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The best team won, that's how it should be. Well done Utd.

The best team won, that's how it should be. Well done Utd.

Was doing fine and enjoying the vid right up until Sunshine on Leith came on and quite unexpectedly a flood of bloody tears bowled down my manly cheeks in front of my entire family. Thanks for that you utter utter UTTER bastard 
 

There has to be the odd few who would put a negative spin even on a lottery win. Bizarre? 

Rae was completely out of his depth at the helm of our great club, the man is a footballing dinosaur with absolutely no idea how to coach let alone manage. He should never have been anywhere near the job in the first place. Danny Lennon deserved much better from the previous board who again made a huge blunder by dispensing with his services and appointing a man who at best was a coach or a number two.
If you and a few others dont like Jack Ross then your perfectly entitled to your opininons, but surely you cant deny that the management team have given us belief and created a bond with the fan base thats not been present since Tom Hendrie was at the helm.
There is something special going on and its fantastic to feel part of it, we as fans should all embarce it and look forward with great optimism to next season.

The reality is that when the going got tough, you TC and a few others bailed on the team.
Why dont you give the rest of the support, who stayed supportive during some of the darkest days of our history, space to enjoy their moment?
Nobody needs your version of damning with faint praise.
What this group of players, management, board of directors and fans have all achieved is absolutely incredible and you have no f**king right to piss on anyones chips.
 

4 points in December. That's what we had. We were 1/6 on to get relegated. He's brought his own guys in and done the business. Agree about the open top buses, however the last 3 months have been astounding. We go again in August, his team , preseason behind him, and title challenging expectations!! In jack we trust x

Someone, it may actually have been TC, wrote on another thread that this team should never have gotten itself into this position. Another attempt to take the shine if their achievements, however, THIS team didn't get us into that position. THIS team has played 14 league games together and only lost twice and even in one of those defeats (Tannadice) played well.
Our run has been remarkable. The players have cheered us all up and made it fun watching Saints again. Somerset, Starks Park, Parkhead, Cappilowe, Falkirk, Tannadice and Easter Road. The crowds got bigger and more raucous week after week and that no doubt played a part.
We are staying up and I can't stop smiling. Neither can my daughter and that's what it's all about.

Fitzy speaks....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39832642

Fantastic day ,roller coaster end to a roller coaster season! Echoing all the above comments the players in 2017 deserve great credit as does jack Ross.  I also think Gordon Scott and the board deserve credit also they made some tough decisions at a difficult time. The fans have been brilliant as usual and I am sure if the board resist the urge to punt our best players during the summer and let jack get a few extra bodies in then we will be out in force again next season to watch a team that I genuinely think will win the league. Just a wee mention for stelios at the end spent ages talking to and signing autographs for all the young buddies .

Who celebrates finishing 7th in a league of 10? Not St Mirren and nor should we!
 
What we celebrated at full time today was so much more than a point. So much more than finishing seventh having been bottom for the vast majority of the season.
 
What we celebrated was the preservation of history in a Lazarus style rise from the dead.
 
Truth be told, had we ambled through the season in a humdrum fashion and finished seventh this season, most fans would have been venting displeasure at best.
 
Instead, almost 2,000 of us stood shoulder to shoulder when not hugging one another, applauding a set of players who gave their all for the cause.
 
Credit to the Hibs fans at this point. This was THEIR party, but for a few moments, they respectfully allowed us to gatecrash it.
 
St Mirren FC is 140 years old.
In 140 years, Saints have NEVER played outwith the top two divisions of Scottish football.
 
I have supported Saints for around 40 years... Almost a third of the clubs existance! I think that entitles me to be passionate about them.
 
I have seen more lows than highs, more misery than celebrations... But when we DO celebrate, us Buddies know how to savour the moment... We have usually waited decades for it, suffering in the meantime.
 
Right up until the final whistle today, one more goal by Hibs and Saints would have faced a relegation play-off.
 
Worse still... Against our Manager Jack Ross' last team Alloa, currently managed by cup winning captain and Saints legend Jim Goodwin.
 
That thought alone was a painful one.
 
So... When the whistle blew, we were partially celebrating a hard earned point away to a very good championship winning side in Hibs, but we were celebrating so much more.
 
Relegation COULD have meant people losing jobs. COULD have resulted in us going part-time and spending unknown years in the doldrums.
 
We were celebrating the preservation of 140 years history in an escape act that Houdini himself would have admired.
 
We were letting the players know that we truly appreciated their efforts and know they gave their all.
 
We were letting them know that for 95 minutes today we were going into every challenge with them and were willing them over one final hurdle.
 
In a team filled with teenagers and youngsters, the inhumane pressure they have faced up to and overcome is testimony to the leadership of Jack Ross and his inspirational Captain Marvel Stephen McGinn.
 
We were celebrating their coming of age and the potential birth of something that hasn't excited me as much since a young manager called Alex Ferguson got me addicted in the first place!
 
No. Nobody should celebrate finishing seventh in a league of ten.
 
I hope we never do!
 
Slainte.
 
 
 
 
 
 

SMiSA will need to conduct due diligence as part of the finalisation of the deal I'd have thought. They are effectively going to be buying the football club so if there were skeletons in the accounts they would know about it.
SMiSA buying the shares from Gordon in 9 years time should really be no different from what Gordon did when he bought from Douglas Street last year, in terms of the process and procedures that are followed anyway.

I suggested weeks ago that this thread should be closed down.
There was nothing smug and self-satisfied about that suggestion, it was merely based on the fact that the premise behind it was always ridiculous (and had become increasingly so).
It was also intended as an act of charity. I was trying to save Top Cat from himself - that's the kind hearted type of guy I am. Sadly, it seems only he can do that, and, thus far, he has refused to do so. As such he deserves all the ridicule that comes his way.
Indeed, rather than acknowledge that he was woefully off the mark, his latest tactic is to claim that with the likes if Mallan in our squad, we should never be in the position we are in. Perhaps the most crude analysis of our season anyone has managed.
ETA - tick tock

Seems like a good place to introduce myself. 41 years old and my Dad took me to my first game around about 1980 and I stood on the Terrace for years until I was old enough to go myself and I moved to the North Bank.  Followed the club through good and bad times until I moved away about 18 years ago. Fell out of love a bit when we got promoted and I came home for a few days and tried to get a ticket for a game against Rangers and couldn't get one because I didn't have three previous ticket stubs even though I had been on the pitch clearing snow the previous season so that I could get a match in while I was at home. It left a sour taste and I slowly stopped going. Fast forward to this season when work brought me close to Paisley and I managed to catch the midweek game against Hibs. It was the first time I had been in the new stafium and the only time I had ever been in the main stand. Being back watching the Buddies immediately felt like I was at home. I have managed a couple of games since then and the #thislovewilllastforever just about sums it up for me. 

Couldn't he see Kyle Magennis unmarked on the right. Poor decision to shoot. 

Was it you?

Couldn't he see Kyle Magennis unmarked on the right. Poor decision to shoot. 

They've changed the words from you're to we're.

They've changed the words from you're to we're.

Was it not the Raith fans as well who sang "you're f**king shit, you're f**king shit...." at us? They seemed to have dropped that from their repertoire.

Couldn't he see Kyle Magennis unmarked on the right. Poor decision to shoot. 

I'd rather be playing Ayr United.

Couldn't he see Kyle Magennis unmarked on the right. Poor decision to shoot. 

Couldn't he see Kyle Magennis unmarked on the right. Poor decision to shoot.