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  2. Strikers? Lack Of?

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    Really? We had Dayton on loan last season, who did ok, plus Sonupe who barely played. Neither could be accused of "getting us into the mess" we are in. Previously we had Drury who scored 3 goals in 12 games, hardly harming the team with that return.

    Previously we had Newton, Dummet and Goncalves who helped win us a cup, and before that we had Carey and McGowan who did well enough on loan to get permanent transfers.

    In short, I don't really see your point.

    At a time when many of the players we sign are on one year contracts, what would be the problem in having a player from a bigger club on loan for a season? Especially as there would be a chance of getting them back on loan again if they do well, and also the chance of signing them permanently if it suits all parties.

    But we also started the season with Plummer as our 1st choice central defender. A guy I think was never interested in being here. A real risk with loan players and something that set us off on the wrong foot.

    True, the loanees of 2012/13 were brilliant, but over the last 2 seasons they've been very poor overall.

  5. Mallan Backs Gary Teale

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    Posted · Edited by ScotstounSaint

    "He has helped me and the team" said the teenager.

    Whit? In what way has he helped the team?!?! Sounds like purely selfish reasoning - 'keep him as manager please as he seems to rate me'.

    I'll not even touch on the subject of how crap Mallan has been in all bar a couple of games.

  10. A Simple Error Of Judgement

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    Here is list of our signings and loans since March 13, when we won the cup. A few get pass marks but generally makes depressing reading. We all accept that we must live within our means. But a small fortune must have been spent on wages for this lot. Surely the little wage budget we have could have been spent on better than this?

    Bahoken Stephane

    Caldwell Ross

    Campbell Adam

    Caprice Jake

    Dilo Christopher

    Djemba-Djemba Eric

    Drury Adam

    Grainger Danny

    Harkins Gary

    Magennis Josh

    Marwood James

    Plummer Ellis

    Puri Sander

    Tesselaar Jeroen

    Gow Alan

    Sadlier Kieran

    Wylde Gregg

    Ridgers Mark

    Osbourne Isaac

    Arquin Yoann

    Ball Callum

    Dayton James

    Sonupe Emmanuel

    Kello Marian

    Genev Viktor

    David Cornell as well? Also honking!

  12. We Will Be Back

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    Well I'm not yet 30 and I've seen us relegate ed from the top flight 3 times already. I'm not saying we are the most relegated club in Scotland or anything.

    I'm just saying we are the kind of club where relegation and promotion will happen on a relatively regular basis. We're certainly not alone in that regard, indeed most teams in Scotland fall under that bracket.

    Presuming we go down, we'll have been relegated 6 times in our history. I think there have been about 86 seasons where we could have been relegated.

    Dunfermline, just as a comparison, have been relegated 11 times.

  13. Do Any Of This Season's Stars............

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    I'd also exempt both woods Calder & Mar who although not good enough always seemed to be putting in the effort - in a way it's especially galling to have lost them as I feel they could have done a job for us a division down! Flush.gif

    Marwood can't get a game for Forest Green in the Conference. He's scored 1 goal for them.

    Caldwell can't get a game for Morton. The same Morton that were recently beaten at home by Brechin and Forfar,

    They are both utter garbage. They are great examples of the terrible decline in the quality of our squad since we won the League Cup.

  14. Let's Prepare For The Championship

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    I also don't buy this "bleed the young players in now" nonsense. Take a look at it. The youngsters inthe squad right now just aren't very good. Naismisth and McGinn (who is away in the summer anyway) aside none of them are particularly special. For all the talk of the academy, how much have we actually made from these 'wonderful talents'?

    Agreed. Aside from a couple of good bits of play from Mallan, I've seen nothing of any merit from the collection of midgets we seem to have collected.

    What exactly did McLear do to warrant such a long contract? Looks a very basic player to me.

    As for the rest, Morgan, Brown, etc. I presume this 'cream' of our youth development will be let go in the summer, as usual.

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