Sickened Steven MacLean ripped into his St Johnstone flops and accused some of “chucking it” - warning they’ll be lucky to play for him again after being thumped 4-0 by St Mirren.It’s now nine league games without a win for the rock bottom Perth men who are already five points adrift and were the masters of their own downfall in Paisley.
Defensive blunders directly led to three of the four goals and ahead of the visit of Kilmarnock on Wednesday MacLean left his players in no doubt they need to improve.He blasted: “Whether we played well first half or not, it is not acceptable.
The goals we lost are unacceptable. It’s the basics of football. In the second half, we just imploded and it looked like a couple of players chucked it.“It is my responsibility and some of these players will be lucky if they play for me again.
It is not happening under my watch and it might be I need to play young boys. I thought it was really, really poor.’ You need to show a bravery in those situations and you need people to lead.
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