David Mc

Plenty of good questions coming out which I will pass on to 10000Hours.
My question is, why don't people ask 10000Hours themselves about things they are concerned about ?

The plot thickens... http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=11389

Of course there a few other very significant shareholders not part of the consortium who would be highly likely to back SG. Somebody out there will probably have the figures. Not to mention the handfuls of shares that supporters have. I know what way we'd all vote.

If you have sky tv go to all the bbc channels you will get bbc scotland in there think its 911or there abouts.

Maybe I've slightly overstated my case...

Boo! Strip him of his knighthood, make him refuse his bonus, burn him at the stake...make him watch re-runs of games against Hamilton. Boooo!

Well yes, the final say so on who takes over the shareholding lies solely with the selling consortium and there isn't jack shit that any of us can do to stop them selling to whoever they want to sell to.
The difference with the 10000Hours bid though was that they NEEDED the supporters to be on side otherwise the numbers would not have stacked up and the funders would not have been interested.
The guys who were completely against the CIC therefore had an ideal opportunity to try and educate the rest of us about WHY it was a bad move. If they had succeeded then the pledges would have been removed and the CIC bid would have died on it's arse a long time ago.
To summarise the main reasons that there was anti-CIC sentiment were as far as I can see;
1) Richard isn't a born and bred St.Mirren fan and isn't from Paisley
2) Nobody had ever bought a football club this way before
3) Richard wasn't sinking his own money into the club
4) The £2m asking price was too high
5) There were too many tiers of hierachy in the CIC model
6) There were no scarves for sale in the club shop
Some of those were valid concerns, some of them were just utter nonsense !
I am all for Ken McGeoch and co taking over the club in a "traditional" takeover if that is the best long term option for the club but I will certainly be looking for answers as to what that bid entails, who is involved, where the money is coming from and what the long term business strategy is.
Nobody is going to invest millions of pounds in St.Mirren just for the fun of it, unless they have landed the Euro Millions.

Thanks to Yflab for pointing this out, I have ripped it and hosted it here so that overseas buddies can see it. If the BBC tell me to take it down I will but it's an important message for our fans and I think worldwide they should get to hear it.

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Instead of pointing and laughing from behind a keyboard, anyone who thought the CIC was a crock of shite (and that's their perogative!) should use any new meeting to ask questions themselves, if they can make it. As has been pointed out many times on the various threads, during the course of the meetings already taken place, where were the dissenters voices at these meetings? Michelle Evans aside. Where was everyone?
I don't know who 'Yul' is, but I'm awaiting his latest 50 paragraph post any day now. Perhaps he'll wait until the next meeting is over before posting? He could sit at the back, say fcuk-all, then go home and put the kettle on, crack his knuckles, take a slurp pf tea and start banging the keys. Save yourself - we know what your post will be in advance. Speak up at the meeting instead and let those on the stage and on the floor hear what you have to say.

I hope we all get the best deal for the club.......and I guess a red dot coming as in all of my other posts.....lol this is a great adult site......Lochwinoch saint save me

Not to be. Money willing I'd hope Danny has his eyes open for a serviceable forward or CH who is out of contract and could add something to the squad. Failing that at the next window. The back up looks to be pretty thin??