texanwellfan

I think Kanga is progressing along fine and will just get better as the season goes on.

It was a stick on penalty. Not sure why the St Mirren player done that but definitely on purpose.

I was surprised how little St Mirren offered today. Early in the season it looked like they were trying to play some nice football but apparently they’ve given up on that. We looked a lot more relaxed and composed on the ball today and had several good moves but our finishing was woeful. Nice to get a clean sheet and 3 points. I think we can play as well as most teams in the league and should pick up a decent amount of points…..if……. We cut out the silly mistakes. Interestingly we didn’t make any silly mistakes today and came away with a clean sheet and 3 points.

What a good feeling to get the 3 points. St Mirren defender had rush of blood to the head. Stick on PK. St Mirren didnt really offer much and thought we were, by far, the better team. We looked a bit more composed and a big plus to see Preistman and McGinn back on the pitch.

Can we keep the hens oot the close for 10 minutes

General play has been much much better today but not taking our chances is going to kill us.

We should be 2 or 3 up. Good performance but have to score otherwise our defense gets blamed again if we loose.

I thought we had several great balls into the area with our players failing to connect.

Fk off ref. Not even a foul, never mind yellow

Expect Said to bury that or lay it off

Having totally controlled the game so far and missed a few chances, must be time for St Mirren to score soon. 😳

JT was a mile onside per the replay for the one he hit over the bar.

FFS JT get that.

Terrible miss

I hope you’re wrong 😀 nothing wrong with moving the ball forward quickly but it’s one thing playing balls that are 90% likely for us too get versus 50/50 at best. Interesting stat on the more shots on goal but I’d be interested to see stats on number of saves for our keeper. Ward had many games where he had zero saves or just one save. My impression this season is that Paulson has made a lot of saves although V St Johnstone I think he only had one save. Time will tell what style he favors. I’m hoping it’s the hybrid JBA/AJ style.

I’m not sure I know what his preferred style is. I did mention in my post regarding the early season games where the team had a good balance of possession but, compared to JBA style, we were more willing to shoot from around the box or whip in crosses. I thought that was going to be his style but he has moved away from that to Playing more long balls out of defense. As stated, I am not sure what is preferred style is but if you want to summarize my post, I’d say I want him to go back to the style we were playing earlier in the season.

Last season our defence, as such, wasn’t really tested because we won the ball much higher up the park and maintained possession for long periods when we did win it back. That was our defence, keeping the ball. I thought at the beginning of the season we had a good balance of taking more risks in the attacking third but still maintaining a high percentage of possession. We have regressed from that to way too many long balls and last night, that, combined with deciding to sit back, cost us the points. We ended up with 43% possession and I’m pretty sure if you’d looked at that figure around 60/70 mins it would have been closer to 60%. General play has been better over the last few games but I think we need to get back to being “brave” and playing to control games. Reduce the number of long balls. Now and again is fine but we do it too often now Press higher up the pitch, as a team, to win the ball back in better positions. Be patient and keep possession of the ball Work rate and intensity needs to go up a notch or two on and off the ball. edit: maybe getting Oscar back in there with Faddy will help address some of our issues but a lot of it needs to be driven by AJ

Said for me. He done enough while on the field to still be our man of the match. Thought Longelo and SPH put in a power of work and were dead on their feet by the end of the game.

We got lucky

We have faded out of the game. FFS Motherwell get a grip and score another goal.

Not sure he meant to nutmeg the keeper.

Finally JT fkn scores

We really need to pick up 6 points from the next two games.

Even game. Maybe we’ll see some shots from outside the box this half.

I started watching just before hearts scored. We haven’t looked too bad, plus seeing the HT highlights, we’ve suffered from our usual defensive lapse plus powder puff up front.