Tonysaintee65

ok, going to address a few issues here, bear with me. Blame tony, sure, when kibble became a 'partner' in club ownership, they 'lent' a general manager, one David Jameson, still currently employed at kibble. Every decision tony took in the early days was in partnership with the general manager. At the time there was and for some, there still is a belief that Kibble was, according to their blurb, bringing their world leading expertise in business management to the fore for the benefit of the club. Tony believed this, possibly still does, hence renderwork shambles at ralston, renderwork shambles in the pie stalls and renderwork shambles in security that led to the match against St Johnstone being a lock out for all intense and purposes and the uncosted albatross that is ralston mk11 another renderworks shambles. They can lay anything they want at Tony's door, but he was being ably supported by the general manager a business expert loaned to the club by world leading charity Kibble. Perhaps if tony had been aware that David Jameson had until recently been head receptionist at kibble, has never worked outside of kibble in any capacity and has never worked in a business, ever, he would have slightly more wary. every single decision Tony took, was under advisement from a kibble employee, being paid by kibble and being directed by kibble, his employment was not broken at any point, he has returned to kibble, where he can be found at an admin desk most days. mark mcmillan, renfrewshire council and kibble. not the first time those words have combined , its worth remembering that the above scenario of kibble seeking funding from renfrewshire council bears pointed similarities to Mr McMillans fall from grace as a Councillor when he sought funding to have kibble young people clean the streets of paisley, having forgot to mention he was a paid consultant at the time. his fall from grace was only short lived as luckily he was appointed as a director of corporate affairs with kibble soon after. St mirren fc will come through this, we always do, but, can people stop pretending now, that kibble have expertise in any field outside of charity work. they are a small regional charity who are hugely publicly funded to look after less than 100 young people at a cost of £30 million, they're ok at it, but thats all they are, not business men, not world leading experts, not even leaders in their very small field, the sooner the myth is busted the sooner we can get down to running a successful football club again.

To be fair kibble did envision this, but it was a nonsense notion from the start, they had absolutely no notion of the costs involved or the legalities, let alone the staffing levels! non starter from the outset,

God, no, although mark McMillan ( yes that one! ) did try to get kibbles catering staff to supply pies etc, he was genuinely surprised to find out they couldn’t, due to having kids to feed etc. although kibble catering chefs will be doing hospitality, directors etc, wouldn’t expect that to last more than a few games, I can see west of Scotland having to come back in.

Mark McMillan, was,of course, forced out of his position at Renfrewshire council for his, ahem, consultancy work with kibble, a conflict of interest apparently, although luckily for him, he was soon employed by said kibble and swiftly promoted to his £80k a year position, luckily enough.

David Jamiesons LinkedIn also says he has a demonstrable history of working in the entertainment industry, despite his only employer ever being kibble, so I’d be taking that quote with a pinch of salt. He’s been replaced by Lindsey McLean who, to be fair, has at least worked at some point outside of kibble.

Well, now, interestingly, enough renderwork have been working on contracts inside kibble for 4 yrs now (since Jim Gillespie became CEO) they have no track record of working in social enterprises, they have not taking on or trained any kibble YPs, in any capacity, but what they have done since kibble bought into St Mirren, is to form a stewarding company and interestingly a catering company which will be running the stalls at the ground as of the next home game. Purely coincidental I’m sure, although for someone who wants to encourage local businesses it’s nice of Jim Gillespie (a native of airdrie) to be spreading the jam to 3 of his neighbours rather than just the one.