PauloPerth

We played 4-3-3, with Roddy through the middle and Moore and Maskrey on either wing. Purely in terms of the way we played, that was the best attacking St Johnstone side I've ever watched over a season.

That's where I'm at as well. If there's absolutely nothing out there, or we just cannot clinch a deal with anyone we were after, then go with what we've got rather than sign a lad that struggles for games at Hibs. Even if he does well for a few months, if he's scoring then come January Hibs will take him back anyway, and we're right back in the same place. Give McMillan a proper turn to know for sure whether he can cut it. He hasn't had much of an opportunity starting matches. Give Kane and Hendry a chance in a pair. Neither has done great as a lone striker this season, so play them together, or partner either with Kennedy. Matty was brilliant up front on his own against Rangers, so let's use him through the middle again. Far from where we'd hoped, but I'd rather develop young St Johnstone strikers than Hibs ones.

And yet most seasons we run at a loss, unless we sell a player. We haven't had much over 2500 home fans only at a game at McDiarmid for long enough. Its just pie in the sky economics you're coming away with. But that's separate from this summer's transfer business, which has been poor.

Not in the first few years it wasn't. When did that start?

Funny to see about half the Ormond Stand celebrating that goal, looks like it's mixed. I remember the first time Celtic came to McDiarmid (around December 1990?) and we won 3-2, with 3 sides of the ground being Saints fans. Didn't really appreciate how good that was at the time, would love to experience that at least once again, but can't see it ever happening.

5-5-0 ?? Where was this put up exactly? We started with 2 up then early on changed it to Kennedy wide and went 5-4-1.

That's the worst defeat I've sat through watching Saints. Kind of expected it with where we're at and with Celtic already having a few competitive fixtures under their belt, so **** knows why I went. Celtic too quick, too strong and too good. Saints nowhere near ready for that fixture with a back 4 who have hardly played together, and a team that has struggled. We showed no courage to look after the ball, just panicked and gave it straight back everytime. The only exception was young McCann who showed up a lot of his older colleagues with his willingness to show for the ball, be prepared to hold an opponent off, and find a pass. He was our one positive. It's what Chris Millar did so well for us when we went there. Absolutely no point turning on the team, heads will already be low enough amongst the players, and the chairman and manager know we need players in, so let's not dwell on this one, and see what this week brings. A win next week, then a fortnight to shape the team and work on things.

Barry Ferguson. ****ing hell.

Half right. We created very little at Montrose and Forfar, but should have scored 4 or 5 against County with the clear cut chances we had, and about 8 against Brechin.

Haha!! That's ridiculous. The kind of effort you used to get on the scorers table at school basketball matches way back! Visions of Thistle directors being all excited when UEFA told them they'd be paying for a new scoreboard at Firhill, and the UEFA officials chuckling away to themselves when they ordered them that!

That was my first thought, it's the equivalent of someone up on a drink driving charge's lawyer going on about how much he needs to drive for his business, would lose an opportunity if he lost it etc etc. Its all exaggerated with the intention of reducing the sentence. Might not be the case here, but it is a real possibility that that's all it is, rather than there being any substance in the MLS thing.

I remember Paul Kane being a key player in that squad, but couldn't remember KOH from the Monaco games. If pushed, I would have guessed he was he was a season or two later. The only thing I can remember about his time at Saints was scoring the only goal in a home win over Celtic, possibly the game where Henrik Larsson got in trouble for spitting towards the Saints fans??

Paul Kane and Keith O'Halloran?

Funny how 29 has popped up a fair bit, had forgotten that was Miguel's number. Also O'Halloran the first time round, and then Cummins took it on.

Aye of course, forgot about that being a factor.

Good that McDiarmid has been chosen as a venue, hopefully we get a decent bit of cash for it. Looking at the fixture dates, they're very much in and round the Betfred Cup group matches. Haven't really heard much about the tournament, just got the following from Wikipedia: women's under 19 UEFA championships. 4 grounds being used; group A that Scotland qualify for as hosts, along with France, Holland and Norway, matches are being played at St Mirren Park and Firhill. Group B matches at McDiarmid and Forthbank, Stirling, host Germany, England, Spain and Belgium. Matches at McDiarmid: 16 July: England v Germany 19 July: Belgium v Germany 22 July: Belgium v England 25 July: Potential World Cup play-off Semi-finals at Firhill and St Mirren, with the final being held at St Mirren as well. Quite a west coast slant to the tournament, looks like they were keen to minimise travelling for the teams. Would have thought Livingston or Airdrie would be better than 3 sided Firhill, though can't imagine the crowds will be too big either way. The 4 semi-finalists go forward as Europes representatives in next years women's under 20 FIFA World Cup.

Same boat. Its not often we see many alterations at McDiarmid, however minor, so interested to see how they end up. If anyone is at any of the UEFA under 19 games, please get a few pictures and put them up. Those big comfy leather seats with the Saints badge embroidered on will look great. Will completely change the view looking across towards the Main Stand, with the tunnel also looking different I would guess. Folk sitting immediately behind the technical area will be well in the loop on what's going on; what's being discussed, players in the cream puff about being subbed, who's about to get stripped to come on, etc.

Suppose it's as good a time to get Celtic as any, hopefully before they get into their stride. Not a particularly exciting opening for supporters though having to head through there. A shite trip and ground. First home game against Livi looks like 3 points might be quite important, given that it's in amongst some tough fixtures.

Just from the released picture, I think the home strip looks good. I don't really care if it's an old template or not, it's how it looks. Great to see we're using the gold badge again, rather than the blue circle the Joma kits always had. Looks far classier. The away strip is the fairly standard yellow top blue shorts we've used quite a bit over the years. It's average and does the job. Prefer the reverse colour scheme in an away strip; white-blue-white but I guess that doesn't solve clashes against the likes of killie.

I suggested similar this week. If the non-OF clubs grouped together, not only would they get a better deal from an online ticketing company, they could also monitor numbers who attend away matches, so they benefit when all-ticket matches come round. Could also incentivise it, e.g. If you werean away fan a team Accies for the early fixture in the season, you get £5 cheaper if you attend the second one type thing. Long winded way of saying I agree!

Can understand the thinking regarding letting Alston go, if it opens up opportunities to be on the bench for McLean and McCann. Blair has a lot of technical ability and did okay for Saints over his time here, without consistently hitting the heights. Scored some spectacular goals for us. Felt he was very unlucky to be dropped out of the picture this season when he was doing well, especially with the ultimately flawed introduction of Goss. Could see him going to Dundee or Utd and doing well, as I'd imagine they'll be able to pay better wages than much of the bottom six? Could work out well for him as well, as he's now at an age where he should be a regular starter rather than a squad player. All the best to him wherever he ends up.

Don't know why you think Liam Craig doesn't have the legs for another season. He did well for us this year, and him and Murray (or Callachan) were comfortably superior to the centre midfields of the other bottom six sides in most of the games we played against them this season. (The two poor showings against Accies excluded). If you're saying possibly not good enough to compete with top six sides, then that's maybe more of a valid point. He's only 31, and has been fairly injury free most of his career as far as I know. There seems to be a feeling on here that over 30 and you are finished. Playing the way he did this season, he could do a job for a few years yet.

Hopefully we have Zander for another season or so before he gets a big money move, but if he were to be sold over the summer, the st Mirren goalkeeper has been turning in some great performances the past few months, and might well be someone worth considering. Especially if they go down.

Are you selling any of the player shirts @MySpazz

Here's the full breakdown: "Season 2018/19 will see record amounts of League Cup prize and TV money (£2,110,000), Challenge Cup prize money (£428,990) and parachute payments paid to clubs. The £25m league prize money is distributed according to the percentages set out below and is based on overall league standing at the end of the season." Premiership 1st - £3,350,000 2nd - £2,400,000 3rd - £2,062,500 4th - £1,812,500 5th - £1,687,500 6th - £1,562,500 7th - £1,437,500 8th - £1,375,000 9th - £1,312,500 10th - £1,250,000 11th - £1,187,500 12th - £1,125,000 Championship 1st - £562,500 2nd - £475,000 3rd - £400,000 4th - £325,000 5th - £250,000 6th - £225,000 7th - £212,500 8th - £200,000 9th - £187,500 10th - £175,000 League 1 1st - £125,000 2nd - £107,500 3rd - £87,500 4th - £85,000 5th - £82,500 6th - £80,000 7th - £77,500 8th - £75,000 9th - £72,500 10th - £70,000 League 2 1st - £67,500 2nd - £65,000 3rd - £62,500 4th - £60,000 5th - £57,500 6th - £55,000 7th - £52,500 8th - £50,000 9th - £47,500 10th - £45,000