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Oops voted for Muzz meant to vote for McFadden

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Totally agree Rik

No I think the editorial department is located in Glasgow

Have just read the Sunday Post match report.

Totally brutal, negative all the way through, laced with journalistic sarcasm from a tired Glasgow hack who pays nothing to get in.

Surely the press have to get a share of the blame. Should they not be trying to talk up the game and not put people off by assuming a negative attitude? Had I not been at the game it would certainly not have encouraged me to attend.

The game was not a classic perhaps but there were some enjoyable aspects.

I think so anyway

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"An adult and up to two children aged 12 and under will pay just £250 for an Ormond Stand season ticket while a senior citizen and up to two children of 12 and under will be just £150.

An East Stand adult is £295, a student season ticket is £150, 13-16 £75 and 17-18 £100."

So what is the price of a senior citizen in the East Stand ? Or are we being kicked out of the East Stand?

Will not be paying full price and would not be happy about getting moved to the Ormond !!!!!

Wasnt the 1st sky game at mcD years ago posponed because of fog , and think it was also against Aberdeen too if i remember correctly?.............

It was against Celtic at the dreaded 6 o'clock Sunday night slot. It wasn't our first Sky game but it was the first scottish game on Sky to be postponed I seem to remember.

I know this is off-thread but you've provoked deep-seated resentments in me. The way Perth Academy treated Atholl Henderson was a disgrace to Education. I remember on one ocassion he was selected to play for Scotland and the 'rugby-playing' school would not allow him to leave at dinner time to be in good time for an evening game. He had to leave at 3.30 in a car. It was mean spirited and the person who was most to blame was a tedious snob of a gym teacher called Ned Hunter who some academy former pupils still revere in bouts of fake nostaligia. But in truth he was a ghastly prick of a man who hated football a sport he should have been teaching. Rant over.

Agree 100% with you, the man was a football hating sadist, as I remember him anyway

If its of any use I have an Excel spreadsheet of all Saints post war results showing

Season

Date

Opponents

Venue

Result

Score

Attendance (incomplete still working on this)

Competition (including friendlies)

Scorers (recent seasons only)

This is up to date and includes this season so far

If it would help let me know

They are accountable -there was a referee observer at the game who can assess performance of the match officials .

Not to the paying public they ain't.

When was the last time a referee observer came out and publicly stated that the referee got critical decisions wrong.

Aye and probably make a better job of it too

So apparentlyTWO hanballs, a barge in the back and an incorrect free kick decision all in the one move, and he saw none of them. Unbelievable!!!!!

£800 for that display! It beggars belief that these guys are accountable to nobody for their actions.

Peaso was holding the ball up with his hamd out behind him, the Hibs player had a hold of his arm and peaso went down, The linesman said that Peaso was pulling the Hibs player in and gave them the freekick. Del and Doc had a go at the linesman for the decision.

Yeah at the time I thought it was a foul to saints not against us. So did the referee apolgise for getting the foul wrong or the hand ball? Or for Sodje barging into Gartland in the box?

I think he got three decisions wrong in the lead up to the goal,anyone one of which he should have picked up and didn't.

Perhaps but there was a Hibs guy behind him.

The mainstand linesman waved his flag above his head rather than raising it to shoulder hight and pointing it in front of him as is usual for offside. I took it as being a foul rather than offside

The move for the Hibs goal started with a free kick awarded against Peaso. Anyone tell me why the free kick was awarded?

This was season 1971-72

Played Dundee on 25th December 1971 at Muirton and drew 0-0

Played United on 1st January 1972 at Muirton and won 2-0

Manny Panther

Was Sandy Smith s dad not the groundsman.

He was

John Liddel and Danny Liddel

John Thomson,

Junior International Goalkeeper signed from Glasgow Perthshire.

Played 5 games in 1956/57 season conceding 13 goals

Played 29 games in 1957/58 conceding 83 goals.

Replaced by Billy Taylor

(Source-Who's Who of St Johnstone by Jim Slater)

Attila - Austria

The version I heard was that it was Gordon Smith who was the victim. the rest of the story was the same as above.

Went home after the game in tears

School dentist was in the High School when I went to the Northern District (late 50's).

York City

In fairness to Hugh Dallas he 'owned up' to it years ago and made a point of calling in to the club shortly afterwards to personally apologise.

How many of today's referees would have the integrity/balls to do that?

And on that point how many managers and players publicly own up to equally important mistakes as Dallas has clearly done. Give the guy a break!

Might have been something to do with owning a glazing company and Geoff Brown neeeding windows for his houses, or is that too cynical

Remember seeing him in Perth regularly, although it was only later that it became significant, due to his subsequent success.