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31 minutes ago, billyg said:
Jack's made a rod for his own back with some of his signings. We could have withstood bringing in a couple of new guys from lower divisions and gradually integrated them , but not half of the squad.
We've only brought in 3 from the lower divisions this summer I thought?
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8 minutes ago, Ayrshire Saints said:
I'm sure you will correct me if I'm wrong but this time last year we were in the same position league wise as we are tonight played zero, won zero, draw zero, lost zero with zero goals scored or conceded.
And?
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Having watched that debacle today, I think we may well struggle.
The loss of Mallan is a major blow.
Sticking out such an attacking side away to a top 6 premiership side was stupid.
Jack Ross got his tactics wrong today.
Hopefully it turns out to be a blessing in disguise and Ross sorts things out.
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On 19/07/2017 at 0:56 PM, elvis said:
3-0 Thistle.
What about the second half?
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1 hour ago, woiiftm said:
Why should we have to move when there is a dedicated away section in West stand for cup games not to mention us having an actual away stand?
You then open up the discussion regarding what point there is in being allowed to purchase your own season ticket seat for the season when you're only going to be forced to move elsewhere!
Accept all of that.
But, seeing as they did put them into the West Stand, why not segregate them?
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Why didn't they just segregate the Livi fans in the family stand?
I know they would have had to share toilet and catering facilities, etc, but couldn't they have at least just stuck them over in a section of seats at one of the ends of the stand with a dedicated turnstyle?
That way they wouldn't have been mixed during the game and there wouldn't really have been a problem?
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2 hours ago, saintnextlifetime said:
You need to be a top pro to even enter the Tour and even then many dont make it to the finish because they get ill ,fall off or are time eliminated . Chris Boardman only finished one Tour out of 3 . To do what Froome can do takes super human qualities , some of which he was born with no doubt. .
Don't disagree.
The top marathon runners are top pros as well mind. And the top guys are only really capable of running 1 or 2 a year.
I think that a marathon at all out marathon pace takes far more out of you than cycling a stage of the Tour.
As I said though, if there was an equivalent Tour type race in running though, that pace would need to come down substantially. Tour stages aren't all out efforts all the way through, albeit the attacks are probably at a greater effort than marathon pace effort.
That's why I don't really think you can equate tour stages to marathons. Apples and oranges.
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1 hour ago, saintnextlifetime said:
I have never ran a marathon but I reckon the analogy will be fairly close . Certainly the first couple of hours of a day are easy and even I could hang on to the bunch however once they increase the speed to chase down a breakaway , only a seasoned pro could hang on.
A neighbour of mine who is a cyclist did the Amatuer Tour de Force , which does the same route 1 week ahead. It took him a year to prepare and a year to recover .
If Froome does get the 4 then a knighthood should be in the offing as I doubt he will manage a 5th but you can never be certain. .
one thing is certain , Tour riders are much fitter than your average Premier league footballer. .
I have run a couple of marathons but although I do a lot of cycling, never a cycling race.
I think its an interesting debate. I don't believe that you would be able to run a marathon at all out race pace every day for 3 weeks. I reckon the pace would need to drop substantially. You also don't really get the drafting effect in running (albeit they did in the Nike sub 2 hour effort but using runners and a car with a big fecking clock!).
Agree about footballers. Lack of fitness and effort is probably why so many kids in Scotland with talent never make it.
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1 hour ago, Hoof Hearted said:
knighthoods are pish, jimmy saville got one for kiddie fiddling.
Froome deserves more recognition, he is certainly less popular than wiggins
in the uk.
Is this because froome is Kenyan born or because he went against team
orders during wiggins tour win?
wiggins is Belgian born to an Australian dad mind you....
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29 minutes ago, shull said:
Who cares ?
Me
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3 minutes ago, Hoof Hearted said:
to win the tour de france four times in the clean era is a spectacular, the tour de france
has been compared to doing a marathon every day for three weeks, in my opinion
infinitely superior to what bradley wiggins has achieved.
Miguel Indurain won the tour five years in a row, I would compare chris froomes
achievements as good as this.
Certainly an argument to made for Froome to get a knighthood. I'm sure it'll come.
Just as long as no-one finds the hidden motor....
I would disagree though that its like doing a marathon every day for three weeks. Another one for a good debate though!
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On 15/07/2017 at 5:06 PM, Hoof Hearted said:
four time winner of the tour de france and not even won the bbc sports
personality of the year, and bradley tue wiggins one time winner is a knight of the realm,
theres something fucked up about that.
Bradley Wiggins was the first Brit to win the T de F. That's why he got a knighthood.
Roger Bannister got a knighthood for being the first person to run a mile in under 4 mins.
Chris O'Hare has ran the mile 7 seconds faster than Bannister. Should he also get a knighthood?
Indeed, 2 Scots, O'Hare and Jake Wightman, both ran the mile in under 4 mins last year. Should they both get knightoods? Charlie Grice as well? Andy Baddeley?
Should every Brit who has climbed Mount Everest since Edmund Hilary get a knighthood?
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1 hour ago, Soctty said:
Spot on. Season just starting, last night's lineup had 5 new faces who weren't there last season. While they have been training together, it takes a number of competitive matches to really get your rhythm, and also for Jack to decide his best 11. It will have Eckersley and Magennis in it for sure, and probably Davis and whichever striker we sign as well.
It doesn't matter how many competitive matches they play... Stevie Mallan is still away!
And all of the above also applies to Livi and all other teams.
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32 minutes ago, Drew said:
The point being that Mallan took a while to get going last season and would most likely have struggled in similar circumstances to last night, so perhaps we need to give the players in there now a wee bit of grace.
You think that, with a wee bit of grace, some of the players playing last night might turn into Stevie Mallan?
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24 minutes ago, Drew said:
You wouldn't have been saying that in the first half of last season, though?
What difference does that make?
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6 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
It was nowhere near the depths of last season where the primary objective seemed to be to allow other teams to have all of the ball and dominate us.
Yes, we were shite tonight but can anyone honestly say Livingston were on top of us for any period of time other than the first 7 or 8 minutes?
We huffed and puffed and came up with nothing to show for it but last season I recall we were quite content to let other teams have the ball and be terribly stand-off in our style. That's nothing like how we're playing.
The only real worrying thing for me was when Carrick went off injured and Livi brought a defender on in his place, we simply didn't know what to do to break them down.
We didn't know how to break them down because the person that did was playing for Barnsley....
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Stevie Mallan is going to be a massive loss.....
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1 hour ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said:
Our gates will go up also because we (Will) be playing for promotion.
Yes, maybe both our gates will go up.
But their starting point is 33% higher than ours!
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19 minutes ago, Soctty said:
We know that when they weren't a non-league team their gates were higher than ours. We also know they've been relegated to the National League, and their gates are likely to suffer, added to the fact that their prices are now slightly lower than ours all in all.
Their gates may well go up if they are challenging for promotion in a lower division as opposed to fighting relegation in a higher division.
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I love my Saints stats...
Back in 1949/50 Saints were drawn in a League Cup group with Celtic, Aberdeen and Rangers (now in liquidation)... Jesus Christ!
We beat Aberdeen 3-1 at Love Street in our first game in front of a crown of a crowd of 30,000
We then lost 5-1 away to Rangers (RIP) at Ibrox
We then beat Celtic 1-0 at Love Street in front of 47,438, our record attendance. Outside of Glasgow & Edinburgh, I believe this is the largest attendance at any football match in Scottish football history.
Following this we lost 1-0 to Aberdeen at Pittodrie
Then we drew 1-1 with Rangers (dead) at Love Street in front of 40,000
To finish we lost 4-1 to Celtic at Parkhead
The group finished:
Rangers (club no longer in existence) 8pts
Celtic 6
Aberdeen 5
St. Mirren 5
Of interest here is that the fact that, despite finishing bottom, we took the group to the last game. A draw in the last game would have seen us finish above both Celtic & Aberdeen.
But also, in the space of 17 days, a total of over 117,000 attended 3 St. Mirren matches at Love Street. League Cup sectional matches.
Yikes!
Unfortunately, the gate at our first home league game of the season, a 2-0 win over Stirling Albion collapsed.
Only 15,000 turned up....
Just looking at our other attendances that season, we had a crowd of 35,000 for a 1-1 draw with Motherwell on 2 Jan at Love Street....
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52 minutes ago, Sonny said:
It was good to see how important Jack takes dead ball situations. Goody used to piss me off with taking a free kick a nano second after it happened but today for corners and free kicks we were trying things straight out of the training ground. And with Bigmac, Buchanan and Crouch we won almost every corner.
Encouraging
around a third of all goals come from a set play
when we won the league under Tom Hendrie, just over 40% of our goals came directly from set plays and were undoubtedly a major factor in our success
Yardley, Lavety, McLaughlin & Walker caused havoc at set plays with fantastic delivery from Ross & Nicolson.
short passes at set plays are an incredible waste
if you have someone with a decent delivery and you have guys who can get on the end of it, why take a short set play?
you don't get extra points for aesthetics. Cross, bang, goal. It doesn't matter how the ball ends up in the net!
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Pretty poor show from the alcoholics on the train down to Stranraer today it seems.
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8 hours ago, TopCat said:
Looks a decent signing this. All the best etc. Now just an experienced defender and striker and we should be good to go...
While another defender and a striker would be ideal, I don't see why they should be experienced?
Scott Cuthbert was an excellent signing with no experience. Charlie Adam was 18 with half a season under his belt.
would you really say no to players of that class?
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1 hour ago, Dibbles old paperboy said:
And this time last year David Clarksom was looking fit after pre-season and was banging in the goals in the pre-season games and League Cup group ties...
boo boy
Le Tour 2017 - who'll be mellow in yellow?
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Total respect to Chris Froome. Incredible achievement.
Already looking forward to the Vuelta!