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Fine margins !

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I know you and others are only quoting those two words in jest. But I actually agree with what someone said previously - if Jackson Irvine’s shot slides under the keeper, I do believe we would have seen the game out fairly comfortably. Or at least there’s every chance we would have.

I’m not for a second saying that excuses what was a very poor performance, but I also get the ‘fine margins’ thing. Finals are about getting over the line, and if we had there wouldn’t have been any question about JR getting his tactics wrong and we wouldn’t be saying he was lucky etc. It’s how football goes sometimes.

In short - I take more issue with the players’ lack of urgency and apparent shortage of interest, than any of Jack Ross’ tactical decisions. That double save from Macey should have been a lift and a lifeline for us to really go at them as we were right back in the cup at that point. For us to be genuinely questioning if the players were that bothered about the final is sickening.

I’m not saying the manager is blameless, but his tactics didn’t lose us the game in my opinion.

And to answer the OP, more fans pretend to know what they’re talking about tactics wise than actually do understand the game. You only have to listen to people around you at a game for five minutes, or read any match day thread on here.