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Now that I'm a co-owner of SMFC, I have decided to get rid of the Kibble. Tony will now work in one of the catering venues. Celtic and Sevco fans will be given one stand and we will re-sign Billy Mehmet. The futures bright. The futures Saint Mirren.

We done it!
Hope to see even more people sign-up now to support the clubs further in the future. The funding structure could have massive benefits to the football team and community.
I know the buyout has had it's critics over the year but few can now deny the transition period was anything other than a resounding success. From bottom end of the Championship to our highest league finish for over 30 years, all while staying in the black each season, even through a pandemic.  
Today is a historic day for St Mirren – for the first time in its proud 144-year history, the club is now majority owned by its supporters.
SMISA has now completed the purchase of Gordon Scott’s remaining shares, to take our stake in the club to 51%.
Our football club and its place at the heart of the local community are precious. Majority fan ownership means the people who care for the club most – you – will be able to safeguard it forever.
Thank you
There are a number of people we want to thank for making this possible and top of the list is you, the members. Today could only happen because of your incredible commitment.
When we launched the Buy The Buds campaign back in 2016 we said we needed 1,000 members to make fan ownership work. More than 1,300 answered the call at that time and almost 1,200 of you remain today. The success of the campaign is down to every one of you.
In that time, you have raised well over £1m between you – most has gone on the shares but a six-figure sum has been invested into club projects as voted on by you.
Some of our members have been with SMISA since we first started in 2002 and without them and previous committee members sustaining the society through lean times there wouldn’t have been a SMISA for today to happen.
The key individual to thank is Gordon Scott. Like us, a fan – but the fan who made fan ownership possible. Not only did he put up the money for the initial share purchase, he has since presided over five years of progress for St Mirren on and off the park. Gordon has made a huge contribution to the club’s recent history and will remain a key figure in its future as one of our board representatives.
We also wish to recognise the old (pre-2016) board. Not only did they see St Mirren through some hard times, they did so after saving the club back in 1998 when vultures were circling and its future looked perilous. Today we can take a moment to reflect on the dark path St Mirren didn’t go down. From this day on, no Reg Brealey type can get their hands on our club – you’ve made sure of that.
Of course, we initially thought it would take ten years to get here. The fact we did it in five is down to our link-up with our Kibble colleagues. We believe our model of a club owned by its fans and run in partnership with a major charity is unique in European top-flight football. We are proud of that and hope you are too, and we look forward to our continued partnership with Kibble in the years ahead.

Another off P&B. Seems to be a Dutchman living in Dundee who appears to know his stuff
 
 
I love how they always come up with the good Dutch development and the fact that we have B-teams, as if they have had some major effect. We have had B-teams for about 10 years in The Netherlands and since then the Dutch national team only had one decent tournament: a 3rd place at the 2014 World Cup. But we had a lot of luck with that draw, squeezing through against Mexico after a dodgy penalty awarded to Robben and beaten Costa Rica on penalties while beating Brazil in the 3rd place play-off who were completely deflated after getting humiliated 7-1 by Germany. Other than that, we got knocked out of Euro 2012 after 3 defeats, didn't qualify for Euro 2016 & WC 2018 and had an uninspiring last 16 exit against Czech Republic at Euro 2020. For a country with more than triple Scotland's population, that shouldn't exactly be something to aspire to. There have obviously been some excellent generations and world-class talent coming through before the last decade. Think of the great teams of 1974, 1988 and 1998, plus great club sides like Ajax 1995 and some world class players in the 2000's. All of that has been achieved without any colt teams.
Meanwhile, they ignore that all 34 Dutch full-time teams have been given the chance of having colts in the league system. Out of those, 22 never bothered, 6 had one at some point but concluded they didn't have the desired effect and only 6 remain that are still in there (4 in the 2nd tier, 2 in the 3rd tier). Even Feyenoord, arguably the club with the best youth system after Ajax, never bothered with it. They claim it's not that advantageous and prefer a system of loans. Obviously Ajax disagree and do support the colt system, but it's not this "undisputed" success if the 2 largest academies in the country don't even agree with each other on the issue...

Don't give a shit who wins the final as long as it's Italy [emoji41]

Don't give a shit who wins the final as long as it's Italy [emoji41]

That is just the start of it will happen to clubs nigh on every week for awhile. 

We need to ditch that rule . If we’re gonna try and get society back on track, Football needs to tackle this differently . 
 
 

You then need to have different rules for full and  part time clubs as the pt clubs do not carry squads big enough to just continue thus they are still penalised even if that rules gets binned. 

This has hit F/t and P/t teams equally already .
These clubs (PT) if anything should be cut some slack , perhaps allow last minute short term loan deals and trialists ?  
 
I Don’t have the answers, that’s what the SFA/ SPFL are here for , we have now got to live with this, we ( football) can’t scuttle off down rabbit holes every time someone gets a positive test .

 

I an actually with you on the rule as this is not going away it’s here for good. As you say it has hit every club but pt clubs would be affected more  and they have no budgets to bring in short term loan deals or emergency loans the SFA need to find solutions for both ft and pt teams but are all out of lucky bags. 

Sell.

We were in trouble when Marshall was deemed as our playmaker. We played too deep and gave their midfield too much space. Our shape and tactics were all wrong. But our manager has one way of playing and doesn't change. If plan A isn't working then its they aren't doing it well enough. Clarke made a few errors last night and was too loyal to some players who weren't doing it for him. Got to be ruthless in the management game

Sorry, we got done by the difference in real world class.
Modric's goal, jeezo he hit it with the "wrong" foot, was the difference, among other things.
They had about 70% possession, when we had it we were slack and gave it back too quickly.
The better team, by some distance, won. 

Amstrong hasn't a fukin clue he keeps leaving Modric in space been screaming at him all game asshole

Not playing Armstrong and having Fleck in would have been a far better option but not one of the favourites 

Would offer Burke a deal 

Surprised at the comments on here that him leaving is a worry.
I was more often than not, unimpressed by him. In fact I'm pretty pleased that wages are being freed up to hopefully bring in better as his replacement.
While we're at it, we should be whipping that JDH offer off the table. I can understand that we were perhaps asked to wait until the end of the season for him to make a decision but we're long since into the 'are they taking the f**king piss?' category.
He's not half as good nor half as in demand as his agent wishes he was. If he wants a sideways step to a financially f**ked team being run by a junior manager such as Dundee Utd then that's his prerogative but it's clear he or his agent don't want him to be here, so lets not be hanging about for a guy who flattered to deceive for the last 4 months.

ST MIRREN boss Jim Goodwin reckons he now has a fantastic four-man strikeforce after landing Curtis Main [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

Welcome aboard, Curtis.

and still are. 

ST MIRREN boss Jim Goodwin reckons he now has a fantastic four-man strikeforce after landing Curtis Main [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

Welcome aboard, Curtis.

Tait is probably one of the fittest players over 90mins at the club, always at either end of the park up to the last kick of a ball. Fraser and Flynn also play that position as well as Tammy for cover.

I don’t disagree with a single thing you say above mate, but my view remains that he is nowt special.
I’m not saying that I know of someone better to take his slot in the Scotland squad. I’m saying that if there isn’t anyone better, then it’s a bit of an indictment of the level of talent in that position at the moment.
Like you say though, hopefully he will continue to improve. 

Not read thru posts, but i think we should sniff out Lafferty???

Delighted that Flynn is staying another year.

Was my birthday yesterday and my eldest daughter bought me this. Well chuffed with it.
Anyone else had good Saints related presents.