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14 minutes ago, Dibbles old paperboy said:
imagine the meltdown if we brought Goodwin back now from those who said we wouldn't miss him or that he was too old. Imagine the meltdown from those who said he should never have been a coach if he becomes assistant manager. Plus is there not a forum member who kept on saying he had dirt on Goodwin which was really serious (but he would never post what the dirt was) and he should have been fired rather than allowed to stay until his contract expired?
We binned Danny Lennon at the end of the 2013/4 because always missing out on the SPL top 6 wasn't good enough. We then appointed Tommy Craig who spoke of having a crack at top 6 and barely won a league game in half a season, followed by promoting Gary Teale to interim manager for a few months and had binned both of them before the end of the season. We then appointed Ian Murray and Spalding at the start of last season, and had binned Spalding by mutual consent by October, brought in Alex Miller to help Ian Murray and within 2 months that arrangement was over and in came Alex Rae at a time when the immediate brief was no doubt to avoid automatic relegation and the relegation play off place. In the end we finished 21 points ahead of Alloa and 11 ahead of Livingston.
Now having played 2 league games against teams who both finished above us last season and drawn one and lost one some are saying "Taxi for Rae" and bring in Jack Ross and Jim Goodwin.
If you were Jack Ross why would you leave Alloa where things were going well in the league and cup so far to come to St Mirren who will have just fired 5 managers (Lennon. Craig, Teale, Murray and Rae) and 4 assistants (Goodwin, Spalding, Miller and Farrell) in just over 2 years?
First of all I've not said sack Rae...yet. However he has players that should be competitive in this league but insists on shitfest football and despite being a central midfielder himself, has built a squad with a glaring weakness in centre midfield. Things have to improve but I agree he should get more time for the moment. The answer to me is fairly simple, bring in a decent central midfielder and get the team to start passing the ball with a bit of urgency.
My initial post about Jack Ross was in response to you saying who could we afford. If you think an Alloa manager, or any lower league manager would turn down a move to a bigger club you are kidding yourself on.
And by the way, this is a forum for fans to express opinions. Signing policies should never be influenced by meltdowns or rumours on here . But you know that.
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Well Jack Ross seems to be doing quite well at Alloa and is widely regarded as the brains behind Murray's success at Dumbarton.
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Yes that will make you very happy .
what I'd love to know is what, in St Mirren terms, would make you optimistic?
I fear happiness is a step too far to ask about.
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Things looking good. A team with pace height strength and experience this year. Perhaps without any stars or flair though. Last years team was far too lightweight, small and inexperienced. It's like Gus's teams on steroids strong and solid but hopefully not as boring. We do also have some good youngsters who I'm sure Rae will use. Still some to come and would be good to see some loanees in too preferably with foreign impossible to pronounce names just to add to the fun.
Sorry you'll need to show me where the pace in the team is ?
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Most of the games I'd choose have already been mentioned but here are a few more candidates;
6-3 win at Cappielow on New Years Day 1977. In the middle of a long unbeaten run we found ourselves 2-0 down in first 10 minutes. Then Donnie McDowall and the Morton keeper were sent off and Saints took full advantage.
4-3 win at Airdrie in 1981. Goalless after half an hour, Macavennie scored his first Saints goal and Starky scored 3 mins later. Fast forward 7 minutes and we're 3-2 down. With a few minutes left Macca equalised then Starky grabbed a last minute winner.
2-1 win at Dundee in 1990 to preserve our Premier League status. The club laid on free buses and we had a massive travelling support but went 1-0 down in the 1st minute. Bully Dodds then missed a penalty for Dundee before George Shaw popped up with an equaliser. Early in the 2nd half Brian Martin smashed home the winner right in front of the Saints support and it was bedlam in the away end.
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But that extrapolation was exactly what Elvis was doing.My initial thoughts that it would take till the final 48 hours before the 1000 sign-ups were achieved looks set to be proved correct - I always felt that extrapolating from the daily sign-ups at what were always likely to be fallow spells was unduly negative.
Congratulations in advance to those who have put in so much hard work.
You're surely not accusing him of being unduly negative ?!
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Sorry Div I'm with Billy G on this one.I bet Leicester City fans said Meh when they were signing folk like Marc Albrighton
I'd rather have kept Goody.
That said I hope I'm wrong.
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Why is George the public face of this bid rather than Gordon?
I'm not having a go here just genuinely intrigued as to why Gordon isnt more visible on this.
Given the lack of strong leadership at the club in the last few years, it is a little concerning to me that he is standing back and letting George take the lead role.
Is it maybe that he thinks people might think there is something in it for him personally if he's seen to be pushing it whereas that's less likely if a respected local MP fronts it?
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Not impressed if this was to be true Academy player's from premiership clubs haven't proved fruitful in last 3 seasons...
CORNELL Swansea. CRAP
DRURY Man city Crap
Plumer Man city crap
Caprice Blackpool crap
Can't remeber his name boy Craig brought in from Spurs? Again crap!
Even Conlan and Howieson former Academy player's neither look much good!
We as a club have been blinded by the success of Newton and Dummet...
Hope im wrong and if he was to sign he would have the impact of the 2 mentioned above!
I think the best Loan signings were Concalves Newton and Dummet since then are there any that's been worth it??
I wouldn't be too concerned.
Flareybob has a 0% strike rate in his predictions/wind-ups.
I wonder where Billy Clabby is these days....
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Motherwell scored just before ht then just after ht straight after gus made the changes that won us the game fact.
Who's knows if gus started with mehmet and Sutton would we still of won that game rather than come on to make an impact all I do know is gus did a great job for us with his time in charge.
We were utter shite the whole first half.
Within 10 minutes of Mehmet and Sutton coming on we had scored 2 goals.
That would tend to suggest to me we were better with them playing than warming the bench, making it more likely that we would win the longer they were on the pitch.
Perhaps if they had started we would never have been 2-0 down and there would have been no need to change the team.
It's certainly more plausible than suggesting we wouldn't have won the game if they had started.
You're right no one can say for sure but on the balance of probabilities.....
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oh that game he won to keep us up and prob one of the best games I've ever experienced terrible from gus
Sorry but to start a match we had to win with Alex Burke and Stewart Kean on the pitch and Mehmet and Sutton on the bench was a woeful decision.
He didn't even make the changes required when we were 1-0 down at half time and it was only when it went 2-0 and he had no option but to gamble that he went for it.
No doubt in Gus's mind a point would have been acceptable but we would have been relying on other results going our way then.
So yes, it was a fantastic day in the end but let's not kid ourselves that there was any managerial genius at play.
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He really will be a miracle worker if he gets us promoted through a play off win at Ibrox.At the end of the day the board can't and shouldn't be judged on the merits or otherwise of the appointment until the end of the season.
If we comfortably stay up then it's been a good appointment.
If we go down it will be a terrible appointment and their shares will be worth a fiver.
If we end up in the promotion play-offs and beat Rangers at Ibrox to get promoted we will all look back at this thread and have a good old laugh
My understanding is that the 2nd bottom team in the Premier will be in the Play-off final...
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It was only wasted on Archibald.
I'm taking the view that it was all wasted because we didn't need to spend anything to stay up in the end.
However I agree that Victor was quality and in different circumstances that wouldn't have been a waste of money.
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Are you just an old cynic - probably not.
Who can forget the 90/91 season when Hibs looked doomed and relegation was suspended only for us to go on an extended losing run and snatch bottom place - one of my proudest moments as a Saints fan!
After wasting a fortune on Archibald and Victor to try to stave off relegation....
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If we are bringing back Mehmet and Sutton we may as well be done with it and just admit Gus is the best manager we've had in a long time, and bring him back to get us back out of this hole.
I'm sure BillyG would be delighted with that
He wouldn't bring them on until we're 2-0 down in the 2nd half........
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League positions and points don't lie! We're better than you!
On last nights evidence that is not much of a claim.
There were two pish teams on the pitch.
Saints had the poor excuse of siting in trying to hold onto a lead for creating so little. What's yours?
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I'm not here to defend Ian Murray by any means but if you are going to use stats as back up at least get them right.Here are the stats for Ian Murray as a manager this calendar year
Played 31 matches
Won 5. Win rate of approx 16%
Goals scored 17
Goals conceded 70
This guy is not a manager I genuinely think that I could easily get a better record than that it's a joke
Dumbarton scored 17 goals in the league between Jan and May and conceded 43.
We've scored 12 and conceded 21 under Murray in the league.
So in total his record in the league in 2016 is 29 goals scored 64 conceded.
Still very poor but not quite as abysmal as 17 vs 70.
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As long as his signings are more Ian Ferguson than Peter Mackie I'm ok with this in the short term.
Just a wee note for our younger (than me) fans. Expect a Gus type team, not a Tom Hendrie one.
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Iain Munro was a St Mirren first team player at 17 and Ally MacLeod at 19 (I think)
Aye but I'm only a boy Danny....
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Sounds good but the facts don't bear you out.
The two second round groups in the 78 World Cup were pretty well matched. Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Peru in one group and Holland in the other with Italy (who had already beaten Argentina), West Germany (the holders) and Austria. There was no easy group. Next you'll be telling us that Holland let Italy go 1-0 up in the crucial game of the group for entertainment purposes.
The other fly in the ointment to this wacky conspiracy theory is that Holland would have needed a 3 goal win over Scotland to top the group so had absolutely no need to engineer a single goal defeat to finish 2nd.
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They wandered up the park and knocked one in shortly afterwards, then played out the rest of the game with an apparent attitude of - we can score when we want.
Lol you make it sound like they just walked through the Scotland defence and could have done so at any time when in fact Johnny Rep scored an absolute screamer from about 30 yards.
Of course they wouldn't have needed that as a safety net if they hadn't all decided to get out of Archie's way.
Makes me wonder why they did it really............
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Every time I see his goal I think there's something odd about it.
He gets the ball in the inside right position, touches it six times, all with the left foot including the shot at the end.
Dutch defenders appear to be doing their best to get out of his way.
Final score - Holland lose narrowly and by doing so finish second in the group and avoid Argentina in the next round.
......just saying like.......
They were already losing 2-1 before wee Archie's goal and a 4-1 defeat would have eliminated them.
So what did they have to gain from letting Gemmill score?
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and 4 at Ibrox Alasdair McLeod!!!
and Scotland left back Iain Munro
I can't remember if I saw Munro as a teenager and I wasn't sure what age McLeod was when I saw him or I'd have included them.
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The difference.
He is our best player. He isn't on a senior player contract just now, but he should be. The club should be contacting his agent on Monday and making him an offer which equates his wage packet with the football clubs top earners.
If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have won today, no danger. He is that bit of quality that gets you 3 points in games like that. Not just today, not just last week, but last season too. The kid is a proven performer at top flight level. 9 goals in 35 games from midfield? What an outstanding return, 5 already this season. That would be superb for an established senior attacking midfielder.... for a kid it's...
He's the best teenager I've ever seen play for St Mirren. I hope we maximise profit when he - inevitably - moves on.
Oh, wee Stevie Mallan!
Don't get me wrong, Mallan is a fantastic prospect but I can only assume you're a lot younger than me TC.
Off the top of my head he has a fair way to go to top Gordon McQueen, Bobby McKean, Bobby Reid, Tony Fitzpatrick, Stevie Clarke and Ian Ferguson.
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We were spoiled by Ferguson, Clunie and McFarlane in the 70's and 80's but not by Gus and Danny who could barely win a home league game between them at the new stadium.
Yes we are even worse now but that doesnt mean things were great a few years ago.