19-09-2021, 11:18
(This post was last modified: 19-09-2021, 15:05 by HerefordBull.)
Agree with both of them 0762, especially the Boyle one........what an idiot.
Penalty decisions are as the ref sees them......or doesn't! and as I said they had a great shout by where we sit in the second half. However they did go upfield after the Magennis one and score which obviously they wouldn't have done if it had been given.
Having said that we would have probably come out in the second half with our usual plan, when ahead, at bringing them on (to control the game!!) to catch them on the counter..............well that worked really well in the last 25 minutes, not!!! Whenever we try this, we never look comfortable and yesterday we paid the price. In theory it should be a good tactic but instead of bringing the ball out from an opposition attack and countering with pace we end up booting the ball anywhere and therefore invite even more pressure. In the end yesterday they got their deserved equaliser.
On one of our "counters" yesterday, I think Magennis brought the ball out and for over half the length of the pitch he only had one player trying to get to him......I watched Boyle as this was happening and he jogged to just short of the halfway line and stopped! Obviously under instruction that to defend was more important. The counter broke down and back came St Mirren.
We had a few of these games last year where we were hanging on to the points especially at home, and the luck was with us and we did survive......not yesterday.
Penalty decisions are as the ref sees them......or doesn't! and as I said they had a great shout by where we sit in the second half. However they did go upfield after the Magennis one and score which obviously they wouldn't have done if it had been given.
Having said that we would have probably come out in the second half with our usual plan, when ahead, at bringing them on (to control the game!!) to catch them on the counter..............well that worked really well in the last 25 minutes, not!!! Whenever we try this, we never look comfortable and yesterday we paid the price. In theory it should be a good tactic but instead of bringing the ball out from an opposition attack and countering with pace we end up booting the ball anywhere and therefore invite even more pressure. In the end yesterday they got their deserved equaliser.
On one of our "counters" yesterday, I think Magennis brought the ball out and for over half the length of the pitch he only had one player trying to get to him......I watched Boyle as this was happening and he jogged to just short of the halfway line and stopped! Obviously under instruction that to defend was more important. The counter broke down and back came St Mirren.
We had a few of these games last year where we were hanging on to the points especially at home, and the luck was with us and we did survive......not yesterday.
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