HawkeyeTheGnu

Your "stats" don't prove that St Johnstone have a bigger budget. They prove, that on average, they paid each employee more. And based on Celtic's comments on the report, employees aren't just players, so to draw any conclusion in the playing budget based on this would be wild-eyed speculation at best.

Or, according to some back of the envelope speculation...

Also, that survey is average wage - you can spend more money but still have a lower average.

I think that team would do very well - it looks to be 4-5-2!

I'm surprised you could see anything from under the bridge.

Where to begin. The first goal was a disaster. I could see from the north stand that the marking was all wrong. And sure enough, Boyce was given the freedom of the box to score. Number two was as a result of poor organisation after McNaughton went off. We got ourselves back into the game just before half-time - great time to score, but then shot ourselves in the foot by conceding a poor third. Draper got it back to 3-2, but despite having nearly half an hour, we couldn't get an equaliser, although we created some chances. I really hope that one of Foran's talents is an ability to learn quickly. We need to work on our defending as a priority. We are very susceptible to a cross ball, and we keep letting balls bounce rather than dealing with them. There was no communication between Fon Williams and the defence, and this hesitancy led to a number of problems, We also have a tendency to try and play out of trouble rather than clearing our lines - I'd hoped to see the last of that. There was also a lack of pace and urgency to begin with. And Tansey, Draper, Vigurs and Polworth are too similar in midfield. Having said that, there were some positives. Boden does seem to have an ability to make the ball stick, and makes some good runs. I thought the three subs had good games, Horner going to right-back and Raven to centre-half actually made the defence look a bit more solid (not that that would have been difficult). Mulraney looked lively - maybe his role will be as an impact player - and Doran gave us a spark that had been missing. We actually created some decent chances today, but it won't matter if we can't keep them out at the other end. Not time to press the panic button yet. Just need to dust down that copy of "Defending for Dummies"...

You think that if the club regularly communicated the fitness status of their players on here, that it wouldn't be picked up by the press?

Presumably to make it more difficult for opposition managers to correctly guess our team.

Oh, the irony.

Correlation does not imply causation.

I've always got parked on Garscube Road. You can can get pretty close to the junction with Firhill road. It's less than a 5 minute walk to the ground from there.

Between letters 1 & 6 of Scunthorpe?

I'd be inclined to hang it up in a much smaller room!

Typical erse-cheek kissing, poor excuse for journalism from the weegia. Most of the other previews are equally laughable.

7 subs! Woo hoo!

Hopefully we're not. Hopefully we win all cup ties at the first attempt.

It means that there is now no room for error - we have to win both games outright.

Yeah, I mean how can journalists actually be expected to understand what's going on before commenting?

Pretty much. Why am I not surprised?

They are on 7. Win on pens v Arbroath (2pts). Win v Cowdenbeath (3pts). Win on pens v us (2pts). That makes 7 points. 3 in their final game puts them on 10 - the most we can get.

Yeah, that's what my maths says too. We are in the same position as Utd - we have both dropped 2 points (but they've played a game more)

Yeah. Hard to argue with that. His defensive work was outstanding.

Two wins in 90 mins, and hope that Utd don't beat Dunfermline in 90 mins.

Disappointed not to get more from the game against a pretty average looking United side. Boden's goal looked like it came from the training ground. We were cut open a bit easily for the equaliser, and it looked like united might grasp the initiative, but after the first 5 minutes of the second half they looked like they'd settled for penalties. Mulraney looked good when he came on, but the treatment handed out to him by United was pretty disgusting, and the referee offered little protection. Tremarco and King look to have the basis of a decent partnership down the left, but King could do with taking the shot rather than looking for a pass. There is some promise there, but we nee to be a bit more clinical in front of goal.

This is my concern. 1 queue at the turnstiles replaced by a potentially longer one at the ticket office, and another one again at the turnstiles.