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An arm across Shankland when he went down in the box. Would have been soft but sometimes but sometimes you get them.
Thought he played well today. Desire and intelligence in his game that played a vital part in our win. Well done Shanks!
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1 minute ago, saintargyll said:
radio says it was a clattering challenge and no mention of any punch being thrown
just saying
Clattering challenge from Baird or on him prior to a reaction?
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I see a few suggestions regarding a rainy day fund...
I had thought that £5 (of the Smisa £12) was a 'rainy day fund' ?
When the club hits its cash flow problem spell towards the end of the season, who is funding that shortfall under the new setup. It previously was short-term directors loans as far as I was aware.
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How many paying customers would the club expect to lose from a Saturday game being rescheduled to a winter Tuesday or Wednesday night?
I know that the kids and adult prices vary and differ again for a cup game...
Lets say 400x fans at an average of £10 a head. (before taking pies, programmes, etc. into account). There's £4k right there.
Is there not a real risk that we're potentially losing even more money by penny pinching here and focussing only on the break-even cost of the Saturday game?
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Sorry to hear of this!
I was also a ball boy in the mid 90's and cherished every moment of it and Cubby was there marshalling me and the other kids - making sure we got our pound a week and pies at half time.
I also travelled on the Knox Street bus for a spell shortly after that.
Thoughts go out to the family.
Rest in peace.
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League cup moving back to an initial mini-league format from next season.
Will be 8 groups of 5 made up of 38 SPFL teams plus Lowland and Highland league champions.
All playing each other once in a round robin format so 4 matches.
8 group winners plus 4 best runners up will join the 4 European teams in the knockout last 16 stage.
League games will be played in July, replacing pre-season friendlies.
3 pts for a win, 1 pt for a draw, but drawn games will also go straight to a penalty shootout to earn a "bonus point"
BT Sport have exclusive TV rights to the new competition.
Full details being announced tomorrow so we will find out if it's seeded/regionalised or both.
Thoughts?
I'd like to see the penalty shoot outs in the format that the MLS had in its early years where the players run in on goal from 35 yards or whatever it was with 10 seconds on the clock. It would add another change and a wee bit more excitement.
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Really?
Have a look back at some of the threads on here.
"Too lazy" was the usual allegation I defended him against.
"Poor workrate" another.
"Too full of himself and believing his own press".
If the majority of our fans truly knew that we had something special, they went a strange way about showing it.
Also makes me wonder why I spent so much time on here defending him!
Absolutely spot on.
McLean was given pelters at times by a fair percentage of St.Mirren fans who didn't appreciate what they had. A lot of the time when we didn't get the best out of McLean was when he was stuck out at left midfield when he was clearly better in the middle. We got even more out of him when we pushed him forward to an attacking role.
He also managed to rile much of the support when he'd try passes, switches of play and generally expressing himself and trying to play a level of football above the norm of an average St.Mirren player. Sometimes that worked and sometimes it didn't but he certainly attracted plenty of vocal abuse for daring to do better. Remember this was a relatively young player that we were dealing with - it was hardly encouraging someone to hone their talent. Maybe that's part of the reason that our (Scottish) football lags so far behind.
While it was a totally different type of player - we also couldn't recognise we had a player in John Sutton. It's a common thing with our support. Sutton got the same - "too lazy", "poor workrate", etc. He was a goalscorer and scored goals. Simple. -
Did he not burn his bridges with SG over the cup bonus mess?
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You can't Reid into that too much
Aye, I proclaim that the third signing will be a right back/utility defender.
Will he be a Motherwell player no more?
What's going on with his court case??
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Have we changed dressing room as well and/or dugout??
We seemed to be in the what is normally the away dugout when we played Berwick.
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A vast improvement on last year.
Don't appreciate the stupid wee bit of writing at the bottom of the centre stripe. Looks a bit daft if you wear your shirt loose like most people do. That bit would have been better tucked over to the either corner if it specifically needed to be there.
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It's an absolute nonsense ban and will surely be overturned.
It doesn't matter if his hand came up to the ball. It happened in a split second and was instinctive. He didn't go on the park to cheat and it wasn't sinister in the way that diving should be considered. It was the referees job to spot it and they didn't. Retrospective punishment for this one is a load of crap.
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Wayne Foster v St. Johnstone.
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The linesman had his flag up for a throw-in before Arquin even got to the challenge. If the ref had blown his whistle he wouldn't even have been going into the tackle which was never a red card anyway.
Brittain and the 4th official absolute kunts.
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What is Osborne's inflation target?
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Has Locke applied or is that all just nonsense as well?
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Where is this front runner chat coming from?
Have we interviewed anyone?
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I don't know where that figure came from, cause if you read the article, it says:
" HMRC said that of the total amount it had raised, more than £8bn came from large businesses, £1bn from criminals and £2.7bn from tackling avoidance schemes in courts.
I believe it's what people may refer to as 'smoke and mirrors'.
The actual 'lost' tax raised at £23.9bn wasn't an additional £23.9bn raised by this Tory/Lib government. It was actually at £3.2bn increase on the previous year's 'lost' tax revenue. i.e. this practice is normal practice and raises sizeable sums year after year.
Anyone could be forgiven for thinking from the BBC article's positioning of the story that the Tory/Lib coalition had worked wonders to find this money which is in fact nothing more than the day-to-day job of the Government, HMRC and the courts.
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Proof that the UK Government is working. As I said earlier tonight toughening the stance on fraud is bearing fruit. At one end the crackdown on benefit cheats is yielding returns with record numbers of people in work and unemployment levels falling rapidly - then at the other end we discover that the Coalition Government's crackdown on tax avoidance has brought in a record £23.9Bn in formally lost tax returns.
That's a sizeable amount of cash.
How much was the deficit reduced by?
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The vast majority of centre halves in Scotland are prone to mistakes and inconsistency. McGregor, McAusland, Mair and Goodwin all fall into this bracket as did their predecessors.
If he goes then good luck to him. I don't think we'll struggle to get someone at a similar level.
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i dont think ukip rising is distasteful - if they stop free for all immigration, that would be brilliant , it will also be a double whammy if they succeed and stop "faith groups" having any say in running the country
Are they proposing to remove the 26 Church of England Bishops from the unelected House of Lords?
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John Collins for me. I think some of his methods didn't go down well at Hibs but I'm sure he's a bit wiser and more experienced as a result of that. Already has an exisiting relationship with TC and plenty of contacts from a wonderful playing career.
I'd be equally happy with Owen Coyle if we could get him.
Nobody else is really jumping out at me.
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If you were thinking of googling for an image - don't bother.
She's a munter.
Where is our season heading now?
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We've got to play 3x against Ayr and twice each against Dunfermline and Dumbarton. Quite simply - we should be looking for 21 points from those games.
Try and continue to improve, scrap and grow in confidence and see where it takes us.