TopCat
-
Posts
8,260 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
45
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Posts posted by TopCat
-
-
Genuinely one of the worst players I've ever seen at St Mirren. After his sub on sub off cameo against Hearts a couple of weeks ago i suspected we would never see him play for us again.
-
What, you mean no one called it the simple digital arena?
It is true though, I don't think anyone who isn't a St Mirren fan know what our stadium is called. Regularly hear other fans and pundits call it 'Greenhill Road' 'St Mirren Park' or even the dreaded 'New St Mirren Park'. Personally. I stick with Love St.
If any future sponsor wants to throw some money at it they can have their brand in the name. Until then, it will officially be the SMISA stadium. Any formal name change would just put potential future sponsors off.
-
7 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said:
Disagree. It would seem that most posters all time XI is based on their personal experience.
Not YouTube or old videos or who their dad saw in the stripes or what they went onto achieve elsewhere before or after St mirren days.
It just demonstrates that you missed out on some of the greatest times in our club’s history. 😂 😝
Oh yeah definitely, it just shouldn't be called 'all time' Xl then 😁
-
3 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
Sorry what facts did you quote?
Some bleeding obvious claptrap about it being a nightmare if a team goes out of both cup at the first hurdle.
insightful stuff mate.Is there anything i said you disagree with? If you're looking for insight you're in the wrong place
-
All time Xl would surely have to include plenty of players that none of us ever seen play. Our all time top scorer 222 goals (!) in 319 games and 1926 cup winning legend Davie McCrae would be the first name on my team sheet. I'd have him upfront with the player he was signed to replace in 1924, Dunky Walker. Great article on them both here, those numbers are unreal, we could certainly be doing with strikers that could score at that rate these days...
https://cairterscorner.com/davie-mccrae/
https://cairterscorner.com/dunky-walker/#:~:text=Better known as 'Dunky' of,the Army side and his
If it's players we have seen in the flesh then it will just depend what generation you grew up in...
-
12 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said:
Kieran Offord has been recalled from his loan spell with Alloa Athletic.
We are pleased to welcome Kieran back and he could go into tomorrow's squad against Dundee subject to clearance.Great news, fantastic player.
-
11 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
Your posts are the stuff of nightmares.
Doom and gloom and then you throw in a wee positive statement at the end to make it sound like you’re not being negative.
I'm not sorry if the facts make you feel uncomfortable
-
Going out at the first hurdle of both cups in the same season is the stuff nightmares are made of, from both a footballing and financial perspective. It hasn't happened since the dark days of Ian Murray in 2015, when we were struggling in the second tier. It won't happen this year either, KTF.
-
13 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
The only form that is poor is our form in the final third.
Sadly, that’s what wins games.
Sounds a bit daft, but I would put the emphasis more on we squander too many chances rather than we don’t score enough goals. I know one leads to the other, but it’s not like we aren’t creating chances. Even last night we created chances.
If we don’t start making better decisions in the final third, we will inevitably slip down the league.I would say we haven't been great defensively either. In that run of 10 games we have only kept a clean sheet once, the draw against Kilmarnock. We've shipped two goals to St Johnstone, three to County, three to Hibs and four last night.
The lack of quality in the forward department is certainly a problem however. Ayunga and Main are a lot of things, neither are a goal scorer, as their respective goal scoring records quite clearly show.
-
Sure he will do great in MLS and make a tonne of money to boot. Was a bit unlucky that he was getting in the team under Bruno just when he got sacked. Loppetegui obviously doesn't fancy him so he'll need to move on.
-
The form's poor. No wins in five, just one win in the last ten and we have fallen out of the top six as a result. If we don't turn it around quickly we simply won't make the top half cut and we could still be dragged into the mire below. A Motherwell win here and they will just be four behind us having played the same amount of games. We are just three points ahead of St Johnstone, who seem to be having a terrible season, according to their fans anyway.
All in all, it's a big game and one we could certainly do with winning. I think we will.
1-0
-
18 hours ago, faraway saint said:
You paint a pretty picture but I'd suggest putting Dundee into a "lower league" team bracket, which could describe the 1st and 2nd division doesn't quite tell the whole story.
Before Dundee's surprise loss at the weekend they had won 7 on the trot.
If we were in the Championship and had been on that sort of run we'd be fancying a wee shock against a Premiership team.
Your post smacks of trying to set up the manager for a fall to allow you to continue your tired attempts to undermine him.
Just my opinion, and it's got your normal approach written all over it.
Shallow as a puddle.
What utterly bizarre nonsense, as usual 😄
Dundee are a team from a lower league, they are therefore a lower league team, is this even a debatable point?
They aren't even top of that lower league, currently sitting below Queens Park and they just got humped 4 at home to Arbroath. You're right it certainly would be a shock if they were to come to Paisley and knock us out. Can't see that happening though, keep your pampers dry.
3-0
-
3 hours ago, Callum Gilhooley said:
I think the frustration with players moving to the likes of these two is driven by the fact we would be strengthening a competitor in our league.
While the ugly sisters are always likely to win the league, our only chance of silverware and better league position is wins against the Hibs, Hearts , Dons of this world - don’t want to willingly help their cause .
Yes they have more money and can probably double a players wages but I would rather see good players leaving us head south where we can chart their progress and be pleased for them - rather than watch them potentially flourish in Edinburgh or Aberdeen - perhaps at our expense .It's just a fact of life. Our players will see moving to a club like Aberdeen and Hibs as a big step upwards in their career, and it is. Their average attendances are both around 15k, ours is around 5k, we can't be expected to compete over the long term with clubs like them, they're just much bigger than we are and as a result their ceiling is much higher. Works both ways too, we are a much bigger club than Morton for example, and we will always be ahead of them in a long term and their players will see a move to St Mirren as a step up. Alloa fans must be sick of us taking their managers, but we can do it whenever we want, because we are much bigger than them.
It's nothing new either. In the 80's Aberdeen signed about half our team and they went on to huge success. It was happening 40 years ago, it's happening now, and it will still be happening 40 years in the future. Best not stress about it
Of course our players would rather move down south, but often that's not an option for them. This step up is a half way house and a bigger shop window to the English money. See Kenny McLean and John McGinn who both had to go to Aberdeen and Hibs respectively before they got their shot in England. FWIW I think Ethan will be an English Championship player by the summer at the latest, perhaps he will be one in a few weeks. If in the unlikely event he can't get a contract with an English club he will probably end up at Hibs or Aberdeen, and he'd do well there.
-
13 hours ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
I genuinely don’t mind when players like this go for much better deals down south.
It’s when they go to the likes of Hibs or Aberdeen I find it really depressing.
Why? Both are significantly bigger clubs than us with many more supporters and far higher playing budgets.
-
1 hour ago, Cookie Monster said:
Was too busy laughing at your selection of stats.
Did you know previous to SR becoming manager we hadn't won against Motherwell in the years 2021 & 2022. Stats getting manipulated is easy.
Sent from my SM-G998B using Tapatalk
The stats are correct, if they make you uncomfortable that's on you. Of course not winning is much better than losing, I'd certainly take a draw next Saturday. It'd be a huge improvement on the zero points from six SR's delivered against his old club so far.
-
30 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said:
So what was this great record?
Sent from my SM-G998B using Tapatalk
i told you, one defeat in seven. We have since lost two in a row.
Edit it was actually one defeat in the previous nine, i wasn't counting the two Scottish Cup games.
-
We used to have a great record against Motherwell, then ex Motherwell manager Robinson arrived. Pumped 4-2 on our last visit to Fir Park and lost 0-1 to them in Paisley on the first day of the season. We had only lost one of the previous seven against them, prior to that.
Could really do with something here, especially if we want to finish top six. Would take a draw.
1-1
-
10 minutes ago, bazil85 said:
8 goals in 17 at League 1 Level is positive for a player of his age but it hardly means he’s ready for regular (full time) football 2 levels above that. I can only remember one game (away to Rangers) when we were struggling for two available strikers. He’d have likely been on the bench the rest of the time. He’s almost certainly getting valuable competitive football this season.
It’s always a balancing act when playing youth & experience. We have got it right more often than not over the years when you look at our academy production.
Doubt Reid & Offord are ready for the level we are playing at yet & Henderson had been unlucky with the first 11 playing well for most of this season. Erhahon representing in the first team this season which is positive.
Erhahon has been in the team for almost five years and has played under four different managers, he's one of our most experienced players
I didn't say he would or should be starting or even playing every week. My point is it would be better for us and him if he was in the first team squad getting minutes as and when instead of scoring goals against binmen in League 1 - which we already knew he was capable of doing.
I was expecting - and indeed Robinson said - that more youngsters would get minutes this season. Instead the opposite has happened, the youth players that were getting minutes previously now aren't, and there's no sign of anyone else breaking through. Pity!
-
On 12/2/2022 at 9:53 AM, bazil85 said:
Surely the idea to loan him out can be seen as nothing but a success? We have likely four forward options ahead of him in the senior squad, he's clearly benefited from consistent, first team football.
He's playing in League 1, a level we know he's good more than enough for given his exploits with Clyde. All of our strikers have been missing with injuries and/or suspensions at some point this season, he'd have been better staying and getting minutes in the Premiership. We are learning nothing with him scoring goals for Airdrie.
Like our other up and coming academy stars Henderson, Reid and Offord he's been bombed out completely. It's a pity.
-
Should have had more of a chance this season.
-
1 hour ago, faraway saint said:
Since @TopCat has decided to body swerve this thread and give us his expert views I'll go for France to win comfortably today and Denmark just to edge out Australia, although this, to me, looks a tight match.
Why do you keep tagging me? Absolutely bizarre behaviour
-
After the League Cup disgrace there is extra pressure on the Scottish Cup this season. We can't afford - from a footballing and it seems financial - stand point to be out early of both cups. A home draw to a lower league team is all you can ask for really. Huge game for the football club and we simply must win.
-
40 minutes ago, Livinginthepast said:
Pompous claptrap. We all know a decent player when we see one. I havent seen any Maradonnas, Berkamps or Ronaldinhos at this World Cup.
I think Mbappe could eclipse all three of them...
-
2 hours ago, StanleySaint said:
I believe that, had the playoff fixtures been the other way round Wales wouldn't have laid a glove on Ukraine an emotional situation for them and I think they ran out of steam against Wales and that was a far from convincing Welsh performance either. Regarding England, Southgate will not want them to drop a point or performance and they will beat Wales much as it pains me to say it. Wales are having the kind of tournament we usually have.
Maybe, we will never know. What we can say for certain is that Wales qualified for their third tournament out the last four, while we're sat at home. Southgate is a pragamatist and it's worked well for him in tournaments. Takes me back to the Scotland game at Wembley in Euro 2020, he wasn't caught up in the 'beating Scotland' hype train. He knew a point in that game got them through and he was absolutely fine with seeing the game out as a 0-0. They topped the group and then they made the final. He won't be the least bit arsed about the result in the Wales game if they've won the group, beat USA tonight and top spot is assured.
Welcome Eamonn Brophy
in General St. Mirren Discussion
Posted
Agree with this, he's not a defensive forward he's just a forward. Wouldn't surprise me if he finishes the season with more league goals than both Ayunga and Main. That wouldn't be hard to be fair, they have the whopping tally of three goals each and we are more than halfway through the season.