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Biggest fee paid in 25 years for a player from National League South. Do me a favour. Absolutely staggering gamble. If anyone of note was after him in England he wouldn't be at St Mirren.
A striker from Truro for the Premiership in Scotland who comes from part time football, got to be making it up. I wasn't fussed about Reilly moving on, I am now !
Both these signings make me really worried and anyone who isn't is kidding themselves. 
Hope to be totally wrong but not looking good IMO. 

What a lot of pish  that story is “ He was really excited about playing in the premier league “. Aye right , that f**kin excited he couldn’t be arsed finding a pen to sign the contract !!
Bye Gavin , thanks for your efforts and good luck for the future. You snooze you lose. 

I've always liked Ali Crawford he would be a great acquisition 

Think we should at least try to sign Ali Crawford. Dundee are in for him. He would be the missing piece of the midfield jigsaw, the Mallan of the team of you like. 

Would really hope that we are in for Ali Crawford. I see Dundee are interested also but think he would be a fantastic signing

A little hint.
If you see the word "true" in one of his posts, it's the exact opposite.
If you don't see the word "true", then it's the same end result.
Moral of the story? He talks shite all of the time.
 

So it's literally come from a horse? 
Stop talking to horses, stop making up shite, stop being a f**king troll.

Does anyone else think the respective videos/DVDs mean 99/00 is more fondly remembered than 05/06 as well? Nobody really wants to watch Kirk Broadfoot's detailed description of his pre match routine again, but 50 mins of Yardley goals, Dougie Vipond and rock guitar? Yes please!

I'm sure Junior's goal was so late there were already Raith fans in the street giving us pelters for blowing it only to have a close up view as the away stand exploding into absolute joy. What a game that was.

Ayr was amazing but the sickening gut punch of Raith, followed by 3 minutes of absolute chaos sums that season up. 
Being 1-0 down in the 87th minute and coming back to win is rare. 
GOING 1-0 down in the 87th minute and coming back to win is a whole different level. 
The only comeback that tops it is Motherwell in 2007.

We hadn't even hinted at a legitimate promotion challenge for years prior to 99/00, and the lack of any pre-season expectation whatsoever makes it different from the other title years.
It was the first proper Saints bandwagon season for a generation of fans who may have witnessed good sides in the top flight, but had yet to see a Saints team win most weeks, dominate a title race and take hordes of fans everywhere we went. All completely out of the blue. 99/00 reset expectations that had long since waned about what a St Mirren team ought to be achieving.
When we had a good sides under McFarlane, Miller, etc, I used to love a good Scottish Cup tie, away from home against a diddy outfit, with thousands of travelling fans on hand.
99/00 was like a whole season's worth of cup ties away to diddy sides.

Sometimes I wonder if I view the millennium champions through the rose tinted specs of nostalgia, but looking back on this season, we didn't really have a "Mendes at Starks" or "McKnight at Somerset " moment. The closest really was probably coming back from 2-0 down at Palmerston. We were really good this season, and both this team and the 2006 team are undoubtedly far better equipped for the Premiership, but the drama of the 99-00 season is unbeatable.

I think Morgan will be replaced by the guy Cadden who plays for Livvy .

We`ll never fill our stadium if we keep pandering to the old firm, its our stadium give them the away stand and nothing all else, lets keep building on what we have started here,  don't start throwing it all away by taking the old firm ££££...  we can be the alternative choice for the good people in the west of Scotland,   just concentrate on how we can attract more of our own fans to the ground, we have the potential to fill our own stadium, keep building and the fans will come.  

In our case, given the current buzz about the club, I think it is a lot more complicated than just your figures above.
Well, Jags, Fakes, Ross County and Hamilton are not likely to lift there home support much under their present operating model.
Killie do have potential to increase their own support with their current success on the park, and more active board/management, but the size of Rugby Park will always allow options to meet the needs for any specific match being played.
We do have potential to increase our core support on the back of the last season and a half, and the trick is to do that, with all the potential options costed to determine whether the ugly sisters get the end of the West Stand.
Say we have 4 games a season at home to them, including  a cup game for good measure - based on North Stand only that would be £162K at £25 per ticket - this would be expected revenue but would be reduced by greater than normal stewarding and policing costs.
Add in 800 extra in W5/W6/W7 at same price - would be additional £80K revenue from them. But you have to deduct from that stewarding and policing to segregate the stand over and above the costs incurred in the North Stand - say £20K of that as a guess, leaves £60K potential benefit at the end of the day, in broad terms.
There are no other feasible options to the West Stand, as giving them the South Stand would be committing commercial suicide after all the great work to enhance the family day experience, and the recognition from outside the club of all that work. The Main Stand would never be considered now, with the Hospitality at one end, and the best disabled Viewing Platform in Scottish Football at the other end.
So we are left with the question - will it be economically beneficial, or detrimental to the feel good factor at the club just now?
Lets say we can get 400 additional ST holders in West Stand, as 300 adults and 100 kids, with prices at £250 and £50 for ST's - that would be £80K for the season less stewarding costs, which would be much lower as no segregation.    There would  be a further reduction in the above revenue here as well, as, hypothetically, some of the hopefully new ST holders would have been occasional or regular pay-at-gate attenders in the past, but the figures wouldn't be far away from making sense.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
The growing North Bank section would be left alone in place - BONUS
The attendance in the Family Stand would probably be slightly better as well, knowing that we had the 3 stands for our own support, rather than having one infiltrated by the ugly sisters. In the past, the attendance in the Family Stand has dropped off quite dramatically when the ugly sisters have been visiting, so reducing their numbers surely must help - BONUS
So, if we can tap in to 400 new attenders, it should be possible to keep the 3 stands to ourselves. Need to do all we can to achieve this.
 
 
 
 

No we don’t. Ffs

He is 38 and has undermined his last two managers. He doesn't fit into Jack's profile of young strikers that can work hard and close down the opposition. Don't see it happening.

Would like to see Sutton get a start for this one; would love to see a final (?) goal from the big man! Donati & Baird at CB to give Davis a rest ahead of M*rton and the bank a chance to recover from his hangover. Other than that, full strength, please.
 
Some say Gary Mac is still out there.. topless, singing OWTS clutching a pint of Stella. Hero.

Hotel would work because of the airport.