St Johnstone -v- ICT : matchday thread

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<h2><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">THE MATCHDAY THREAD</font></h2>

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<h2><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> St Johnstone -V- Inverness CT</font></h2>

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[Scotty]

Yogi Hughes doing a bit of commentary today .... He might have a face for radio ... but not a voice

[CaleyD]

Saw that goal coming a mile away....3 defenders and not one of them dealt with the threat.

[AJS]

When was the last time we kept a clean sheet? Still plenty time to go i suppose.

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

Aberdeen winning now

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

Saw that goal coming a mile away....3 defenders and not one of them dealt with the threat.

Are you at the game ? How many ICT are at the game ?

[tm4tj]

Don't know how it looks at the game, but we sound poor and not creating anything. The words Tade and can't gather keep appearing in the same sentence.

Time we got our finger out.

[caley100]

Nothing will happen till Terry's half time rant i suppose..... at least silly name cilly is off.

[Jeepsaw]

Yogi on Tokely, "He's a big lump of a big unit of a big lump of a man"

[Donview]

Creeping into the game, Yogi doing my fecking head in!!

[CaleyD]

Yeah, at the game. For the start of the first half there wasn't too much between the teams...although St Johnstone were doing more to create at the front. ICT have got progressively worst though...and the biggest problem is that we're not making St Johnstone work for anything and are surrendering possession far too easily.

Too many balls over the top to the forwards...even from close in...and the forwards are in each others pocket and not able to work off each other.

Hopefully it's all stuff that can be sorted for second half....teams just heading back out on to pitch.

[tm4tj]

I see that Morton scored for Cowdenbeath against Stirling, and Stirling scored for Stranraer at Peterhead, whilst Scotland scored in Wales

[caley100]

You are indeed, a wonder....

Oh aye... meant to add wonder how yer brain works sometimes!

Edited October 15, 2011 by caley100

[RiG]

*insert sad smiley*

[tm4tj]

You are indeed, a wonder....

Oh aye... meant to add wonder how yer brain works sometimes!

What brain

[Jeepsaw]

Sounds like we had one decent chance which was saved by enckleman.

Not good.

[Jeepsaw]

And to make things worse, i just had a look at the 1st division table!

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

Going to be a long season , thank God for Dunfermline the only team that looks as bad as us .

[Ronaldo]

With half a defence and no attack what should we be expecting?

I'll settle for three points next week.................

[marks]

Is it time to start wearing slip on shoes to matches yet?

[marks]

Going to be a long season , thank God for Dunfermline the only team that looks as bad as us .

Aye but, Dunfermline have a game in hand and it's only against Celtic.

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

With half a defence and no attack what should we be expecting?

I'll settle for three points next week.................

I think we'd all settle for 3 points next week .

[caley100]

No feckin wine for tel tonight, seems we were pysh again, Jeckyll & Hyde perfomances as usual, with donkey tade unable to even create a chance what will it take to drop him? i also dont think Shane is the answer.

Also think the central defence needs sorting out big style, this cant go on much longer using proc there, he did ok against midden because he wasn't put under any pressure.

Looks like next week will be a nervy day for us, wonder which team will turn up?

[Scarlet Pimple]

Oh well. it's now 12.45 a.m. and I have just began to wake up. And take it all in.

DOH!

But remember, friends , that the Pimple said a month or so ago that the team would start to roll after 13 games. Well, including the cup game and the N. of Scotland cup game, we are there now. Unless I am not supposed to count the above two extra games qhwn qw hve to wait a tad longer.

So, let's see what transpires from here-on in. Exciting times are ahead.....

[hislopsoffsideagain]

Just back.

We were absolutely awful today, from the moment St Johnstone went in front, until the final whistle.

Our attacking gameplan in the first half consisted of 'punt it down the right wing and maybe we'll win a throw in'. In the second half it turned into 'piunt it down the middle and maybe Foran will flick something on'. Whenever we got into the final third we made a mess of it - our delivery from wide areas was awful, our midfield couldn't play a killer pass and, whenever we did get the ball in their box, our ball control was utterly hopeless.

Let's split it down into the various parts of the team

DEFENCE - Useless. Today is incontrovertible evidence that if Proctor and Tokely are our centre back partnership for the rest of the season, then we are a shoo-in for relegation. Rossco had an absolute shocker today, bossed in the air by first Sheridan and then Haber, and completely unable to deal with Sandaza's movement. Proctor didn't win a header either and looked like what he is - a player playing out of position. Esson made a great stop in the first half but seemed all over the place for the second goal. Graeme Shinnie had his poorest game for ages, using the ball poorly and really struggling with Chris Millar. Piermayr might be my MOTM, simply because I can't recall him doing anything particularly rubbish (possibly because he did nothing at all)

MIDFIELD - Useless. No-one in the entire team wanted the ball except for Tansey and Andrew Shinnie, which is a pity because they should never be allowed near it. Shinnie was back to his old self, with a hopeless first touch and no real idea of where he was meant to be playing. Davis and Tansey run around a lot, but Tansey can't pass either and all he does is try speculative shots from distance, while Davis just looked like a headless chicken. Nick Ross looked like a 5 year old playing with teenagers, since he just kept getting bumped off the ball.

FORWARDS - Useless. Tade did nothing whilst he was on the pitch, but he got absolutely no service and I'm astonished he was subbed instead of Foran, who might do better if he concentrated on playing instead of just whinging at his teammates and the referee. I'm not sure he could be @rsed breaking into a sprint at any point today, he was frankly just a passenger - and not for the first time this season.

SUBS - The only ray of light - Sutherland at least looked like he gave a damn. I'm not convinced Chippendale is any good, but at least he wanted to get on the ball, ran at players, and had our only decent effort on goal.

I can deal with rubbish performances, but I just won't tolerate the disinterested, demotivated performance that I wasted my afternoon watching. Next week's game against Dunfermline is already a relegation six-pointer, in my view. This team badly needs Hogg, Cox, Jones, Hayes and Doran back ASAP, and surely the boss has to give Sutherland the chance to prove he's more useful than our mouthy captain.

End of rant.