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You hit the nail on the head "Sadly football culture seems to attract idiots" If you PM me your address or a paypal account i'd like to cover the cost or send a new scarf for your laddie - many of us on this forum and 99.9% of those in the stands at home games are football folk, not the idiots who come and go .....

I'm just completely baffled as to what Levein is actually doing. Week after week he sends us out with square pegs in round holes all over the pitch. Gallacher is barely good enough for his actual position, let alone being started each week in the wrong position. Matt Smith and Kucheriavyi seem eternally confused about which one of them is playing on the right and which one of them is playing in the middle. Why move Smith out of the middle of the park to accommodate Kucheriavyi anyway, when Max has struggled so much to make an impact? And why do we keep playing Nicky Clark so far back in midfield when it's so obviously nullifying his impact and depriving us of the things he's actually good at? And then there's the substitutions. Week after week we see Sidibeh staggering around absolutely knackered by the hour-mark, and Levein doing nothing about it until it's way too late. He brought May and Kimpioka on in the 88th minute when we'd needed that change almost half an hour earlier. Why not give these guys a chance to settle into the game, get on the end of a few chances and maybe make a difference? That's on top of last week when he bafflingly brought May on in the 93rd minute while we were trying to defend a corner. Absolute madness. I'm so bored of seeing opposition managers encourage their teams and talk to their players and make proactive substitutions and adapt their in-game tactics, while Levein and Kirk stand there chatting to each other and changing nothing. And at the end of it all he does yet another interview where he talks as if he has no idea why his plan hasn't worked, when everyone else in the stadium can see exactly why it hasn't worked. I know the squad is poor at the moment but I'm absolutely certain a good manager would be able to get us doing better than this. We just look so poorly organised, so badly coached, so unmotivated and lacking in fight, and a lot of our players don't even look fit. That's nowhere near good enough. Some of these things are just basic starting points that Levein and Kirk have just completely failed to establish. This guy has been managing football teams at all sorts of levels for over 25 years. He was the f*cking Scotland manager for three years. Is this seriously all he's picked up in that time? He really can't come up with a better plan than this? He seriously can't even just put some footballers into their best positions? It's horrific. Just horrific. Please, please, please get this guy out of our club and give us a manager who is actually hungry for the job and has some ideas and has some ambitions beyond giving management another go in-between media or "upstairs" jobs.

Wow....County showing what you can achieve when you don't just play for a point.

Two very cheap goals. The worst moment for me in the first half (there were several incidents to be fair) was when Robinson and Gallacher doubled up on Armstrong and the Killie winger was easily able to swing in a perfect cross. The lack of intensity in getting in the faces of the opposition was really sad. It seems a culture of defeatism across the team, something which was evident in the teams since 2021. Not good enough all over the pitch. Sad, really sad. It's been rotten football for far too long.

Thanks a lot for this offer, really kind of you, but honestly no need. We absolutely understand that yesterday wasn’t representative of your support. And the messages we’ve received since posting have underlined this. Sincerely hope your post split games are successful and we get the chance to do battle again next season.

00/01 was my favourite.

I think we're in the same situation as we've been for years, in that the manager thinks we need to play a back 5, a midfield 4, and a front 2, as he doesn't trust the team to defend without 3 CBs or 4 midfielders. Lately we've tried Gallacher at LM as he can cover as a LWB if/when we defend and that makes your back 5, and Clark drops into midfield to make the midfield 4. So defensively its 5-4-1 with the diamond midfield shape McInnes talked about. That leaves us exposed out wide, but our midfield is so soft it doesn't stop teams there either. In attack its meant to become a 4-4-2 with Gallacher and Clark pushing up, and either Smith or Kucheriavyi going right. But that falls apart as we just hoof it and lose it so nobody can get into the shape, and then if we do keep the ball everything moves so slowly that teams are back into shape before we are and with nobody capable of beating a man it's easy to defend against. It would be less of an issue shape wise if anything other than a hoof to Sidibeh was done quickly, but Levein won't encourage that play as it's risky and would mean we lose the ball without having a shape, which leads to us being open as all over the park we have players who can't track runners. So we're constantly fluxing between 2 different shapes, while players are told to prioritise safety against counters, which leads to random spurts of some gambling and others not which leads to a shambles as we play neither shape most of the time. He's not going to encourage more risks in the position we're in, until it gets too much pressure wise like before Aberdeen, so we just have to hope it works out. His previous career suggests that's just who he is too, the United squad he built is a long way ago and it's like experience has made him more cautious.

There is no one in that squad that are not signed that I would want to see next season. I would also hope that emotionless mumbling Levein is gone as well. I don't want to see anti football again next season.

Obviously football doesn’t work like this but Inverness scored 59 in 21/22. We are quite reactionary on here (I include myself in this). Although likely having three away games is an advantage, I think we’ll end up in 11th. I still think we’d have enough in the play offs but it doesn’t mean I’d be confident, nor would I have faith in the mentality of this team to get us over the line. We won’t finish bottom though and that has to be seen as a positive from where we were.

You understand they wouldn't match that, dont you? I'd wager that Sidibeh and Kimpioka could hit double figures each if youre saying these teams main striker (Zak Rudden, Brian Graham, Nikolay Todorov) are great strikers.

Not like you to be so pessimistic 🤣 It would be a burn the club to the ground type situation if we finished bottom now.

Watched the first 50 mins of game and County were the better team and deserved their win. They are probably the best team in the bottom 6 and have the momentum so play offs for us if we can avoid bottom.

They probably only need to keep it up for one more game to get ahead, and stay ahead of us. What I’d give for our team to put in that level of performance. All this result will do is drive Levein and Kirk into an even more defensive mindset. It’s spineless and we’ll be in the play off.

To think that just 24 hours ago we were thinking we had a good chance of going seven points clear of County this weekend.

Was just thinking the same. Very hard to have a fair system when some clubs are automatically treated more fairly than others.

19/19 home/away split is prioritised over 2/2 home/away split. With Dundee reaching top 6 it means someone in the bottom half is going to have to visit somewhere 3 times, and us away to Aberdeen gives everyone 19/19.

I've just watched the post match interview and felt that Craig Levein show'd more emotion for Saints wellbeing than ever. I get the 'hands in the pocket' critisism and appreciate the fans concerns but, maybe, Levein is beginning to buy into Saints (maybe talking to Geoff) and he can get us through this to safety. Despite criticisms I do think we have the squad to get through this - caveated with the niggling uncertainty that they're being coached in the right way.

I was on holiday in Lanzarote the game taking place during my return flight home. I was wearing my Saints top to travel walking down the aisle to my seat I felt someone grab me as I passed, it was Saints legend Paul Kane he suggested that I must be feeling awful I agreed and we had a nice chat for a wee while. Just as we landed in Edinburgh PK received a text turned round to me and shouted up the plane to me about 10 rows further back "they've f****n done it". I did get back to my home in Peebles in time to join the returning "Peebles Saints" fans in The Crown for a celebratory drink where we were joined by Stevie MacLean.

I refer to it as the McDiarmid curse... We've been crap at home for years.. away games alright. I get our tactics are counter attack, but it's a 3 pointer for away teams. Sell to the American lot and let them develop the land, build a new stadium and just maybe the curse of McDiarmid will be gone... It served it's purpose well in the early years

Apologies. Thats not the kind of club we are. Think i talk for 99% of the supporters here that if any of the older lads seen something like that happen they would have grab the little shit who done that. Hope your son is ok.

We have our fair share of arseholes unfortunately. They are shitebags who don't like a fair fight.

Could be a book in it

As Kilmarnock supporters we travelled to Perth as a family day out today. Spent some time in the city, had some lunch and attended the game. Irrespective of the result, the day was ruined after one of your ‘supporters’ chose to rip the scarf from our 9 year old son’s neck following the game and ran off with it as we walked back to the car leaving him pretty upset. Maybe not such a big deal to an adult but it is to a kid. Ironically we had helped an elderly St Johnstone supporter who had taken a fall in the carpark prior to the match. Sadly football culture seems to attract idiots, I know we have our fair share who follow Killie and don’t do the club any favours. I like St Johnstone as a club and have friends who support your team. I genuinely hope you stay up too. Not looking for anything from this post and the scarf will never be seen again, but naively like to think that someone might read this and know the idiot who caused this today and quietly has a word so that they might just make a better choice in future and not tarnish the reputation of your support. Best of luck for the remainder of the season.

Rightfully so. And if the worst does happen then it's entirely self-inflicted.

What are the dates for the play offs 🙈