Stegman

I agree with the family stand being given over to OF. It makes financial sense when we can hardly half fill it most weeks. I’m a ST holder in West and I know of a few ST holders there that don’t bother turning up for the OF games. I’d love it if we could fill the whole 8k with buddies but we can’t. Take the [emoji383]

Bullshit, well seen you don’t attend many games.

Bought mine yesterday, can’t wait for the season to ko. Don’t care if it’s next year, club needs money, I’m a supporter and can afford a couple of hundred quid. Saved a fortune WFH over the last few months in petrol, eating out, booze.....happy days[emoji846]

I love the smell of humble pie on a Friday night. Dickson delete your account ya roaster you’ve made an arse of yourself.....not for the first time I hear.

They don’t “benefit financially” in terms of making a profit, all money made is reinvested back into the charity. Of course you knew that and would have been more clued up if you had bothered turning up last night to the present......oh you’re not in SMISA well in that case your opinion doesn’t bother me. Bye [emoji112]

Kibble are a charity, they don’t benefit financially.

Yes you’ve interpreted it correctly that the attraction for me is they’ll bring expertise to the party.......as well as resources, business acumen, sustainable business model, contacts that the club will be able to benefit from, fresh ideas, energy and also be a partner that we can I hope all agree on are morally and socially responsible. Oh and SMISA will still be the majority shareholder and in the unlikely event that Kibble decide ever to part ways with the club then are legally bound to offer SMISA first dibs on buying their shares back, or even gifting them to SMISA for free. Kibble won’t charge the club for services they provide and are not in for profit as they are a charity. I could be missing something but I can’t see a downside despite looking long and hard for one. I understand there will be some who don’t share my view and then they should vote against the deal.

I see it as a win-win deal where both parties get benefits. We are not selling off St Mirren assets (office space or facilities) but working together to maximise and improve their use. The benefit to SMFC is the extra revenue will be made available for the manager to strengthen the team, for Kibble the get the benefit of having access to employment opportunities for their young people thus giving them wider exposure to real working environments. By financial investment they are demonstrating that they are committed to making the partnership work, in return have minority voice on the board. This is all explained in the video which I’m sure will answer all the questions people have. You are correct in that “expertise and talent” that the likes of Kibble can provide are and will be required when full fan ownership is reached particularly to take us to the next level. This has always been a slight concern to me about fan ownership; once complete did the fans have the correct people with the right skills, experience and time to take the club forward? Who would I like to see provide that? A sugar daddy businessman who would want profit share/payback on any investment? A foreign partner with no particular local attachment to Paisley or St Mirren? Or a long standing, local charity with commercial know how (turnover £32M), large resources in terms of staff and facilities, with a sound ethical and moral values. If you were to hand pick a partner then you couldn’t to my mind chose a more appropriate one. I attended last night and was 80% decided that the deal was right for the club. I now am totally convinced that it is and will vote that it is accepted. I cannot think of any downside only positives and hope that most people will see the same. Congratulations must go to all those involved at SMISA for the effort to date and to the board for the obvious work done to bring a well thought through proposal to the table.

Because he was piss poor.

I believe there was family bereavement.

This tournament is a distraction, we should field our colt team and focus on surviving in the top league.

I’m totally against it. There is no need for it, if you can't go an hour and a half without a drink then you’ve got a problem. Imagine standing in our tiny concourse (Like down south you won’t be allowed to your seat with booze) with a flat, cold pint of Foster in a plastic glass during our winter.....crazy. We’ve all grown up without it in grounds so there is no need to introduce it now and the opposite of what we should be doing.....discourage the high intake of alcohol abuse in Scotland. Oh and I do like a drink, but c’mon it’s not something we need at our games. A decent cup of coffee perhaps!

Comes across massively well, 100%.

God I hope you’re joking.

^^^^^^^^^^^ 100% spot on. All I hoped for was effort, organisation and team spirit which we got, plus some. We have our club back.

I'd like to say I'm sorry that Jackson has been "released" and but I can't. Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out Darren.[emoji112]

Jackson most definitely be going, not so sure about Rice.

Out of that run of games it’s hard to see where the current squad can pick up points. I’d have to say we’ll struggle to win any of the games, I’d bet we end that run with another point and be sitting on 4 points and looking for a new manager. Hope I’m wrong and we somehow click, start improving collectively but on the last three league games it’s hard to see that happening.

Wibble.

Watched most of that omnishables on YaTube and frankly that was embarrassing. Ever so glad that I didn’t decide to go, for a nano second mid week I thought about it, then saw sense. Hats off to the hard core support that did pay the money and spend the time to go. I like many did not expect us to win, but did expect a bit of organisation and at least compete/make it hard for them, alas we were as weak as piss, disorganised and chasing shadows. Should have doubled up on GMS. Onwards to our real mini league on Sat versus Livvy. Looking already like us,them, Hamilton and Dundee for the basement battle...no surprises there. We need to get better quality in fast, use the McGinn money in part.

Started well but Dundee came back into it. Poor defensive header into central area by P Mcginn for their strike/goal. Weve had the better chances since but lack a bit of pace/guile to take on last man or run at them. Game can go either way let's hope we can nick it.

Pray for the Tehran Elvis Impersonator. You just know this is going to end badly.

Not even in the top 20 of worst results ever. Agree with Pozbaird that the LC 2010 final is easily worse. Stupid reactionary thread to a win, beggars belief.

Managed to watch the last 15 mins and pens, well impressed with what I saw. Looked good defensively and surprisingly well organised for a fairly new team. Much more relaxed about the season than I was week ago.

I was there on Friday night and whilst I like a beer there was a large proportion of piss heads present. I don’t mind people enjoying themselves and having a few beers before the show but in and out of rows of seat to get to the bars and toilets was a pain in the arse. The bloke along from us ended up so pie eyed he was practically falling asleep ......£107 a ticket seems an expensive show to miss. They should close the bars when the shows start, but won’t due to the mark up and profit they make. Fantastic show and much better than I thought it would be.