The fact remains that they shouldnt need urging on or encouragement when they are 1-0 down.
There was at least one spell in the second half in which st Mirren simply passed the ball between their defenders and goalie about 20yards from their own goal for what seemed like an eternity and not one of our players made the effort to charge them down.
With about 5mins to go a slow through ball from our midfield was left by their defence to Sampson who waited for it to come into his 18 yard box and then stood with the ball at his feet for about 10seconds before any one of our players made the effort to force him to pick it up.
The inbred morons in the back row to my left were berating him for timewasting yet how the fuck is it timewasting if the ball is still active?!
SHADING?
Apart from Magennis's shot in the first half their Goalie had nothing to do. He was generous enough to dive a couple of times but i think that was just out of boredom.
And I believe it was Meggison who decided to do one of the most pathetic dives Ive ever seen rather than make a real effort to drive into the box. and even had the brass neck to complain. I presume had this been a friendly Brown would have hauled him off for that.
They should have been 2-0 and out of sight by half time.
Only people who should be booing that are man city fans and their own players/ officials for not finishing an easy chance.
BOO FUCKING HOO a rival teams footballer doesnt 'respect' your team. Never occured to me to get upset about the likes of Ricksen, Novo, Kanchelskis, Lennon etc 'disrespecting Aberdeen football club. I was too busy wishing one of our players to deck the fuckers whenever they got the chance.
Diving in studs up and taking someone out in a friendly is one thing. Making a big deal out of something like that is stupid as far as im concerned. I see it as an admission by the LA Galaxy that they themselves dont think they are equal to a premiership side.
Dont boo him, give him pelters for missing an easy chance
I hope St Johnstones performance is not an example of how they (or any other SPL team) will play this season.
They made no effort to capitalise on their extra man and in their 2 efforts on target (BBC stats) were nothing more than passbacks to gonzales.
Train back to glasgow they were singing and dancing about as if they had won the match.
Sidenote - The singing section.
Might have misread the situation but it appears they are expected to sit down and sing. Cops looked as bemused as the rest of us with way the stewards reacted.
Either theres been some sort of misundersanding, the stewards havent been advised or AFC just scored another own goal with the fans
just not convinced by mawene
Seemed to panic everytime the ball cam towards him and almost sold out Gonzalez with a short passback when row z was screaming for the ball.
Hopefully its just nerves but im not convinced
Last seasons opening day team
Howard,
McArdle,
Diamond,
Ifil,
Considine,
Pawlett,
Folly,
Aluko,
Hartley,
Maguire,
Magennis.
Subs:
Langfield,
Mackie,
Young,
Fyvie,
Jack,
Megginson,
Shaughnessy.
So what price another 4-0 win on a sunny day?
Confirms interest is one of the classic lazy journalism techniques
' Oi Craig, if you were offered 'insert player here' on a free for fuck all wages would you sign him'
'Id certainly be interested
BOOM thats next weeks back pages sorted
The only occasions I did something like that was belgium vs Scotland in the 2002 world cup qualifiers. Set the video and went out.
It just wasnt the same and i ended up just fast forwarding through it. 2-0 defeat