Stuart Dickson

Dreadful goalkeeping. That's all. Dreadful goalkeeping.

The Dons Trust is not a Community Benefit Society and they haven't got an asset lock in place. Oh and the "We are Wimbledon Fund" operates separately from the IPS Dons Trust.

They clearly don't know the answers to the questions I posed. They appear to be in breach of the FSA guidelines on Community Benefit Societies and they appear to have broken their own commitment to an asset lock. Members should be looking far more closely at the way the current SMiSA board is operating cause it is on a crash course. If they are incapable of staying within the confines of their own constitution, the regulatory guidelines and their own marketing literature at this early stage in the project imagine how f**ked the football club will be if they ever get control. I didn't like Stewart Gilmour - that's well documented. I didn't like the way the club was run under the last board. But by f**k are things far more dangerous at the club now.

So having a different view from you is "controversial"? You're right, no one can argue with the sentiment. Lets face it, not one new parent is going to knock back a bunch of freebies no matter where it comes from. The problem I have in understanding it though is why this needs to cost the taxpayer anything at all. We all know how much a parent will spend bringing up their child, and we all know there are plenty of companies out there desperate to get their brands infront of those parents to capture their percentage of market share. Surely a sensible, capable and efficient government would have approached each of those companies and asked them to contribute - instead of offering each one of those companies a taxpayer funded contract to get their products in front of the consumer whilst getting paid to do it. We all know it's possible because the "Bounty Box" has been given out by maternity staff for well over 25 years now at no cost to any government. Honestly you'd have to wonder if someone was getting a backhander to run the scheme in such a cack handed manner.

Yes we get it. You prefer dictatorships where leaders have complete autonomy to run organisations into the ground.

Thank goodness George Osborne kept the oil industry in Scotland alive with the UK Government pumping £1.3bn in subsidies last year and cutting Corporate Tax to the lowest level of any major developed country. Could the SNP have done any of that had Scotland voted for Independence.... Simple answer... Naw

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11481354/SNP-referendum-oil-figures-13-times-higher-than-reality.html Just in case anyone needs reminding

$50 per barrel eh? How close is that to Alex Salmonds White Paper predictions?

So that's an aye to being reliant on taxpayer subsidies then? Dear oh dear.

Strange. I looked up Bounty Box and they are still given out. Tesco do them, as do Boots. Apparently they are also still given out at Maternity Hospitals. There's three of them today, not one. And looking into it, it seems the Bounty offering has more items than the taxpayer offering, with only a bib, a baby grow and a twee Scots poem in the Scottish Government box missing from the Bounty offerings. I'm not sure how useful the poem is to babies or parents, personally I'd rather have a pile of vouchers. I presume you believe the Scottish Government have set up a manufacturing operation to stock up these boxes, if you don't think it's beholding to the whim of private business as it is now. Let me guess Oaksoft this self employed thing you do.... It's utterly reliant on taxpayer hand outs isn't it? Cause you've never made a single post that shows any commercial aptitude whatsoever.

Another day gone, still no answers. It seems it is indeed true - St Mirren fans are too stupid for fan ownership. Can you imagine this shower in charge of YOUR football club? Dear oh dear!

I can't really understand it - or at least I can't understand why it has to be taxpayer funded. When my two kids were born we were given something called a "Bounty Box". As far as I understood that it wasn't a taxpayer funded initiative, but one from private companies who were essentially promoting their products to new parents. Do these not exist any more? Do Heinz and Pampers not promote their products to new parents anymore? Do Toys R Us and Mothercare not want the opportunity to offer free gifts and discounts to their target market anymore in a bid to entice customers into their shops?

Thanks for responding though Richard. It doesn't seem like any of the SMISA board are keen on engaging - either when I was a member, or now I'm not.

According to the constitution I'd have 6 months to raise grievance.

Am I right in saying that SMiSA were in breach of their own asset lock when they gifted £9k to the commercial business?

Clyde could also be promoted

I'm not fancying the internet speeds down Paisley way. Still no response. Thank Christ I live in WIshaw where the locals haven't stolen all the copper wire out of the telephone exchange.

Those well knows broadsheets and red tops "The George Osborne" and "The Nicholas Soames"

It depends on what news outlets you read. If you only read left wing news sources then the departure of Sir Ivan Rogers is a disaster for the UK,. but if you read the more right wing papers like the Daily Mail it seems Rogers was completely against the UK leaving the EU and was negotiating from a position that isn't that of the UK. What I do find funny though is that for months Natsi's and Left WIngers were telling us negotiations couldn't start, and wouldn't start till the UK government triggered article 50. Now it appears we all know negotiations have been ongoing for a while. and they will continue to go on for a good bit longer. In contrast of course in Scotland we've got Nicola Sturgeon making a complete arse of herself every time she makes a move to the EU because she finds all her advances have been booted into touch and at home she's fast discovering that Scots aren't interested in another independence referendum and if there was one that Scots would still vote to stay in the UK Union. Sturgeon is also facing the possible break up of Scotland anyway as the Orkneys have voted to have their own independence referendum to break away from both Westminster and Hollyrood rule after they found that promises of more autonomy from the Scottish Government failed to be delivered.

"Not nearly as bad"? Really? Is that your defence of a failing government? "We're shite and letting all your kids down, but we don't think we're as bad as England so it's ok"? Scotlands performance in the PISA rankings was way behind England so that's your argument f**ked. 10 years of an SNP government has seen Scotlands Education system go from being "one of the best" to - as John Swinney said - "being in need of radical reform". No f**king kidding John. Why not move over and let the Conservatives get on with it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38230328

We should still be holding less than capable politicians to account though. Masons comment on Twitter was a disgrace. At the very least he should be apologising not be getting protected by the parties PR machine. As for your post I'd imagine anyone taking on the education post is going to have their belief about how you improve results whilst being more efficient so it's only to be expected that it will be ideology driven. The SNP have had 10 years to show us the result of their beliefs and we've all seen the destruction that has caused, not just in education. And what grates more than ever is hearing the clunking of their spin after every failure.

So why only change the mind of ladies? Is there only one gender in Scotland against independence? His clear connotation was that ladies don't know their own minds and that their will can be overridden whether that relates to independence, marriage, a date, or sex. Mason was absolutely out of order and instead of attempting to defend him his party would be far better advised to make this creepy bastard apologise at the very least. I've got to say with the posts on this thread defending Mason, and the posts on the Craig Storie thread defending his leud behaviour certain posters are not showing themselves in a good light this morning. St Mirren certainly won't look like a family club to any neutral looking in.

Still nothing Kombi - I'll be an alcoholic at this rate....

No I've been drunk - I've just never felt that it was in my gift to go over and to flick, pinch, grope, or in any other way intentionally invade the space of a stranger in a bar. I've also never tried the line "Do you know who I am" - despite the fact that, even as a pipefitter, I'm probably better known and more identifiable than this third rate reserve footballer - even in Carluke! And I wouldn't defend or even want to associate myself with someone who had behaved in the way Storie obviously did.

Nope I can categorically state I have never done anything like that in my life but I'm certainly having my eyes opened tonight by the number of St Mirren fans who are willing to passionately defend this player's behaviour, especially when I first linked the story back before the player was linked with St Mirren it was viewed with disdain. Combine that with the passionate defence of an SNP MSP who posted some of the most abhorrent bullshit about women on his Twitter account, and then throw in the repeated comments being made to the assistant referee on the main stand side at the Morton game from a handful of the natives around me and I guess the picture is pretty plain to see of what kind of club St Mirren are. Sad really, especially when the club like to paint itself as a family club and as a community club.