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Thought the first half we played some really good stuff, maybe lacking an edge in the final third up until the goal. It was the most passing style of football I've seen Saints play in a while. I don't know if there was a single long hoofed ball to the striker, though second half we did play it longer a few times. Zander commanded área well, though rarely tested. Thought Watt was a bit isolated first half and not effective enough, but second half he played really well. Scougall showed some great quality moments. Centre backs were very good; defensively and in possession. Full backs used the ball really well, with Foster having some excellent passes, not just the assist. Murray had his best game of the three so far, Drey Wright continues to impress. Spoony was Spoony with some great passing and work mixed in with some very careless passes. Agree Kyle Maclean had some really good touches when he came on. I'm not sure if Liam Craig is told to not push on too much and to sit in and provide cover for Tanser, but the more I see him the more I see him as a central midfielder. He doesn't seem to provide an attacking threat going forward down the left side, though he still is a good passer when he has the ball at his feet. At the minute I think he's the closest thing we've got to the 'Millar style' sitting midfielder who commands the centre midfield area and gets everyone involved with simple passes, Ashe did when he got moved there at Montrose. It does look to me like we have a lot of competition in midfield, though without that one style of holding player mentioned, and I'm still not sure what our best midfield line up is... think it could be a lot of changing game to game with horses for courses. Hope Tommy is prepared to go for it at times with two attack minded wide players in Kennedy and Wright, hopefully this Saturday, as it could make for an exciting watch. We haven't the set the heather alight, but shown steady improvement over the three games, which is fine. We are definitely trying to play a far more passing style, though whether this remains when we go to the haremscarem stuff in the league, we will have to wait and see. Solid at the back, but not scoring too many goals.. hopefully that's just a case of players still gelling together and will start to pick up.

according to the laddie the u18 league starts a week on friday, their opening game sees them travel to play partick thistle with a 7pm ko ,this season ill attempt to put a more detailed report up

Eh?

Saints defeated Glenavon 2-1 today.

Not a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but a win is a win. Some real positives from the team tonight. Liam Gordon was the stand out in defence and offers a good option to play it out from the back. Foster was very good going forward. Scougall was excellent and once the team gels a bit more he will be an important player this season as some of his through balls and passes forward to Watt were not farm from coming off. Drey Wright and Scott Tanser both had good games. I liked the look of McClean when he came on vert neat and tidy on the ball, would like to see him get a longer run out to see how can impose himself on the game. Just the CM position to sort now and hopefully TW has seen enough of Wotherspoon, Alston and Craig to know that the holding midfielder position is not for them.

For the second game in a row, I voted for Perth's answer to Franz Beckenbauer. Liam Gordon strolled through the game and it makes us look a decent footballing side when we have two centre backs (Jason Kerr being the other) who are comfortable on the ball and can play it forward along the deck. Tommy has some big decisions to make when the league campaign starts.

Can’t wait for the response

Forfar beating Montrose 2-0 after 53 minutes. That'll do nicely...

Round 3 – Falkirk (A) Back to back victories with clean sheets, 1-0 was predicted by 541ntees, Abernethy Saint, Denzil & Radford72 Only goal was scored by Scougall but wasn’t predicted by anyone. Attendance was 2379 Closest – The ghost of Jim Morton, 14 away Within 50 – 1 other Within 250 – 6 people This Round 5 541ntees, Abernethy Saint, Denzil, Radford72, The ghost of Jim Morton 4 chips 3 Cagerf, ejksjfc, Steve McQueen 2 208saint, Callum Mcdonald, Coltrane, Cristo, David123, Hoodlum65, Kinnoull Kicker, pezza70, saint in the city, Shibbydoo, sixties saintee, slf, templeofsaints 1 Saintdunc, sleepless, stanley saint Overall Standings 12 541ntees 11 Denzil 10 Cagerf, Coltrane, Radford 72, Steve McQueen 9 Abernethy Saint 8 208saint, chips, David123, Hoodlum65, pezza70, saint in the city, sleepless, The ghost of Jim Morton 7 Kinnoull Kicker, slf 6 stanley saint, templeofsaints 5 Callum Mcdonald, Cristo, ejksjfc, Shibbydoo 4 Saintdunc, sixties saintee 1 1-2-3 who are we, saintee in exile

Are you sure it’s not a scam just to get some laddies in to pick berries?

saints are sending a squad to blairgowrie juniors tonight with a 7pm ko ,this is a testimonial for two blair players

Can't be easy mate.

It did on the Twitter feed, aye. Glad to read the comments on here suggesting otherwise.

2379.

Scougall for great goal and always offering attacking play, combined with tracking back when needed. Hopefully he kicks on from this... we need him to.