Jamie_Beatson

Seen several people suggesting Spoony to the centre was the obvious change with Thomson on. Wasn't at the game but slightly dubious about that. Spoony may work centrally with one of Millar or Davidson, but asking him to fulfil either of their roles is hardly a recipe for protecting our back line. Also bear in mind Thomson was virtually anonymous on Saturday, that change may only have served to weaken us even more. Not that I'm a fan of Fisher there either. central midfield is going to be the key area for us over the summer in terms of recruitment as right now our two best players can't be relied upon in terms of fitness and we have little adequate backup.

Just to add to that, when I get my laptop back on tomorrow I'll be going through and deleting the out of line stuff. You can't go around making allegations like that and leaving a guy open to suspicion. That's not on.

it was. But he was so far away from the ball and he really did lunge in with the sole intent of wiping the boy out. as I say, I personally think when the intent is to play the man that's far worse than a mistimed but honest attempt to play the ball which we've had plenty red cards for.

That was awful refereeing TBF. Deliberate and cynical attempt to take him out of the game. With his arms. A clear yellow. i reckon Tam could have seen red as well. Deliberately played the man with no intent to get the ball. For my money that's worse than the kind of tackle we've seen Mackay and Craig sent off for this season, where there's no actual attempt to play the man.

Worth bearing in mind that at Doyle's age he was playing for Oxford Utd at the bottom end of English League One before returning to Scotland to play for Livingston, primarily in the Championship. Would certainly like to see what he has to offer at some stage.

Discussion on Sportsound earlier with some player on saying he'd played at Cliftonhill last week and it was a "complete bog" but he'd far rather play on that than the best synthetic surface. That just strikes me as utter stupidity. Certainly as a spectator it isn't better to watch. interestingly they had some rugby guys on as wel and they all said they far prefer the artificial surfaces.

I think this thread has run its course.

Absolutely this. Feel like one of our issues right now is a lack of the full backs getting forward. Fisher is starting to show signs he can do that a bit but Scobbie never will. Easton back there ASAP. Cummins needs to be starting every game. His movement is the best in our squad. Not being given the opportunities to score though because we're losing the midfield battle. Five in the middle as described there might be worth a shot.

Jody Morris was also a February signing. I'd love to think we could pull a similar signing out of the bag but I don't see it just now...

Hi all, The nominations for the 2016 St Johnstone FC Hall of Fame are now open. To register your votes, copy the following into an email, fill it in and send to roddy@perthsaints.co.uk Your name: Address: E-mail: Nominations for each of the following periods: Pre and including 1950s: 1960s: 1970s: 1980s: 1990s: Please also nominate your top five individuals, irrespective of time period. These nominations may also include some of your choices by time period above: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: Nominations are open up to March 11 2016. Thanks, Jamie

I haven't been able to replicate the quote problem, but it is something I've heard of on similar forums using the same software. It isn't an issue I can remedy, we just have to hope that it's fixed in the next software upgrade.

The bold bit is the key thing. If the offer is there at a value that is acceptable to us (and £500k has to be), and if the player wants to go then the idea of keeping him "because he's entertaining" or "to challenge in the top six" goes right out of the window. For a start, it would be abhorrent to stand in the way of a guy quadrupling his wages and also what motivation has he got to play for the remainder of his contract if we deny him the move? None at all, and we've seen how motivated and influential he's been in the last six-eight weeks while all this speculation has been ongoing.

Banhammer will be in hand shortly. If I can get it off of Kyle that is...

I think it's fairly clear for a few weeks that MOH's mind is elsewhere and he hasn't been anywhere close to the standard he set through September and October for several weeks now. If we're getting £500k in the bank and can bring in a couple of decent players either today, or over the next week from those who are released today from various clubs, then I don't think that's a bad deal. If we did keep him you'd have to ask which MOH would be showing up for the next four months - are we going to get the one who was an absolute stand out earlier in the season or the one who has barely been in a game since early December? If it's the former then it's certainly a good deal, particularly if we can strengthen areas of the team that are a bit shaky just now.

I had a couple of absolute throbbers sitting beside me. One in particular managed to smuggle in two cans of Tennents and spent the first half swigging those before falling asleep. He then woke up and deliberately burst the chair of the guy sitting in front of him and continued jumping up and down on it in an attempt to break it more. He then started berating everyone around him for not singing (even though he'd missed half the game due to his nap), then started screaming at Joe Shaughnessy for taking long throws instead of putting it short to Scobbie. Some total fuds on the go.

I fully support these lads in their quest to create an atmosphere, but on one condition-find someone with the most basic sense of rhythm to play the bloody thing!

message bigstu-he's in the hunt for one

Sold!

I have one adult ticket for the Roseburn available. Face value, £20. First to PM me gets it. Can deliver in Perth before 11am tomorrow or hand over in Edinburgh after 12.30pm tomorrow.

Not all joining dates are accurate. For example, mine is March 2007, which is way after this forum came into being despite the fact I was obviously the first member! At one stage a fair number of people were unintentionally wiped during a server move and the member list had to be rebuilt - so if your join date is around March 07 you probably joined before that!

Dunno if this has been said, but you don't pay the full rateable value as your rates. It's a percentage of that which I think is set by central government. Not surprised Monsoon's rates are far higher given that the shop is far bigger than Officer's Club, probably almost twice the size before you take into account stockroom etc. Don't know if having a High Street frontage affects that as well.

I'd agree that Hibs are a good team with some dangerous players (Cummings and Stokes will be extremely dangerous) - but I'm not sure I buy the idea that they've necessarily got a better squad than us. Of their starting XI on Saturday against St Mirren, four were relegated with Hibs two years ago, one was relegated with St Mirren last season and several of the remainder have only ever played for them in the Championship, many coming from a background of kicking about the English lower leagues. They will be a good side, they will have players who can hurt us, but I don't think we need to build them up as being a better squad than us!

A few years after it was built approximately 2-300 seats were taken out to allow them to lengthen the pitch.

Don't know if Saints are likely to kick up any public fuss, but WAP have had their say: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/st-johnstone-fans-hit-out-7244308

The worst of it is they are citing segregation issues. Two years ago almost to the day of this match we had Main Stand tickets in the exact same stand for the exact same round of the exact same competition. No segregation issues that day. What's changed?