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If you want to go to heaven when you die
You must wear a Saint Mirren scarf
a Saint Mirren tie
You must wear a Saint Mirren bonnet
With f**k THE NEWCO ON IT
If you want to go to heaven when you die. .

Yeh , I listened to that. To me it sounds like Green wont make a blind bit of difference , no more than Whyte , at any rate. Sounded like King is pissed off with the situation but he did make it clear that only someone with substantial backing could save derHun now. .
I think we will see on Thursday that the current bid will be rejected by either HMRC or both parties. .
I still think that the 3rd division is their only hope , if they are lucky. .

I've rolled the dice and decided to go into the 87 club and pay the £3000 membership, life is too short to have any regrets

We have already signed Lewis Guy, he will officially join July 1st.

I was thinking you should do that I think there would be a lot of interest

I'm a bit worried that this is yet another indication that the SFA is still doing its damnedest to keep Rangers in the SPL. It's a sop to non-rangers fans to soften the blow when it's confirmed. I hope I'm talking crap but when all the powers that be in Scotland and I'm including all the SPL clubs chairmen seem desperate to help rangers, I think they will survive. It shouldn't, it stinks to high heaven and I don't see yet how it can come about. But I'm afraid it will. rangers might be in the doldrums and have a few tough years but in four or five years time normal service will be resumed and we'll have old firm domination.
I say again, I really hope I'm wrong but would you bet against it? Come on HMRC. You might be our last hope.

WHO YOU CALLING MANURE FOR BRAINS! any more of this and well be going for a sqaure go on that other boring thread you started.

you should keep it it's the only decent album you've got bawbag

Damn right they are and the benefits to St Mirren are potentially enormous too.
Months ago on here I tried to outline what my idea of what this should be and I cited the example of having 10 SFA Quality Mark football clubs from across the central belt as community members would be. Now I admit I was thinking market stall whilst Richard Atkinson is thinking about a national chain of supermarkets but the example is relevant on a small scale.
What I said back then was consider the set up. Lets say each of those 10 clubs have 10 teams each. In each team they'll have squads of approx 20 players (2,000 players in total), and to be quality marked they need at least one SFA Qualified level 2 or 3 coach per side and one SFA Qualified level 1 coach (200 qualified coaches in total)
Now as a small example consider St Mirren's kit deal. This year I would imagine that Provan Sports would have sold the equivelent of 2,000 kit units. Bundle in the kit order for each of those 10 clubs that are in partnership with you and you've doubled the size of the order - which gives you a bit more power to negotiate better volume discounts, or more up front money. The community club gets good quality kit and cheaper prices, and St Mirren get to increase their profit margin on a club consumable.
On top of that you've got 200 qualified coaches spread across Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, West Lothian and maybe even further afield all of whom are watching football in their age groups every single week and who know their best players, and their oppositions best players. So that's your scouting network taken care of, Oh and if you fancy it there's also the potential for a St Mirren Football Academy in every major town throughout the central belt using those 200 coaches from the 10 clubs and the St Mirren branding to bring in income that can be shared between the juvenile club and St Mirren.
Going back the way St Mirren always have players going through their coaching certificates who are lacking in practical experience - yet in this model you've got 100 teams across a number of regions where your players can go out and gain practical coaching experience.
Want to boost the size of the crowd, well you've got 2,000 players there that you can give free tickets to on the proviso they bring a paying adult - you can even make the adult ticket a discounted one the reality is that these are going to be people who wouldn't be at your match but who are now filling empty seats, buying programmes, merchandising and catering.
Sportsmans Dinners? The juvenille clubs tap into Campbell Kennedy's experience and contacts. Donate raffle prizes and auction items and let them use the function suite at Greenhill Road. It doesn't matter if you charge because you've got profit from the catering and from the alcohol sales and your partnership club heads home with next years kit fully paid for.
Sponsorship? Would a sponsor pay more to put their name on the strips of one SPL club and 2,000 replica kits, or for one SPL club, 2,000 replica kits, and 100 teams of 20 players playing in different leagues right across the country?
Again for the juvenile club what about tapping into the experience and knowledge of the guys at the CIC? Are there new revenue streams? How can they target their local councils? Where are there grants and loans availble to help them get their own 3g pitch in their own community?
And so on. The number of mutual benefits that could be exploited by both sides are absolutely enormous and that's before you look at the hockey, rugby, athletics, cricket, boxing, basketball, and god knows how many other sports clubs that are being targetted, or the church groups, and various charities that are being brought in as well.
Yet despite all that potential the evidence here is that the vast majority of St Mirren fans are stuck debating whether or not the club bar should profit the club or the CIC and we've got people who claim to be passionate St Mirren supporters complaining the scheme's of no interest to them because their tenner won't go directly to the pocket of the next injury prone workshy striker who might bag them 4 goals a season in the SPL.