Row S

Yes, two huge refereeing mistakes letting cheats get away with it and we drop from 2nd to 5th.

7-1 ffs! No experienced players in there. The 1st team squad were still staggering back from their Christmas bash to Belfast over the last couple of days.

Esson Warren Devine Meekings Tremarco Doran Tansey Shinnie Christie Watkins Sekejja Subs: Brill, Raven, Draper, Ross, Horner, Williams, McKay

Too many players out of sorts today. Our midfield was outfoxed and the defence couldn't handle the pressure. Hughes also culpable with pre-match crap about how he didn't know how to deal with Partick. I still can't understand why Christie didn't start ahead of Vincent. The ref didn't help either. He made some awful decisions in the period before their second goal. At least three free kicks should have been awarded to us before then. The disallowed goal decision at 0-3 down was a disgrace. At least we got that bad result out the way before we play Aberdeen.

Now when have I heard that before? Seriously though, I don't know why he gets the nod over Doran.

Look at St Johnstone's home crowds against teams outside Celtic, Aberdeen or the Dundee teams. 2,000 - 2,500 is their norm and that is after winning the Scottish Cup and taking 14,000 to the final. Difficult to explain that and in a stadium that is close to the A9/A90, has local bus services passing it, is within an hour of most other Premiership clubs and is not in a cold seaside location. If our stadium was to be relocated there is plenty of development land about to be confirmed in the Local Development Plan between the UHI Campus, Stratton Farm and Cradlehall (as 12th Man says above). Once this is linked by the proposed A9/96 road and foot/cycle paths through the area it will help maximise accessibility from the surroundings and to both trunk roads. There is also scope for a rail halt on the Perth line close by. It may be another 5 + years before all that starts to happen but now is the time to plan ahead and put in a claim before it's all taken up by house builders and a business park. I should also point out that 10-15 years of upgrading the A9 will lengthen the journey for away fans traveling north and, with regard to switching to summer football, the A9 is also much busier during weekends in the summer. In the more immediate future therefore it seems that the initiatives the club are trying and more persistent persuasion by existing fans coupled with the team continuing to excel at the top end of the league are our best hopes of boosting attendances. However, it would help a bit if all clubs and the SPFL agreed to reduce admission prices.

Sorry, didn't pick that up from the thread title and was on holiday when it was posted. In any case the fixture list on this site still has it as Saturday 27th.

I've just seen the BT Sport schedule for the next 9/10 weeks. It has our next home game versus the Dons on Sunday 28 December on BT Sport 2, at 3pm. This is 24 hours later than on our fixture list. This will no doubt spoil some folks' travel plans for the festive holidays. Relatives on mine go back south again that day and had been planning to go to the game on the Saturday. Fortunately it is too early for wasteful purchasing of match tickets. Sunday football is not a favourite of mine as the team rarely performs well and the attendance is usually much less than if it takes place on a Saturday. Bah, humbug!!

Too short notice for many. It happens every season though and not for the benefit of the locally based fans either.

I said it many times last season and I will keep saying it until Yogi gets the message, why is Vincent in the team ahead of Watkins? Once again Vincent was ineffective.

Big disappointment IMHO. A poor imitation of an old PSG top that looks like a giant zipper up the front. I hate striped socks and there is no black in it.

What is it about manufacturers of sports kits taking ages to deliver their products to the customers. Whether it's football, rugby or bowls tops they all seem to be the same. Our bowling club started discussions with Kukri in July last year about new club tops. It then took them until the first week in May this year to process our order, manufacture and deliver the shirts - 10 months ffs and for an order of only 28 shirts! The other problem we still have with the shirts is that the sizes are two sizes smaller than they should be. That goes for most kit suppliers, particularly Errea, Diadora, Macron and Kukri.

Good result but looks like Forres a bit rough on us again - three injuries! Billy really has to re-learn to take penalties or give them to someone else.

Well done to the young winner. I noticed that under that announcement it says "The first 1,000 season ticket renewals were immediately entered into the competition............". Does that mean that if there were more than 1000 renewals before 7 June those who were not in the first 1000 were not entered into the draw?

With Yogi in charge we will be lucky if we avoid 11th or 12th place.

At the Clyde game Partick manager Gerry Britton was sitting next to us in the back row of the away stand at Broadwood. He told me he had to do that as he had been getting abuse from the Clyde fans around the back of the main home stand before the game. He left just after Clyde equalised from a dodgy penalty as he probably thought that they would be promoted. Then up popped Stevie Hislop.

How many times have we said that in this last half of the season?

Injury and illness is the official line Rumour has it Warren and Meekings have finally given up on the tippy tappy passing across the back that Hughes keeps asking them to play. Plus they were at the heart if the defence that shipped 6 goals last week. The team today impressed in the first half especially when moving the ball forward at pace. Unfortunately they were pinned back for long spells in the second. Happy with the point despite chances to win.

Does he know how to keep things tight when going to places like Celtic Park? I'd sack him tomorrow before we are on the end of three more humiliating defeats in the next three games. Otherwise, on this run of form it's a relegation survival battle next year.

I keep asking the same question and still don't get an answer but why does Hughes keep playing Vincent? Within 3 minutes of Christie coming on he'd done more than Vincent in the time he was on. If Ryan had been on from the start we could have won easily. Tansey also disappointed me tonight. A pity Doran and McKay squandered those chances too.

If he is I won't be there. I said from the time he was appointed it was a cheap and wrong option. Pay peanuts you get monkeys. The Board would have been better leaving Shearer in charge on a temp basis till the end of the season.

Change the system now or we won't win another game this season. It was clearly evident tonight that we only started to make telling passes to players moving into spaces when Christie and Watkins came on. Draper also found more room when we started using the wings. Shoddy defending also caused us to lose the game. Motherwell only seemed to have the two breakaway chances the whole game and scored from both. I'm regretting buying a ticket for Friday now. After that though I won't be attending another game this season and unless I see a change of style or manager I won't be renewing my season ticket for 2014/15.

My odds are on us finishing 6th.

Any eleven players, except Vincent.

Dream on. Beach balls burst for another year.