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Nowhere near good enough. Utterly woeful stuff. I don't think Dumbarton were great shakes either. Solid 2 banks of 4 but actually created little, yet we gift them 2 goals.
Positionally we were all over the place too, midfield didn't seem solid, players didn't seem to have an understanding. For all of McMullan's skill, his defensive work wasn't great, often was too central and was a nightmare for the full backs!
We didn't have enough drive, pace was all wrong, no closing down or pressure. So many players were poor I can't pick out any to be honest.
To early to panic, but need more experience. On this display the only play-off we'll be involved in is a relegation one!

Black on black and white stripes is tough. I suspect the SPFL haven't bothered with red numbers and letters with the new font?
The number 7 was McMullan on loan from Celtic. Perhaps just an off game as he looked decent via Bradford.

Whatever else Ian Murray does with us, the way he has turned you into a gibbering, seething, permaraging mess of a poster before we've even played a game is something he can always look back on and rightly be proud of.

You have doubts about Murray? Why didn't you say so before. Please, do tell us more.

Our fans watch the team week in and week out and some fans were delighted when Higdon left.

We're not, your further down the road.

I would love to have a standing terrace. Far prefer it to seating.

I think Gary Teale being asked to re-apply makes the 'next manager' market difficult as the next manager could be the same one!

Kenny McDowall or Ally McCoist??
Is that a joke?

If we'd signed him people would have said 'another striker who's washed up and doesn't score. 6 goals in his last 60 appearances etc....
In any case they have Sutton who is a handful, play him right, he'll score. Is there problem not the same as ours in keeping the ball out at the back?

The tackle at Firhill did him. Was a shocker too.
He's a good player, injury prone yes, but a very decent midfielder.

If we'd signed him people would have said 'another striker who's washed up and doesn't score. 6 goals in his last 60 appearances etc....
In any case they have Sutton who is a handful, play him right, he'll score. Is there problem not the same as ours in keeping the ball out at the back?

If we'd signed him people would have said 'another striker who's washed up and doesn't score. 6 goals in his last 60 appearances etc....
In any case they have Sutton who is a handful, play him right, he'll score. Is there problem not the same as ours in keeping the ball out at the back?

If we'd signed him people would have said 'another striker who's washed up and doesn't score. 6 goals in his last 60 appearances etc....
In any case they have Sutton who is a handful, play him right, he'll score. Is there problem not the same as ours in keeping the ball out at the back?

If we'd signed him people would have said 'another striker who's washed up and doesn't score. 6 goals in his last 60 appearances etc....
In any case they have Sutton who is a handful, play him right, he'll score. Is there problem not the same as ours in keeping the ball out at the back?

Neither of these is Colllums fault. He's got an official running the line that is supposed to spot these things.

The other aspect I'm slightly confused in is why Mike Ashley is being investigated for potentially owning Newcastle and Rangers, when Hearts have done this before with Romanov owning Kaunas and loaning many players into Hearts?

Very disappointing. Can't get it to add up. It's a total steal from Aberdeen.
I wonder if we were faced with losing him in the summer said that if he re-signed and someone came along offering the compensation value we'd not stand in his way. We then got McLean for an extra 6 months.
Feel for Teale, he's got a hard job now.

Yep totally correct. Silly mistakes cost the BP. Not getting any points when they were down to 14 in the first half and we were on the line was criminal.
Murrayfield is the listed alternate ground I believe, but for a final I agree that Rugby Park, Kilmarnock will be used, hence the trial run via Tonga. Funny how the Pro12 regs are just big enough to cover the RDS!

Montpellier.
Should have been 5 point win.
Need to go to Bath and win next week. Easy

In response to an earlier point about our first concern being 'they're foreign' and that tarring us with a bigoted 'Sevco brush'. No it doesn't. Absolutely 100% no.
My first concern is.... 'they're foreign'. Aye, because of Romanov at Hearts, Massone at Livvy, Stefano at Dundee, Anelka at Raith... could even mention Vincent Tan at Cardiff who did not seem to care much about the history and fabric (literally!) of that club, changing their traditional kit to something deemed a lucky colour in Asia? What about the Venkys at Blackburn. The first Americans at Liverpool were not popular, neither were the Glazers at Man Utd.
The major success stories seem to be Abramovich at Chelsea and Mansoor at City - but we are talking genuine off the radar wealth and massive glamour clubs in one of the world's top leagues here, not a relegation threatened small club in a relatively minor European league, with no recent history of threatening European qualification or, well, pretty much anything bar bobbing along quietly with March 17 2013 popping up after 26 years.
Let's say a consortium of Billy Davies, Ally McCoist and Graeme Souness announced they were buying St Mirren. I would get it, would understand it - they are football men, the obvious Rangers connection between them would not worry me. I could GET it.
I do not get at all why an Argentinian consortium would be any good for St Mirren. No more than I would understand it should I learn that a handful of Scottish lawyers and businessmen were buying a club in, oh, let's say Mexico.
If I were a fan of a Mexican 'St Mirren', playing to 3,000 every week and always in the shadow of the big Mexico City clubs, and heard a bunch of Scotsmen were buying us, guarantee you, 'WTF!' would be my reaction there too.
In regard to the consortium doing what's right - for St Mirren. I believed that five years ago. I said they have earned the right to be trusted, but five years down the line, with their The Rangers reaction fresh in my mind, and the silence and stupor surrounding the last three to four years of their tenure, and the ultimate failure of the long drawn out 10000hours discussions - my faith has been seriously diluted.
Worrying times if this deal is true. IMHO.

I'm resigned to relegation at the moment.
The takeover issues are a side show. Kinda feel for Gary Teale in all this to be honest.

I'm resigned to relegation at the moment.
The takeover issues are a side show. Kinda feel for Gary Teale in all this to be honest.

I would ask the board 2 questions:
1. If this offer had come in a week after the club went up for sale in 2009 would you have accepted it?
2. If this offer came in now, but we were 7th in the league and Tommy Craig was still manager would you have accepted it?
If they can honestly answer "yes" to both then fair enough....
If they can't then they have the responsibility to everyone connected to the club to keep on sitting tight. This is about St Mirren in 2020, 2025 and beyond. If we go down and they end up getting less of a financial return then that's the consequence of them appointing Craig. They have to suck it up like the rest of us.

Excited nope
Worried yes.
Only time will tell.