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Good post. Apart from poor passing and being lightweight, our build up was laboured, slow and predictable. It seemed to me that we were pacing ourselves in the first half for a full 90 minutes or extra time. Someone forgot to tell St Mirren. Agree that we need a RB, CB, goalie and striker in January. Other managers will have learnt from St Mirren's tactics today.

That's last 4 visits to Hampden for me we been beaten easy. Beginning to be boring now. What's point of getting there if we can't compete?

One positive from today, a crowd of 21,377 is a great effort from 2 supposed diddy teams. Shame we couldnt put on a show to encourage more of our lot to come back.

Hampdens place of so many bad memories now when we get stage fright but today we were not competing enough and lacked guile in last 3rd. Paid a lot of money to get to this and left deflated. Badly need CB RB goalie and CF Defence and goalie at 3rd goal looked like a scene from keystone cops.

Agree Welsh and slats should have started however we would still be outfought and toothless up front. On this showing Hendry should start. Please off load stama

Is it possible to get him back?

Absolutely this.

A typical Hampden performance from us. Oh how I hate the place. The seeds of that disgrace were sown before kick off with an odd line up. No Welsh or Slattery. Presumably the latter was being kept fresh to come on later and help us defend a one or two goal lead? We were outhought, outfought and outplayed, although 4-1 flattered Saints. Robinson had our gameplan well and truly sussed. Not one of JBA's best days. Only passmarks go to Hendry and Slattery. That game ranks alongside semi final defeats to Airdrie, and will remain in the memory of many for years to come.

Nil vote.

That's why I think we should have tried to keep Armstrong.

A bit, more than a bit, we were garbage but St Mirren were an average team that played to their strengths. They were still the better team and were clinical and defended well. That's the killer, we wouldn't need to have been top notch to take them, semi competent would have been enough. They had 4 shots a goal and scored all 4 we had 4 shots at goal and got 1. They took the gifts we presented to them. That's not a hard gig in football.

Referee also let them away with borderline thuggery and time wasting. They are adept at dark arts. Mostly hammer throwers.

we’ve got a trip to Aberdeen next weekend to cheer us up yes? SIWY Mon the Well!

Said it last week following Livingston if we can get a physical centre forward in January we’ll have a good end to the season lot of nice play but zero danger a large portion of games St mirren got their tactics rights & just to street wise for us today

Totally agree. McGin and odonnel should never have had extended contracts. I think we should have took bid for Stama and got player on loan. Defence needs rebuild.

Very disappointing performance and result. It only takes our game to be a fraction off for us to look powderpuff in attack and disjointed at the back. A lot of the narrative in the build-up was that the big pitch would be to our advantage. If anything it was the opposite, we weren’t able to move at pace whilst St Mirren quickly got from A to B. The likes of Just and Said were swallowed up by St Mirren’s powerful defence and midfield. Koutroumbis was afforded acres of space, St Mirren banking on him doing little with it. We only started to carry a threat once both Welsh and Slattery were on the pitch, the latter the only one capable of spreading the ball with a bit of quality. This does call into the question the starting lineup, I initially assumed both weren’t 100% fit. Good luck to St Mirren in the final. Robinson knows how to get a tune out his team in a semi and I wouldn’t mind him going one step further. Time for us to lick our wounds and sharpen up at both ends of the pitch.

I find it really difficult to comprehend that a provincial side has reached a national final and will play either of the old firm and I will want the old firm to win?? I feel quite dirty about this but I really despise St Mirren as a club, I can’t stand their players, manager and in particular their fan base. i think I need to go to bed. It’s been a horrible day.

Its far too often style over substance if you are not scoring goals you dont win games, our midfield is fine, up front we are dreadful Stamatelopoulos is hopeless, and defensively we are weak, especially at right back. We need to sort it out in January as we let a bang average St Mirren side get the easiest place in a major final they will ever get today.

i get why we came into this season with stama as our number 9 but he ain't the answer.the issues we have in defence are completely our own making,we didn't need to keep both O'donnell and mcginn on,it should have been one or the other or ideally neither and the wages used to try and improve an already shit defence,gordon was a part of that shit defence last season but yet we go into a semi final with him and mcginn,it just won't do,Johnny k is a bit part part player at best,not the solid right back that we're crying out for,longelo has been a good signing but today and the livi game, he was awful but we don't have another to come in and give him a rest for a couple of games.throw in a piss poor keeper and it's a recipe for disaster.its going to be same old same old while the likes of mcginn and gordon are here,if any good comes of today it should show the manager that the defence needs ripped up and starting again.

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Really disappointing. Weren't good enough at both ends while having the best of possession. Thought they just seemed more up for it than us and made less mistakes. 4-1 still flattered them a bit, just seemed they took near enough every chance that came thier way.

Ah well I'd rather be disappointed at going out in the semi than the usual pumping by one of the Old Firm. In the final. Que sera and all that..

I'd add a left back to that too. In essence pretty much a new defence.

Need in January 1 right back 1 goalkeeper 1 centre forward 1 centre back

JBA has had a limited time since the summer to get new players in, playing a style that looks good and may be new to them. So can't be too critical overall the team is good to watch .But he has to learn by his mistakes