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Gunni Thorfason

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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from BigYardsAndBasher in Our Golden Era 1977-1987   
    Fantastic time for the team and it coincides with when I first went,my dad took me down from Thurso for my first game in 1977,I saw every heartbreak semi and (3 in a row and a league cup) great win in 87 but as a fan who only manages maybe 6 or 7 games a year now my hat goes off to all that weren’t lucky enough to see these games but still stick with the cause especially the lads that had to endure the 90s,I salute you all the old and the new,and us all after a slow start this year keep the faith
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to santaponsasaint in Welcome Isak Thorvaldsson   
    Good luck Isak. Coys
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to FTOF in Scottish Football Now Decomposing   
    Great article by Bill Leckie.
    He’s (Craig Gordon) also bang on when he expresses his dismay that Scottish football hasn’t been able to sort itself out despite its problems not meaning a toss compared to what’s going on in the wider world.
    Without wishing to pick an argument with one of the game’s good guys, though, I have to say that, if he’s searching for a reason why it’s all gone so pear-shaped, it’s right under his nose; right there in his boyhood club’s boardroom.
    Hearts are the ones who finished bottom of the table despite spending top-three money on players.
    Hearts are the ones who panicked and demanded those players take pay cuts before the government even had the chance to introduce the furlough scheme.
    Hearts backed the wrong horse in the vote on ending the season early, then again on the vote calling for an independent probe into how that decision was reached.
    A reconstruction plan that would have saved their bacon fell on its backside, even though their own sugar-mummy Ann Budge chaired the committee who came up with it.
    They dragged United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers into their legal fight to have the final tables declared void, a situation that has left Raith fearing they’ll be unable to risk a six-figure legal bill and will simply be crossing their fingers that the decision goes their way.
    As if this wasn’t heavy-handed enough, Budge then nicked Robbie Neilson from Tannadice as her new manager — a hefty investment which, along with the deal to bring Gordon in from Celtic, is an almighty boot in the stones for every employee forced into a drop in wages when Budge pleaded poverty.
    I know Jambos fans will be sick of reading this, maybe even as sick as I am of writing it, but it has to be put on record that, despite dominating the headlines for pretty much all of these 115 locked-down days, their club have produced not one positive, winning idea.
    Good God, even when the hugely-generous James Anderson offered a donation of millions to make sure no clubs went down the pan, all Budge had to do was introduce him to Neil Doncaster and let them shake hands, but even then she managed to turn it into a fight.
    Like Rangers chairman Douglas Park before her, she’s read the room wrong time and again. She’s been fighting shadows, punching smoke.
    Plus, when she and her lawyers were throwing their weight around by plunging the plans of the three lower league winners into disarray, why didn’t they have the courage to claim that Celtic shouldn’t have been named Premiership champions?
    After all, if they’re actually saying relegation shouldn’t have counted, how can the title stand?
    Sorry, but there are more holes in Budge’s defence than . . . well, there were in her back four all last season, which really is saying something. And, for the umpteenth time, let me also say without fear of contradiction that, if they’d come off the bottom by winning at Paisley in the last, pivotal match before the shutters came down, we’d never have heard a peep from them.
    So, sure, there will be bad blood whatever happens now. But it’s Hearts who spilled it.
    Sure, it’ll forever be a crying shame that they, Partick Thistle and Stranraer were condemned to the drop when they still had enough games left to save themselves.
    But there are also countless businesses who might never open their doors again, tens of thousands of workers sweating over when they’ll earn a crust again.
    All Hearts were asked to do was suck up some rank bad luck and agree to kick a ball around in a different division come August — a division they’d be odds-on favourites to win.
    Whatever happens next in this sorry, sordid saga, the fact that they preferred to cause chaos for everyone else around them will stain those famous maroon shirts for a long time to come."
    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/5777365/craig-gordon-hearts-relegation-row-bill-leckie
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to St.Ricky in Plans for next season   
    What you sow you shall reap. 

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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from Cookie Monster in And then there were 4   
    Am I the only one that thinks rangers are panicking here,they are not flush with money at the best of times,they will obviously lose gate money till the virus lockdown eases,is this a cunning ploy to get bodies in to Ibrox every week rather than every second,thoughts chaps[emoji23]
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to Tommy in B&W Army Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year 19-20   
    Foley and MacPherson for me. 
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to BuddieinEK in Season Tickets 20/21   
    I've had a season ticket since Love Street days.

    I've been in the same seat since our first full season in the "new" stadium.

    I have bought two tickets since then... Initilly adult and child... More recently for two adults.

    I have supported Saints for almost 50 years.

    What we are all experiencing right now is unprecedented.

    If you can afford to support the club through this then great.

    I'm furloughed. No idea if or when I will be able to return to work. No idea what my income will be a month from now far less when "the season starts".

    I genuinely cannot justify spending around £500 on season tickets just now.

    As a result...

    No early bird discount... Which I've had for years.

    Possibility of losing seats that we have had since the first full season.

    Probably having to visit the ticket office before every match when things resume just to buy a ticket.

    Not looking for sympathy.
    Not looking for favours.

    Just hope the club can look after the people who have looked after them for decades by showing a bit more flexibility!
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to munoz in On This Day   
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to W6er in Fixture List For Season 20/21   
    It has always puzzled me that people like Shull, who openly admits he is not a fan of the club, would spend so much of their free time on a forum designed for supporters of the club. Furthermore, I can't help but wonder why he's surprised fans of St. Mirren have purchased season tickets. 
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to magnus in Plans for next season   
    Why does Budge want this to be temporary? Is it because the current league works best for Hearts financially and she doesn't expect them to be this shit again? If so she is so Hearts centric and conflicted she should be removed from the committee 
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to ianw in List of Saint Mirren Supporters' Clubs?   
    Confirmed there is a London St Mirren Supporters' Club
    Also confirmed that we have the best flag...

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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to santaponsasaint in Reasons to be cheerful   
    This break in the league give us a chance for McCarthy. Durmus and McPherson to recover from their injuries. And Wallace look like he took a knock towards the end of the Hearts game. I think hes still a good player. We should have signed him in November when we had the chance. Anyway let Hearts and Accies worry. Coys.

    PS. I was in the main stand for the Hearts game. The atmosphere from the West Stand was amazing. Really were the 12th man. [emoji469][emoji469][emoji469][emoji469]
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to Lord Pityme in IF remaining games are played behind doors (solution)   
    Sorry wheres the drama in repeating what the govt have put out on all media channels, compared to someone screaming blue murder like Trump that is all a Hoax..!
    Feck me that's some own goal. lol

    This is what happened to me today at the shops. I think that one of the most unreported side effects of this Coronavirus situation is that it's making people incredibly rude.

    I was in Waitrose this morning when I asked a lady working there,

    “Is there any more toilet paper?”

    She screamed,

    “GET AWAY FROM ME!!”

    before running off, and fetching security.

    To make matters worse I then had to shuffle all the way back to the toilets with my trousers and pants round my ankles whereupon I had to wipe my arse with a sock.
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to djchapsticks in IF remaining games are played behind doors (solution)   
    Actually some good ideas in there. 
    If the playoffs carry of as well, they should be one off affairs at neutral venues. 
    I'd also go for a nationwide scrapping of the Saturday 3pm broadcast ban, allow any club who wants to, screen all games home and away without restriction from now until end of the season. 
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from St.Ricky in St Mirren v Hamilton, 5th Feb 2020   
    I hope the new signings all knit and we see a team that will move us in comfortably up the league and carry it on to Saturday as I have a feeling we might go close in the cup this year,the defence is sound so I’m thinking an outrageous 3-0,I’m on the beer early so full of optimism or something else [emoji23]just finished a job in Stuttgart and flying home tomorrow so I’m the pub early got WiFi for hesgoals if on Come on the buds [emoji106][emoji106]
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to Hiram Abiff in Jack Baird joins Morton   
    @Sweeper07 told us all that Baird was coming back! 😂😂😂
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to oaksoft in The Scottish Cup 19/20   
    f**king hell. I am at the point of slitting my own wrists reading your posts. 
    Enough with the misery and just enjoy the unpredictable nature of sport. Anyone can beat anyone in a one-off game.
     
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to Sweeper07 in vs The Fakes 19 October   
    Cannot believe you have not figured it out yet . . .   unbelievable !
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to Hendo in St Mirren v Hearts, Sat 28th Sept   
    I think the issue with Morais is he can't play the lone striker role. He struggled to hold the ball up for runners from midfield, wants to come short all the time leaving no-one up front, resulting in us struggling to break up the park. The difference when Mullen and Obika came on was noticeable.
    However, at this point last season, we had scored the same number of goals but lost 13. This got me wondering where the fantastic defensive signings Alan Stubbs made are now.
    Josh Heaton is now playing for Bradford Park Avenue in the sixth tier of English football. They are second bottom of the league with a goal difference of minus 29, lost 8-0 today, but to be fair this wasn't his fault, as he was suspended having been sent off the previous week in a 4-2 FA Cup defeat.
    Cole Kpekewa has now signed for a Slovakian side. He was sent off after nine minutes of his debut after breaking the leg of an opponent and has now been banned by the Slovakian FA for six months. 
    We're on a journey and should be grateful of the progress we have made.
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    Gunni Thorfason reacted to antrin in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    I LOVED the shock from the guy on openallmics
    and
     
    I really like how the goal's described on the report:
    "The guests have been gifted some outstanding luck after a rather tepid free-kick from Tony Andreu rolls under the wall and towards County goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw only for the shot-stopper to watch it bounce through his arms and legs and in to the back of the net. "
     
    I'll take it...
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from jaybee in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    Funny this I remember on the hibs match discussion you wanting to bet people that st.mirren would get humped I offered you a bet in fact I went further and placed my bet,I displayed my bet on here,you said a tenner at if I remember right 4/7 for hibs,so for argument sake £15 back that was due to go to charity,I haven’t seen it yet,this forum is about st.mirren fans cracking on about all things st.mirren including going to and from the games each week,that is part of the patter,you slag them by calling them super fans,when I’m afraid to say my man any one who states he’ll give to a charity and doesn’t is the lowest of the low so why don’t you have a good hard look in the mirror at someone that shouldn’t be anywhere near st.mirren let alone miscall their fans.and when you come back with your shite just send a receipt from a charity with it. And the wife’s out tonight I’m free to slag you all night super fan.
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from East Lothian Saint in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    Funny this I remember on the hibs match discussion you wanting to bet people that st.mirren would get humped I offered you a bet in fact I went further and placed my bet,I displayed my bet on here,you said a tenner at if I remember right 4/7 for hibs,so for argument sake £15 back that was due to go to charity,I haven’t seen it yet,this forum is about st.mirren fans cracking on about all things st.mirren including going to and from the games each week,that is part of the patter,you slag them by calling them super fans,when I’m afraid to say my man any one who states he’ll give to a charity and doesn’t is the lowest of the low so why don’t you have a good hard look in the mirror at someone that shouldn’t be anywhere near st.mirren let alone miscall their fans.and when you come back with your shite just send a receipt from a charity with it. And the wife’s out tonight I’m free to slag you all night super fan.
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from East Lothian Saint in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    Tough game for sure but very winnable,I shall get the 8.30 train from Thurso in at 11.30 straight in the mallard on the platform and a solid 3hr pre match pint [emoji23]purely medicinal as just back from Greece covered from head to foot in calomine lotion 🥵[emoji23][emoji23] picked up my season ticket on the way back from Glasgow airport so ready for a run if three games in a row attendance,which is good for me [emoji106][emoji106]I hope it’s a great day out for all COYS
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from FTOF in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    Funny this I remember on the hibs match discussion you wanting to bet people that st.mirren would get humped I offered you a bet in fact I went further and placed my bet,I displayed my bet on here,you said a tenner at if I remember right 4/7 for hibs,so for argument sake £15 back that was due to go to charity,I haven’t seen it yet,this forum is about st.mirren fans cracking on about all things st.mirren including going to and from the games each week,that is part of the patter,you slag them by calling them super fans,when I’m afraid to say my man any one who states he’ll give to a charity and doesn’t is the lowest of the low so why don’t you have a good hard look in the mirror at someone that shouldn’t be anywhere near st.mirren let alone miscall their fans.and when you come back with your shite just send a receipt from a charity with it. And the wife’s out tonight I’m free to slag you all night super fan.
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    Gunni Thorfason got a reaction from cockles1987 in Ross County v Saints, Sat 14th September   
    Funny this I remember on the hibs match discussion you wanting to bet people that st.mirren would get humped I offered you a bet in fact I went further and placed my bet,I displayed my bet on here,you said a tenner at if I remember right 4/7 for hibs,so for argument sake £15 back that was due to go to charity,I haven’t seen it yet,this forum is about st.mirren fans cracking on about all things st.mirren including going to and from the games each week,that is part of the patter,you slag them by calling them super fans,when I’m afraid to say my man any one who states he’ll give to a charity and doesn’t is the lowest of the low so why don’t you have a good hard look in the mirror at someone that shouldn’t be anywhere near st.mirren let alone miscall their fans.and when you come back with your shite just send a receipt from a charity with it. And the wife’s out tonight I’m free to slag you all night super fan.
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