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Post your comments hear to support our enforcer, who no other player wants to come up against.
And say bollocks to the Goody Knockers....
Lets let Goody know he's much loved for doing the job he does for us!
P.s. Mods shut the other feckin thread.

Old Keith can't even get his story straight, last night on twitter:
Keith ' I'm hearing a number players are very unhappy the way things ended for DL '
The ever effusive and 'ITK' Turbo: Not one player was unhappy DL left, it was who took over that left them in disbelief.
Keith ' Yes, correct. '
So, which is it?

Ally McCoist is no fool.
In today's Sunday Mail he states there is no chance of Rangers going through this season's entire league campaign unbeaten.
He has been proved right after only one fixture.
Excellent predicting.

No idea what team we will play on Saturday.
From Cheesy being out for 6 weeks a week ago, he now looks set to start at the weekend. This is good news for us in the sense it allows Goodwin to move into midfield.
I guess we will look something like:
Kello
Naismith
Plummer
McAusland
Tesselaar
Goodwin
McGinn
Teale
McLean
Wylde
Ball
Although if Marwood, Brown, Kelly or Caldwell started I wouldn't surprised.
The reality of the game is that we are away from home to the second best team in the country. Motherwell are certainly favourites and a point would be a fine result for us. Will go for a 1-1.

Lanarkshire 0-1 TC's Black and White Army
We will go above Motherwell and stay above them all season ;)

It was a good game at Crappielow last night.
To be fair, Celtic probably had the upper hand overall, but we had good periods of play when we were on top.
We scored against the run of play but it was a good move down the left which left the Celtic defence exposed. Their equaliser was probably deserved, but it was a clear mistake at the back that gifted it to them, other than that we looked pretty solid at the back with Sean Kelly playing a CH role or at least in the middle of defence.
I thought the Celtic no. 5 was a very good prospect (team-sheet named him as Marcus Fraser) - read the game well, was comfortable on the ball and had the ability to break with the ball from defence and create danger at the opposite end. Mo Yaqub had a difficult night, but came through it quite well. He was up against a tricky winger who knew how to beat a player but Mo held his side of the field up quite well.
I think we lack a finisher up front and I don't see another McLean or a McGinn coming through yet from midfield.
The teamsheet was:
1.Dan Wilks
2.Mark Williams
3.Mo Yaqub
4.Declan Hughes
5.Seam Kelly
6.Jack Baird
7.Lewis McLear
8.Barry Cuddihy
9.Adam Brown
10.Keiran Doran
11.Robbie Mitchell
Subs, Lewis Morgan, Conor Murray, Josh Beattie, Darren Whyte, Aidan Williams
For all Celtic's pressure, we should have won the game in the last minute with two chances in front of a goal with only their keeper to beat. He pulled off an effective, but clumsy looking save and the game finished at 1-1.
For once, the sun shone on Greenock!

Kieran Doran scored for us.

I expect Tommy will look to start the side he plans to start against Motherwell in this one. Will certainly be our most competitive friendly and I hope we approach it in an almost competitive manner.
Will be interesting to see if Declan Hughes or Adam Brown start, both have had good pre seasons and either or both could start this one and at Fir Park.

Really thought that Caldwell would be the last striker in so pleasantly surprised by this. Looks like we could well be playing with 2 up front more often than not.

Ball certainly looks like he will play a big part for us next season. Thompson should be available for the Motherwell game, but I expect he won't be fit enough to start and that Ball will.
Still think our captain will be first choice for the majority of the season. Expect that Ball will start a fair few in his stead though, especially if we have 3 games in a week. Doing that and even Ball replacing Hawk for the last 20/30 minutes of games will mean Thompson will be effective for longer at this level. It will be good for Callum too, he's a young player and he will learn a lot from Thommo and could be his long term replacement.
I think that may be our last permanent signing. Hoping at least 2 more coming in on loan from the EPL though.

Sheikh Mansour has stated he plans to build a global empire of football clubs. He has one in England, Australia and USA.
He invests in facilities more than football clubs, that's why he picked Man City, because they had that stadium. We have excellent facilities, a new stadium and the third best youth academy in Scotland. The Man City coaches who came up to see our training ground when Plummer came up were glowing about it, and I assume this would have reached HQ at City.
£2 million for us would be coppers to a man of his wealth. We could rebrand the stadium - which is right beside the airport - as the Etihad and we would be a relatively local and handy place for Man City to test their academy players. Oh and, if he wants to throw 10 million at the team...
Saying all that, it's probably not going to happen, but it's not ridiculous.

There's a really great vibe and feeling about the club at the moment.
I think this batch of kids are going to be the best yet. With them, we aren't far away at all.
Can't remember the last time I was looking forward to a season as much. I really believe it's going to be our best for a long time

Cowden pumped Blyth away 4-1 in the last few weeks - looks like we could rattle in a good few on Saturday

Is there any Saints fans at all at this game just now?

Tonight at Ralston, £2/£1 entry, might head along to watch the future saints squad hit 20 past the old boys union. K.O 7:00

Reilly can play wide right, some of his best games for us came in that position before his injury. If he does break into the team this season i think it will be in midfield.

So is that all our strikers signed for this season then?
Thompson
Marwood
Caldwell
I hope we bring in 1 more with a bit of experience.

Welcome to the club Ross

yir arse is oot the windae on this one....
PM sent

St Mirren will play English League Two side @officialcufc on 1st August at Brunton Park. http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=33582
Decent looking wee jaunt down to border. Give us Newcastle away now!!
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Well done josh for being named in the latest northern Ireland squad. Just noticed on sky sports.

Would ye?....

We always wipe the floor with them.

We've got a team bus, no' a Tardis.

He should definitely give wee Djemba Djemba a run out so the fans can thank him for his efforts in keeping us in the SPL.