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Hopefully the first of a few new faces which are badly needed.
The boy could have went elsewhere but came to us.
For that alone he should have our respect.
Welcome aboard again Connor

Indeed. Next time we'll take a lawnmower. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Black & White Army mobile app

Hopefully the first of a few new faces which are badly needed.
The boy could have went elsewhere but came to us.
For that alone he should have our respect.
Welcome aboard again Connor

You make one of the important points, Goodwin is indeed a defensive midfielder , IMO he shouldn't be playing in the back four just because he can get by playing there. A new experienced central defender should be brought in ,thus enabling Goodwin to play the position that got him his lucrative contract in the first place.

I think the biggest frustration in all of this for me is he lack of awareness from Danny Lennon and others at the club on the areas we need to improve in our team - for the longer term and not just the odd loan signing to fill a gap. You could say that the signings of Isma and Newton pretty much won us the League Cup last year, but where is the long-term view? Who replaces them when they inevitably leave for bigger and better things?
I'm so fed up of the soft goals we have given away pretty much since the first day Danny Lennon walked into this job. It's been glaringly obvious that it has to change for years now and it hasn't. In fact, if anything, it has got worse. Despite that, we've failed to sign one new centre back for a third successive summer. We've kept the same right back who's past his best. We've had a succession of left-backs - decent performers but all of whom we've failed to keep hold of - and we've lost the best keeper we had in years. Why did we need to sign Gary Harkins? What exactly does he bring to the table that McGowan/McLean/McGinn don't? Why have so many creative midfielders when we have one proven striker, who - let's face it - is in the twilight of his career, and no ball winners? We let Guy and Imrie go in the summer. But at least these guys could provide something of a back-up, and were much pacier/more energetic than Thommo. They were not particularly good, but they were better than having nothing at all, which is what we have now. If we were going to make one 'key' signing in the summer, a Harkins-type player was the last thing that we needed. A centre/right back, goalkeeper, ball-winning midfielder or striker would have been higher up the list.
So we may bring in Newton and Campbell. Good additions, possibly, but where does that then leave us in six months, a year's time? Back at square one, possibly even further back than that. Probably without McGowan. Possibly without McGregor, depending on how he recovers and performs. Possibly (or should that be probably) without Teale and Thompson. And definitely without an experienced keeper. So that's no playmaker, no winger, no right back, no goalscorer, no goalkeeper, another defender down and possibly more should other circumstances arise (not to mention the fringe players out of contract).

Where is the long-term vision here? We have a couple of good youngsters - McGinn, Reilly - but who else do we have that's proven they're good enough for our first team? Even Reilly is still to prove that he is capable of being a Premiership player on a consistent basis - not a fault of his own, as he was injured last year, but still a fact. And while it's great that we have these guys, where is the goalscoring talent we've produced ourselves? Where's the centre back or the goalkeeper we've developed through the youth ranks? We have a habit of producing talented midfielders, but we have next to nothing elsewhere. We haven't had that for years. That is concerning for the future of our football club. A John McGinn or Kenny McLean emerging once every two or three years is not an indication of a successful youth system. It's a reasonably successful midfield production line.
We did very well to come into the SPL and then stay up in our first season, seemingly against all odds. Since then, we've had a major helping hand - due to unusual circumstances - in avoiding relegation. This season might be the same. However, that isn't just 'our level' and I hate people saying that it is. 'Our level' doesn't really exist any more, as teams like Ross Co, St J, ICT have proven. Your level is as high as you want it to be, as long as you can do what you need to do to achieve that. We're constantly told that top six is our ambition; so when other clubs around us are achieving that, and we are not, surely that has to be seen as failure? If we're not making our targets, why are changes not forthcoming? Why are we not implementing the changes we need to achieve that, within our means? Is this the very best we can do? While teams around us build on the squads they have, we are left scrambling around to fill numerous positions in our team at the last minute. People say this is the perfect year to consolidate with Hearts being deducted 15 points; does that mean we weren't confident enough in our own potential last year to think we were able to do anything other than fight another relegation scrap with a weak Dundee team?
I'm not naive enough to think St Mirren can be a top four/five/six team consistently, year on year, for a long period of time. Ross Co, St J, ICT etc. will have their fall again. But we haven't even been there once. We have never looked like being there once. I want to know what our excuse is for that. St J finished third last year with a team which included a player we let go for not being good enough, and another of our former players who many didn't believe to be good enough. That not only tells us that we're not getting the best out of certain players, but that we CAN sign the standard of player required to get us to that kind of level. I'm just not sure we have the standard of manager or coaching staff to get us there.

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

It looks that way.
Newton will want to go to a higher level i feel as he has been here.
Campbell is highly rated and i think will be looking a Championship team as he was on the fringes of Newcastle first team.

It's a poor effort.
One striker and Reilly is a midfield player who plays in the hole just off the front.
Brady is untried and didn't play many minutes pre-season.
We need another TWO strikers to come in.
This is a nonsense going into the first game of the season.
God help us if anything happens to Thommo

Shambolic start but hate to say I told you so!!! This team won't stay up without investment

That's your opinion.
In mine Reilly is more a midfield player playing off the forward line than an out and out striker.
Brady i take your word on it as he has hardly played pre-season.
The point is if Thommo gets injured today early doors what options do we have

Barron injury is still a mystery to the club as whenever he starts to run or step up his rehab he feels pain again and it's back to square one which is why they are now no longer puting a time scale on it.
And lol shull am not saying I know everything far from it but any genuine info I have I am happy to pass on the biggest problem on here is there is so many wind up merchants that no one trusts the genuine posters

I haven't got a problem with that but if he's going to do that give them game time.
Brady has hardly played pre-season

I got a feeling Elvis will be gushing most weekends unless we get some players in

In your f**king Dreams .

You can get rid of the manager and bring in another. But it will to the same old story.
It's the board that pulls the punches when it comes to contracts and salaries.

In days of yore I've heard the Saints faithful question the hygiene of the Grenockions, the parenthood of referees, the apparent abuse of woolly farmyard animals by a group of fans from the Aberdeen area....I could probably go on but I can't be arsed. As a paying fan I couldn't give a fcuk what goes on and if it makes a folks day to get something "aff their chest" then go for it. It doesnae bother me.
When it becomes impossible to get rid of frustration at a game of football then I'll call it a day. I really don't care what individuals shout and ball, a wee quiet mutter of "nutter" to a mate usually does it for me.

We have Naismith and Kelly who are centre halfs.
It's forwards who are in very short supply at the club

We have Naismith and Kelly who are centre halfs.
It's forwards who are in very short supply at the club

We have Naismith and Kelly who are centre halfs.
It's forwards who are in very short supply at the club

It's a poor effort.
One striker and Reilly is a midfield player who plays in the hole just off the front.
Brady is untried and didn't play many minutes pre-season.
We need another TWO strikers to come in.
This is a nonsense going into the first game of the season.
God help us if anything happens to Thommo

Actually think its sad to see an established team (apart from the OF) with an honest core of fans go out of business. Coventry Fans arent glory hunting scum they are a bit like us supporting their local team through good and bad times. Poor management again leads the fans to suffer.

Hasselbaink left us for more money.
The other 3 were rotten for us

Was it ?
I thought it was great

I'd be quite happy not knowing the sexual preferences of random footballers.
I'm far more intolerant of the ridiculous sums of money they earn for being mediocre sportsmen than anything they get up to in their spare time.

We've had enough political shite from the followers of the Blue Vermin ( deceased ) and Green Vermin for decades that has disgraced our beautiful game.
Dinnae need Saints fans going public at matches.
And picking on Kayal is pathetic.