Kmcalpin

I tend to agree Couttsy, although I'd rather wait a day or two longer to get the right man, rather than make a panic signing. Even if Biereth had stayed with us, Wilkinson and Shaw were leaving and Obika was out injured and is injury prone. It was always cutting it very very tight. A situation largely of our own making.

Not knowingly of course, but maybe. Ian Baraclough addressed this very same point when he came. You can't really avoid impact injuries but you can minimise soft tissue injuries by tweaking training methods. That's what he did when he took over. It also helps to avoid signing a few players with questionable injury records.

Move Bevis up front.

One in restricts us to a very predictable one up formation. We needs 2 strikers agreed.

Apart from set pieces, Spittal's biggest weakness is his lack of pace. This does limit his effectiveness when we play with one striker. A decent player nonetheless.

What are our attacking options for Saturday. As things stand we don't seem to be bringing in an oven ready striker in time; Bair is fit; and Obika isn't fit. Attacking midfielders Nicholson and Halliday are short of match fitness. It would seem we will play with a lone striker, Bair. Now St Johnstone are a strong physical side who'll relish a street brawl. Craig Levein loves his teams to be hard and physical. If Bair is injured? In short do we recall the young and inexperienced Mark Ferrie from Stenhousemuir. Is he match fit? If we field Bair on his own up front its essential we support him from midfield - something we've never been good at.

Surely you mean he asisted in 2 goals David? He didn't score at all.

Of course. He hasn't played since June though.

Absolutely Grizzly. As it stands Obika is out injured so that only leaves Bair. Given his injury record we can't rely on Obika. If we want to play 2 up front we may need 3 strikers but yes 2 minimum. That should be our priority of course. I'd still like a dominant central defender in the Hartley/Aldred mould though and a pacy RWB but that might be asking too much. To be even more demanding, we need incomers to hit the ground running. A big ask but we have a week to go. Saturday is another matter.

Jim Gannon had no intention of staying and constantly stalled on contract talks. Apart from all the off field nonsense he wanted out. Let's put that to bed once and for all.

100% agree.

Irrespective of which strikers we sign, we need them to be fit and hit the ground running. No point in them taking 2 months to get fit/match fit.

Without another striker ready to play, we'll struggle right enough. Can't see us keeping a clean sheet.

St Mirren do seem to have some cash to throw about just now.

Winger or attacking centre midfield. A very good signing if he's recovered from injury. I'm not one to sign a player for the sake of it but I'd love for us to bring in a striker before the St Johnstone game.

Good luck to him. Not a world beater by any stretch of the imagination, but not as bad as many made out. Irrespective of where he was played, he was a central defender, by his own admission.

I don't know Grizzly, but you could try emailing the club ticketsales@perthsaints.co.uk

Zak Rudden is an ex Sevco youth player who was farmed out to various teams, including St Johnstone and Falkirk. He didn't cut it at Ibrox, and was signed by Partick. He did quite well there and reportedly we were interested. He then signed for Dundee where he has been ok but no better, according to a Dundee supporting neighbour. He assesses him as being a decent Championship standard (Morton, Ayr etc) but thats it. James Scott? If money is an issue (and it might not be for all we know) then we will be bottom of the queue of the 3 other Premiership clubs mentioned. Thats, if, we are indeed interested.

Inverurie Locos away?

We scored some very good goals yesterday and that's encouraging.

Started off very well when he first broke through but failed to develop. Not up to Dundee's standard apparently.

Nouble? Livingston must be desperate to offload him for some reason. Why would you sell an asset to a direct rival?

Fraser was always a long shot but credit to his agent for stirring the pot. Nouble? I can't see us outbidding Exeter but who knows. He is being played out of position at Livingston but his form has dropped off a cliff. Something fishy there.

Alloa get their obligatory goal. Fine. Let's go on and win it now.

Only one striker, Bair, in the squad?