ex-montrosesaintee

A win this afternoon is, in my opinion, pretty important for momentum going into Thursdays game. I know a few folk have said we should rest a good few players, but I don't think Callum will rest many. A good performance today in front of a big support is very important for the season ahead.

We'll always have Macca's goal celebrations Rik

Callum seemed unclear about timescales. I wonder if its more than being a close contact. Certainly it would be reassuring to see him back.

While we all discuss tomorrow's game, and next Thursday's potentially momentous occasion for our wee club, YouTube threw this up in my recommended videos. Without this moment of utter magic we wouldn't be where we are this week. We wouldn't have experienced the highs and lows of Galatasaray, or even lifting that famous trophy last season. Is this the greatest single moment in our club's long history? I wonder what the atmosphere would have been like had a full crowd been there to witness it...

One thing that struck me was how massive the gulf has become between Scottish football and other countries. As MrBored says, winning this tie is monumental for Saints, it could change how the next 3 or 4 seasons go for us. In the same competition, Spurs put out a bunch of youths and lose, because they absolutely do not care about the UEFA conference league. Supporting one of the big English/Spanish/Italian/French/German teams with billions at their disposal must be soul destroying at times.

Spoony and Booth link up much better on the left too. Middleton was terrific last night but tried to do it all himself and reduced Booth to the resulting throw in taker. I agree that the tactics were spot on, but bringing spoony and hendry/may on after an hour would have offered a new outlet in my opinion.

Zander, Kerr and Davidson were the standouts for me, but went for Jason who was outstanding for the whole 90 mins. Proper captains performance. Was waiting for Muzz to get booked for diving again when the boy upended him

Did you see the pitch Aberdeen were playing on?

Win next week and we might be able to get one or two more in to bulk up the squad.

We'll have spoony back next week which will add another dimension. That was great tonight, first half (bar the first 90 seconds) we were outstanding. Could have easily been 3-3 at the end though, dunno if Zander got fingertips to the one that hit the post, but the save just after it was top drawer too. Not looking forward to picking MOTM.

Slightly improved performance over Sunday! Brilliant stuff!

totally agree with this, but also have a lot of faith in Callum with regard to mental prep for games - under Tommy, or Lomas or Del I would be afraid for tonight, but I genuinely feel Callum will have them 100% for tonight.

Cracked me up, hacked the guy, ref didn't react, so he kicked him again. To be fair, Brechin could have been 3 or 4 up by half time and were utterly awful in the second half, a few players were losing the plot.

sublime finish from Max at the very end of this.

The live stream missed all the action by zooming in on passing gulls and d*** Campbells baldy head

Glad I went to Brechin v Rothes, I think the quality of football was significantly better.

I quite enjoyed the robotic stream, meant I couldn't see quite how bad a game it was.

Yeah, Jack Wills, didn't have a lot to do apart from concede two goals. He's their first choice keeper though.

Watched Brechin v Rothes this afternoon, Max Kucheriavyi was the best player of the park by a mile. Good free kick to set up the first goal and a terrific direct free kick in the last minute to nick a point. Took all the dead balls, and controlled the middle of the park. I can see why he got a contract at Saints, he has bags of potential.

McFadden was waxing lyrical last night on the TV about the tactics of punting it long into touch and THEN pressing Gala into mistakes from the resulting throw in. It won us our equaliser, and was making their backline very uncomfortable. It also led to the Kane chopdown that could, and maybe should, have changed the game.

Ali is destined for big things. He just gets better and better. His best performance in a Saints shirt last night.

If that Davidson header had gone in it would have been some 5 minutes. Gutted but another superb performance. McCann one of the best performances I've seen in a Saints shirt.

Fantastic to sell out the ground with 100% home fans. Absolutely gutted I can't make it tonight, but hoping to be able to get to a TV in time to see the game. 'mon!

Saints 1 - galatasaray 0 May 9745

£800k and general uproar on WAP forevermore.