SaintDougie

He probably deserves January. I'm honestly at the stage where I won't be hugely heartbroken if he accepts the NI job and we get a fresh manager in amongst the players (as in not Callum Davidson).
Thats not me saying hes shite, or that I want him sacked, just that I feel like we're suffering due to his familiarity with the team.Hes persisting with players like Anderson and MacLean, who have struggled horrendously this season, because they've always been in his teams.

I have to disagree. Scougall is a player, we just have to find the right role for him. Give him players running off him and I'm certain you'd see the best of him if played in the middle behind a striker.
I really do think if we play him in the middle with Spoony and MOH either side we could start to see the best of him. He certainly puts in a shift and I really don't see his size being an issue if we can get the ball on the deck more and play some good football..... That requires two central midfielders that will look for the ball and avoid the needless long punts up field!

Fair enough, I stand corrected. 

Just to stick my oar in.
Going by the above underlined statement, I can only presume that you were not at his testimonial dinner. Where during his thank you speech Cuptie said the words "After the many years at the club and success I have enjoyed, it's been an honour to captain such a great club." Then pointing to his current employers, the table of Binos directors. "With no disrespect meant at all to Stirling Albion, St Johnstone is my team and my club"  
So yeah, I'm pretty confident people aren't necessarily overstating how he feels for the club.

Just to stick my oar in.
Going by the above underlined statement, I can only presume that you were not at his testimonial dinner. Where during his thank you speech Cuptie said the words "After the many years at the club and success I have enjoyed, it's been an honour to captain such a great club." Then pointing to his current employers, the table of Binos directors. "With no disrespect meant at all to Stirling Albion, St Johnstone is my team and my club"  
So yeah, I'm pretty confident people aren't necessarily overstating how he feels for the club.

Just to stick my oar in.
Going by the above underlined statement, I can only presume that you were not at his testimonial dinner. Where during his thank you speech Cuptie said the words "After the many years at the club and success I have enjoyed, it's been an honour to captain such a great club." Then pointing to his current employers, the table of Binos directors. "With no disrespect meant at all to Stirling Albion, St Johnstone is my team and my club"  
So yeah, I'm pretty confident people aren't necessarily overstating how he feels for the club.

Just to stick my oar in.
Going by the above underlined statement, I can only presume that you were not at his testimonial dinner. Where during his thank you speech Cuptie said the words "After the many years at the club and success I have enjoyed, it's been an honour to captain such a great club." Then pointing to his current employers, the table of Binos directors. "With no disrespect meant at all to Stirling Albion, St Johnstone is my team and my club"  
So yeah, I'm pretty confident people aren't necessarily overstating how he feels for the club.

Couple of things Davie....we didn't do what you said though, we HAVE now lost 6 in a row, scoring no goals
Add to that that our start to the season was strange- got results, but were hardly playing well. Even then, I knew a few folk that could feel a bad run coming
The other is that acceptance attitude that we shouldn't be where we are and that we should just wait for the day we return to our rightful place in the lower reaches. 
Football is all about getting the best from people at the right time. We had our perfect storm in 2014 when Tommy, Ando, Macca, May etc done just that....the right thing at the right time
What brings any team longer term success is realising that the same formula doesn't last forever, players change, managers change. Sometimes freshness is all that is needed when things appear to be going stale
Are we at that point yet, or is this just a small blip? I'm not sure, but we will know by the end of the year I reckon 
 

Aye, 35 is now the 300. If you were able/willing to walk 10 minute from the P&R then yeah the 100 would take you right there. You could always drop your passengers at the bus stop, park the car and walk back to them for the bus. 

Failing that, get the Tram to Murrayfield as mentioned, you would need to walk round to our end, again taking about 10 minutes.

Your only real option that doesn't involve walking  would be taking the tram to Haymarket and then just Jumping on the number 26 (Its the Zoo bus so you can't miss it, always has animals all over the side of it) along West coats for 5 minutes, that'll deliver you to the Murrayfield bar directly. If you ask the driver to let you know when to get off they will happily give you a shout.

Aye, 35 is now the 300. If you were able/willing to walk 10 minute from the P&R then yeah the 100 would take you right there. You could always drop your passengers at the bus stop, park the car and walk back to them for the bus. 

Failing that, get the Tram to Murrayfield as mentioned, you would need to walk round to our end, again taking about 10 minutes.

Your only real option that doesn't involve walking  would be taking the tram to Haymarket and then just Jumping on the number 26 (Its the Zoo bus so you can't miss it, always has animals all over the side of it) along West coats for 5 minutes, that'll deliver you to the Murrayfield bar directly. If you ask the driver to let you know when to get off they will happily give you a shout.

Airlink 100 is will take you from the Park & Ride all the way to Murrayfield

Airlink 100 is will take you from the Park & Ride all the way to Murrayfield

Probably not going to be a particularly popular comment, but what with the goings on with Kenny Millar at Ibrox being very reminiscent of MoH, I'd happily take him at Saints also. We are still desperate for another decent striker to partner Macca, and as much as it pains me to say it Mr Sevco has been on cracking form since that lot crawled their way back up to the Premiership.
Johnstone just isn't good enough for this level, and Cummins, as much as he works his socks off seems to have forgotten how to football proper.  
Let the backlash begin..... If there are enough people on here these days to lash that is 

I get the point about passion etc.. but it's becoming all too often with Foster now without anything else (Recently) to back it up. Thinking back there was the fracas with Swanson for one. Secondly, and I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but as the half time whistle went in the Europa fixture at home there was a pretty healthy chorus of booing going round, to which Foster turned round and give it an almighty GIRFUY whilst screaming at the East Stand. Now this incident as well. 
I'm starting to think it's not as much passion and more just an incredibly short fuse which he clearly struggles to control.

Offt, you've made a right dugs dinner of this one, what an ignorant opinion to have. I would doubt very much if you are aware of how much personal time and effort the people behind the committee have put into both the dinner event and getting the game sorted, to no advantage to themselves it must be added.
Also your reference to our Turkish friends? If you kept up to date with them at all you would know that they are up to their eyeballs in debt thanks to the construction of their new stadium that's simply far too big for purpose. So I highly doubt they would be able to afford a 6000 mile round trip for a testimonial.
Also Perth retained it's City status about three years ago. #justsayin
 
 

Can you imagine the costs involved with getting a European team shipped over to play? Mackay would barely get a payday after that. And that's if any of them even agreed mid-season. We would hardly attract first team squads of any note anyway, remember the United XI full of kids that were sent up for Alan Main's match?
Imagine busting a guy to pull all of these testimonial events together and then coming on here to see your comment telling them they've completely failed. The committee don't get paid, do they? So these guys are giving up their own time to arrange everything, and good on them if so.

Smart, no jeans or t shirts but not black tie

Saw this and just thought it was worth adding to the thread.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41037782
"Johnstone hopes Wright can help him improve as a player and added: "There is nothing better than playing for a club that has good ambition and St Johnstone have definitely got that.""

Can't say I was a fan of the line "They want their gaffer to stay where he is and keep up the overachievement."  Piss off McLean, you are where you are on merit and merit alone. There's no such thing as 'overachievement' as far as I'm concerned. That shit is up there with the usual sound bites that get thrown around when a so called big club has been relegated "they really should be/deserve to be in the top flight" No, again you are where you are on merit. Not just in football but in all walks of life!

Can't say I was a fan of the line "They want their gaffer to stay where he is and keep up the overachievement."  Piss off McLean, you are where you are on merit and merit alone. There's no such thing as 'overachievement' as far as I'm concerned. That shit is up there with the usual sound bites that get thrown around when a so called big club has been relegated "they really should be/deserve to be in the top flight" No, again you are where you are on merit. Not just in football but in all walks of life!

Can't say I was a fan of the line "They want their gaffer to stay where he is and keep up the overachievement."  Piss off McLean, you are where you are on merit and merit alone. There's no such thing as 'overachievement' as far as I'm concerned. That shit is up there with the usual sound bites that get thrown around when a so called big club has been relegated "they really should be/deserve to be in the top flight" No, again you are where you are on merit. Not just in football but in all walks of life!

Can't say I was a fan of the line "They want their gaffer to stay where he is and keep up the overachievement."  Piss off McLean, you are where you are on merit and merit alone. There's no such thing as 'overachievement' as far as I'm concerned. That shit is up there with the usual sound bites that get thrown around when a so called big club has been relegated "they really should be/deserve to be in the top flight" No, again you are where you are on merit. Not just in football but in all walks of life!

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