Ibrox rout needn't derail positive start
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Football is a fickle beast. One week you are walking on air, and the next you are wondering if your team's boots are glued to the turf.
For St Johnstone fans, the bruising encounter against Rangers felt a bit like stumbling into a brick wall while running for a bus - sudden, painful and entirely disorienting.
Let's be honest, watching the Saints take on the Glasgow giants is never for the faint-hearted.
But when the dust settles and the bruises stop throbbing, the golden rule must kick in - write it off as a classic 'bad day at the office'.
Every team is entitled to one afternoon where the football gods are looking the other way and nothing goes to plan. It was one of those matches where even the corner flags seemed to be against us.
Crucially, a single bumpy ride shouldn't mean a downward spiral of form. A blip is just that, not a crisis.
The Perth squad has plenty of grit, character and quality in the locker to bounce right back.
So let's bin the tactical post-mortems, shake off the Perthshire rain and look ahead to Motherwell. Paint it off as a glitch in the matrix and get back to business.
