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The old "e-Store" that I set-up for the club  was used to sell the hospitality and replica kit.
In addition to that we had "St.Mirren Direct" which was the outsourced club merchandise store.
You'll have noticed there was two tills in the shop, one for buying replica kit and the other for buying other club merchandise.
There were tax related reasons for that set-up, but it wasn't really ideal.
As part of the changes taking place and the move to Pitch-Pro Retail everything will be under one roof both in terms of online and the physical club shop.
I'm not involved in the set-up of the new online stuff so not sure when it's going live or what domain it is going to use.
Needless to say being unable to buy a replica kit in the first week of August is an absolutely shite state of affairs. I get that it's perhaps related to the Skyview debacle but it feels like there is always some issue or another with the strips every year.
If it was up to me (and I guess it is now partly up to all of us SMiSA members) the new kits for the next season would be launched at the end of the previous campaign.  Get the strips on sale before the summer holidays, it's not rocket science.
Maximise the sales by bringing the away kit out later, maybe launched at a family open day at the stadium as part of our pre-season preparation, get the stands open, let the kids meet the players, get some entertainment in, make a day of it.
In short, make it easy for supporters to spend money, and they will. Make it difficult and they'll find something else to spend their hard earned on.

The old "e-Store" that I set-up for the club  was used to sell the hospitality and replica kit.
In addition to that we had "St.Mirren Direct" which was the outsourced club merchandise store.
You'll have noticed there was two tills in the shop, one for buying replica kit and the other for buying other club merchandise.
There were tax related reasons for that set-up, but it wasn't really ideal.
As part of the changes taking place and the move to Pitch-Pro Retail everything will be under one roof both in terms of online and the physical club shop.
I'm not involved in the set-up of the new online stuff so not sure when it's going live or what domain it is going to use.
Needless to say being unable to buy a replica kit in the first week of August is an absolutely shite state of affairs. I get that it's perhaps related to the Skyview debacle but it feels like there is always some issue or another with the strips every year.
If it was up to me (and I guess it is now partly up to all of us SMiSA members) the new kits for the next season would be launched at the end of the previous campaign.  Get the strips on sale before the summer holidays, it's not rocket science.
Maximise the sales by bringing the away kit out later, maybe launched at a family open day at the stadium as part of our pre-season preparation, get the stands open, let the kids meet the players, get some entertainment in, make a day of it.
In short, make it easy for supporters to spend money, and they will. Make it difficult and they'll find something else to spend their hard earned on.

I think Erwin has something to offer. I see him and Main competing for a start whilst Dennis and Brophy fight it out for the other striking berth. He's looked sharper in the times he's played so far this season IMO.
Good to have players competing for jerseys, nobody should be garanteed a start.
 

Someone who is good at communications and marketing can't be a bad thing, they are the two areas of the club I'd say are most in need of improving.

I don't think Main or Erwin are going to score bundles of goals but they are the sort of foil that a Brophy or a Dennis needs IMO. You saw that with the first goal we scored on Saturday, perfect example of two strikers working well together.
Dennis is probably the most natural finisher we have (other than McGrath who seems to have ice in his veins when he's in front of goal) but Brophy is also well capable of scoring a few if he gets enough of the ball.
I do like Erwin, feel he's just one of those players that the fans just don't take to for whatever reason.

I think Erwin has something to offer. I see him and Main competing for a start whilst Dennis and Brophy fight it out for the other striking berth. He's looked sharper in the times he's played so far this season IMO.
Good to have players competing for jerseys, nobody should be garanteed a start.
 

I think Erwin has something to offer. I see him and Main competing for a start whilst Dennis and Brophy fight it out for the other striking berth. He's looked sharper in the times he's played so far this season IMO.
Good to have players competing for jerseys, nobody should be garanteed a start.
 

I think Erwin has something to offer. I see him and Main competing for a start whilst Dennis and Brophy fight it out for the other striking berth. He's looked sharper in the times he's played so far this season IMO.
Good to have players competing for jerseys, nobody should be garanteed a start.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

I think Erwin has something to offer. I see him and Main competing for a start whilst Dennis and Brophy fight it out for the other striking berth. He's looked sharper in the times he's played so far this season IMO.
Good to have players competing for jerseys, nobody should be garanteed a start.
 

Although we removed our own app from the app stores you can still download the "Tapatalk" app from either Google Play or the Apple App Store and connect to the forum using that. Our own app was just a rebranded version of Tapatalk.
Part of the reason for the upgrade I did at the weekend was in preparation for hopefully launching a new app later in the year but for now Tapatalk will do the job for you if you don't want to use the mobile browser version.

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Although we removed our own app from the app stores you can still download the "Tapatalk" app from either Google Play or the Apple App Store and connect to the forum using that. Our own app was just a rebranded version of Tapatalk.
Part of the reason for the upgrade I did at the weekend was in preparation for hopefully launching a new app later in the year but for now Tapatalk will do the job for you if you don't want to use the mobile browser version.

Although we removed our own app from the app stores you can still download the "Tapatalk" app from either Google Play or the Apple App Store and connect to the forum using that. Our own app was just a rebranded version of Tapatalk.
Part of the reason for the upgrade I did at the weekend was in preparation for hopefully launching a new app later in the year but for now Tapatalk will do the job for you if you don't want to use the mobile browser version.

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Although we removed our own app from the app stores you can still download the "Tapatalk" app from either Google Play or the Apple App Store and connect to the forum using that. Our own app was just a rebranded version of Tapatalk.
Part of the reason for the upgrade I did at the weekend was in preparation for hopefully launching a new app later in the year but for now Tapatalk will do the job for you if you don't want to use the mobile browser version.

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Interesting to see one of the journos suggesting that the relationship between the club and Renfrewshire Council is not particularly healthy right now. No reasons given why that might be but the inference is that the Council are quite happy to stiff us on the capacity issue.
I did have some sympathy over the restrictions but having seen the crowd at Fir Park yesterday with large groups all sitting or standing side by side with no masks in sight it's very difficult to comprehend why we are being served such severe restrictions other than it being for petty political point scoring.
 

Tapatalk issue has been resolved 👍🏼

Tapatalk issue has been resolved 👍🏼

Tapatalk issue has been resolved 👍🏼