Lizard King

Couldn’t agree more. I don’t want to turn on him but his tactics / selections are baffling.

I assume you aren’t referring to me in your initial sentence for posting an honest assessment of today’s game...if you are, I’d like to hear which aspects of my post you disagree with?

To be honest I never saw much evidence of fight. Given we had a chance to jump above Dundee and Accies I was really disappointed by our lack of aggression, and how pedestrian / standoffish we were in the centre of the park. As someone else said, it’s ridiculous that Mallan wins a physical midfield battle with our skipper, but he did (although I don’t think McGinn had a really poor game overall and Mallan should have been booked for persistent fouling). Have to say, Tansey was rank rotten. A display of Ryan Edwards quality (although at least the latter liked to put a challenge in). I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as he’s new but his delivery from set pieces wasn’t great and he seemed to have no positional sense. No idea how we lost that game - on the plus side, I thought McAllister, Lyons and Jackson were excellent.

I was in Celtic hospitality tonight and I don’t think any of them could believe how shite we were. Starting XI massively flawed, no fight and a total lack of direction in our play. f**king brutal. Surely we can do better?

Agreed, although we were f**king woeful tonight.

I think OK needs to be harsh in this window, my worries being are that he doesn’t realise the level of change that we need and that fact that - on their day - we only have a handful of players good enough at this level. My thoughts below: Lyness - lets give him the benefit of the doubt, but we do need another squad keeper, assuming Rogers leaves. Hodson - not good enough. Baird - not good enough. Jones - ok, but only here on loan. Ferdinand - good, but don’t think he’s set the heather alight. P McGinn - pleasantly surprised, has limited ability but has done enough to warrant a place in the team. Erharon - promising. Let’s persevere. Eckersley / Mackenzie - both cracking players, presumably not rated by OK and maybe not good enough at this level. Flynn - nowhere near good enough. Edwards - not good enough. McShane - not good enough. S McGinn - legend. But I fear not good enough at this level. Smith - again, I fear not effective enough at this level. Hamill - very good, although aimless at times due to lack of quality around him. Jackson - good (but is he going to stick around). Kirkpatrick - not good enough. So, barring Jones, Ferdinand and Hamill (whom I would suggest won’t be around next season) we only have perhaps 2-3 players who are up to scratch.

Charging kids £17 is a f**king scandal. FFS St Mirren.

We have so many players that are woefully short of the standard required to even compete in the bottom 3 in this division. The Board need to take some of that responsibility for sanctioning the signings of a number of complete charlatans. The tell tale sign is thinking how many of our team would get a game for anyone else in this league. Ferdinand? Maybe. Smith? Probably. Hamill? Inconclusive. Mullen? Doubt it. One things for sure we do need a Jack Ross esque January window. P McGinn, Hodson, Jones, Flynn, Edwards et al can get to f**k.

It’s so clear that OK has inherited a bunch of misfits, the vast majority of which are not good enough to wear the stripes. He needs time to sort that. However, as others have said, the more experienced players need a shake. Both McGinns, Flynn, Hodson and Edwards were rank rotten yesterday and soundly outplayed by an Accies team spearheaded by Dougie f**king Imrie and that are knob Mackinnon. The tactics were also inexcusable - which OK needs to shoulder some blame for - to see Sammy deliberately aiming every long ball at Mullen was inexcusable. Not to mention thick.

Shocking. We were bullied. Outplayed. Outfought. Outmanoeuvred. Was horrible to watch.

The pub across from Pivo on Waterloo St (can’t remember what it’s called). If don’t see you we’ll be grabbing a couple of cans for the 2.04 train.

Heading on the train too, Zo. Where you going for pints in Glasgow?

Have to say FJ, agree totally with you. I feel pretty sad for John that he didn’t get any game time to say a proper cheerio to the fans and get the standing ovation he completely deserves. Despite what Jack clearly thinks of him (which I think isn’t much) I think it was poor judgement not to give him some game time either during the week v Falkirk, or today. He deserves better. Anyway, thanks for everything John.

Danny Mullen?

Agreed, Bender. Although Stewart was decent when he came on there is no way we should be leaving a players of Sutton’s pedigree on the bench in games where we need a goal.

Not sure what game you were watching but McGinn was immense today. He tired a bit towards the end (which led to a few misplaced passes) but by and large I thought he was excellent.

Wasn’t at the game, but all I can say is I’m delighted for John Sutton.

Poor stuff today. Tempo was too slow, the players lacked urgency and there wasn't a lot of dig. That said, delighted with the 3pts. Must say, I don't think Stewart or Kirkpatrick are very good, but acceptable as squad players. Feel a bit sorry that Sutton is so far down the pecking order. I'm sure there is a way we could use him more frequently.

Wasn't at the game but most pleasing thing for me is seeing Sutton playing and getting some plaudits. I was beginning to think he was being a bit marginalised and wasn't in JR's plans, so hope he's back in contention. He's a cracking, honest player who is always likely to pop up with a goal.

It's (very) early days but I have to say I'm concerned at the quality of the signings we've made. It's effectively a continuation of my thoughts on Josh Todd, but I'll be surprised if both the Stewart's, Kirkpatrick, Reilly and Hilson will be effective players in a Saints jersey. Most of them reek John Robertson / Gareth Wardlaw / Scott Agnew to me. I hope I'm proven wrong.

I'm worried. Ross got it so right towards the end of last season but so far we look worse than some of Tommy Craig's teams. Why drop Samson? Why play Whyte? Why no Stelios? Why is Sutton being frozen out? Why play a 4-1-4-1? Why does McGinn look like a shadow of the player he was last year? Why (as it appears to me) isn't Ross taking the League Cup seriously? Brutal.

Exactly. I have a feeling he'll stay, as Div says, with a few extra £££ in his pocket and a revised contract . We will all rejoice, Jack becomes even more of a hero to the fans and we get promoted next season via the playoffs. {Christ, I really hope that's how it pans out}.

Nail. On. Head.

A lot of folk see McGinns arrival as the turning point but for me, our most influential player during the recent 'revival' has been Cammy Smith. He's been immense and we look so much better with him in the team. And I have to agree with Chapsticks on young player - Magennis has been magnificent for us. In my eyes he's a more complete player than Mallon and Morgan.

Great result. The players showed tremendous desire tonight to see that out. Mallan - dynamite. Smith - total revelation since he arrived. We need to enjoy him while we have him as he oozes class. Sutton - workrate phenomenal. Eckersley - consistently good, great find. McKenzie - dominant. Not to forget Baird and Magennis - couldn't have been the easiest game to come into but thought both did well (Kyle was superb). Nice to feel positive!