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lol happilly. Like I say, we get it you don't like him but it becomes a bit tedious when you constantly make out hes a bad player.

This season had so much promise.

He’s from Dingwall, he hates all Inverness high schools. Not just the Inverness Royal Academy.

He's alive!!

At (roughly) 1602 today I will disembark my carriage at Glasgow Queen Street station, whereupon I shall head immediately to Droothys and meet up with my brothers in T. One, maybe two pints of this glorious golden ambrosia shall be consumed in Droothys before we head off on a wee Tennents adventure round the City of Glasgow, home of our heroic beverage. Today will be a good day brothers. Today will be a good day.

New home top

Yes. I like that. Need to get Moz with the shirt on.

His facial hair kind of resembles a sloth with its arms raised.

That strip is fucking gorgeous. Verging on porn. Will be going full fanboy and getting one.

I'd like to think that with Mannus, Maclean and Millar departing there will be a semi-respectable crowd at McDiarmid on the last day of the season. What these three players have achieved in their time at the club is nothing short of remarkable all things put into perspective, and anyone that had the honor of being there on the 17th of May 2014 should really be making the utmost effort to get along and say one last thank you to these men that I'm sure the history books, and fans of St Johnstone FC will no doubt remember as Legends of the club. I won't hold my breath though...

If we get a good turnout at Starks we can more than afford to pay Smith off with the proceeds. Might encourage a few to turn out. Another disgraceful marketing failure from the club by not promoting this.

I though it was Kim doing his famous, I'm down to one cigarette a day gag?

Because he maybe wants to stay with us.

Happy “Hamilton and Morton tried to cheat Dundee out of the Championship title but failed” day. What’s your favourite memory of that day? For me, it’s either the Letheren save or the pitch invasion after the final whistle.

I’ve just, despite having spent weekend in hospital with pneumonia, submitted my final essay for my degree! Project to do by 4th June and I’ll finally have some letters after my name!

MC Moussa and DJ Deacon need to get those boots in the fucking Tay IMO.

Surprised you dismiss Danny Lennon and would find him an uninspiring appointment. Danny Lennon got Cowdenbeath two successive promotions before he moved to St Mirren where he kept them in the Premier League in his first season then won the League Cup in his second season. Also what he's achieved with Clyde this season is remarkable and extremely underrated - when he took over this season Clyde were second bottom, since then he's averaged over 2 points per game, stretching back to November! We have to accept we're a small club and as a small club we're extremely limited with who we can realistically afford to appoint. With all clubs our size a lot of the time it is a gamble when you appoint a new manager - just look at some of our appointments in the last 10-15 years to see what credentials they had before joining us: Antonio Calderon - first managerial job was Raith, signed him as a player/manager, huge risk at the time especially since he demanded a bigger than normal budget to bring in a lot of foreign players. Considered a success. John McGlynn - again, first managerial job. Previously a first-team coach at Hearts - highly regarded in that respect. Considered a success. Grant Murray - once again, first managerial job. Cheap option for the club, kept us in the Championship and won us the Ramsden Cup. Not entirely considered a success but wasn't a catastrophe. Ray Mckinnon - achieved two play-off finishes and an 8th placed finish with Brechin before joining Raith - we were only his second senior club to manage. Considered a success for getting us a Premiership Play-Off place. Gary Locke - terrible appointment and we all knew it straight away, inexcusable 'gamble', less said about him the better. Considered a failure. John Hughes - extremely experience manager in Scottish football, we all thought he was the answer to our problems last season but he wasn't. Considered a failure but we were all happy at the time. Barry Smith - deemed 'young and upcoming' by a lot when appointed in May, could easily argue he had better credentials than guys like McKinnon and McGlynn when it comes to senior management. Most likely has failed to achieve his main objective of getting us promoted this season and is considered a failure of an appointment. For reference, go back to pages 2158, 2159 and 2160 of this thread to see what we all thought of the appointment. Who's next?! I'd be very satisfied with Danny Lennon based on what he's achieved at clubs of different sizes. What I would like to know is how do we pick managers? Who is advising our board of directors (who are made up of predominantly accountants)? Do we have a 'football head' who also joins in the interviews to ask questions which our board and chairman wouldn't think to ask/consider? It's quite easy for a club our size to make mistakes with managerial appointments but surely we're due a bit of luck with the next one!

SJFA pay ALBA for the coverage do they not?

Tbh I wouldn’t be that excited if he did sign. Did nothing against us last season and going by what Raith fans are saying he’s not been great in recent games. Would enjoy his “wooooing” tho.

In other news it's great to see Gary Locke has got himself a promotion internally at the Jambos!

I wouldn't sneer at the thought of a Nigerian prince investing in Rangers. There's at least one with a spare million, thanks to Accies.

They may not have made an official notification but Camelon seem to be preparing for a different level if their pie hut prices are anything to go by!

We are a much better team with Dicker than without. His job isn't to spray amazing passes all over the pitch, its to break up play and lay it off to someone better which he does very, very well. Some Killie fans make out his passing is horrendously bad though and it really is not.

While I thoroughly enjoyed last night - being at a proper ground, mixing with opposition fans, changing ends, terracing etc - I'd still much rather stay up. Even moreso when you look at the possible make up of league one next year. Could have four Angus teams, Peterhead, Stranraer, two Fife teams and Airdrie. That would be about 4,000 (Four thousand) miles over the course of the season !

What about this from last night then...

93 days until the start of the new season, which is the average gestation period of a leopard.

We have to trust that Lachlan can identify when someone’s love of the club is less than the love of the ground it stands on ............

A complete waste of time as any marker will spot it from a mile off, but I always had good fun coming up with bogus references based on reserve footballers in exams. Regardless of how the exam went, you'll always walk out with a sense of accomplishment having name-dropped Steven Pinkowski and Willie Howie in a John Milton essay.

Two friends and I travelled through from Dundee for a midweek football fix. Was my first time in Alloa and what a game it was. You have a good lead going into the second leg, but really should have scored 4 or 5. Raith on the other hand were diabolical

I would much rather play Raith in the final. We've already beaten them this season and Alloa are basically a who's who of players released by Stevie Aitken. Terrific as usual. One of the worst I've been on. I don't know who planned the journey up there and I don't want to sound like a dick, but it couldn't have been more poorly arranged. Leaving at rush hour and heading for Glasgow town centre to pick up some stragglers was a silly idea. No qualms with picking people up but the bus should've left at 4pm if we were doing that IMO. Also, don't know how it was for you guys down near the front of the bus but at the back there was virtually no air con and we were all sweating our titties off. Felt utterly disgusting walking up the road at midnight. The club have given students as concessions for years. Remember this is a new board - a new board who are looking to be a bit more considerate with pricing (hence £16/10 for this Saturday). They're also looking to be a bit more accommodating to our fans who want to make a bit of noise - the end black section will be a dedicated "noisy section" on Saturday for the lads with drums and anyone else who wants to join them for a song or two. If it proves popular then we can look at making it a permanent thing. Our board are actively encouraging support now as opposed to looking at ways of stifling it/being indifferent to it. It should be embraced.

As an outsider this is the sort of muddled thinking that I just don't get (and I don't think anyone down here would). If you are going to join the pyramid then why does there have to still be an EOSL and a Junior equivalent alongside it? Surely all the clubs go into the pot and its run by whoever? Why are people so determined to hang onto the old tags? What does it matter in the great scheme of things? You are all football fans and supporters of football teams. Its much like bloody Christians aligning themselves with one group or another then having a go at the other group of bloody Christians who have the temerity to align themselves with the other lot. The peoples front of Judea and the Judean peoples front comes to mind and to be frank, most outsiders are either bemused or amused. I am both. We had a situation down here a few years back. We have the Wearside League (which despite its name actually covers County Durham, Cleveland and parts of North Yorkshire as well as some clubs in Cumbria which is a huge area and feeds into the Northern League alongside the Northern Alliance which is mainly Tyneside and Northumberland clubs. The Wearside League and the Northern Alliance are equal in status and both feed into the Northern League Division Two subject to ground grading and both go all the way back to the very early days of the game in Britain and the split is pretty much the Tyne. If you are North of it its Northern Alliance and if you are South you are Wearside League. Both leagues have had Cumbrian sides and still do. Northbank Carlisle are in the Alliance and Windscale are in the Wearside. We also had the Durham Alliance sitting below the Wearside league (and the equivalent Teesside League which is another story in itself) but as its the very bottom of the pyramid the promotion/relegation link is not guaranteed and the paths from one to the other were not exactly clear cut and not dictated by the FA centrally as they are higher up the pyramid. Promotion was not only on ground grading but also by vote and the classic turkeys voting for Christmas often took effect as the Wearside league would protect its own against newcomers and only took in other clubs when they lost members or the newcomer was particularly strong. Both leagues had their own committees and neither wanted much to do with the other. The Durham Alliance then suffered a catastrophic loss of clubs going from about 16 teams down to 5 or 6 the season before last. A few new teams were enticed in but proved to be completely noncompetitive and we had a season of 20+ 0 results and then had additional contrived group cups being set up just to give teams more than 10 league games. The Durham FA stepped in and suggested that the Durham Alliance be absorbed into the Wearside league as a development division with under age teams from the bigger more established sides in the Wearside League. This was rejected by both Committees and the Durham Alliance is running this season with 9 clubs and is still lopsided in standard and still struggling as a shadow of what it once was. Finally next season, common sense has prevailed and the merger will take place which will be good for both leagues. It needed certain people to step down before it happened though. The aforementioned Teesside League was also brought under the control of the North Riding FA at the start of this season and is now the North Riding League. Sometimes you just need to forget your own little empire and look at the bigger picture. Having four grades of football in one tiny country makes zero sense and nobody would argue that it does. Professional and amateur is a given, but then splitting your amateurs into categories on (what basis I don't even know) and then never playing against each other is utter madness. I realise its an accident of history and that history is important but seriously? Four grades of the same sport in one small country? Really? There is no way you would set your system up like this if it was starting now, so why continue with it just because that's what you have always done? It feels to me from what I am reading on here that the penny is finally starting to drop and I hope it does as you ALL need to sing from the same hymn sheet as you don't really have enough voices (or songwriters) to be competing for the best song.

RIFC financial team attempt to construct a package and war chest for the incoming Stevie G.

Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand

Why does he need to bulk up? Name a match where he was bullied last season. Being booted and getting up and getting on with it isn't being bullied. Bullied is when you get kicked about and decide you no longer want the ball or to take a man on for fear of being hit again. Marc Corcoran was mercilessly bullied. Paul McMullan was bullied. Morgan is on the receiving end of a bit of physical stick at times. Several very good players at higher levels suffer this though and play through it. He certainly tries to stay on his feet as much as possible and doesn't hide. His abundance of talent, far outweighs his need to put on beef to take more of a physical hiding.

Vaughan has been fucking shite second half of the season. Its not been his own fault all the time, but he had turned into an incredibly greedy player who just gets marked out the game. If he stays at us he could well turn into a lesser Craig Sibbald.

Couldn't lace shanklands bitts

Cream - Strange Brew

If Rugster is ever mugged down a dark alley and a couple of hoods ask him "have you met my mate Stanley" as they brandish a lethal blade at him I hope he says "well, actually, that's not a Stanley Knife but an own-brand item from B&Q and not......" He tails off at this point as the blood sprays from his neck.

My mate’s just been to Dumfries Cash and Carry amid rumours of original Bru. 5 cases coming my way

He's got a few folk pointing out his error. Europe football writer knows f**k all about football.

I agree with everything apart from him being a likeable guy. To me he's completely up his own arse and a guy who's sheer arrogance has cost us. A guy who refuses to answer any questions about his tactics, selection or style. On Saturday we will play exactly the same way and exactly the same thing will happen. Tonight was absolutely embarrassing and I would add the players have to take a huge amount of blame as well. Alloa didn't just look but were fitter and hungrier than us and they should have really liked off the tie with another goal or 2. It wouldn't have been unjust. For me I'd sack him now as Easton etc couldn't do a worse ahead of the weekend but I know that's not going to happen. What will happen is come 4.50pm we'll be consined to another season in this league and if Smith then isn't sacked that night then it sums up the complete ineptitude of our board. Our club is rotten, head to toe, a complete basket case with folk running it who I wouldn't trust my piggy bank with. We have a "chairman"...and I use that term loosely...who still does not admit that Gary Locke was a mistake and after Saturday has basically admitted the club didn't expect the large turnout despite asking the town to come and support. We have a commercial team who are about as useful as a grave robber in a crematorium. Once again the club have let the fans down but no doubt we'll still get the usual guff over the next 48 hours to come along and support.

Cheers mixu

That way when your shift gets cancelled at the last minute and instead of going to the pub you decide to fit the bathroom towel rail your wife was nagging after, and it takes you 2 hours traipsing round 3 different DIY shops to get all the kit including a half inch radiator allen key which must have some use for hydroponic cannabis growing or something as no bugger has any in stock, then you get home and cant find the drill, which takes two hours of tidying the loft and the shed to locate, then you decide you'd better put some dinner on for the wife coming home in a couple of hours, then it takes another hour or so to measure up and get the brackets in the right place, and you are dripping with sweat cos its bloody heavy and tiles are buggers to drill through, and right about 5 minutes before you are about to hang the blasted thing on the wall your wife saunters in from work and says..... "Oh have you just started?" Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Oh ya stoater this is peak Isa! Burnie shot JFK, Jason King is actually Lord Lucan, HTG flew the remote control planes into the Twin Towers and the Camelon and Bonnyrigg committees are controlled by the Illuminati (they love a Pyramid), meanwhile Hill of Beath’s park is the entrance tae a secret alien underworld (that could be true actually). This post need preserved for future generations its as a classic!!!

You mean he'd be loving it.

The club website has been totally revamped since the Doon Derby so old match reports are no longer available there. However, this was the official version, written amidst the scenes on the Perth 62 Club bus bounging home along the A90 that night. It's surprisingly coherent, which is more than I was at Wighton 90+3. I have to say that typing "Craig Wighton hammered the final nail into their coffin" remains the highlight of my reporting career.

Were you sent here by Pete Lawwell? No good sir I'm staunch and loyal!

You could genuinely make a case for the sheer idiocy of the average Rangers fan being one of the main causes for their current predicament. The club aren't living within their means because the fans simply won't accept that living within their means will result in them not winning a league title for a very, very long time. The only way they'll get close to Celtic is by spending money they don't have, and the fans are so obsessed with Celtic that any alternative isn't an option. Even if the board wanted to (and I'm not sure they do, because they seem like a bunch of clowns anyway), they wouldn't adopt a sensible transfer/wage structure because it would cause an uproar. Consequently, the board has to make "big name" signings to satisfy these idiots. Which then leads onto the fact that the board are making terrible use of the budget available, by appointing clueless managers and signing rubbish players. But the fans' demand for something that just isn't possible means that as soon as the season ticket money arrives, it'll be splurged on yet more dross, and this cycle of wasting money while still getting nowhere near a league title will continue. A completely unrealistic fanbase, and a wholly incompetent board, chaired by the biggest charlatan of them all. A glorious recipe for hilarious, embarrassing failure.