and we go to a 4-5-1 with a Watson or Murray or Stewart playing behind a front pivot - there were huge gaps between their defense and midfield to be exploited. Even with our poor performance, any time Polworth got on the ball in the second half he played pretty simple passes between those lines into Vassell's feet with no problem and if he'd had someone behind him to combine with we should have had real space to play in. Might have made no difference given how poor the individual performances were anyway, but the setup definitely didn't help. I know I'm probably in the minority on this, but I'd drop one of the front two for Cameron next week. He's looked excellent whenever he's been on the pitch this season and I think a wee kick in the complacency for the forwards wouldn't be a bad thing in the long-term, especially given Van Veen doesn't seem to be on the same page as DM at the moment for whatever reason.
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