RichardBuddie

You're right, there is no such thing as unconditional support. I was a big fan of Lennon and was at least as sad about him leaving  as TC was about Gus leaving. But you can't just throw the toys out the pram. 
What I don't get is the loyalty shown to Rae. He came in and stabilised the ship a bit. He took us from 8th to 6th or something like that. He then totally destroyed what ever was good about the team and had us playing the worst football I've ever seen us play. He seemed totally disinterested and when asked to spend less time with Rangers media told us to F off.
I get it from his point of view too. In his eyes we're a diddy team. And he probably earns as much from Rangers media as he did from us. But surely if you have any self respect you still do the best job you can. 
Ross was clearly looking to build long term right from the start. He's managed to get the board to think beyond having a starting eleven and some back up and potentially some kids stepping up from the U20's 
So we had Storie and Mcgennis, and Mallan and Quinn in the middle, But We still get McGinn. 
We had McKenzie, Gordon, Webster and Baird, but we sill got Davis and Fjeild 
We had Sutton, and Loy but still got Smith. 
We had Irvine and Eckersley but still got Stellios. 
He's not got everything right, but he's got a lot right that's for sure.

We'll be challenging for the title. We'll lose Morgan and Mallan, but I have faith in the management team to replace them with good players, and if any others wish to leave, they do so with my heartfelt thanks for keeping us up.
An intriguing summer ahead, with an exciting season to follow.

I am sure the board and management team will not start next season like the last regardless if we lose 3 or 4 1st team players (due to transfers), I do agree with previous poster that Dundee Utd will be in big trouble if they don't negotiate the playoffs, which could benefit us big time.

If JR can sign the caliber of players that he has signed to date I see no reason why we can't make the playoffs, it's a tough league after all.

I'm glad I took today off to continue the celebrations.  Just need a few paracetamols, another four hours sleep and a fry up. 
Brillant weekend in Edinburgh and great to read through these pages. The importance of the Ross effect cannot be overestimated, I doubt any other manager in our price bracket could have turned this around. The January changes were important but the change in personnel wasn't what lifted us from 10th to 7th, it was the managerial skill to get a set of players to start playing with belief and freedom. Thanks Jack. 
Shull - Where was the Gary Mac photo taken?  Was this at Easter Rd during Jack's half time talk?

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Sunshine on Leith
Only just recovered from yesterday. What a day. Started off with a tourist pint in Malones. Someone said in an earlier post he couldn’t understand why so many Buds were milling about Waverly station when there were pubs close by. Good Point.
The Cask and Barrel was the second port of Call our Band of Buds joined the rest of the B+W army who had congregated at the HIBS end of the bar. Any Hibs fans had to sit in the Hearts section. Possibly too many cask ales here. No singing allowed or even aloud though. We got a row but more than a few singing Buds left for ER in good spirits.
First half was OK. Didn’t think anything too scary happened around our goal. Our support was immense and our singing voices were better co-ordinated than our more numerous hosts. I think all that practise we’ve had at all our must win games must have paid off.
Few horrible minutes of worry in the second half. Hibs must have made some Zillion passes to set Holt up for their goal but thankfully we had the Power and the Rory to lead us from relegation and the Saints came well and Truly marching in.
The After-match celebrations were Brill but the Hibees couldn’t co-ordinate their singing and I wasn’t that impressed with Sunshine on Leith. Middleton’s pub was heaving after the match. It was like drinking in Paisley town centre. Buds packed in and in very good singing voice. Victory/survival/start of a new Era or just pure relief the Buds were bawling out the full Saints repertoire. We tried to get a Decent sunshine on Leith Going but the handful of Hibees in the bar didn’t know the words. Disappointing.
So out we went into Edinburgh. Quite literally Sunshine on Leith was shining everywhere and the amount of Buds we found at Street tables enjoying a beer was quite overwhelming. I reacquainted myself with Buds I’d met at various locations across the country at, on route to or returning from away games. These likeminded buds who like me, scoot about the country in trains enjoying the odd beer with fellow football fans were all in good voice. A true band of Buddies united by black and white apparel were having a night to remember in the capital.
Over the course of the evening we got talking to a few hibees who invited us to a wee restaurant on Leith Walk for a curry. It was a pokey wee place where you took your own drink but armed with suitable supplies we rocked the place. The food was Brill and after a serious conversation with two swedes about whether Larson or Ibrahimović was the greatest ever Swedish player we all got down to a serious rendition of Sunshine on Leith. Even the swedes joined in. “OH when the Saints” was the follow up and all too soon we said good bye to our new found Hibee and Swedish friends. Not sure if the restaurant is normally as noisy but no problems with singing in there.
I left my Buds who were travelling back to Paisley and went in search of the North Berwick train. Whilst I was standing looking at the departures board two guys who were a bit unsteady on their feet bumped into me. I turned to find Black and white staggering figures who were holding each other up and noting my similar dress sense Shouted “Hey mate you’re a Bud.”
The black and White army bond is truly a magnificent thing and Saturday was one of the reasons I love being a Football Fan. Being a Bud is special and I’m proud to be a Buddy.
This love will last for ever. Come on ye saints.

Had we such a talented side for the entire season that question would make some semblance of sense.

The truth is that our goalscorer today, Rory Loy, joined us in mid January. Our inspirational captain joined in late January.

The impressive Cammy Smith, maverick talent of Stelios and solid industry of Adam Eckersley also joined in January.

Not to mention our keeper who, despite a couple of cock ups, has provided a marked improvement between the sticks, and Harry Davis who played a big part before an unfortunate injury ended his season really.

These additions have helped bring the best out of the mercurial talents of Stevie Mallan, and afforded Lewis Morgan more opportunities to run at players and cause havoc in opposition defences. Young Magennis, whom the manager showed great faith in when bringing him into the team to replace the hapless Hutton, has been another gem.

That talented side including guys like Webster, Hutton, Shankland, Gallacher, Langfield and Clarkson will probably have continued to struggle, I think you'll agree...

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What a superb day. From start to finish. The team were fantastic as were the fans. My first time at Easter Road since the 1980s. What a fantastic stadium it has become. Atmosphere was fantastic. Then a great night out in Edinburgh.
On the train now from Waverley to Queen Street with Jimmy H. Both feeling very jaded but very happy. Return journey to Jersey has been made all the easier thanks to our fantastic team.
Bring on next season!!

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Fair play for the kind words, very classy and good luck to you guys next season, I knew it was going to be a very tough game yesterday and boy oh boy I wasn't wrong!!

I mentioned on another thread the puzzled look of the hibs fans near us in your main stand and the staff in the corner at the noise coming from the buddies fans.

So relieved it turned out ok as anything could have happened in those playoffs!!

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Fair play for the kind words, very classy and good luck to you guys next season, I knew it was going to be a very tough game yesterday and boy oh boy I wasn't wrong!!

I mentioned on another thread the puzzled look of the hibs fans near us in your main stand and the staff in the corner at the noise coming from the buddies fans.

So relieved it turned out ok as anything could have happened in those playoffs!!

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Fair play for the kind words, very classy and good luck to you guys next season, I knew it was going to be a very tough game yesterday and boy oh boy I wasn't wrong!!

I mentioned on another thread the puzzled look of the hibs fans near us in your main stand and the staff in the corner at the noise coming from the buddies fans.

So relieved it turned out ok as anything could have happened in those playoffs!!

Classy supporters.

Thank you to the Hibs fans for applauding the Saints off the pitch.

yea iam a hibs fan who stays in paisley at game today great to see the buddies staying up well done

Well done to St Mirren today. You can probably tell from my username that I'm a Hibs fan. Thought your team were a credit to your club today, worked their socks off and there was also no shortage of quality on display, particularly from Morgan and McGinn and to a lesser extent Mallan (IMO anyway). More than deserved your point, an argument could even been made that you lot deserved to pick up all three but hey ho, I don't think any of us particularly care now!
Also, massive credit to the St Mirren fans today. Filled the half of the stand you were given and made a hell of a lot more noise than the likes of Hearts and Rangers who bring double the numbers but about 10% of the noise. Not heard an away support like that at Easter Road in a long time.
If you could keep that squad together and add another couple decent players I think you lot could definitely win that league next season. When you lot beat us 2-0 you were probably the only team to have beaten us this season that actually deserved to. Whether you'll be able to do keep them together is the key but then again, with the job Jack Ross has done I'm sure he'd manage to replace them fairly well.
Good luck next season. I hope and expect to see you lot back in the SPL very soon.

Tick cock .

Top Cat?  Top Cnut more like 

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

Our stand was absolutely rocking today, my daughter and I were over at the far left side and I was watching the Hibs fans in their main stand an the staff in the corner, the looks on their faces!! We totally out sung, out drummed and out clapped them.

Great day, I even got a handshake from my cult hero Stelios at the end (prior to him almost falling backwards over the advertising board.

Very strange day as I woke up this morning feeling terribly ill (food poisoning or a bug), however we stuck to our commitment and I am so glad.

Everyone associated with our club deserves huge credit, the courage the directors, management & players have shown is outstanding, it would have been very easy to hide today but no, each and everyone fought for their jersey (and each other).

COYS!!

What a day. Could not have been closer in every way but we did it. Great day to be a Saints fan.

Well, tears have just about dried up now. Like others, a few months back I could never have seen this day. Finish 7th? By Tory logic we're Champions!

As much as I liked Jack as a player, I wasn't sold on the managerial appointment and the first 3 or 4 months bore that out.

However, what a difference he and JF have made since the transfer window. They had the guts to make radical changes to the playing staff whilst sticking to their plan of how they wanted their side to play. Added to that, they enjoyed a Chairman and Board who were positive in outlook and prepared to back the management team.

So, congratulations to all and I'm sorry I doubted you....greetin' again. [emoji24]

Oh, one last thought. Congratulations to the fans who have travelled in such numbers over the last few months and with such belief.

Every one of you deserves the celebratory Sunburn on Leith that's coming your way! [emoji3][emoji481]????