Steve Lomas will be confirmed as the new St Johnstone manager at a McDiarmid Park press conference this morning.
The Northern Irishman will be joined at the Perth club by his new assistant boss and fellow Northern Irishman Tommy Wright.
It was Wright’s resignation from his post in charge of Lisburn Distillery on Wednesday that indicated Saints were about to put their new management team in place.
So it will be an all-Ulster duo taking over the reins from Derek McInnes and Tony Docherty, who have departed for English Championship side Bristol City.
Lomas and Wright go back a long way, having played together for Northern Ireland as well as been teammates at Manchester City.
Indeed, Wright was capped 31 times for his country in a decade-long international career at Windsor Park.
The Saints job will be the first big break into management for 37-year-old Lomas, although he has coached West Ham’s reserve team.
Wright has bossed Distillery for two years and helped them survive relegation in his first year in charge before helping the Whites lift the province’s League Cup last season.
Wright previously managed Limavady United and Ballymena and was a goalkeeping coach at Norwich City as well as Shamrock Rovers south of the Irish border.
It is a bold and imaginative double appointment by Saints chairman Geoff Brown and his team of directors his son Steve, Charlie Fraser and Stan Harris.
They may have missed out on Sligo Rovers boss Paul Cook after personal terms proved to be an insurmountable problem but they will be delighted to have put together this team.
Lomas and Wright’s first game in charge will be in front of the TV cameras at McDiarmid on Monday night when Aberdeen are the visitors in what will now be an SPL match with added spice.
Saints have failed to score since McInnes’s departure to Ashton Gate drawing 0-0 with Dundee United and losing 1-0 to St Mirren last weekend but will be hoping for a boost from the new arrivals.