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St Johnstone boss Callum Davidson pledges changes for Livingston game

McDiarmid Park fringe players are set to get a starting chance this weekend.

St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson.
St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson. Image: SNS.

There will be changes to the St Johnstone team at Livingston this Saturday, Callum Davidson has pledged.

With Premiership safety now the Perth club’s sole goal and focus for the last seven games of the season, the McDiarmid Park boss is ready to call on players who haven’t been regular starters of late.

And Davidson is confident the fringe men will make an impact.

“We are looking at a few changes this weekend because there are players who deserve their chance,” he said.

“A few of them have been on the sides watching in but have made an impact when coming on.

“So they will get their opportunity now.”

Davidson made no attempt to hide from the reality of their increasingly worrying Premiership predicament.

“Unfortunately that’s where we are but I still believe we will get those two or three wins we need between now and the end of the season,” he said.

“It becomes tough when you play under pressure but we did it last season so know how to cope with it.

“We have to accept we’ve not made the top six, which is a blow, but the sooner we get safe then the better it is for everyone.

“That maybe sounds negative – and it’s not what we wanted because there was a place in the top six there for us.

“But we haven’t done well enough in the last few games and it’s cost us that opportunity.

“Everyone is ready to fight to get the results we need and hopefully end the season on a positive note with a few wins.

“We’re all looking forward to Saturday’s game now.”

Sympathy for Robbie Neilson

Meanwhile, Davidson expressed his sympathy for recently sacked Hearts boss, Robbie Neilson.

“Managers losing their job is the nature of it now,” he said.

“It is the time of the season when people panic and looking for that bounce, they sack the manager.

“We all know the job we are in.

“Expectations are different at every club and they felt as a board he didn’t meet them.

“Personally I thought he did a pretty good job. He has a good squad but it is a blip in form. But that’s football.

“You take it on the chin and get on with it.

“I have sympathy for every manager who loses his job and I have more sympathy for managers now than I ever did!

“You never want to see someone lose their job.

“If you go into this job you will always get sacked at one point and you have to be very lucky if you don’t.”

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