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Wimmer was constrained by the fact he arrived when the season was in full swing, and didn't have a preseason to instill his style into the players. As a result, compromises had to be made to balance his new philosophy with avoiding relegation and winning games. What is true, I think, is that his ideas prepared the squad for JBA, so they already had an idea of what was required to play this way.

He said a couple of weeks ago the League Cup games had interfered with the training he wanted to do and that we wouldn't be at the necessary levels until later in the season. It's certainly an intense style of play, but must be a lot more fun to execute than last season (pre-Wimmer).

Cheers. I had totally forgotten about that.

Was there any news on Slattery? I’m assuming he was injured rather than subject to a transfer bid, but didn’t see anything.

The official stream was pretty ropey today, so you didn’t miss too much in that respect. I think they were using a low res webcam and a dial-up connection. I’m guessing there wasn’t a Premiersports stream they could use.

Completely agree.

Or Alloa.

2 assists as well.

JBA certainly doesn't follow the "always sub at 60 mins" rule loved by many managers.

Some strange (poor) refereeing decisions today, but job done. An away win against the Championship favourites is always a decent result. It's obvious where we need strengthening, but from JBA's recent presser, it sounds like more bodies are incoming.

I've only ever seen us win a cup when we had an earlier tie go into extra time. Now take your pick...

On a different day St Johnstone would have scored two own goals. A couple of clearances that somehow cleared the bar with the defender having no idea what was going to happen.

He's basically said we need to bring in strikers. It's not like he hasn't seen a game of football before. It will also take time to adjust, because players in this league have lobbing high balls in their DNA.

That looked a pen, but the picture is so bad it could have been a goal kick.

With Ikpeazu coming on at half time, I expect St Johnstone will be going more direct.

Missing Slats.

Simo's borrowed some Tommy Wright tactics. Just fouling us any time we break through the midfield.

Grass pitch - plastic bounce. It's not terrible, but looks like it will be another ploughed field by November.

They're not bad, to be fair.

He's in charge of the tactical whiteboard. Not sure what's happened to the camera, but it looks like one of the colour filters is broken.

I'm not a fan of loans from any team in the same league unless we have a chance to sign them at the end of the deal. As much as anything it puts unnecessary pressure (and scrutiny) on the loanee, who is open to accusations of not trying (or worse, cheating) when a poor result for us would benefit their parent club.

When I watched us win the cup at Hampden, we sold more than 1000 tickets. Our biggest Friday night attendance was the recent Dundee Utd cup game. I can't remember the score for that one, maybe you can remind me,.

I said the games were better, not the facilities.

Games were always better with terracing. That's a scientific fact.

I was always amazed we kept him for so long. He'd be gone in a year if he played that well for us now.