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To be honest I don't believe that the ref would be out to make a name for himself. He doesn't need to and will know that people will analyse that- plus Calum Murray isn't that type in all honesty. Going on the Well fans accounts, he's had a go at Sutton off the ball, the linesman told the ref and he got a second booking. I've defended him on several occasions but too many times Jim has rocks for brains and has let his team mates down and for me today is one of those days unless some evidence comes out to the contrary. He's already been sent off on day 1 after a horrendous disciplinary record last year. It's not good enough from a senior player and one of the management team.

Good performance, poor result. Not sure about Ball, didn't look that good today. Goodwin for me was a numpty. Needless 1st booking from a reckless challenge, and if he has mouthed off or indeed had a go at Sutton he deserved to walk. The people around me were asking for him to be taken off before he was sent off and they were probably right. Defended him before but today appears to be indefensible.

Kelly has missed a bit of pre-season, and to be honest Tesselaar was very good today. Indeed the defence was fairly good, Naismith looked a bit unsure and not his usual self though.

Nothing is worse than political campaigning like that. Vote no cause Kriss Akabusi and Cilla Black say so.

I think a Conor Newton type player / right sided player would be good. Any chance Yaqub might be pushed further forward. The last time he played for the first team he played left midfield? Could he be Wylde's backup

Tesselaar must have been available cheaply for is to sign him and ditch the trialist. Can Kelly play CB?

Could have had this as a home kit if we hadn't ditched Hummel.

This is true. If you took away the terrace from behind the goal, the average Dortmund ticket at face value would be near €35-40? Still good value compared to England. It's also easy to provide cheaper tickets when your TV deal is €450m a season, whereas in Scotland we are what £80m over 5 seasons? Even most small leagues like Denmark etc get a lot more TV money (at a cost of games at weird times), which helps your income out massively. The unfortunate thing is being next door to England and with the same language we compete with them on players. Even the Championship is now crazy money wise. Even if you could drink in the stands it wouldn't change the ticket prices that much-Glasgow Rugby's tickets are £30/£20 on the day and they have the drink at the seats. Our tickets are £20 a game, cheaper for weaker cup teams. I wouldn't say that was a rip-off really,

Yeah we've had blue training gear from Hummel and Xara didn't we? We even had sky blue away tops! Don't think the yellow top is all that bad although not sure the fade into stripes works.

Think they''ll be Russian missiles. Possibly just using the stuff they took from the Ukrainian forces still. Apparently the pro-Russian rebels said they were responsible and that it was a Ukrainian air force plane. Then they realised what they did... Seems too much of a f**k-up for the Russians to be directly involved.

He's the one we're waiting on I just think we got lucky last year the kids did so well. I think without experience you could end up struggling with kids- like Hearts did a bit.

I think we need to get some more experienced bodies into the squad. Probably 1 in defence / midfield and upfront. The over-reliance on Thommo is largely due to him always playing and us playing 1 up top- not like he has a strike partner. Back in Gus days we had Mehmet / Dargo / Higdon which we rotated around and often had 2 of them playing.

Just pretend you're a pensioner. £8 bargain

Going to guess they were removed because they were 1. dangerous, 2. placed on an adopted road without permission. If it was private property....

The key thing for Saints will be producing youngsters capable of playing first team football. In that regard we are starting to do well. Kelly, Naismith, McLean, McGinn from last year. We haven't exactly produced world beaters, nor have we been able to get money for many but if you can keep getting boys into the first team that are decent then that is half the battle. St Mirren's facilities should help with the development and recruitment of the next lot. The Scottish Youth setup seems to me to be distorted by the OF. They hoover up a lot of the talent- Hamilton lost a goalkeeper to Celtic because he was a fan. I know of a player who moved to Rangers for same reasons. The OF of course rarely play them, stifle their development and most are cut adrift at 18/21. I think a lot of parents now realise this, although if a kid supports Rangers/Celtic can be hard to convince them to go to Hamilton/St Mirren etc. In Scotland's last competitive game I think only 2 players had come through OF youth academies in the 11- McGregor and Hutton? Comparing youth set-ups is difficult. I don't think there is a magic bullet, often it seems a bit feast and famine. Hibs for example were held up as the pinnacle back a decade ago with Whittaker, Brown, Fletcher, Riorden, O'Conner, but now...?

The Scotland Team/Organisers should have looked at it and said to the designer to go away and do it again. I'd say it's a even a million times worse than our strips for this season.

As will most squads in the SPL. Not a new thing- most squads will not have masses of cover or competition. Teams just have to cope and adjust to injuries/suspensions. St Johnstone still have a decent squad, but maybe the new chairman is unwilling to write cheques out any more and the club needs to stand on its own two feet.

Teaching kids tippy-tappy football is the right thing to do. They need to learn the skills with the ball to pass, dribble and match continental players. Once they are playing the game, they don't have to kill it with sideways and backwards passing, can be a bit more direct, but not aimless but at least they will look comfortable on the ball

Very true. St Johnstone seem to be having a whine about 'where has the cup money gone' and haven't signed anyone to replace Cregg and Hasselbaink who featured in many games. Seems awful familiar!

Actually the away strip has grown on me a bit! The home strip is utterly horrendous, and I think the away should have a bit more black in it (and a better sponsors logo) but I do like it. Not that bothered on yellow colours, the St Mirren badge has more yellow than red in it.

I thought this was a fairly decent programme which I watched last night. Won't turn anyone's opinion but I found some of what the economists were saying interesting. You get the jist of whilst both sides are having the 'my dick is bigger than yours' debate on the economy, Scotland would pretty much be the same economically in 20 years independence or not. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049b89z/scotland-for-richer-or-poorer

This is the salient point. People know the status quo, they might not like it and moan about aspects of it, but they understand how it effects them. In the grand scheme of things, people are selfish and whilst they might not agree with welfare cuts or bedroom taxes, they don't affect a huge number of people so "I'm alright Jack" always comes into play. The Yes campaign need to demonstrate how they will improve the economy and that people will not be worse off. If they can shift that they have a slight chance. At the moment, polling suggests 40-49% think they will be worse off in an independent Scotland so thus a Yes vote on that level would have little chance. Most polling seems to think the no currency union by the UK government was a bluff however and think a No vote will mean more powers. I think Yes need to emphasise about the economy better, emphasise the increased democracy of Scotland getting the elected representatives it wants and challenge the impression of a no vote meaning more powers. I think we'll get a clearer picture after the debates and as we close in on the run up on whether people can really be convinced one way or the other, plus a major bollock from one side could affect things. Personally I'm not sure either way at the moment, neither option really fits what I'd like!

I think it is a big deal. We are seeing Prestwick's ops halved, sure they go down for the winter, but not only that they are moving to a new rival airport and increasing service frequencies and starting new routes. This will hurt an already loss making airport owned by the taxpayers, with no other operators at it. Sure he has managed to get max publicity out of it, but it is pretty major news and bad news for Prestwick. He'll attempt to drive down Glasgow's costs, but they have Jet 2, Easyjet, Wizz as other low cost operators, Prestwick doesn't have that leverage. Equally if the routes do well....

The reason the Scottish Government threw ££ at Prestwick is the aviation jobs based there. To be honest its decent enough reason to invest, but they should forget about improving the terminal and attracting more airlines- never going to happen in my view. Prestwick is handy for Killie and Ayr but if you live in the central belt, you'll have one of Glasgow Airport or Edinburgh Airport usually within 30mins and most people have both within an hour. Why would you want to drive 40mins down the M77 to Prestwick? Ryanair haven't chucked it completely- their maintenance is done there, but the Scottish Government needs to re-evaluate the money being spent. I hear a service to Dublin from Glasgow is being introduced- this makes sense, heard Aer Lingus was giving them a doing on that route.

Isn't it the case that they don't need the strips to sell. Saints get a certain amount of cash a season whether we sell 500 or 5,000