Aberdeen v St Johnstone

St Johnstone been hit with an injury crisis

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DEREK McINNES yesterday put a threadbare squad through their paces on the all-weather surface at Stirling’s Forthbank complex yesterday – but an entire team was posted missing.

 

Midfielder Liam Craig was the latest to join an alarming casualty list after suffering a calf injury against Hearts which forced him out of the second-half.

 

Defender Alan Maybury sustained a broken nose against the Jambos and keeper Peter Enckelman was missing with flu, with Murray Davidson in Aberdeen with the Scotland squad.

 

Chris Millar (groin, Sam Parkin (groin)) and Dave Mackay (thigh) were joined in the treatment room and keeper Graeme Smith was visiting a specialist for a verdict on his hip complaint. Martin Hardie (knee) Kevin Moon and Graham Gartland are still unable to train.

Although they have gained more than twice the points than we have in their last 8 games - they are not in good form and are the lowest scoring team in the SPL. You aint going to get it much easier Mark.

IN

Fountain Bar

RDL

Cally till closing

Resounding victory to silence the nay-sayers for a few hours

Define "nay sayers" in your context.

McGhee's nay use?

In or Oot? In - I'm with us - not against us.

Pre-match? Home and/or Northern Golf Club

Match? Upper deck.

Post-Matcher? Hame.

Predition? 3-1 Dons.

In or Oot? Oot

Pre-match? Pub

Match? Birmingham City v Chelsea

Post-Matcher? Harry Potter 

Predition? Harry will make it, Chelsea will lose 2 in a row, Vernon will bag a hat-trick

Fountain Bar

Ooft! 

Define "nay sayers" in your context.

 

McGhee's nay use?

We could win 3 or 4 nil on saturday and folk would still find room to slag the team off

Ooft! 

I have darts to play in the morning 

In or Oot? Oot

Pre-match? In bed hungover

Match? On the settee listening to the game

Post-Matcher? Dinner party

Predition? Close game, possibly a draw.

If he goes out and plays with nobody up front then i could see why.

But if you pick the strongest team available to you and you are getting beat by that amount questions need to be asked if our squad is big enough to compete over a 40 odd game season - which has been painfully obvious that is not.

In or Oot? In

Pre-match? Train/Bus Up

Match? South Stand

Post-Matcher? Train/Bus Down

Predition? 1-0 Aberdeen.

If he goes out and plays with nobody up front then i could see why.

 

But if you pick the strongest team available to you and you are getting beat by that amount questions need to be asked if our squad is big enough to compete over a 40 odd game season - which has been painfully obvious that is not.

if you're responsible for putting that squad together, then the buck stops with you. we'd all love for him to be given more cash at the start of the season.

but look at the teams that have beaten us. do they all have stronger squads than us? really?!

there's certainly teams with less resources than us doing better than us.

by your logic above, Hibs & Hearts would never have got results against the  Glasgow 2 last week. but their manager's got something out of their players to raise them up a notch.

Again, I'm not directly slating MM here, I'm only pointing out your complete absolution of blame from him is a little hard to take.

Truth is, it's the middle ground between your posts, and the MM's a total retard posts of others that's probably closer to the truth!

The performance doesn't matter on Saturday, it is simply a must win, by whatever means.

The performance doesn't matter on Saturday, it is simply a must win, by whatever means.

Indeed. Points are something we desperately need and the unfortunate truth is if we cannot turn over a depleted St Johnstone at home then we are even further in the shit than we thought possible.

If he goes out and plays with nobody up front then i could see why.

 

But if you pick the strongest team available to you and you are getting beat by that amount questions need to be asked if our squad is big enough to compete over a 40 odd game season - which has been painfully obvious that is not.

i could understand your point if we were at the arse end of the season, but we're 11/12 games in and it's not big enough to cope with that. In fact, replace "big" with "good"

We could win 3 or 4 nil on saturday and folk would still find room to slag the team off

Sound familiar?

We could win on saturday and folk would still find room to slag the team off

 

Ah, the old days . . . . winning on a Saturday, remember them?

i could understand your point if we were at the arse end of the season, but we're 11/12 games in and it's not big enough to cope with that. In fact, replace "big" with "good"

 

Sound familiar?

It was obvious at the start of the season when we were told that we didnt have any money to bring in any more players we were going to struggle.

Nope not really - cant remember much occasions before this season where we were winning 4-0 

It was obvious at the start of the season when we were told that we didnt have any money to bring in any more players we were going to struggle.

 

Nope not really - cant remember much occasions before this season where we were winning 4-0 

Oh right. I didn't realise that would mean we all of a sudden wouldn't be competitive.

My mistake.

again, my mistake, you are of course right. I mean, why should we moan about a 9-0 reverse when we've won one game 4-0?

When you are having to relay on 17 and 18 year olds then you are pissing against the wind.

When our squad is fully fit - we look the business, when we have a few injurys we cant cope - simples

We were winning 4 nil against hamilton and 4-0 against hibs. Old age catching up? 

We were winning 4 nil against hamilton and 4-0 against hibs. Old age catching up? 

You're right, it's been a blinding season.

We were winning 4 nil against hamilton and 4-0 against hibs. Old age catching up? 

yeah and conceded two comical goals against Hibs. It's only the full time score you go on Stoney, no matter how tenuous your point is.

When you are having to relay on 17 and 18 year olds then you are pissing against the wind.

 

When our squad is fully fit - we look the business, when we have a few injurys we cant cope - simples

In ( a 400 mile round trip not withstanding)

Pitt

RDS

Pitt

Violently hungover

We will WIN

I said after the Rangers game I saw enough in the 2nd half to make me think we could beat this out of form St Johnstone team. 2-1 the dons.

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