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  1. 12 minutes ago, Radford said:

    There is no doubt that Levein has got results. We've got 20 points from 14 games since MacLean was sacked, season form that's 33 points which puts you up there with Killie and St Mirren. He's only lost to the Old Firm and away at Hearts and Killie in the league. Folk will point out also how close we are to the top six.

    But it's hard to get your head around because we are still so rubbish. This is the worst Saints team, IMO, in two decades. They make attacking looking so difficult and struggle to build any sort of possession. The width issue was better yesterday but still there for was no one with an ability to worry an opposition full back.

    I appreciate we've been blessed with the teams put together from Coyle up to the double winners, but having to accept this being what have we to look forward to is s struggle, i can't lie. Can only hope that Levein intends to put far more of a mark on things.

    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. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Am Featha *****h Nan Clach said:

    I bought tickets for the France end, next to the away section. Had to use VPN to get them as initially said not available to me when not using VPN. Had no issue with a Scottish address/U.K. credit card

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

  3. 2 hours ago, Pie Of The Month said:

    VPN gets by it no bother if you're willing to pay the mental prices.

    Going by where the €79 are and where the standard away end is I think we'll be €79 too unless the French are feeling generous and say the away end is a lower category.

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

  4. 15 minutes ago, Eednud said:

    You could always invoke the Auld Alliance and sit with the home fans but looks like the cheaper seats have gone.


    https://billetterie.fff.fr/fr/meeting/13801/france-ecosse/decathlon-arena-lille-metropole/17-10-2023/21h00?offer=14587

    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)
  5. 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. 

     

  6. 33 minutes ago, Radford said:

    If you have good defenders on the park, you can trust them to do their jobs and it allows you to include more guys like Wotherspoon, Carey , May and Clark, especially when they all bring a work ethic.

    Rangers obviously had all of the ball but you have to be honest and say the fact we survived 29 shots with Elliot Parish in goals tells you all you need to know about the quality of them. He made one very good save from the Tavernier header but was only called into proper action once before that, getting down to a low shot (that he actually spilled round the post) in the first half. Everything else was straight at him (even the goal) or high, wide and not very pretty, the Lundstram one that hit the bar apart. But you are always happy to let teams have a dig from that distance.

    Mitchell back in the centre was a colossus and totally snuffed Colak out. Considine has been an excellent signing. Hardest Carey has worked and he has no excuse for not bringing that every week now. What a joy to see Wotherspoon back and he's surely going to Qatar in a few weeks. What a moment that will be.

    Another couple of points minimum on the total before the break would be a very decent return, however they've been accumulated.

    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.

  7. 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?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  8. 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. 
     
  9. 12 minutes ago, Costanza said:

    Cleary is right sided is he not? Booth can’t be considered a viable left sided centre back option, regardless of how poor McCart has been. Doesn’t read like Gallacher can play there either.

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

     

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    “Dan is one of the best ball-playing centre halves I have played with,” said the 33-year-old.

    “He is very good at taking it out from the back and with St Johnstone playing a back-three he will be well suited to that.

    “His best games have come when he’s left of the three and he can take the ball, carry it forward and get the team up the pitch.

    “As a striker that’s something you don’t like playing against because you have to chase back.

     

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 2 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

    Serious question, what's the script been with Cammy MacPherson?

    I mean, a lot of St. Mirren fans were miffed he was allowed to leave. I personally wasn't bothered as I feel that he has 1 game in 4 where he's great and then 3 where he steams about the pitch looking like he can barely pass the ball 5 yards. Shows plenty of tenacity but it sometimes takes a bit more than that. 

    Has he shown much for St. Johnstone? 

    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.

  14. 3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

    You're not alone.

    Some of them seem aware that they can get away with hiding in attack as long as they chase a couple of hopeless balls a few times a match 

    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'.

  15. 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.

     

     

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