Relieved Callum Davidson stored St Johnstone within the prime flight with a thumping win over Inverness Caley Thistle.
And the McDiarmid boss claimed holding the Perth facet within the Premiership was BIGGER than final season’s home cup double.
He praised his St Johnstone stars for displaying the most important take a look at of character to dig themselves out of their rut and maintain their facet within the Premiership.
It went all the way down to the final sport however 4 second targets have been sufficient to flatten Inverness and maintain the Saints within the top-flight.
The Saints received the Betfred and Scottish Cups final season however Davidson reckons survival was an even bigger problem.
Davidson said: “For me this was more durable, loads more durable to realize. It was a take a look at of character, it was a take a look at of how we went about our enterprise each day.
“How will we construct confidence, how will we get gamers out of this rut? This was even more durable.
“It was an even bigger achievement right this moment. I don’t usually rejoice targets an excessive amount of however you noticed the emotion in me there.”
The tie was nonetheless stage at half-time and Davidson said his gamers had been rubbish within the first half earlier than they got here good.
He stated: "t is a aid. It’s been a tough, laborious graft since November. We struggled, then we acquired gamers in, we fought, we battled.
“Among the performances weren’t good. However we acquired there ultimately and we’re nonetheless within the Premiership.
“All credit score to the gamers. The supporters have been completely incredible tonight and I’m simply glad we put a present on within the second half.
“First half we have been rubbish. I can’t repeat what I stated at half time. I assumed we’d performed it too slowly within the first half and we have been too apparent and too sluggish with the balls performed ahead.
“We needed to be faster and set a tempo within the second half. Objectives modified video games…and it modified it for us tonight.
“Confidence has been tough. In addition to we performed effectively Friday evening, we felt we must always’ve been two or three targets up. It was a job of lifting them.”
Davidson will maintain contract talks together with his out-of-contract gamers like Shaun Rooney, Zander Clark, Murray Davidson and Callum Hendry.
He confirmed: ”It’s nice. I’ve been considering in my head ‘what occurs if we go down, what occurs if we keep up.’
“Now it’s going to be a pleasant dialog. I feel as a membership we've to know the place we're.
"We’ve began the final three or 4 seasons poorly – now we actually have to begin the season to present us an opportunity."