Jamie_B

What's weird to me about that incident with Duk is that he doesn't seem to make anything of it at all? It looks an absolutely blatant foul, and fair enough he tries to get up and play on, but when the ball goes out of play he doesn't seem to make any sort of appeal? Admittedly I've only seen a short clip and maybe he goes mental shortly thereafter.

For me that is very subjective and should remain with the on field decision. The Hearts player who is coming back takes a touch on the ball just after it bounces, so unless Maeda is going to take it out of the air and hit it in one move he's at the very least going to be under serious pressure by the time he gets a shot away.

If they work out the xG against of the goalkeeper as well United could be fucked wherever a tackle is made...

That was as close a frame as I could pull to the point of contact, but that is at the point Mulgrew has made his movement to raise his leg and bring down Hallberg. Even taking it a second later, when Hallberg is almost on the deck, Ayina is still at least 35 yards from goal. For me Hallberg was overwhelmingly likely to take the next touch on the ball if Mulgrew doesn't take him out. Ayina would have done well to be back in the box before Hallberg gets a shot in. Birighitti may have come off his line (from a standing start) to close it down but realistically all he's going to be able to do is try to shut down the angles for Hallberg to aim at. The likelihood is Hallberg takes a touch on the ball no more than 15 yards from goal, just inside the box, with no defender on their feet within 15 yards of him. All he has to do is take one simple touch inside from that position to leave himself an extremely good chance.

Hard to see exactly how Ayina was covering anything at the point of Mulgrew’s foul…

Come on to f**k Saints…

Saints v Dundee United on the first weekend might well have been worth a shout - it’s a huge game for both teams. Not impressed that we’re off to Kilmarnock for a third time when it’s a crucial head to head. Our fixtures look rotten.

He said the same thing about Nicky Clark’s red card that was overturned. He is a fucking idiot.

What I don’t get is this rash of red cards for tackles like that today - but Ryan Jack’s absolutely deliberate bursting of Adam Montgomery was deemed only a yellow because the contact was on the ankle rather than three inches higher. That’s an awful, awful red card. It’s a 50/50 and Jeggo wins it.

That’s never a red card. Ever. VAR is a load of shite.

And actually, FFS again… Lovely start to the round today, then just a complete meltdown on the 7th. But for that and I’m easily under 90 for the round but ended up with 92.

I means FFS…

I’d agree re: Robson. Speaks very well any time I’ve heard him and is obviously the right profile. I rather suspect he’ll get the Aberdeen job though if they keep going the way they are just now, but I’d definitely be taking soundings as far as he goes.

Well exactly, that’s what I was getting at, but St Johnstone, football and the finance behind it is now so far removed from where we and it were in the early 80s that what happened then has little if any bearing on where we are now. I trust the Browns to hand the club on to an owner that isn’t going to kick the foundations out from under us, and we should never again find ourselves in the position we were in 40 years ago. On that basis, saying “you shouldn’t forget the 80s” as a reason not to can a failing manager is a nonsense.

I am closer to 40 than I like to admit. I started going to watch Saints regularly in the mid 90s, my first season ticket around the point where Dundee United were in the First Division with us back then. Since then we spent seven seasons in the second tier - but have overwhelmingly been a Premiership club. There is a very strong argument that we only spent that length of time in the First Division because of the effective financial doping of many other clubs in the Setanta era that Geoff Brown refused - rightly - to indulge in. Admittedly we got things wrong during that period as well, the Connolly team being the prime example, but we were the victims of Gretna’s final spasm of success and also saw other teams spending way beyond their means to get ahead while we kept within ours. Unsurprisingly when that bubble burst we were in prime position to take advantage, and we’ve done so in style. Things that happened the thick end of 40 years ago are a total irrelevance - you may as well talk about what happened to us after the Second World War having a bearing today.

I dread to think what he has to say about Davidson but his commentary on the Killie v Celtic game was brerathtaking. Apparently Killie "didn't want to score" because their striker didn't smash Joe Hart into the net going for a cross that he was never going to get. He is an absolute buffoon.

May with wingers either side of him concerns me but glad to see we've gone to a more sensible shape to at least some degree.

I'm very close to Radford's position as well. I could easily see a situation where we bring someone else in and win 3/4 of our post split games. I can also see a situation where he stays and we are right in the relegation mix until the final day. The last thing we want is to end up in a playoff on the run of form we've been on. Based on everything coming out of the club just now I just don't see how we're turning this around.

We were in London at the start of this week - we must have been incredibly lucky as we got a room at the Melia White House (just at the southern entrance to Regent's Park, ten minutes walk from Euston) for £120 for the night. Always worth being signed up to hotel loyalty programmes and keeping an eye out for deals - that's how we got that one. Superb hotel as well.

We should build an 8000 seater stadium on the lesser south inch and f**k the car parking/traffic problems.

Actually felt it was pointless bringing on the likes of Murphy and McLennan at the end - they both want to get the ball down and dribble it which is utterly impossible on that surface. It just kicks up every second touch.

That is soft as f**k. They're holding each other the whole way and the slight push is nothing at all, certainly shouldn't result in a foul.

Well absolutely, I was actually just wondering if it came from the same area is all!

I'd be interested in the age profile of the person involved. One of the older guys that sits a few rows in front of me shouted something fairly horrendous at Craig Napier a few weeks back which I was pretty raging about, though I couldn't tell you which one of them it was. No place at all for discriminatory behaviour anywhere and I'm glad to see Saints taking a robust stance.

If we drop Stevie May to accommodate a ridiculous system that we know doesn’t work then that should be a sackable offence in and of itself.