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On their official site, attendance is still TBC.

You think Forest would send us Chris Wood on loan to keep Osong company? One half played and he's already on 2 goals for the season.

I admire your faith in the VAR officials.

Despite all the poor decisions yesterday, I enjoyed not having VAR.

He was pretty poor for both teams. The camera work wasn't great on SOD's claim, but he's never been one for diving, so at worst it should have been a simple "no pen". The St Johnstone player was looking for the one at the end and fell over as soon as there was contact. Never a pen in my view - but with so many other poor decisions, would not have been surprised if it had been given.

Slattery seems to be the only one our players who has figured out Stama needs the ball in front of him facing the goals. I can see him having a double digit season. I'm not surprised SOD has been doing OK under the new system. For all his faults, he was always comfortable with the ball at his feet and could pick out a man with a pass. I went for Just, though, who must have covered about 10 miles yesterday.

And every other competitive game bar St Mirren. Not to say we don't need another strike option, but historically we have always matched up well against Hearts and I expect this to be a typical close one.

I thought when I said "that's a scientific fact" it was obviously a joke. I do, however, prefer standing to sitting on a pre-assigned, small plastic seat with my knees at my chin, having to stand up every 15 minutes to let people in and out. In particular, it was easier to stay warm in the cold when you were standing, easier to move about to find a good vantage point, and you could even change ends at half time to be closer to the goals we were attacking. You were also always guaranteed to be able to stand beside your mates. I'm sorry you were upset about getting wet when you watched a bad game. With terracing, it was often easier to move to shelter.

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.