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I believe Perth is superior to Aberdeen at the sport of soccer, so I think we'll score more nets and succeed at winning this match up.

O'Rileys a better player than anyone else in that team, but for me he's not been impressive enough in relation to his team mates and club for him to deserve it more than folk standing out league wise in a poorer side. I'm biased in that I think OF players have a higher benchmark to breach to impress me because they're always going to dominate games and attacking players will always get goals/assists. Spittal with 7 goals and 9 assists for a relatively shire Motherwell side is very impressive.

Shapes a mess but the 11 most deserving IMO.

I'm still fairly convinced the mess v Hibs was because they set up differently to what was expected and nobody could adapt, so it was a mess as strikers followed the initial pressing plan while midfielders sat deep because they thought it was too risky, and the management couldn't think of a different approach.

Levein this morning talking about making training less intense, and less about tactical stuff, is good to hear. Been rumours the last week or so that players are overtrained and exhausted by the time we hit a game, and if they focus so much on tactical stuff then maybe that explains why they constantly look rusty in play too.

I dunno. Hallberg, Murphy and Wotherspoon were the 3 to go, that you'd think could be around that, but I wouldn't be stunned if Considine, Wright and Carey combined are similar if not higher in what they earn a week. Still paying Ali Crawford too whos on a regular starter wage. Then we're still tied to Nicky Clark who, while good, apparently earns an obscene amount, and would some of the MacLean/Levein signings be similarly expensive? I still think we're a year or two before it's completely cleared, and then we'll still be making a few mistakes likely.

Should've paid Wotherspoon £5k a week, and went without a manager, and you'd be in the play offs by now.

Understand you now. The club don't own the crematorium. All money we earn attributed to that seems to actually just be money earned by the suites within the stadium holding functions. The ~£2.8m Covid loan we took from the government was apparently to cover losses with the bulk of it the function suites. From what I've heard they've never reached pre-Covid levels of money from those since lockdown. Suspect our new owners sees that as an easy point of interest to improve to improve income. Due to location, those suites could be making 7 figures comfortably ever year if you make it attractive enough.

Taking what with them, where?

It looked a clear penalty to me too tbh.

Stop hemorrhaging half a million pound a year on about 4 players is where I'd start.

The club doesn't make any money directly from the crematorium. They make money hosting the "cup of tea" after it. I'm not really sure what you're thinking would be part, or not part, of the whole thing? The new owner is just buying Geoff Brown out.

There seems to be some myth that Bruce McDiarmid granting the land to Saints about 40 years ago was some blood oath that it's only there for football. It's just land the club owns. By all accounts they own land at other sites too. As far as I'm aware the new road is a good boundary, aye. There's a massive chunk of land that's hidden by bushes that has nothing on it. They've got planning permission for flats and have done for years, but it's looked at as perfect for a "community hub". It'll likely just be a mini sports centre. Saints in the Community currently host a huge amount of training sessions throughout the week for a variety of age groups at the stadium, but the indoor part is limited. Presumably they'd plan to build a bigger indoor pitch for that. They've talked about wanting a place to provide more community based projects that aren't just "kick a ball about too", so it might provide them room for classrooms.

Aye. Being boring but good to support again will feel like heaven after the last few years. Suspect it might still take years for the on field stuff to get sorted, bar some mad overhaul this Summer of the whole football side of things, but if you start seeing progress off it then it'll give some hope for the future. I'd love it if they chucked some money at new seats for the entire stadium tbh, and it's something they might do when talking about "modernisation"? Standing section at the scoreboard end and then all blue seats everywhere else with the odd white one to spell stuff out.

Pish. The "system" requires human input and decision making, which creates inconsistency, that makes it no better than just simply reffing a game as before. The only technology like this in football should be goal line technology.

Aye. Here's a multi-millionaire new owner for you St Johnstone fans, guess what he'll spend his millions on? The car park.

Is he just like that then? Seems convinced the empty land near McDiarmid is some hidden flaw and will f**k us, when the reality is it's earmarked for a "community hub" which will be built and owned by the "Saints in the community" organisation, and funded by the sale of the club (Geoff Brown is handing the proceeds from the sale to them so they can afford it).

Aye this... ... sounds perfect really. You might worry it's bluster but he's part of a group who's done the same at Cambridge so there's some form of track record to hang hope on.

Looking forward to hear more about how we're about to move to a 2000 seater stadium in Abernethy while our new owner builds a super-mansion at McDiarmid and saddles us with £20m of debt.

Aye I heard him mewling that we never hired him instead of Levein, saying its because of Scottish football being scared of young managers. Probably more to do with him never managing above League Two and shitting out of managing in League One because his club wouldn't dwarf everyone else financially.

Steelmenonline hasn't let me down thus far in terms of reaction to our new owners being revealed, I have to say.

Looking forward to hearing how Kevin Thomson and Kenny Miller are perfect for the job.

They are by their standards, yes. They're currently in the best spell of their history in terms of what league they're in and what position they're finishing. It's not a "partnership" anyway, apparently. He's a minority owner (10%) there, who might be giving that up to focus on us as the main owner (75%). It certainly won't be a Dundee-Burnley scenario where we have to take their kids for a season.

We got Mitov from there so aye, I'd be fine with that.