Denzil

Can't do that. Tony Blair will invade us.
 

Good to see the Plough Inn mentioned in despatches. I did my drinking apprenticeship there with Drew Falconer and a shed load of others then. Good place in those days.
The PA published a list of shut pubs a while ago: (2011)
 
The bodycount of Perth pubs includes the Star Bar, Railway Tavern, St Leonards, The Clachan, Atholl Arms, The White Horse, The Kings Arms, Feus Hoose, The Gowrie Bar, Hal o’ the Wynd, The Friarton Inn, Plough Inn, Riverside Inn and, more recently, the Bridgend, which is understood to be reopening soon.
 
Despite offering patrons cheaper bar prices, various clubs have also bitten the dust – the Perth Memorial Club, Royal Army Service Corps Club, the Polish Club, Black Watch Club, the Celtic Supporters’ Club, St Johnstone Supporters Club on Dunkeld Road, Kinnoull Club and the Railway Club.
 
Suspect there's been more casualties since then.

Good. Bloody foreigner, going over there and taking a Polish job.

New signing Luca Brasi will have opposition strikers terrified.

Tam Scobbie is exactly the type of player every club needs. Need a left back? He'll play. Need a centre half? He'll play. Need a midfielder? He'll play. Need a goalie? Tam will do it. Need a player to get totally wasted after a great Euro performance and spend a night with the fans celebrating?  He'll do it. Important penalty in a Euro game? Tam will take it. 
Honestly, he may have his limitations but you can't fault the guy. If you asked him clean the bloody toilets for Saints I'm sure he'd do it. 
I also think it's easy to remember his mistakes but who remembers all of his last ditch, goal saving tackles? He puts it on the line every time he plays. St Johnstone are where we are now because of the Tam Scobbie's,  not because of fancy, flashy footballers.
 

loved watching the telephone tubbies 

New born baby essex was born at 7.21 PM this evening. His "baby saintee" hat first item on his tiny body. 
 
Very proud of Mrs Essex and baby Essex.

Thanks for all the lovely words. She's a wee smasher and now a Saintee! 

Congratulations to HSF and her hubby on the birth of their daughter in the early hours of the morning.
 
 

Skol! Skol! Skol! Skol!

Until he's a prick in a Saints shirt he deserves  to be given a chance. As others have said we've thought certain players were complete tossers till they played for Saints. In fact people I thought were alright before Saints have turned out to be complete wanks.

Scott Burns ‏@ScottBurns75 13s14 seconds ago
@St_Johnstone_FC to sign @blairalston on a 2 year contract from @falkirkbairns later today. More good business from Tommy Wright.
 
Oh yes!

Julien Flaubert's been released by Killie. Outstanding bit of business there.

17th november 1984
st.johnstone 1 forfar 1
scorers saints john sludden  (90 mins)
            forfar jim liddle (56 mins)
 
lost jim baines after 27 min ,broken arm.substitute don mcvicar went in goal and he later dislocated his arm.joe reid was next in goal.alex caldwell went off at half time due to a hamstring injury,playing with ten men sludden headed the equaliser in the final minute.
the reserve keeper gordon drummond injured himself in the saturday morning training sesh.
crowd 1874 not counting the dudes that climbed in or watched from the ice rink windows.
 
 
 

My random brain-splurge of thoughts on all this...
If we, as football fans, want to see fences going back up at football grounds, then we're going the right way about it. We all like to moan about fans being treated as criminals, but every time something like this happens it reinforces the institutional view that football fans, in general, cannot be trusted to behave. What's the real reason that Saints fans missed out on extra tickets for the League Cup semi-final, and that authorities don't want fans of different sides mixing in the same stand at big games? Just look at what happened on Saturday for the reason. I personally feel that all adults who invade a football pitch, individually or collectively, should be hit with a massive fine whenever they can be identified. It's the only way I can think of to stop this from happening, short of going back to the measures of the pre-Hillsborough days.
Hibs' history is irrelevant. Saints, as a club, waited longer for our Scottish Cup win, and our fans didn't see the need to behave like that. (The BBC commentator repeatedly mentioned that Hibs fans had waited over 100 years for this - bollocks, unless that lot were all a lot older than they looked.)
The SFA and SPFL collectively need to carry a lot of the blame for this. They have routinely failed to keep both Rangers and Sevco under control. That club(s) has fed off an environment of hatred, bullying, sectarianism and downright cheating - is it any wonder there is massive national resentment towards them? It's only surprising that it's taken until now for there to be serious crowd trouble, because this has been bubbling under for years, and unless someone gets a grip of them then this is only going to get worse. And now they're releasing official club statements that border on setting their pack of dogs on specific named individuals. Next season they're going to have big games every week, including four games against Celtic - how long is it going to be until someone is seriously hurt?
 

is it no up to the sfa to police this game so at the end of the day in reality its there fault

Anyone else think that the police clearly had the situation under control BEFORE they brought the horses in, and then notice all the headlines 'horseback police required for first time since 1980'. Sensationalism from those paid to protect?

By Monday, I think you'll find the SNP was to blame.......

Hibs win the Scottish Cup after 102 years.
Sevco still waiting to win their first ever.

Don't disagree with you at all, pitch invasion is almost all down to the Hibs fans.
But the sectarian bile coming across loud and clear during and after the game will be swept under the rug by the authorities as per.

No, John Sludden scored our goal.

Don't care if they are playing doon the Inch I'm going to watch them, it's funny for a lot off years I talked about going home now I talk about going back maybe it is a natural progression of having lived in Perth for 26 years then chose  Canada to be my home for 50 years. But hey I'm still a Saintee

No, John Sludden scored our goal.

I love Belfast. Robinsons is a quality boozer

About the same chance as John Sutton has of making the Iceland squad.