St Mirren v Motherwell 30/08/2026

[weeyin]

1 hour ago, cambo97 said:

As somebody mentioned earlier, encroachment is now only penalised if it affect the kicker or if they play the ball after. Ridiculously because too many penalties were been retaken, so instead of continuing to enforce the law until the players learned, they decided to legalise it.
Pundits should know this it's their job!!
 

Watch the replay on Sportscene while they discuss it and you'll see Gogic met all those criteria. 

His encroachment allowed him to affect JT on the rebound. 

[grizzlyg]

7 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:

True up to a point Grizzly, but I feel we have missed Stephen Welsh at the back. He is a big lad and no-one pushed him around. Also Elliot Watt is somewhat bigger than Joe Hodge.  

Yup Welsh and Moormann would be some combination 

[grizzlyg]

2 hours ago, weeyin said:

Watch the replay on Sportscene while they discuss it and you'll see Gogic met all those criteria. 

His encroachment allowed him to affect JT on the rebound. 

Fact Ricky Foster thought it wasn't a pen says it all

[Prestwickwell]

7 hours ago, weeyin said:

You think an EPL scouting team wasn't aware of his height before they signed him?

He's not trying to head the ball, and you don't need to be super tall to have hands that reach higher than a tall player's head.

I'm still not sure why fans are fine with midfielders that make a couple of stray passes or strikers that miss a good chance or two, but expect a keeper to be 100% error free in every game.

You only have to go back to Thursday to see a keeper with a top team make a howler from Longelo's shot. Take a look at Match of the Day on any given week and you'll see a couple of mistakes from the first team starter goalies.

 

 

Don’t think anybodies said they expect him to be error free so thats not the point…

u don’t think we’re fragile from set pieces?

 

if i was another team I’d be putting long throws, corners right on top of him 

[Kmcalpin]

22 minutes ago, Prestwickwell said:

Don’t think anybodies said they expect him to be error free so thats not the point…

Exactly. All keepers, and indeed players, make mistakes and I accept that. My point is though that dealing with high balls is a weak part of his game. 

I accept that you can get keepers who are relatively small but who are great in the air. The late Jocky Robertson springs to mind. But, they are very much the exception. 

My knowledge of the English Premier League is limited, at best, but I do know that the Chelsea keeper, at 6-0, is the smallest in that league. He's an outlier. 

Andy Goram famously said that he didn't do cross balls, because of his height. He was an exceptional shot stopper and that was his role. To compensate for that, Rangers had 2 full backs whose job was to prevent any crosses. In the unlikely event that the opposing team managed to get a cross or corner in, then they had 2 huge central defenders whose job was to protect Goram. 

Last season, JBA's approach was to retain possession to such an extent that it was unlikely that our opponents were unlikely to test Ward much in the air. 

This season I don't know if we've got this quite right. 

[GrahamH]

5 hours ago, cambo97 said:

As somebody mentioned earlier, encroachment is now only penalised if it affect the kicker or if they play the ball after. Ridiculously because too many penalties were been retaken, so instead of continuing to enforce the law until the players learned, they decided to legalise it.
Pundits should know this it's their job!!
 

He clearly goes towards the ball and impacts Maswanhise collecting the rebound. It should have been a retake.