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2 hours ago, Radford said:
A loser mentality permeates this squad and it needs cleansed of it.
Losing, just like winning, is habit forming. Once you get on a losing streak it’s very difficult to get out of it. It needs a positive mindset, appetite for hard work and a willingness to go in where it hurts. Unfortunately this squad shows none of these qualities
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1 minute ago, tree house tam said:
You're kidding no-one, we can smell you from here.
If you tell me where here is, I can adjust my bathing habits accordingly
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1 hour ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
Hint:
Created a new game by accident here
I have no idea who you’re talking about. Only good thing is I’m pretty sure I don’t fit any of the criteria mentioned earlier
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54 minutes ago, Widge said:
Thing is football at that age group is brutal. Realistically you’re never taking forward an entire squad since there isn’t a next level? Its either out on loan or into the first team squad and given the fact we’ve already got 16 year olds playing first team football, that gives you the indication of the level they’d need to hit. If even 3/4 make it in the professional game at any level you’re looking at a successful youth team, let along 3/4 ever making it at saints. Although if we do drop a level there’s more of a chance.
Simple arithmetic tells you that pro youth football has a high attrition rate. From under 11 to under 16 a squad can advance with minimal change but after 16s it goes to 18s so a whole squad is not needed and half are released. After 18s it’s full squad, loan or release as there aren’t 15 or 16 places for them to take. When you take into account players released from Celtic and Rangers that clubs like Saints are interested in then that means even less places available. Brutal is an apt description
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1 hour ago, tree house tam said:
Mitov
Gordon Considine
Keltjens Gallacher
McGowan
Wright Smith Carey
Kimpioka Sidibeh
Get into them.
Would only make one change to this. Probably put a traffic cone in place of Smith(regardless of which Smith it was)
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6 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Probably more a Stan Harris/Geoff Brown decision. Not sure he'll come into this situation and make such a big decision against their advice.
Why would you buy a business and let the previous owner make that decision. Could understand him sounding out both of them but surely it’s a decision he has to take, not have taken for him.
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24 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
The squads rotten, and the clubs been rotten for years.
Cut the fucking core out and start again Mr Webb.
First big test for the new owner will be whether he has the balls to sack that pair of imposters Levein and Kirk. It should be the first thing he does as soon as the takeover is complete
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On 04/02/2024 at 09:06, The Marly said:
Yes, I agree. Levein has built some good football teams at previous clubs and might well do so with Saints.
But he once played a 4-6-0 formation and some people are not willing to let that go. I feel Johnoswald is one of them.
Just a reminder that this was said back in February.
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7 minutes ago, Jamie_B said:
We could easily go into those games without a win in six or seven (I think). Levein has completely shat the bed as have most of the players.
We deserve to go down. 3 games on the bounce we have shown absolutely no fight or ability. A manager stealing a wage and playing a pile of players who are doing the same. Does anyone truly think these shitebags have it in them to roll their sleeves up, get wired in and fight for our top flight place.
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Do you think their tactical training is have everyone standing on a line with a ball and then Sidibe and Kimpioka take turns at running away as fast as they can while the rest of the guys shell the balls over their heads
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2 minutes ago, FrankChickens1 said:
don't think M. Smith is a bad player although obviously some of his early career including the caps will have been a result of having been at city. But so little commitment.
He’s having one of his better games today but is still pretty anonymous. Pretty much sums it up really.
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He also said he only loses his shit when he doesn’t see effort. Matt & Connor Smith must constantly be getting slaughtered then.
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6 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Then they finally decide to make subs and he has them stood freezing on the touchline for 5 minutes before they can come on.
It’s stuff like this that does my nut in and just another reason to add to the list of why the two of them should get the Spanish archer. It is like guys at Sunday league level. Next game I would like to see this team but absolutely know it’ll be nothing like this.
Mitov
Kjeltens. Gordon. Considine. Robinson
McGowan
Wright. Franczak. Carey
May. Clark
This will be tough on Benji and Adama but honestly don’t think anyone else could complain if they were dropped. Front 2 could easily be any 2 from 4 but that front 2 worked well last season and I think deserves a shot as long as they stay up front and don’t spend most of the game running around in midfield
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17 minutes ago, tree house tam said:
Kirk decides tactics, shape and football philosophy. Think he's been on the same course as Callum and most other young identikit thick as f**k ex players. Levein manages, what the f**k he manages I don't actually know because to manage you need to lead by example, get everyone going in the right direction and doing things that help them excel. He does none of that.
But...... We are not sacking him with 4-6 games left, especially since those games will decide the future of the club for the next few years.
Hope to f**k wee Adama is okay by the way. If he's out that's a major blow.
Why aren’t we sacking him? We sacked Callum last season with 6 games left because it was obvious the decision needed to be taken. Yesterday proved the same decision needs to be taken again. My only concern is Stan Harris tried to get Martindale , whose team looks like being relegated, and then settled on a guy whose philosophy is so dated it wouldn’t be out of place in the 1950s. Just because he’s a lifelong fan doesn’t mean he’s qualified to make these type of decisions
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3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Really good review of the 4 Berwick loanees here.
Joe Ellison is a full back/midfielder from Auchterarder and Scott Bright is a defender from Perth. Both have been with the club since they were 10 years old. Think both of them will have decent careers
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7 minutes ago, Theyellowbox said:
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.
This is pretty much my understanding. No chance the naked eye can tell if players are really close so the linesman (refuse to call them assistant refs) guesses.
I really don’t want VAR as in Scotland all it is doing is adding another layer of incompetence. If we must have it, I’d prefer it to be used sparingly for things like goal line technology, is foul in box but unless there is clear daylight between players to make errors clear and obvious then I think it shouldn’t interfere in offside decisions.
Part of the fun of going to games is sitting with your mates arguing about decisions but VAR is even sucking the life out of that. As soon as something happens and the ref’s finger goes to his ear your immediate reaction is “ah f**k” and then you have a 5 minute wait to further piss you off. Maybe all it will take is one club to refuse to pay for it and this will be the incentive needed to bin it.
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I asked this question on Twitter as I honestly don’t know the answer. In games when VAR isn’t used, is level onside? Does the advantage go to the attacker? The answer to these questions used to be yes but now I honestly don’t know. If the rules have been changed do these changes only apply in games using VAR? Seems to me that different rules apply in different games. Surely that can’t be right
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2 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said:
Good luck with that. He’s an empty jersey in League 1.
I have to say that I was somewhat surprised that people felt he was an option for us. I always felt he was very like what we are seeing with our current midfield in that he technically proficient but lightweight and didn’t really impose himself on games. In my opinion if we are looking at any of the young guys for our midfield then Ben McCrystal is our best option
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15 minutes ago, Radford said:
If you were offered a completely clean slate in the summer, how many of the current squad are you keeping?
Mitov, Sidibeh, Phillips, Kimpioka. Could probably make a case for McGowan and Gordon plus Fran to go out on loan to get more experience
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County showed that if you roll your sleeves up and get wired in you can get rewards. Does anyone honestly think we could do this with the gutless wonders we have to suffer every week? A manager that actually plays to win games wouldn’t harm either
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51 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Add in a squad of pea hearted, slow, confidence sapped players, and it's all a mess.
Think this is the hub of the issue. Fans in general will accept players of limited ability as long as they see them bursting a gut, running harder, winning not just the 50/50s but the 40/60s and in general being an absolute nightmare to play against. We however have managed to build a squad full of players with limited ability who are soft as shit and down tools as soon as they get a wee knock. We’d all love to see a Saints team that plays open, attacking, passing football but in general these type of players are way outwith our budget. However this squad needs to learn that you have to earn the right to play the way you want and that means winning your individual battles to begin with.
Not one of this squad would get into the 2014 cup winning team and I include Mitov in that.
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3 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
McInnes on the radio saying he identified our "midfield diamond" of Phillips, Max, Smith and Clark, and decided to gamble by removing a defender and putting another man in midfield to combat that and take advantage of space out wide. I'll put maps in spoilers but you see both that shape in our team and how brave McInnes was in terms of pushing men forward out wide.
Oh for a manager who looks for those things, adapts to make the combat it, and has the bravery to try and exploit it too.'
If we saw the same then we'd chuck an extra defender on the park.
We have one penalty box striker and the ultra negative twat we have as a manager chooses to play him at the top of a midfield diamond. Could just about accept this if it meant he got on the ball more so got more chances but it just basically leaves us a man down and on the odd occasion we actually manage to put a ball in the box from open play Clark is miles behind the play and there’s no one in there.
Another thing that really winds me up is making one sub at a time. We are allowed 5 subs over 3 stoppages (unless there’s a head knock) but he constantly makes one sub at a time. He either leaves players on who are knackered or doesn’t have players ready to replace injured ones. It just gives me a vibe of a shit Sunday league manager
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23 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
For St Johnstone:
Home: Hibernian, Motherwell
Away: Aberdeen, Livingston, Ross CountyThat means we travel to. Aberdeen and Dingwall 3 times while Motherwell travel to Perth 3 times. Switch the County and Motherwell games and it seems more likely
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
Had, and have, reservations about Levein, but this looks good for him. Interested to see how it looks after the split and the potential new owners might make their decision based on that. If they think he'll keep us up comfortably next season then they might give it another year just for that consistency.
We are likely to be playing teams who don’t play a high line the way Hibs defence did yesterday and we tend to struggle more against these types of teams. On the plus side though , they are the teams we tend not to lose to so hopefully will see us safe. Still don’t want Levein next season though (or Kirk for that matter) but would he be a better bet that Gus MacPherson upstairs?
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Double Winning St Johnstone FC Thread
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Coyle wasn’t a tactically astute manager but he had an enthusiasm that was absolutely infectious. The whole club benefited from this