NYD1997
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I do suspect Brown may be another away after choices last couple of games.
Saturday - played Fran over him & then instead of bringing him on for Fran moved team around and moved Gallagher over
Last night - not quoted in a game he would’ve played in near enough every week since he got here
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Bad tackle - however - how does the violent conduct within 5 mins get ignored?
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2 penalties not given by VAR yet no mention of them in the after game analysis because it’s against the blue bigots.
They aren’t even trying to hide their bias now are they?
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7 hours ago, Kyle said:
That perspective isn’t really taking in the whole picture.
Davidson has spent a fortune on players and the best we can really hope for is 8th and you’d think probably 9th given current trajectorieshes replaced a young vibrant squad (built on a shoestring relative to what Davidson has been allowed to spend to replace the departing players) with aging ‘do a job’ signings who have no resale value. He has either had the final say in signing all the players currently at the club or agreed to extend their contracts, so I’m struggling to see how he can hide behind the board and previous employees of the club on that front either.
the football is terrible to watch and we lose more than half the matches. Literally the worst of all worlds. Setting up to not lose every week, no matter the opposition, is depressing. Even against Ayr in the league cup, when we knew a big win could get us through, we scored an early goal and made no attempt to try and get more, just happily take the 1-0 even though we were out without more goals.
he’s married to a horrendous shape that hasn’t ever really worked, outside of a ridiculously good 4 month window. He has shown no signs that he’s learning or that he can be adaptable, he’s just more than happy to hang players out to dry out of position and leave out of form players in the team if they’re his favourites.
his treatment of individual players is inconsistent and at times awful. Wotherspoon being the most recent player he’s decided to try and freeze out for no reason, when you’ve got a dumpling like Carey stinking out the place every week and he’s apparently undroppable.
the general standards that are acceptable at Saints have dropped through the floor under Davidson’s stewardship. We used to take hammerings off the bigger teams occasionally - it’s par for the course when you’re St Johnstone - but I’d never expect a manager to say they’re pleased after such a performance. He should be furious and going all out to get a reaction the following week. The club seem to be buzzing at the prospect of finishing above 11th, despite spending a fortune and with what must be the biggest squad in our history. There’s just no desire to try and push on, we just chase after bad for short term fixes.
The pitch doesn’t help but it’s the same for both teams and the home form has been dreadful since Davidson took over. 9 home goals in the league the year we won the double. The cup successes and the players at that time - all of the main players were brought in by Tommy wright at that time - masked that issue in his first season but he’s not really tried anything to improve that either.
As things stand I can’t see me renewing my season ticket. Other issues at the club and in my life generally are contributing to that as well but the main driver is Callum Davidson and his anti football philosophy. I can feel myself drifting away from the club - I didn’t even follow the game on Saturday, which isn’t like me at all - and have to drag myself along to games out of habit… and because I like the steak and gravy pies.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t think he has been good this year, certain things like the insistence on playing Carey and Bair (although if Kane was fit I don’t think the latter would be an issue), the 3 at the back (although we could play 4 at the back and have the same mentality) the treatment of a couple of players this season (D, Gallagher and Murphy are the 3 for me for that - whilst giving others more than ample chances) as well as playing players out of position so he didn’t have to be flexible.
However, I also think that this season has been the creating of a base again. I suspect it’s a case of once bitten, twice shy, with him this year. He doesn’t want to get burnt like last year so he would rather grind out 1-0 wins, with experienced heads who will ‘do a job’ than open up, try a different type of player and get hammered - the only issues with that is it gives no wiggle room if it’s not right for that game.
My point is that people are making it out that it’s as bad as last season, it’s not, it’s not great but for me it’s a step back towards setting a standard again instead of trying to set it straight away and another last season happening
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Some perspective here
Has this season been poor and brutal to watch? Yes
Has it been a damn sight better than last year? Also yes
Last season we were truly broken (some will blame the manager for that, some will blame other influences inside the club) this season from the outset, you can see the plan is to build stability. Which we are doing.
Yes the 3/5 at the back wouldn’t be my choice and no how we are playing isn’t great. But also this year we have got ourselves back on our feet and can look to blood the younger bodies soon0 -
24 minutes ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
People surely don't believe this after watching Killie play two up front with two very creative wingers that took the piss out of us at times.
No other team in the league plays as negatively as Saints. Without question
You obviously didn’t see St Mirren, or Motherwell, or Ross county, or Kilmarnock (bear in mind they have scored less than us this year). Yeah the football hasn’t been great but if we open up we are likely to get our arses handed to us, badly (see livi at home)
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My big issue is not being able to move players to development squad for Saints - have a squad including youth which is too big - can move them in England though
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1 minute ago, Kyle said:
I think Danny McNamara was a personal success even if Rooney coming into the team was a catalyst for the team improving last season. It’s a fair point though.
Even before abeid you have to go back to the likes of Dasovic, Miguel and Lowndes (outside of Goalies)
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1 hour ago, Theyellowbox said:
Impression too is that Davidson feels more comfortable with domestic (scot/eng) players or guys who have been here before. A lot of the guys from down south are way over rated and priced and if there is a former player from Scotland like Ciftci available and willing to come to saints, then frankly, they have really slumped. Cleary, Mahon, E2 and Bair are the sort of pkayer we should be looking at TBH, although bar Cleary, cannot really judge yet.
On this point - who was the last player we have brought from down south or out with that has been what can be classed as a success who had no ties to Scotland at all? Last one I can think of is Abeid (I’m sure someone will remind me of someone else) but we have had players such as Isaiah Jones come up and look like they have never kicked a ball then go back and be a superstar down south
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
He never even watched Dendoncker before we signed him either, just took Davie Weirs word for it.
So what you are saying is he had to go rush to get a player as the failure experiment that was the head of recruitment had not identified a player to come in? And has taken the recommendation of someone who appears to have a good standing in the game (gets jobs at decent clubs a lot down south)
Ambrose was a rushed signing when we were down to untested players - mueller came up here with a good reputation from down south and had been looked at to play with milwall this year (similar to McNamara)
There is no doubt this season hasn’t been good enough but placing the blame fully on the manager when he has had hands tied behind his back by a waste of space is unfair at best
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4 minutes ago, FrankChickens1 said:
Brown and Booth are not spfl players. That has been obvious since the moment both made their debuts. It will continue to be true until they leave.
As it happens, I quite like both. Doesn't change the fact neither are remotely good enough.
Callum booth was arguably our most consistent performer last year so that’s rubbish. Brown is steady but nothing else - we have signed a defender who is poor defensively and one to replace our captain who is going to be about for years.
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19 minutes ago, Mr Heliums said:
Simplistically the success or otherwise of the January window will be best measured by whether we stay up or not. There might long-term implications too: our January spending and our resultant bloated squad will have a knock-on effect on our summer plans and therefore next season.
But if we have to judge at this moment I can't see January as successful. Cleary is the standout, but our priorities, surely, were to build a decent midfield and sign a striker who'd score goals. We did neither. Just look at Saturday: our standout midfielder has been with us over a decade; the big-name striker signing still hasn't scored; the one we now pin our hopes on is a player Davidson has been trying to get rid of for the best part of two seasons and one who – let's not kid ourselves – would never have been a first choice pick if Chris Kane hadn't had a season-ending injury.
Three of our January signings have hardly touched the ball – surprising given the manager's stated priorities at the time were to only sign players who'd improve the first team.
We have brought in Hallberg who is a big improvement on who we had in there. Crawford has been able to play his game the way he has shown flashes off. Maybe Bair was the answer but Hendry has came back on fire and you don’t drop a player playing like that.
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17 minutes ago, Costanza said:
Steve Grieve away………
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Did forget to give a special mention to the pitch again - somehow with 2 weeks of nice weather since the last game the gleneagles binman has still made it worse - it’s going to cost us points - I’d have to see it from a different angle but the cleary hand ball looked like he may have slipped to cause him to go down, along with multiple times Rooney running with the ball and it just bouncing without a touch when it had been on the ground
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Seeing livi fans crying about the ref is hysterical considering they should have been down to 8 (possibly 7 if Pittman had been booked for every 5 fouls…) maybe it was a hand ball but the worst decision was to let penrice off with what even back in the 70’s was a red.
Crawford outstanding as was Murray and Rooney. Hallberg ok in flashes but disappeared at points.
Callum Hendry is like a new player from what we had at the start of the year.
Ciftci better but still miles off good enough!
As for Walter white in the away dugout - he has a team like he is - indisciplined and dangerous
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16 minutes ago, The Saintee said:
But,but,but...Chris worked at Gleneagles!
Unfortunately it appears to be emptying the bins and not doing the greens…
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That is never a pen in a month of Sundays - brother madden strikes again
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Ah good to see the zombies acting like the scum that a majority of their support are
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1 hour ago, Ill Ray said:
You’re just out for a reaction or your takes on football are in dire need of a shake. A header and a good strike neither of which were his fault.
Watching on Sportscene - both I am wanting my goalie to save - second he becomes smaller when he jumps
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1 minute ago, Ill Ray said:
You’re just out for a reaction or your takes on football are in dire need of a shake. A header and a good strike neither of which were his fault.
Watch his attempt at the header - he’s flat footed so can’t move over and his half arm out wasn’t an attempt
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5 minutes ago, Ill Ray said:
Liam Kelly is fantastic, don’t talk nonsense.
Your right he is great - apart from the goal a game he seems to sell against us….
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Also Liam Kelly - if he is scotlands next number 1 we are in big big trouble
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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:
Aye if it's true what's been reported, that he stormed off straight down the tunnel and punched the dugout, then that's not what we need.
He's turned into a disappointment after a good start at Tynecastle.
Can confirm that’s exactly what happened. Macca’s reaction was of you don’t deserve my time
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Takeaways from today -
1 team wanted to win 1 team wanted to shithouse - the team that wanted to win won. Motherwell could be the worst team we have played all year.
Hendry since coming back from loan is a different player in every sense - attitude is outstanding and now matching his ability.
The ref was as bad as there has been - the worst tackle of the game was on Davidson and wasn’t even punished with a free kick.
Our pitch is getting worse - who’d have known that having the village idiot, and the chairman’s half wit nephew in charge of it would have cause that? It nearly cost us points today.
Back 3 excellent as was Crawford
Ciftci showing to be the issue that was noted (and disagreed with on here) when he signed. His reaction when he went off after barely trying his arse today shows exactly who he is.
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Double Winning St Johnstone FC Thread
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I am just putting 2&2 together. Chance I am getting 5, but it would all too coincidental for that. Especially as he seems a huffy p***k when he’s not getting what he wants