monster munch

I thought you were about 15 going by most of your posts.

I can do what I like lad. I own the place. Your move.

"Langfield rolls it out short"

I honestly believe that Longwell comes across fantastic in the interview. Very passionate about the job and said all the right things. Unlike some of our previous managers he actually sounds like he believes in what he is saying.

Incorrect. Mallan has the unfortunate problem of being better than every one of his team mates. None of the other St. Mirren players are on his wavelength and he is clearly becoming frustrated by this. He has shown so much more bite in the tackle than the rest of the midfield despite being the apparent flair player also.
Like McLean he will go on to much better for things (likely for peanuts).

Incorrect. Mallan has the unfortunate problem of being better than every one of his team mates. None of the other St. Mirren players are on his wavelength and he is clearly becoming frustrated by this. He has shown so much more bite in the tackle than the rest of the midfield despite being the apparent flair player also.
Like McLean he will go on to much better for things (likely for peanuts).

Incorrect. Mallan has the unfortunate problem of being better than every one of his team mates. None of the other St. Mirren players are on his wavelength and he is clearly becoming frustrated by this. He has shown so much more bite in the tackle than the rest of the midfield despite being the apparent flair player also.
Like McLean he will go on to much better for things (likely for peanuts).

Incorrect. Mallan has the unfortunate problem of being better than every one of his team mates. None of the other St. Mirren players are on his wavelength and he is clearly becoming frustrated by this. He has shown so much more bite in the tackle than the rest of the midfield despite being the apparent flair player also.
Like McLean he will go on to much better for things (likely for peanuts).

BBC Sport Website Radio is behind Alba for me. Simply paused Alba until the Radio caught up. Gotta love modern technology

Learned recently that the 2nd largest JD shareholder with 12% ownership is none other than Sports Direct!

It`s It`s not Its.

Despite what some are saying I think Goodwin is our best player.
Struggling to think of who else? Keeper maybe?

Agreed. He's certainly the only one that isn't a wage thieving gutless shitebag bastard!

Here's a very cynical view on a few things.
The board have said all along that they would only sell to the right people. Various bids are rejected and people told to do one. It emerges last week an English consortium are close to doing a deal, only for it to emerge that someone involved is a convicted fraudster. They're been told to do one and we breath a sigh of relief.
This paves the way for an Argentinian consortium to takeover the club. There is, unsurprisingly, a lot of concerns over foreign owners of clubs in Scotland given events of the last decade or so. A quick look at this forum over the last few weeks confirms that. By making it known a bid has been rejected due to the involvement of undesirables, perhaps the board hoped who bought the club would be treated with less suspicion because otherwise they'd have been told to sod off. By telling a dodgy lot to piss off, the assumption could have been the new owners were fine. If that was their hope it hasn't worked judging by the posts on here this morning.
Also, the events of the last 12 months or so (the constant speculation over Lennon, the appointment of Craig, his sacking then no sign of a new manager, reduction in budget, lack of investment etc) has led us into a situation where an increasing number of fans have been calling for change in the boardroom. Again, you only need to look at the posts on here to see that. Having got into a situation like that, deliberately manufactured or otherwise, the board can almost legitimately say "Well, the fans wanted us out" if things go wrong in the future.
Very mixed feelings on the whole thing. It could work out for us, it could not. The only way I can see it being win/win is they bring young players over, sell them on and pocket the cash. That's how they fund the takeover, we have no debt and we benefit from having talented players (no different to getting guys on loan really). Have my doubts it'll work like that though!
Anyway, a slightly more lighthearted way on which to sign off.

It's very harsh to include Danny Lennon as one of the main culprits for having us in our current position. During his 4 year tenure the budget for the squad was dramatically reduced when he took over and then cut every year since then. The signing policy changed under his tenure from his predecessor who generally signed out of contract SPL journeymen from Dunfermline, Kilmarnock, Falkirk or ICT plus loan signings from Celtic or Rangers youth development squads. Under Danny Lennon we took a gamble on rearing our own young players and promoting them into the first team and went from having 1 youth team player in the first team squad in his first season to a situation in his final year where half the first team regularly were from our youth set up. We generally stopped signing older / journeymen type players and took a punt on players from the lower leagues and young up and coming players. It was a riskier policy than McPherson's policy of signing old experienced pros towards the end of their career.
During the first 2 seasons Danny Lennon had to manage the complete break up of McPherson's squad: goodbye to Andy Dorman, Craig Dargo, Garry Brady, Steven Thomson the 1st, Michael Higdon, Jack Ross, Jim Hamilton, Paul Gallacher, Mark Howard, John Potter, Dennis Wyness etc.
Given the riskier transfer policy there were always likely to have signings who didn't make the step up or take the chance they were given, and in some cases it looked like Lennon signed some players as first team first picks and others as lower budget squad filler as well as a few youth team players with a view to stepping up to the first team.
While there is a long list of signings which didn't work out from Lennon's era and a short list of signings who were expensive and should have worked out but didn't (Imrie, Carey, Granger, Harkins) you can make a case for saying that in signing the following players Danny Lennon found enough players who did a decent enough job to earn us a League Cup win, decent cup runs in other seasons, and 2 8th placed league finishes which while unspectacular still represent our highest league position in 25 years:
Craig Samson, Chris Dillo, Marian Kello, David Van Zanten, Marc McAusland, Darren McGregor, Jure Travner, Jeroen Tesselaar, Paul Dummet, Jim Goodwin, Paul McGowan, Gary Teale, Connor Newton, Nigel Hasselbaink, Sam Parkin, Steven Thompson, Isma Goncalves. I make that 16 decent signings on our limited budget who could be considered a success or having done a job for us even if the anticipated job may have been a squad player or cover / back up (Parkin).
Lennon also showed he could be ruthless when required when it came to freeing up wages in transfer windows: Gareth Wardlaw (arguably he did a job for us), Hugh Murray, Lee Mair, DVZ were all pointed in the direction of the exit door when there were declining returns for the club as older players reached the end of their SPL shelf life.
Across Lennon's 4 seasons in charge his average league position was 10th or 9th - good enough to keep us in the SPL and avoid the play off place and average points total was 39 points. I reckon that had Lennon been given a 1 year deal for this season he would have been determined to get tings right in the summer transfer window this year after suffering for large spells of last season as a result of most of last summer's transfer punts going pear shaped. As I have said elsewhere he had paid a price last year to begin the first stage of a defensive overhaul by freezing out Lee Mair, David Van Zanten so that their contract could not roll over for another extension and David Barron was released. I also suspect that with Goodwin and Teale out of contract last summer and after a season of rumours about the dressing room DL may have thought it was the end of the line for 1 or both of them as players and decided it was time to find some new guys in their early 30s to take on the mantle of being the old experienced pros in the squad.
We now find ourselves on 11 points after 20 league games, almost half the return we could have expected in an average season under Danny Lennon - despite last year's transfer mess we still achieved 39 points and 8th place under the supposedly clueless Danny Lennon and had a few shut outs with more or less the same defensive options available to Craig and Teale this season and he also had guys like Kello, Naismith, Kelly McAusland, McLean and McGinn all looked much better players under DL's reign than TC's.

Confirmed on B&WA Twitter...

This is the guy who had most respect for the club , the fans , the town in my living memory.
Very dignified during good times and bad & since leaving our 'Wonderful football club'
That's important.

Div should probably rethink this forum.

After Sundays result we should play something by Maroon 5.

Did he put them in the right positions?

Some bastard at work stuck 3 Gary Harkins stickers on my locker yesterday.

One high earner for another then? Where are the funds and wages from Mair, Barron etc. Seems to me that most of budget is being spent on payouts to get rid of players

That was his 1st club of the season though, left Birmingham in the summer.

Because we are short of cash after paying off said players. Shambles.

One high earner for another then? Where are the funds and wages from Mair, Barron etc. Seems to me that most of budget is being spent on payouts to get rid of players