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Max, Smith, and Clark have been absolutely anonymous. Sidibeh has been a 1-man attack and Phillips a 1-man midfield for us. No idea why we're standing off Hibs and allowing them to stroll around. When we put pressure on them in Perth, they looked so fragile.

I think I also vaguely remember him being utter pish in a midweek cup game away to Aberdeen. Instantly forgettable that he even played for us.

The Gaslight Anthem tonight at the O2 in Glasgow for me. Having to drive through to Glasgow for the gig, rather than go to the Edinburgh one tomorrow night, as my 10-year old son is desperate to see them and you can take over 8's on the balcony at the O2 in Glasgow, but can't take kids to Edinburgh.

Fucking hell. That goal sums up the entire performance. Pathetic.

Phillips has been awful today. Totally half arsed in everything he's done.

Saints TV commentators optimism cracks me up. "If we can get 1 goal back, maybe the floodgates will open". A meaningful attack would be a fucking start.

That would be progress from his usual backwards only approach!

The half time "highlights" on Saints TV are an endless loop of us giving the ball away under no pressure, and St Mirren players wandering up the park and getting shots away from the edge of the box without a single Saints player even attempting to make a tackle. Grim stuff.

Oh well. Might as well switch off now. Congratulations on your 3 points, Paisley.

That corner. Fucking hell.

The number of simple 10 yard passes going astray is ridiculous. Thank god I didn't waste time and money going through to this. Never felt so disconnected to Saints as the last 3 years of shite-ball have made me feel. Games are totally bereft of enjoyment or excitement. We're utterly clueless when we have the ball.

No idea how these 11 people will line up! A midfield of Carey, Max, Smith and Franczak is incredibly lightweight.

Cunha and Neto have so much pace and power when running with the ball. Absolute joy to watch.

Yep. Having seen a few Chester games over the last year, who are the level above Warrington Rylands, the standard at that level is pretty horrific. Plenty of effort around, but very little quality.

From what I was told, they didn't play a single friendly/bounce game over those 3 weeks, which, if true, is madness.

Spanish Love Songs - No Joy The Gaslight Anthem - History Books Will Johnson - No Ordinary Crown There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon The Menzingers - Some of it Was True The Airborne Toxic Event - Live at The Greek Dave Hause - Drive it Like it's Stolen Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Steady Hands - Cheap Fiction Tidelines - An Ocean Full of Islands

A player who I think would suit us just now is Nathan Fraser at Wolves, who's been made available for loan for the second half of the season. He's only 18, but he's 6'2", relatively strong and quick, plus has a decent scoring record for a fairly low scoring youth team. He was officially promoted to the senior squad at the start of the season, and scored on his debut earlier this season in the league Cup. There's supposedly a lot of interest in him. Fingers crossed we're included as we need an option up front with some mobility. Plus it would hopefully allow us to bin Jephcott, DJ, and Costelloe.

Surely we didn't pay a fee for, and pay big wages to, Bobby Dailly? He was released by Millwall u18's, plus did he not fail a trial at Dundee before having a trial with us?

None that stand out on this list. Bair the only one we spent relatively big on in terms of a fee, plus all of them started games, I think? If it's not him, then I'm also stumped!

Fucking hell......

I thought Mahon and Bair were the only two of the utter dross we paid 6 figures for, although both of them started a handful of games. Mahon definitely played the second leg of the play off, when he was decent, and away against QoS in the league Cup, when he was utterly shite.

That's one of the stupid rule changes in recent years. Rather than in the past, when the free kick was taken from where the offside attacker was when the pass was made, it's now taken from where the attacker is when he's deemed to have become active, even if that's in his own half. Bizarre stuff.

Quite possibly. It doesn't sound like Macca has much in the way of man management skills. A friend of mine was speaking last week to a player who left us this summer. He described Macca's management style as "unapologetically aggressive"!

3 up now! Edit - make that 4 now! My old man says Elgin are pretty much Ross Draper and 10 kids.

Agree with this. Cracking album. New Gaslight Anthem and Menzingers albums to look forward to this month. I've liked all of the the songs released on both so far, so fingers crossed the rest of the songs are good.