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Selfishly I'll be gutted if we go down because it'll mean fewer (if any) trips to the Famous Three Kings to watch Saints' televised games.
Our promotion in the 2005-6 season coincided with me actually enjoying being down in London - and I've made a number of right good Buddie mates watching the games down here over the years.

Selfishly I'll be gutted if we go down because it'll mean fewer (if any) trips to the Famous Three Kings to watch Saints' televised games.
Our promotion in the 2005-6 season coincided with me actually enjoying being down in London - and I've made a number of right good Buddie mates watching the games down here over the years.

Selfishly I'll be gutted if we go down because it'll mean fewer (if any) trips to the Famous Three Kings to watch Saints' televised games.
Our promotion in the 2005-6 season coincided with me actually enjoying being down in London - and I've made a number of right good Buddie mates watching the games down here over the years.

Depending on how the lamppost at the stadium fell, there could actually be light at the end of the tunnel.

"Fans in Holland will go to the stadium, watch the match and then go back to everyday stuff. But football is much more a part of people’s lives here.
“That is certainly the case for St Mirren’s fans as Paisley has little else to offer. People here prefer to spend the little money they have left on the club than on their families. Their passion drips from the stands.
“It is not the case that fans in Scotland sing throughout the matches – they swear above all. But the game means a lot to them, I understand that".
In fairness, Tess, the BoD, management and his team mates have done a lot of excellent social re-conditioning in this area. I find it very hard to get very enthusiastic about the club/team/game anymore.
Well done everyone.

It could be much worse we could be Sevco. This is a need watch - I have sent this to everyone. Got to watch this so funny

Just saw London Saints flag up on the opposite side of the ground. Just left of centre.

Well, if you fancy watching him closer to home, the London St Mirren Supporters Club normally watch our live matches at the Famous Three Kings in West Kensington. In saying that, driving the 450 miles will probably be easier than trying to cross London by public transport...

And you get a better class of punter at Greenhill Road - all sweetness and light, never moan, always right behind the team and the manager.

Well, if you fancy watching him closer to home, the London St Mirren Supporters Club normally watch our live matches at the Famous Three Kings in West Kensington. In saying that, driving the 450 miles will probably be easier than trying to cross London by public transport...

Well, if you fancy watching him closer to home, the London St Mirren Supporters Club normally watch our live matches at the Famous Three Kings in West Kensington. In saying that, driving the 450 miles will probably be easier than trying to cross London by public transport...

Naaaaah......The people running St Mirren ARE. Fans.
They were the fans who stepped up and saved St Mirren when it was halfway down the pan.
They've served their sentence. They've wanted out for a while.
None of us normal fans have done enough to take over..
(In two organisations in my past, I reached the point where I was f**ked and bored with something I once loved. I advertised that fact. Others came in and took over instead of just having broken pieces to pick up. The organisations and I were lucky/blessed. It's Buddies in general who have "been abysmal": it was our job as a community to take up the challenge.)
Though I would like SG to get it sorted. Meanwhile...

Still time. Let's get back into this Saints

Why ask me?....................................I'm a dug.

Yeah, but don't loose the heid...

Yeah, but don't loose the heid...

St Mirren fan and buddie - just like us

Cheesy seems happy at the result

Mallan is the new Goncalves...

Go out on the lash.

Well done the Buddies.
Gary Teale is a master tactician it is obvious we've been getting men deliberately sent off in previous games in preparation for this game.

IT'S ABOUT THE SOUL OF OUR CLUB.
(Aye, I'm aware of how poncy that sounds...)
For some years now, I've grown more and more disenchanted by Scottish fitba (commercialised fitba in general, I guess).
Scotland became a sham when it hired a foreign manager and played so many not-quite-Scottish players in it.
(I've still been to every Scottish game south of the border since 1979... it's been by chance, lately - my heart's not in it.)
Not only Scotland, of course. "If they do why shouldn't we?" What's the point of having National teams if the National part of the deal is so diluted? Champions League gives you sight of all sorts of foreign prima donnas if you like that kind of stuff, night after boring night.
I will only bother to watch Scotland and St Mirren. At least I would once upon a time... but the fairy tale is no longer as attractive.
St Mirren? Aye, it's my team. Every visit to Paisley is scheduled to somehow get to see the Buddies (and my Buddies), if possible. Is my heart in that? I think it still is, despite the onslaught of negativity and that grey, dull concrete box. When my Buddies are not around I still go alone and have been lucky enough to bump into other Buddies (some first met via this forum!).
I get pleasure out of meeting with London Saints... maybe it's just to hear Buddies talking normally... but it's usually fun, and a few beers in which to drown our sorrows.
There's the Sevco fiasco, where a club that has ripped millions from the general public to finance its vainglorious pursuit of success, has died but the authorities pretend it survived an event no other business has survived. Ever! Cheats running a so-called 'sport' for the benefit of other cheats - and all, it appears, acceptable to the managements of all other clubs in the Leagues. Only a fans revolt made them see partial truth and fairness, but they're still trying to cheat.
Apart from the opening line above, I never now type or speak of 'US' or 'our' or 'we' - I no longer find it easy to identify myself with temporary, highly paid, transient hired hands of whatever nationality. (Thommo and Cheesy are absolved... )
I know I wouldn't be missed. I know there will be those who would say, "f**k off, then, you're hardly ever here. we don't need you". I would just be one of the thousands who no longer bother...
The idea of our/the club being passed off to non-Buddie hands is possibly the final straw, a shite state of affairs... Especially if, indeed, it would be simply to serve as a tax-avoidance vehicle.
Where's the soul in that?

I wonder if the financial standing of these guys was a factor too. A quick search on Companies House shows there's no registered company called "Aspiration Holding Inc,". A "Holding" company is normally one which sits on top of a group - so odd to use that if not even a registered company...

I wonder if the financial standing of these guys was a factor too. A quick search on Companies House shows there's no registered company called "Aspiration Holding Inc,". A "Holding" company is normally one which sits on top of a group - so odd to use that if not even a registered company...

I wonder if the financial standing of these guys was a factor too. A quick search on Companies House shows there's no registered company called "Aspiration Holding Inc,". A "Holding" company is normally one which sits on top of a group - so odd to use that if not even a registered company...