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You wouldn't be massively inspired as a player if that was the tone before you were sent out onto the pitch....

A few rumours around that a GE could be called as early next week (assume that would be a June) election if true, but I just cannot see the government doing that, unless... they think a plane to Rwanda in the middle of the election would be such a boost to them, it is worth it. But, working back, if it was November as is mooted, I presume the conferences being in September is an indication they'd call it either at the tory conference or just before?

I think this is where Ali Crawford proves his worth to the team by scoring 4/5 goals to keep us up and earn himself another 3 year contract.

I don't think you have shifted that many to be honest. Saints only release blocks at a time, so unless you have sold out the sections in the main stand, any sections behind the goal, especially furthest away from the main stand will not have been sold. Still, for what I'd essentially a non event for you guys, if you shift anything other than a relative handful, fair play to the hibs fans. I'm probably most concerned about this game than any other from a Saints perspective as you absolutely need to pick something up and I'm guessing Montgomery will both have you guys fired up for his own sake, but equally, players will have a bit of freedom given there is no risk of relegation really.

Irony is that those far right tubes are the first ones that would turn and run. You see that with their marches, first sign of agro, they do that stupid dancing and then Bolt as soon as they actually think they will get hit. On the whole 'war footing' interestingly, I heard a former soldier a few weeks back who was saying he was one of the reservists counted by the govt. Was saying his knees were gone, could barely walk and had severe mental health problems, but him like others were still counted as they were former military.

Well, there is every possibility they'd get him. Levein and Kirk have paid zero attention to any of the youth players that have been out on loan or in the under age set up. Fran is the only one they'd have any reasonable knowledge on.

I think the genuine answer is that the linesmen will be guessing if it is thst close. The rule is still that level is onside and on VAR, my understanding is that if the lines cross, it should be onside. Someone will probably tell me I'm wrong on that. I think when you get down to the essence of what the offside law was introduced for, it has become a total farce. Is an inch and advantage when you are 40-50 yards from goal? No. You can also see players now deliberately making a meal of minimal contact to draw attention to challenges in the hope that VAR will see something they didn't even feel. If/when a team loses a title or gets relegated, they will easily be able to point to VAR decisions that went against them as to reasons they lose out and others gained and then integrity has gone.

The whole purpose of VAR is to cut of the obvious mistakes. By that very definition, no one should be coming away from a game questioning a right or wrong call. While I get offside can be a black or white decision on paper and in the VAR room, there has to be space for some subjective interpretation or not. Take the example where a player is off my a couple of inches and then scores. If the player just evades a tackle of a player getting to them, then fine, but if they get the ball miles ahead of a defender and it is very marginal, then don't chalk it off. Can be treated much like the whole red card for a last man foul debate. Offside if the defender could have got there, then chalk it off. Offside where defender would have never got there had it been marginally onside ,let the goal stand. I'd say, at a game, fans can tell in 95%+ of scenarios as to whether an offside is right or not and it is those 5% you just cannot tell it should be used for. If we cannot apply common sense to the decisions, then the game is gone. The beauty of football is the instant reactions. If I'm honest, I only celebrate at 80% capacity for goals now and I suspect most are the same. I'm not anti VAR and do still genuinely think it has a place, but I am anti how we apply it. The big Big test will be when a relegation or title is decided on a wrong call. If there is a massive cook up, then the powers thst be will have to react. For me, the perfect VAR is limited to, ball over goal line, is a foul inside or outside the box and something like an elbow that a ref genuinely missed.

Any spawn of Jacob R-M is far far more terrifying. Can you imagine 20 years time when there is multiples of him trying to influence politics in the UK?

Ha ha, well, you could argue that the world going a bit mental is a good time to get these stories out, so to flip it the other way, Iran-Israel lobbing bombs at each other is as good a time as any to get some bad news out. Always find the conspires about folk thinking big events like Covid, extreme weather, wars, St Johnstone winning doubles etc are caused by some dark forces or governments controlling things. We cannot get anything to work in the UK and so if we had even tried to influence things, we'd just f**k it up.

Sorry, but the shifting the discussion onto sick people is a nice little diversion tactic from Rishi to create headlines. Have the media really already moved on from a story of a sitting MP being essentially kidnapped for ransom within 36 hours?? I mean, I know we live in Batshit crazy times when it comes to politics, but if you pause for a moment, that is quite staggering that there isnt massive investigations as to who these people were and why? Megan Markle farts in the bath and the Daily Mail claim she is causing icebergs to melt, surely this story doesn't just drop down the news? If this happened in Columbia you might half ignore it, but a sitting MP from the governing party has been kidnapped in the last few months and the PM is talking policy (cuntish policy, yes), but still policy. Mental.

Will be interesting to see what kind of a difference this makes to the crowd. Should bring folk out, but if you haven't been for a while, you'd be regretting buying both after the first game!

I think Livi might end up being key here. In a way, them having County first is the best outcome for us, as either they still think they can drag themselves off the bottom (they cannot) and go for it vs County and pick something up, or a failure to win means they are gone and players down tools by the time we play them. Probably need 3 minimum from those first 2 games though. Worry is thst we played Hibs recently and we only have one tactic, so they'll be aware and Aberdeen will be trying to impress new manager. Not inconceivable we go into that County game being 5 behind and they could consign us to the playoff that day.

So he has no real value then? I'm sure if he is there, Levein must discuss players with him, if not the actual players, he must be giving Gus a list and he then sees who is available and whose not.

They'll claim Belgium is full of woke lefties trying to silence them. In other news, Liz Truss showing she is mental again this week. That anyone is trying to re write history of her period in power is staggering.