Phil McCracken
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I'm surprised you're mother in law hasn't stuck a massive wad of her benefits on this?
That’s a good shout faraway.
However, if she were to bet her life savings on it she’d probably need to place the bet with a number of bookies to get around their maximum limits…
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Bet fair so confident of a NO vote, that they're paying out to people who have bet on it already.
More great news... No complacency though, let's win this and win it well, no thanks!
I think the better bet is in respect of by how much the no vote will win by.
My brother told me this morning that he has a bet on the no vote winning at least 60% of the vote.
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You'd expect phrases like Natsi's and traitors to come from school kids not grown men.
Shut it ya natsi traitor.
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She would be able to move to Turkey - go on, vote Yes, you know it makes sense.
If the Yes campiagn could guarantee me that they could relocate her to Turkey on Friday then I'd be down at the polling station first thing on Thursday to vote yes!
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Don't necessarily agree that JG and GT would also go if Craig went, they still have playing contracts and have only just been appointed as coaches. When you look at the fixture list, it is very possible that we could have no points from our first 9 games by the start of October, as after Friday we have Celtic, then Aberdeen and St J away. Even Alex Ferguson wouldn't survive that start.
I agree.
I don't see why JG and GT would also need to go. Indeed, if money is the issue, it would be one of these 2 or Steven Thompson who should get the job IMO.
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People might tell you that uk is ok an equal society.
It's actually the 2nd most unequal society in the western world.
what is more important, the absolute wealth of the poor or their relative poverty?
would my mother-in-law be able to upgrade to a 4 star apartment on her annual trip to turkey in a more equal society or would have to downgrade to 2 stars?
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Whit?
He was previously the assistant, just like Tommy. Therefore he wasn't new at the club, and he still got 11 months. He never got a full season, but he got 2 transfer windows.
11 months is the shortest any Saints manager has had under this board. To suggest Tommy will go 2 months into a season? Madness.
Lost the argument? Haha. You say Tommy will be gone by October, I say he won't be sacked by November the 1st.
I'm willing for a charity to benefit from this wee disagreement. Are you?
whit? (see, i can do that to)
you keep making my point for me lex. The coughlin situation was not the same, there is no precedent for craig's position
you are trying to use precedent to back up your argument when there is no precedent
we've never had a manager before who was previously assistant for 3 years then got the job at the start of a season
we've never had a manager who has lost all first 5 games of a season!
as for the bet, can someone not give an opinion without you jumping up and down asking them to put money on it?
that's playground stuff
as for madness, the real madness was making Craig the manager in the first place
to keep him in the job any longer would only compound it
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The yes campaigners protesting about the 'british brainwashing corporation' brings back memories of the rangers fans similar problems with the bbc...
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It's not about you!
totally agree
but your post is definitely all about me!
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But he's a new manager. Coughlin wasn't new to the club either when he became manager, so in citing him as an example you're actually arguing against yourself.
Even with Coughlin not being new, even with him being awful as a manager, he still got 11 months.
Charity bet that TC won't be sacked before the 1st of November?
But he was previously the assistant manager to a sacked manager.
The last such manager was John Coughlin - and he was sacked before Xmas in his first full season in charge!
So citing him as an example you are actually arguing against yourself!
If you want to get right down to the specifics, the fact is that Tommy Craig is the first manager we've ever had under the current BoD who was previously an assistant manager and started out as manager at the very start of a season.
Therefore, if you want to be that specific, there is no precedent for you to compare with!
In additon, it may not be the current BoD who have the decision to make.
And when folk start asking you for a bet its a sure fire sign that they've lost the argument...
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Anger, complaints, keyboard warriors and knickerwetting can all be healthy signs of an engaged and motivated crowd. Apathy amongst a support should be a massive concern to any club, and there are early signs of it at St Mirren.
faraway saint take note
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i would drop Drury, drop Marwood and try going a lot more direct with Ball and Caldwell up front. Cut out trying to play through 2 out of form midfielders and get the ball forward quicker then try to get McLean and McGinn more advanced to pick up 2nd balls in a more dangerous area.
exactly the tactics you have slated me for suggesting in the past!
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I would opine that a footie manager's job has to be potentially the worst type of contractual appointment that anyone could ever seek!
Take David Moyes as an example. For several years he was touted as probably the most astute and grounded manager in the Premier League and then slipped quietly into the hot seat in Manchester by the former boss and BoD's as being the natural successor. Of course no-one looked hard at the quality of player that he had been left, or did they release the purse strings (to the tune of £104m) to allow him the luxury of a new team, no, his predecessor has left him a 'winning team' and formula that he of course had to follow.
I mention the above simply to say, that even the perceived best in the field can be made to look foolish.
So how does this relate to our present incumbent. Well we lost a number of players, some of which needed to go and others perhaps needed a fresh challenge. So TC has had to build a new team and approach with a VERY limited budget.
don't agree with this analysis
with regards to the 'limited budget', i don't see our budget being any more limited than any other season when compared with our rivals
indeed, with rangers, hearts & hibs missing and the likes of Hamilton, ict & ross county in the top flight you could argue, relatively speaking, that tc has a bigger budget available than any saints manager in more than 20 years.
as for a number of players leaving, this also affects every club in the post bosman era
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You're missing the point again. Yes these managers were sacked before Christmas, but none of them were in their first season, so it's a completely meaningless comparison.
it would be a completely meaningless comparison if Craig was brand new to the club.
the fact that he was assistant for 3 years to a manager that has just been sacked makes it a valid comparison
and, by the way, coughlin was sacked before Xmas in what would have been his first full season in charge
the current bod have a record of getting rid of managers before Xmas and id be amazed if Craig is still here in october
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The CEO of Standard Life e-mailed me today.
He confirmed that the plans in place were simply a back up plan as they can not be 100% sure of the impact of independence and how that may affect their operations and moving any parts of their business would only be if they need to do so. More importantly he told me that they had a long standing relationship with Scotland and wants this to continue.
Not quite how the media reported it.
Thanks for confirming that Standard Life are worried about the effect of independence.
Confirms why I'll be voting no.
95% of Standard Life business comes from England because a single market that a yes vote will destroy.
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Just back from Glasgow and can tell you I have never seen so many people mobilising for a political event in my lifetime, the debate has really sparked life back into what was at best a moribund subject in Scotland. Also glad to report that the Yes campaign are winning the war on the streets, totally out numbered the bitter together folk today.
The fact that the Natsi bullies were out on the streets today in numbers attempting to intimidate people will only strengthen decent, ordinary folk's resolve to vote no.
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What about the players in all this. Our blue chip players have hardly kicked a ball, our central defence is missing a genuine and decent centre half and confidence is low. Our equaliser should have spurred us on but we have no additional gear.
The bottom line is that Partick, Hamilton and Dundee all have young decent nanagers all learning their trade. They have also brought in decent players too. We frankly are not as good as some think we are and are managed by a nice man who has never really managed for any length of time.
The BOD saw something in TC but rather than having a proper clear out they chose a man who was part of the problem in not renewing DLs contract. The most he should have got was a 1 year (if at all). The club has made its bed and there is nothing we can do other than hope and pray we can find a result and some form. If not, then we reap what we sow and begin rebuilding when a change of ownership or manager is made. Sadly, piss poor form is likely to scare off any prospective buyer when we are heading for lower league football.
You backed the appointment of Craig and abused anyone who dared suggest it was a mistake.
Your bed is made so you can go and lie in it!
Clown!
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I never said they couldn't afford to bag him, I just know they won't. Our board has a track record of standing by managers, there were far stronger cases to sack Danny at numerous points in his tenure and they stood by him. They stood by Hendrie for too long and Gus when vast sections of our support were calling for his head.
There's absolutely no way they will sack a new manager before Christmas in his first season, zilch, and even if they do sack him in January it will only be if we are cut adrift.
Our current board sacked Fitzpatrick, Hendrie & Coughlin in the first half of a season. Hendrie was away pretty early on if I remember correctly.
To say our board have a track record of standing by managers ain't true.
They could hardly sack Gus. His last season saw us reach our first major final in 23 years, finish in our highest league position for nearly 20 years and achieve our biggest league win over Celtic in over 100 years... and from a starting position of a 3rd successive battle against relegation!
As for Lennon, as much as I didn't rate him, he won our first major trophy in 26 years and got us to a league finish no other Saints manager has achieved in 20 odd years (albeit it was only 2 places up on Gus who did all the donkey work from the lower reaches of the First Division).
Tommy Craig? He's a 63 year old with hardly any track record as a manager and what track record he does have is dreadful. He's achieved 5 straight defeats in the league bagging a single goal and delivered our worst start to a season on our entire history.
Craig is a joke figure. He's a completely clueless clown and really hasn't got a clue what he is doing.
As for not affording to bag him... just put him on garden leave. Out Thompson, Goodwin or Teale in charge. Put my next door neighbours dog in charge. It really doesn't matter... nobody could be any worse than Tommy Craig!
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Four straight defeats.
Its 5 straight defeats.
The worst start the club has ever had in its entire history.
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They don't have the money to pay him. We're stuck with him I'm afraid.
We don't need to pay him off.
Put him on garden leave and give the job to Thompson, Goodwin or Teale.
That would be a start. We simply couldn't be any worse.
No surprises to see the happy clapping baboon liked your post.
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We can't enter the World Cup.
Who said we could?
You're a baboon!
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Right, that's that monkey off our back, FFS, win the game, it's my birthday, that's all I ask, 3 points please.
^^^^ look whose crawled out of the woodwork now that we've scored....
the fairweather, happy clapping baboon!
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Its like we've won the World Cup!
Get TC tae fuck
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4 and a half league games without a goal now
and the guy who has scored both our goals this season in any competition is on the bench
Tommy Craig = clown
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Don't remember them protesting in person outside the BBC offices though...