StuD
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1 hour ago, nedflanders123 said:
No, but you need to provide some evidence to substantiate your claim.
No I don't. I'm posting a fact. You can choose whether you believe it or not. I've got no need to sell the story to anyone. I'm not trying to impress.
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Just now, pozbaird said:
Away and shite.
Whatever. I'm 100% accurate here. I don't need your validation.
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5 minutes ago, Drew said:
FFS, you don't give up, I'll give you that much.
It's 100% true.
He had a phone conversation with Fitzpatrick last week where Fitzpatrick told him that if he was appointed he would be expected - with the current squad of players - to achieve 4th place. 6th at worst. Neilston believes this to be unrealistic and after considering it over the weekend he decided to withdraw from the race.
People on here want to know why it's not being seen as a plum job. There is your reason right there. Unrealistic expectations.
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56 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
I am not usually one for repeating myself but I will do so once. The woman's right completely outweigh that of a ferrtilised egg. End of story.
I am not trying to impose my will on anyone. I am saying that men and religious fruitcakes should recognise that neither has any right to have a view on the matter. This is a matter entirely left to the woman involved. They have the sole right to determine what happens to their own bodies.
As I said yesterday I don't have a particular strong view either way Oaksoft but 24 weeks is way too far into the pregnancy, don't you agree?
When it comes to deciding what to do with your own body do you also extend that to euthanasia? Or to expensive cosmetic surgery on the NHS?
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40 minutes ago, div said:
Robbie Neilson has withdrawn his interest apparently.
This was the story I referred to this morning.
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Billy Thomson
Iain Nicolson
Iain Munro
Roy Aitken
Jackie Copland
Billy Abercrombie
Ian Ferguson
Frank McAvennie
Iain Scanlon
Frank McGarvey
Frank McDougall
Subs
Campbell Money
Stevie Clarke
Tommy Turner
Lex Richardson
Mark Fulton
Barry Lavety
Doug Somner.
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15 hours ago, oaksoft said:
This isn't just about abortion.
This is about women having the right to decide what happens to their own bodies.
Their bodies, their choice.
Just like men.
Until a baby is born, precedence lies with the women.
Just as it should do.
What about the right to life though Oaksoft?
In the UK we allow legal abortions up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy yet advances in medicine and technology means at 24 weeks a premature baby would have a 66% - 80% chance of survival and at 26 weeks the chance of survival rises to 90%. Surely that element of the current law in Scotland, England and Wales has to be amended?
And would you too impose your will on this subject on the people of Northern Ireland who up to now have shown no wish to legalise abortions?
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It wasn't John Kennedy
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Just now, elvis said:
And you believe that.
Yes actually. That's come from one of the horses mouths, literally. He said Fitzpatrick told him top 4, and nothing below top 6 would be acceptable. They ruled themselves out at that point.
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Been told this morning that the reason candidates have been pulling out of the job race is because Tony Fitzpatrick has been telling them that the club, with the current squad, should be good enough to finish 4th in the league.
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7 hours ago, St.Ricky said:
Second nomination... the young lady with the voice that can be heard throughout the stadium whooping when the team lines are read out. Home and away. She's A Star.
God no! I had the misfortune to be sat too close to her at the Livingston 4-1 game. Bloody hell she was a nightmare. The only decent moment of that day was watching a young lad in the seat in front - maybe 8 or 9 years old - getting louder and louder as he said "For god sake shut up!" to her.
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Stephen Kenny as manager, John O'Shea as his assistant.
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Last time I heard anyone at St Mirren talking about an ambitious signing that no-one would believe a club like St MIrren could pull off Mark Crilly was revealed as a new signing.
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1 minute ago, Dibbles old paperboy said:
because of the players who Fergie had signed to the first team and reserves and scouting network he had put in place. Have you had a look at the squad Jack has bequeathed to us for next season? We have 6 or 7 players who are easily the right quality for the top division and another 4 or 5 that are gambles at that level and a few that didn't cut it in the Championship.
Absolutely this. I said much the same when he was being touted for the Sunderland job that's too big for him. Ross isn't Fergie, he's not even close.
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On 5/27/2018 at 8:17 AM, faraway saint said:
A landslide win to change the current abortion laws in Ireland.
66.4% voted for change, no doubt the feeling for the law to be repealed.
That'll have an effect on travel from Ireland to mainland UK.
I'm not a huge fan of Richard Littlejohn but I thought his editorial this week was actually quite thought provoking about some of the response to this vote.
I have never really had strong opinions on the abortion debate. I settled on the view that aborting a pregnancy was better than having a child grow up in a bad household where it was unloved. I still have that opinion, but I'd agree with Littlejohn, celebrating winning the right to abort childrens lives seems in poor taste. And trying to impose a change in the law on a subject as emotive as abortion on a country where there has never been a democratic mandate for that law change, is really a bad idea.
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1 hour ago, Cornwall_Saint said:
Any manager is a huge gamble. Jack Ross himself would have been a gamble, there's nothing to guarantee he would have kept us up.
Jack Ross at Alloa comment - when relegated they were by far the smallest team in the league. When "only ever looking like getting a playoff place" they were flying high and Livi were heavy favourites for the title anyway. Once again you are choosing facts to suit your agenda, ignoring his excellent League Cup run where Alloa were beating full time sides on their way to the QF.
Last time I checked, 2nd was better than 3rd. As to why he hadn't done better than 3rd (even though he did), Coleraine are not at the size of Linfield, Crusaders and Cliftonville. They were miles clear of two of those sides in the season just gone, a highly impressive feat. This is like hammering McInnes for not being able to challenge Celtic.
"Highly Impressive"? You mean in the same way that Livingston managed to finish above Morton this season? That's the kind of differences here we're talking about isn't it? And that's before you take into account the repeated financial support that James Nesbitt and a number of others make to Coleraine every year to help the club out.
I don't know enough about Kearney to know whether or not he's a great manager, but for three seasons he put his club in a worse state than it had been in before he took it over. In the fourth season he finally got it back to where it had been and in the next two years in a semi pro league he's finally managed to show some progress. Yet some claim he'd be an "exciting" choice.
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1 minute ago, Bud the Baker said:
Sadly I never get invitations to the sort of dinner parties were booze and secrets are spilled simultaneously - hic!
Got no friends?
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9 minutes ago, turrabuddie said:
Wasn’t Tom Hendrie a teacher who managed a part time outfit before joining us ?
Yep
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1 hour ago, class of 76-77 said:
I’m not sure that I agree with folk who are of the opinion that, if you currently manage on a part time basis then it renders you incapable of taking on a full time managerial position. It didn’t adversely affect Jack Ross in his positions with part time outfits like Dumbarton and Alloa.
To me it shows the man can work within budget constraints, yet still produce a good side competing with clubs with bigger and better resources.
Jack Ross was a full time footballer, who was a full time youth coach at Hearts before he took part time jobs in football at Dumbarton and Alloa. When he finally stepped out of the cover of Stevie Aitken into the Alloa job he got them relegated without a whimper and they were only ever looked like winning a play off place in League Two when he took the opportunity to bolt to Paisley.
Full time to part time in football often doesn't work well - and part time to full time has the same risks often without the financial benefits.
Kearney might indeed be a wonderful manager, but if he is you've got to wonder why he hasn't managed to do better than third in the NIFL Premier League.
Kearney took over from David Platt at Coleraine, where they'd finished 5th in the league.
In his first season Kearney finished 7th
In his second season Kearney finished 6th
In his third season Kearney finished 9th
In his fourth season Kearney finished 5th
In his fifth season 3rd
And last season he finished 2nd.
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2 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:
Given the gulf in budgets that season between Saints and the rest IMO he did reasonably well.
It was back in First Division the cracks started to show.
Aye when he was being undermined by someone who was a full time roofer before St Mirren made him Assistant Manager, and then Manager of the football club. That all worked out well.
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51 minutes ago, st jock said:
Doesn't matter because John Kennedy is getting it I read somewhere.
Just seen him in Asda Motherwell. I think you might have missed out.
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1 hour ago, Julian Banjos said:
I'm looking at having some pipes fitted in my house.
There's a guy from Belfast, a teacher, fits pipes on the side: Tuesday and Thursday nights as well as Saturday afternoons. Heard he's quite good.
Who should I give the job to? Him or you?
Him. I'm no interested.
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40 minutes ago, Julian Banjos said:
I think Kearney will be seen as too high risk.
He's a full-time PE teacher and part-time football manager in Northern Ireland. He's never actually been in football full-time in any capacity.
To go from that to a full-time manager in the top league in Scotland seems like too big a jump for me. If we were still in the Championship then maybe...
The irony hasn't been wasted on me. Some of those who have argued that Jack Ross is a great managerial appointment for Sunderland, think Oran Kearney lacks the relevant experience to be St Mirren manager. And some who argued that Stephen Kenny with his 17 trophies across 4 unfashionable clubs before he turned 46 years old, with three back to back league titles in the bag and heading for 4 in a row, was from a diddy league, are now saying they'd be happy to take a chance on a man who has only won one Irish Cup trophy and no league titles in his seven years in charge of a club in a diddy league.
FWIW JB, I agree with you. As diddy a team as St Mirren are it's a huge leap to go from teaching children and being a part time football manager. Tom Hendrie managed it successfully but if you speak to some of his ex players it also showed in the way he prepped them for matches. Gordon Scott and Tony Fitzpatrick should be careful of people who are lobbying to get their friends involved in the full time game. It seldom works out.
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1 hour ago, DougJamie said:
Hi Stu. And a very good afternoon to u from Bucharest. Its 30c and beautiful blue skies. Just going for a stroll with my gorgeous missus. Oh the question. Pretty sure we lost to the eventual winners in 1988. However just to add. Its slightly harder to qualify for Europe in Scotland. Now i could be wrong here. But i dont think Kennys budget is dwarfed by OF giants or indeed a Hibs Hearts or Aberdeen. My point is Kenny i am sure is the man for the job when he is playing against Irish villages but as shown struggles against rather large city clubs. But again all this is my opinion and its the new BOD that got shot of Rae and appointed Jack that i will abide. As they say the rest is all background noise. But opinions make the world go round dont they
They do - however I was referring to Dunfermline qualifying for Europe in 2007-8 whilst under the guidance of Stephen Kenny. You know the "disastrous" period where he only got Dunfermline to a Scottish Cup Final and the Challenge Cup Final and managed to get Dunfermline back into the race for survival, only missing out because Gus McPhersons St Mirren team rescued a 3-2 win against Motherwell coming back from 2-0 down. Fine margins, but for all Kenny is deemed a failure in Scotland, he did not too bad during a period when Rangers and Celtic were spending really big money
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Fact, St Mirren are a bigger club than Dundalk. I don't have evidence that St Mirren are a bigger club than the triple Irish Champions and regular Champions Cup and Euro Cup competitors but it's not hearsay, an allegation or a falsehood.
Fact, Robbie Neilson turned down the prospect of managing St Mirren because of unrealistic expectations at the club. It's not hearsay, it's not an allegation and it's certainly not a falsehood.