Kmcalpin

Does anyone know the attendance yesterday? St Johnstone has been reluctant to release any figures.

Disappoined not to see this incident on the highlights. Don't know why it would have been edited out. As Richard Tait will tell you, its quite possible to win a foul and still be yellow carded for simulation. Great pass by Elliot Watt for our gaol.

Rumours of Callum Hendry incoming. May just be a load of hot air though.

A good win today in difficult circumstances. Saints are flying high in the Championship and, according to a BBC pundit, would be expecting to score a few goals today. Another clean sheet for us and we progress. Young Zander McAllister also made his debut. On the debit side we really do need to beef up our attack, but the manager knows that.

Zander McAllister or Luca Ross?

We have taken on young lads from Hamilton's Academy?

Hale is not the type of signing we have tended to make in recent years. Ross County are wanting an inflated fee for him but will be panicking that he runs his contract down. Our money is better spent elsewhere.

Would agree with that, although I'd add McLeish. Harri Kampmann did half a job very well - he got shot of a lot of dross. However he couldn't rebuild the squad.

Ah that explains your view. I've seen both Coyne and Pettigrew play and I'd pick the latter every time although Coyne was a great striker. Would Pettigrew make my best ever 11? No. He wouldn't even make the bench. That's no slight on him, just a reflection of the quality of the competition. We have had some world class players down the years.

Everyone is entitled to their choice but what was your opinion of Willie Pettigrew?

Yes. Quite how much and when I don't know but the club has to grasp this nettle at some point. A policy of sticking plasters and avoidance won't cut it long term.

I'll resist going back to the 1960s as that would complicate matters considerably and make my choice more difficult. But here's my selection: Ruddy Nijholt McVie McCart Wark Davidson O'Donnell McLaren Cooper Pettigrew Graham Subs: McRae W Watson Van der Gaag Kipre MacKinnon Russell Millar Coyne

or parents.

Well done to young Lennon and I really hope he does well in Italy. Certainly the world is at his feet. He certainly left with a great deal of class. A real role model for young players and it also speaks volumes for our Academy. Sometimes it pays a promising youngster to stay with us for an extra year or perhaps two, before moving onto to bigger things. I've never been one to fawn over departed players but I'll be keeping an eye open for him.

Put a modest amount into the playing budget (say <£500k); place some in our contingency fund to secure the future of the club; spend the rest on upgrading training facilities/infrastructure (a loose definition: urgent repairs, stadium upgrading, new stadium fund whatever). The Club Directors will have a very good idea of the risks and rewards as you'd expect. I'm happy to leave it to them.

Scottish Sun reporting a fee of £4.75m plus add ons.

Yes. My greatest concern is lack of firepower. Whilst I do like our current brand of football, I also like to see us hit the net a few times. We do seem to be utterly toothless.

West Mains Avenue, south west of B &Q. There's also a wee bit of waste ground there, on which you can usually park for free. 10 minute walk to the stadium. You can also avoid congestion by driving through housing estates to Broxden roundabout.

I reckon we'll need 2 strikers, a midfielder and 1/2 central defenders. Michael Wimmer said that we needed to strengthen our striking noptions and we all knew we were light in that department going into the League Cup group games. Those games only confirmed what we already knew. Some very neat football but absolutely no cutting edge.

Interesting that Robbo said that they had been watching all our pre season and early seaon games and we played exactly as he expected.

Hard to pick a best 11 from the "recent past". Vic Davidson would certainly be in my mix as would Willie McVie and Stewart McLaren. No-one, no one, messed with the latter 2. They'd have eaten the likes of Gogic for breakfast.

A good point away from home against a team of hammer throwers (sorry media). However the performance didn't tell us anything we didn't know before. We need 2 central defenders and 2 more physical strikers. I presume Kofi Balmer is on his way out?

70% posession is great but we are toothless up front.

Unless its injury enforced, that's a very peculiar line up. Not confident at all now, but if we get a decent result then great.

Given that there's 3 and possibly even 4 games to come this season between the clubs, St Mirren may want to play a long game and do us as much damge as they can on Saturday. Lets hope we have a strong referee.