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Only had a chance to listen to 10 minutes of Open All Mics today (just before half time), and did enjoy the chat about Lewis Ferguson. Would’ve been lovely if they’d maybe saved it for a time when there wasn’t actual matches being played though. Feels like clueless pundits, hosted by a clueless host, directed by a clueless producer.

I particularly enjoyed their use of back names on the stats caption - Ross v Killie being the favourite. Looking forward to St v Hibs next week, or Hearts v John.

So we’re responsible for lumbering you with MOH for two years AND forcing a fee for Cammy Macpherson? [emoji1787]

Probably the best all-round performance I’ve seen from Isner - prime Murray probably has just enough to deal with him, but someone like Isner serving at 73% first serves in is borderline unplayable.

Hidden in amongst the images is the walk-up price for the three OF home games - first time I’ve seen us mention a matchday ticket price. At £32 for those, I can’t see us being less than £25 for a cheek-free league game.

Ultimately if it’s all about money, we might as well give them three stands and squeeze our support into the Main Stand. After all, we’d sell three stands out. There’s also the fact that the stadium was designed to allow the West Stand to be segregated - I’m very much in the ‘one stand only’ camp, but it doesn’t sit overly well with me that by using W7 for the singing section/ultras it’s become untouchable, while the Family Stand can be handed over without a second thought.

Yeah - pre-pandemic there was always around 500 tickets for Centre and Court 3 put on Ticketmaster 48 hours before play. Got Centre tickets that way about 5 years ago, cracking experience. Queue is also an option, but an overnight camp is needed for a show court.

That’s what I’m thinking. I’m a South Stand season ticket holder, so I’m intrigued what the renewal price will be and what the associated terms are. Makes the survey a bit pointless mind you…

Interesting mass email from the club/the chairman this evening: - Season tickets on sale from Monday (23 May) - 3 week early bird window for existing ST holders - Family ticket deal now includes up to 3 under 17’s rather than up to 2 under 13’s - Unemployed now part of concession rate - Survey coming out on giving the Family Stand to the Old Firm - SMISA members, existing ST holders and registered purchasers will be included - prices increasing this year, but figures not mentioned

With the exception of ten minutes at the start of the second half, that was pretty comfortable. Delighted for Main getting his goal - hopefully that builds confidence, as the last couple of games have shown there’s a player in there. Wasn’t sure about Erhahon coming in to play alongside Gogic - thought it would be too defensive - but it seemed to work really well. Couple of mistakes from Ethan, but made up for them immediately each time - he seemed to take on the role of spoiler, and it seemed to allow Gogic to be more box-to-box. Dundee, for all their effort, looked like a Championship side. Sadly, Charlie Adam’s a shadow of the player he was - as others have said, I’m not sure he has a season at the level below in him. Young keeper looks decent though - some save in the first half, and no chance with the goals.

Not from last Saturday, Ronan was playing deeper. Dropping Kiltie back there would be a waste, and we don’t have another fit ‘number 10’ in the squad.

That’s almost what I was thinking - don’t think we need two sitters at home to Dundee, so maybe Flynn’s the closest we have to a ‘direct’ replacement for Ronan. Other possibility is Brophy in for Greive, but I’d be inclined to stick with last week’s pairing and bring Brophy back in for Livi on Wednesday.

Amazing how quickly you can go from wanting Everton to win, to considering whether they should be liquidated.

Usually when both sets of fans think the referee was awful, neutrals would say he’s probably had a good game. Not the case yesterday - looked like he’d won a competition to be there, and you were just waiting for the next howler to come.

Only one team winning that today - both managers have said on Sportsound that there wasn’t a lack of fight from the Saintees, but it sure looked that way to me. On the flip side, we were up for it from the start, Main and Gogic in particular were outstanding. There’s decent individuals in the Saintees team, but far too many are gutless. Ciftci a prime example of that - absolute wage thief.

The optimist in me says Main is due a performance…

I personally hope we snatch all three points with the most offside goal that there’s ever been in the 5th minute of stoppage time. Or win comfortably, but that’s far less likely.

£10 on a home win and it’ll pay for the match ticket… No faith whatsoever in this St Mirren team pulling a result out the bag - it’s as if the United game at home sucked the remaining fight out the players, and Robinson will throw at least one ‘interesting’ selection into the mix. Only saving grace is that St Johnstone fans could easily be saying the same thing. Two really poor sides on current form - eye-bleeding 0-0 or 1-0 a certainty.

It’s when the club announce the building of a ridiculously out-of-proportion away stand that I’ll start worrying…

Played my first round of the year at Blairgowrie today on the Wee Course. I’m not exactly ‘good’ at golf (I like exploring the scenery…), and previous scores of 113 and 101 didn’t bode well. Add in a finger injury from a few months ago that’s not heeled 100%, and expectations were low. Seems that being scared to grip the club tightly, and slowing my swing down to compensate worked wonders - struck the ball well throughout - particularly 5-iron - and lipped out on 18 for an 89 (I’ve never come close to breaking 90 anywhere). Typically, my next round will likely be back in the 100’s. Stupid game…

Aberdeen on the last day is a 12 noon kick-off. Hopefully a meaningless one (for us, anyway…).

The only certainty from this season is that four teams are going to be saying almost exactly that in a few weeks time. Missed opportunities galore.

First half, United were as threatening as Aberdeen were last time they visited - about as comfortable a half as you’re likely to see as a St Mirren fan. Biggest issue was not pressing home the advantage. Credit to Courts though - double sub and change of shape turned the game completely, and even though Robinson eventually changed things to counter it, we’d completely fallen out the game by that point. I’m not certain about Alnwick’s red card, but from the family stand I was convinced he was off as soon as the whistle went. Wasn’t the first time he’s ended up in no man’s land today, uncharacteristic but ultimately costly. Beat Motherwell in a fortnight and at least we’ll know what we need to do in our last game pre-split. Just can’t see us beating Motherwell though - feels a bit like we’ve blown top six (and a shot at Europe) from a position of strength. On the plus side, had my 5 year old son at the game today and he wants to go back. f**k knows why…

If you look closely, you can see Gillespie in the reflection of the cabinet behind Robinson, holding a pistol and looking menacing. Maybe.

For me, that’s fine - in 30 years it’s only happened twice, so if the new manager (or returning manager) becomes the third it means he’s delivered some success.