Mr Heliums

I don't understand this argument, given that we've offered - and had accepted - longer-term deals for some players, perhaps on those terms. So clearly the club is thinking ahead. Those who haven't signed on are our in-demand players. To me, the logical conclusion is that it's the players themselves - or their agents - who are reluctant to commit. They know good offers will come in from elsewhere over the summer. I don't blame them for this. (Edit: Or, equally you could be Callum Hendry and think that maybe you'll be more appreciated elsewhere...)

That suggestion flies in the face of the club offering longer-term deals to the likes of Bair, Mahon, Crawford, Hallberg and MacPherson. I imagine Saints couldn't offer its higher-paid players the sort of deal they'd be looking for when the club was unsure of where it would be next season. Relegation would be catastrophic financially. And I imagine the higher-paid players – knowing on the one hand they'd attract good offers from elsewhere and on the other fearing a drop to the Championship – were happy to wait. I think that would be understandable on both sides.

Maybe it was telling that post-match Davidson specifically mentioned Kilmarnock when he talked about clubs spending money? I wouldn't be surprised if Hendry in particular ended up there. I doubt we'll have a budget Killie's size – we spent our money in that January spree. On that note, galling that a player we signed for a six-figure sum months ago only made his full home debut last night. And he looked like he should have been in the team months earlier.

Cifti too

I understand Ali McCann and Jason Kerr will be there tonight. If only they were in the team.

I realise the cup final takes precendence as a newsworthy item, but does the St Johnstone v ICT play off final, kicking off in an hour, really less important than a Rangers kitman's funeral?

He's building a wee narrative to save his managerial career that the last five months have been a success and the next two games could represent a triumph.

Shouldn't have read on to boil over at the nonsense Allan Preston is spewing: "Callum… has to undertake a major rebuild. The chairman has got to support him and they've got to say 'we don't want another season like this'. Like all that money wasted in January on players who've hardly played never happened

F*ck me, given it's the BBC there's a chance he's been misquoted but I bet he hasn't: "It's huge for the club," Davidson added. "We don't want to be in this position but St Johnstone don't have the right to be in the Premiership."

Aberdeen beat Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. What's your point? If you're seriously trying to equate Rangers winning this with Celtic winning in 1967, where does Rangers being pumped out of Europe's top competition by Malmo at the start of August come in?

Wonder what next year's strip will look like.

It'll be nearly 40 degrees, they'll have been drinking for days and their fanbase is congenitally furious. With those ingredients, you'd imagine it's a certainty.

Next Monday would be best in PR terms.

All down to Rooney really.

The evidence from this season for a start. Because this has been a car crash of a season domestically from almost day one. Fine, we lost two of our best players in August, but we hadn't won in 10 domestic games before that. The problems and the weaknesses were glaringly obvious to fans and opposition managers alike. So you'd hope he'd start adapting, start learning, but no. By January, when we were bottom of the league he was given a lot of funds to improve matters. Far more than anyone else in the bottom six. He spent lavishly, yet many his signings have been hardly used since. One has never played. Of those who have, with the exception of Cleary (a step above Davidson's rotten signings earlier in the year), they've shown themselves to have been as bad, or worse, than the players he signed them to replace. So you hope that he'd at least acknowledge his managerial flaws and that he needed to change things. He's still a young manager. But no, again: in his stop-start, cliche-ridden interviews, it's everyone else who is to blame. He picked on one player for a loss against an old firm team - chucking him out on loan weeks later. He's railed at referees. He's moaned about luck, as if he didn't benefit from it last year. But never in my hearing has he accepted his own culpability or that he'd learn from it or adapt the way we play. Still filled with hubris from last season, he thinks he's a great coach and it will all come good in the end. He's clearly not a better manager. He shows no obvious willingness to identify what's gone wrong or to improve, which is why I can't see him getting better in the future.

The thing that's giving me hope is the fact that Brown might base his current views on the level of support the team is getting, which hasn't faltered since Kelty. Maybe he's conflating that for support for the manager. But the day the office opens for season ticket renewals will tell him the real story

I do - or at least the board will act when it becomes clear what the fans think. He was given time at Christmas to sort things out, but despite spending huge amounts of money, it's no better. Arguably worse, in fact: now we have a bloated squad that doesn't look like it's fighting for anything. The football remains eye-watering, the manager remains in denial. Steve Brown will see this as much as anyone. If Davidson is punted regardless, the only advantage of relegation for me is that I won't have to watch any matches with VAR next season.

Saints will get what they need here. Eleventh place will be secured. Do you really think that the banter gods, reflecting on the last 12 months where Saints have gone from astonishing double-cup winners and a European journey that saw packed houses at McDiarmid and a lead against a major European team, will be satisfied with simple relegation? They're surely holding out for to the ignominy of being pumped out over two legs of the play offs by a part-time side. That's surely what it's coming to.

Even if Dundee had been shafted 5-0 tonight, a part of me knows that Davidson would play for a 0-0 tomorrow. I can't even pretend I can be bothered to go through and watch. What a waste of a season ticket this year.

I know which of those clubs I'd join. The equivalent of around £2 in today's money for transport with a meal included? Yes, please.

More important what he says after season ticket renewals open.

A touching collage that pays tribute to those who have died. Did they mean to put the Rangers badge front and centre?

I think there will be a break at the end of the season, irrespective of where we find ourselves. It was understandable that the board let him have the January window – Davidson's successes last season earned him credit and the right to spend that money. It hasn't worked. Davidson still doesn't recognise the poverty of the football of the team he picks. The referees still get the blame. But the board isn't daft. It will have to look forward in May, and will surely be swayed by the certainty that a section of fans won't renew their season tickets unless there's change. This season has been awful value for money, everyone knows it and no-one, other than the blindly loyal, see any way of things improving. The prospect of another season of Davidsonball, set off by the introduction of VAR, will find plenty looking desperately for other things to do on a Saturday.

Talking about significant games, I love stumbling across links between quite separate moments of our history. Reading an old PA published the day before one of the biggest games in our history against Airdrie in 1990, I browsed a few pages back and saw a wee report tucked into the Announcements section:

You literally responded on a thread talking about our lowest home crowd at Muirton and said you were there. That's why I said you had the games mixed up.