'Well start the season with an Erwin!

[jwok]

Hard work sometimes gets its reward and so it was today. A huge well done to the players for grinding out the win in a game that will have the visitors bewildered that they left with nothing. - view external link

[steviex]

Hard work sometimes gets its reward and so it was today. A huge well done to the players for grinding out the win in a game that will have the visitors bewildered that they left with nothing.

Under the circumstances a great 3 points, St Mirren will feel mugged. However there will be games we play well and get nothing . Today was the reverse. Big Irwin deserved his goal he worked his socks off. Reid got raped most of the day but he kept at it. Are the years finally catching up with Lasley?

We still don't understand how to play out the last few minutes as McCalls reaction to Angol's wild cross field pass losing possession with minutes to go Testified. Not easy on the eye but easy on the spirit.

Travelling over to the game listening to Radio Scotland I turned off after 5 mins .. you could have take the opening day match build up from any of their archives for the last 20 years and played it today .. it was the same tired old guff ...a

[maestro91]

The answer to the Lasley question is yes - the years are catching up with him. Las has been a great servant to the club and has a love of the club close to that of Craggs, but he was not worth a two year deal this time round. We have Carswell and we should be trying to develop or find a young player to take his place now and slowly but surely introduce him into the starting eleven whilst Las is still there to coach and advise him. Young Leitch may be worth some game time alongside Carswell to see if they are a good fit. Surely this is better than signing some untried player from the lower leagues of England!

[dazlhigh]

I wouldn't make too much of the comparison, but we're a wee bit like the All Blacks - they, too, are often matched or bettered in test matches.
But not that often on the scoreboard.
We ground it out today without reaching a standard which we'll likely need on Wednesday.
What was Goodwin's second card for - there was debate in the DC over whether it was for mouthing or for an elbow the ref didn't see but the linesman did.

[KMCAA]

Goodwin elbowed the Motherwell player in the lower back after he pushed him off the ball, good spot by the assistant lines person wannabe ref guy

[skippy91]

You could see from midway through the first half that Goodwin was going to take an early bath..The guys a liability. He also had a go at Reid in the 1/2 half at a corner not seen by the ref. Player/coach...total fud more like..the look of suprise and gestures at the sending of were comical. The guys trouble glad he's not wearing claret & amber

[Wellup4it]

Yes, Goodwin was dishing it out early on. He was rightly yellow carded for a dreadful foul on Lee Erwin and we thought he was off when he committed an equally bad foul on Keith Lasley but the ref bottled it. In the second half he was yellow carded for elbowing or punching John Sutton in the back after the ball was played and that in my book is a straight red. However he escaped with a second yellow and of course that led to an early bath. Not content with that display of thuggery he argued endlessly with the match officials, and should have received another red for dissent.

As a member of the management team at Paisley he should be leading by example and his behaviour yesterday simply wasn't acceptable. He should be hammered both by his manager and the SFA, but we'll see.