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Are we playing a false 9 or is Said just too deep?

Wee Oscar needs to get his head in the game. Having a mare so far

That’s being generous.

Isn't that Isn't guesswork what our human VAR assistants do anyway.

True. This game in particular has the feel of a Friday night Championship game.

I doubt vogts is fully fit yet either.

Or the St Johnstone defence. These games this weekend are really heartening. If St Mirren are the best on show so far i feel confident we might be ok this season.

I wish we were up against that Kilmarnock defence today.

Happy with that line-up and looking forward to longelo and williams in left side. Vogt settling in to a new team and league so needs time, has gradually been improving. COYW

I’d have wanted Maswanhise in before Vogts but he can’t be fully fit? I’d even have Lowry before him too but at least we have those two on the bench to change for Vogts.

Fair to say the defences have not been on top in the 2nd half. Also funny/annoying listening to the commentator trying to pronounce "McDiarmid Park"

System? Sounds more like a guess. And they want us to use AI assisted VAR.

My AI prediction system (which predicted a draw on Thursday night). Has predicted a 2-1 win for Hibs. Based on its last two predictions, I'm going to call it the MATCH JUDGING COMPUTER. Or MJC for short.........

Always disappointed if we get beat but the main thing for me will be to see how we play. hoping our team will be stronger and better by the close of the window. From what I’ve seen this weekend and making snap under-informed judgements I think we should be good enough to finish above the following St Mirren, Falkirk, Killie, St Johnstone, Dundee im assuming the ugly sisters will perform better than last season but maybe not? That leaves us battling with Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd for places 3 thru 7 Today will give us an idea how we compare, keeping in mind that I’d expect us to improve with signings and for our general play to improve as season goes on today 2-2

Sorry early morning hangover caused me to just post my thoughts on the score but more in-depth I think both defences have mistakes in them and both front lines have goals so I was predicting a high score draw. Both keepers are good and could have a blinder of a game which could lead to a 2-0 or 3-0 score but my thoughts are a high score draw. Not trying to bee negative just how I see the game. Either way I won’t be hitting the panic now and avoid the rush button.

All this weekend's (and Monday's game) on Paramount. So you get to choose which commentator you want for ours.

Game on Paramount over here. St J game on just now

We've had a big upheaval over the summer, new manager, great players moved on etc so a positive start to the season would be great, and give the team a confidence boost for the Helsinki game so id be very happy with a draw. No doubt if we get a poor result the usual subjects will be all over the forum tonight telling us how its bottom of the league, bottom 6, a relegation fight etc just before the Johannsen out thread gets started. Its a long season, especially if we progress in Europe, but as ive said before its where you are in May that counts, and in the scheme if things a defeat today means feck all , as we are still in contention for four competitions, so lets get behind AJ and the team.

Watched it last night, they aren't any better , didn't look dangerous for 90 mins.

Jovanovic signed for San Jose Earthquakes in mid-July unfortunately.

2-2 or 3-3 game I think.

I absolutely get why you feel this way. The team took some time to earn our trust last season, and the same will be true this season, purely down to the changes of manager and personnel. However, the early signs are good. Today is the next stepping stone on that journey. It would be nice to get a win, even a point would do. However, Im more interested in the performance than the result. If we can go to a difficult away venue, play our game, control the ball and you can see patterns of play and what we are trying to achieve, I will be more than happy. Hibs will be dangerous in attack, but they can be got at, at the back. Control the ball, starve them of possession and limit their chances. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I am still feeling a little hungover from the end of last season. The new season has come around very quickly and I have a sense that normal service may resume with regard to the OF dominating both on and off the park particularly now that two Scottish media darlings in McIness and O Neil are at the helm of the respective teams. Scottish VAR already seems to have learned absolutely nothing from the end of last season already going against the wider world football directive to only get involved with very clear and obvious errors. It would be nice to see Hearts, Falkirk and particularly ourselves carry on the momentum from last season but squad overhauls in the summer prove how difficult that will be. Aberdeen beating Hearts yesterday gives maybe the first sense that the old school Scottish football establishment are starting to reassert themselves. We were miles ahead of Hibs in the last game of last season and we finished on a genuine high despite maybe some lingering regret that it could have been even better but I get a sense that the reset button has been pressed and the league may fall back into a more predictable pattern. It would be a real shot in the arm for the season ahead of we were to dominate Hibs today like we did in May but I think it will be a much tougher test. I would take a draw right now to maintain a positive start to the season going into a very difficult Euro tie next week.

Both Motherwell and Hibs likely to be the 2 of the sharpest teams for game. Our left hand side with Willilams , Longelo and RCC will cause all teams problems . With Spaorrow, Maswanhise on the right and Said or Lowry through the middle I think we’ve got a fair amount of fire power to cause them problems . suspect both teams will score today and believe we can outscore them .

Not every player will turn out to be AP . he’d scored 17 goals in a one off season and not a regular scorer before hand the player mentioned has scored over 50 in 2 seasons - not the same prospect . we’ve made quite a few decent signings from that part of the world.