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Article: Saints shun old traits to switch on a power show; FIRST DIVISION.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Byline: BARRY GRAHAM
LIKE many teams, St Mirren embody many of their manager's traits.
Effective rather than engaging, functional more than flamboyant, they appear cut from the same cloth as the laconic Gus MacPherson.
Or, rather, they did until Saturday - whereupon they leapfrogged John Robertson's Ross County to the top of the table with a dynamic display full of verve and style.
Indeed, their 2-0 victory margin was something of a travesty, given the pounding the Dingwall side suffered.
In a league regularly cited as the most competitive in Scotland, the meeting of County, who had conceded just one away goal thus far, and ...