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Where’s the best place for a pre-match Arbroath smokie? 🐟

They don’t have any of the new season leisure range yet - so the weird sizing you’re seeing is the leftovers from last season. I believe they were giving the home and away kit launches priority before the start releasing the leisure range. So, now the away kit is out you might start to see the new stuff in the coming weeks in lead up to the start of the league campaign.

I kinda feel as if a move would be good for McGinn. Emery still making the right noises and he’s still playing a lot of games despite being in and out the team but I just feel he’s starting to go downhill. His game probably needs to evolve now as he enters his 30’s. Possibly needs to lose a bit of bulk as well.

The clamour from some for big Urminsky to be given a chance as number 1 is just mental. It’s like he’s turned into a cult figure, ‘2-metre Pete’ and folk think he’s going to be amazing despite nothing to suggest it when we saw him play terribly vs Rangers a couple of years back and have seen nothing since. He looked nowhere near it yesterday for the very little that he had to do. If we think he’s got potential he needs to go on loan somewhere this season that he’ll play and can afford to make mistakes. Its got be between Mullen and someone else for the jersey.

I’m pretty sure that SMISA have first refusal. Although, kibble would presumably be able ask for whatever price they deem appropriate? SMISA also have cash in the bank. Unsure how much.

Well… for one, it looks like there’s a possibility of Gillespie going to Rangers. That would presumably be a full time gig and not work alongside his current Kibble CEO role. So would assume he leaves his position with Kibble. That means we get another Kibble nominated director for one. Presumably the new incoming CEO of Kibble would also be assessing whether the charity’s investment in SMFC is worthwhile.

Is that what they’re putting in as part of the Ibrox refurb?

Club have already said tickets will be sold to Season Ticket holders on a first come, first serve basis. Expect them to go on sale after the home game sells out next week. Might even be Friday. Need to keep an eye on news from club.

That’s what I was thinking. Unless they’re cancelling tickets registered to UK phone number. I’m sure we’d have heard of someone if that was happening though. It was always going to be fine for tickets in the end when the reality of flights prices and general expense hit home. The irony is that Saints will possibly be left with tickets now that folk have bought directly. Unless there’s enough people that want to take up a ticket from saints in coming days and forego their home end ticket.

There’s ready made segregation in the west stand. We broke this model when the club pushed laid down a target to sell ‘x’ number of season tickets to keep the whole west stand, and to support the W7 group (which is a success btw, so not criticising that).

We didn’t ‘win’ £2m. Our league prize money was just under £1.8m. Approximately £400k increase on 10th place. So, if we’re dicing with danger on the budget - that was the additional value that we were doing it for. Add on League attendances increase as well. Worth remembering that the club waited decades for a pay day like the McGinn money. Then the Covid loan money has been and gone as well. I don’t think anyone should underestimate the financial prudence that is required at a club like Saints.

I said previously and will say again: What is the likelihood of Renfrewshire Council mistakenly shading a piece of land next to the stadium for a multi-million pound funding bid? Let’s get this right - not just the long, derelict piece of land (if we don’t were to believe that they were just pointing to any old scrap of spare land) - it just so happens to be the exact piece of land that stops and starts at the precise boundary of land owned by St.Mirren FC. That’s exactly what is on the bid. The St.Mirren board and Kibble want us to believe and accept that Renfrewshire Council mistakenly applied shading to point to that exact land. And they did so without Kibble pointing to it.

Absolutely agree. I’d also love to know what the club / charitable foundation involvement would have been moving forward. Given they were fronting the bid in name, would there have been operational costs? Who was intended to be running the show?

So… of all the land that could have been marked up incorrectly on an application, it just so happened to be the club’s land that was mistakenly shaded. And the fact that Kibble were representing a bid as SMFC charitable foundation without their knowledge doesn’t matter - because it was just at an early speculative stage. Those are the facts that we are asked to accept.