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St Johnstone can deny entrance to their premises to anyone they don't want in. No reason needed.

Any Scandinavian / Baltic country will do me. Malta or Cyprus would be good too. However Wales or Ireland might mean I can persuade the wife to allow me to the next game if we progress.

Calm doon - the wee red book will be out in a week or two in plenty time to book your train to Dingwall.

You have to wonder about any organisation that worries about fixture congestion later in the season when there are more league games scheduled for January than in September and October combined!

Or a season ticket holders' afternoon where the squad was present with the cup and you had your photo with the cup and a player or two taken by a professional photographer. It wouldn't cost the club much and they'd probably recoup most of it in beer and memorabilia sales.

Sorry this is so long, but I think the time is ripe for Saints to reap real long term benefits from the result and the spirit of this weekend and the weeks leading up to the final. In the last 48 hours three different people who are very irregular visitors to McDiarmid Park have asked me how they can go about buying a season ticket for next season. It prompted to think about how the club could use the events to their advantage. In about 10 minutes I came up with a few ideas that might work. No doubt everyone has their own ideas, but we know the club monitor the forum and they might just see some of our ideas as worthwhile. The club has to have season tickets on sale as soon as possible – maybe even with a £10 discount for those that can produce a cup final ticket (and just accept that virtually everyone will do so!) Season tickets should be promoted like the final was – big notices at the ground, posters round the town showing the team with the cup etc. The Twitter and Facebook profile that has been so obvious in recent weeks should continue (although it’s accepted that there will be some drop off to account for the reduction of available news) But there is no question that the club should be looking to produce at least something of real interest every day. Since the club could give away match day tickets at little real cost to them then perhaps they should offer prizes on a weekly basis for competitions operated via Twitter or Facebook. How about a well-publicised competition to win a pair of season tickets for the best story in less than 500 words about Saints or being a Saints fan, the various entries could be edited and could feature on the website / Facebook or even the programme. They could feature on podcast or in numerous other ways. What about contacting authors / publishers and making efforts to update and republish the various books that have been written about Saints over the years – most are out of print and hard to obtain. Perhaps even reprint several in similar style covers so that people buy the whole set. The anticipated 2013/14 season DVD should be as glossy and professional as possible and should be out in time for those who send Christmas presents abroad. Wee tasters via Saints TV would help build anticipation. Today I met several of the players in the town. Wouldn’t it be nice to have regular events in the town centre where people could meet the team and the management. I realise they often do that at McDiarmid – but they are preaching to the converted there – new fans will come from going to the public, not expecting them to come to you. And we should accept that particularly to the younger supporters Stevie May is the star of the team and Saints should be hammering the various marketing possibilities while he remains with us. Lastly and rather incredibly we seem to be the current darlings of the media – now is the time to use them to publicise dynamic initiatives to boost the attendance. The club need to give them interesting stuff to report or they will revert to their weekly conversation on how few attend the games. Celebrations are great (Boy were they great!) but the time is right to push on and reap the benefits of the team’s success. Legacy! It’s the word of the week!

Particularly given most of the Arabs are going to have to pass it!

Losing the cup semi on penalties with QOS waiting in the final! Or working in the East Stand among the unwashed during the 7-0 - I could have cried. Even 7-0 up they had to bait anyone who wasn't a fellow Orc.

Gave it to Brown - others were excellent, but at 19 to play with the composure and sense that he did, I thought was remarkable. Not scared to have a crack either and deserved the goal. Looking forward to seeing much more of him next season.

During the Olympics, in an effort to show support, hundreds of local people changed their Facebook and Forum avatars to the same picture of Eilidh Child from Kinross who as well as being a rabid Jambo is a damn good hurdler and decent spud. Many of you will have seen the "Thin Blue Line" avatars used by police officers when a colleague is killed. Might it be a good idea for us all to change to a suitable Saints avatar / profile picture until May 17 or longer - depending on the longevity of our celebrations? It would certainly soon be apparent on local Facebook pages and it's popularity would grow. It needs to be simple - I'm not too fussed about what and open to suggestion..

Went for a burger at the van in Glenearn Road today and while waiting I glanced through the Daily Record which was on the counter. I have deliberately avoided the rag for at least 5-10 years, but bloody hell, I wasn't prepared for the slobbering Rangersfest that it turned out to be. How brain dead do you have to be to consider this a newspaper?

Top of the league eh? Paul Hartley putting the job centre address in the satnav?

Yesterday the only tickets available for the north stand were in the area beside the corner flag and Saints were applying for tickets for the upper tier.

As a pre-teen I was taken to the football week in, week out by my grandfather in the late sixties / early seventies. I was too young then to realise just how good that team were. Grandad has been dead for 35 years, but as a man who could get excited beyond reason over a nil / nil game against Stenhousemuir, God only knows how he would have reacted on Sunday! He jumped up and down with me as we trounced SV Hamburg, he bought me a celebration tea on our visit to Ibrox when we last beat R****** in the league. Today he has never been far from my thoughts and I'm sure many others have similar memories of their family members. How he would have smiled if he'd known that years after his ashes were scattered at the crematorium his beloved Saints would take up residence across the fence from him.

Well said. Sadly there are a number of members of this forum who encourage this sort of crap by trying to justify it at every turn. We're all passionate about our club, that doesn't justify any of the sort of nonsense we saw today. The club doesn't need it and other fans don't need it. And while it's easy to always point fingers at youngsters, there are plenty adults who need to take a long hard look at themselves. They are an embarrassment! There's not much point in pursuing the line that we're a friendly, well run family club if the standard of behaviour is such that you wouldn't want to take your family. Name and shame. I suspect the club neither needs them nor wants them.

Good grief, that is incredible, and not a single one of these rabid fans are members of this forum and able to tell us about it. About half the posters on this topic should be banned from McDiarmid unless accompanied by their carer. Go there, watch the football, go home. Simples!

Although he was a player I loved to hate, I'm rather saddened that his managerial career hasn't worked out as well as he might have hoped. Aside from his management of the club, I thought his time at Perth revealed him to be a right decent guy. On more than one occasion I asked him to do wee charity things for me - every time he agreed without hesitation. Every time he was there early, did more than was asked and stayed longer than expected. I wish him well for the future.

Harry Curran - far better than others would have you believe. First class box to box player.

Around 1967-68 I think - although they all seem to blur a bit. Do clearly remember my first away match though, Ibrox with my grandfather - Saturday April 17 1971. Saints had already beaten Rangers 2-1 at Perth earlier in the season. The circumstances meant that there was a huge turn-out from Perth. Saints were: Donaldson, Lambie, Coburn, Rennie, Gordon, Whitelaw, Aird, Hall, Connolly, McPhee, Pearson with Aitken on the bench if I mind rightly. Rangers were McCloy, Alexander, Mathieson, Greig, McKinnon, Jackson, Henderson, Semple, Stein, MacDonald and Willie Johnston, with Penman on the bench. (Derek Johnstone was just breaking through from the reserves where he'd scored 16 that season) It was a big day. Aberdeen 3 points clear at the top of the league with Celtic second with two games in hand (only two points for a win then) and they were playing each other at Pittodrie. A 1-1 draw wasn't enough to stop Celtic overhauling them and going on to win the league as the 6th in their 9 in a row. A win against Rangers would clinch 3rd place in the league for Saints. Only Rangers, two points behind, could catch them. Saints went on to record a 2-0 win. I don't think we've beaten them there in the league since. Sadly I can't remember the scorers (although I seem to think Whitelaw had one and either Connolly or Hall the other - no doubt someone will tell me.) As a bairn I was far more intent in shouting abuse at Colin Stein! I still have the programme which was 5p and which offered an advert for 2 weeks in Majorca for £53. 3rd place in the league meant the European magnificence the following season. There is no doubt in my mind that this was the best Saints side ever - it was a privilege to have seen them - even if I was probably too young to really appreciate it!

Great all round - another day Easton would have got the call - particularly for the surging run first half that seemed to take him the entire length of the field. However, Nigel had by far his best game since coming to the club and gets my vote.

Although I have no idea of what figures might be involved, I'd be thinking of a deal along the lines of £500,000 trigger, aside from any signing on fee for his next club he gets a fifth of Saints share of any fee between £500,000 and a million and a quarter of anything over a million. These are just figures plucked out of the air, but it gives the player a bit of power if he wants to move on, means that he might not be prepared to jump at the first diddy offer that comes along, encourages him to keep up the current good work, perhaps sign a longer contract and hopefully eventually gets St Johnstone the sort of fee that the arabs seem to get regularly even for what I would consider poorer players. If someone paid £3 million for him, then right away he's looking at a payout of £600,000 from Saints. We've had him longer and everyone wins.

I suspect not. Fraz and Ando are fit. Time for Midge back in midfield methinks.

I don't know the full truth of the RB saga. Like everyone else I have suspions re motives. Like everyone else I'm not prepared to believe that Saints would not have dealt with the issue sensitively had it been put to them clearly, privately and in a reasonable fashion. Like most of us i condemn the ludicrous villification of him and his family by those with rather too few brain cells and frankly it embarrases me as a Saints fan. However, he's now a County player (again), Saints made a bit of dosh out of it and have taken the opportunity to skelp his team early doors. Perhaps it's time now for Saints fans to grant Richard Britain the same status as James Grady and get on with life. As for the County manager and chairman they are destroying what was and should be a decent provincial side. the results of their efforts was evidenced last Saturday in the poorest display I have ever seen from an established top flight team - they were shocking. The Dingwall fans will find them out soon enough! For us to go on and on about it is diminishing us - leave them to it and let's get on with cheering Saints to another fabulous season.