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Defended well in the most part. 2 up front working hard without looking like scoring. Midfield has been awful.

Not sure if this is any indication of what’s likely to happen in Scotland, however I see Napoli have managed to win their appeal against a 3-0 defeat awarded to Juventus against them for a breach of Covid rules.. The way we’re playing that would be squeaky bum time for us if they’re overturn and we need to play them!

100% agree with this. I’d go back to 4-3-3 with Archer, O’Donnell, Ohara, Gallagher and Grimshaw at the back, Campbell, McGuire and Polworth in midfield and Hastie, Watt and Lang up front. Although I suspect we’ll see almost the same team that started at Ibrox, 5-3-2, just with Polworth in for Crawford.

Find some of the comments on here about Tait a little surprising. I thought when Hastie came on last week he went past him at will, in fact did Tait not get yellow carded for pulling him down and then get hooked? When I’ve seen him play for Saints this seasons he’s been exactly what you would expect, fairly solid but limited and struggles badly against pace. I’m happy to have O’Donnell over him. Must keep Gallagher in Jan, otherwise I suspect we could be looking at a relegation dogfight in March/April. Would love us to sign someone decent to play alongside him.

Hastie, with the exception of Archer, the only one getting pass marks.

Just listened to Robinsons interview, can’t believe our goal was disallowed for a foul. Said at the time that better be for offside as it’s never a foul. Frustrating, as that would have massively changed the game. Not saying we would have won but to go in front just before half time would have been huge in terms of confidence.

So weak, as soon as we go 1 down you know the games over. No urgency, no will to win, no fight, no bookings... Thank god for Gallagher otherwise we be facing relegation.

Goal was coming. Hibs change of shape at HT gave them the advantage. Can’t believe Long lasted over 60 mins, empty jersey.

Yeh, I agree with this. Ohara was playing well at CH alongside Gallagher and McGinley (whilst not great) is more reliable at LB than Grimshaw or Lamie. Also think we need Maguire’s stature and presence in midfield without Ohara or Donnelly.

He’s far from perfect and his inclusion of Lamie today was crazy but to my point earlier, we had 4 or 5 missing today that would definitely improve that team.

Of course but why bring it up now when fans have no impact on results?

Just listen to Robinsons interview, what the hell is he on about 3 or 4 men in the team that used to be vilified! Which players is he talking about and who were they vilified by?! Can only see this as a dig at the fans when we’re not even in the stadium!...

Poor poor performance, not to mention the total of urgency or desire. Can only assume McGinley had a knock, although to be fair he’s no world beater himself. In the managers defence we are missing almost half a first choice team in Carson, Carroll, Dunne, Donnelly and Campbell.

Crawford was neat but Gallagher holds us together at the back. Would hate to see what our defence would be like without him.

Both McNamara and McCann’s challenges could easily have been reds. Remember Lang’s red at Ross C in the 1st game of the season? Not much difference in those 2 today.

What a horrible team they are, 3 awful challenges today, not to mention Davidson’s kamikaze act.

Lamie on for the last 15min, what could possibly go wrong?!

Been a little surprised at how just how poor we’ve been so far, struggling to string 2 or 3 passes together. Good move for the goal and then a couple of chances in the last few mins but apart from that St Johnstone have dominated. Suppose we need to cut them a break given how many we have out. Carson, Carroll, Dunne, Donnelly and Campbell would all improve this team...

Needless to say, the move for the goal apart we have been absolutely woefully.

If we had VAR that would be a red....Typical St Johnstone, dirty b@stards.

Presuming it’s Grimshaw that’s out, I hope we go back to the 4-3-3 today with Carson, O‘Donnell, Gallagher, Lamie, Mcginlay, Campbell, O’Hara, Polworth, Cole, Watt, Long. Fancy us to get a narrow win.

In thought and movement....

The push on Campbell would have been soft but would 100% have been given at the other end..

There’s no doubt that he’s not played as well this season after setting very high standards last, however anyone suggesting he gets dropped needs to take a good look at the alternatives..... He’s still by far our best defender and will come good, just need to find a stable back 4 with the right partner for him. If Dunne can ever regain his fitness he may be the best fit we have. If all were fit I’d like to see a back 4 of O’Donnell, Gallagher, Dunne and Carroll.

Yip, we never seem to learn. On reflection though, they had 2 or 3 players that were a step above us, they were playing in their country, the heat suited them and they have much more European experience, let’s be honest the odds were stacked against us. Just very frustrating that we give away 2 goals from set pieces and the thought of what might have been if the ref sends the boy off when he should have in the first half. Also, one other thing I didn’t think of at the time was, after giving the pen does he really need to dish out a 2nd yellow for that ‘foul’? Putting aside the first yellow, which could have been red, is that grappling a yellow card anywhere else on the pitch, don’t think so....