Founded back in the somewhat misty annals of 1884, the football club known as St Johnstone have held court at their home base of McDiarmid Park in bonny Scotland. A place of rain-soaked turf and wind-swept stands, where cheers (and more often than not, boos) ring out amid the ever-present scent of half time pies and mud-flecked boots.
According to industry insights from Transfermarkt the current squad, a solid group of seventeen players, brings to the table a total market value knocking around the £3m mark. Not a figure to be sniffed at, and by no small matter of course, one that reflects the potential that manager and board see lying latent within the ranks.
A youthful flock of Saints, they are. On average, they've only seen 24 winters. Fresh-faced, certainly, but not without the niggling suspicion of raw talent ready to be moulded, shaped, and put to good use on the pitch as required. An era of promising prospects for the McDiarmid Park faithful, presumably.
This season, in terms of tangible competition, St Johnstone have thrown their hat into the ring not once, not twice, but a considerable three times. In the Championship, they've rooted themselves firmly in the 1st place. Whilst for the League Cup, they made it as far as the Second Round. In the Challenge Cup, a journey that whimsical in nature, they reached the heady heights of the Quarter-finals. All said and done, they've not been idle, those Saints of St Johnstone.
