thewelllfan

Team I'd pick tonight would be Ward Koutrombis Gordon Balmer Longelo Watt Slattery Sparrow Just Sule Maswanhise Hopefully win by a couple goals and Sule and Just get off the mark If Mcginn is fit him at Cb over Balmer.

The squads going to be bloated either way due to the nature of Robinson and Stuperavic's injuries we'll be running at minimum a 25 man squad. We're about to sign a winger called Ibrahim Said from Viborg.

forgot about I'll add him in

That's fair enough here's the squad we'd be going into the season with in that case Gk- Ox, Ward RB - SOD, Johnny K Cb - Gordon, Balmer, Mcghee, Mcginn LB - Longelo, Wilson CM - Miller, Watt, Halliday, Slattery, Sparrow, Fadinger RW - Just, Nicholson, Ross LW- Maswanhise ST- Stam, Sule, (Robinson, Stuperavic both crocked to December at the earliest) Plus any youth lads that could potentially break through

Just I believe is a RW either way we need another winger, you need 4 if you're playing a 433 we currently have Maswanhise, Just and Nicholson (Who's injury prone) and if you want to add Ross you can but not convinced he's ready i'd loan him out, we need a Cb who's semi decent on the ball, we need a Cm regardless of Miller leaving and an probably a 2nd when he does and St. I mean I'm not the biggest fan of SOD or Johnny K tbh but we already have they 2 plus Mcginn to play there so doubt we'll add a RB.

we still need 3/4 imo - LW, CB, CM and a Target-man type ST

yh i'll add him into Cm forgot about him when making it

Looking at the way he set up tonight our options at the moment are GK- Oxborough/Ward RB - SOD/Koutrombis/Mcginn CB - Gordon, Balmer, Mcghee, Mcginn LB - Wilson CM - Miller, Halliday, Slattery, Watt, Fadinger, Sparrow RW - Nicholson, Ross LW - Maswanhise ST- Stam, Robinson , Stuparevic we need 6/7 in to strengthen the squad. With a few outgoings. - Starting LB and RW need to be recruited asap. - We'll also need another 2 Cms when Miller is sold. - We need a LW, CB and a Target-man ST to put us in a good position going into the season.

That game should highlight to the new manager what he needs to add to his squad. We need to add more pace in the wide areas as well as a ST before the cup games but sure this is probably something the new gaffer is already looking at. Though Watt in the middle looked decent handled the ball well and Miller absolutley strolled it. Was 1-0 when majority of the senior players were on against a decent side.

pretty sure it's a 433 Fadinger- LW , Maswanhise - RW

Was to be expected with the news of Oxborough's injury we'll keep him for the bench until he's back and then loan him out again i'd assume.

From looking around Watt seems like a creative midfield player with an eye for a pass. From reading reactions his main drawbacks is he gives away cheap fouls round the box and he was arguing with the fans when he was the captain at Burton. Majority of St Johnstone fans seem to think he's a decent player for what it's worth

Do we have any idea what formation we're going to be playing under the new gaffer? He apparently played 433 in Sweden and a 343 in Denmark so doesn't seem to have a set formation.

Dependant on what formation we play we need to recruit - A CB - LB/LWB depending on formation - Holding Midfielder - Box to Box Midfielder - LW and RW depending on formation new manager wants to play - A Striker

I'd of happily let all 3 Rbs leave I don't think any of them are great. I could of understood keeping Mcginn for the leadership he brings before SOD triggered his extension clause but once that happened I thought we should have let him go. For me Mcginn is a better player and defender than SOD.