Desperate Dons 0 Super Saints 3 League Table Here
Team :
Main,McQ,Bollan,Weir,Dods,Dasovic,Kane,O'Neil,Griffin,Miguel Messiah
Subs : Ferguson,McBride,Nathan,Grant,Lauchlan
It's hard to think that two years ago when Saints were still one of the wee teams, any sort of result at Pittodrie would have been looked on as good. How times have changed. With the large travelling support skipping mentions of mutton molesting and instead singing about the delights of the South of France, Saints took the field and despite making several changes slaughtered an Aberdeen side which seems to have lost all confidence. Let's face it - the 3 points today were like taking sweeties off a baby. In fact, I'd go further and say that I'm disappointed that we didn't make it 4 or 5 to really get our own back for those times when referees found 5 minutes injury time or allowed defenders to foul their way through a game. Only a pity that Inglis missed it.
St. Sandy made several changes to the midweek heroes. Keyring dropped out (either through injury or due to Thursday night's crap performance) along with Gerry to make way for Danny on the right side of midfield and Kevin 'Messiah' Thomas up front. Miguel kept the starting spot ahead of Nathan who dropped down to the bench. The opening minutes were fairly even with the Dons having more of the possession without threatening the Saints goal, although Dropsy Main managed a few heart in mouth moments. They were helped by a linesman that managed to totally forget the rule of offside for the first 45 minutes.
Saints seemed to be happy to absorb the attacks although Messiah and Eusebio were putting in their shift up front with the former looking like a good buy with his ability to hold the ball and turn a defender. Pity they didn't get the same sort of support from midfield.
Saints almost took the lead after 20 minutes when a Kane long-range effort was just tipped over the bar, and Messiah almost beat the keeper 1 on 1. Still Mackie for the Sheep had a cracking shot from 25 yards which Main did well to turn for the corner leaving Dazza and Kane arguing over who was wrong.
The first goal came on 26 minutes and it was a cracker from the Messiah. Picking up a through ball from Dazza after a Sheep throw-in went wrong, he turned his marker and nipped between two defenders to shoot low under Preece in the goal. Absolute cracker. After that the Sheep went to pieces. It was almost embarrassing at times watching them kick the ball out or miss simple chances. Meanwhile Saints started to pile on the pressure (to chants of 'We Want Five') to little effect.
Second half saw the Dons come at us a lot more and force a series of corners but there was no real effort in them and you couldn't help but get the feeling that their fight had gone. Saints came back into the game and on 65 minutes after Preece had made a cracking save from a Blaster free kick, Weir headed home from the resultant corner after the keeper failed to hold.
St. Sandy put on Nat King Goals for the tiring Miguel (who didn't look too happy at being subbed), and 7 minutes later we went 3-0 up. A through ball from Danny found Nathan on the right. He ran into the box and shot at the keeper who fumbled the ball. Cue for the Ginger Bomber to take the rebound and round the keeper before slotting home from the narrowest of angles as the Dons defence started to waken up.
With a surprising number of home fans still in the ground, Messiah and Dassa were replaced by Legend and Frankie-Boy who continued the pressure - unfortunately though they couldn't convert the chances, whilst at the other end the Sheep tried and failed miserably including abysmal efforts from ex-Arab Winters.
MoM for me was split between Dods who had a cracker of a game in defence and Messiah who looks like living up to the promise and hype that St. Sandy has been letting slip recently. Only one booking for Saints - Thomas for getting involved in a tussle with one of the Sheep.
As for the Dons fans, when even the P.A. plays a certain Monty Python tune at the end then you can't help but feel sorry for them. It's almost painful to watch their side disintegrate to the cries of "Can we play you every week" from the Saints fans. Then you remember their gloating faces a few years ago. Sorry guys but you're going down.
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Points |
| Rangers | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 15 |
| Celtic | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 12 |
| Dundee Utd | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Saints | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| Hearts | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Dundee | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| Hibs | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| Motherwell | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
| Kilmarnock | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Aberdeen | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
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