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Some of the online comments and tales are absolutely wild, to the point where reasoned saints fans try and explain it, but get shot down. Ranging from he’s our best ever manager and deserves loyalty to he didn’t get enough time and this is a snap decision. I know people other than saints don’t care about us, but we’ve been rank rotten for almost 2 calendar years now, he’s tried (no much) to change and sort it, but totally failed. Then again the other take is that the players are at fault, now whilst this is also true, can anybody blame them for downing tools or not being able to play with the tactics.

Let’s not forget that Tommy Wright continued to play Gary McDonald……

That explains why we lost, we turned up on the wrong day!

Kindly take your wrong opinion and f**k off.

To be fair Phillips didn’t look for, or that he was enjoying the pitch since he was struggling. Not that I’d bring Carey on though.

Alex Mitchell hasn’t come out for the half time warm up……four at the back lasting 45 minutes…?

Count me in the "if we lose and he goes camp", that's genuinely what it's come down to now, which tells you everything about how little support he has from the stands and dare I say the players. Apathy, just pure and undiluted apathy right now.

The irony with Davidsons comments are that he could play 4-3-3 and we'd be far better and more balanced. Matthews Brown - McGowan - Mitchell - Montgomery McPherson - Phillips - Spoony Wright - May -Murphy That team is competitive and actually full of running which is something we seem to lack. You'd even have the option of McLennan on the bench for more pace, Carey could replace a midfielder and sit at the top if he's not being asked to defend. There's just so many more options available to the clown, he's just unwilling to see it at all.

I found it really telling that Davidson was coming out with the "I'm shocked he was sacked" line. Now either he genuinely believes it and by that same token believes he is doing a superb job with Saints (which is possible). Or he's using it as a smokescreen to throw off our own board and make them second guess even considering jettisoning him!

I’d play Carey over Hallberg, for the simple reason Livi get caught out with balls over the top and that’s the only thing Carey has been decent at in recent weeks.

Yeah. Issue then arises in that you're looking to replace the owner, the board, the manager, a lot of the players, the groundstaff, the media team, the list is endless. It really feels like a revolving door moment for the club in that we as fans are essentially asking for a totally clean slate and who knows how that would turn out.

So onto a game with arguably the 2 most out of form teams in the league, both sets of fans expecting to lose, but only one set calling for their manager to quite frankly f**k off. I've no doubt that Livi will set up, be solid at the back and dominate the midfield, whilst also carrying more of a goal threat. They wont even need to play well, we'll simply roll over meekly and get our bellies tickled. Gordon injured on Saturday and no Considine would mean a back four to 99.9% of people in the footballing community, but I've got no doubt our moronic manager will find a way to do something different. I can see another 2/3-0 win for Livi on the cards quite comfortably as our slide to the bottom gathers pace!

I've already bought a ticket stupidly, then again it's pretty much a home game for me. I fully expect those in attendance to be absolutely scunnered with everything that is going on and it wouldn't surprise me to hear a lot of stuff that would far eclipse last seasons.

Absolutely, I'm all for a Canadian influx, can't be any worse than some of the Scottish shite we've got! It's a sign!

What's Nick Dasovic up to these days....?

He's now head of youth at Newcastle, he aint coming back to Scotland any time soon! As bad as it sounds, I'd take Neilson, he's unspectacular, but I suspect he's a bit like Tommy Wright in that regards. Not that it will be him, Davidson isn't going anywhere right now unfortunately,

I think the issue with May yesterday was the moment he becomes the lone striker he’s totally useless. Why we went 4411 or 433 or whatever it was meant to be, totally negates your only striker left on the pitch. Yet another reason our manager is a tactical moron.

I think the atmosphere yesterday was worse than any home game last season. The fact that the players are getting it equally tight, totally led to a toxic atmosphere. I turned round at one point to the guys around me, that’s the only time the crowd actually applauded our own team in the first half was for shielding a ball out of play, that’s what it’s come down to. I’ve never come away from a game more angry than yesterday and I was at all the games last season at home, I was at Kelty, but this season is just worse for whatever reason and honestly there are literally no positives around the club right now.

Get this fucking, moronic arrogant, c**t out of our club now!

I mean I’ve seen it before, but it takes levels to a mange that!

A good question, I could only see the top half, but knowing Hive, you’d get in with shin pads and boots too!

Right, someone needs to own up, I’ve just been sent a picture by one of my mates of a guy in the Hive nightclub in Edinburgh in a saints kit from earlier this week.

I’d probably agree. I’ve pulled guys up on sites and jobs for language and behaviours. Especially in the commercial sector when there’s staff and members of the public around. There’s many things that are tolerated these days, but “lads being lads” isn’t one of them anymore.

Yeah Philips is great to watch in the team as you never quite know what he's going to do next and some of his skills are outrageous, just a shame they're always 30 yards from our goal and not in the opposition half! To me, he's more mobile than McPherson and a better ball carrier, but isn't as good at passing the ball getting his head up. Ironically combine the two and you'd have a heck of a player (or rather an Ali McCann!) In an ideal world, your midfield would be McPherson, Phillips and Spoony, with 2 strikers ahead of them and a license for Spoony to drift from a rigid central position to float into areas he can play 1-2s with the wing backs.

I mean I wouldn't say he was amazing, but he brought a level of calmness on the ball and actually looked to play forward and in behind the defence, which we don't see from our other players, other than maybe Carey. He also understands how the likes of May play, which is a huge help.