PauloPerth

What a team that was.

Do Saints women’s team get paid??

4-0? .. Wasn’t that Nathan Lowndes’ debut? Wouldn’t think there’s many clubs outwith the OF that have beaten both hearts and Hibs 3-0 in league cup semi-finals.

Hearts were simply battered by a far superior team in that semi-final. Saints finished league cup runners up (to financially doped rangers) and Scottish cup semi finalists (also knocked out by rangers) and finished 3rd in the premier league that season. Enjoy..

To be honest that’s everyone’s fear as well. Why would they? But in fairness to the Brown’s, they’re well aware of the possibility of buyers with the wrong intention coming in and asset stripping the land round about the ground etc, so we have to trust them. Whoever it eventually is, it’s hard to imagine things are going to improve on what we’ve had for most of the past 40 years. End of a massive era in the club’s history when it happens.

Why do we bother with long throws? It’s just one of those routines we do as everyone jogs into position half-heartedly, safe in the knowledge that they’ll be chasing back in a minute or two when the opposition clears the ball. It’s not just that we don’t score off them, we don’t even win the flick on or get anywhere near it to win a flick on. It’s invariably a free header for a defender to clear. It’s the worst attempt at a set piece I’ve seen.. Possibly excluding our kick offs!

First goal the winner. Unless it’s us. If you could just somehow give us the 3 points and our next two opponents could do the same so we can guarantee safety and condemn this hellish facade masquerading as entertainment in the bin. It’s like paying to watch a movie you think is shite every week. Just because you’ve always done it. This is going to sound exaggerated, but I genuinely think st Mirren could play with their oldest fan in goal and they’d still get something out of the game.

McCoist and Brogan for St Johnstone. 1980-81 McCoist finished top scorer in the old first division as Saints missed out on promotion by goal difference. The premier match was postponed one week so the sportscene cameras came to Perth instead on a day where McCoist scored 4 and all but sealed a move to Sunderland for £400,000. John Brogan is a legendary goal scorer for Saints, and is involved in most of McCoist’s goals here: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/-H4tmpq3AFo

Yes I found Carey frustrating yesterday. Whilst he had some moments of good play, it felt like a performance where he knew the cameras were there and he tried to do things to make himself look good rather than benefit the team. For our most creative player, he really doesn’t create that much.

The most Dundee boy ever. An utter slaver.

I was staring at it today and went into a psychotic daydream about sitting in the main stand one week, and kicking it over mid-match before jumping repeatedly on the screen. Or just simply pulling the cable out, which would probably incur a lesser fine. Either way it’s what we need to raise awareness that this isn’t what most people want in our game. I’ll happily chip in for someone’s fine.

What about the last game you enjoyed that you were at?!! I’m struggling to think..

Kind of agree with a couple of posters that said we weren’t too bad today. I thought we were fairly competitive up until 2-0. Having seen games against either of the OF where we’ve just sat back and watched them play it’s quite refreshing to watch us prepared to kick lumps out of them. And try to pass the ball when we had it. We looked to have opportunities to do something going forwards at times, but as usual poor decision making and lack of quality restricted us. Lets not kid ourselves, that is a very average rangers team and having zero shots at goal against them is poor. We need a quick improvement, desperately need to find a way of creating chances and getting wins. We haven’t scored more than once in a game since we beat killie 2-1 then Levein’s first game the 2-2 with Motherwell in the same week, back in early November. Only other time we’ve managed was the late comeback 2-2 with Dundee. As we can’t keep clean sheets either, it really does feel like picking up draws and hoping county and Livi stay shite are our only hopes of staying up.

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Connor Smith looks to be another nonentity of a footballer. Not necessarily shocking, just as in what does he actually bring? Doesnt beat players, isn’t especially quick, doesn’t win the ball back a lot, haven’t seen much crossing or good passing from him. Just another body to fill a jersey. Probably not fair to assess him after a match v rangers, but I had to sit through it so I’m going to. He’s not shown much on any other occasion I’ve seen him so far either unfortunately. Max taking his passing backwards at all costs to a new level today with that masterpiece.

You should go on the premiership prediction thread from the start of the season mate, you’ll have a whale of a time.

We were doing okay and up for a scrap but that’s a great hit out of nowhere for the goal. Conor Smith is frustrating the life out of me. If he comes out second half still in his baffies then I’ll lose the heed, he’s slipping everywhere. The ploughed field for a park is probably helping us.

Every fucking time. Playing one of the OF when they’re going well and we’re struggling and you dread it all week. Common sense tells you we’ll get pumped. Then you walk to the ground bathed in beautiful Perthshire sunshine and you feel hope. I look at our line up and think that looks not bad… 2-1 Saints.

Livingston suddenly remembering how to win puts a wee bit more pressure on us than what it felt like 12 hours previous. You go into this thinking we’ve got real pace, if we can keep it tight we can hurt them on the break, but in reality it rarely works out that way, as good players can generally snuff out hopeful balls over the top and not give you a sniff. I imagine we’ll be 5-4-1 with our lone striker getting to watch the rangers defenders go through their heading practice all game, but hope I’m wrong. Phillips being back in would be a big boost, so we might get hold of the ball in midfield now and then.

Agree, Brewster and Crawford were brilliant. 2014 Stevie May and Steven Maclean was a brilliant partnership for us for a season, and we haven’t got close since. Sturrock and Dodds at United Coyne and Wright at Dundee Robertson and Foster at Hearts McCoist and Hately at Rangers McGhee and Black at Aberdeen Larsson and Sutton at Celtic

That’s the bother when you don’t get wins. Is that something like 3 wins between the bottom six clubs in the last 7 matches?! You can kid yourself you’re not in imminent danger as there is what seems like a big gap to far worse teams below, but when/if they find a bit of form then it’s a case of everyone suddenly starting to panic. Livi had taken 3 points from 17 matches yet they’re only 3 behind County and 8 behind Saints and still to play both twice. Saints, like others, have sleepwalked ourselves right back into this. Played Rangers, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Ross County, Hearts and Dundee since mid-December and taken 6 points in total.

Wonder if he means in terms of how difficult it was to bring decent players in on the budget he was set.

Bigger than I thought it was going to be’ - Former Hearts striker opens up on managerial sacking Former Hearts striker Steven MacLean was sacked as manager of St Johnstone after a poor start to the season. Former Hearts striker Steven MacLean has opened up about his time as St Johnstone head coach in his first interview since his departure in October. The 41-year-old opened up about the challenges he faced during his five-month stint at McDiarmid Park and claimed that the summer rebuild proved to be a much bigger task than he had originally expected. The former Scottish Cup winner replaced Callum Davidson as Saints boss in April and signed a three year contract with the club. He helped steer the Perth club to safety in his first few weeks in senior management. During an interview with The Courier he reflected on the work that had to be done in the close-season against a backdrop of a big budget cut to address a seven-figure financial loss. MacLean explained: “Keeping the club up was a great achievement for us and we then turned a lot of players round. I think 17 players left the club. “It was a big job – probably bigger than I thought it was going to be. But it was a great opportunity for me and I probably wouldn’t change much apart from a couple of things.” St Johnstone started the season in disastrous fashion with just four points from their opening nine games. They were beaten 2-0 by both Hearts and Hibs in the early part of the season. The Saints were bottom of the table and without a league win at the time of MacLean’s departure. However, he remains optimistic that the club has enough to survive in the division. “I think we were actually starting to progress in the right way. We had a lot of injuries in the first part of the season and we couldn’t build any momentum but I feel like I left them with a squad that’s capable of staying up in the league. “Unfortunately it didn’t end well but I’ve learned a lot from that. I’ve looked back and studied some of the mistakes I made but also things I did well. “I’ve got a lot of fond memories and whatever I do next, I feel I’ll be a better coach or manager for that spell. But hopefully I can get back in soon and make an impact.” The 41-year-old enjoyed an 18-year career which saw him represent the likes of Rangers, Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Hearts and Raith Rovers. He notably scored in the Scottish Cup final for St Johnstone against Dundee during a 2-0 victory in 2014 - marking the club’s first ever major trophy at the time. He was included in the starting lineup for Hearts in the 2019 Scottish Cup final, but was unable to repeat the feat in a 2-1 loss to Celtic. MacLean describes the last few months as his first real break from football in 25 years. He is enjoying time with his family but is still keen to be involved in football in the future.