Starting to get nervy now.
My confidence is pretty low for this one; St Johnstone were thoroughly decent against Rangers, and you can barely separate the sides this season - two 1-0 homes wins in Perth, a 3-2 home win in Paisley. Identical league records save for that all-important goal difference. St Johnstone obviously had a great LC win, though their semi final performance was way more impressive than the win over Livi IMO.
We've shown we can literally beat any team in Scotland (aside from Hibs, for some reason) on our day, but anyone being truthful knows we very rarely show up for entire games and our performances over the past couple of months have mostly been leggy and quite laboured. I think we'll struggle against an energetic/athletic St Johnstone team.
I want us to go four at the back, and this is what I would go with:
Alnwick
Fraser - Shaughnessy - McCarthy - Tait
-------------- JDH - Erhahon ---------------
Connolly/Quaner - McGrath - Durmus
------------------Dennis ---------------------
Square pegs in square holes. McGrath MUST play close to Dennis. Ethan on to allow JDH to get forward.
Feeling a bit sick just thinking about it, tbh!
What we'll actually go with: