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    gc_SMFC reacted to billyg in St Mirren v Motherwell Wed 31st Oct   
    Absolutely , anyone who thinks we can turn things around at this level , in the same manner as we did in the Championship , is living in cloud cuckoo land !
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    gc_SMFC reacted to faraway saint in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    No again.................we're just back after a 2 week break, couldn't it just be he's not playing well? 
    This mysterious injury.............................
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from Gordon Urquhart in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either.

    Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from TopCat in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either.

    Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from St.Ricky in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either.

    Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from northstbuddie in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Which is slightly bizarre, because of our midfield strength last season.

    Our style of football from last season was never going to translate to the top flight. Despite us winning the league, in a strange way Livi were better suited to the transition, their main strengths were without the ball, then attempt to strong arm teams out of games.

    I feel Stubbs sort of had the right idea, with the players that were suggested he was looking to replace, but he completely failed to do so. 4 midfield ball players is fine when you are generally going to control possession and set the game on your terms, but actually we needed a whole lot of dig in this team. I don't see that with our current team.

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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from Ayrshire Saints in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either.

    Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from faraway saint in St Mirren v Kilmarnock 20th October   
    Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either.

    Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.
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    gc_SMFC reacted to BuddieinEK in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Oh dear... How shocking...

    We appoint a technical director.

    The manager meets him and speaks positively about the experience.

    Having met with the management, he takes a training session to get to know the players.

    How very dare he? FFS! That's surely not his role!
    By getting to know the players he will surely be plotting to replace the manager! It couldn't possibly be that it might just help his role and help him assess the club as a whole! Oh no!
    We'll be fine as long as he stays away from the players and training ground!

    And as for his interview. How dare he not laugh and joke all the way through it and pretend to be someone else. Surely he knows that might have helped!

    And in a five thousand word interview, he used the word "simplistic" in a positive way meaning it as a compliment.

    Oh dear. Screw the 4,999 words... He's insulting and undermining the gaffer already!

    I truly despair!

    Fine interview. Genuine man speaking openly about the way forward... and some are still looking for negatives.

    ALMOST A DECADE HAS PASSED.

    IT IS A NEW ROLE.

    THE CHAIRMAN WANTS IT.

    THE MANAGER APPROVES IT.

    WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU JUST GET BEHIND IT AND STOP THE PETTY SNIPING?

    Feel free to come back this time next year gloating and saying "told you so" if it doesn't work out...

    But for the love of all things Saint Mirren, can we declare an amnesty on the negativity and sniping?

    What good can it achieve?

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    gc_SMFC reacted to Wendy Saintss in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    In those last 2 seasons, we finished in our highest league position in a generation. Reached our first League Cup Final in 2 generations, our first Scottish Cup Semi Final in a generation and our biggest league win over Celtic in over 100 years.
    Soul destroying!
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    gc_SMFC reacted to FTOF in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    I disagree.
    The management team will be looking to recruit certain types of players for specific positions.
    The management team may have certain players that they already know about for some positions, but there may be a requirement find players for positions, that there is no obvious candidate for.
    IMO MacPherson will be charged with casting a wider net than we normally are capable of, based of the management team's specifications, and subsequently finding a selection of these types of player for the management team to choose from.
    It will be up to the management team to pick and choose from the list of players identified.
    I'd rather have a person within the club suggesting a list of players after researching and watching the players in action, as opposed to a raft of random names suggested by agents.
    I believe it will improve our fortunes in signing players.
     
     
     
     
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    gc_SMFC reacted to ged62 in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Don’t we just love OUR supporters how they get right behind the club & their decisions.[emoji6] Give his roll a chance he deserves that.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from faraway saint in Football Pundtwit Sutton   
    Utter cringe worthy behaviour from both sides.

    Someone in the club should have a word with Eckersley to stop responding. It's a club matter and a social media policy should ensure that he isn't adding anything to it. It's negative publicity, if he was that upset with what's been said it should have been one statement not an ongoing argument.

    Sutton is doing his job, and it's reaping the rewards, probably the most St Mirren related twitter traffic he'll get and it's not even to do with something that happened on the pitch.

    There's two sides to the story and I'm pretty sure the truth is right in the middle, both sides should have known and acted better, but it's done, let it go.


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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from St.Ricky in Football Pundtwit Sutton   
    Utter cringe worthy behaviour from both sides.

    Someone in the club should have a word with Eckersley to stop responding. It's a club matter and a social media policy should ensure that he isn't adding anything to it. It's negative publicity, if he was that upset with what's been said it should have been one statement not an ongoing argument.

    Sutton is doing his job, and it's reaping the rewards, probably the most St Mirren related twitter traffic he'll get and it's not even to do with something that happened on the pitch.

    There's two sides to the story and I'm pretty sure the truth is right in the middle, both sides should have known and acted better, but it's done, let it go.


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    gc_SMFC reacted to oaksoft in Football Pundtwit Sutton   
    From that clip, Sutton hasn't said anything that people on this very forum haven't already said about Eckersley and McGinn.
    I really don't know why anyone would seriously care about this.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from BuddieinEK in Saints v Celtic, Friday 14th September   
    No strikers on the pitch for us now?
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from norman in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league.

    I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play.

    He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own.

    If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.


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    gc_SMFC reacted to Wendy Saintss in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus lost friends and alienated people by taking us from a third battle against relegation to the third tier to an established top flight club, reaching cup finals and semi finals and beating the Old Firm for the first time in a generation.
     
    The thoughts of a dickhead.
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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from Cornwall_Saint in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league.

    I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play.

    He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own.

    If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.


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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from Wendy Saintss in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league.

    I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play.

    He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own.

    If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.


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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from BuddieinEK in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league.

    I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play.

    He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own.

    If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.


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    gc_SMFC got a reaction from spankin_panda in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league.

    I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play.

    He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own.

    If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.


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    gc_SMFC reacted to norman in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus was a great manager for St Mirren, one of the best. Took us from relegation battlers in the first division to an established Premiership team and made us contenders in the cups for the first time since the 80s. The fact he didn't give a f**k what a few whinging cunts in our support thought of him and treated them with the utter disdain they deserved was also a massive bonus.
    All that of course would only be relevant if he was coming in as a manager, but he's not.
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    gc_SMFC reacted to Kemp in Welcome back, Gus MacPherson.   
    Gus MacPherson took one of the worst St Mirren teams ever - the John Coughlin duds - that was bound for the third tier, won the league, and established us in the top tier. He was just about the longest-serving manager in Scotland by the time he left. I think he deserves a bit more respect than he is getting on this thread, he was a tremendous servant to the club.
     
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    gc_SMFC reacted to davidg in Stubbs Sacked   
    I’m sorry but there’s no excuse for not giving 100% out on the pitch and that’s what we’ve been getting.
    It doesn’t matter who the manager is, what the tactics are, who’s playing centre half, what one of your team mates have been dropped, who’s face doesn’t fit. No excuse for the level of commitment given so far this season. 
    Saturday was much better from certain individuals and I suspect some players were already made aware of the intent to sack Stubbs. 
    Just hope they approve of the replacement or we’re really f**ked. In fact, might be an idea to let them hand pick the new manager. 
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