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He really doesn’t. After Max’s last appearance it’s pretty harsh for Sven to get left out. Just reading what the Warrington manager has been saying about Sidibeh.. it’s fairly obvious he’s going to destroy this league isn’t it?!! Can’t wait to see him play.

At a guess: Mitov Keltjens McGown Considine Robinson TG Franz Max C Smith Carey Kimpioka

Aye that sounds rough, hope you make a full recovery min. There’s bound to be some cheap comment available about a Saints fan suffering an eye bleeding injury… but I hope no one sinks that low.

That is abysmal. Out of those left, is every single one of them out of contract in the summer?

Of Cormack’s appointments, Glass was the only really bad one. I think most saw that the appointment was a sentimental, trying to be too clever type move. Goodwin had done okay at a team in the same division, improving their cup form and moving them from perennial relegation strugglers to the fringes of top six, so with a bigger budget it wasn’t infeasible that he’d do okay at Aberdeen. Robson took over a very mediocre team and went on an incredible run to third and European football. The turnaround was phenomenal. If the board had then given it to someone else who underachieved they would be getting pelters for not appointing Robson. There was nothing about last season to suggest Robson would bomb so badly when given the job permanently. Yes, neither appointment didn’t work out and ultimately deserved to be punted, but no one’s got a crystal ball, and you can only make the decisions based on the facts at your disposal at the time. Its easy to assess the decisions based on how they turned out, but at the time of both Goodwin and Robson’s appointments, they were understandable.

Buglione had over 80 goals in a season for Margate (?) I’m sure. It did make many wonder at the time what with so many clubs nearby having a jolly boys down to Margate, if he was any good, why hadn’t anyone else picked him up?! But I agree with Tam that Adama is going to tear it up.

A classic. This was around the same time as the phrase ‘f**k her right in the pussy’ was regularly shouted during live broadcasts. Back when humour was innocent, spontaneous and fun. We’ve lost a lot from our society over the years.

Did this happen? That’s magnificent if so. Don’t suppose there’s video evidence of this??

** It’s not a derby **

Absolutely nailed it Tam. I would bin Saints in a heartbeat if we paired up with those squeaky p***ks. We should pick a good traditional club with a bit of class, like Newcastle for example.

What’s that you say? Spend lots of money on players is it? Become the third force in Scottish football you say? Go on to challenge the Old Firm? Well hell, that sounds incredible skippy, never heard of such a plan in Scottish football before…

Your reverse psychology won’t work on us Girth. We watch this pish every week. We know what we’re (not)capable of.

Exactly. He was dreadful for us every time he played, and he got plenty of opportunities. Compare to Morgan, Vertainen, Jephcott etc in terms of matches played for similar impact on the park. Seemed like a decent lad and has done better at Motherwell, so good luck to him. But we were right not to persevere with him as a forward option this season. It was the failure to bring in anything better that was the issue, not the moving him on.

I think we probably do look more organised defensively than we have been in recent times, and our improved league position is a big plus; on the back of the horror show at airdrie, not losing either of the next two shows a bit of character I guess. But there are still big concerns.. It’s now 6 matches without a win including airdrie. We don’t create many chances and don’t score many goals. We struggle to win matches because of this, and will therefore struggle to pull far from the bottom two places. While Keltjens looks okay, there are no indications at all that any of our January signings so far are going to greatly improve us. Early days obviously, and hopefully they all do go on to make a positive impact. We constantly tried to play out from the back at Airdrie through the centre backs taking 5 yard passes from Mitov, but we’ve not seen it since. On the one hand, it’s good we’re not stubbornly sticking to a tactic that isn’t working as Callum did, but on the other, if this is what we’ve been working on over the three week break and we’ve ripped it up already, do we have any tactics or system to build play when we’re in possession? Because for 5 of the 6 halves we’ve played so far, we’ve looked completely disjointed and like we have no plan.

Livingston v Ross County on Tuesday night before our match next Saturday in Dingwall. A draw probably the best result for us there.

Gordon was down ages and we didn’t even have anyone close to ready. That’s the management’s fault. You should have a sub warmed up and close to ready after a player has been down a while. If you don’t need him then he puts his tracksuit back on and sits back down.

Motherwell deserved to win. They at least tried to play and got through us numerous times. We were atrocious in that second half. Unbelievably bad. Don’t know if we were struggling physically with it being the third game in a week, but only Considine gets pass marks for me. Carey dreadful, Max as disinterested as it’s possible to be. And folk actually wanted Luke Robinson back.. !!

I don’t want to get into a game of ‘we’re worse than you’, but… We’ve managed 3 clean sheets at home all season, and that’s including matches against Ayr united and Stirling Albion. We’ve scored 14 goals in 21 matches, so it takes an average of one and a half matches for us to score a goal.

Probably too early to be talking about must win games, but as we’ve got 0 away league wins and only scored 2 away from McD this season, a home match against a fellow struggler is surely close to being just that. With a missed opportunity against a very poor Aberdeen side in Perth on Wednesday, a draw here isn’t a lot of good to us.

This is going to be 1-1 isn’t it?

On one of those departed players, hadn’t realised Luke Jephcott’s first game for Newport could be at home to Man Utd in the FA Cup this Sunday. Bound to come on and score the winner.

You didn’t see our forward options in midweek did you?!!!

Aye drums are pish. Scotland’s equivalent of vuvuzelas. Didn’t mind them at first as I thought they were there to beat the rhythm for thousands of Saints fans singing along in harmony. Instead the drummers now think they’re the star of the show. When it’s quiet their way of improving the atmosphere is to manically beat f**k out the thing as hard and loud as they can and completely drown out the half dozen folk singing along. Singing at football is great. Drums and vuvuzelas are shite.