St Johnstone Analysis

Was overly negative towards Steward, entirely due to getting overly frustrated with the way the match was going as id built it up as so important, so here's some positivity about him. Tops the 3 main goalkeeping metrics for us since 20/21, despite also being the youngest

Interesting that goals we've conceded in our last two games are similar? - Wide defender gets ball, we press, they play it past our midfield to striker, Diabate pushed as high as CMs following attacker, other CB has to defend massive space v another attacker, CMs cant get back

In 18/19 we beat Dundee 4 times out of 4 without conceding a single goal, but our league record since is dreadful Only home win since was Oct 2021 Dundee sit deep and that makes them one of the best defensive sides, who also rank 2nd attacking/defending corners/counters

Yet another brave defensive display, but midfield done so much work despite disadvantages in there numbers wise. Schmidt was impressive too.

The last time Mikulic played for us regularly in the top flight... Pleased he's back as it'll give more balance to the backline with a left footer, and I'm still convinced he's our best CB anyway

St Mirren. Craig McLeish with a style change from Robinson and still very early doors on how that'll go. So far so good in a lot of ways but need to sort the defence out.

Rangers. Martin one where my point about a bad OF manager still looking good comes in. Aside from completing passes he was awful. Rohl seems like a worse McInnes, and interesting neither could get dangerous counters going or 2nd ball wins?

Motherwell. Askous Motherwell were one of the most "controlled" sides i can remember at this level whenever I saw them. Dominated every part of midfield. Johanssons Motherwell a lot easier to get a grip of so far and weak defensively due to that.

Kilmarnock. Doesn't matter who's in charge, they can't defend. Seem worse this season than last at the moment but McCann managed to turn a bad start (under Kettlewell) around last season to keep them safe.

Hibernian. Gray tried to become a more direct side but ended up worse defensively and not much better in attack? Reedijk not showing a huge amount more than Gray last season yet but only had a few games and no real signings.