Broon_100

I think you have to look at Saints in the perspective of the entire league and for me the standard has dropped off a cliff. Motherwell, Hibs, Aberdeen, Livingston and Ross County will all be saying this is their worst team in decades. Even the much lauded St Mirren, Killie and Hearts don't actually worry you when playing them, same with the OF. Given how bad we are, even small improvements are enough to start climbing the league because it's that bad. Watching some highlights from when Saints beat Rangers 25 years ago and the quality of player on the pitch, for both teams, was night and day to what we have now. Completely agree that the standard of Saints attacking play is brutal but at least with him bringing some pace into the team we might be able to get teams on the back foot. We'll need to work with our CMs to get them to move the ball into the final 3rd quicky though otherwise it's pointless having pace.

I was thinking of doing the same. Has anyone had any issues getting in the away end in the past?

Probably cheaper than a day at Disney which will be the alternative

I was able to get in initially when they were released but now I get an error accessing that site saying i can't buy them from my region. I take it you can access it? Pour des raisons de sécurité, le site n'est pas accessible dans la zone où vous vous situez. (For security reasons, this site is not accessible in the region you are located)

I'll be in Paris with my family whilst Scotland are playing France in Lille. I was looking at options of getting tickets to go along but we're not members of the Scotland Supporters Club (and its fully subscribed). Any suggestions on the best way to try and get away tickets? I was hoping given it's a Friendly so close to Spain away that the game might not sell out.

Might be controversial but for me Gordon doesn't start. Those 3 are our best back 3. Gordon is a very good defender but I think Mitchell works better with Considine and McGowan as it allows McGowan to step out the with the ball. Mitchell doesn't do that nearly as well at RCB.

We may win this but is Callum Davidson the most risk averse manager in the entire world? Too scared to even play his new signings is a worrying place to be. Can you survive being this cautious?

Genuinely Davidson could pick the team then piss off up the road. No in game management at all. He doesn't know and isn't prepared to change things during a match. I actually feel sorry for some of the players being forced to play out of position. Booth and Brown put a power of work in all night but they aren't wingers and don't have the ability to go past a man yet who is this formation is supposed to support them? Mccart and Cleary. Jesus wept. How big a risk would it have been to take off McCart with 20 to go and put on May or Middleton and go 4-3-3. He's too conservative and that's precisely why we have 11 goals. And he's happy with that last night.

Keep trying to write a post but I've honestly got nothing left to say about this team, formation and manager. We're screwed.

Motherwell transfer strategy: Who are St Johnstone bidding for this week? We'll go for him.

Now linked with Melker Hallberg at Hibs. Don't recall him ever standing out?

I think the last person you want in the team when you're desperate at the bottom of the league with disciplinary issues in the squad and a general feeling the referees are against you is a sulky, temperamental striker. He's not even got an impressive goal record.

I read an article with David McMillan at the weekend and he said he was left sided.

Wouldn't be disappointed to see McCart head off now, we are well covered in the left side of defence between Cleary, Booth and Gallacher. If we can convince Hibs to pay a little bit of money for him then even better.

Obviously a little bit of an unknown but Tony Gallagher is the type of singing that at least shows a little bit of forward planning. Good prospect at Falkirk, a good age, Scottish, will be well coached at Liverpool and had a fairly successful spell in the MLS with favourable reports. He was also very close to signing for Sunderland in the summer. Gallagher and Cleary certainly more positive signings than the shit-show recruitment in the midfield area.

I don't have an issue with keeping Crawford and I don't think he's as bad a player as we're all making out. He does have an attacking threat. That being said, a 2.5 year contract is absolutely ridiculous. He'd barely earned a renewal to the end of the season. An addition 2 years is absolutely crazy. Totally unjustifiable and not what we all need in terms of building confidence in the manager and recruitment team after losing 8 games in a bloody row.

Feel a lot for the younger players on loan this season. You want to be in a consistent team leaning from Experienced players. Instead we've got them playing in a back line changing all the time with McCart giving the ball away every 15 minutes. Will be interesting to see what he brings in. In some respect I'd like to see young-ish players brought in with an eye on the future but in our position I actually think we need experienced players who can hit the ground running. We can't afford the time for them to learn and gel.

Ah, just assumed he was out in the cold.

Dreadful positional sense. Reminded me of Ross Callachan at Saints, spent half the time chasing back after getting caught pressing when he shouldn't. Decent corner taker. That's about it.

So looking at options for who we could bring in. Would you take Drey Wright or Matty Kennedy back?

Hard to criticise the players for playing like that when if they don't they get absolutely slaughtered in the media by their manager for having the audacity to try to 'flick a ball round a defender'.

Hard to take any positives from losing a must not lose game. Davidson had clearly asked his central defenders to get more involved in the attacks but that left gaping holes for Hungbo and Charles-Cook to counter us in. This for me is the problem with this fucking formation, unless you have Ali McCann in their doing absolutely everything it's really hard to strike the balance between staying solid and still getting forward. It relies on attacking fullbacks that we simply don't have. Instead we are playing half the team out of position to suit it. It's nuts. A simple 4-4-2 at home would work most of the time. For the second half of the season, both Butterfield and Viv deserve contracts. Both look like decent footballers, calm and confident on the ball. Crawford, Rooney, McCart, Middleton, O'halloran, Kane, Ambrose, Crawford and Muller could all leave and I wouldn't care. Even beyond that it's hard to find anyone except Clark who is actually having a good season.

Id like to see the following on Wednesday. Appreciate quite a few changes in defence but McCart and Rooney have been poor and Brown and Devine in recent showings look on form and I like Dendoncker. Clark Brown Gordon Dendoncker Devine Otabor Butterfield Bryson Middleton Ohalloran May

Can't help but think we need to do something drastic now. Maybe even take some chances with the formation? We're not even defending particularly well now which is a concern. The players also need to step up and be counted and take some responsibility. Too many having poor games each week.

The home record is a concern and so is the goalscoring record. We brought Vertainen in to give us something different but I wouldn't be surprised if we were busy coaching him to be more hardworking and industrious like Kane. How can we possibly know how ready he is if he's hardly kicked a ball in a competitive game?