Ando: Our No.1 aim is to stay up
STEVEN ANDERSON admits St Johnstone are in a golden period in their 133-year history.
But the modest Perth outfit are adamant their No.1 aim for this and every term is merely survival.
Anderson and his troops have won a Scottish Cup and qualified for Europe regularly under the had in the last few years. outstanding management When you are in it you don’t of Tommy Wright. really think about it. You just
Saints have never had it try to do better every season. so good yet they simply “Maybe in a few years’ refuse to get carried away. time, we might look back on
The campaign may have this period and realise how began in the Europa League good it was. but Anderson admits “But we don’t really retaining Premiership status consider ourselves a top-six is the only aim. club, despite having been
He said: “The objective there for the past few years. every year is the same – to “I don’t think you can. stay up. We don’t have the You know what this league biggest budget so once we is like, we can all beat accomplish that we look each other. above ourselves. “Clubs have been
“We won’t get carried investing too, look at Hibs. away just because we did So we know it’s going to be well last season. Staying hard again this season. up is the priority. “As I said already, we want
“Hard work is the key. If to stay up first then look up you look at our stats it’s all after that. about that. And then you “If we get a bad result then look for a bit of quality at the we work harder and things top of the park which we’ve will turn for us.”