Frank McGarvey' wonky legs

Motherwell finished 2nd will have received possibly 500k+ more in prize money, qualified for Europe, have bigger crowds. Although we may not like it they are a bigger club than us with a far greater turnover. But even they have lost more players than they have brought in so far We will make more signings but within our budget.

Motherwell finished 2nd will have received possibly 500k+ more in prize money, qualified for Europe, have bigger crowds. Although we may not like it they are a bigger club than us with a far greater turnover. But even they have lost more players than they have brought in so far We will make more signings but within our budget.

Amore is owned by the same people who own Trattoria Roma in Johnstone. Find the Trat Roma is really good and wouldn't go anywhere else in Johnstone unless to one of the Indians. Viva Italian restaurant on Bothwell St is also very good and would recommend that especially when they have Itison deals on.

I hope to f**k you sign him.

the queen i think - going by the flag outside it

This:
"Club Shop News
As many of you may be aware, Provan Sports were responsible for the operation of the Club Shop during the run up and the aftermath of the Cup Final.
We are pleased to announce that we have now agreed a contract for Alan and his team to operate the Club Shop at Greenhill Road on a full time capacity going forward. Whilst JD Sports will continue as our retail partner for replica and training kit, Provan Sports will operate the shop at the ground and will be responsible for all other merchandise.
In stock now there is a great range of Cup Final winners product. Provan Sports are working on new ranges of accessories for the new season at the moment from pin badges and hats and scarves to new clothing ranges.
They are also currently working on our Christmas products and news on those will be included in future emails. Look out for St.Mirren Pyjamas and Onesies, and much, much more.
The Club Shop hours will remain as 10am to 2pm Monday to Friday for the close season period.
Also please note that the shop will be closed all day this Friday 7th June 2013. "
After two years of f**king around with hee-haw to offer fans, and missing out on a no-brainer revenue stream the club see sense!
I expect our commericial director will find a way to f**k up the kitty for the wednesday night 8-a-sides next!

Most likely be used as a 2nd striker or wide left??Sent from my GT-I8150 using Black & White Army mobile app

I would hope that we have been scouting him at matches and Danny has been to some of the midweek games. He will have been also training with our first team squad and on that basis maybe Danny thinks that 1st division is his level and not able/ready for the SPL.
Wish him well In the future.

Having read your shite on here.......I would imagine it's a genuine message.

1:30 p m For Cup Final , From the Tile , All Four buses are sold out.

We could send someone out on the Wedesday night game to get him sent off so he misses the final. Would have to be violent conduct tho

We could send someone out on the Wedesday night game to get him sent off so he misses the final. Would have to be violent conduct tho

I honestly thought that my emotions would be in check today but alas no.
Casting my mind back to the last final and my dear Mother dying a few days before the game
Her funeral was due to take place the day after the final and my Brother was insistent that we go to the game.
We did go and took my Daughter and Nephew and I can honestly say that we just stared ahead for the whole game not really taking it in.
It felt like She was saying to me yesterday that this time I can enjoy the final, however we have now got to deal with my Wife being made redundant and cash being tight. That's my trip up now taking a back seat. Or so I thought.
I'm sitting reading all these posts and my wife whispers gently in my ear " you have to go, we'll be alright" and the emotion starts again.
I know that football isn't really that important but today it feels like it has allowed me to be in touch with my feelings and now I'm planning flights and time off with a sense of privilege and disbelief. Jesus I feel about 5!

Toshie, SunnyFoxbarSaint and many others will be over the moon upstairs tonight.

I fricking knew we'd do it today! And we bloody well did! Absolutely buzzing!
My voice is almost gone and my head is pounding! Think a wee glass of wine or two is in order tonight! Cannot wait for work tomoro to laugh in the face of all my sellic supporting pupils! Hahaha!
Every single player was outstanding today! So bloody proud!!!

Welcome Isma, don't worry about Danny's philosophy too much, just remember Bill Shankly's advice stick the ball in the net and talk about the options after the match.

I reckon he saw a newspaper that said 'Gary Hooper set to sign for Norwich' - five minutes later his agent calls and says 'Esmael! Lennon wants to sign you in time for the semi final on Sunday'....
Ahem.

No offence to Robertson who seems like a nice guy but on Saturday we had a guy five years younger with no first team experience make his debut and looked miles better than anything Robertson has produced in the numerous chances that he has had.

Nearly 3am. Just back in from a charity function where the usual array of auction items included the ubiquitous signed OF shirts, and VIP packages for games in their middens. When introducing the Rangers VIP package for auction, the person conducting the auction who was... Well, he was knighted this week and likes refrigeration, announced that one of 'Walter Smith's backers' was in the room, and this brought cheers and applause from those of a blue cheek persuasion in the Hilton. 'Let's hope Rangers come out of this and we have Old Firm games next season' warbled the newly-knighted ex-Sellik director.
Aye, I fair stood up and applauded the chancer in the room ready to save (The) Rangers, once Whytey had seen to administration, and Greeny took care of that nasty liquidation business.
We need to stand strong and be an antidote to this utter pish.
Sign up folks, we CAN make a difference! COYS. SMTID. FTOF!

Research it yourself it yoursel if you're interested. Can't be f**ked doing it for you.

Good thread Kombi.
Most know I’ve been heavily involved with my sons club at Wishaw Wycombe Wanderers. I was on the Executive Committee but I recently stepped down because of work commitments and time constraints. I still help out with the 98’s though. The team made it to the Scottish Cup Quarter Finals last year and over my time at the club have had 9 players directly leave to go Pro Youth, with another three who were born in 99 dropping down to our younger team before going Pro Youth.
For the most part it’s a well run club with its SFA Quality Mark accreditation at Standard Level – although the club really are ready to submit again for Development Level and possibly even Community Level since we now have an adult and a girls team and their coaches are all now qualified as well.
The Sportsmans Dinner is probably our biggest earner. We're into our third year of them now. The first year was excellent with John McKelvie hosting and Alan Rough and John Gahagan speaking. We made a profit that night of over £6500 which paid for a training kit for everyone of our 250 kids. Last year the profits were down mainly due to the fact that we found it much harder to get donations from football clubs for us to auction but we still made around £5,000 profit. Last year was hosted by John McKelvie again and the speakers were Gavin Strang (who was superb) and Frank McAvennie. Our next one is due in June and this time it's Alan Kennedy and Scot Glynn. At the last count we had sold over 330 tickets for a hall with a capacity of 360 (we moved to a much bigger venue this year).
With the success of the Sportsmans Dinner we also tried a Summer Ball. The idea being that this would allow players Mother's to get involved as well and we had another fantastic night last August. John McKelvie did the jokes but there were a couple of magicians and a brilliant band that was on that night too. Profits were down but only because the committee decided that because the ladies were involved they would glam it up a bit but we still made over £4k.
Other decent earners for us have been the Christmas Raffle draw which usually brings in around £1500 and a football prediction competition that I used to run which brought in around £2k a couple of years ago, and further £600 from the last World Cup.
We usually get one or two bag packing slots over the course of a year at the local Tesco store and we've had the odd occasional one at Morrisons. A day at Tescos will get us anywhere from £1000 - £1500. Morrisons is a smaller store. Last time we were there I think we raised around £350.
We’ve also held race nights which have been decent and a recent event was a thing organized by Motherwell Community Coach Bobby Jenks called Hotshots. Basically the kids took part a competition to find who had the hardest shot in the club. The event was handicapped so that the youngest kids had just as much chance of winning as the oldest kids. There were also other competitions running on the night and we got the parents involved as well with the speed guns. From what I’m hearing the winner at our club was a 9 year old who hit a penalty at 58 mph before the handicap was added….anyway after Motherwell had deducted their 30% fee we made a profit from that of £3000.
Another thing that has worked quite well for us has been the website and the Facebook pages. I stole an idea I found on a Junior Football Clubs pages at the start of the season and put together clear sponsorship packages. From there a number of the guys on the committee approached their mates and their bosses to ask if they’d be interested and the response has been fantastic. I think out of all our teams the only one without sponsorship now is our Under 13’s. The way it usually works is if we get someone who is interested they’ll contact me for the current web and facebook stats and I’ll send them out. We’ve got around 2000 unique users on the website and the facebook stats are brilliant because they’ll break down the demographics as well.
I did a club book thing involving a lot of the former coaches and players. It’s a nice thing to have – and it’s still on sale at Amazon but in terms of profit against the amount of work that went into it, there’s probably better ways to spend your time.
Funding - we’ve got a Sportsmatch application in just now that just seems to be dragging on and on. We were nominated for a Lloyds TSB Foundation Award where we’ve just submitted our forms for approval. And we applied for one of the National Lottery grants at the beginning of the season for our two youngest teams which was successful – but the application was late and a stipulation in the conditions was that we were not to start the project until the funding cheque had arrived. Unfortunately the application didn’t get approved until one week before the football season started and we had already purchased all the equipment so we ‘fessed up and withdrew our application.
We’ve also managed to get McDonalds to sponsor one of our new teams although I don’t know if that was just sponsorship from the local McDonalds franchise owner or if it is a grant that we applied for. Basically McDonalds paid for a complete set of strips. And Topps Tiles always sponsor a number of teams from towns they have stores in that wear yellow and blue – fortunately we meet that criteria so our girls academy were given a complete set of strips and sweatshirts.
When I was at the athletics club I remember applying for grants from Dixons Group (DSGi) and from Sky TV both online but I’ve lost the links for them. And Mars had a Foundation thing as well but they only back clubs from within a 30 mile radius of their factory – or at least so they said.
The athletics club also used to get quite a lot of support from Kwik Fit Insurance and their subsidiaries and Lloyds Banking Group were extremely generous when they ended one of their student banking promotions and they sent us a big box of iPod Shuffles to raffle off – and there was also some brilliant backing from a local driving school that did driving lessons for kids aged 8 and over at Hamilton Racecourse. The company was On Board Training and it really was just a case of our kids fitting exactly the kind of customer they were looking for.
I guess the thing that has worked best for the sports clubs I’ve been involved with is just to keep visible in the community – be aware of branding and if you’ve got more than one team make sure they are all wearing the same kit – and to have the balls to ask and to be able to take rejection.
There’s been loads more but I can’t think of it all off the top of my head. I’ll add to the thread when I remember

I wonder what business we can do right now with the increasing likelihood of R*ng*rs and the terms of the TV deal being reduced? Have we any clue what our budget might be next season?

We surely all want St.Mirren people running the club ?
Unfortunately apart from Gordon Scott (bid rejected and has invested elsewhere) and Ken McGeoch there have been no bids made for the club (that we know of) from within the St.Mirren support.
So, selling to a co-operative of supporters looks like it is going to be the only way the selling consortium can ensure that control remains in the hands of the people who value the club most.
Unless of course they disband the consortium and sell their shareholding individually to others. Which won't happen this far down the line.

it's santaponsa and dug

If you believe SG he has been offered more than the £2million asked. St Mirren have been up for sale for 2 yrs with 10000hrs the only interested party that meets the criteria for taking the club forward. I don't think you get this davidg but even if the consortium have £2million cash.....they will still need to get this back from the club.