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Well you can't complain that it is not an attacking selection

Nil to report

Ian Vigurs

Another last minute goal, another!! It's beyond a joke, we are in serious trouble of going down.

3 minutes ago, Jaggy666 said:

Another last minute goal, another!! It's beyond a joke, we are in serious trouble of going down.

 

Another last minute goal conceded, how surprising.  Looks as though we took off our attacking players for midfielders and lost the initiative. This has happened multiple times now this season.

This season has been torture. 

23 minutes ago, Hiro said:

Another last minute goal conceded, how surprising.  Looks as though we took off our attacking players for midfielders and lost the initiative. This has happened multiple times now this season.

Nope. We were pressing for a winner and got hit by a sucker punch break away. Although somebody should have professional fouled Johnson and taken one for the team. 

The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. The tactics and substitutions today were absolutely shocking. Starting to fear that Yogi is becoming more of a hindrance than a help to the players.

8 minutes ago, AlexJones said:

The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. The tactics and substitutions today were absolutely shocking. Starting to fear that Yogi is becoming more of a hindrance than a help to the players.

I don't think there was too much wrong with the tactics today. If I was being critical then we weren't quite as direct as at Dingwall. We didn't exactly cover ourselves with glory at either goal - Fon Williams should have dealt with the cross, and I'm not sure how the resulting shot went in. For the winner, either the last man (Horner, I think) or the keeper should have halted Johnson. 

The subs were attacking, and Storey wasn't doing much. Not sure about Meekings though  

And no booking for any Motherwell players in the resulting celebration?

Edited April 2, 20169 yr by HawkeyeTheGnu

Another Saturday ruined by another last minute goal. 1 win in 8 is shocking form. Let's pray we can stay up, get some contracts sorted, and make some signings for next season. What's worrying is that players may be deterred from signing a contract for a team on such a poor run!

That result wasn't good enough for top 6, and we aren't good enough for top 6. Why is that? This season's injury list is a valid excuse, but there's more to it than that.

We've just had too many poor results at home (even before considering that we also went out of both cups at home to unspectacular teams.)

0-1 Motherwell

0-0 Partick

0-2 Hamilton

0-1 St J (who had 10 men most of the game)

1-1 Dundee

2-2 Utd

0-0 Partick

0-1 Hamilton

1-2 Motherwell

From that list of shame, we picked up a mere 4 points from a possible 27 against mediocre sides. Just a few more points from that selection and we'd be looking seriously at top 6!

The other thing that stands out from that list is the abysmal lack of goals.  Wrong tactics? Lack of credible striking options? A bit of both, IMO.

Some stats on goals - on the last 6 occasions we scored twice in a game, we won every time! All 12 of our wins this season came when we scored 2 or more, in fact our overall record in games where we scored 2+ goals is W12, D2, and just 1 defeat (4-2 at Parkhead). So it's a pity we can't manage 2 goals more often!