St Johnstone Analysis

Huge thanks to @AFC1903analysis for reminding me of other sites exist😅 Not perfect and a bit rough but its for Saints fans so hopefully has some value to those interested. Can try to add things if somethings missing, and will tinker constantly anyway stjohnstoneanalysis.co.uk/

I'd be more annoyed if it wasn't so utterly predictable. We all know if that's a United player on Donovan that there's either a red straight away or a huge VAR review and then a red.

You could start a game of "guess the Scottish referees decision" and it would become quite popular i reckon, like "spot the ball" Suspect most people would go dive, some would go penalty, but almost none would get it right and say handball. Watch his feet for the clipped heel.

Full round of fixtures in, and a solid enough start? Definitely need to improve on the attacking front, just dont create enough despite actually scoring plenty. Does kind of feel like we're being set up for a 8th-10th finish, which would be fine.

Not convinced at all Paton and Fowler work together, but we do have a real problem getting the strikers involved so far. Not 100% sure we've figured out how to attack without McPake yet. Taylor Stevens value off the ball huge, glad he got his goal too.

More than a few players in there who maybe need to believe in themselves more and show a bit more conviction. Too much on and off the ball felt timid until we fell behind and they had no choice. We've played every side now and sit 8th, that should be enough to know you belong.

Had completely forgotten how memorable our last home game, in the league, v Motherwell was, and how wild the line up was Sprangler + Wright in a back 3, Kucheriayvi + Griffith starting, Douglas as the LWB Not even 2 years later but likely only one of those starters starts here?

Added percentile bars to the site to add more context. Will adjust radars later to add in new metrics. Alic remains unreal, but worry the 3 most used to support Fowler all lean towards defensive stuff? Too much time between slip and goal for Cotterill to be "blamed" yesterday.

Jordan McGhee in midfield for Motherwell for the first time this season, you wonder if they think he'll be more combative for the 2nd ball situation? Previous seasons suggest he'd be an improvement for them.

Is Cotterill going to be Simos Gary McDonald? Where fans dont see the appeal but the manager does? He ended yesterday with the most chances created (3), most ball recoveries (9), and 2nd most 2nd ball wins (3) Do think hes just not suited to playing deeper yet though?

Games now up on the site. So well beaten theres maybe not a huge point looking at it much, but my xG model reckons Fowlers 1st half chance was harder than it looked As said Kim for Rangers looks like one of those who is a level or two above this league stjohnstoneanalysis.co.uk/

If its any consolation the last time we lost 4-0 at Ibrox we then beat Rangers in the next game at McDiarmid. Which was the James Brown "where did that come from?!" game.

- Mikulic looked dominant and I'd consider him starting soon - Fotheringham showed why we need 1v1 players in attack - Cotterill too ball watch-y to play deep, players ran off him too easily with no on ball upside - I like Steven but we need actual goals/assists from him now

Makes sense to realise it's Andrew Dallas who's the VAR for that decision too Picked up an injury that forced him to retire, coincidentally, the exact same time VAR was forced upon us So desperate to still be relevant he has to make sure he gets to make some form of decision