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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.

Noooooooooooooo!

Honourable mention to wee Dan Twardzik, btw, who is still listed as 6ft in wikipedia.

I always used to wonder who enjoyed programmes like Mrs. Brown's Boys, but reading the "jokes" on here I can see their target demographic.

That's true. And fans remember keeper howlers that cost a goal much longer than they remember strikers' howling misses that also cost a goal.

I genuinely don't think he was as bad as some people thought he was, He had his moments, of course, but was at least at decent shot stopper. Something Gardiner struggled with on his best days. Aye, I mentioned Gardiner again - he was THAT bad.

From the Forest Official Site: "After making 10 appearances for The Millers in the first half of the season, the forward joined fellow League one side Cambridge United for the remainder of the 2024/25 season. The 20-year-old will spend the upcoming campaign north of the border, playing in the Scottish Premiership for Jens Berthel Askou’s team. Head of Football Development & Talent Management, Craig Mulholland, said: “Esapa is now entering an important stage in his career, and we believe this platform provides a positive opportunity for him to showcase his learnings over his Academy and Loans journey so far. “Our Player Pathways team have analysed the data, and we believe Motherwell, and the coaching staff there, will fit well with Esapa’s style and that he can contribute to success for their team. “We wish Esapa well for the coming season and look for to monitoring, and where appropriate, supporting his journey.” It shouldn't really be a surprise these days, but was interesting to read that they have a data analysis team dedicated to developing their youngsters, and identifying loan moves.

As I said above. If you didn't choose Gardiner as worst keeper, the only possible reason is that you never saw him play. Guys like Hollis and Woods were Randolph-esque compared to him.