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  2. Family Stand

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

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    Just now, norrie82 said:

    What’s not worth the bother. What I’m saying is the board say it’s down to money but if I can pay a few quid extra on my season ticket and get the kids in then I’m all for it 

    Old firm games too. Why should we hand over half our park to them

  3. Family Stand

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    51 minutes ago, BuddieinEK said:

    So incentives reap benefits despite you saying it's not worth the bother?

    Hypocrit!

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    What’s not worth the bother. What I’m saying is the board say it’s down to money but if I can pay a few quid extra on my season ticket and get the kids in then I’m all for it 

  4. Family Stand

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    4 minutes ago, Rascal said:

    Can I just say that it was a pleasure to see so many young people in the family stand.

    That’s how it should be every game. Pricing was good and fans came out. I’m happy to pay extra on my season ticket if it means we can do more of what we did today. There’s no reason for our own fans being shunted anymore. Cash is important but I’m sure everyone would agree it was great today 

  7. Sir Alex

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    On 2/26/2022 at 2:57 PM, BuddieinEK said:

     

    Listening to the reports from Pitoddrie.

     

    Sir Alex Ferguson in attendance. Capacity crowd.

     

    Statue to their best manager being unveiled.

     

    What a great occasion.

     

    Question.

     

    WHY can't it be us?

     

    Yes... I know.

     

    We sacked him.

    He took us to an industrial tribunal.

    He lost his case.

    He severed all ties and was bitter towards us

     

    But...

     

    Most fans who lived through his short tenure still consider him our best ever manager and themselves blessed.

     

    Saints say they are "fan owned" now.

     

    Sir Alex is a fans favourite.

     

    When we left Love Street, my friend Michael wrote to Sir Alex who not only replied, but agreed to an interview for our book "Love Street, The Final Chapter".

     

    One of my contributions to the book was an interview with my hero and childhood Roy of the Rovers, Tony Fitzpatrick.

     

    The book was about Love Street so much of what Tony said was edited out. A lot of that was adulation of Sir Alex Ferguson, whom Fitzy regarded as years ahead of his time in creating a community club.

     

    I wrote to Sir Alex and sent him a copy of the unedited interview. I wanted him to know how much his influence at Saints lived on.

     

    To my astonishment, two weeks later, I received a reply on Man Utd headed paper.

     

    A two page personal response, written between two very important European ties.

     

    That is the measure of the man! In the eyes of many Saints fans, he is truly a legend. Hero. God.

     

    So... As a fan owned club, can we apologise for how things ended. Thank him for bringing us back from the dead. Praise him for giving birth to the best footballing team I have ever supported.

     

    Most of all... Offer the olive branch and mark his place in our history whilst he can attend.

     

    A posthumous tribute is the alternative. How bitter sweet, ironic and hypocritical would that be?

     

    Let's honour Sir Alex now!

     

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    Absolutely. Is he even in our hall of fame? 

  9. Stephen Robinson

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    11 hours ago, djchapsticks said:

    £2.5k p/w sounds about right for highest paid manager at the club.

    Realistically, who will we ever have paid more to? You could say at a push Stubbs but then we were freshly promoted at that point and not at all established so it's highly unlikely.

    We’ve paid a manager well before and from what I was told it was more than 2.5k pw

  10. Stephen Robinson

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    8 hours ago, dumbarton_bud said:

    Don't know why but I had it in my head that we were paying Jack Ross about £150k around the time he was being linked with Dundee/Ipswich, when promotion was basically a certainty and we could speculate a little. 

    That said, the £2.5k a week figure makes a lot more sense when you put it in that context. 

    We were paying Gus a lot of money back in 2009/10

  11. Steven Naismith

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    8 minutes ago, magnus said:

    With Ross ruling himself out I am warming to the idea of going with an upcoming coach. I like what I hear about Naismith and I believe Brown is more than a pantomime villain.

    Both would need tremendous  support with player budgets  recruitment and contracts etc. So the question for me is, are we as Club, geared up to provide that support? 

    We woukd need to appoint a good CEO - Tony is retiring and before him we had the exceptional Brian Caldwell. We would need a CEO of this calibre to help a young coach succeed.

    As an aside, I am impressed every time I hear Andy Webster speak. I think he is a smart guy and I wonder if there is a role for him as assistant to CEO in a new setup.

    We are likely safe this year from relegation so we can take our time to get this right and put a modern structure in place.

    I thought this type of strategic stuff is where the Kibble would be able to help.

    How about let’s chase top four ? Let’s try to get to hampden ? We need to act quick and any temporary measure is no use . Just look at Man united. Let’s go for someone who knows the game and has experience 

  23. The Jim Goodwin and Lee Sharp Appreciation Thread

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    14 minutes ago, Rascal said:

    Decent points. But..if the offer is there and the money is right then I for one won’t blame him for taking it. Aberdeen have up to 18000 or 20000 at home games and have a larger corporate income I would guess although both have been affected recently I would think.

    As far as an incoming manager is concerned , should we need one then, Ross or MacKay would fit the bill. Mackay would have the “unfortunate” side effect of knocking Ross County’s bid to break free from the relegation zone.

     

     

     

     

     

    Aberdeen struggle to get 10k these days for a lot of games 

  24. The Jim Goodwin and Lee Sharp Appreciation Thread

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    1 minute ago, Callum Gilhooley said:

    IF Goody goes we’d have to be realistic about the managerial quality that’s out there and within our budget .

    Should the club decide to approach JR and he accepted, I wouldn’t be anti that. I certainly don’t subscribe to the “snake” brigade. The man made a decision which he thought would benefit him, his family and his career and it didn’t work out as he would have hoped so if he is appointed, I wish him well. 
     

    Players leave and sometimes return , why not a manager ? 

    I can’t see Jack wanting the job 

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