Hibernian V St.Johnstone - Saturday 29th March

[CAH]

New manager will hopefully improve the current abysmal state of matters on the pitch.

New owner/ board will hopefully have the gumption to properly oversee the above as well as desist from the patronising rubbish which currently emanates from the top at Saints.

What happens next - Perth retains a professional football club (& stadium) with ambition and a proud fan base (as was the case up to circa 2014).

[andrew]

2 minutes ago, Mizfit said:

It would appear 101 is back from the dead. 

About time too

[sane_tee]

17 minutes ago, blueheaven said:

So you want us all to try to hound out not just the manager but the owner and board as well? And then what happens after that in your plan?

Well, that's obvious, isn't it - we start winning! 🤣

[Tricky6]

35 minutes ago, Gas Monkey said:

I think the most frustrating thing for me is that we have never been, and are still not, in a numerically impossible situation. Problem is we have shown/are showing absolutely no evidence that we can cut that gap. Looks like we are going down without an exciting push to avoid the drop and putting pressure on teams round us. It’s over now imo but need not have been. 

100% this…

We are letting bang average teams in free fall off the hook because we haven’t got the fire in our bellies to have a right go at any opponents.

Considering how many are out of contract in the summer, there seems no real I will still be a Saints player and a premier league player next season mentality! 

[CAH]

My last reply was to sane-tee - the thread is out of sync!

[Gekko]

I think the heat map they showed on Sportscene tells a story.

It seems like Fisher had the most touches?

We hardly troubled their penalty box at all.

 

[CAH]

Maybe that's whats wrong wi' oor pitch - too much heat😀

[RandomGuy]

46 minutes ago, Gekko said:

I think the heat map they showed on Sportscene tells a story.

It seems like Fisher had the most touches?

We hardly troubled their penalty box at all.

 

Fisher had the 3rd most passes in the team, behind the 2 cbs and ahead of another.

[Smarmy Arab]

1 hour ago, RandomGuy said:

Fisher had the 3rd most passes in the team, behind the 2 cbs and ahead of another.

Wow! 

[Gekko]

1 hour ago, RandomGuy said:

Fisher had the 3rd most passes in the team, behind the 2 cbs and ahead of another.

They obviously trust Mitchell. He seems to be the main outlet.

Crazy stats for Fisher though. Both with passes, and also that it doesn't seem like even once he punted the ball up the field into the opposition half. Not once.

[RandomGuy]

41 minutes ago, Gekko said:

They obviously trust Mitchell. He seems to be the main outlet.

Crazy stats for Fisher though. Both with passes, and also that it doesn't seem like even once he punted the ball up the field into the opposition half. Not once.

They're only successful passes, so he maybe had attempts at longer ones.

[Saints17]

32 minutes ago, Gekko said:

They obviously trust Mitchell. He seems to be the main outlet.

Crazy stats for Fisher though. Both with passes, and also that it doesn't seem like even once he punted the ball up the field into the opposition half. Not once.

Heard Derek McInness talking about the Killie game from the weekend and what had gone wrong. Talked about the windy conditions and the need to play forward passes early and gain territory when it’s those sort of conditions. He didn’t think his team had done that. 
 

That’s what I can’t get my head round about what we did on Saturday, there was no variety and no attempt to do anything different throughout the entire game. I’ve seen Sprangler getting some criticism but asking a player to consistently take the ball with his back to goal, in his own half, in windy conditions when the opposition know exactly what’s going to happen and are pressing all over him is always going to lead to possession getting turned over - it’s madness. It’s totally on the manager for not recognising the conditions and what the opposition were doing and trying to change things. To be 2-0 down, desperate for points and take until the 82nd minute to get a second striker on is so baffling. 

[crieffsaintandy]

17 minutes ago, RandomGuy said:

2 hours ago, RandomGuy said:

Fisher had the 3rd most passes in the team, behind the 2 cbs and ahead of another.

No wonder Curtis got hooked at half time based on the above, and the assist for the first Hibs goal, basically shows what everyone can see passing it about the back all game, odd ball to Sven then back again, just too slow no temp and not enough forward movement and passes, hardly need to be Pep to work saints out.

[dunblanemike]

4 hours ago, Gekko said:

They obviously trust Mitchell. He seems to be the main outlet.

Crazy stats for Fisher though. Both with passes, and also that it doesn't seem like even once he punted the ball up the field into the opposition half. Not once.

So every one of the punts were an unsuccessful pass and gave the ball to the opposition 

[Widge]

I'm not against going long every now and again, but just for some context on Saturday. We were playing directly into the wind which was the first issue, the second was none of our strikers will win the ball in the air against 3 giant centrehalfs and by the time they head it back, you're already halfway towards out goal. I totally get the point of keeping it on the deck on Saturday, but not in the way we did passively. I don't think it would of made the slightest bit of difference, Hibs were just far better than us and deserved their wins. 

I'm not defending the square passes and suicidal balls into our midfielders who had men on them, that's just not the right way to play it, but it's learning when and where to play like this that the players haven't realised yet. Nobody in their right mind would moan if Curtis had leathered the ball out of play on Saturday to clear his lines, instead he did literally nothing with it. That's not down to Simo's tactics or how he wants to play, that's an individual error from a young player who'll learn from it.

[sane_tee]

I hope that the loanees see the game this weekend as the biggest game they'll have in their time up here and really pull something out the bag to make the most of the occasion. The semi will be a big game too, but for me, this weekend is way more important

[Lubolzer]

When we go down and we will Simo is not the man to bring us back up. He could take us down again.