Temple Of Saints - Bugger

Scottish Premier League - 15/04/2000

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Team : Robbo,Danny,Keyring,Weir,Dods,Kane,Chief,Del,Lazarus, Frail,Pope
Subs : Gow,Gerry,Millar,Parker,Messiah

Bollocks. Talk about the highs and lows of being a Saintee, this game had it all with Saints coming back only to see the money-grabbing inhospitable HIVBee poofs snatch a point at the death. And after the way the Leith Junkies ripped off the away support today by charging us 15 quid for a seat in a dodgy stand (which smacks of spite after the game that was called off at McD earlier in the season), the whole thing left a bad taste in the mouth.

St. Sandy rang the changes with Lazarus in for the suspended Corporal Jones and Frail in for Marco the Vs. Keyring kept the left-back berth whilst Nosey Parker and the Messiah moved on to the bench.

Now, how to describe the first half. Let's see - the phrase boring load of shite springs to mind. Despite some early attacks, Saints were pretty crap and seemingly content to play the long ball game. Which as any fan can tell you when you have strikers of the height of Del or Lazarus is totally pointless. The only real action of the first half came on 15 minutes when Russell Lotofpee skinned Danny down the right and then had lots of room to get into the box and send a low shot past Robbo. Apart from a Chief and Kane shots going over the bar there was no other action of any consequence in the first half. The game was shite.

BUT...that in no way excuses the behaviour of some of the Saints support. Now we've all slagged players off during the season but there were some arseholes there today who just couldn't manage to find anything positive to say about the Saints side - whether or not they were slagging off Chief, Keyring, Pope, Paddy, Frail, Weir, Dods, Kane....in fact the whole team were slagged off at various points. Now don't get me wrong, the midfield were dire in the first half and Saints deserved to be losing but there is no way the players deserved some of the criticism going their way. It's only to the credit of the Saints fans that in the second half the moaners were left in no doubt that their sort of opinion just isn't wanted.

Ah the second half - talk about livening the game up. Well that's not really true. The pretty useless Frail was replaced by Nosey Parker at the break with Del dropping back to the left wing and Chief moving to the right. Not that it did much good as with only 3 minutes gone Lotofpee won a free-kick on the right. A cross to the middle, a couple of headers and Mixu Thingy headed past Robbo.

After that the HIVBees dropped off a bit but Saints still stuck with the long ball game with only a Keyring effort after 55 minutes to show - and it was Saints first shot on target. Things changed round though when Pope was replaced with Gerry 10 minutes later. He moved to the right wing and Chief moved to the middle of the park. Still the game was pretty shite.

So Del decided to take control of things and on 74 minutes, he picked up the ball on the halfway line, moved forward a few yards and let fly with a rocket of a shot. The ball bounced off the underside of the crossbar but the keeper helped it over the line. Though after kicking the ball over the stand afterwards he should have been booked. Saints began to take control of the game and for the first time, the players began to move off the ball and look up for the game. Although Robbo'7s total cock-up with a goal-kick didn't help.

It was only 3 minutes before we drew level. Chief was brought down on the corner of the box (after beating the defender !!). Up steps Keyring and sends a beautiful low swerving shot past the HIVBee keeper to make it 2-2. That shut the moaners up. HIVBees began to come back into the game (not that their rapidly vanishing home support noticed) with a header coming close.

But with 89 minutes gone Del broke down the right. Runs up to the box and squares the ball for Kiegan Parker to send a low 20-yarder past the keepers right hand side. 3-2 Saints and the travelling support (who had sung themselves hoarse) go mental. That lasted for all of 60 seconds. Straight from the kick-off the Gay Gits go up the park and a cross and header levels the score at 3-3.

To be honest a draw was probably fair after the shite we had to endure in the first-half. MoM for me was difficult but Kiegan probably deserves it on his second-half performance. Mentions to for Keyring and Chief who both had good games - but to be honest the rest would be lucky to muster pass marks.

Finally a wee note to Saints - when these shites visit us next year, let's inflate the prices and stick up some pillars to block their view of the pitch. Bastards.

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