Andrew Maclean

You're inviting someone to take a club for two games because they're not going to get out of this situation.

I'm only talking about the playoff final against Dunfermline or Partick Thistle.

You're inviting someone to take the club for two games and do lightning quick damage to his own reputation.

I just think no one will take it under those circumstances and what you have is what you're going to have to go with.

I think his inexperience also showed in his handling of a post-match press conference.

He's been too explicit.

He's describing a dressing room in disarray.

He's saying that he is embarrassed by his players.

Good luck to Luke Douglas in the future, but 16-year-olds are not going to pull St Mirren out of the problems that they are in right now.

And he's also sounding under pressure.

You know, we can't see him, but listening to him, you can imagine what he's like.

He is undoubtedly feeling the strain.

And I repeat, that's a dressing room in disarray.

The state of play, I think, will be that Hearts have won at Third Park and that Celtic and Rangers will have to concede that there's no title for them.

Yeah.

I think the dazzler's quite right because you can't assess the mood, the tone, everything about that game tomorrow until you know what happens tonight.

If I was a St Mirren supporter, I'd be deeply concerned tonight because it sounds as if they're falling apart and it sounds as if the interim manager is seriously feeling the strain.

The strain that Martin O'Neill will feel and that Danny Rule will be determined by what happens in North Lanarkshire tonight.

The boys know how I feel.

I'm so proud of them.