May will get back on goal trail soon – Wright

Tommy Wright is convinced the goals will come for St Johnstone striker Stevie May.

The Perth club’s highprofile summer signing has yet to find the net in his second spell at McDiarmid Park and you have to go back over a year for his last nonpenalty goal (against St Mirren in the Betfred Cup on August 18 2018) and 16 months for his last Premiership non-penalty goal (for the Dons against his current team on March 31 2018).

But Wright believes more recent signs are encouraging.

“I’m seeing a lot of good stuff from Stevie,” he said. “He could have had a hat-trick against Motherwell.

“Their keeper had a great save from a brilliant

“We should have been three up at half-time”

flick late on and I thought Gallagher did extremely well to prevent him getting a clean contact on another chance.

“Maybe the Stevie May of old would have got a shot away in the first half but he opted to chop back inside and slipped.

“But it’s good that he is getting in there and the goals will come.

“Ideally you want him to hit the ground running. But I know the goals will come if he keeps getting into good positions.”

Saints made a mess of their Betfred Cup clash with Saturday’s opponents Ross County at the start of the season and things haven’t got consistently better since then.

“The Ross County game here epitomised the way our season has gone,” Wright said. “We should have been three up at half-time.

“We missed chances and shot ourselves in the foot. That has to stop or it is going to be a really long season.”