Stuart Dickson

Really? It's paid off? 2 wins in 19. Languishing well adrift at the bottom of the league. A club with one of the highest wage budgets in the Championship. Ross gets plaudits for going with "youth" yet the performances only got better when he was forced to drop Jack Baird and to go with Webster and McKenzie at the back, and when he finally dropped Shankland and stuck with Sutton. It's taken Ross far too long to discover his best 11 and although the football is prettier for longer it still seems fitness at the club is a real issue and that getting a solid 90 minutes from this team is utterly impossible. I'm not calling for Ross to be sacked but a realistic and honest assessment wouldnt go amiss instead of the unrelenting fan boy pish that has pervaded this forum.

Ach he was right though, unlike Tony Fitzpatrick and his prediction of it guaranteeing top flight football for years and years. The new stadium will always look like a wasted opportunity to me. The sale of Love Street was the luckiest break ever but having won the lottery the board let ego get in the way of business sense and four basic stands came before building something special with facilities that could drive revenue 7 days per week. That revenue was what was likely to keep St Mirren in the top flight for years to come, not a large number of unused seats.

Ah good. So the SMISA membership voted to give the club £9k to pay the wages of a player who is going to save St Mirren from relegation from his position on the subs bench.

Yeah I'd agree with this. 60 minutes went well. The last 30 St Mirren lost their way with Quinn and Magennis going off. And for all of the gnashing and wailing going on about what Ross should or shouldn't have done he nearly got away with it with 3 points. It was Gallaghers mistake that proved costly.

Huh? I can only assume this was being played through a tannoy system that only works in the family stand and nowhere else? All I could hear was the group of lads sat behind me repeatedly having a go at the main stand side assistant ref accusing her of being unable to keep up with play, despite her on several occasions completely outrunning the St Mirren full back.

What a lovely man - you too

I'd just love to hear anyone answer with clarity on anything SMiSA related at the moment. The only thing we seem to have gotten to the bottom of over the last month is that there are only 8 elected members on the SMiSA board, 1 appointed and 2 more co-opted (at least I think that has been what you all finally agreed on) and that Kenny Morrison and David Riley are not on the SMiSA board despite Kenny Morrison apparently thinking that he was. If SMiSA is a Community Benefit Society - which it says it is - then when is it going to start meeting it's commitment to the local community? And regardless of whether it's a BenComm or something else when are SMiSA going to move towards fulfilling their pledge to put the club at the heart of the community? Will the SMISA board ever allow any suggestions for spending on the local community to be put on the quarterly ballot paper? And will the minutes and agenda of monthly meetings ever be published for all the members to review if not the general public? And is the website due to be sorted so that the constitution features more predominately on the website rather than hidden away in a link behind a single word on a long web article?

Really? Personally I thought it was quite insulting to any Scot who isn't an imbecile. We've to believe we're all funny with a dark sense of humour, we all like loads of drink and a right good Gay Gordon at the end of the night. That Groundskeeper Willie is the national stereotype, that we all love our kilts, It was as twee a pile of pish as Sir Walter Scotts bullshit that has left the nation believing that it's traditional dress is a multi coloured skirt with a purse worn to the front of it; as twee as the pish that has William Wallace as a 5'8" American who was brought up in Australia to speak with a really rubbish Scottish accent and who painted his face and gave long dull speeches before any battle with the English, or as twee as the bullshit that Robert The Bruce had in a conversation with a spider who told him how to win a battle instead of hiding out in caves. The reality is that Scotland is just like any other nation. "Wha's like us?" - everybody.

Wha's like us. It was twee pish.

Personally I'd want footballer who can function in a team and who will do the job his position demands of him. I don't think St Mirren can afford the luxury of having the football equivalent of a fieldgoal kicker posing around the park barely functioning. He's not even that good a kicker. One in 14 set pieces paid off for St Mirren yesterday. It's hardly prolific. Indeed I'm certain St Mirren could find someone just as capable of delivering the ball into a pre agreed area of the box for players to attack, who can also pass, tackle and function in open play. For me Malian seems more like a poor Simon Lappin than a Paul Lambert. Lambert was a player who learned quickly, who became adaptable moving from striker to winger to holding midfielder. Mallan doesn't appear to have learned anything in the last two years and isn't even capable in his own position

Aye Happy New Year to everyone on here - even the two I have on ignore. Here's hoping for a 2017 where I have nothing to complain about when it comes to St Mirren and we can all be happy for a change.

See that's the kind of stuff I had to listen to from some of the people around me at the match today. I think Clarkson is just a convenient target. Don;t get me wrong, I don't think it was one of Clarkson better performances, but he didn't make a hash of a rather simple looking Morton corner, opting to punch at the ball instead of catching it. And he wasn't responsible for the utter collapse of the St Mirren central midfield when the ineffective McLear and Mallan were left to man it after Quinn and Magennis went off. Yet Gallagher, McLear and Mallan all get off scott free whilst Clarksons the bad guy who should be hounded out of the club. I'm not altogether sure that it was Clarksons decision to leave no-one up front at a succession of Morton corner kicks, meaning that Morton could load up the St Mirren box without any fear of a counter, and when the ball did get cleared there was no-one in position to hold the ball up or to retain possession. Yet Jack Ross gets an easy ride again tonight. The first 60 minutes from St Mirren were more than decent. They played well with purpose. I thought Webster and McKenzie looked solid, Naismith certainly seemed to be playing with more confidence, Quinn and Magennis looked capable, and I thought McAllaster was the top performer, not only doing the glory work up front well, but also - as I have mentioned in previous matches - doing the defensive work well as well, often dropping in to cover Naismith when needed. The only negatives for me were minor, Mallan appeared to be a bit of a passenger up to that point, and Morgan - whilst reasonably effective on the ball, was consistently guilty of failing in his defensive duties leaving Gary Irvine with two, sometimes three, Morton players coming down the right wing at him with no cover. Then when Quinn went of and Morton went to 10 men it all fell apart.

2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat in December is certainly an improvement that's hard to argue with, and todays performance was miles better than the gutless shite I witnessed at Cappielow in November - but time really does seem to be running out. Todays failure to close out Morton just compounds the issue.

£15k to fix USH for a match v Morton when the temperature is 11c. And money is supposed to be so tight the club needs a gift of £9k from SMISA to fund players wages. Yep. St Mirren - too stupid for Fan Ownership

Do you think there was an emergency need for USH at Scottish Football Grounds Poz?

You're posts are so ridiculous you've managed to unite some forum members behind me. Well done

Asking an opposition to travel in weather conditions when the police are advising people stay at home is more likely to cause real emergencies rather than solve them. USH should have no place in our game

Here's a thing. Man U match on Boxing Day. 75000 was the stated attendance. I tried to source an extra ticket paying over the odds from an agency two weeks before the game and the sale fell through. St Mirren V Morton today, a stadium that's unlikely to be half full, loads of tickets available yet just like the Boxing Day game I cant purchase my ticket online on the day of the match. Even when there is a clear opportunity to get one up in terms of match experience St Mirren blow it. Now, if I decide to go I'll need to queue to buy a ticket and then queue at the turnstiles. Crazy.

Definition a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action. "personal alarms for use in an emergency" synonyms:crisis, urgent situation, extremity, exigency; accident, disaster,catastrophe, calamity; difficulty,plight, predicament, tight spot, tight corner, mess; quandary, dilemma; unforeseen circumstances,dire/desperate straits, danger; informalscrape, jam, fix, pickle, spot,hole, hot water, crunch, panic stations "your quick response in an emergency could be a lifesaver" None of that relates to getting a football match on in weather conditions where people are told not to drive unless it's an emergency.

So not an emergency then

Yeah. 3 I can recall. We've had games postponed for waterlogged pitches and for gale force winds obviously but not many at all for snow or frost bound pitches. One of the matches was during the big freeze where temperatures were down to - 10c. One was on a spring morning at Ballerup where everywhere else - even the Whirlies - was clear and bathed in sunshine but the Ballerup pitch had an inch of snow on it. The only other snow related postponement I can remember was at Countess where all the snow had been removed from the pitch but the pitch was unplayable because all the black pellets were piled on the pitch.

I'm not the fool. Over the course of my time of being involved in kids football and playing all our matches on either grass or 3g I can only recall 3 times when matches were postponed because the pitch was snowbound or frost bound. And on two of those occasions USH would have has no effect. USH is not needed in Scotland and if you look back I have steadfastly been against USH from day one.

Talking of decisions - isn't it a good job that £15k was borrowed by the club to fix the USH in time for today's match. I've just been outside and the weather is just so cold.... Oh wait. No it isn't.

Seems rather co-incidental. A coward hiding behind an alias, with a handful of posts does a bit of online stalking and digs out a picture and within minutes someone "just happens" to anonymously phone my son to make a number of threats. It's the third time it's happened over a number of years. The previous two incidents were reported to the police and this time round has also been reported. And funnily enough in each one of these "incidents" the coward has chosen to threaten one of my sons rather than have a go at me.

When you do a search on the registered companies number it says it is a Industrial and Provident Society. In August 2014 the legislation changed https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/registered-societies-introduction/co-operative-community-benefit-societies-act-2014 You'll note the FCA says this SMISA say this on their website