Kmcalpin

Being as bad as or even better than St Mirren may not be enough. Since the turn of the year our luck has been abysmal. If St Mirren get lucky it won't matter how the 2 teams play.

Anurur winger.

Didn't see that coming.

He's on a 3 year deal Allan.

The club will have put a value on Lamie for example £1,900 PW (a number out of my head) - how much they think he's worth. Dundee came along and blew us out of the water by all accounts, offering him say £2,800 PW (again a number out of my head). Its quite likely that the club has said that, given he's not in the "must retain at all costs" category, if Dundee want to offer him silly money thats up to them. Dundee have a habit of paying unsustainable wages. I certainly don't think he should be in the top earner bracket. Thats my take on it anyway.

I very much doubt that his agent would leak to the press without St Mirren's permission. More likely that St Mirren leaked it.

Yes but could he play well in these positions? In my view he was energetic and ran about a lot, scoring an odd goal. Very eye-catching. However he has a poor injury record and has shown little positional sense - causing problems for others which isn't so obvious. Apparently he was one of the higher earners. I can only assume that the management didn't think he was worthy of another deal. Maybe his departure will create some space for a youngster like Dean Cornelius.

The Watt situation again. St Mirren probably leaked the story to a compliant media. Oh I've just discovered that we play Saints next week and they are close rivals. What a coincidence. Seriously, how can we control what St Mirren say to the press?

I'm with you on this OTF and suspect it's because he runs about a lot and looks energetic.

Not overly bothered. Presumably we didn't offer him new deal, or if we did, we didn't offer him the earth.

Mark O'Hara signs a PCA with St Mirren. Fine by me but why announce it publicly now?

Some truth in that but Saint's first goal on Saturday was at least in part, down to tactics and its not for the first time. Irrespective of how how we set up, we always defend very narrowly with the predictable outcome. Not all down to poor full/wing backs making errors.

All I'm asking for, at the minute, is to make us solid and reliable. No basic errors at the back and no easily avoidable goals. Is that a lot to ask for?

Just brought myself to watch the goals from Saturday's game. Our goal through Van Veen was very well created and taken but it was a solo goal which is his trademark. St Johnstone's first goal was schoolboy defending from us. The St Johnstone player had all the time and space in the world to pick out his target for the cross. How many goals like that have we conceded? Do we never learn. This is despite playing with a back/midfield 5. If Nathan McGinley had been playing he'd have been slaughtered on social media for that. St Johnstone's second goal. Exceptionally well taken, as many of our opponents goals are, but what a mess by our central defence. Caught out badly on the wrong side.

I doubt it'll really matter who they field in goals, if as you say, we hardly manage a shot on target, as in recent games.

Very true. A few fans Saturday afternoon favourites in the past have been disruptive influences in the dressing room.

I'm not saying that our players are world beaters but a good start would be to pick a formation that utilises the strengths of our best starting eleven, whatever that may be. The current formation(s) only highlight our squad's limitations.

I doubt it, unless things change off the park. Two or three weeks ago I had this down as a potential draw and our best chance of a point before the split. I stick by that, although it'll be a real struggle to take something from the game.

Good post. I don't actually mind long ball football as long as its effective and you have players to execute it. But it isn't and we don't.

Many complain that we don't have a Plan B but do we even have a Plan A?

In an ideal world, I think GA should go, but we're not in ideal world. He's just been awarded a new 3 year deal (why?) and I doubt if the club will fire him. FWIW I agree with all the criticisms of him (team selections, tactics, communication etc) but to sack him at this point? If we were going to do it should have been done weeks ago. Ok, the international break is coming up but could we source a new man in time? Would it be a panic appointment? This season has been weird and clearly something has gone badly wrong but like most I haven't a clue what it is. I thought, a few weeks ago, given our disastrous run, that top 6 was probably beyond us and that 7th spot would be a decent finish but we weren't clear of relegation and thats still my view. Looking at our remaining 7 games they are all very difficult and, on current form, we'll do well to pick up more than about 4/5 points. At the end of the season big decisions need to be taken.

I think the reaction to today's defeat and GA's position is a bit OTT. I visited the normally rarified and exclusive P & B site this afternoon for the first time in a while and was shocked to see posters there in complete meltdown. Today's game was always going to be difficult and a loss was always the most likely outcome. Given that GA has just signed a new 3 year deal I can't see him going anywhere soon. Apart from that, changing managers with 7 games to go would be risky not to say very difficult. Any suggestion that Keith Lasley should take over is way off beam given his last game in charge of us. Keep the heid folks, I'm confident we can scrape together 2 or 3 points between now and the season's end to keep us at least 10th.

I've seen this trend term crop up a lot in the past few days. Where has it come from?

Pretty much my view. A start would be to avoid any red cards as we've picked up quite a few (some justifiable and some not) at Perth in recent years. I'd be delighted with a draw, but 3 points are up for grabs.

Might be chalked off for infringements/offside.