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nach0king

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  1. Yep, that's where I'm watching. This will be the last Periscope because he's getting shut down constantly. Not the kind of game we would have wanted to end on.
  2. Fair play to you lot. Better all over the park tonight and taken great advantage of our defensive frailties. Even when we've had the ball at feet in the box we've done nothing, and you've swept up the high balls all night long. The turnaround from earlier this season has been remarkable and you are well worth what is, right now, an absolute beasting. I wouldn't be surprised if you got a fifth.
  3. Been following this thread tonight and it's been very fair. This is the worst St. Mirren team I've ever seen (watched on Periscope) while Morton looked as good as we have been recently. What a way for the hoodoo to end, wasn't even close. Fair play to the traveling fans who boosted a disappointing gate for us, on a freezing night with games on TV with little prospect of a win - that's dedication. Hate to say it but I actually kind of want you to stay up, if only for more derby wins next season
  4. Your midfield didn't fall out of the game at all. In case you missed it even in the seventh minute you were winning balls then launching fast counters, and that effectively won the game with Shankland's strike. Rae presumably knew that Morton would just stand off when they didn't have the ball and wouldn't do anything much when they had it, so why worry about 90 minutes of pressing?
  5. Unfortunately I can't disagree that St. Mirren strolled the midfield battle today. In large part this is because Duffy went with an uncreative and unbalanced midfield to try to shitfest the game, and failed. I'm quite sure Rae wasn't worried about how much possession we had because what were we going to do with it, lining up as we did? If you do finish above us it'll be deserved in the end, largely due to these head to head results. Rae has is completely figured out and also your players - Naismith especially, a guy I really wish we'd kept - were more up for it. Hate to say it but that was an admirable performance from St. Mirren. I felt the first game between the teams this season, you were too physical and generally poor and lucky to get away with the draw. But this time around it was men against boys.
  6. Must admit that was a glorious finish but from a Morton perspective it was once again toothlessness in midfield and nobody committing to a tackle at the back. Our goal conceded against Livingston last week was similar in that respect, albeit it finished in a tap-in.
  7. Looks like we've found the brains of the operation.
  8. I take it you were asleep during Gretna's "dream" run to Europe and the top flight? The BBC had a new documentary on them at least once a fortnight. Why don't you look at attendances for teams who've already managed to secure top-half finishes, even top-three finishes, in the current setup? Compare Inverness' attendances in their successful seasons to those of their bottom six finishes. Go ahead, I'll wait. Do the same for St. Johnstone. Scottish football is doing just fine. We don't need to Portugal up our top flight with a bunch of absolute dung like Morton and Alloa. I can just about see the argument for a 37-game, 16-team top flight. Anything like 20 is just absolute madness, though.
  9. International standing isn't going to be reversed by a switch to summer football. Leagues with any hope of competing in European competition all play a winter season (Ukraine and Russia were the last holdouts.) While we're at a low ebb rankings-wise, it's not been that long since our club ranking as 10th - a ridiculously high position for a league of our size. Much like the national team, it's cyclical. I fully expect us to be comfortably back in the top 20 in a few years. Above all else, the top flight's doing fine without Rangers. It would do better, financially, with Rangers, but we were promised an armageddon that never arrived. That suggests to me that we're not really that reliant on it at all. By any meaningful indicator Scottish football's doing pretty well, certainly better than most other European leagues of countries our size. Cyprus are at a historical high, Croatia are improving... other than that we're looking quite good. Again - less than a decade ago our clubs were outranking those of Turkey, Belgium, Ukraine, Switzerland, Greece... and we were still a laughing stock then, our game was dying etc. There's a lot of wolf crying in Scottish football, none of which would be resolved by summer football anyway. What would actually help Scottish football more than whining about yet another restructure is if the people running and covering the game could look at things objectively for a minute and stop pretending everything is horrible. Gilmour's bad for this but don't take that as a crack at St. Mirren because Rae at my club is even worse.
  10. St. Mirren's capitulation to Celtic has inspired many emotions among fans of Scottish football. Envy isn't one of them, m9.
  11. I hear it's £200k plus add-ons. The eventual figure's going to be so high you'll be able to see it from space. Scott Brown and Craig Gordon are the loanees as well. Cracking work from the BoD, well done.
  12. Not exactly a fringe view among St. Mirren fans, in fairness.
  13. You're right, I forgot to mention something totally irrelevant to the point at hand. Just like I forgot to mention the Battle of San Jacinto, the invention of penicillin, and heirloom carrots.
  14. It's rented out by the club. Virtually every rental agreement will cover signage and other external features, at least in passing. When we played Celtic a few years back I remember we had split scarves for sale. I don't know if it was Morton or Smith's (our commercial partners) who were responsible but either way it was a horrific sight and one that I don't think the club would want to be responsible for again. Meanwhile over the past few weeks a large photo-mural has been installed at Cappielow showing last season's title winners in glorious technicolor. There is a sense of pride about the entrance to our stadium that's been missing for some time. Say what you like about the state of the ground in general but this is one area they've got right. Celtic have played youth games at Cappielow for years now but they get the pitch and the other matchday facilities - that's it. The idea that they'd get any kind of branding whatsoever just wouldn't occur to anyone at Morton because we have a sense of pride in our club. If another team's crest was showcased at Cappielow, Morton fans simply wouldn't stand for it. There wouldn't be the mealy-mouthed mitigation you're seeing on this thread No chance. Anyone who's not up in arms about this needs to give themselves a shake. Credit to the fans who are expressing their outrage about this, though.
  15. You lost the right to discuss any other club's stadium as of this morning when the Meccanodome became Celtic's pre-season training ground.
  16. Your castle already looks like it came out of a Kinder Egg, in fairness.
  17. What a hideous joke outfit St. Mirren are
  18. I was on soccerway earlier and noticed that there's a team called St. Mirren in Ghana: http://www.soccerway.com/national/ghana/first I looked up the Ghana top league on Wikipedia but this Ghanaian club has no page. Their title, though, appears to be "Sporting Saint Mirren FC." Does anyone know anything about this side? Are they linked with THIS St. Mirren, or did they just like the name, or is it a complete coincidence and St. Mirren is venerated locally? Either way I was pleased to note that they're bottom of the league edit: I found a little more - apparently they've just changed their name to Sporting Mirren instead of St. Mirren - http://www.ghanaweb.com/CrusadingGuide/article.php?ID=12404
  19. Yes, it'll be an historic occasion, as it's a Renfrewshire Cup game that the Saints might actually win
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