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Levein this morning talking about making training less intense, and less about tactical stuff, is good to hear. Been rumours the last week or so that players are overtrained and exhausted by the time we hit a game, and if they focus so much on tactical stuff then maybe that explains why they constantly look rusty in play too.

I dunno. Hallberg, Murphy and Wotherspoon were the 3 to go, that you'd think could be around that, but I wouldn't be stunned if Considine, Wright and Carey combined are similar if not higher in what they earn a week. Still paying Ali Crawford too whos on a regular starter wage. Then we're still tied to Nicky Clark who, while good, apparently earns an obscene amount, and would some of the MacLean/Levein signings be similarly expensive? I still think we're a year or two before it's completely cleared, and then we'll still be making a few mistakes likely.

Should've paid Wotherspoon £5k a week, and went without a manager, and you'd be in the play offs by now.

Understand you now. The club don't own the crematorium. All money we earn attributed to that seems to actually just be money earned by the suites within the stadium holding functions. The ~£2.8m Covid loan we took from the government was apparently to cover losses with the bulk of it the function suites. From what I've heard they've never reached pre-Covid levels of money from those since lockdown. Suspect our new owners sees that as an easy point of interest to improve to improve income. Due to location, those suites could be making 7 figures comfortably ever year if you make it attractive enough.

Taking what with them, where?

It looked a clear penalty to me too tbh.

Stop hemorrhaging half a million pound a year on about 4 players is where I'd start.

The club doesn't make any money directly from the crematorium. They make money hosting the "cup of tea" after it. I'm not really sure what you're thinking would be part, or not part, of the whole thing? The new owner is just buying Geoff Brown out.

There seems to be some myth that Bruce McDiarmid granting the land to Saints about 40 years ago was some blood oath that it's only there for football. It's just land the club owns. By all accounts they own land at other sites too. As far as I'm aware the new road is a good boundary, aye. There's a massive chunk of land that's hidden by bushes that has nothing on it. They've got planning permission for flats and have done for years, but it's looked at as perfect for a "community hub". It'll likely just be a mini sports centre. Saints in the Community currently host a huge amount of training sessions throughout the week for a variety of age groups at the stadium, but the indoor part is limited. Presumably they'd plan to build a bigger indoor pitch for that. They've talked about wanting a place to provide more community based projects that aren't just "kick a ball about too", so it might provide them room for classrooms.

Aye. Being boring but good to support again will feel like heaven after the last few years. Suspect it might still take years for the on field stuff to get sorted, bar some mad overhaul this Summer of the whole football side of things, but if you start seeing progress off it then it'll give some hope for the future. I'd love it if they chucked some money at new seats for the entire stadium tbh, and it's something they might do when talking about "modernisation"? Standing section at the scoreboard end and then all blue seats everywhere else with the odd white one to spell stuff out.

Pish. The "system" requires human input and decision making, which creates inconsistency, that makes it no better than just simply reffing a game as before. The only technology like this in football should be goal line technology.

Aye. Here's a multi-millionaire new owner for you St Johnstone fans, guess what he'll spend his millions on? The car park.

Is he just like that then? Seems convinced the empty land near McDiarmid is some hidden flaw and will f**k us, when the reality is it's earmarked for a "community hub" which will be built and owned by the "Saints in the community" organisation, and funded by the sale of the club (Geoff Brown is handing the proceeds from the sale to them so they can afford it).

Aye this... ... sounds perfect really. You might worry it's bluster but he's part of a group who's done the same at Cambridge so there's some form of track record to hang hope on.

Looking forward to hear more about how we're about to move to a 2000 seater stadium in Abernethy while our new owner builds a super-mansion at McDiarmid and saddles us with £20m of debt.

Aye I heard him mewling that we never hired him instead of Levein, saying its because of Scottish football being scared of young managers. Probably more to do with him never managing above League Two and shitting out of managing in League One because his club wouldn't dwarf everyone else financially.

Steelmenonline hasn't let me down thus far in terms of reaction to our new owners being revealed, I have to say.

Looking forward to hearing how Kevin Thomson and Kenny Miller are perfect for the job.

They are by their standards, yes. They're currently in the best spell of their history in terms of what league they're in and what position they're finishing. It's not a "partnership" anyway, apparently. He's a minority owner (10%) there, who might be giving that up to focus on us as the main owner (75%). It certainly won't be a Dundee-Burnley scenario where we have to take their kids for a season.

We got Mitov from there so aye, I'd be fine with that.

Robert Thomson goes into more detail. Webb to own 75% of the club. Potential for other investors to come on board later. Money more likely to be spent on infrastructure/future proofing/modernisation of club structure/facilities. Webb helped build Cambridge a £3.5m training ground. Another massive financial loss expected for us this season.

I think it's needs done regardless of how good/bad it is. We've been festering for years with the Browns wanting out so one way or another this hopefully kicks the club back to life.

Courier now reporting the sale is agreed, and naming Adam Webb as the buyer, assume it would be kept quiet unless they were certain. Lawyer in America who became a minority shareholder at Cambridge United to help the club purchase the stadium back from the council, and there's 7 figures worth of investment into infrastructure of the club since he joined too. Their fans believe there's been budget increases too. All sounds promising and particularly sensible. Stan Harris to remain as CEO to help the transition, but budgets and plans already being drawn up for next season under Webb and sounds like he'll make changes.

In 20/21 we beat the 3rd placed side in both competitions, at the Semi and Final stage, won at Ibrox, and Aberdeen/Celtic were the only teams of the top 6 we never beat, with us also beating the sides who finished 7th and 8th. There's plenty of teams who only draw the OF once in a cup completion, it's not notable enough to keep track of because they always fail to win both trophies. The idea we're "lucky" because that was our draw is stupid when the reality is other clubs get "lucky" that way all the time but don't capitalise.

Aye the name on WAP matches previous rumours, makes sense, and also seems like it would be good based on what he's done elsewhere. Doesn't look like someone who'd be asset stripping at all. On Liam Gordon, I think he's going through a Zander Clark blip of years of dross when he's better than that, but if he wants to go then let him and try to improve on him. He's clearly into his own head just now.