Killie Saint

Not sure anyone is going to go for "The Jim Goodwin Family Stand"

If Hardie is the last throw of the dice I think we would have been better served with a hard tackling midfield general. I'm sure Ryan's a good player but there's no point having all those options up front if we can't stop the opposition from keeping the ball.

Duck Somner
Tony Finchpatrick

Duck Somner
Tony Finchpatrick

Langfield would surely have engineered his move from Aberdeen if only he'd got a team-mate to spear him through the leg with a training pole.

Hi Folks, I'm a dandy coming in peace since you're linked with two of our players..
You are correct in saying that Langfield, or "Clangers" as we call him, is not popular with the vast majority of fans. On top of him trying to engineer a move to the old ****, he's frustrated people with his inability to kick a ball, deal with pass backs, come for crosses or save a ball at his near post. He requested his own testimonial and the low turnout is definitely representative of how Aberdeen supporters feel about him. Is he good enough for the Championship? Yes - I'd give him a 1 yr deal and source someone better once you come back up.
As for Shankland, we're praying that it's a loan and not a permanent move. Shankland is highly rated by the fans here and has shown great promise as a striker. He's kept out of the team by Rooney and a currently on form Goodwillie, but there's definitely a quality player there. Unfortunately for him he just hasn't quite taken the chances he's been given with the first team here but the general feeling is he just needs game time and first team experience.
Good luck in your campaign this year, I'd like to see you and hibs come back up. All the best!

I didnae' think Thommo' played badly at all. Should maybe have went for the volley as the ball dropped to him one time, but I thought his link up play was good, he won a fair few flick-ons, and did pretty well.
This will no doubt be his last hurrah in a Saints shirt. Instead of branding him 'finished' and 'done' - we should get behind him and enjoy a cup winning legend and supporter's final appearances in the stripes (nice stripes too).
Thommo' is genuine quality. This is a lower league, he has a shot at this being a good way to finally bow out. We'll miss him when he's gone. Let's get behind him.

Shull, I'm st mirren through and through, no ifs no buts no maybes. I have no interest in rangers in a supporter capacity, but your complete insistence on highlighting newco, oldco, sevco, newcunto, is borderline embarrassing. Rangers went bust, that's a fact, but the 'new' Rangers, is still Rangers, same fans, same stadium, same trophies won. You can get into the politics of what names registered at companies house all you want, but it won't change anything. It is posters like you who stop people like me from writing anything on this forum because of narrow minded juvenile responses! This forum is for St mirren fans, voicing St mirren related opinions, Rangers, celtic, and the rest have no business on here, you have a lot of free time on your hands, given you've posted 100 times a day since the website was launched, try channeling that time into decent, coherent, somewhat relevant statements!!!

Down to the lake I fear.

That Danny is our manager and I'm not interested in anyone else whilst he's in charge.

As mentioned on another thread, we have a manager, get behind him.
Mods, please shut this pish.

As mentioned on another thread, we have a manager, get behind him.
Mods, please shut this pish.

Firstly, great post by OP, but I can't believe folk on here are now discussing who our new manager should be. It's absolutely shocking.
It seems the sacking of Danny Lennon is a fait acompli if you were to read this topic.
Yes, I know the performances and results have been poor lately, but we are 3 games into the season with the transfer window still open.
Let's get behind the manager and the team for the two very important games coming up this week.

LOL
That is easily the funniest post I have seen on here in a long time.
Cheers Shull

It's not surprising to see this place go in to meltdown after the weekend's result but some people really are seriously losing the plot, particularly that section of forum users who now seem to have completely flipped; the rabid foaming at the mouth anti Danny Lennon brigade.
Case in point is the group clamouring for Steven Thompson to be appointed manager, a decision that were it to be taken this week would surely be one of the most illogical and disastrous in the history of our fine club (I won't even consider the Kenny Shiels for manager collective as nothing more than a wind-up).
I will agree that Danny is looking likely to be out of a job soon unless he turns the league form around quickly (or wins the cup again...) and he must carry the can for not going in to the season completely prepared but why are the players getting off scot free here? And above all, why are some of you calling for two of them to be made manager and assistant manager?
It looks to me like Danny Lennon has fallen victim to "player power" and some the senior players have f**ked him over. The situations with Guy and Imrie tell their own story. Yet, if the problem with the team is that the players are not motivated ("he has lost the dressing room") why would you want Thompson and Teale to take over the team? They are on the park now and we are "soft" and there are guys like Harkins not bothering to pick up players from corners and Jim Goodwin, club captain, barely showing up. Davidg posted on another thread that Thompson refused to come off the bench in a game at the end of last season. It's up to him to back that quite serious allegation up, but if true then it paints a very sad picture of what goes on behind the scenes at St Mirren Park.
Graham Spiers said on the radio yesterday that the St Mirren support, like no other support in Scotland, have had it for their current manager since the day he started. And he is correct.
I think the reason that often this forum falls in to squabble between the "knicker wetters" and "happy clappers" is that many of us are not happy clappers but just feel deeply uncomfortable with the anonymity afforded to users of this forum being abused to launch a sustained, non-stop attack on one man. One poster uses so many aliases I believe he uses some to support Danny and others to berate him on a non stop basis. Another enjoys berating the manager so much that his calls for "wee clueless" to f**k off don't even change depending on who is in charge, Gus and Danny have enjoyed the same abuse and same nickname. Some posts from those like to claim to be in the know are now just "Bye Dan", "Thompson will be in charge now" etc Pretty poor stuff in my opinion....and I find it difficult to read all that directed at one man while the board, chairman and senior players, some of whom really have taken the piss I suspect, are still all lauded as heros.
The annoying thing is these guys have kept up such a sustained campaign of pish talking that most of what they say is now believed. Due to that, many of you now seem to be football luddites calling for a return to the long ball game (last used to any effect by Norway around 1994) or convinced that Danny having led Cowdenbeath to succesive promotions, got us to our ever finish in 25 years while playing some very attractive football, and won us the league cup is "tactially clueless". Even though in that very League Cup final he switched the shape of the team around and we went from 1-0 down to 3-1 up.
I've never seen St Mirren play as good football as we did at the start of Lennon's 2nd season, I recall us ripping Dundee Utd apart at Tannadice until wee Nigel got sent off and it was sensational. The victories of Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen we have enjoyed in recent seasons were great & accomponied with great football. I really hoped we would get better at that style of attacking play and the under 20s and all youth levels would learn to play the same style. It's that approach that Scottish football needs.
So it is sad for me to see that it now seems to be the end of the line for Danny Lennon. I don't believe he is leaving because of a stubborn commitment to playing passing football, or due a lack of tactical awareness, I believe he is going to go because the players do not want to play for him anymore.
And so I ask again, if there has been a collapse of moral and motivation in the dressing room, how could any of you possibly not hold the senior players at this club just as accountable as the manager, and why on earth would you want to see one of them take over as manager?

One half of unfunny double act has died ( again ) aged 82.
His brother Bernie expired in 1991 at the age of 58.
His dog, Schnorbitz was easily the funniest of the three.

The bottom line is that if Kilmarnock don't have their proper gym kits, they will just have to play in their pants and socks

Very impressive scoring record according to the Southport website. Six goals from no appearances. If he doesn't play for us could he bag 15 this season?

Two little boys had talent and poise
Each had a loanee deal
Gaily they played each summer's day
Geordies both of course
One little chap then had a mishap
Played in the Brighton game
Wept like a boy then cried with joy
As his young ginger playmate said...
Did you think I would leave you crying
When there's room in the final for two
Come back up here Paul and don't be crying
Danny says that he loves you too
When we grow up we'll both be players in
The Toon Army first team squad
And I wonder if we'll remember
When we were two little Buds
The League Cup had passed, Pardew came so fast
Bravely they marched away
The toon roared loud, but Pardew stood proud
The boys weren't picked to play
Up goes a shout, Danny calls out
Cos we got gubbed and he's feeling blue
Gallops away to where the boys play
So the boys heard a voice they knew
Did you think I would leave you dying
When there's room in my squad for two
Come here again we'll soon be flying
If I go with a fast front two
Tommy Craig says he feels all a-tremble
Perhaps it's the forum's noise
But I think it's that he knows damn well
That we need those two Geordie boys

808 state

After someone else announces it, you mean.

Honestly - god I hope not. There's nothing more cringeworthy than the idea of a football club with it's underwear on the washing line for everyone to see. Even worse is the idea that you put transfer matters into the hands of people who quite frankly are too detached to know the character of a player, his effect on the team, his attitude, workrate, never mind his skills or what he brings to a team.
In my time watching football I've looked on as St Mirren fans have turned gifted footballers like Frank McDougall, Iain Scanlon, Peter Weir, Paul Lambert, and Mark Yardley whilst they've cheered and applauded Colin Drew and Mark Crilly. The thought that those people would have a say in transfer matters would chill me to the bone. After all there's players and managers livelyhoods on the line here - it's not a game of Football Manager.