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Now sold to Crystal Palace according to the Record. Fee plus several additional add-ons.
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That's difficult considering he hasn't started a game this season nor played more than about 60mins in total.plane passengers coming in to glasgow airport between 3 and 5pm every other Saturday "is that another brophy blooter"
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Brophy scored 7 League goals last season and was top scorer. He hasn't started a League game this season (Killie doesn't count) but is proven to be a better striker than Main or Ayunga. If we are paying him we should give him some gametime as he cannot be worse than Main (3 goals from 19 League games) or Ayunga (3 goals from 16 League games). And Greive has scored 3 from only starting 5 League games this season. The problem is Main/Ayunga partnership.
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Poorest home display of the season by far. I wish Robinson would realise Main and Ayunga will never score enough goals. Ayunga was totally honking today just like he was on Wednesday. Give Greive/Brophy a decent run with Main. Several others were poor as well but at least we can score penalties and Carson can save them. Playing shite and winning is a good habit to have.
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If we are paying Brophy we should be playing him. Top scorer last season and Main and Ayunga cannot score.
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I watched Dundee v Raith R and in the first half Dundee were garbage and could easily be a few goals down. They improved in the second half and managed to get a draw from being 1 down.
They are still relying on McMullan which is a sad indictment of where they are. It is a cup game and anything can happen of course but I full expect us to blow them away 2-0. Hopefully we start with Main and Greive/Brophy and maybe get another couple of goals. Main and Ayunga doesn't work.
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6 minutes ago, bazil85 said:
Three times the number of Japanese players in their starting 11 than Scottish ones. This for me is a big issue with Scottish football.
We need rules that encourage far more investment in youth structures & consequences if a club doesn’t develop home grown talent.
X number of club home grown players in every starting 11 for me.
Our starting line-up only had 2 Scots in the team.
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Think we need Greive and Kiltie on.
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Erhahon looks like a traffic warden - points to all the players running past him as if he had no responsibility to do anything about it. Dunne been poor and pity Ayunga cannot control a ball. However we have had chances - just don't see us taking any.
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23 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:
Wasn't there about 3 thousand season tickets purchased?You are right. We did sell 3k season tickets minus the cost of setting up and running PPV. And as much as that was useful it didn't make up for the substantial losses.
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Buddies can watch the game via Celtic's PPV platform for £13 which is a fair bit better than the eye watering £32 they are charging to attend the game.
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We should also remember that we had no income during Covid but still had wages and other upkeep to pay. Pretty impossible to predict we would be paying out in excess of quarter of a million on Covid tests plus additional expenses due to Covid plus wages and routine expenses with no income.
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8 hours ago, Albanian Buddy said:
Where is the £2K a day figure reported from?
I appreciate that the Covid testing was extremely expensive, but why did that not show up in last years accounts up until 31/5/21?
The Covid season of lock down the club did incur significant additional transportation and legal costs as well as all the testing required.
The club had to run more than one bus to games for social distancing reasons.
Additional costs for hotels - meals, room etc.
Remember that the club employed some big hitters to deal with the legal problems that we faced that season including former player Brian Docherty.We also had no hospitality or fans at stadium that season that must have reduced our income over and above season ticket sales.
I appreciate there was streaming revenue but surely that was not enough to cover those £2K a day tests?
So I’m at a “loss” as to why the club financial loss for that season was not far greater that £45K?
No idea what the accounts show however Covid testing was on a daily basis https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59683384
before moving on to a twice a week basis due to cost. Everyone had to be tested ie players, coaches, medical staff and anyone in contact with team members. Cost per test seemed to vary between £50 and £100. St Mirren probably had at 30 least staff being tested ie between £1500 and £3,000 per day.
Hamilton Accies spent nearly quarter of a million on Covid testing alone https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/hamilton-accies-reveal-staggering-covid-23734071
Alloa were complaining they were spending between £3,000 and £6,000 per week for a part-time Club.
Overall cost to Scottish football was around £70M https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55030350
SMFC like other Clubs took advantage of a £1.6M loan from the Scottish Government to help with the substantial Covid costs.
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Non story. He was supporting his best pal. Usual BBC rubbish.
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Covid testing was costing the Club nearly £2k per day. Hopefully that is a cost not to be repeated.
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22 hours ago, waldorf34 said:
Time to trade Grieves and Brophy for a better quality striker
Ayunga has started 15 League games and scored 3 goals. Main has started 18 League games and scored 3 League goals. Greive has started 5 League games and scored 3 goals. Don't think it's Greive we should be getting rid of.
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What a difference Gogic has made to the midfield. The man is a machine. Covers every blade of grass all over the park; closes down and wins balls off the opposition more than any player I have watched. Pity it has taken this long to give him a starting place.
And another big shout to Joe who has been immense in the last two games. He will be a great loss if he goes.
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Greive should have scored with the one at the far post but the other two he had no chance with. One was too far in front and the other too far behind. But I see no-one is complaining about Main's poor effort when he manufactured a really good opening for himself then a pass back to their keeper. Or bad decision making a couple of times when we had 3 onto 2. Or O'Hara blocking a shot that was going in. Yea, Greive messed up once but so did others.
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Lots of positives today. Thought Gogic was man of the match - brilliant in midfield. Should have had the game out of sight by half time. Fraser's red card was a total farce and it was our free kick anyway regardless of the Fraser sending off. Hope we appeal.
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Thought Gogic and Kiltie were superb considering hardly getting a game but they were all good. Personally I won't miss Erhahon.
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I remember the first time I saw Frank play for St Mirren. He came on as a sub to make his debut away at East Stirlingshire on April 26th 1975 on the second last game of the season. We were a very poor team back then finishing 6th in the old League Division 2 behind the likes of East Fife and Montrose. The crowd was only 833 and we were already 5-0 down when Frank appeared. But despite the miserable day I was thrilled to watch this great wee player who came on and knew he was a diamond who would shine for us the following season. And so it proved.
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Jay is a winger. We play with wing backs. Unless we change the formation I don't see how he can fit in. His last appearance I think was up in Perth where he was roasted defensively. Good player in the right team or we play him as a striker but we already have loads of these in the squad and two on loan. For now I don't see him getting a game for us. Maybe in the future. Best for him to get game time elsewhere.
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40 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
I'm not buying that, I don't happen to know the IQ of O'Hara but, again, if we followed that way of thinking we would have to sub EVERY player as soon as they get booked.
PS It should be noted that, for whatever reason, we looked sharper after O'Hara was sent off, certainly didn't have any effect on the final result so not worth getting any new Christmas knickers in a twist about.
It is how a player continues to play after he is booked. On Saturday it was obvious Erharon had lost it and was correctly subbed. Last night both Gallagher and Dunne were booked but never committed any more rash challenges and there was little concern about them. However O'Hara continued with several stupid challenges before the ref decided he had had enough. I was in praise of Robinson's decision on Saturday but he got that one wrong last night. But we did start playing only when we went down to 10 men so that problem has to be addressed.
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Players can get caught up in the emotion and are not known for being intelligent. The Away support could see it was an accident waiting to happen as did the manager but he did nothing about it. O'Hara was stupid but Robinson had control of the situation. He should have subbed O'Hara.Agreed but there was hysteria on here last night putting ALL the blame onto the manager.
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St Mirren v Motherwell, 28/1/23
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Good win considering we didn't play that well. We really miss Gogic's energy in the middle. Hope Joe or Declan are fully fit soon to allow Gogic to move up. Wee bit concerned how light the bench is now. Onwards and upwards.
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