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  1. Ye, there is no doubt they contacted both the club and Mr Wardrop and obtained supplementary quotes, I suppose I just felt that was fundamentally different from him going to the press to instigate a story. Either way, I'm certainly not looking to defend Mr Wardrop, I just felt it was only fair to qualify the assertion that he was responsible for the story.
  2. Hi Guys, Given the strength of feeling over the situation I was reluctant to come on and post this as I attend games with my young children and could do without any unpleasantness with fellow supporters, however there are some strong accusations being banded around, so hard hat at the ready, here goes! I am almost 100% sure that the Herald article was taken from a freelance submission I sent to them last week. I am concerned, however, that the article appears to have led to a fresh round of accusations and recriminations and I am extremely uneasy about aspersions being cast about other people when I know that I was the original source. I can swear, on the lives of my children, that I have no connection to Alan Wardrop; I have genuinely never even met or spoken to the man. I am a supporter of the club, a season ticket holder and a SMISA member, but as far as the influential cliques of St Mirren supporters go, I am a rank outsider. I submitted the article (which was very different, particularly in tone, to the one the Herald printed several days later) purely because I felt there was a strong public interest justification in the situation being publicised and clarified. A lot has been circulated on the subject, but outwith a very small group of supporters who hold polarised views, I felt that the vast majority of St Mirren supporters were struggling to form any meaningful impression of what was going on. Personally, I felt the salient points were whether the funding application was submitted without the knowledge of the full board, and whether the application contained plans to build on St Mirren owned land. The club has now confirmed that the answer to both of these questions was yes, and offered explanations on how it came about. I genuinely feel that this allows supporters to draw their own (relatively) informed on whether anything concerning has taken place ( and I promise that is not, in any way, a loaded statement.) For me, the only show in town is what is best for St Mirren, and while I appreciate that many will disagree, I felt that it was in the best interests of the club that there was as much clarity and transparency around this as possible - irrespective of the eventual conclusions people might draw from it. I should also add that I had requested to remain anonymous when I submitted the article to the Herald, and had they chosen to print it (rather than steal, butcher an sensationalise it..) I would have donated any fee from it to the club in some form, so there would have been no question of me trying to publicise my work or gain financially from an incendiary story about the club.
  3. I have read this forum for years (usually only when we win!) without ever setting up an account, however, I really feel compelled to pitch in on this one. I had taken the decision long ago to stop attending matches against the old firm as I find the experience so unpleasant but added the games to my family ticket this season as a show of solidarity with the decision to keep three stands. Sunday’s events reaffirmed for me why I can’t attend these matches. On my way into the family stand, I was treated with contempt and aggression after pre-emptively offering up my gym bag for searching – to the extent that I was ordered to remove a pair of socks that the security person suspected was a pyrotechnic device. In the family stand! I then enter the stadium to find no fewer than seven police officers lounging around under the stand eating pies and drinking hot beverages, and then as I go to take my seat find myself confronted with a sea of giant tricolours and banners across from me – apparently easier to conceal upon entry than a pair of socks. (The obligatory pyrotechnic display followed later in the match.) I had decided not to bring my sons to this game after the last Celtic match (“why do they hate the royal family so much, Dad?”) but even as an adult I would really rather not sit in my own stadium listening to incessant singing about terrorist organisations and Orange b*stards (I am a practicing Catholic, just for the record) so ended up doing something that I have never done in over 30 years supporting the club and left the match early. To then discover that the Celtic supporters were able to vandalise our stadium while we pay for security to harass St Mirren supporting families and Police to stuff their faces just compounds what was a seriously displeasing episode. I don’t know what the solution is to this – personally, I will take the games on my season ticket next season (they may be include as standard anyway) but will never again set foot in our, or any other stadium, when either of these vile, poisonous football clubs are playing. I appreciate that there are financial implications, but the way I feel just now I would love to see the club just refuse to allow them into our stadium going forward.
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