Coaching Staff
Derek first joined the club on New Year’s Day 2007 transfer window, with the then manager Owen Coyle keen to add an experienced player to his midfield options.
A great servant to Morton where he spent the best part of ten years, a move to Rangers followed but injury was a key factor in restricting the impact he made at Ibrox.
A move south of the border to West Bromwich Albion followed and he enjoyed three years with the Midlands side and apart from a brief spell in France with Toulouse he was destined to return to Scotland where he spent three seasons with Dundee United.
Owen Coyle tried to bring him to Perth in the summer of 2006 but was outdone by a late bid by Millwall and although Derek was thoroughly enjoying his time with the London club, the strain of travelling and being away from his family led to him looking for a return to Scotland and this time Coyle got his man.
Derek proved to be very influential in the second half of what proved to be a memorable 2006/2007 campaign and he was quick to commit himself to the club for the following season.
On arrival at McDiarmid Park Derek was told he would be given the opportunity to help coach the Under 19 and reserve sides which he duly did and when Owen Coyle took up the managerial position at Burnley in November 2007, Chairman Geoff Brown wasted no time in giving Derek the opportunity to take over the managerial reigns on a two and a half year contract.
He was unable to get the team to match long-time pacesetters Hamilton Accies and Dundee in what remained of the league season but he did take the team to Hampden Park for their second successive Scottish Cup semi-final appearance where they lost out to Rangers in a penalty shoot out after a 1-1 draw.
Tony was born in East Kilbride in 1971 and at the age of thirteen he signed as an S-Form with St Johnstone. When he left school at the age of sixteen, he signed for Dunfermline Athletic and whilst at East End Park he also studied at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow between 1988 and 1992. He left The Pars to play with Cambridge United and later returned to Scotland where, over the course of five years, he had spells with Stirling Albion, East Stirlingshire and Albion Rovers.
It was while he was with the Coatbridge club that he joined the SFA in the Technical Department which necessitated him giving up playing and he was employed in that capacity for three years before he moved to Falkirk where he initially took up the post of Community Coach before moving on to the position of Youth Coach and eventually moved onto coaching the first team when Alex Totten was the Manager.
He retained the position of First Team Coach with Falkirk after Ian McCall took over at Brockville in the season The Bairns won promotion to the SPL and, when Ian moved to take charge of Dundee United Tony moved to Tannadice as part of the management team.
Initially a youth coach, with the appointment of Gordon Chisholm as Manager, Tony moved up to the position of First Team Coach, a position he held under the management of Craig Brewster and Craig Levein.
When Derek McInnes took over as Saints Manager in November 2007, he turned immediately to Tony – who he had worked under as a player at Tannadice – to become his Assistant Manager.
Atholl has held the post of Community Coach at St. Johnstone since October 1994, after a two and a half year spell in the same role at Dundee United.
His playing career began at St. Johnstone, way back in 1972, and his list of clubs include Celtic, Dunfermline, Forfar and Brechin, before moving into coaching in 1983. Again his first club was St. Johnstone, followed by spells at Forfar, Dundee United and Brechin.
In the last 11 years, Atholl has built up a strong programme of development activities, and local boys and girls have opportunities to play at McDiarmid Park and at many other venues throughout Perth and Kinross.
Tommy Campbell is the club’s Youth Development Manager and is now in his third spell with the club.
Originally a youth coach in the managerial days of Alex Rennie in the early 1980s, Tommy moved into junior football management with Jeanfield Swifts and Balbeggie before returning to Muirton Park under Ian Gibson and Alex Totten.
Not long after the club’s move to McDiarmid Park, Tommy decided to have a crack an senior football management and was the manager of Forfar Athletic for five years (taking the Station Park club to the Third Division championship in 1993), followed by spells in charge of Arbroath and Montrose.
A heart attack necessitated the requirement to bow out of football management and he returned to Saints in 2004 in the role of Youth Development Manager.
Nick qualified as a Chartered and State resgistered Physiotherapist in 1983 having graduated fron Pinderfields College in Wakefield and he has worked extensively in the public and private sector as clinician, manager and teacher.
He has worked with a number of professional sports teams including Keighley Cougars Rugby League, Caledonia Reds Rugby Union and has been with Saints since 1998.
Nick specialises in the fields of ergonomics and neurological rehabilitation.
Jocky has been involved with the club since 1991 when he was invited to take up the post of assistant physiotherpist by the then-phyio Jim Peacock.
Since then, Jocky has been assistant to Davie Henderson and now Nick Summersgill. His main roles involve looking after the reserve team, assisting Nick with player treatments wehn required and covering for if Nick if he should be unavailable.
Jocky lists the trip to Monaco in the 1999 UEFA Cup as being the most memorable match of his time with Saints.
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