LargsBud
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I'm divided on this. As fans of the club we absolutely have the right to know why our manager was sacked. You can't just sack a new manager and appoint someone new within a few days with absolutely no explination.
You can't rely on internet rumours to provide the reason without releasing an official explination for it.
I think GLS has told a half story here. On one hand he says it was the worst kept secret in Scottish football and we forseen OK leaving. Then on the other hand he says he is raging because it wasn't done at the end of the season. So which one is it? There are clearly things left out here.
A clear and official reason for the dismissal of our manager should have been released from the club. Another unprofessional mess.
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3 hours ago, whydowebother said:
He says, ‘I want to introduce a style of football that’s entertaining and exciting for the fans’ happy about that.
Now, I’m fairly sure someone else at the club has a different view.....
Cannae mind who it is, I will think about it on my way to the pictures..Ach every manager has their own styles. If he is as successful a st mirren manager as Gus was he will prove to be a great appointment.
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18 minutes ago, stlucifer said:
If I was getting a full refund? I'd honestly be very tempted.
Being the optimistic fool I am I'd probably get to the ground and decide a building might fall on those bringing ridicule to our club and turn back!
You are kidding yourself on if you are telling yourself that the deciding factor for your season ticket purchase is based on whether a PE teacher from Nothern Ireland is the St Mirren manager or not.
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Anyone know what the logic might be for cancelling this?
We are going to NI anyway and we are now offering to pay a fortune to fans in compo to prevent playing the game...I'm past trying to second guess what's going on 🤦♂️
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1 hour ago, Spam_Valley said:
So, it looks as though OK is out on his arse and Jim Goodwin is #1 on the list... Purely as a new topic of discussion, If it wasn't a Saint Mirren legend and solely a nobody Alloa manager, would we be happy with the appointment? I know his job last season with limited resources was fantastic but can't help feel he's under qualified for the job. Especially when he has only got three weeks to build a squad before the serious stuff kicks off -unless we write off the League Cup to give him slightly more time.
I wouldn't be up in arms if we do appoint JG but i'm not so sure his credentials qualify him for the job..
How can we talk about anyone being under qualified for the job when the last managerial appointment we made was a PE teacher?
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Ffs if the old BoD were still in charge we'd probably be in League one now or the championship at best. That's the direction the club was going.
Even when you look at last season - in all likeliness the old BoD wouldn't have taken the punt on OK and would have given it to someone like McIntyre. Look how that ended up?
It's all ifs and buts, however the decisions the current BoD have taken has resulted in us getting to the premier league and staying there. They are doing a more than decent job.
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2 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
Oh if he goes and it's for the reasons that are now being speculated (ie. budgetary issues and NOT homesickness) , the board have to live with the fact that there is going to be a groundswell of public opinion that's about to turn on them in a big way for letting him up sticks and leave over their lack of funds to back up anything approaching the overabundance of ambition.
If the reasons for him going ARE that, I'll be f**king raging.
Why would you be raging? The budget is the budget. If he doesn't like it he can leave.
A club our size cant spend money we don't have. We've been down that road before.
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4 hours ago, DougJamie said:
What a stupid post , are you 5?
Do you think Ross County will sell more STs by claiming they are going for the title
What does being a Legend have to do with it ?
Saints are 4500-1 to win the League next season, away down the bookies- its a cert..............
You don't know the difference between top 4 and going for/winning the title? Are you 5?
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Ffs he's only trying to talk the club up. There's nothing wrong with that. If we aren't setting our sights high then there's no point turning up.
How many season tickets do you think we would sell if our CEO came out and said our aim is to finish 10th for the next 5 years.
The man's a saints legend and should be treated as such.
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11 minutes ago, Sweeper07 said:
Yeah, where did you come up with that idea?
We also had extra revenue that came in too - bigger crowds than budgeted for, sold Smith, Ross Stewart and Samson for a fee as well as money in for JR and James Fowler and Brian Rice; Guys like Heaton and Eckersley went out on loan (saving us money in wages). To a lesser extent Jamieson and Breadner went out on loan and saved some money for us too...
Added in the money from our League position this year is more than £500,000 more than we got from winning the Championship last year...
We will have a bigger budget this year - and that is even before any money from John McGinn contract deal or if we sell Hladky or A N other...
I don't see it tbh. We wouldn't have budgeted at the start of the season for signing a whole new team in January. The fact we did will eat into this season's money.
In terms of bigger attendances, that needs to be looked at over a whole season. I doint think an average of 5.5k will be far away from what we expect at the beginning. So it won't be seen as a bonus.
We will have the same as we did last summer but hopefully we can spend it far better this year. It can't be any worse!
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8 minutes ago, Sweeper07 said:
And out budget this season goes up significantly too . . .
I wouldn't be certain about that. We effectively spent 2 budgets last season by getting the whole new team to stay up.
It was a gamble which paid off but we will be hoping to recoup some of that this year. We'll probably have as much to spend as we spent last summer.
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3 minutes ago, Smithers Jones said:
Surely as a club we want to progress ? He would be an awful appointment.
The number 2 doesn't dictate the philosophy or anything that. They just bring their experience and contacts in the game hopefully.
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We should go for Peter Huston. Good expericed guy and has been a good number 2 through the years.
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2 hours ago, lenziebud said:
It wasn't 6ft3 cloggers I was watching, it was full backs with strength and pace who could recover quickly, reading Morgan like a book.
Same as McAllister who has failed also at a higher level. McAllister IMO is borderline good enough for the Scottish Premiership. When Dreyer was here before his injury he couldn't even make the side and Dreyer was junk !
McAllister is 20 years old. How can you say a 20 year old has failed when he hasn't been given his chance yet?
Kenny MacLean was a slightly above average premiership player up here and has went down to the championship and won the league down there looking like a superstar. Mcginn has done exactly the same.
Martyn Waghorn couldny kick his own arse up here and he's went down there and is Derbys 2nd top scorer and one of their best players.
The quality outside the PL isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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1 hour ago, Lord Pityme said:
Anyone's opinion can be valid, if they actually have one to state! The roasters aren't interested in meaningful debate, they cream their pants at a typo, or if you state championship teams play four more games at the end of the season, they then feel the absolute need to state the bleedin obvious that their season is two league games less, but decide to omit the fact that they actually play in an additional competition to Premiership teams.
you see they want you to think their smart, but fail miserably in the process.
If your main argument for changing the playoffs is based on something that isn't true do you not think it should be picked up on?
If you are only talking about 4 games, being off by 2 is significant.
The only change I'd make is removing the quarter final tie and not allowing the 4th placed team in.
I would prefer 2 home sell outs for the final over going through to Edinburgh or something for a one off game any day. Depending on who is in the final it could get a bit tin pot. Imagine we played ICT. It would be at Perth and you'd be lucky if we got 6k there.
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1 hour ago, Lord Pityme said:
Any more than one place difference to a team finishing fourth?
do you think its fair that second bottom of the prem gets the chance to play a team who might just have had four extra games to get there?
change it to second,nthird and fourth then, its still a much fairer outcome and rewards a level of success and achievement, rather than just being less shite than the one automatic relegation team.
This isn't true btw. We played 38 league games this season. Ayr who finished 4th played 36 league games.
If they had made it to the play off final they would have played 4 further games before meeting us. This is a total of 40 games.
That's 2 more games than us, not 4.
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2 hours ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said:
Div reporting 75 tickets left for South stand only. Going to be a quick sell out. Biggest crowd yet in the stadium. We must grab fans to comeback.
I wouldn't trust anything the interstadia site says. I don't know why Div is reporting those figures when we all know the online system is nonsense, had problems this week and is very likely not true.
Saying the West stand is sold out when we all know it isn't is just stupid. It could put people off from trying to get one.
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27 minutes ago, whydowebother said:
Noticeable that the club haven’t issued a statement & full apology on the club website or social media outlets
Disgraceful
A full and frank statement should absolutely be forthcoming
The amount of fans still queuing yesterday as they rolled down the blinds at ticket window that had to walk away after queuing for hours was unbelievable
The people at the club should have cleared that queue and called in a couple of extra staff to cope with demands ( aside from the obvious that this could have been foreseen )
I won’t hold my breath waiting for the club to address this.They did address it an apologise in this post here.
I'm not saying it's acceptable, I still think they should have kept it open till the queue was gone but it has at least been acknowledged.
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The amount of zoomers crying on FB and Twitter about having to queue or having to sit on a different seat is embarrassing.
Closing dead on 4pm is a valid complaint but the others aren't.
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1 hour ago, whydowebother said:
En-masse email/phone/use social media to bombard the club with your thoughts on behalf of the hundreds left without as they literally pulled the blinds down on the ticket office window today and left in the f**king street !
Hundreds !
For the staff to stay a couple of extra hours for a once in a blue moon event like this isn't too much to ask.
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44 minutes ago, portmahomack saint said:
102,260 a average of 5681 per game, What was it last year and our last stint in the premier ? ?
I'm sure our last stint in the premier the average we had was around 3.5k.
That's a huge improvement since then.
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32 minutes ago, Magic Monkey said:
Thing is, we've tended to get quite a few home televised games. I'd be worried that might start to dry up if broadcasters feel there's a risk there.
(For the record, I f**king love swearing too and am not in the slightest offended by it, nor do I think anybody should be. However, broadcasters take it ridiculously seriously.)
Can they not just move the microphone?
Problem solved.
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Is Alan Main back in goals for St Johnstone?
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2 hours ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said:
Twitter account Irish League Insider looks genuine mostly all Irish football. Club needs to nip this in the bud. Oran going no-where or Oran leaving at the end of the season.
The club doesn't need to do anything. They can't go about responding to every crackpot obscure Twitter account every time a rumour emerges.
If it appears in a respectable paper over here then it will be worthy of a response.
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We have relied on rumour and speculation to explain the reason for his departure. If you look at only the official channels all we got was two sentences saying he had left.
There needed to be something more than that. They could have just said we couldn't come to an agreement with him about his living circumstances so we've decided to end the contract etc...