East Lothian Saint

Worst case scenario. Jack does a runner to Barnsley faster than Alex Rae can plummet saints to the bottom of the league. Argh!!! what about all the Jack Ross Cardigans we've bought. They'll be naff now. In Jack we trust. I think the cardigan wearing phase will last till next season at least

PUBS FOR AWAY FANS "At the ground itself located behind the South Stand is the Almondvale Suite, which normally admits visiting supporters. George Hobbs informs me, 'The Lime Kiln pub located near to the stadium on Almondvale Boulevard, was quite popular on my last visit'. This pub which is part of the 'Hungry Horse' chain also derives meals. Whilst up at the nearby Livingston Designer Outler retail park, there is a Wetherspoons pub, called the Newyearfield. However no football colours are allowed to be displayed inside the pub. Further on inside the Almondvale Shopping Centre is a pub called the Paraffin Lamp." Right that's the research done. Lime Kiln, Lunch. Check the ticket queue, If its a portacabin job for tickets buy ticket before hitting the Almondvale suite. If not Pay at the gate after a another quick pint. Sorted.

There are no away tickets for any future games being sold by the ticket office, yet. So Yeah I also reckon it's pay at the gate. Just checked the website. The advance purchase of tickets is not required for Livingston FC home matches in the Ladbrokes Scottish Championship (unless advertised otherwise), with ‘pay-at-the-gate’ arrangements in place instead. £18 – £20 Adults £12 Concessions* £5 U16s £40 Family (2 adults + 2 children U16)

I'm sure he was there. No way was he a figment of my imagination. Was he invisible. Feck, I must have been drunk. Finally I have an imaginary friend. Nah! he was definitely there. Aw you guys must have been drunk????

He was in for a couple of hours. He left us about 9. We were in the bar area up the back before the booths. He was in good form and a few fans got selfies. He was very hospitable.

Sorry made a grunt of that quote should have been contained above

The last man prior to Gavin to score 20 goals in a season for the Saints

Well that was another great weekend. Enjoyed a couple of nights in Hamilton and on Match day I enjoyed the hospitality of a few North Berwick Rangers fans in Glasgow prior to them having to watch their team getting humped by Hibs. HA! HA! Brilliant. Then it was onto the 1877 Club to enjoy IOBS’s hospitality before another mighty Saint’s performance. What a goal from Smith and big Harry stepping up for the penalty was another surprise but the biggest surprise of the day was the noise from those ladies and gentlemen who had obviously enjoyed the hospitality package in the ground. Feck we could hear them singing from the West Stand. Good effort guys. Not sure if the Drinks deal has improved but you made some noise. I’ve heard Hospitality is now sold out for the rest of the season which is a shame because I certainly fancied a couple of pints of what they must have been drinking. After the game we hit the Bull inn. It was mobbed as usual, but it got even busier when a large group who had previously been enjoying hospitality at the ground arrived and livened the place up even more. We had a few laughs trying to teach a Spanish interpreter how to speak proper Scottish, enjoyed the pleasure of numerous buds and enjoyed a few sherbets with a St Mirren Legend and his good lady. Yes, it was a very hospitable evening and even the Spanish guy who previously didn’t know common Scottish Slang was telling us we had won the league now. “Has ganado la liga” is what I think he said but based on our previous conversations he was probably telling us we were Big @@@@@@@@’s

Cheers. Need to book another hotel for Tuesday so just triple checking before taking the plunge. Paisley Tuesday, Dundee Friday . I'm on that express. Choo Choo

Who slipped in a Tuesday fixture before the Friday Game against Dundee Utd. Playing Tuesday and Friday of the same week., Is this right?

We're on our way. Living out a suitcase again. Hotel for the weekend. Black tie do, last night. Black and white scarf day today. No probs packing the case. COYS

Well, What a weekend and what an unexpected delight Friday night turned into. I finally decided to risk the transport chaos and take the train. Well the football isn’t the same without a couple of sherbets. Stopped in at the pub on the way to the station in NB. Got drinking with a couple of Hibees who wished the saints well and after a small refreshment I headed for the train via the chip shop. I met a business associate on the train who was heading into Edinburgh for a “Boys” night out. He was armed with four little cans containing gin and tonic. Not my usual tipple but it would have been rude to refuse. I had half an hour to kill between train connections in Edinburgh, so I went for a pint and was sitting in the seating area outside the pub, watching the world go by, when a guy with a thick banded black and white scarf, identical to mine, appears with a plastic bag full of cans. He dumps them on the seat opposite the table and asks me to look after them whilst he nicks to the loo. Turns out he’s a Dunfermline fan on route to the game. His bag is full of Strongbow dark fruits cider. Not my usual tipple but it would have been rude to refuse. After a couple of Tinnies on the train. We visit the Elizabethan. Next to us at the bar is a blind guy who asks if we can lead him to the game. He hears I’m a Saints fan and asks for assistance getting into the away end. He doesn’t support either team, but he goes to different matches every week and prefers the away end because he thinks the atmosphere is better. So off we go like the three bind mice. A drunk Dunfermline fan in the lead and a blind guy with a white stick hanging onto my shoulder. I meet my usual Buds inside the ground and what a game. There were a few contenders for man of the match and what a first goal. Kyle McGennis was outstanding but even the Blind guy must have seen Bairdy was the man. I loved his goal and the reception he got at the end of the match was fantastic. Even Jack Ross who normally gives us a reserved clap and a cheer was giggling like a school boy and enjoying Bairdy’s moment to the full. After a return to The Elizabethan I jumped on the train at Queen Margaret. “Cammy, Cammy” and “We’re on our way” was being bellowed on the platform as we entered Dunfermilne Station and it lasted all the way back to Edinburgh. I found myself sitting with 7 Dunfermilne fans and another monster carry out. At least it was lager this time and it would have been rude to refuse. They were quite taken by the “Cammy Cammy” song and left the train at Haymarket having adapted it to accommodate their own names. Fecking “Gary, Gary” doesn’t quite have the same ring but it was echoing around the platform as the train left Haymarket. The train was running late, and I had 3 minutes to make the connection to North Berwick but I made it. I met another mate on the train who asked if I was going for a pint in North Berwick. Well, It would have been rude to refuse.

First part of the plan going well .i.e. couple of pints in NB not sure about the housework. On Edinburgh train. We're on our way. Any team news yet?

14 x 3 is eh? 42 points still up for grabs and 45 for the arabs Feck we only have 48 I'm nervous too but loving it. So many possible permutations of where the league could be one or lost. I'd hope it would be in the bag before then and one game at a time BUT 21st April - Home against Morton what kind of crowd would that attract.

Plans for the Day. Already been up. been for a run. Walked dog. Answered work e-mails had breakfast. St Mirren gear looked out and match ticket safely stowed in wallet. Need to get off the computer do all the house work and domestic pish done before 4pm when the wife comes home from work. Be in Pub before wife comes home from work. lubricate throat with a couple of beers in NB. Tune voice for long bout of "Cammy Cammy" Song. Train Beer in Edinburgh train Beer in Elizabethan Match "Cammy Cammy" 3 points "We're top of the league and your no" Train no time for beer hope to catch all connections. Home for midnight. What pubs are open till one in North Berwick - Celebrate Looking Forward to a great day (apart from the housework bit) COYS.

Handy to see all this in the one place. Cheers.

Ha! Ha! everyone in Paisley, Glasgow and the west of Scotland will know why. Why don't you. Institutional sectarianism. My upbringing dictates I should be a Rangers Fan and while I never supported Rangers, in my younger days I always liked to see Celtic get beat more than I enjoyed watching Rangers getting beat. I think it was something I was taught at school. I did cheer on Rangers when they beat Moscow Dynamo and I was a distraught as any Celtic fan when Dixie Deans missed the penalty against Inter. I always supported both ugly sisters in Europe especially against English teams but as a St Mirren fan, I just like to see them both getting pumped in Scottish football. Rangers are now the main villains in Scottish football and not because of any sectarian influence but because they gained an unfair sporting advantage over every team in the league and have the cheek to blame everyone else for their demise. Until a board not associated with the previous team, company or what ever is installed, Rangers will always be the Rangers we remember. They allegedly have the biggest debts in Scottish football but they still have the second biggest player budget. How can that be allowed??? How did King pass a Due Diligence test? Why is David Murray not being more closely Scrutinised for what just looks like a straight forward transfer of power without the crippling debt they amassed during his reign? These are questions the SFA , SPFL or SFL will never answer. So we still have our pantomime villain and don't we Just love it. Craig White was innocent. Long Live SEVCO.

Oh well so much for Aberdeen being the second best team in Scotland. They just got pumped into third place. If we'd waited a week we could have pumped them too. Looks like the old firm might have regained their top two crowns meaning Jack will have to have learned enough to split or even beat them next season because the rest of them are rank. Oops just woke up. Must have been dreaming. We're not even in the premier league yet and the Tony Fitz madness has gripped everyone. Let's just hope we can beat the Pars. One step at a time boys and we could be on our way.

McAfee WebAdvisor Warning: Trouble ahead Whoa! Are you sure you want to go there? https://www.dafc.co.uk/news.php?c&#… may be risky to visit. Why are you seeing this? When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors. Accept the Risk Back View Site Repo Went to log into the Dunfermilne website to see what was happening and my virus protection went loopy. Feck I hope McAFee isn't some kind of fortune teller. They are probably Dung- fermilne fans. "Trouble ahead-Whoa- may be risky to visit- are you sure you want to go there?" who are they kidding Too right we do and we're going to pump them. Come on ye Saints. I wonder what risky behaviours they get up to on the Dunfemilne news page. All pish about Dunfermilne website aside, I have a bigger Dilemma than Ross with his Eckersley/Stelios choice. I'm sure which ever one plays is up to the task. For me the big decision is train or car. "To Drink or not to drink" that is the question. If we go down the drinking route things are very tight. 2308 arrival in Edinburgh Last train to North Berwick 2313. Only 5 mins to play with. Any delay in the Dunfermilne train and I'm walking home. Friday night games are not good for away fans. The logical decision would be stay at home and watch it in the pub. Aye right. I'll be part of the 600, 700 or 1800 singing "Super Stelios" with a 30 or 40 minute rendition of "Cammy Cammy" thrown in for good measure, We don't get the chance to win leagues too often. Count me in. I'm not missing any of it.

There were no trains back from Aberdeen today and I had two hours on a connecting bus to Dundee with no wifi to fill......sorry!

Don't forget to repeat 500 times.........

Just a guess but how about "Stop the Cavalry" and "two little boys" "Feck here come the Rolf Harris jokes and this thread will go to the dogs"

To be fair the song you refer to is not actually new. I first learned the words at QOS last season when we were feck knows how many points adrift at the bottom of the league. I found it amusing to be signing about the Premier League and to be fair at that point no one knew or cared how it would happen but we had just won a game and we could only dream. Looks like the dream might just come true.

All this talk and praise heaped on the 600 St Mirren fans, who distinguished themselves at Aberdeen in the face of an absolute massacre, got me wondering. The last person to get so excited about praising the 600 after a doing was back in 1854 when old Alfred gave his take on the battle of Balaclava and the charge of the light Brigade. If Tennyson had still been around he might have said something similar about the Battle of Pittodrie and the chant of the North Bank. Championship, Premier league Saints moving onward Into the valley of Dons Sang the six hundred They notched things up a decibel Immortalised their hero’s in a Candy girl yell All the way through Pittodrie hell Sang the six hundred Onward the North Bank Saints’ defence were really rank They couldn’t keep the score line blank But 1-2-3-4 Sang the six hundred Sheep Shaggers to the right of them “Reilly” Sheep Shaggers to the left of them “Cammy, Cammy” Sheep Shaggers in front of them “We've got Ryan Flynn” Sang the six hundred They had captain Steve McGinn Still 1-2-3-4 goals went in But on and on Sang the six hundred. They’re hearts never sank They are the North Bank Jack Ross was quite frank In his praise of the six hundred. Championship, Premier league Saints moving onward “We're on our way” Still sing the six hundred.

On a bus somewhere North of Dundee reading the forum. Feck you folks are hard to please. Ok it wasn't the best performance against a team no one outside our fan base expected us to win but we can't win them all. We might not have a premier ready team but trust in Jack. We do however have a premier ready support. Not sure what you heard on TV but the atmosphere was great and the north bank had a great time. Non stop singing and fecking sore arms for Josh the drummer I think. I hear the Guinness book of records have just confirmed the longest rendition of the Cammy Cammy song. Cheer up folks. We're on our way Well done the 600 1234..........[emoji445] .....see you all Friday night