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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.
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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
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We did enough to win, and Shankland's goal was a peach. It's still frustrating how poor we are at stringing passes together and how regularly the midfield fall out of games. In a home derby game it's also pretty disappointing that for our 2nd last corner of the game, with the score at 2-1 we have 2 men in the box against 7 Morton players and still launch a high cross into the box and for our next corner try having 0 men in the box and play for trying to kill time and get another corner and lose the ball within 5 seconds. Nice to see Naismith back and putting in a spirited performance and thought Goodwin got a great reception. When Gallacher was subbed for Goodie we last our best outball up front but once Carswell came on I felt that with Morgan taking on guys down the right wing and Goodie and Carswell retaining possession better, we looked a bit more cohesive. Didn't think Clarkson looked fit, and Quinn was fine but tired before being subbed.
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?
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FT 3-1
Yeah we were the better team and thought we deserved to win the game.
Morton had a little spell before and after their goal, but as soon as that second went in for us they were never coming back again. In players like Mallan (14 goals from midfield now this season) we have that but extra they simply don't have.
Got to feel for the Ton fans, you really do. They've really tried in these four games against our worst team in a generation this season. But as a football club, they just don't have what it takes to beat us. You'll never beat St Mirren was the song at the end of the game... And will they? Who can say, they certainly won't get a better chance than they've had this season.
If we beat Dumbarton next week we will probably finish above them too, can't see them getting more than 1 point from their last 2 games.
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.
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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.
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Just walked past an older man telling the young child with him that Morton are actually called 'The Soapdodgers'.
Good lad.
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Correct. Thomson should have been cleared out in the summer, he is well past it and treats the club as nothing other than his personal cash line.
Looks like we've found the brains of the operation.
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The obvious question being how do these contracts get registered if they're wrong.
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You say that, but what if having that small group of lower quality clubs leads to slightly higher attendances due to the possibility of wins and unbeaten runs. Aberdeen, Dundee Utd etc would also have a chance to be closer to Celtic through assuming away less points. Plus, home games against bigger teams become events as they only come round once a season. Meanwhile, lower down the tree you have clubs either at the top table or one promotion away...exactly what they all want now. You have some clubs able to charge more for sponsorship, others being more family friendly as the kids could see more wins or better football.
Dunfermline and Raith have been in Europe, East Fife and others have had cup runs or big cup games. Down south they would get a bit of respect, documentaries etc. Up here it's "pfft, they're not the Old Fim" or Premiership Chairman trying to railroad them. It's sickening and has to stop, indeed as a club we'd surely see an overall attendance jump. One 1,500 lost by not playing Celtic at home X2, replaced by 8 or so rises of 200 due to a decent run and top half placing. More fans, more sales, more footfall...I'd rather trial that than summer football.
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.
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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.
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Green(and white) with envy.
St. Mirren's capitulation to Celtic has inspired many emotions among fans of Scottish football. Envy isn't one of them, m9.
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£200k + 2 loan players? Lovely piece of business. They can stick as many signs up as they want for that type of money as far as I'm concerned. As long as the manager sees a fair chunk of that then I'm happy as a sandboy
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.
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You wanted Sevco to get an automatic spot straight into the SPL!
Not exactly a fringe view among St. Mirren fans, in fairness.
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I've given my opinion in several posts in this thread - simply read them.
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verge of tears
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Fanny.
Hurting, aye?
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You seem to have forgotten to mention the numerous Sellic and sevco strips that are worn at Crappielow any time we play you.
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.
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The shop is privately run.Maybe the abuse should be aimed at the guys who run the shop.
£££££££
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.
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And yours is in ruins................
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.
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Your home is your castle. Our castle should not have a Celtic sign attached to it. Merchandise van, fair enough. Signpost/sandwich board directing people to their store, fair enough. But don't rip any remaining soul out of our already soulless feeling football ground. Some may think this is an overreaction, but I'll struggle to call it our home ground after this. The home of the highest bidder..
Your castle already looks like it came out of a Kinder Egg, in fairness.
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What a hideous joke outfit St. Mirren are
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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
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Oi,I thought you were going to pay up on the pitch at Love St blink.gif
July 23rd,Saints v Viewfied Rovers, will be perfect.
Yes, it'll be an historic occasion, as it's a Renfrewshire Cup game that the Saints might actually win
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1. Amelie
2. Grave of the Fireflies (I know it's been dubbed, but I saw it subbed
)3. Cyclo
Can't rank any past that, don't remember too many stand-outs.
Morton v St Mirren 11/4/17 (Cowshed Re-opening)
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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.