East Lothian Saint

Whit aboot us Far Flung Fuds? Are we no allowed in?

Nah...1877 Club members, online ticket purchasers and far-flung Buds are scum! No tickets! 

And they just beat Livingston. They will probably fancy their chances.
League ONE Table
    Team P GD Pts 1   Livingston 20 22 42   2   Alloa 21 12 33 3   Airdrieonians 21 -2 33 4   Brechin 20 2 31   5   Queen's Park 20 -5 30 6   East Fife 20 5 29 7   Albion 19 1 27 8   Peterhead 21 -9 25   9   Stenhousemuir 21 -16 21   10   Stranraer 21 -10 20  
   

And they just beat Livingston. They will probably fancy their chances.
League ONE Table
    Team P GD Pts 1   Livingston 20 22 42   2   Alloa 21 12 33 3   Airdrieonians 21 -2 33 4   Brechin 20 2 31   5   Queen's Park 20 -5 30 6   East Fife 20 5 29 7   Albion 19 1 27 8   Peterhead 21 -9 25   9   Stenhousemuir 21 -16 21   10   Stranraer 21 -10 20  
   

STADIUM LAY OUT:  
e. Fife Police list Bayview Stadium as having an official capacity of 1,974 with 987 seats in each end of the stand. The Stadium is fully wheelchair accessible with allocated areas for fans in wheelchairs at the front of the seating areas at each end.
Bayview Stadium is easily accessible both by car and by public transport. The official address of the ground is: Bayview Stadium, Harbour View, Methil, Leven, Fife KY8 3RW.
BY CAR:
The ground is situated on the sea front. At present you can use the Methil Power Station and it's very visible chimney as a guidance marker, although this may be demolished at some stage in the future.
If heading north or east then follow signs for Kirkcaldy. From Kirkcaldy take the A911 towards Methil and then the A915 towards Leven. Turn right onto the A955 then follow this road through Methil towards Buckhaven. This should take you along the sea front and the stadium should be visible up ahead. Turn left onto South Street (the B932) and then left again onto Harbour View Road. Parking for home fans is straight ahead and parking for visiting supporters will be on your left before you read the stadium itself.
If heading south from Dundee, follow the A92 towards Glenrothes. Once past the Tullis Russell roundabout, take a left onto the A911 towards Leven. At the Durievale Roundabout take the third exit onto the A915 and then follow the directions above.

BY BUS:
Buses from throughout Fife all operate to Leven and a local connecting bus will take you from Leven Bus Station to past the stadium. Buses from Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow also stop at Leven Bus Station.

BY TRAIN:
At present there is no train station in Methil or Leven. The nearest main train stations are at Kirkcaldy and Markinch. Both are around 6-8 miles away and you will need to get a connecting bus to Leven and then follow the directions above.
 
ADMISSION PRICES:  
The admission prices for regular East Fife matches at Bayview Stadium for the 2008/09 season are as follows:
Adult = £13.00
Child = £7.00
OAP = £7.00
Parent & 1 Child = £17.00
Parent & 2 Children = £20.00
 
FOOD AND DRINK:  
Sid's Bar is situated at ground level of Bayview Stadium. To enter go inside main entrance and turn left at reception. The bar is a public house and not a social club and can be frequented by all fans, no matter who you support!
For those wanting a drink away from the Stadium, the East Dock Bar at 242 High Street, Methil is a 10-15 minute walk away. The Bayview Bar on Kirkland Road and the Wellesley Inn on Wellesley Road are also popular choices of watering holes for fans for a pre match drink and bite to eat. The former is around a 20 minute walk from the stadium and the latter would require transport to the stadium upon leaving.
Inside the stadium there are pie stalls situated in both ends.
 
CLUB SHOP:  
The Club Shop can be found in a portacabin outside the main entrance. Don't let the fact that it is a portacabin fool you as they carry a large and varied range of top quality stock. You're bound to find something for all your East Fife needs!
 
 
PROGRAMME:  
The official matchday programme is currently produced by the East Fife Supporters Trust and is an excellent read. It costs £1.50 and is usually 44 full colour and glossy pages.

We could fill this one. It would be bouncing just like Wembley and the Dallas Cowboys......               MMM! maybe not but we can try.    Shouldn't upset any neighbours with rousing chorus of Oh when the saints.
 

Its not a money spinner but progressing to the next round is doable. What doo you think?

Ticket arrangements should be...
1. Season ticket holders.
2. Pay at the gate punters who keep Saturday's Falkirk game ticket stub.
3. Travel club bus users.
4. Members of SMiSA.
5. Members of the Fan Council.
6. Anyone with a Paisley postcode.
7. Glory hunters who only turn out for cup games.
8. Old Firm fans who adopt us as their 'wee team'.
9. Those in Div's Sin Bin.

Might need to reconsider my view that Wembley and the Dallas Cowboys stadiums are the best ones I've been in.

I Couldn't make the game but I've read various reports, watched the highlights and listened to JR's post match interview. St Mirren put in a good performance with Storre playing well. Feljde was played out of position but coped tremendously well according to JR and Billy O'Brien made several great saves providing a presence and vocal support for his colleagues. 8 of the team today were under 22 and substitutions added more young players. JR came across very well in the interview and survival depends on boosting the young players confidence. Today was a great result...   Bring on the Falkirk.     JR has my vote
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I Couldn't make the game but I've read various reports, watched the highlights and listened to JR's post match interview. St Mirren put in a good performance with Storre playing well. Feljde was played out of position but coped tremendously well according to JR and Billy O'Brien made several great saves providing a presence and vocal support for his colleagues. 8 of the team today were under 22 and substitutions added more young players. JR came across very well in the interview and survival depends on boosting the young players confidence. Today was a great result...   Bring on the Falkirk.     JR has my vote
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Wee interview in today's Herald ....
 
If the line of succession had unfolded as intended, Jack Ross might well be manager of Hearts now. Instead, it’s 
fallen to a far younger man to lead the Tynecastle club.
Despite being a decade older
than Ian Cathro, Ross, still only 40, is hardly a veteran. He is more than comfortable with the career path taken and is philosophical about the seeming setbacks endured, including when he suddenly left his position as Hearts assistant manager just over a year ago, scuppering plans for a “Liverpool bootroom” style manager production line.
Jack Ross also played for St Mirren. Picture: Andrew West/SNS
Instead of rebuilding Hearts, the task Cathro was handed after Robbie Neilson’s recent departure, Ross is responsible for steering 
St Mirren away from peril at the foot of the Championship.
    “There were circumstances and frustrations in my own 
job [at Hearts] at the time,” reflects Ross. “I have never really said much about it, and I probably never will. I always wanted to manage. When I came out of Hearts I was really
lucky to get an opportunity at Alloa. It reaffirmed my view I could do it. It was the right fit at the time.
  “I understand what you are saying [about the succession]. From my own perspective there’s no regrets. The way I’ve done it has been better for me. That’s not to say it’s for everyone, but for me to develop as a manager, it’s been hugely rewarding. Even now, and given the position we [St Mirren] are in, without the experiences I have had I’d have found it more difficult.”
Ross is spared anxiety about gathering much-needed league points today, when 
St Mirren travel to face Dundee
in the Scottish Cup. Nevertheless, he can’t treat it as a completely carefree afternoon.
Significance abounds.
Jack Ross came close to winning promotion to the top flight with Clyde. Picture: SNS
No St Mirren manager is able to forget what happened 30 years ago, since a large photo of Ian Ferguson’s 1987 Scottish Cup-winning goal against Dundee United adorns their office at St Mirren Park. Jack was 11 years old then, a football obsessive about to pick an unlikely team to support given he lived in Falkirk, a short walk from what was then Brockville.
“We moved around a couple
of times, eventually settling in the centre of Falkirk,” he explains. “One of my near neighbours was a Dundee
fan, whose father was a 
season ticket holder at Dens.
    “We were pals and I played football with him and his 
little brother, so started to go to games every Saturday with them, more or less. So I became a Dundee fan through default. At one point I even sold programmes at the Provie
Road end at Dens – one of the games that sticks out is the 4-3 win over Rangers, when I was selling programmes before it.
“I watched Dundee home and away for a good few years. Strangely enough, I signed an S form with them when I was 13, although I am not sure they also knew I was a fan.”
Simon Stainrod was manager
at that time. But it was left to his successor, Jim Duffy, to deliver the news Ross wasn’t being kept on after one season of full-time football. Ross was distraught. His ambition to be a footballer seemed 
suddenly extinguished. More cruel still, this disappointment 
was dealt by the club he 
supported, through thick and thin – and in those days, it was often thin.
“It was a big, big blow at the time,” he recalls.
    Dundee’s relegation probably didn’t help Ross’s chances of being retained. “We were at Ibrox for the last game of the [1993-94] season, and it was the Friday before it when we found out who was being kept on and who wasn’t.
“It was as brutal as that. We complain about it and say it isn’t right but it’s part of the job, part of chasing that dream. It’s done that crudely, but I am not sure there is another way.
“I have done a lot of radio work over the years with Jim [Duffy]. He is someone who ever since I started managing has been really helpful. I don’t bear a grudge. I mentioned it to him once. He said he couldn’t remember – it made it worse!”
“But in hindsight, I can understand,” he adds. Ross reasons he wasn’t first-team material at the time. But who in his shoes wouldn’t have felt envy watching Neil McCann, an old housemate, and other peers such as Jim Hamilton go on to establish themselves at the club?
“It is a natural human 
reaction,” he says. “I didn’t go back to Dens for some time afterwards. I was still friends with Neil, so I think I went back to watch a game – about a year later.”
    A stung Ross enrolled at Heriot-Watt University, graduating in economics four years later. He continued playing football at junior level, first at Lochee United, where he’d spent a spell while at Dundee, and Camelon, his local club.
“I did an article for the alumni magazine back when I was still playing,” recalls Ross, who lived at home in Falkirk while at university, something he accepts wasn’t the best 
recipe for integrating into student life.
“The best way I could describe myself as far as anyone who knew me was concerned is a miserable sod. I didn’t want to be there. I had a chip on my shoulder, I thought I should be playing football. I was stand-offish, went to lectures, did what I had to do, and went home again.”
But people were taking more notice of him in a football sense. Jack won a Scottish junior cap aged 21, signed part-time for Clyde and was offered full-time terms after another 12 months, having helped the club win the old second division title. He was by now in his mid-twenties.
It had taken longer than anticipated. But five years after his Dens rejection, he could call himself a full-time professional footballer again. He almost became a Scottish 
Premier League playing one sooner than he eventually managed with Falkirk. Clyde, however, were thwarted on the last day of the 2003/04 season, pipped to the title by Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Ross, in any event, had already signed a pre-contract with Hartlepool but his English adventure 
was an unhappy one, soured by a dispute with the club’s chairman.
“I played 30-odd games, was in good form and in a good place in terms of my own performance levels,” he says. But he found the travelling tough. His fiancée, now wife, Heather returned to Glasgow. “I wanted to go back up up the road, and the club had offers. But it became a personal thing with the chairman. It was much messier than it should have been. I said things I shouldn’t have said but at the time it was through desperation: ‘how do I resolve this?’”
Problem solving remains something he needs to be adept in. Deprived of defender
Jason Naismith, who this week left for Ross County,
but buoyed after signing Manchester City goalkeeper
Billy O’Brien on loan, can Ross inspire an about-turn in 
St Mirren’s fortunes?
A draw at Dunfermline last weekend healed some wounds after a traumatic 3-0 home defeat to Queen of the South, when the manager made headlines by fronting up to unhappy fans. “There was no bust-up, no angry confrontation,” he insists, contradicting some reports.
“It was not just one person, it was other people too. But it was constant [abuse] from that one individual. I stayed out to shake hands – I am genuinely
respectful of the opposition and referees. I was one of the last ones off the pitch and he was still at it, giving some quite heavy abuse. I actually couldn’t see who it was, just a sea of faces.”
Ross approached those 
booing, telling them he understood the frustration. “I was just saying it doesn’t help. If we are to achieve a common goal the players need support.” He has since had follow up conversations with some of the supporters involved, via e-mail and phone contact,
inviting them to attend 
St Mirren training sessions.
“I told them: ‘I will show you how we prep’. I know I work 
as hard as I can. I am quite comfortable about that.”
Don’t think for a moment Ross isn’t relishing the challenge, even if the struggles have encouraged him to sign up for an extreme new hobby. What does a manager needing a break from feeling the heat for 90 minutes do? He signs up for Bikram yoga, of course, where sessions lasting 90 
minutes are conducted in rooms heated to sauna-like temperatures.
“I always keep myself fit but found it so hard to switch off. I went with Heather the first time, really enjoyed it. But I returned again on my own. It’s 90 minutes when I don’t think about anything else.
“I’m like the tin man though, not very flexible,” he adds. But he’s prepared to put his back into avoiding the unthinkable scenario of St Mirren, 30 years after their famous Scottish Cup triumph, slumping into the third tier.

Do you write Donald Trump's tweets?

I'm so disappointed in Chic  against fan ownership and publicly saying it will be a disaster.  Seriously don't care what he says now. Sad. 

The man makes me look like a Pulitzer Prize winner.

If that's the case I want my share of the transfer cash!

Hunners. 

Well are you going to tell us?  You don't expect us to count them!!!!  

MAKING ST MIRREN GREAT AGAIN...

Well done guys and well done Kyle. It was no a bad goal Too!

Big heid.... It's been about 20 years since I've managed that...

Sorry I was on ecstasy when I posted this. They were for Stlucifer and i was looking at your quote and someone else distracted me and then I gave them to you By mistake.  There you go Kids there's a warning. Stay of Drugs they muddle your Posts

Sorry I was on ecstasy when I posted this. They were for Stlucifer and i was looking at your quote and someone else distracted me and then I gave them to you By mistake.  There you go Kids there's a warning. Stay of Drugs they muddle your Posts

Kyle McAllister is only 17, and already looks like being the best player we've produced in a generation.
Kyle Magennis, Lewis Morgan and Stephen Mallan are all academy graduates, who along with McAllister have performed very well this season.
We've made 4 new signings in the last week.
We got rid of 4 players that didn't want to work hard for the team.
We've only lost 2 of our last 7 league matches.
We're in the semi finals of the Irn Bru cup, and playing a Welsh side. That's European football if you think about it :-)
We're in the 4th round of the Scottish Cup on Saturday.
We've just opened a new disabled platform, paid for partly by the fans, to give our disabled fans better facilities.
We've ditching JD Sports and might actually now be able to buy replica kit in August, and from our own stadium as a result.
We still retain a 33% sell on clause on John McGinn which could be worth north of £1m in time.

Oh sorry, you said 1, I thought you said 10.

Badge, sponsor, job done