thepaisleypanda

Ditching Trident, which in an independent Scotland would save 64bn, is a good place to start.

I actually believe this goes back to the Love Street days - which kind of makes sense.
Despite all the decades of cash at gate & crowds of 20000 in the bygone years, Strathclyde Police (as they were) expressed a concern about dozens of folk queing / walking on the highway at 1445 of a Saturday!
Times however, have moved on!!
 

Is the full time media manager just Norrie getting his hours extended or are is there a job going? Asking for a friend 

Why NOT Gus Mcpherson?
It's a new team & new board. He is liked a lot at Queens Park!

Why NOT Gus Mcpherson?
It's a new team & new board. He is liked a lot at Queens Park!

Would he be "coming back" ??
It's like You  / me going to a company 10 years later - It's all changed!
Look at him as the "ex Queens Park manager" not as the ex Saints manager!
 

He wasnt even at that game (For family reasons!)

Would he be "coming back" ??
It's like You  / me going to a company 10 years later - It's all changed!
Look at him as the "ex Queens Park manager" not as the ex Saints manager!
 

Why NOT Gus Mcpherson?
It's a new team & new board. He is liked a lot at Queens Park!

So was I! - But, come on?? THAT shirt??? - Reminds me of the 78' Argentina choochewbars!! 

At 46 you think I'd know better!
but being the product of a father born in Greenock - who resided in Innellan - whose pals came from Paisley and Largs watching the Saints from the late 50's I think I was pre determined to be a Buddie.
And growing up in Bearsden and being one of 3 saints supporters in our Secondary school twinned with the glorious days of the 80's whilst moving to Liverpool in 1988 and proudly doing my bit by #buyingthebuddies I don't think I've ever been prouder to be a Saint!
il be back north with some pals from my work for the Dundee Utd game.
 
ive experienced many highs and lows in my years but to experience sitting in between my son and my father with tears in my eyes on the 17th March 2013 was all the reason I need to know that a fan has it in there heart and members / customers feel it with their head.

Yeah unfortunately he is lying through his teeth.
He turned against Saints because Stewart Gilmour turned down his brainless business idea and called him a loose cannon. He has waged a one man war against the club ever since.
I would respect Dickson more if was at least honest about all of this but he keeps lying through his arse about all this "customer" crap so I have to keep reminding him.
 

Following the 2010 League Cup final it was tough, bordering on embarrasing, to be a St Mirren fan. Following the 2013 League Cup final it was fantastic to be a St Mirren fan. For most of my forty years following St Mirren they have ploughed a furrow somewhere between those extreme highs and lows, with ups and downs along the way. However, whether up or down, I always sensed the management and players were trying, they seemed to care. For the vast majority of those forty years.
This current lot need to take a long hard look at themselves IMHO. In their defence, they are merely the latest in a line stretching back to just after March 17th 2013 of under-achieving St Mirren players, lead by managers who were severely lacking in the skillset required to organise and motivate what was a top flight professional football club - overseen by a want-away BoD who at times looked to have downed tools. It's no wonder St Mirren fans feel downbeat, as Div put it. Craig - Murray - Rae(?) have been / are currently looking like being an absolute triumvirate of unrelenting and unmitigated shite.
Let's hope we get back to being up and down, but while doing so, look like we're trying a leg, overseen by a manager who knows what the fcuk he's doing, and with an injection of enthusiasm generated down the line by GLS/SMiSA.

The emotional investment in Football is what sets it apart from most other businesses.
Whilst you may feel the ability to up sticks and take your custom elsewhere, most football supporters have invested too much emotionally to do the same.
The reality is that when a football supporter has had enough, they are lost to the game completely.
At the moment the St.Mirren support are generally very downbeat. I spoke to loads of fellow fans on Saturday and at the previous match against Hibs and the overwhelming feeling was of despondancy. It's totally understandable considering the team have barely kicked a ball in the last three years since we won the league cup.
Football tends to go in cycles. We are in a downward cycle at the moment but at some point it will turn and we'll be better again and when the football team starts winning matches and entertaining again then the fans will be happier, more will come, and we might actually start enjoying ourselves again.
One fan I spoke to on Sat said it was like watching a John Coughlin team again. Whilst I wouldn't go that far at all, I do remember watching the likes of Ricky Robb getting a game for Saints and seeing us losing 4 goals away at Alloa for example.
I couldn't see a way out then and yet ten years later we were winning a national cup final at Hampden.
It's a funny old game. When you get as old as me I think you get a bit wiser and you realise that it will get better again at some point.
As to when, who knows, but I'm sure most of us will stick around regardless.

Was t most of the ones above, but can't believe noone has mentioned the 4-1 at Tannadice!
It's turning into a ROUT! (Archie Mcpherson)

Cracking post.

Ian Murray should realise that if your major signings are: Alan Gow (2 league starts all season, hooked at half time in the second), Thommo, now aged 36 at the start of the season and after 1 season of injuries (1 league goal all season), Cameron Howieson, Scott Agnew, Paul McMullan etc then you effectively dig your own grave as a manager. Even though the season has just finished I've already forgotten most of Murray's signings because they were sooo bad, even at our modest level... the full back sent off at Morton also signed from Burnley U20's, Carswell, McGraith. And let's not forget that Murray was also left to appoint his own assistant and chose someone he fired by October.
There were as many people released by Murray last summer as by Rae this summer. Murray had a clean slate to begin freshening things up and changing the culture in the dressing room. It seemed pretty obvious that we had lots of young guys from the U20s around who were going to try and make the step up to 1st team football and only Goodwin as a senior pro still in contract when Murray arrived that he was going to need to bring in experienced pros to help the young guys out, but what did Murray do, signed senior pros like Gow (with a decade long track record of being a waster or injury prone) and then signed loads more young guys from other clubs' U20 teams also trying to make the step up: Calum Gallagher, Paul McMullan, Cameron Howieson... Scott Agnew was signed as a senior pro but was making the step up to full time at the age of 28.
Murray also began the season trying to freeze out Jim Goodwin, and was still signing key players in September (Webster, Langfield, Shankland). Anyone could see that Thommo was finished but Murray persisted starting with him, and using him as a lone striker for 90 minutes and dropped Shankland not long after he had signed him... it sounds like Rae would take Shankland back if there was a chance and once he got a run he got a reasonable return of goals for us.
Alex Rae inherited the same club in an even worse position than Murray did... we were 10th in the league and about to fall to 11th after his 2nd game in charge... Murray had largely spent the season budget and Rae had to wait until January to bring in a few players and try and make sure we didn't suffer a 2nd successive relegation. Despite having to deal with the same issues behind the scenes as Murray had, Rae turned things around, we finished 6th rather than 10th or 11th, we won most of our home league games, we became harder to beat and began to show that even if the performances were not great we could grind out results.
The only thing I find credible about Murray's account was the negative atmosphere at the club and directors, players and background staff pulling in different directions.

I am totally neutral about this decision but I think that Peter Alliss might have something.
"According to Peter Alliss, the BBC’s ‘voice of golf’, the vote was influenced by wives of members who are happy playing the course for free at the moment as guests.
“I am not sure how many members whose wives would control their thoughts, but I would think they have a great interest in it. Wouldn’t you? Would you be happy to pay £10,000-£12,000 the first year if you could keep playing for nothing?” (The Scotsman)

Sorry, don't buy newspapers, seen it on the news this morning.
Hope I didn't offend you.

Do keep up! it's hardly "news!" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/24/ladbrokes-and-gala-coral-to-merge

Apologies - link on OP now fixed!

Thanks for posting Alan Gow.

Firstly I can see the attraction in maximising revenue for what will almost certainly be a dead rubber game for us.
An extra 2000 fans in the South stand on the day could make a real tangible difference to our budget for next season.
I also think the chance of Rangers fans taking up home end tickets could potentially lead to trouble on the day, and whilst the club can't say that in print I assume that is what they mean by the "in consultation with police scotland".
HOWEVER.................
The statement that has been released today is very poor. If I was a South Stand season ticket holder I'd be more than a bit pissed off. It basically reads along the lines of "we're doing this whether you like it or not and you're probably too stupid to understand why".
There is also no mention of what is happening with W6 & W7, If they are selling those to Rangers too then the home fans really are being completely and utterly shafted.
I don't think this is one of the boards finer moments.

Non Swearing Family Stand now a Sectarian Cesspit.
St Mirren Board of Directors should hang their heads in shame.
Forget getting f**king Stands named after them.