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  2. Stephen Robinson

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    Yeah it all feels a bit Ian Murray to me. Looked a good appointment on paper, and most fans were happy with it. Within a few weeks it became clear it wasn't going to work.

    He certainly shouldn't and won't be sacked, and he will get the summer if he keeps us up - surely he couldn't relegate us? Hard to imagine a worse start though, he seems to have lost the dressing room and alot of the supporters. 

  4. Connor Ronan

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    15 hours ago, guinness said:

    Off the  top of my head Thompson. Dorman. Thomson. McGinn.

    I am not getting at you personally I just find that people now bum up players that are only moderate.  McGrath was the same. The standard in the Premier League is appalling .the reason the League is so tight from fourth to ninth is that they are all shit. 

    Maybe I am just an old cynic but the level of player now is very poor. Moderate players look good. Perhaps I am hankering after a time that never existed. Maybe I should just chuck  it.

     

     

     

    Thompson was also one of the greatest i've seen at St Mirren. Dorman and Thomson? No chance, wouldn't have either of them in the top ten tbh. I remember the boo boys really going after Dorman and Thomson was just a decent player - neither of their scoring rates from midfield was anywhere near Ronan's. Unsure what McGinn you mean as we've had three.  By Premier League do you mean Scottish Premiership? I agree the standard of Scottish Football outside the top two is really poor, as results in Europe show. That's why a guy like Ronan, who is 24 and contracted to an EPL club, stands out so much.

    McGrath is also nowhere near Ronan's level either, can't get a game for Wigan, we did well getting a fee for him.

  9. Family Stand

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    11 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

    We are sold the extra stand situation as it being beneficial to the club but really, is it?

    We still never manage to hold onto our best players at the end of contracts and they go elsewhere for little or nothing anyway. If someone could feasibly turn around and say that the money generated by the OF getting an extra stand translated into being able to offer enough to keep hold of best players like Hladky, McGrath or Alnwick for another couple of years then I'm sure we'd be seeing benefit of that. But that doesn't happen, it's not as if any of the signings we make appear to be in anyway above our station either as a result of this extra income. 

    We obviously get blown out the water financially by English clubs whenever they're interested in our players - as we should - but i think we do okay when it comes to competing with other Scottish top flight clubs. Three recent examples that come to mind are Tanser, Brophy and Jones. All three were wanted by other Scottish Premiership clubs, and all three chose us.  Also Fraser was rumoured to be attracting interest elsewhere in Scotland, but extended his contract with us. That never used to be the case.

    No idea if this is anything to do with the ticket sales to away fans in the south stand of course. It seems like the fans consensus is we should only give them the North Stand, so given we are fan owned, surely that will happen...?

  10. Family Stand

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    20 minutes ago, Callum Gilhooley said:

     

    In the Thommo / cup winning period we gave them one stand and didn’t exactly do too badly for players and from what i recall broke even or made a small profit at season ends,  what’s changed ? 🤷‍♂️

    I may be remembering this wrong, but didn't they used to get W6/W7 and the North Stand? There was a big stooshie about that and we gave them the south stand instead of W6/W7. 

  12. Hearts v St Mirren, Scottish Cup Quarter Final

    in Matchday & Travel Club

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    On 3/13/2022 at 12:19 PM, northstbuddie said:

    We were weak defensively on our left flank and that is what cost us the match.

    On the other hand, it could be argued that Hearts wide men were their main strength - as well as their overall ability to keep possession and run into space - that is something we must aspire to improve upon.

    For it is our biggest failing.

    They were targetting Tait all night, Neilson had clearly done his homework and identified him as the defensive weakness. He's playing right back first half, both goals come from down our right hand side. He's playing left back second half, both their goals come down our left hand side.

    But yeah the better team won and we can have no complaints. 

  13. St Mirren v Dundee United. (19/03/22)

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    Given our goal difference we realistically need five points from the three remaining games to get top six, so not winning this is going to mean we need to win at Fir Park and get something against Rangers at home. Not quite must win but almost. 

    Obviously we have nothing to fear from Dundee Utd, we deservedly beat them at Tannadice a few weeks ago and i think we will make it three wins in a row against teams from the fair city.

    3-1

  15. Stephen Robinson

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    1 hour ago, lenziebud said:

    Supporters disappointed but that is it, not sacking the guy or questioning his appointment for losing to RC away ?

    Plenty on here falling over themselves to praise his appointment and now 3 games later questioning the whole thing.

    We didn't need a new manager bounce, if anything it was likely to go the other way as we haven't been all that great up until our wee run of wins.

    I think Robinson has been dropped in it a bit as I'm not convinced we would have done any better under Goodwin in the last 3 games.

    We won our last three games in Dingwall under Goodwin.

  16. Stephen Robinson

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    On 3/5/2022 at 6:39 PM, Wilbur said:

    What does this mean JJMcG ? Why do you think it's necessary for us to have a jury ? Who is on trial here ?

    The new manager has overseen only 3 matches, all of them tricky fixtures. He is still assessing his squad and doesn't yet know their particular strengths, weaknesses, or the ideal team structure. He needs time and games to assess all of this. Why would a jury be out within 2 weeks of his appointment ?

    By and large you come across to me as one of our more sensible posters, hence my surprise at this appareny premature negativity. 

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    There's no way St Mirren with Tony Fitz as CEO would sack a manger after just four league games in charge, surely.  Hold on...

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    Of course i am not saying he will or should be sacked. However, it's certainly not ridiculous and clearly not unprecedented to say that if this run of losing every game without scoring continues he will be under severe pressure very quickly. Stubbs had four league games in charge, won one of them (against Dundee funnily enough) and got binned. Robbo needs to win on Wednesday to match the start made by Stubbs. 

     

  17. Sir Alex

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    12 hours ago, Scott-Leeds said:

    I don’t think he merits an honour from us.

    Others have won the ‘second division/championship’ got to semi finals / finals , won cups etc.

    Thanks for your efforts at the time however

    Correct. He never won a major honour with us, so he's not a club legend and should not be honoured. Would rather honour Danny Lennon!

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