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I am going and takin two pals, when I say pals, one is a disillusioned Sevco supporter, he just wants to see how undersoil heating works

The silence from the board suggests to me that there's definitely something imminent, otherwise they'd come out and say that the deal was off.

same Americans who also made an offer for St Mirren BTW

Maybe, if the Argentine consortium are successful, then they might have the ideas and drive and engage with the fans.
Just a thought.

Its as clear as this... no news will be released by the board until the club is sold or the deal falls through.

After 5 years of waiting for developments a few more days won't really hurt. Yes the timing is lousy but at the end of the day if these new owners are serious then they will have players lined up to come in as soon as they are in control so as long as it's done before the end of the month it won't matter too much.

I'm not f**king watching Sportscene now!
But I did watch the highlights of Aberdeen V Dundee just there online.
Did they highlight or mention the dive by the Aberdeen player to win them their last gasp penalty?
And did they put their bright spotlight thing on Ryan Jack, surely offside, when he scored the equaliser?
Not asking that in a sarcastic sour way... just did they? I do feel St Mirren are an easy target for them...mock,mock, sneer, snigger.
and no, we can forget the appeal. It wont succeed.

I thought the point of having a panel of pundits was you got a range of opinions and sometimes a panelist might balance out another panelist's view by arguing how the opposite position might be taken.
After 10 league games where we lose 9 and win 1 I was actually looking forward to watching a Sportscene where we actually win with a great performance from 10 men for the majority of the game. Almost nothing was said afterwards about how well St Mirren started and how only 1 team had created any decent chances prior to the sending off. Instead, Jonathan Sutherland kicks things off with a pun making a dig at an 18 year old St Mirren player, "you've got to hand it to Stevie Mallan" and I think he repeated it again in case we didn't notice the emphasis on hand linking in to a discussion on how the referee had cheated Ross County out of 3 points (with the scores balanced at, er, 1-1 at the time) and could cost McIntyre and Dodds their jobs. Next talking point was on to the red card and why Bonner, Stewart and Sutherland all thought it was a straight red card and dangerous tackle. No mention of St Mirren playing well, or of how bad the camera angles were for the red card or judging which body part Mallon knocked the ball in with. Little was even said about Ridgers save or how little County offered going forward or our defence looking reasonably OK, indeed, Michael Stewart still found time to say "Every time I see St Mirren their defence is all over the place at 6's and 7's". Would it have hurt the panel too much to have said a few nice things about St Mirren on a rare week for he 2nd time in 11 games where we actually bloomin' win a game.

I'd always pictured GT being a very nice guy, and a nice guy is the last thing we need in charge right now.
However, the pure fúcking fury on his face, in the direction of the fourth official on Saturday, has convinced me he has the fire we undoubtedly need.
If he's happy to go all eyeballs-out, finger-pointy in the face of yet another official who's f**ked us over, then I'm happy for GT to lead us into battle. Fair play.

Can someone move this pish to General Nonsense.

I agree in general with your post. Regarding the bit I've put in bold, knowing some people on here, they would have reacted like "Aye, right Div! It's easy to say you knew something was going to happen after it happened."
I do understand where Buddiecat is coming from though and agree that certain things should be a "no-no" for the public domain. Just for arguments sake, imagine that a bid for the Club, not necessarily this particular bid, was on offer and it got out on here or elsewhere. The interested party could immediately think "Well if that's how they conduct themselves as a business and a Club, we would rather go elsewhere." I'm not saying that's what will happen in this case but it's the sort of thing that I'm sure goes on in the world, so from that point of view I can get and agree with Buddiecat. This doesn't mean I'm anti-Div or think he's the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels.

I'm not sure what the hold up has been this week, but as far as I am aware the agreement remains in place and the Argentinian consortium will still become the owners of the club. If I hear anything different I will be sure to post it.

I found this Stu:
The Mirren of Scotland, footballing outside Glasgow, manager Tommy Craig play before Belgium and club Hibernian of Edinburgh. Results pish were - Mirren of Scotland directors crazy give Craig job number one footballing person.
Fans 'sake fcuk' and protest Cheesy blame. Ball, striker - signed Craig, summer 'window of transfer' - plays bad. Fans 'fcuk sake' once more. El hombre handsome, Steve Thompson - painful groin, helping not Mirren prospects. Fans 'sake fcuk' - uno, dos, tres times. Much protest de Mirren in outside Glasgow.
Board directors - silencio from South African director boardroom. Stories fed Div - webmeister baldy. Consortium English 'sake fcuk' in electronic mail message.....

The only thing that hasn't been truthful imo is the timeline. There is very obviously an attempt at a deal and all the due diligence that involves going on hence the silence. For as long as that process is ongoing there should be absolutely no comment from anyone connected officially to the club. I would hope Divs source is not a club official but his source is his source and none of our business. Div chose to go public and he must have his reasons for that the most obvious one being he truly believed the deal was done and set to be announced. The majority on here are screaming for the board to look into the people behind the proposed take over but I would suggest that is EXACTLY what they are doing and while that process is ongoing they are duty bound to do exactly what they are doing in saying nothing. You just don't go public during any negotiations. The first we should hear from any board member us either yes it's a deal or no the search goes on for new owners. As for timing in relation to the transfer window, it may be irrelevant as the players being brought in may not be currently under contract. Who knows what background any new arrivals may be from.

Miners are better strikers than those pair.

Good stuff Stu. Mind and ask how the miners are getting on, and if they want Ball & Marwood.

I just think that the fact it was common practise and legal means they aren't Massone, the guy at Raith, Romanov, Whyte, the guy at Leeds or even the Serb from Dundee. They aren't even Mileson, heck Messi has been investigated, Aguero and Zabaleta too. Even the Argentinian tax office didn't say it was illegal. I don't believe a single CSD Rangers player was suspended, it happened in 2012 and Pini was still running them in 2013. The press have given a very loaded side of the story, it took me 2 minutes to read facts that Graeme missed completely.
The whole shady shyster investigation has led to, wait for it, some suspended agents and new forms to fill out.

Sorry Ian , you and I have been through it all together , but the club needs new owners , and right now I couldn't care less who they are . We need new life breathed into the club. I 've virtually stopped going , and if things don't change I can't see me being back in that wee soulless stadium for a while. We need a clear out , and I mean from top to bottom , too many guys in safe wee jobs going through the motions picking up a wage.

A lot of people seem to be jumping to conclusions regarding the "Argentinians".
An article full of "if's and but's" from some journalist and certain people are "losing their minds".
These guys have broken no laws or rules during their involvement with the Chilean Rangers. Yes, they have been investigated for some "not so normal" methods of football business, but like I said in a previous post, there's a big difference between being investigated and being found guilty of something.
Regarding the "community club" thing. Are you saying you will consider not supporting the club if anyone outside the Paisley area buys it? If so, I would start looking for a new club to support if I were you.

Imagining Bahoken not actually playing is a pretty appealing thought....
I'm convinced now. The Argies are sound as a pound.

imagine SG was going to buy a club elsewhere and some St Mirren fans were rolled out to discredit him, you'd easily find people to say he sacked all the good managers, someone else moaning about the managers he hired, some people moaning about moving stadium, some people moaning about the price of the games, some people moaning about lack of investment, the bogies in the toilet, the dug shite on Murray street, the updating of HoF boards, his selling price etc and on and on. f**k, all they'd need to do is roll out Dicko and they'd think the world's problems were caused by SG alone.

Good post.
A lot of people have already tarred and feathered the Argentinians based on one journalist interviewing another journalist. (is that how Chinese Whispers started).
I have yet to see in the press any official statement that the Argentinians have actually made an offer or advised on their intent for the club should they make the acquisition.
If we are waiting on a St Mirren fan suddenly appearing to purchase the club then wake up because that is not going to happen. If the club is to be sold then it will be more than likely sold to someone who is not St Mirren minded and is buying it as a business to make money. Lets face it the current board are hardly running it as a money making business. There is no leadership being presented from the current board. It appears they are only interested in selling the business. (which is quite ironic as they only own 52 % of the business. However that is a separate issue)

Devils advocate here, pini did t go in and ruin a solvent club, he bought a club either from liquidation or admin, whatever bankruptcy is in chile. Are they solvent now? He got them promotion to the top league and to a national cup final which they had never won. In the interview the guy says the fans loved it at first then it went sour due to things like giving more of the stadium to opposition fans. Something we and others do here anyway when there is money to be made. Perhaps that's why this rangers mob in Chile are now solvent?
Is the moving players on without playing out of the ordinary in south America?

The last time we signed a player in January from our relegation rivals he went on to lift the league cup as our captain.....

We will not be relegated.
Keep on fighting.
We are not loads of points adrift at the bottom.