garydavidson

Was Berwick 1986, I was there and was there not extra-time? Late night but one of life’s experiences.

Merry Christmas to all Wappers and hopefully a very good new year.

And they wonder why we don’t go to Ibrox 🙄just a shame for the team as I like to go to as many away games as I can but I’m not subjecting my young kids to that behaviour. 

Fair enough - I'd read it on the official site where that fairly important piece of information hasn't been mentioned.

2 defensive errors . Olufanwa ****ed up. No need for Mitov to dive in as Desserts was going nowhere.
Levein wants to change those boggin trousers.
 

Death, taxes....penalty Sevco.

I thought it said a lot about McGowan that during his frozen-out spell he did a stint as co-commentator on Saints TV and continued to speak highly of Macca and was clearly right behind the team and wanted them to do well. I'm sure he didn't have to go on Saints TV and do that role if he didn't want to.
I think he's been brilliant since he came back into the team but even that isn't a massive surprise. I think he's always been on the very, very short list of good Callum Davidson signings.

Totally agree.I really like his attitude and his play.Its so good to have shaken off the churlish team selection of Davidson and MacLean

He was on tv down here when they did a story on Aussies playing in the SPL and was asked was it hard missing the final squad selection for the World Cup and then not getting a game each week in club land and he said, I’m a fighter and I’m not going to leave the club with my tail between my legs, I will prove whoever doubts me wrong and force them to pick me with my attitude at training.

Completely agree with this, and would also just add that the club couldn't even be arsed to inform us of the reason for moving the game. Complete apathy from the club towards the support and yet they moan about it when apathy is what they get back in return.
 

I often get the impression Saints' response to every idea is to either dismiss it as "we tried that before" or "that wouldn't work". But what alternative suggestions are they generating in-house?
Among the people running Saints, who has actual experience of growing a sports/football club and its fanbase in the digital/social media era? Who among our board understands these things and has experience of them? Where do they get fresh ideas from, and how do they implement them? What happened to all the ideas Kirsten Robertson spoke about implementing when she arrived?
Kilmarnock published a document this summer where they explained what their attendance targets were year on year and what they'd done to hit those targets. Do Saints have attendance targets, and if so what do they do to hit them?
I'm so bored of the Browns using every single public interview as an opportunity to whine about attendances. We've come through over a decade of unprecedented success and our board did barely anything in that period to harness public interest and grow the support. They slept in the run-up to the 2014 Cup final, they slept after it, and then they did the same when we won the Double (although I'll accept that allowances need to be made for that happening during Covid). They allowed our best ever manager to walk away for nothing because they couldn't be bothered to do whatever they had to do to keep him happy. And yet when it's going badly it's never their fault. It's always Perth's fault for not blindly dispatching 10,000 people along to the ground every fortnight to watch a team that for most of the last two/three years has been plummeting rapidly downhill and playing the worst football of the McDiarmid era.
Fair City Unity have done more in a year or two to bring in new fans and keep them coming along than the club itself have managed in several decades. Does that not tell them anything?
 
 

I find it incredibly frustrating that this is the first time any sort of public update has been provided in months, and it's given exclusively to a newspaper that can't be accessed without getting past a paywall. I've no issue at all with The Courier's need to make a profit but why can't the club provide the fans with occasional updates on this situation through its own channels?
Similarly frustrating to see one of the Browns yet again grumbling about home attendances, whilst seemingly doing nothing to try to improve those attendances. If people aren't coming to home games against the OF, why not investigate why that is and try to actually do something differently? What exactly is the club's strategy for growing attendances, beyond moaning about them?

We’d have been playing like that from kick off under Davidson. 

I initially thought that it was Levein's tactic to drop deep and hold on to what we had, but after watching his in house interview, it seems that's not the case at all.
It's good that he's recognised it and will hopefully take steps to eradicate it, as it's a bad habit that we seem to have gotten into.
I suppose it stems back to the days of Davidson when he would be quite happy using it as a strategy.

Interesting stat from the BBC: "St Johnstone's Sven Sprangler attempted six tackles (and won five) in this game, at least double the amount of any other player on either team."

Interesting stat from the BBC: "St Johnstone's Sven Sprangler attempted six tackles (and won five) in this game, at least double the amount of any other player on either team."

Interesting stat from the BBC: "St Johnstone's Sven Sprangler attempted six tackles (and won five) in this game, at least double the amount of any other player on either team."

Levein got a bit upset in an interview a couple of weeks ago when journo intimated that Max may be in the team because he was his boy.

95th minute missed penalty winner against the Midden!!! Is there a better way to win a game? 😂
C’mon the Saints! 

Good performance but 2 mistakes and 2 Celtic goals.
Brown should not be heading back into danger
And loosing the ball so pathetically from our throw in has been an issue for a while.
Kane no where near as effective up front either.

Can we not write May off every 12 months?
He hit double figures last season while folk were saying he was finished.
Its clear he needs to play in a front two, and his confidence seems harmed every time he plays alone and struggles, its mad that managers still do it.
We need different types of strikers too, theres zero point having 3/4 identical ones, especially when you cant rely on some of them to score regularly.
Id be keeping Kane, but at the same time hes part of a strikeforce thats struggled to score for about 3/4 years now, we cant be afraid to move on to try and improve if needed. Jephcott looking like a bust probably heightens that fear though.

Six months - expires in January. 

I would imagine he sees himself above that.

Or even Callum! 

Not really complaining as Sevco winning yesterday suits Saints but do they now get two penalties per match if they miss the first one?