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Andy Dorman.

Main has been arguably one of our best players this season. If we had two free scoring forwards up front we would be challenging Rangers and Celtic. 
He does a lot of the hard work that brings goals from elsewhere.

Couple of things missing imo from our play in terms of players. 

I think we need someone more consistent on the left who can deliver crosses into the box. Imo Tanser hasn't done it often enough over the course of the season so far.
If we had a midfielder who can hit a ball, get into goalscoring positions like Ronan, McGrath and even going as far back as Mallan and Hammill, then that would be great. 
I think Baccus and O'hara are capable of doing so here and there and Kiltie can too, though not often enough.

Couple of things missing imo from our play in terms of players. 

I think we need someone more consistent on the left who can deliver crosses into the box. Imo Tanser hasn't done it often enough over the course of the season so far.
If we had a midfielder who can hit a ball, get into goalscoring positions like Ronan, McGrath and even going as far back as Mallan and Hammill, then that would be great. 
I think Baccus and O'hara are capable of doing so here and there and Kiltie can too, though not often enough.

Couple of things missing imo from our play in terms of players. 

I think we need someone more consistent on the left who can deliver crosses into the box. Imo Tanser hasn't done it often enough over the course of the season so far.
If we had a midfielder who can hit a ball, get into goalscoring positions like Ronan, McGrath and even going as far back as Mallan and Hammill, then that would be great. 
I think Baccus and O'hara are capable of doing so here and there and Kiltie can too, though not often enough.

I think The SMISA Stadium was only meant to be a temporary name until a new potential paying sponsor was found to replace Simple Digital. 

I would be all for reverting it back to St. Mirren Park, if we cannot find a paying sponsor.
There is so much potential location wise with the fly path from the airport  I know this has been banded about before) for businesses to have their branding across the stadium, including the roof. It's just trying to find that next investor willing to put up big cash for such a thing.

I think The SMISA Stadium was only meant to be a temporary name until a new potential paying sponsor was found to replace Simple Digital. 

I would be all for reverting it back to St. Mirren Park, if we cannot find a paying sponsor.
There is so much potential location wise with the fly path from the airport  I know this has been banded about before) for businesses to have their branding across the stadium, including the roof. It's just trying to find that next investor willing to put up big cash for such a thing.

It's quite the take to label 1200 of your fellow fans as a "bunch of clowns"
The same "bunch of clowns" who own the majority shareholding of the club, bought and paid for with their own hard earned.

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Main has been arguably one of our best players this season. If we had two free scoring forwards up front we would be challenging Rangers and Celtic. 
He does a lot of the hard work that brings goals from elsewhere.

No idea what the accounts show  however Covid testing was on a daily basis  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59683384
before moving on to a twice a week basis due to cost. Everyone had to be tested ie players, coaches, medical staff and anyone in contact with team members. Cost per test seemed to vary between £50 and £100. St Mirren probably had at 30 least staff being tested ie between £1500 and £3,000 per day.
Hamilton Accies spent nearly quarter of a million on Covid testing alone https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/hamilton-accies-reveal-staggering-covid-23734071
Alloa were complaining they were spending between £3,000 and £6,000 per week for a part-time Club.
Overall cost to Scottish football was around £70M https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55030350
SMFC like other Clubs took advantage of a £1.6M loan from the Scottish Government to help with the substantial Covid costs.
 
 

That's an absolute belter of a picture!

According to stats online, McCarthur went to Wigan for around 500k (I think he had a year left on his contract), then a further 700k when he was sold to Palace.   sure McCarthy was sold for around £1.2-1.4million (depends where you read), though they also made around £2m on a sell on fee when he moved to Everton.
I'm hoping with Lasley onboard with us now, he will have had an insight to how Motherwell also negotiated top dollar for their players including the likes of Kipre and Turnbull for example.

There is no way we would entertain that with 18 months left on his contract. 
As far as I'm lead to believe we were looking for around 700k for McGrath 2 summers ago, before he eventually went the following January window with 6 months left on his contract for around half of that.

I honestly can't see us entertaining any lower than £1m at this stage. With Lasley onboard alongside Robinson, would he have a better insight of how Motherwell held out for higher fees for their prized assets? The timing of the accounts released publicly will have clubs thinking they can buy on the cheap, though id like to think we can stand our ground even till the summer if there are not serious bids.

Look at the likes of Dykes at Livy (tbf he's went on to do very well), Connor Sammon at Killie, Toni Andreu & Hendrie at Acciews(ffs) all in the past going for 7 figure sums.  
Baccus is an international (also played at a WC finals) and at a very good age with 18 months left on his contract.

Main has been arguably one of our best players this season. If we had two free scoring forwards up front we would be challenging Rangers and Celtic. 
He does a lot of the hard work that brings goals from elsewhere.

There is no way we would entertain that with 18 months left on his contract. 
As far as I'm lead to believe we were looking for around 700k for McGrath 2 summers ago, before he eventually went the following January window with 6 months left on his contract for around half of that.

I honestly can't see us entertaining any lower than £1m at this stage. With Lasley onboard alongside Robinson, would he have a better insight of how Motherwell held out for higher fees for their prized assets? The timing of the accounts released publicly will have clubs thinking they can buy on the cheap, though id like to think we can stand our ground even till the summer if there are not serious bids.

Look at the likes of Dykes at Livy (tbf he's went on to do very well), Connor Sammon at Killie, Toni Andreu & Hendrie at Acciews(ffs) all in the past going for 7 figure sums.  
Baccus is an international (also played at a WC finals) and at a very good age with 18 months left on his contract.

Main has been arguably one of our best players this season. If we had two free scoring forwards up front we would be challenging Rangers and Celtic. 
He does a lot of the hard work that brings goals from elsewhere.

Think it's a shoddy bit of journalism.
£350k has been plucked from thin air because we are looking at £350k for Erthan.
There's no chance is Baccus being allowed to walk for anything like £350k and if he did, every single person working in the club at board level should be expected to resign immediately .

Surely this is double standards, if I’m taking the club at its statement, then you’re choosing to do the opposite & not believe it? 
 
Some of the specifics. 
Ralston -  We have had Ralston for around 15 or more years. We have operated at break even since the original SMISA deal was put in place bar the last two years. That tells me we are more than capable of funding & maintain Ralston & that it is indeed, exceptional circumstances. 
 
League position - your take is just pessimistic. We have games in hand over every club above us & are in a league position we haven’t secured for over 3 decades. What I said about this being a positive is absolutely true. 
Attendance - there won’t be many getting freebies & I imagine most will be paying full price. There doesn’t appear to be strategy in place compared to previous seasons that would suggest a large number of people were there without having to pay. 
 
Multiple sellable assets - no one is saying that’s how the business is being ran, it’s just fact that we have performers on the park of a level where outside interest comes in.
Manager - kind of does, better performing manager means more games won, more bums on seat, more league placement money. Again, it’s a positive.
 
The loss - it is disappointing but it’s actually quite common for clubs our size. Before this season, we were possibly the only comparable club that hadn’t had a six figure loss over the last 5-7 seasons.  
 
People are definitely blowing this up bigger than it actually is.  

There won't be major upgrades at Ralston every year - that was the one-off cost.
Better than lying 10th with an outside chance of 6th.
Dunno the details of paying/freebies.
Definitely sellable (for how much is debatable).  I doubt very much if the club is getting run on that basis.
Nobody's saying it will pay the bills.
Not necessarily, it depends on the details.  Maybe because they looked at the details.

I think this was McGrath to the best of my knowledge. 

We just signed a player.
https://www.stmirren.com/all-news/4721-richard-taylor-signs-for-st-mirren-until-the-end-of-the-season




SR admitted months ago he used all his budget in the summer. Hope you weren't expecting him to exceed his budget. Wouldn’t that be mismanagement. [emoji848]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/stephen-robinson-says-st-mirren-27986955.amp




Mmmmmm wonder who blabbed about us supposedly being in the sh!t.

Would@glen like to apologise now?

Thank you both for saving my typing thumb a bit of work. 

I think it also shows a lack of ambition too.  The English leagues are a more attractive proposition even taking finances out of the equation. He is certainly good enough to be playing at English Championship level. 
With 50ish games a season including cup games, a lot of these teams make full use of their squads with the constant demand of 2 games per week.