Liverpool Bud

One of the marketing tactics Tranmere used was each day the chairman tweeted a small image of the new kit and drummed up a pre order thread
eg small piece of material from shoulder - nothing to spoil the big unveil just something to stimulate discussion and excitement in the fans
could be something worth considering?

One of the marketing tactics Tranmere used was each day the chairman tweeted a small image of the new kit and drummed up a pre order thread
eg small piece of material from shoulder - nothing to spoil the big unveil just something to stimulate discussion and excitement in the fans
could be something worth considering?

It’s almost a home fixture for me 
I’m at a wedding on the Wirral on the Friday night so il either get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me of at Chester and il jump strain down to Wrexham or il get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me off in the town centre and grab a wine before escorting me to the game 
my dad who is in his 80’s lives in Shrewsbury so fingers crossed he can get to Wrexham and I can treat him to a pre match whisky 
who else hopes to be at the Racecourse next weekend?

Train tickets booked from Warrington To Wrexham 
bringing Mrs Liverpoolbud and few lads from work for a quality away day!

It’s almost a home fixture for me 
I’m at a wedding on the Wirral on the Friday night so il either get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me of at Chester and il jump strain down to Wrexham or il get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me off in the town centre and grab a wine before escorting me to the game 
my dad who is in his 80’s lives in Shrewsbury so fingers crossed he can get to Wrexham and I can treat him to a pre match whisky 
who else hopes to be at the Racecourse next weekend?

It’s almost a home fixture for me 
I’m at a wedding on the Wirral on the Friday night so il either get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me of at Chester and il jump strain down to Wrexham or il get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me off in the town centre and grab a wine before escorting me to the game 
my dad who is in his 80’s lives in Shrewsbury so fingers crossed he can get to Wrexham and I can treat him to a pre match whisky 
who else hopes to be at the Racecourse next weekend?

It’s almost a home fixture for me 
I’m at a wedding on the Wirral on the Friday night so il either get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me of at Chester and il jump strain down to Wrexham or il get Mrs Liverpoolbud to drop me off in the town centre and grab a wine before escorting me to the game 
my dad who is in his 80’s lives in Shrewsbury so fingers crossed he can get to Wrexham and I can treat him to a pre match whisky 
who else hopes to be at the Racecourse next weekend?

Pre-Match Entertainment for 'Closed Day 25/08/2019'
11:00 - Pin A Tail on The Bigot... (easy one with thousands of targets for the kids)
11:30 - QUEEN...! salute practice (marching optional)
11:45 - Lets get this Party Started... Scotlands Top Lionel Richie tribute act - Dancing On The Disabled Ceiling
12:00 - Sing-A-Long-A Sectarianism classics... all your favourites incl 'Pope Francis.. you know what you are!'
12:15 - Tina Turner tribute "Sectarian in a Vest"... belt out 'That Song..'
12:35 - No Ticket/No Problemo! As we invite anyone outside the stadium to storm right in!

I've gone full circle and I'm now convinced the club is going to pull some mad deals out the bag. This is based on nothing except blind optimism and the fact that we've done some very good, very late, deals in the recent past.
I'm less optimistic that these will be in place for Hibs. I was considering getting the train up the coast for that game but I think it might be a bit bleak.

Myself and others suggested we were burning through cash mutually consenting Alan Stubbs, Darren Jackson, Oran Kearney (complete with gagging clause added), Nicolai-Brock-Madsen, Hayden Coulson, Alfie Jones, Jeff King, Cole Kpekawa, shelling out money for Josh Heaton... 2 managers and a first team coach in under 12 months and a handful of players and then having to hire replacements for players and staff we have just paid off.
If we're skint at the start of the season it is not a surprise to some of us. I think I posted elsewhere that since the summer when GLS became chairman 3 years ago we've released and signed around 80 players and blown all the money brought in from selling Jason Naismith, John McGinn, Kyle McAllister, Stevie Mallan, and Lewis Morgan as the wage bill has risen steeply and because we have signed and released so many players and gone through 4 managers, 3 assistants, 2 first team coaches in that time as well and hired a new director of football.

You are probably right bud - scoring for fun - especially against us!

No fear about this game
this is ours to lose and we definitely won’t 
this is a game they have to come out and win
we will beat them over two legs 
my belief and love for the Saints has been rekindled since the Split
we are a team who have discovered fight - form - and winning mentality at the right time!
i hope all those travelling to Tayside sing their hearts out and we do them 2-0 in the first leg in front of their 10000 fans!
Come on the Buddies - lets do this 

No fear about this game
this is ours to lose and we definitely won’t 
this is a game they have to come out and win
we will beat them over two legs 
my belief and love for the Saints has been rekindled since the Split
we are a team who have discovered fight - form - and winning mentality at the right time!
i hope all those travelling to Tayside sing their hearts out and we do them 2-0 in the first leg in front of their 10000 fans!
Come on the Buddies - lets do this 

No fear about this game
this is ours to lose and we definitely won’t 
this is a game they have to come out and win
we will beat them over two legs 
my belief and love for the Saints has been rekindled since the Split
we are a team who have discovered fight - form - and winning mentality at the right time!
i hope all those travelling to Tayside sing their hearts out and we do them 2-0 in the first leg in front of their 10000 fans!
Come on the Buddies - lets do this 

No fear about this game
this is ours to lose and we definitely won’t 
this is a game they have to come out and win
we will beat them over two legs 
my belief and love for the Saints has been rekindled since the Split
we are a team who have discovered fight - form - and winning mentality at the right time!
i hope all those travelling to Tayside sing their hearts out and we do them 2-0 in the first leg in front of their 10000 fans!
Come on the Buddies - lets do this 

No fear about this game
this is ours to lose and we definitely won’t 
this is a game they have to come out and win
we will beat them over two legs 
my belief and love for the Saints has been rekindled since the Split
we are a team who have discovered fight - form - and winning mentality at the right time!
i hope all those travelling to Tayside sing their hearts out and we do them 2-0 in the first leg in front of their 10000 fans!
Come on the Buddies - lets do this 

I’m best man at a wedding just outside Blackburn 
The wedding starts at 1pm hopefully nobody will think it to rude of me to check my phone as the couple are exchanging their vows !

The Gosport St Mirren Supporters Club (Me)will be in The Bridgemary Manor for today's game. Any Buddie in the area feel free to join us, I mean me

Yep that’s exactly how I feel!!!

If it’s any consolation H@mmerby went out in into the following round. They were beaten by FC Koln 
H@mmerby were 2-1 up after the first leg but lost 3-1 to the Germans away from home in the second leg with deciding goal being scored against then in the 86 minute!
Fc Koln went on to reach the final playing Real Madrid
Can you imagine - we beat Koln - then hump sporting clube of Portugal in the quarter final before seeing off Waregem ( who?) of Belgium before our date with destiny against the Spanish giants 
 
 

Yesterday I had a remarkable 85 year old at the game who watched Saints regular in the 50's and early 60's. He always aske's me about Saints. So I said I will take you to a game. This 85 year old got the overnight Thursday train to London to be a speaker for a fellow Golfer funeral. All his expenses were paid. With no hotel he came back Friday night again overnight train ( he wanted to keep costs low )  and be back for the St Mirren game. I thought he will be too tired 85 remember. There he is with me for the 12.15 ferry what a man. After the game we went to Elderslie Golf Club he wanted me to see a large Cabinet dedicated to him as he was a special local golfer who was invited to the Masters in America but could not afford the expense of going out there. No sponsorship in these day's. After the game which was not a classic he said what a goal going on about it. He said Ian you know what surprised me. What Stuart ? The Fans what a support they are fantastic getting behind the team. He went on they sang in my day but not like that. Took him home lost his wife 3 years ago. Got his own flat I got invited in for tea. Kept thanking me , how can you not do something for a fellow Buddie. Went home with a lump in my throat wishing my own dad was still here. 

One of my all time favourite Proclaimers songs!

A few weeks ago Tony Fitzpatrick was being held responsible for the appointment of Alan Stubbs as manager and with "sanctioning" all Stubbs' signings. Poster after poster on BAWA suggested our predicament was largely down to our CEO being inept and saying ambitious things to the press.
I don't think it is a CEO's job to OK a manager's signing targets. Tony's job is to get the deals over the line. 
Now that it would appear that Oran Kearney and Gus McPherson's work in the January transfer window is showing signs of bearing fruit, perhaps it is time to show a little appreciation for Tony Fitzpatrick. He got 13 deals over the line in the summer window, 3 out of contract players signed after Stubbs got the boot, and has managed to get 16 or 17 players out from the autumn until the end of January and has finalised in a number of decent signings in the January window.
Take a bow Fitzy and don't let the BAWA get you down.

You have responded to some hypothetical nonsense - Oran is not getting replaced any time soon. That would be crazy stuff....  
Unbelievable fans are talking like this. Oran walked into a nightmare but knew it and still had the balls to take us on. He knew that it was a total F-up of a squad and he, and the managers internally made a plan, executed it almost perfectly by getting rid of the duds and bringing in almost an entire new team of players. Of course had it been down to them they would have kept Hammill - but it wasn't. 
The new guys are hardly in the door and we have played 1 game with them all now here and it was against the 2nd best team (certainly 2nd biggest budget) and the ref gave them unwarranted penalties - and fans are knicker-wetting.
Our squad is part way to the transition from being Championship level to being a very competent Premiership level and after all the chaos - in a way we are lucky that Dee and the Hammers are totally shi*e.
All the teams have loan players and we have an uncertain future whether we stay up or not (as do our 2 nearest rivals) . It therefore makes sense having loan players. The fact that some are foreign rather than Scottish is good in a way - the fact that Hladky, Popescu already look like better players than we could have afforded if they were Scottish - Hladky is here for 18 months and we have an option to buy Popescu.  However, we are still producing younger players - even though we have moved up a level, guys like Erhahon and MacPherson are getting 1st team games.
I don't agree we have zero assets on the pitch - I think all our players are of value - once they have some time together I am confident we will be thinking a whole lot more confidently about the future too.     In the summer there will be more outs and ins - same for every team. We might have more of these than the likes of the Fakes, but they have been able to establish themselves and that is there system, a few out a few in to keep the squad more settled... We might just get there, but survival is the target for now . . .

Looking forward to the game today 
il be watching from Warrington 
after mrs Liverpoolbud takes me to Homebase