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  3. Speculation Thread

    in The Rumour Mill

    Posted

    David McKenna was a reasonable lower league striker after leaving us. Think the problem for him and Baird was promotion came at the wrong time for them - had we stayed in the first division a bit longer they'd maybe have got more game time.

    I think Basher, McGarry, McKenna and Reilly are the only strikers to come through our youth set-up to have scored for the first team since the turn of the century, which is pretty poor considering we've produced decent players in every other position. And of that four Basher was in his mid twenties when he came back and Reilly has ended up in midfield.

  4. Stubbs putting the boot in

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Danny said:

    Don't get these jibes at the lad The sins of the father should not be visited on the son. We can't choose our parents.

     

    He may well be a good player for all we know 

    It wasn't a dig at him, it was a dig at Rice who claimed Stubbs had pretty much ignored his input during their brief spell together at Saints. 

  10. Club Website

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    Maybe imagining it, but in the past I thought if you went to the fixtures section you were able to click the scoreline to read the match report. Doesn't seem to be an option any more. Also, would it be possible to add an option to change seasons so you can easily find reports from previous seasons? I occasionally need them for research purpose otherwise I'm fully behind making it as hard as possible for folk to read my pish.

    Would also be handy if reports included links to videos of interviews, highlights etc. I don't ask for much.

  11. Speculation Thread

    in The Rumour Mill

    Posted

    We could have given Halkett the 75k as a signing on fee and it would still have made a massive amount more sense. Big error, that one.

    I seem to remember a story on here that Ross had agreed to sign Halkett (although it may have been another Livi defender) and Stubbs cancelled it.

     

    As for Kellerman, sure Goodwin said that he has dislocated his shoulder so maybe that's why we're looking at another midfielder.

     

  14. Why has the Director of Football failed?

    in General St. Mirren Discussion

    Posted

    There was a quote doing the rounds on Friday from Goodwin's BuddieVision interview that suggested he wasn't a huge fan of how this technical director stuff is working. When I asked on P&B someone kindly reproduced it for me, so here it is.

    On 20/07/2019 at 17:15, RossC93 said:

    "Gus has a list of players and they can be good ones but I have to want the players as well" is the exact quote. Followed it with "we're working from a list that I've given to them and we're doing what we can to get those in."

  16. The 3 Monthly Spend

    in SMiSA

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Kombibuddie said:

    Don't be baffled Baz, it is not a war of you v them.
    It's dead simple in my eyes, there's some costs the club should pay & not turn to the fans to fund.

    I'd rather the whole £4k goes to the ladies team. Ladies football is the growth sport across the uk right now.
    St Mirren FC should be promoting that, building the clubs profile and not treating ladies football as a token.
    £1K is a drop in the ocean to their overall costs.

    In the options, it explains
    Cost of the ladies is £1000 but Alan mcManus has asked for £3k towards the youth academy trip.

    What is the actual cost of that trip?
    How many folk/teams going?
    How is the rest of the funds being raised and most importantly, when is the trip?

    Before I tick that yes box, i'd like something more than a sketchy request.

    Sadly, that is what it is looking like at the moment. I'd be very interested to know what, if any, support they get from St Mirren FC - of which the women's team is a part, not a separate entity. The club should be providing them with kit as the bare minimum, SMiSA should not need to be funding this. Surely that could be part of the kit deal? It certainly used to be for the youth academy (don't know if it is since we left JD Sports).

    I see most of the women's games are at Ferguslie - why are they not allowed to play at Ralston? Are they allowed to train there? If not, why not?  We have a nice 3G pitch that SMiSA paid for they could surely be allowed on

    The women's team seems to be run on as little funding as possible. They have held crowdfunding campaigns just to get basic kit to get them up and running. They held a fundraising evening in a bar in Paisley - surely they could have been allowed to use the ground?

    It doesn't look particularly good to the outside world that the women's first team are having to ask for money for kit while the men's youth team is so well funded that the most pressing thing on their list is money for a trip to England.

  17. The 3 Monthly Spend

    in SMiSA

    Posted · Edited by Stu

    2 hours ago, bazil85 said:

    New options up, roughly £4,000 in the pot with some left from last quarter. Two options with a straight yes/ no 

    - kits for woman's team £1,000

    - money for various youth team to go and play against EPL & Championship opponents £3,000 

    yes & yes from me.

    There's a surprise. Let's be honest, Lyle Langley could come along looking for money to build a monorail between the ground and Ralston and you'd approve putting the £2 spend towards that.

    Not a hope of me voting in favour of the youth academy's trip. I would vote in favour of the women's team but I'd be interested to know how much support they are getting from the club - both financially and in terms of using the facilities etc.

  18. Thomas Verheydt

    in The Rumour Mill

    Posted

    54 minutes ago, Dan Is The Man said:


    It’s in his Instagram story. You need to click on his main photo in the app and it’ll show you.

    He may very well be on an early flight tomorrow but right now he is still in Holland.

    Ah fair enough. I can just about use Instagram to look at photos, anything else is pretty much beyond me.

  22. Thomas Verheydt

    in The Rumour Mill

    Posted

    Looks like he was involved in a belter of a play-off game last season. His side were 4-3 up in stoppage time and he wasted a chance to make it 5-3. The other team then scored twice before the end of the game (not extra-time) and got promoted instead. Let's hope Tony doesn't mention Hammarby to him.

    There's also an article about how much he cost Crawley per goal, however I only share it here because it also has this nugget at the bottom:

    "Cole Kpekawa worst value for keeping clean sheets – The defender cost Colchester United £62,400 for his one clean sheet"

    https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/sport/football/find-out-how-much-thomas-verheydt-cost-crawley-town-per-goal-1-8572776

  24. Thomas Verheydt

    in The Rumour Mill

    Posted · Edited by Stu

    Google translate of the article: https://www.destentor.nl/ga-eagles/ga-eagles-spits-thomas-verheydt-op-weg-naar-schotland~ac4db410/

     

    The future of Thomas Verheydt is probably not in Deventer. The striker of Go Ahead Eagles is on its way to Scotland, where St. Mirren has now registered for Verheydt.

    Verheydt seems on the way to the exit of De Adelaarshorst. The 27-year-old attack leader is already traveling to Scotland with his agent Danny Ris this coming weekend to get the right feeling at the Scottish club and settle the possible deal. St. Mirren plays a cup match against Dunfermline on Sunday at its home stadium in Paisley - a city west of Glasgow. Then Verheydt also has a conversation with the Scottish club.

    Reportedly, Go Ahead Eagles and St. Mirren have already had contact during the rush hour and that will no longer stand in the way of a possible transition. Verheydt does not have to leave GA Eagles, but the club management has given him permission to talk to other clubs.

    Verheydt has indicated that it is ready for a new foreign challenge. St. Mirren plays at the highest level in Scotland. Verheydt will not participate in the GA Eagles game against Excelsior on Friday evening due to a heel injury.

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