Kmcalpin

We have no pace or creativity in the midfield to break out of defence and service the strikers. That could be crucial in taking pressure off our defence.

Good luck to our 2 strikers. They'll need it.

I wouldn't touch these loans with a bargepole unless we really, really need the dosh. For those who take the cash there will be a day of reckoning.

Well, like many I was nonplussed at the line up. If we're going to play a passing game we need to have the players to do that and we didn't. Little or creativity in midfield. Polworth has had a poorish season but he made a difference when he came on. Was he fully fit? The alternative to that is to play long high balls to the front men, which we also tried but again we don't have the players to do that either. When under pressure we looked very shaky in defence and in midfield and it was no surprise when Saints scored. After that they sat in and played very defensively to snuff out our ineffective walking football style. Truth be told though they were no great shakes and on pressure we were probably worth a point. We're now going back to the start of the season where the opposition sat in and gave us possession and simply waited until we made the inevitable error. Very few decent performers today although Grimmy did try, but with little end product, and the much maligned Hastie looked the part when he came on. Mugabi doesn't impress me and is too error prone. O'Hara is no midfielder and didn't look clever at the goal either. Barry Maguire also failed to impress, his late shot apart. 4-3-3 isn't working and neither are Robbo's bizarre team selections. To get beaten by the league's bottom team at home, is not acceptable. Where do we go from here?

I don't think he was.

St Mirren look so much more organised and hard working than we do.

This game is still salvageable but Mugabi needs to be hooked. He's causing us problems at the back.

Once again our build up is far too laboured and slow.

4-4-2 We don't have the players for 4-3-3

Once again we're wide open down the wings.

You could drive a bus through our midfield and defence.

I was fully expecting these appeals, as soon as the decisions were announced. There's been a bit of talk in the media about us, and Accies to a lesser extent, benefitting from the decison and other clubs losing out. To some extent thats true but there's been no talk whatsoever of us having been disadvantaged. Disruption to match days and training schedules, additionals costs, and now continuing uncertainty. etc. If any club in the Premiership, outwith the gruesome twosome and Aberdeen, is going to get positive media publicity, its St Mirren. Anyway, I would have no gripe with the decision being reversed, IF the necessary information on player unavailability at Kilmarnock and St Mirren is available to the Appeal body. If thats the case then the game should be played with Saint's having to play with a grossly weakened side ie with the players they had available, more or less, on the day of the cancellation. Presumabty players who breached the guidelines could be suspended. They should not be allowed to play the game with full strength , or near to it, side. In addition they should pay ourselves and Accies a modest and appropriate sum in compensation.

I don't know that he did, although the referee certainly saw it. If you cast your mind back a few weeks Barry Maguire was carded for a very similar foul. Again this just goes to illustrate the level of inconsistency in referees.

Couldn't agree more about opposition wingers. Why make life unnecessarily difficult for ourselves? The only question for me is on which wing we should deploy Grimshaw. Not the most gifted player in the world but he has a bit of character about him. Probably down to Saints' personnel and tactics and who we think needs most cover between O'Donnell and McGinley.

Far more to it than that - see comments above. To add my tuppence worth. Goal 1: The Hibs player on our right flank is completely uncovered and is allowed to send over his cross unimpeded. The ball should never have reached its target. No-one covers Boyle. Goal 2: There is no midfield cover on the edge of our box and no-one is covering Doidge on the edge of our box. Goal 3: No-one covers McGinn's run from midfield. What is O'Hara doing? McGinley makes a mess of it agreed. There are question marks over a number of players, not just McGinley. Our defensive midfield is very poor just now and teams can run unimpeded into our box at will. Looking back to the St Johnstone game a week ago, we had to work damned hard to get anywhere near their penalty box. We have been badly hit by injuries to defensive players and thats had a huge impact, but we need to drop Mugabi as he's causing problems for others. O'Hara is not doing his job in shielding the defence and Allan Campbell whilst putting in a power of work, needs to be more defensively aware. Revert to 4-4-2 for next week, dropping a striker and Mugabi, and bringing in Maguire and another midfielder. For whatever reason we seem to be completely disorganised at the back when decent teams attack us. Not sure why? Is it because players are not playing to instructions or that they aren't being coached or the system is wrong?

Agree with much of that Iain. Our set pieces, especially corners have been very poor this season. It does look to be a bad mistake by Andrew Dallas and that could have affected the course of the game, although Hibs would, in all likelihood still have won comfortably. In his post match comments, he mentions a lack of "nastiness" and "devilment" and hints that we're too soft. We are a bit naive and thats been shown up tiome and again this season. The team doesn't seem to have an overall character this term. There's no physicality, no thunderdome football but there's no expansive open flowing football either. Next Saturday is a big game and it won't be easy, as our last 2 results against the Buddies at Fir Park have shown. For this game I'd like to see changes in formation and personnel so that we give ourselves a fighting chance at kick off.

Certainly some of strikers aren't good enough but in fairness to them the service from midfield has been either very poor or totally lacking.

We need to calm down this evening. Our season will not turn on a 3-0 thumping from Hibs. They're sitting 3rd and deservedly so. Disappointing certainly that another team didn't need to work hard for their goals and outmuscled us. I'm confident some off the field changes would improve matters through a change in formation and personnel. Again we were caught out by playing a narrow 3 in midfield but if you make the same mistakes each week you can't expect a different outcome. A simple change at the back by dropping Mugabi and moving O'Hara back will help. St Mirren is a more winnable game.....if we learn our lessons from today and last week.

Midfield hasn't played well in the past couple of games granted but its the formation that at the root cause of our problem there.

Schoolboy defending yet again.

Does anyone know the numbers of players at Kilmarnock and St Mirren who: - had tested positive for coronavirus - had to self isolate - were injured prior to these games being cancelled?

I agree with most comments about the defence, but would not go 4-3-3. I don't think we have the players for it and its no use having 3 strikers if you can't provide them with decent service. Even moreso when Cole and White have both been ruled out. Its also putting the 2 full backs, and indeed the whole defence, under additional and unnecessary pressure.

Another benefit for us is that we’ll avoid fixture congestion in the future.

Winning 2 games in a single day, scoring 6 and keeping 2 clean sheets! When did we last play 2 games on one day - late 19th century? Seriously, a just outcome. Neither club can complain as the failures were systemic not down to individuals acting irresponsibly alone. This is a serious disease and the clubs should have known better. Pleased though that the fines have been suspended - club finances just now don't need further losses. Appeal(s) forthcoming though? Hopefully not; lets hope thats an end to this saga. Ironic isn't it that Killie forfeited the game 3-0 after what happened in the ladies game about 2 0r 3 years ago. Didn't see this result coming!

1st December at 1900 hrs and counting.