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And in the meantime we will continue to stumble along until the close of the transfer window without resolving the manager issue? And consequently having little opportunity to add significantly to the squad.
I have a lot of respect for what SG has acheived with the club, but at this moment I'm really struggling to see how this situation can be considered in the best interests of the club (which is the duty of the BOD). Certainly in the short term.
Furthermore this situation has dragged on for nearly 2 months now, with absolutely zero information for the fans about plans or timescales for the manager; bringing in new players. As a season ticket holder I certainly didn't buy my ticket expecting to watch the team remaining mangerless for 1/3 of the season and fritter away their chances of survival by a complete lack of action during their only opportunity to reorganise and make improvements to the team.
It seems to me this is a very poor way to treat your customers, and I'm not convinced that this would be tolerated in many other businesses. And if the recent attendance v. Dundee Utd is anything to go by, it's having a significant impact on the clubs customers too.

And in the meantime we will continue to stumble along until the close of the transfer window without resolving the manager issue? And consequently having little opportunity to add significantly to the squad.
I have a lot of respect for what SG has acheived with the club, but at this moment I'm really struggling to see how this situation can be considered in the best interests of the club (which is the duty of the BOD). Certainly in the short term.
Furthermore this situation has dragged on for nearly 2 months now, with absolutely zero information for the fans about plans or timescales for the manager; bringing in new players. As a season ticket holder I certainly didn't buy my ticket expecting to watch the team remaining mangerless for 1/3 of the season and fritter away their chances of survival by a complete lack of action during their only opportunity to reorganise and make improvements to the team.
It seems to me this is a very poor way to treat your customers, and I'm not convinced that this would be tolerated in many other businesses. And if the recent attendance v. Dundee Utd is anything to go by, it's having a significant impact on the clubs customers too.

And in the meantime we will continue to stumble along until the close of the transfer window without resolving the manager issue? And consequently having little opportunity to add significantly to the squad.
I have a lot of respect for what SG has acheived with the club, but at this moment I'm really struggling to see how this situation can be considered in the best interests of the club (which is the duty of the BOD). Certainly in the short term.
Furthermore this situation has dragged on for nearly 2 months now, with absolutely zero information for the fans about plans or timescales for the manager; bringing in new players. As a season ticket holder I certainly didn't buy my ticket expecting to watch the team remaining mangerless for 1/3 of the season and fritter away their chances of survival by a complete lack of action during their only opportunity to reorganise and make improvements to the team.
It seems to me this is a very poor way to treat your customers, and I'm not convinced that this would be tolerated in many other businesses. And if the recent attendance v. Dundee Utd is anything to go by, it's having a significant impact on the clubs customers too.

I'm sure there is.
I imagine with the prospect of promotion to La Liga there is the potential to make a lot of money in Girona, especially as they are currently heading towards administration and may be avialble at a relatively low price.
As far as Saints are concerned, even when we exceed all expectations and win a national trophy, it doesn't actually make much money for the club. I think that strongly suggests that the potential to significantly increase income in the near future and make large amounts of money for the Pini's at Saints is limited.
I expect that explains why these guys are currently in Spain and not Scotland.

I'm sure there is.
I imagine with the prospect of promotion to La Liga there is the potential to make a lot of money in Girona, especially as they are currently heading towards administration and may be avialble at a relatively low price.
As far as Saints are concerned, even when we exceed all expectations and win a national trophy, it doesn't actually make much money for the club. I think that strongly suggests that the potential to significantly increase income in the near future and make large amounts of money for the Pini's at Saints is limited.
I expect that explains why these guys are currently in Spain and not Scotland.

Question is...after managing to go seven games without a booking...will Goody manage to make it through 90 mins vs. Dundee Utd. on Wednesday without elbowing someone in the pus....

Question is...after managing to go seven games without a booking...will Goody manage to make it through 90 mins vs. Dundee Utd. on Wednesday without elbowing someone in the pus....

It's warmer in Girona.

I just can't see this deal going through. If you're very interested in buying a football club I imagine that the last thing you do is head off to another country and try to buy another one.
The reports suggest that Pini is spending around 2 weeks in Girona going through the books with an auditor and having a series of meetings to organise their bid. They spent a single day in Paisley and by all accounts left without expressing much serious interest.
If they were seriously interested in buying Saints, they would surely be spending the 2 weeks in Paisley not Girona.
Looks to me like Saints are at best a back up plan. And if they are telling the BOD they are planning to put a serious offer on the table, the BOD are surely being strung along.
Apart from anything else I don't suppose they have unlimited finance and if the Girona deal costs them an extra £1.5M they won't be able to finance a deal for Saints.
Even if it was to go through, it hardly looks likely it will be done before the window shuts (as Pini is in Girona until the 29th). By which time Saints will have been without a manager for about 8 weeks (10 league games) during what is a critical part of the season.
Nothing short of a disaster for the club; and not exactly a great way to treat the fans either.......

Not sure?
Maybe you should start another thread about it?
If you start a thread every time we win a game, at the current rate, you may have 3 or 4 running by the end of the season.

Not sure?
Maybe you should start another thread about it?
If you start a thread every time we win a game, at the current rate, you may have 3 or 4 running by the end of the season.

Not sure?
Maybe you should start another thread about it?
If you start a thread every time we win a game, at the current rate, you may have 3 or 4 running by the end of the season.

Not any real info in this statement, not sure why Graeme Redpath bothered to put this out.
It's quite clear that the board didn't want to sell to them, for whatever reason.
It does though bring into sharp focus that the Board have done nothing to replace Tommy Craig.
This in my opinion is now doing serious harm to the club, they have now lost any advantage at all in sacking TC in advance of the window.
The task of saving us from relegation is rapidly going from extremely hard to completely impossible.

Not any real info in this statement, not sure why Graeme Redpath bothered to put this out.
It's quite clear that the board didn't want to sell to them, for whatever reason.
It does though bring into sharp focus that the Board have done nothing to replace Tommy Craig.
This in my opinion is now doing serious harm to the club, they have now lost any advantage at all in sacking TC in advance of the window.
The task of saving us from relegation is rapidly going from extremely hard to completely impossible.

I'm not sure I understand all the ardent support for Teale getting the managers job.
I've nothing against him. I get the point that he's a good player and has played at the top level and he may even have the makings of a great manager. However there are plenty of top flight players who tried their hand at management and failed. At the very least appointing Teale would be a gamble.
Who ever gets the job, it will be an extremely tough one. Squad needs a change of direction as well as a complete overhaul and the team's sitting bottom of the league. A hard task for anyone, let alone someone who's been handed their first job in management.
After deciding that appointing the assistant wasn't the way to go, it seems strange to consider the assistant's assistant? Especially when his contribution to date doesn't seem to have been much help in getting the team going in the right direction.
I'm not convinced Teale is right for the job, and even less convinced that the job is right for Teale.

I'm not sure I understand all the ardent support for Teale getting the managers job.
I've nothing against him. I get the point that he's a good player and has played at the top level and he may even have the makings of a great manager. However there are plenty of top flight players who tried their hand at management and failed. At the very least appointing Teale would be a gamble.
Who ever gets the job, it will be an extremely tough one. Squad needs a change of direction as well as a complete overhaul and the team's sitting bottom of the league. A hard task for anyone, let alone someone who's been handed their first job in management.
After deciding that appointing the assistant wasn't the way to go, it seems strange to consider the assistant's assistant? Especially when his contribution to date doesn't seem to have been much help in getting the team going in the right direction.
I'm not convinced Teale is right for the job, and even less convinced that the job is right for Teale.

I'm not sure I understand all the ardent support for Teale getting the managers job.
I've nothing against him. I get the point that he's a good player and has played at the top level and he may even have the makings of a great manager. However there are plenty of top flight players who tried their hand at management and failed. At the very least appointing Teale would be a gamble.
Who ever gets the job, it will be an extremely tough one. Squad needs a change of direction as well as a complete overhaul and the team's sitting bottom of the league. A hard task for anyone, let alone someone who's been handed their first job in management.
After deciding that appointing the assistant wasn't the way to go, it seems strange to consider the assistant's assistant? Especially when his contribution to date doesn't seem to have been much help in getting the team going in the right direction.
I'm not convinced Teale is right for the job, and even less convinced that the job is right for Teale.

And that is a bit worrying given that it's the first time we played a semi-decent team.
Fingers crossed we can raise performance level for next week.

And in other news...wheel invented.....
Clutching at straws with this one, but be a slow news day month......
And Junior Mendes kicked off the World Cup in Brazil.......

Well done to both Div and Brian. Updates at this time of year much appreciated!! Great idea!

I was under the impression that a public display of bigotry was a crime in Scotland.
If waving a Sevco top around doesn't constitute support for bigotry I don't know what does...

Meanwhile as Sevco desperately scramble to release yet another share issue to cover an 8 million pound hole in their finances, on the same day they offer to quadruple the salary of one of our players to play in the division below us....the mind boggles.....

Hope for Darren's sake that Sevco's medics are as good as their accountants!!.......

Meanwhile as Sevco desperately scramble to release yet another share issue to cover an 8 million pound hole in their finances, on the same day they offer to quadruple the salary of one of our players to play in the division below us....the mind boggles.....

Meanwhile as Sevco desperately scramble to release yet another share issue to cover an 8 million pound hole in their finances, on the same day they offer to quadruple the salary of one of our players to play in the division below us....the mind boggles.....