Fascinating game. Chuffed for Rooney to get the goal and it was a peach of a finish which I felt was completely overshadowed by it's early arrival. Christie's free kick get's better everytime I watch it, I'm not even sure you can blame the wall or keeper for it either which says a lot. The midfield played well and carried us through that despite the worst efforts of the defence..... I'm going to moan now.
Taylor was appallingly bad for both goals. If he had stayed with holt for the first he would have had it easily as Holt didn't even have to jump. If he hadn't watched the ball and tracked the runner for goal no2 he would likely intercept the pass and at worst have the opportunity to block the shot. I was raging when Reynolds got hooked and not Taylor but he did make some amends with a top drawer last ditcher with only a few minutes left. If AOC had started ahead of him i think we would have coasted the game.
Ultimately we jammed it a bit today today, we threw away a 2 goal lead when coasting and all because HIbs took on a lumbering 36 yo. Rooney was completely isolated for most of the game, the defence was jumpy and if it wasn't for Shinnie, Jack and Maclean we would have been stuffed. We have 5 games to get our act together if we want to have any hope of winning the final.
Dont get me wrong I'm delighted to get to the final, result will always come ahead of performance with me but we made hard work of that.