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I've no idea what Kettlewell's signing policy and approach is other than to amass quantity over quality at the same time as pleading poverty regarding the budget.

As a season ticket holder as well as someone who attends many away games, I know exactly what I see and hear most weeks. Can you say the same from the Channel Islands? If not, don't assume what you don't know.

I get that point completely but even if we get that hold up player we have a shocking midfield that will try and feed off it. I would like to see SK try and strengthen the midfield and certainly move on some of the players you mention in another post

Thats exactly it for me. We badly need someone up front to compete physically with the Jack Sanders of the world, hold the ball up and bring others like Vale, Stama or Manwhanise (if he's played close enough) into play. Thats what we've missed and a physical target man was a must last summer. I have no idea why one wasn't signed.

There are options to trim the squad. The likes of Callachan could be mutualled surely? The loans for Tavares or even Watt could be terminated presumably? Could Ebiye and Koutroumbis be loaned out? If Jordan McGhee signs this month could Davor be loaned out or mutualled? Not all of these options would be feasible of course but there are possibilities. SK did hint at one or two moving out.

So you did not hear what was shouted at the officials. Thank you.

A good start would be to stop signing injury prone players.

If we have to deal with the same number and frequency of injuries next season we have serious problems.

This massive squad will quickly eat into the Bair money. It’s not sustainable and can’t happen again next season.

Out of this huge squad, how many fit players are being left out of the match day squad each week? Thankfully 8 of the squad are loans, and a few coming out of contract, so we should be able to clean things up in the summer.

not that only had 3 -4 midfielders that you could pick from - no.

Kilmarnock, Fleetwood and Burton were all apparently in for him... we are running an enormous first team squad. Mind you I wouldn't imagine we wont be keeping more than 1 or 2 of those permanent deal who are out of contract in the summer. Well I'd hope.

Some going for a club with such a tiny teeny shoestring budget eh? But that said welcome on board to Luke Armstrong, hope he can provide a positive impact.

Good luck to the guy if he can muster some shots(doesn't even need to be on goal)within the first 60 mins then it's a win! However that all depends on playing a system where he has the chance to do so. Best of luck to him.

Welcome Luke. My brother just told me that he almost signed for Wrexham - and that he's a better player than his wiki suggests

and we still can still only string 1 good 90 mins in two months.

Hammell's squad that SK inherited couldn't have been far off it - remember Casey and Butcher wearing number 52 and 66 for instance...we had players like Crankshaw etc who only played 1 or 2 games!

Luke Armstrong joins on loan. Can anyone recall the last time we had a 30-man (not including players out on loan) first team squad?

According to Met Office forecasts, by mid afternoon the conditions shouldn't be too bad, although not great. However the pitch is notoriously poor and some time ago, St Johnstone decided not to invest in it as they had other spending priorities.

Amber and Yellow weather warnings in place for wind, snow and ice tomorrow in Perth and surrounding areas. Given that the Central Belt has pretty much shut down today because of a Red weather warning, I wonder what the state of play will be tomorrow morning.

Perhaps he’s been taking Limmy’s advice.

Not fussed how many he scores. If he can hold the ball up, bring others into play and get us up the pitch it will be an improvement to what we have been seeing recently. Obviously the odd goal here and there would help, but I dont think thats why we are signing him. We beed a foil for Stama when he comes back. A Bowman for our Moult so to speak. If he can do that we will have won a watch.

Its not just those that are against him that are bothered by the tone. There are a few of us on here who have been generally supportive who are somewhat irked by this interview. I certainly dont expect SK to be taking advice from me, but when you work in a customer centred environment and your customers tell you en masse (Perth) what you are doing isnt good enough, you should at least stop for a second and see if there is another way to meet your objectives. If you double down and keep heading in the same direction, you run the risk of alienating your customer who decide to keep their money in their pockets. For a football manager that rarely ends well.

I'll re-itterate. I sit near him ar Fir Park and can hear pretty much everything he says. He is loud and animated, gets exasperated at times, throws his hands up in the air and questions decisions but I have never once heard him swear or use foul and abusive language towards any officials. He just needs to calm down a bit but no different to many other managers on the touchline.

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