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38 minutes ago, Mykey said:
Am I the only person who is worried that his shoogly peg hasn't hit the floor yet, surely we're not keeping him.
Not a chance in Hell he'll be retained.
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9 minutes ago, LargsBud said:
I know it was tongue in cheek but it did still seem to tempt fate because looking back on it he was a total disaster from minute 1.
I have special powers.
I can only apologise
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12 minutes ago, LargsBud said:
Can we save the "OK must go" thread until he starts f**king up and we actually want him to go?
Instead of the Subbs must go thread on his first day in the job. Seemed to tempt fate a little.
Ach, come on, it was tongue in cheek.
I can't believe some folk are still taking issue with it. I fully expected the thread to be deleted in any event.
It wasn't big and it wasn't clever, but it was hardly worth fretting over either.
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44 minutes ago, theknickerwetter said:
Exactly plus it's none of ma business .but I think he could cut it as a pipe fitter
Curiously enough, that is what former St Mirren star striker, and Summer of 'Beath stalwart Gareth Wardlaw now does for a living. I hope he didn't have to serve his apprenticeship in Wishaw....
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I think he'll open a boxing gym.
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Whoever spoke of a clean slate is spot on.
It is time to stop referring to Stubbs' signings. These guys are St Mirren players, and deserve the same support as the rest of their colleagues. We are relying on them to do us a turn, so should offer them our full support. Their association with Stubbs is now history.
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35 minutes ago, Wendy Saintss said:
McCall got Ayr relegated.
Its a no from me!
I like the Gary Naysmith suggestion though. Decent record and no baggage!
He also got them promoted. Wasn't it twice?
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McCall all but confirmed that he had been offered the Falkirk job last week. He knocked it back.
When asked if he would consider the Saints job, he all but acknowledged that aye, he would.
An interesting option, certainly.
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Just now, magnus said:
Guy that works with me supports Ayr and loves the way McCall has got them playing. I remember a while back McCall referred to Paisley as a right good football town. I've liked him ever since.
He spoke very well tonight, and, despite the pelters he gets from us when he comes to Paisley, really talked the club up.
To be honest, I hadn't even considered him as an option prior to listening to that tonight. I'm now leaning a bit towards thinking he should be considered for the job.
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39 minutes ago, magnus said:
Sorry Drew I was stopping myself speculating. I recall last time he wasn't interested. If he is now then I think he is someone that could do well with us.
Know what, I actually think we could do a lot worse.
McCall seems to be able to knit together a decent squad of players on a limited budget, and is a pretty level headed guy despite the pantomime villain persona he carries about with him.
His players appear to demonstrate a fair degree of loyalty to him also, and that is always a plus.
Not one to discount too readily, perhaps.
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13 minutes ago, magnus said:
I like him. He was a bit full of himself when younger but seems to be a very knowledgeable football guy. He will not leave Ayr so pointless speculating.
I'm not speculating. My post wasn't a reference to him possibly being a candidate for the job, just an observation.
If you listened to him talk, however, he far from distanced himself from the option, were it to be available.
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Ayr United manager, Ian McCall, much maligned by St Mirren supporters, is currently on Radio Shortbread talking a great deal of sense on the Stubbs sacking.
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Tremendous!
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Are people still genuinely taking issue with this decision?
I have most of the forum rockets on ignore, so can't confirm this for myself. It would be very odd, though. In saying that, we do have some very strange companions on here.
While, as a rule, I don't like to see folk lose their jobs, I find that I have an extra spring in my step today. Is the sun actually shining, or is just my current disposition leads me to believing that to be the case?
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4 minutes ago, Jack the lad said:
Good article.
The problems started as soon as he was signed, why try and reinvent the wheel?
Agreed.
Could only have been written by a St Mirren fan.
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2 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Wee John Baird though... God loves a trier, but really, put the clubs in the garage son.
Haven't you also suggested that to someone else
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24 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Does it for me. I want to be drawn in his team on Thursday... if...
You also told me Goodwin is a shit-hot gawfer, did you not?
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2 minutes ago, Kemp said:
St Johnstone seem to be able to move from manager to manager with little disruption, and Inverness had a decent run at it for a while. We seem to lurch from disaster to disaster, JR aside, and that is even with a complete change of board and CEO!
In fairness, the current BoD have made one (very) poor appointment.
The measure of any organisation - and any individual - is the extent to which they learn from their mistakes. This has been a sorry, embarrassing, and expensive episode, and I expect the BoD to learn from it and kick on.
I back their decision to bag Stubbs 100%. They acted swiftly and decisively, and deserve credit for that. The next decision is absolutely critical, and we all need to hope that they call it correctly also.
We need a leader in who can lift the players and the support. Probably someone who is a big character, but not just all about platitudes and empty gestures. Someone of substance to galvanise the club.
It won't be a straightforward process finding someone who fits the bill, but they have managed it before, so we need to hope that they can do so again.
The roller-coaster ride continues, but at least the bolts on the wheels of the carriage have been tightened.
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9 hours ago, davidg said:
Not the long term solution but I’d be confident of Premiership survival with Gus in the dugout til the end of the season.
I'm not supporting such a move, incidentally, but wouldn't be hugely surprised if it came to pass.
My preference is Jim Goodwin with an experienced wing man. I know others feel it is too soon for him, etc, but he is my pick. Genuinely passionate about the club, and is an articulate man who would pull us together for the battle ahead. A proven leader and an all round handsome bastard!
What could possibly go wrong....
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We are all Jim Spence!
Fair play to Jim. At least he, unlike many Scottish sports hacks, pundits, assorted hingers on, and fans of other clubs, doesn't claim to know our club better than we do this fine morning.
I also note that our former chairman has backed this decision 100%. We live in interesting times.
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6 minutes ago, DLBud said:
Who was that?
Jackson.
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We might need to write this season off as a survival shitfest.
I imagine GLS has Gus MacPherson on speed-dial, and might just make a call....
Whoever comes in now will need to galvanise the squad first and foremost. Free flowing, creative football might be a secondary consideration (even if we had the players for that).
Fingers crossed.
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14 minutes ago, thepaisleypanda said:
Just a thought, but what if the new manager turns out to be a Craig / Murray / Stubbs?
Then we're f**ked.
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7 minutes ago, TopCat said:
So you’re saying he would have been sacked had we currently been on six points, and in sixth place above Hibs, Rangers and Aberdeen?
Every chance, yes, based on what I understand has been happening at the club.
Do you seriously believe that he has been sacked, with the expense and everything else that involves, on the basis of one result? That match was symptomatic of a much deeper malaise, and Stubbs appears to have been at the root of that.
He had to go, and Jackson with him.
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