Brechin v St Johnstone - Updates

[imported_Jamie_Beatson]

Anyone got the teams yet?

[imported_Jamie_Beatson]

Team line ups:

Brechin: Hillcoat, Whyte, Walker, Bollan, King, McEwan, Winter, Callaghan, Mitchell, Byers, Britton.
Subs: Ritchie, Smith, Johnson, Hamilton, Nelson

St Johnstone: Cuthbert, Rutkiewicz, Dyer, James, Mensing, Stevenson, Henry, Sheridan, Sheerin, Milne, Scotland.
Subs: Paston, McCann, Coyle, Janczyk, Anderson.

[Rodgers]

Glad to see Dyer back in the line up, always like that guy :wink:

[Jimbo]

st mirren 1 up already at ross county

airdrie 1-0 qos

[pezza70]

Airdrie up also 1 nil

[Jimbo]

some funny scores today - sunderland lead spurs, bolton lead arsenal.

[pezza70]

Is sky sports the best site for updates?

Is there any live updates broadcasting over the net?

[Jimbo]

and a few people may be interested to see mcConalogue score for thistle and a mr davidson has scored for preston. ahh those where the days

[pezza70]

Crouch scores two, although one should be a OG

Watching bolton v gooners on sky down here, bolton are good value for their lead also

[pezza70]

Callum scored last week also in their game

[pezza70]

Airdre now 2 up

[Jimbo]

not sure if they are the same ones but....

GOAL: Cowdenbeath 1-0 Albion: M Paatelainen (33)

GOAL: Berwick 0-1 Stenhousemuir: J McBride (36)

GOAL: East Stirling 1-1 East Fife: S Noble (37)

[pezza70]

Its either mixu or his kid brother

[David]

1-0 Saints - Scotland, just before half time.

[pezza70]

Scotlandddddddddddddddddddd

[pezza70]

Jimbo

Looks like you are going to have some adding up to do now mate, he was a heavy fav to score the first I reckon :D

[pezza70]

Half time 0-1 Scotland in the 43rd

Mon the saintees

[Jimbo]

Jimbo

Looks like you are going to have some adding up to do now mate, he was a heavy fav to score the first I reckon :D

probably - although i dont think i will get any points for that, again!

[David]

2-0 Saints - Stevenson (pass from Scotland)

[David]

3-0 - Paul Sheerin - going to be a rout now...

[Phil]

2-0 Saints - Stevenson (pass from Scotland)
Nice :D cmon saints. One more for my prediction :P

edit - 3-0? woohoo :D

[David]

3-1, Gerry Britton... hint of offside but a pretty easy header.

[Jimbo]

all happening in the second half then

[David]

Brechin coming right back into it - they made a sub immediately after the third goal and are playing a lot better, Charlie King very nearly made it 3-2 a second ago...

[pezza70]

David

How are you getting the updates, via a mate at the ground or do you have a site you could share with us?

[pezza70]

Mensing booked on 62nd min

St Mirren now 2 up

[David]

I'm at the hospital radio studio, listening to the commentary coming in. Will post updates as things happen...

Very big shout for a Brechin penalty a few mins ago, they're having most of the game just now.

[Jimbo]

again I am assuming its the same one (????)

GOAL: Stirling 3-2 Forfar: P Connolly (64)

[pezza70]

McCann for Henry 63rd min

[pezza70]

Paddy still missed the easiest tap in, I have ever seen in a gamne of footie, whilst he was a saintee

He did give his all for us though

[David]

4-1 - Jason Scotland screamer from 20 yards, watch out for it on the telly tomorrow... (except you Perry, sorry!)

[Jimbo]

GOAL: Queens Park 0-2 Montrose: M Fotheringham (72)

[pezza70]

Scotland again baby :D

77th min

[pezza70]

Story of my life David!

I remember the good old days of the video distribution list on the saintees mailing list

Lets hope Scotland can score a hat trick

[Jimbo]

good day to be a saintee or an ex saintee..
GOAL: Stirling 4-2 Forfar: C Hay (hat-trick 81)

[dunblanemike]

chris Hay hattrick for stirling!!

[dunblanemike]

hamilton 1 clyde 1 hope it stays like that

[pezza70]

Clyde just equalised against accies in the 84th min

[pezza70]

Janczyk for Sheerin 84th min

[David]

Final whistle, 4-1... Brechin could have come right back into it, good win in the end though.

[pezza70]

Full time 1 - 4 to the good guys :D

[pezza70]

Full time scores

Airdrie 4 - QoS 0

Brechin 1 - Saintees 4

Hamilton 1 - Clyde 1

Ross County 0 - St Mirren 4

Stranrear 0 - Dundee 0

So 4 is the magic number it seems today

[Jimbo]

Full time scores



Stranrear 0 - Dundee 0




must have been a classic :D

[StDuncM]

Is sky sports the best site for updates?

Is there any live updates broadcasting over the net?

pezza70 try www.livescore.com

[templeofsaints]

Full time scores



Stranrear 0 - Dundee 0




must have been a classic :D

So did Jim feed Kernie false info or did Kernie just think he knew better? :***:

[Broggy Man]

Not all good guys Saints were terible in the first half Bit of a shock no Stanic? Scotland could have provided more. As for David's comments about Brechin they huffed and puffed but not sure if they could have provided anything. Couldn't see the Brechin goal there floodlights are shocking. All and all Saints beat a Brechin team that was shocking worse than they were when they played at MCD.
Sheerin gash Stevenson gash Henry was he playing?? Sheriden pass but only just Scotland pass but i wish he would distribute better. Back 4 pass although i would like to know about the appearance of Dyer who struggled at times. Milne ran his socks off but didnt get much of a sniff. Cat pass comfertably one good save and did it well.

3 points in the bag but its not the kind of display to get excited about hte difference today we tucked away the chances without looking great..

[templeofsaints]

3 points in the bag but its not the kind of display to get excited about hte difference today we tucked away the chances without looking great..
Known in the trade as the "Paisley Method" :)

[HeronAddict]

Not all good guys Saints were terible in the first half Bit of a shock no Stanic? Scotland could have provided more. As for David's comments about Brechin they huffed and puffed but not sure if they could have provided anything. Couldn't see the Brechin goal there floodlights are shocking. All and all Saints beat a Brechin team that was shocking worse than they were when they played at MCD.
Sheerin gash Stevenson gash Henry was he playing?? Sheriden pass but only just Scotland pass but i wish he would distribute better. Back 4 pass although i would like to know about the appearance of Dyer who struggled at times. Milne ran his socks off but didnt get much of a sniff. Cat pass comfertably one good save and did it well.

3 points in the bag but its not the kind of display to get excited about hte difference today we tucked away the chances without looking great..

Can't really agree with this assessment myself. I thought saints played about as well as the conditions allowed against an admittedly not very good brechin side. As for Sheerin and Stevenson being gash, sorry didn't see that at all. Stevenson wasn't great in the 1st half but in the second he was central to most of what we did well. For once they also actually kept wide giving us some width, and both their finishes were excellent. Two stunning goals by Scotland again - despite his laziness sometimes being frustrating, the fact that he can score goals that no-one else in the squad can is why he's playing every week.

One thing I have to mention was the stick some saints players were getting today. Even when we were cruising at 3-1 and 4-1, Stevenson, Mensing and Dyer in particular were getting dogs abuse for not being able to perfectly control a ball and play a defence-splitting pass in driving rain and on a pitch that was like a sponge, not conducive to playing decent football at all. The last thing Dyer needed in particular was the some of the criticism that was directed at him. By the way, was Stanic injured?

I think today also highlighted how important it is that we get the first goal in games. We saw after half time that Brechin really came at us, and that gave us the space to use our greater quality. I certainly felt that we were much improved from last week.

[Homer J. Simpson]

Thought the all round performance, in those conditions and on that surface was quite good. Sheerin had an excellant first half moving forward whenever he could. Stevenson looked like he couldn't give a damn in the first half but played a lot better in the second. Scotland done enough and the goals were fantastic. Savo ran his arse off but just never got the right ball. Well worth the trip.

[blueheaven]

Thought we really struggled in the first-half and when we went 1-0 up it was against the run of play - Brechin had been getting stronger and stronger as the half went on and had had a couple of decent chances just before our opener. Playing Brechin's not like playing the other teams at the bottom - they like to play good football and have some decent players. I'd like to see them stay up because I always like going to Glebe Park.

Still, I think Scotland's first (nicely finished) came at a great time because it settled us down for the second half and got our moaning fans off the players' backs for a bit. Second half saw a much more accomplished performance despite the deteriorating weather conditions - Stevenson got the goal his stand-out display deserved, Wizard got yet another to help his confidence along and Scotland's second was an absolute peach. I didn't actually think Scotland played all that well for a lot of the game, but his two goals were magic and, when he wants to, he shows some wonderful touches.

Only real disappointment is that Savo didn't score, because I think he really needs a goal at the moment. He was his usual self today - worked tirelessly for little personal reward.

[ST GAZ]

All and all Saints beat a Brechin team that was shocking worse than they were when they played at MCD.

Thought Brechin knocked the ball about very well after they scored and we did not look confident for a good fifteen minutes until we scored again.

Milne ran his socks off but didnt get much of a sniff.[quote]

Savo is severely lacking in confidence and it showed at the end when instead of taking the ball on and shooting he passed.Is he carrying an injury ? because he didn't look fully fit.


In all a better performance than the last weeks and as Broggy man said we took our chances today.

[chopper]

I disagree with both Broggy and BH there. With the conditions and pitch as bad as they were, we were getting the ball down, passing it and trying a number of different things working to our strengths of Milne's pace and Scotland's touch up top against a rather immobile central defensive pairing of Brechin's.

Stanic failed a fitness test on a knock he picked up in training hence why he was in the portakabin, but Dyer marshalled Chucky King well all game.

Good attacking performance for most of the game, although the 5-10 minutes after their "goal" needs to be looked at as we seem to have a spell like that every time we concede a goal at the moment.

[Broon]

Some negative comments from the Saints fans about this game. I know highlights can be deceiving but from what I saw it looked like we could have scored 10 quite easily. The pitch looked awful but the attacks were nice and varied and Jason Scotland looked at the heart of everything. We missed quite a few sitters though - once Milne finds his shooting boots I think we will be right back on track to mount a wee challenge.

[Watty]

Does Jas Scotland score tap ins? They two yesterday were cracking strikes, especially the 2nd. I am growing to like Jason more now, yeh he has his flaws but he adds that bit of somthing we've been missing for a few years.

[templeofsaints]

Just saw the highlights myself and all the goals were well taken (and see Scotland's goal vs Airdrie has him up for Goal of the Month again). Wasn't sure if the Brechin goal had crossed the line from the camera angle but if it had been us we'd have been claiming it.

['Steve]

There are some action pictures at the following link:- http://www.brechincity.com/gallery/v/0506actionpics/saintees1/

[Dev]

some funny scores today - sunderland lead spurs

Twas great - what a free kick! I was there instead of Brechin and it was nice to see the team play with some fight instead of the recent catastrophes. If we'd played like that in previous weeks against poor teams like Birmingham, Villa and Portsmouth we'd be in a better position than we are now. Spurs are a different proposition, they really are a quality team. All the fight in the world couldn't quite make up for the gulf in class.

Good to see Saints get a decent result. Unfortunately I missed Scotsport this morning again, I've still never managed to see it at the earlier time it has. Wish it would go back to the late afternoon slot.

I'm 37.