dunblanemike

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 ..... 

you forgot the excellent pass from Matt Smith for the first goal.....

you forgot the excellent pass from Matt Smith for the first goal.....

Aye, the Largs mafia school of football coaching from 25 years ago: start with five at the back to stifle opposition and hope to catch them on the break. go a goal down, stay at 5 at the back as dont want to lose 2, until 75th min then go to a 4 in the faint hope........zzzzzzzzzzzzz......

i cant get my head around why so may of our players make so many mistakes, basic passes going astray, or too slow and receiving player gets closed down. add in the effect of a lack of system and it is dire watching....

Don’t let the door catch your arse on the way out ! 🤮

And if Gallacher hadnt missed that sitter so would we.

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?
 
 

FWIW, i thought the lad who missed the sitter by hitting the post, was offside.

FWIW, i thought the lad who missed the sitter by hitting the post, was offside.

FWIW, i thought the lad who missed the sitter by hitting the post, was offside.

Can you show me when the goalies distribution was shite?
considine injured his foot in the first half. Robinson moved inside and Gallagher played left. I thought he did well.

Can you show me when the goalies distribution was shite?
considine injured his foot in the first half. Robinson moved inside and Gallagher played left. I thought he did well.

So get a bet on Killie to win please

Exactly, WM aim to reduce powers at Holyrood to keep Scotland as part of a corrupt UK

It's not the SNP, try again!

I'd argue that a lot of the things you bemoan here are actually things that contributed hugely to our success over the last 10-15 years. We've had a lot of continuity in our squad because we've stood by players and they, in turn, have felt well treated and have wanted to stay here. Likewise, the fact that quite a few players have departed and then returned, shows that they've left the club on good terms and enjoyed being here. That reputation for treating players well and giving them some long-term stability will also have helped us to attract new signings over the years, perhaps even at times when they might have been offered better money elsewhere.
Is that acting out of sentiment, or is it treating people well and fostering a good working atmosphere which, in turn, has helped to create the most successful St Johnstone era in history?
If anything, it's since we've lost that approach and have had a much higher turn-over of players, often signing lots of players on short term deals, that that success has started to vanish and we've found ourselves in successive relegation battles.

positive news indeed. i wonder what impact the free tickets in last couple of games have had on these stats?

I did wonder if Davidson would still be in charge if this meeting was next week after the Hibs game rather than this.

or poor refereeing, but that would spoil the narrative.

or poor refereeing, but that would spoil the narrative.

or poor refereeing, but that would spoil the narrative.

Bbc supposed tae be impartial, just a right wing arm o the tory party.
Chairman not made tae stand down in his quest fir a 800 k loan fir Bozo.
# Free speech fir aw.

Interestingly, just one different result for saints would put us in top six, our home game v Aberdeen where you predicted a defeat. A reverse of that result would mean 12 points from 6 games, not impossible, we’ve done similar before. Hypothetical, but a fun exercise nonetheless.

By that logic we would have won the double again last year and be on to do it again this!