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Funnily enough the game I posted was probably my first time properly in the Northbank too. The previous games I’d been to were with my 2 uncles and although we were in the North terracing we were much further over towards the East terrace. First couple of games I sat on the wall I think. But that Dumbarton game was my first time in the midst of it. Loved it, especially as it was a night game and the atmosphere was always that little bit better.

Yeah it was only a week or so after the big cup win against Dundee Utd which we’d followed up with a home win against Dundee.

I assume the family stand takes a big hit in numbers for midweek games with weans not being allowed to evening games. Out of curiosity can everyone remember the first evening game they attended by themselves or with mates? This was my first….. http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1976&GameID=197702070 I was 10 years old. Seems a bit mental now that parents would let their kids do such things at such a young age. I certainly wouldn’t have let my kids do that. That said I do believe we were a lot smarter/savvy as kids back in those days.

Still loads available if the dot counter thing is anything to go by.

Aye but you look dodgy as f**k W6er. 🤣 In all seriousness my “doing f**k all” was more directed at the sectarian singing than the flares. At the St. Johnstone game last Saturday some of the young lads in front of me in the queue were getting searched.

The thing that shocks me most about this whole episode is that this f**king thread is still alive!!

What is this “robust practice by the SPFL and SFA” they speak of? Is robust practice code for doing f**k all?

Nah, the Paisley public can get too much of a good thing. 🤣

Ha Ha. I have a similar story. Me an my Bro in law were sat in the Wee Howff pre match and got talking to a lad from Cumbria. He heard me mention Jersey and said that he worked out here for years. We asked him what he was doing in Paisley and he said that every so often he picks a Scottish ground to go to and this was his first visit to St. Mirren Park. He joined us at our table and we were blethering away when another guy with an antipodean accent came up to us to ask us how long the walk was to the stadium. This was only about 2.15 so we told him not to panic and take a pew with us. Turns out he was a Kiwi guy (lives in Suffolk) who goes to watch teams with NZ internationals and this was his first trip to see St. Mirren/Greive. By this time, Portmahomack Saint has joined us in the pub, but he was driving so was on the alcohol free stuff. Being the gentleman that he is, he gave us all a lift to the stadium, but not only that, he gave the boy from Cumbria (who hadn’t bought a match ticket yet) a spare he had on the day. The Kiwi guy already had a ticket. Post match he gave them both a lift back to the wee Howff. My bro in law and I met them back in there and had a few scoops. The Cumbria lad had to shoot off about 6.30 to catch his train home, but the Kiwi guy was going up Ashton Lane to meet his son to watch the Rugby World Cup Final. I had to head back up to the west end anyway, so I went with him and watched the first half with him and his boy. Two perfect gentlemen to meet on a random wee day at the fitba. I hope they enjoyed their day out and left with good memories of Paisley/St. Mirren.

Sorry, I meant an actual bog. 😄

I don’t think we could ever get to a point where they got none, but I do wish our ground was designed in such a way where we could give them a small section of 300/400. Maybe that’s one of the best reasons for filling in our corners. Make sure one is sealed off with its own entrance, a bog and a pie shop. Job done 😄

Ach well. Some good performances. Thought Taylor was outstanding and what about Hemming. Brilliant. Tanser good again too. What is important now is that we go on and beat Hibs next week.

Jeezo. Anyone else’s IPTV commentary absolutely shite sound quality?

That’s got a touch of the “if ma auntie had baws” about it.

Quick question. I usually print my pdf tickets that I get sent through to my email, but I don’t have access to a printer before Saturday. Can I just scan the pdf QR code directly from my phone to the turnstile and if so do screenshots work too?

Disappointing the game is off as these next two games were a real opportunity to get another 6 points on the board before playing Celtic. Sounds like it was probably the right call though. …..and from a purely selfish point of view, I’m glad it’s this weekend and not next as I’ll be in attendance. 😄

Get yourself into The Gellions at 5.30ish to see Schiehallion. Brilliant band. 👍

One last thing to play for. Win our last two games and we are pretty much guaranteed to be the best 2nd placed team, meaning we'll take the final pot 2 place in the draw for the finals. Could be important. I'm obviously assuming we'll be 2nd as Spain are unlikely to drop anything in their remaining two games.

Whilst I’d love to get all conspiracy theorist about Morata’s comment, I think it just more serves to prove how f**kin thick footballers are. 🤣

Would love for Rodri to be greetin in his soup again tonight, banging on about how “rubbish” we are.

I’m on a wee tour. Flew into Malaga on Saturday. Had a couple on nights there. Now in Cordoba for a couple of nights before heading down to Seville on Wednesday. My first Scotland away game since that horrendous no strikers debacle in Prague in 2010. Prior to that I was a TA stalwart but that c**t Levein sickened me beyond belief. Thoroughly looking forward to Thursday’s game. Brilliant that we can go into such an important game knowing that if we get a point we’ve qualified and if we get beat it’s far from the end of the world. In snooker parlance it’s a shot to nothing.

Disagree with this mate. I thought we were doing just fine before the penalty. It was at the very least a 50/50 game and we’d created a few decent wee openings. Not just that, but in the second half I thought even with 10 men we still had a few moments and caused Rangers a few problems. I’m pretty confident that without that incident we’d definitely have got something from the game.

To be fair mate, this is a horrendous post. Not one person has posted anything remotely like “Strain should be taken out and shot”. All people have said is that he was f**king stupid and he was. Maybe once you (the superfan who pure goes to every game) has seen it on telly you’ll agree. I live in Jersey and when I come up for the St. Johnstone game at the end of the month, it’ll be my 5th game of the season. Does that make me a worse fan than you coz I watch most games on telly? You have come across like a total bellend here mate and no mistake.

That Rangers team might’ve gone above us in GD today, but I’ve got a damn sight more confidence that we’ll go on a winning run than they will. They are f**kin honkin and got a massively needed helping hand today.

It’s biased in the sense that the chat is all about Rangers, but I do think Kenny Miller is a decent pundit and is pretty even handed. He was very complimentary about St. Mirren today and not in the usual ultra patronising way that OF minded pundits often are.