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Bar the face painting at home games, what are SMiSA doing? Wrong forum?

Or a King in a Catholic Style.

I see Alan Hutton is available, would be a great signing in the mould of when we signed Thommo n Teale. Wishful thinking.

Asmir Begovic edging closer to joining Qarabag, so ses BBC. Excellent.

I wasn't sure he had played his first game.

The point of a constitutional monarchy is that the precedents and conventions are maintained by the figurehead nature of the monarchy, by saying no she would have triggered a constitutional crisis by not accepting the advice of her PM as is the convention, it is up to parliament to resist this not the monarch, didn't attending all those ambassadorial parties teach you anything? The suspension of parliament is a convention, however, that convention is for parliament to be suspended for a few days at most, not the best part of 3 weeks. Is Bojo conducting in plain sight, a coup d'état?

Ideally, what we now want to see happen is for the House of Commons to replace the f**kwit bojo after a no-confidence motion with someone who revokes article 50; or the House of Commons, through the Speaker, notifies the European Council that article 50 is revoked then Parliament passes a fresh Act to revoke article 50. Bzz, China Crisis.

Alas, they're gonna do what they're gonna do, this is a vain effort at consulting / keeping members updated - still very much bowling club mentality.

Interest, it's probably just enough for a few pints in the 1877, certainly nothing to get het up about.

Link to SMiSA most recent accounts that are online https://mutuals.fca.org.uk/Search/Society/9202.

Yeh, scottish authorities fairly complicit with the ugly sisters and all their "shanties".

St Mirren FC and SMiSA will not be one and the same thing after the purchase and will be governed by differing pieces of legislation - as is now. What is now 1200 members now may well be 500 after completion of the purchase, will the monthly outlay still make sense at that point? Maybe they should just employ someone on an ad hoc basis to maintain the systems they presently have. Better still, speak to the Uni to see if they will provide an intern to 'upgrade' what SMiSA have at present.

And how many years will be it be of use? After the buyout is complete, you can be sure there will be an exodus..

Seville Gin Milhouse?

And the hare is off and running. Suspect that will be an internal threshold but in terms of good governance, not a bad idea to get approval from members.

Stranger things have happened; don't ask, don't get; nothing ventured, nothing gained etc etc. One presumes the transfer window, in engerlund, is still open if you're signing an unattached player.

Irony personified.

Wilfried Bony clubless after being released by Swansea City, training with Newport. Go on Goodie.

Alanb You will see that the Rules are not that easy to amend. The original Rules stated: - "In the case of this Rule, Rule 6 and Rule 106 the quorum at any general meeting called to consider a resolution to amend shall be: - 1. not less than one half of the members entitled to vote at the meeting if the Society has up to 200 members when the meeting is called; 2. not less than one third of the members entitled to vote at the meeting if the Society has more than 200 but less than 1000 members when the meeting is called; and 3. not less than one quarter of the members entitled to vote at the meeting if the Society has more than 1000 members when the meeting is called." At the AGM to agree to the amendments, there would need to have been more than 250 members to ensure a quorum and 2/3's of those members would need to have positively voted for the resolution to be passed. I'm pretty sure there will never have been more than 250 members at an AGM, so how the amendments could have been voted through, who knows. Also, at the back of the new Rules, there is a Statutory Declaration that the amendments are in the manner provided for in the Rules, which they are not. If the signatories to the updated Rules are happy to be consciously misleading about something rather trivial, where next?

Here's the document which says nothing about honorary members. Complete Amendment to Rules.pdf

Whilst not that far fetched, wait until smisa decide to 'honour' some dubious characters who then manage to get onto the club board.

Made up as goes along, same as smisa.

Queenie should be ordering these nuggets back to work to get things sorted sooner rather than later.

There is nothing in the Rules that provides for "honorary" members. Making things up as they go along. I'm sure we'll have the usual nugget on here saying "rules dusnae matter" etc etc.

Too soon for the great escape?