“Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn’t Work Hard”.
Well, that observation, made famous by the high school basketball coach Tim Notke, was certainly proven at St Mirren today.
The gaffer didn’t mess around in the post-match reaction.
“Credit to St Mirren. They worked really hard”.
My takeaway is that he possibly believes that some of his charges might not have put in the necessary graft.
There is now an international break for Postecoglou to address this atypical lack of effort.
It also allows time for Cameron Carter-Vickers to heal.
That said, one injury and some minor squad rotation shouldn’t produce such an anaemic performance.
So, a five-point lead is reduced to two.
It ends a remarkable domestic run that few would have believed possible a year ago when Ange inherited a bin fire.
One reasonably certain thing is that HE won’t stop.
Next up is Motherwell at Celtic Park.
The Lanarkshire outfit will hope they meet the same low-energy performance from the Champions.
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GIVE THE TEAM IN SECOND PLACE IN THE LEAGUE TABLE THEIR PROPER TITLE, WITH ‘THE’ DEFINITE ARTICLE.
Not enough praise given to St. Mirren….They were extremely disciplined …They contained us very well…Took their chances when presented…and thoroughly deserved their win.
I thought Ange got it totally wrong with the starting eleven…. Given that there is an international break coming up I thought he chose to “rest ” important players at the wrong time.
We’ll never know if Jota and Hatate would have made a difference from the start.
But overall, we were poor.
It was a bad day at the Office.
Credit to St. Mirren in that they kept the back door shut and had a wall of 5 defenders. Astute enough breaking forward and scrapped well for both goals and the game.
Celtic’s game plan was thwarted early and no solutions offered. Some personnel dithered too much for me today. Ange has always built these guys that come in to the fray but they let him down.
Here’s hoping he sorts the wheat from the chaff soon. And meantime we take our medicine.
Round of applause for the fans, ahem.
Cheers HmP
The manager’s team selection was also part of the problem.
It was indeed Jim but I think that the team thought that they had to just turn up and they would easily turn over st mirren it was a lack of respect and effort combined with arrogance which was our undoing a lesson learnt hopefully ☘️