Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Defensive trio to face Dundee
ST JOHNSTONE have defenders Steven Anderson, Keith Watson and Jason Kerr all available for tomorrow’s derby against Dundee at Dens Park.
Anderson missed t he midweek l oss away t o Kilmarnock as he had a slight Achilles tendon injury and Saints didn’t want to risk him on the R u g by Pa r k a r t i f i c i a l surface.
Watson has been out for a few weeks but is now fully fit.
Kerr was sent off against Killie for a foul on Jordan Jones and the Perth club have appealed that decision.
A judicial panel hearing will take place next week. Should the panel agree that referee Willie Collum was right to send Kerr off, he will miss next Friday’s home game against Hibs.
S a i n t s b o s s To m my Wright has admitted his club’s top-six aspirations are all but over following Wednesday’s defeat Kilmarnock.
St Johnstone have slipped to nine points off Hearts after the 2-0 Killie defeat.
It means Saints are now closer to the bottom two — they have 30 points to Partick Thistle’s 24 — than they are to the top six, and Wright conceded the defeat at Rugby Park meant an end to their ambitions.
“Yeah I think so, even though we have two games in hand on Hearts,” he said.
Although refusing to accept his side were in the midst of a relegation scrap, their current form of one win in nine suggests they are in danger of being dragged in, Wright knows his side are under pressure for the first time since he took over at McDiarmid Park.
“It’s tight but I’d rather be in our position than teams below us, and we all have to p l a y e a c h o t h e r,” h e concluded. to