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If the teaser is the actual strip I don't think it would be that far away to be honest. Joma will be working to a template and it's pretty evident from the picture what the collar will look like and what the detail is on the main stripe. The only way - I'd imagine - it would be significantly different would be if they decided to go with a predominately white top with just the single black stripe down the middle with the black and red collar detail. I suspect the away kit will be the Joma variety that has two stripes down the left hand side of the top - similar to the Romania away kit - but with a single black and a single white instead of the two yellow ones.

If it was, I take it you were the trainer?

Dunno. The result was so horrific I've wiped it from memory

She's lucky. She only has to listen to it.

No. They drew with Hibs at Easter Road, beat Livingston, and lost to St Johnstone. They then went back to England and played several more friendlies before returning to take on Celtic

I don't understand the way some people use their mobile phones. Why do people insist on spending upwards of £1000 every one or two years on the latest mobile phone and then use it to post and read inane shit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter when their phone from 5 years ago is still perfectly capable of doing exactly the same thing? Why do football supporters who have set their Sky Box to record the live footage of the match they are at, being broadcast on Sky TV with 40 odd camera angles - insist on trying to film some of the footage of the game they are at on their mobile phone so they can publish their shitty shaky footage on You Tube for two people to watch? Why is it that with all that processing power in your pocket do you insist on playing "Word" or "Bejewelled"? Why is it when at work someone needs to do a simple maths calculation do they go hunting for a calculator when they've got one on their phones? Why it is that when you are in a meeting or at dinner and someones phone beeps do they feel the need to check it straight away? Why do people pay £800+ for a larger screen mobile phone when a SIM enabled tablet would serve them better for a fraction of the price? And the one that puzzles me the most - my girlfriend says she bought the iPhone X so that she could have a bigger screen. She then bought an Apple watch which she now uses to read all of the stuff on her phone so she doesn't have to take it out of her bag. What the f**k is that all about? I've had my latest phone two years and four months, and just like my last phone I'm not going to upgrade it until it stops working. Hopefully I'll get a couple more years out of it before it gives up the ghost. There's absolutely no new killer features that makes me feel like I need to upgrade.

Shocking. Imagine charging St Mirren fans a tenner to watch their Poundland team in this fixture.

Are St Mirren sure this fixture is happening? After all it wouldn't be the first time St Mirren officials made an announcement that showed they didn't really have a clue what Sunderland were up to. Sunderland announced three of their pre season fixtures to the press this morning. Darlington, Hartlepool and Grimsby. No mention of St Mirren. Are St MIrren sure that Jack Ross isn't sending up the womens team? That match might give St Mirren a better chance of keeping the score down.

I'm sure, but then this website would have always been unbelievably dull, with hardly anyone posting on it just like it was a few months back. :rolleyes:

TsuMirren, I don't know Bazil personally at all, but he's on the St Mirren Facebook page and it's pretty obvious who he is. His posts on here often transpose onto there. It's not hard to decipher. I don't think he even tries to hide it.

Kit design is important Ricky. Loads of youngsters choose their favourite teams from the colour or style of a kit. For example in the recent Bill Shankly documentary there was a Liverpool fan they interviewed who said his Dad, an Everton fan, had taken him to watch a Liverpool derby. Everton were the more successful team at the time. His Dad bought him an Everton scarf outside the ground. Then when the teams came out under the floodlights and he saw the red Liverpool kit he chose Liverpool as his club and he's been going ever since. I've been a Sunderland fan since I mishear a commentator on the radio talking about "Tuearts brilliant skills" thinking he was talking about me - and not the excellent ex Sunderland , Man City, NY Cosmos, and England winger Dennis Tueart. But I nearly strayed in the early 80's when Southampton brought out a superb Patrick home and away kit that I instantly loved, and which coincided with them signing Kevin Keegan. When picking a Scottish team I very nearly became an Aberdeen fan just because I loved their Admiral kit from the 70's with the white stripes down the left hand side and it was only when my Grandfather pointed out how far away Aberdeen was from Hillington and told me he wouldn't be taking me there that I opted instead for a more local club, although I can't imagine I'd have bothered with St Mirren had they been wearing this kind of clobber. http://www.footballjerseymuseum.co.uk/Pages/St Mirren 1993 away/St Mirren 1993 away.htm

Sunderland already have better players. Josh Robson is better than Naismith. Adam Matthews is better than Naismith. Donald Love is better than Jason Naismtih. £200k+ for a fourth choice right back would have been a ridiculously poor decision. Fortunately it appears it was all bullshit agent talk. He must have been trying to get some leverage to get Naismith some extra money and used Naismith and Ross's St Mirren link to put 2 and 2 together to get 5. However anyone who knows about St Mirren will know Jack Ross only won 1 match out of 14 with Naismith in his team!

Both my sons have yet to renew their season ticket cards. They may do it yet - one of them is keen, the other less so. I had been considering buying a season ticket for the coming season but I don't think I will be now. And my eldest sons girlfriend was going to buy a season ticket, but as far as I know has decided that there are better things to spend her money on. I can't speak for anyone else but for us, to be honest, all that has happened is that the feel good factor from the end of last season has gone and next season is looking like a long hard slog. Maybe the club should have been quicker offering up the season ticket cards at a discount before last season had ended. Maybe a couple of exciting signings might turn the situation around.

Thank f**k for that. I saw him linked with Sunderland this morning. What a f**king disaster that would have been.

Agreed. Although filling in the corners could make financial sense if what is built there contains facilities that will generate non match day revenue that would provide a return on investment.

Not just that, lets pay almost 300% more to install these seats than you would for the other empty seats in the stadium. Like I've been saying St Mirren fans are a bit too thick for fan ownership.

Ach she had some nice touches, but anytime I watch the Scottish Womans team it's Claire Emsley that stands out a mile. She's the only one with pace, power and a decent shot. Yep got to agree with that. Yet when the US Womans team was at the peak of their powers a few years back they had a goalie called Hope Solo who could have graced any Scottish senior mens team and have been a stand out, never mind just been able to hold her own. She really was a fantastic goalkeeper and crazy with it. She was arrested for assaulting her 6'9" tall nephew, although she claimed she had been acting in self defence. She was capped 202 times - over 100 international shut outs - for the US and really didn't take it well when she was finally dropped at the age of 36 after making a couple of mistakes against Columbia at the 2016 Olympics. You'd think with a role model like that more woman would have worked on their goalkeeping ability.

It's not due to start. It's not happening according to both Gordon Scott's statement and the tweet that was quoted at the start of this thread. But I do agree with you. The concept of expanding the capacity of a football ground to accommodate your oppositions supporters is a ridiculously poor one.

Well first off you are challenging me over a post I made in response to Stu. Stu claimed that the only way expanding the stadium made sense was to accommodate "Rangers" and Celtic supporters without disturbing the natives. It was that suggestion I was ridiculing, not the suggestion that one day the home support might climb to more than 8,000. However to tackle your post head on, I would have been 10 years old in 1980 on that night at the Scottish Cup Replay when a reported 27,000 people attended a match in a stadium which at the time had a maximum capacity of 24,000. I was indeed there. However perhaps you can tell me how many other times has the capacity of Love Street or St Mirren Park ever been troubled since? I'd love to see St Mirren Park filled with 8,000 St Mirren fans every week but it's not likely to happen unless the board of directors and / or SMISA somehow manage to get more engagement from the local community in the club. Neither seem to have any plan, or clue, how to do that and the current St Mirren board appears to be relying, somewhat unrealistically given the clubs budget, on St Mirren continuing to win more games than it loses to keep bringing fans in.

Aye right - that makes sense. Spend £700k+ filling in the two corners of a stadium that has hardly ever been half full, and which has never been filled to capacity so you can accommodate more "Rangers" and Celtic fans on the odd season when St Mirren happen to be in the same division as them. That would indeed be the only sensible reason to expand.

For most of that match my eyes were bleeding. They are so frustrating to watch. The front players have loads of technical ability, but no strength or pace. The players are the back are just hopeless. Without Claire Emslie the team were really missing a cutting edge as well. Then you get to that extraordinary period towards the end of the game where I presume Scotlands fitness just showed.

The answer I'll give is I'd want people sitting down, on seats, using football stadiums as they are designed to be used. However even with those dangerous rule breakers standing at all seater stadiums in the UK, you'd be hard pushed to find a single fatality that would have been prevented if only there weren't seats in the stadium. There is no legal or moral requirement on St Mirren to install safe standing, just some selfish demand from a minority of misguided football supporters who seem to think that standing up improves the atmosphere. Just 500 of these seats would cost the club £40,000. They will bring in £0 extra in revenue. Imagine pursuing this demand and still claiming you are "superfans"

That's honking. My first thought on seeing the teaser was that it might be like the old Kelvin Holmes kit..

You said That's what I was questioning. I know you and I, and LPM for that matter, all agree the club should focus more on the community. I just wish the board would let the performances on the pitch do their talking for them, whilst getting on with the job of prioritising working with the community to generate new revenue streams. Listening to Fitzpatrick blabbering on about his latest dreams about Fergie coming back as manager and him being captain of a St Mirren side beating Real Madrid in the Champions League final doesn't interest me in the slightest. What would interest me would be seeing the club genuinely engaging the local community.

Ofcourse you are. Your agenda is to rubbish Sunderland - which is fair enough since you are a Newcastle fan. I'm the one with no agenda. Sunderland have been my team since I was three years old. I've also followed St Mirren since I was 7. No-one needs to tell me the mentality of the support last season at either club, and I certainly don't need any lessons on how big a task Sunderlands new board will have on their hands getting the club to reach it's full potential. Regardless though, Sunderlands kids should have it in them to thrash St Mirren in a canter. That's not posturing, that's a simple prediction.