Drey Wright has big boots to fill in St Johnstone’s right wing-back role after being signed to replace double-winning hero Shaun Rooney.
But, after an injury delay in pre-season and the start of the League Cup group campaign, the former Hibs man has got his second spell at McDiarmid Park off to a very promising start.
The 27-year-old was a shining light in a dominant first half for Saints against Ayr United at the weekend.
Cross after cross being delivered into the box before being substituted at half-time bodes well for the league season about to start.
And manager Callum Davidson is excited by the service that will be provided from the right flank.
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“Drey will be a good signing for us and I was delighted with him last weekend,” he said.
“He’s got good energy, he gets up and down the pitch and he has a very good football brain.
“With Drey on one side and Adam Montgomery on the other, we have a lot of attacking threat.”
One player who will further add to Saints’ creative threat, David Wotherspoon, has reached the next stage of the comeback journey.
“Spoony’s doing a lot of work getting fit and now he needs to step it up a bit,” Davidson reported.
“He needs to go into a different kind of movement now – more of the twisting and turning so that’s a different type of training to what he’s been doing.
“It’s still too early to put a timescale on it but hopefully he keeps progressing the way he has been.”
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