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  1. Jack's Return!

    in Matchday & Travel Club

    Posted

    2 hours ago, StanleySaint said:

    Living down here and working in Durham I have first hand experience of how demotivated and generally sick of the situation the Sunderland fans are, I have friends who have had season tickets for most of their adult lives who didn't get them last season and who are only getting them this season in the hope that finally they can expect to win more than they lose. It is a serious state of affairs and no posturing by StuD that their kids will thrash our first team will hide the mess they are in. Looking forward to the game and seeing just how many mackems can be arsed making the trip up.

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    I can only guess you haven't talked to your "friends" in a couple of months. The optimism around the club - at least online - seems ridiculously over the top right now. Too much so for me, and without much foundation. It seems every decision to offload a player is being greeted as the start of a glorious new dawn. Season ticket sales are up almost 20% on last season, discount periods were extended. There has been some moves behind the scenes that shows the kind of stronger links with the clubs past and the community that the new owners promised, but there's been little on what players Jack Ross will be bringing in to boost his squad. I guess that is why Tony Coton was recruited yesterday as Head of Recruitment. 

    Sunderland will thrash St Mirren though - no doubt about that. They could field their Under 18s and get a result. 

  3. Hats off to the board..!

    in The Sin Bin

    Posted

    13 hours ago, St.Ricky said:

    A touch harsh LPM. We have been all over the news and social media since JR was in the running for Manager of the Year. That doesn't happen by accident. Our PR has been excellent. In a separate thread (What do we expect from the board) my view was that the club do need to support Tony with a Marketing Manager to set up and run a marketing programme which would cover the types of things you are talking about.. Finally - what you see is what you get with Alan Stubbs - a football professional with excellent contacts and, most believe a eye for a player so yes - I hope he signs people like Halkett and others. I go for 11-14 Points a Quarter as a target. 

    Excellent Ricky? 

    I've found much of it toe curling particularly around the appointment of a new manager. The prospect of Guti or Kleivert managing the club may have pushed a few season ticket holders to renew a bit earlier, but I doubt it had much effect other than to make the ultimate appointment of Stubbs look disappointing. Being in the news is one thing but it would be good if it didn't sound like those running the club had lost all sense of reality. Some of the rubbish this summer has only served to make the club a bit of a laughing stock. 

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not in LPM's camp either. I don't enjoy reading the flagrant efforts of some spin doctor trying to polish whatever turd SMISA is putting out, and I don't like the attempts to dress up Gordon Scott's statements either. The last thing I'd want to see is Alan Stubbs prancing about in a St Mirren kit telling stories about how he always supported St Mirren as a kid. What I'd prefer is for the playing side of the club to speak for itself through it's results and performances on the pitch, and for the board and SMISA to work on new innovative ideas as to how to work with and  engage the local community. 

  4. Stadium developments

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted · Edited by StuD

    9 hours ago, LargsBud said:

    The fact that stadium improvements were mentioned again today without being asked specifically about it, suggests its back on the table and been discussed again since the celtic/rangers fans issue.

    Surely you haven't got that from the Tweet? The Tweet says exactly the same thing as the previous statement from Gordon Scott. They'd been to Celtic Park to see it, costed it, and it's something that might happen in the future. That doesn't suggest it's anywhere near the table - indeed the final sentence suggests Gordon Scott told Saints Active that if they can raise the money for it they can pay for it. 

     

  5. Stadium developments

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted · Edited by StuD

    I thought that was done ages ago. I'm sure I read it in one of Gordon Scott's releases and it was dismissed at least for the time being. 

    The only way extending the stadium makes any business sense at all would be if there were going to be revenue raising facilities fitted out the void spaces. And safe standing is just stupid. Rail seats - used for safe standing - cost around £80 per seat, whereas a normal seat costs around £30. Would fans wanting to stand be happy to pay a premium to do so? And would they be prepared to pay a premium to stand in the corner? 

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    “Depending on the number of seats, currency exchange rates and a few other variables, the ball park figure is around £80 per seat. By comparison, a top-of-the-range conventional grandstand seat might cost around £60, while cheap and cheerful budget seats come in at around £30. So rail seats aren’t cheap. But what price do you put on safety?"

    To be honest I'd put a price of £30 per seat on safety since bog standard seats have improved stadium safety beyond any doubt since the Taylor Report. Standing has never been safer than sitting. Paying £50 per seat extra to reduce the level of safety in a football stadium is plain stupid. 

  10. Should st Ricky be in the sin bin

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    When Div posted about changes being needed the website was on the floor. I'd venture the traffic wasnt covering the cost of hosting anymore. He had pandered to the clique and despite Shull and Faraways best efforts the place was dull as f**k. 

    What Div really needed was the return of some of the web greats who drive traffic, content and debate. He hasn't got them all back yet but a few are back and the forum looks like a forum should these days. The problem for Div will be keeping what has back on the site especially as the new manager has now been selected. 

  11. Harry Davis

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    43 minutes ago, Slartibartfast said:

    Maybe it does, but when you are getting a large % of them from folk like your two thick mates, then it really isn't anything to boast about.

    Also, having people agree with you isn't important, being correct is important. For example, billions of people agree that Mohammed was the last and greatest prophet of the one true god, it doesn't make them right (or wrong, for that matter), it just means that they all agree. Personally, I don't care whether anyone agrees with me or likes what I have to say, as long as I know that I'm correct in what I say. Is that really so hard for you to understand?

    Shit, I've forgotten to give you a "like". I'll get on that right away before you cry.

    Dear oh dear. Do you know what? I'm not going to do this anymore. You're clearly right on the brink at the moment, a real verge of tears. Even your usual Cowardly "handers" has deserted you and left you to flounder despairingly on your own. I like scoring goals and winning, but ADS has already routed you - you don't need me doing the forum equivalent of stopping the ball on the line before bending down to knock the ball into the empty net with my head. You've had enough humiliation for the day. 

  12. Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish

    in The Sin Bin

    Posted

    Ah so that explains the timing of the documentary on the BBC recently. :rolleyes: 

    Fair play - he deserves it I reckon. One hell of a player. A bloody decent manager. And a guy who seemed to take the weight of the whole world on his shoulders after Hillsborough. 

  13. Harry Davis

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Slartibartfast said:

    I've tried to explain this to at least one of your thicko mates so I doubt you will get it either but let's give it a go.

    To do/be something again, you need to have done/been it before. That's how it works. I hope you can understand that but I won't be surprised if you don't. After all, I don't remember you showing any understanding about anything at all, ever, on here. We can but hope, though.

    If you don't want to engage then you can always put me on ignore like you did with you alias in the wank tank when you took the huff like a wee girl. Me, I'm going nowhere (in regards to the forum obviously, not in real life. If I did it in real life I would be shitting the bed like you do.) so get used to it. Either that or, lowering myself to using lowbrow language that you are more likely to understand, you can f**k right off yoursel', fannybaws. emoji112.png

    WTF. 

    Someone is taking this website wayyyyy to seriously. Looks like Zico is right, You're on a wibble :rolleyes:

  15. Harry Davis

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Slartibartfast said:

    Three out of the Four Horsemen of Ineptitude in a row - not a bad nights work. :)

    Again I'm sure that sounded funny in your head. Maybe try it out on a friend next time and see if they laugh before you post. It might save you looking like a dullard. 

    Now you'll need to excuse me. Tonight I am having dinner with Jimmy Nicholl and Tam Cowan. 

  16. Harry Davis

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Slartibartfast said:

    Imagine reading Trump's tweets when you don't have to! default_biggrin.png. A sure sign that your life hasn't gone the way your mother would have wanted.

    Trumps tweets are usually funny. Its the fact that I'm reading your posts on this site that shows my life really is in the gutter. 

  19. New Manager Latest Odds

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted · Edited by StuD

    It crossed my mind last night that St Mirren haven't often brought in a manager with experience whose career has been at a higher level and is a bit on the slide. The only previous ones in my lifetime I could come up with were Davy Hay, Iain Munro, Tommy Craig and Alex Rae. 

    It means nothing ofcourse except perhaps for those who believe in patterns like appointing someone from Northern Ireland cause some from there have been moderately successful. 

  21. Alan Stubbs Must Go

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, zico said:

    Don’t see what’s incredible about folk having an opinion on Stubbs.

    Personally, I’m undecided.

    My opinion on Craig, Rae and Murray at outset was that they would fail.

    Football is all about opinions!

     

    Absolutely this. Reading the other thread what I find far more embarrassing is seeing people who three nights ago wanted Guti as manager. Who two nights ago wanted Micky Mellon as manager cause it sounded good. And who last night were debating the merits of the final four and opting for a part time PE teacher as their preferred choice with Stubbs at least two places behind him. It's one thing getting in line behind the new manager, it's another altogether to start kidding on Stubbs was always the preferred choice. 

    As for Stubbs, surely it's inherent on him to win over any doubters by winning matches and by keeping St Mirren up however that looks. Livingston really should be next seasons fall guys so that should buy Stubbs some space. 

    He wouldn't have been on my shortlist for the job but in a long list of uninspired choices that have been St Mirren manager in my lifetime, he's not the worst either

     

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