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League Two is the only place where there no automatic relegation. Funny how these "we just want things to be fair!!" justice warriors seem to demand the top tier gets expanded constantly but never mention the only tier in Scotland that denies people automatic promotion into it.

Rangers put a lot of crosses in while getting a lot of penalties for nonsense handballs that nobody else gets. As for us, we never get the ball in the box and certainly never have anyone running with the ball in the box, so we've next to no chance of getting penalties beyond something happening at a corner.

The only "self preservation league" is in the lower tiers, I'm afraid.

You don't think playing 3 teams twice over the course of a month would be repetitive, particularly if you regularly finished beside them? Imagine 3 consecutive seasons of playing Morton back to back in April.

You complained about playing sides too much and your solution isn't actually resolving that in any meaningful way. Absolute NAP you'd moan about playing Morton too much if you got them in the League Cup, twice in the league, then twice in April. There is no sensible solution around it which is why the current system is best. We simply don't have enough teams to have division sizes that would be better in terms of playing teams less, as in general the gulf between full time and part times is too big long term, so a set up where its likely that teams are still competitive by the 4th meeting seems the best compromise. I'd be fine with 18 team leagues and 34 games, but teams won't give up home games against big supports for smaller crowds, and then the drop off to the 2nd tier would be monumental financially.

I don't understand why someone who's mewling that they play teams so much wants the best part of a season, the end, to be spent playing the same 3 teams twice over the course of a month. It's the opposite of what should be suggested by someone with that complaint.

Fair enough, just a moron then. Don't understand how anyone could look at the three lower tiers this season, think they're boring, and believe you could improve things by adding a massive dead zone and repetitive end to the season. Biggest part of the season and you want to kill it by playing the same teams over and over, while complaining you're bored of playing the same teams repeatedly.

Can you not just admit you want bigger tiers because you're sick of Partick being out the top tier, instead of convulting dogshit ideas that would ruined it for everyone instead. The current set up in terms of sizes is perfect IMO. They just need to figure out promotion/relegation better.

There would be 8 teams, with more often than not nothing to play for, playing the same 3 sides twice over 4/5 weeks. That would be horrendous for half the league and far worse in every way then the way things are.

Are you being sarcastic?

Are you suggesting that teams split into sections of 4, and then play the same three teams twice over the course of 6 games? You genuinely think that's a good idea when people already complain about playing sides too much?

It's the shite side of new rules about young players. European/further afield, youngsters are now out of reach but Scotland remains poachable for English clubs.

Its probably because you actually have players enter *dons wankers hat* Zone 14 - - so he has support to play with. Under Davidson we regularly had not a single player having a touch in that area, and the CMs were generally stuck out wide, alongside wing backs and the wingers/second strikers, creating "overloads" against the corner flag while the striker stood marked by entire defences. You'll know better than me but it feels like the big difference between shite Bair and good Bair is the level of support around him?

It's something I think I took for granted under Tommy Wright (and before) that we'd sign cast offs and improve them, and I'd kind of forgotten that. But it's been years since we had anyone like that. It's relevant to Motherwell too, maybe. It seems like being able to shine shite is a major plus point in this division and it's easy find someone who can't and you suffer for it. If Kettlewell is doing that regularly then you should maybe see that as outweighing any negatives tactically.

121st minute winner after coming from 3-0 down against one of the biggest clubs in the country, to reach your first FA Cup Final since 1987. Ruled out for this, by technology that's not capable of being that precise. One way or another it will kill the game for match going fans. Stadiums soon to be filled with tourists if you're lucky, and nobody if you're not.

Pardon? We make far, far, more money from non-football stuff than matchdays. We could play in the Championship and still turn a profit without any fuss. The league sizes are fine IMO. The biggest obvious changes for me is the bottom 2 in the top flight should be automatically relegated, and then 2nd v 3rd play off for promotion. I think the play offs below that should be 2nd v 3rd then v 9th, and then in League Two bottom is automatically relegated with Highland v Lowland for promotion.

Do you really need to ask if that's true?

Suspect ill be getting quoted a lot in the next hour or so with laughing emojis, thanks @capt_oats

How's McClelland been played? He looked brutally slow to turn/adjust/run when he did play for us, so any balls in the channel were a nightmare as you'd know the opponent was getting the ball. His chances of playing for us probably depend on what division we're in, and there's more chance he stays if we're relegated if anything.

Fun reading all that back, then reading Queens Park fans currently complaining about only scoring in one of their last 6 matches, an ineffective system, and shiteheart players being endlessly played. Not surprising those who were fairly vicious in their defence of him, and lauded his form when he first went there and had a jibe at Saints fans who wanted him out, have suddenly decided to avoid all mention of it.

Watt was very good for us, FWIW, and it seemed to only fall apart after he rejected a new contract and Tommy Wright decided he wanted to give Chris Kane a run of games to see if he'd be a capable first choice the season after. I think yer man is just very pro-St Johnstone, to the point it's assumed we do everything right and if things don't work out then it's someone else's fault, so the easiest reply to Bair turning his career around is claiming its luck etc., rather than admitted we failed him via coaching/tactics etc.

I don't think it's fair to use Nicolsons opinion are an example of the entire support, the Callum Davidson saga should show you why. Most Saints fans wanted Bair to succeed, saw he was awful for us, and were shocked he got another top flight side, which led to the reaction when he signed for you last Summer. The reaction now is of a feeling of a missed opportunity with us, with fingers being pointed at Davidson/MacLean for what seems a clear inability to get him performing. I think I've seen one or two say Bair is still shite and that this season is a one off, most wish him well and use it as a dig at Davidson.

Again, they do this all the time and you, again, have repeatedly explained to me that they let play go on at offside situations without making any decision, knowing a review will take play once play stops.

I've been told repeatedly in this thread that the referee would be blow straight away if he thought it was a clear foul. If he didn't he thought it was inconclusive. If he thought it was inconclusive why did he make that the stopping point for the VAR review and not allow the whole thing to be reviewed? Him awarding the free kick on the pitch, for something he thought was inconclusive, made it the end point for any review. They do this all the time and it happened earlier in the exact same game.