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I've gambled on TNS plenty of times over the past few seasons (due to the fact that they almost always win).
I finally watched one of their games on S4C and was pretty shocked at how mince the standard was.

With all due respect... Not the point. This was a national trophy which GAURANTEED a lower league team winning it. It was FOR the lower leagues. It has been devalued even more than it was by this feckup of a transformation. No self respecting BoDs should accept that their team is akin to a development team which is what this change is suggesting.

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

That's me signed up. Out of the loop a wee bit here in Llandudno, but happy to be involved in #BuyTheBuds

Welcome to the Buds Rocco!

Close the west stand? What a load of pish.

" WHEN Alex Ferguson realised the scale of the shambles he’d inherited at St Mirren he came to two conclusions.
One, that he had to shake the place up from top to bottom, no matter how many players or directors it riled.
And two, that wherever he wanted to take the club, he’d get nowhere unless he dragged the fans along with him.Now 41 years on, a new Saints manager facing similar challenges has blown the second before he’s given himself a proper crack at overcoming the first.
It’s a mistake from which Ian Murray might never fully recover.
Because when he told the freezing band of travelling supporters who’d booed Tuesday’s scrambled 1-1 draw at Raith Rovers that “I know more about football than they do”, he lost the best allies any gaffer can have.
Ask Fergie. In his early days, when the team was rank rotten and the directors were stuck in the 1930s, he went round Paisley bawling through a megaphone to sell the idea that we WERE worth watching.
I’ve been listening to his memories of these times in the audio version of his latest book — though, to be honest, it’s all as fresh as new paint in my mind, because I was there.
As a 13-year-old, I was one of those who hung on a budding genius’s every word as he turned gates of 1,500 into close on 15,000, turned chumps into champions.
Fergie genuinely did create a 12th man. Murray, unfortunately, has left today’s side down to ten.
See, just as the self-styled office joker turns out to be the unfunniest person in the universe, and anyone who starts a sentence “no offence, but...” is about to offend everyone within a five-mile radius, a true expert doesn’t have to tell you how much of an expert they are.Yet that’s what a young guy under pressure has tried to do.
Prefixing his statement by saying he “wasn’t being patronising” only made punters feel more patronised. Later admitting he picked his words poorly only made him look desperate.
Sorry if he reads this and feels like I’m having a pop, but it’s just the way it is.
I was at Stark’s Park on Tuesday and not even the last-gasp free-kick from Stevie Mallan that rescued a point could disguise how poor a display it had been.
At times like these, a smart manager pulls the punters closer to him. He asks them for patience. He thanks them for giving up their time and their money to be there for a horrible midweek fixture.
Even if he doesn’t believe it, he tells them how wonderful and invaluable they are.
It’s either a sign of just how much pressure Murray is feeling right now, or how little he gets the situation, that he misjudged his post-match comments so badly.
As for the assertion itself, that he does know better than the fans? Well, it’s another argument altogether. And one you’d need to be a very confident man indeed to win.
I mean, how does he know who’s in the away end? How does he know he’s not being booed by a Uefa Pro-Licensed Coach?
The assumption that all fans are less educated about football than someone who happens to earn a crust from the game is a dangerous one indeed.
For instance, the previous Friday I’d been at another fairly woeful 1-1 draw, this time at home to Morton.
Within half-a-dozen seats of me were Tony Fitzpatrick and Tommy Turner, two guys who skippered the club to titles, who played more than 1,000 career games between them — and who were both raging at what they’d just witnessed.
Does the manager know better than them? Do THEY have the right to complain?
Fact is, it doesn’t take a professional to know the most basic things are going wrong; like a team going in 1-0 up at half-time, as we did against Morton, then coming back out 15 yards deeper and inviting an equaliser which eventually came.
You don’t need badges to understand this, just as you don’t need to have been in the dugout to know how meekly St Mirren went down at Ibrox on Saturday.And you don’t need the manager’s permission to shout the odds about it.
I hope Ian Murray turns things round and at the very least gets into the promotion play-offs, because the last thing we need is more upheaval.
But if he does, he’ll have to go at least as far as reading the title of Fergie’s manual on management. It’s called Leading. Not Ostracising." Bill Leckie's view in today's Sun

You could include the one about Steve Mellis losing his passport in Antwerp and getting back into UK at Harwich on the strength of his cue-ball membership card !!

I found a You Tube video that has brief highlights of the Saints v Mechelen matches. First time I remember seeing the away game footage, although my dad took me to the 2nd leg at Love Street. I was only 8 years old though, so cant remember too much about it now!
The video is a documentary about them winning the CWC that seasons, and shows all their games spliced with interviews with players and fans. The Saints segment starts at 15mins in, and shows a few seconds of the Saints travelling support in Belgium!

On a similar note. Did any Saints fans make the long journey to the Arctic circle for the First Round match in Tromso?

Opening March just about 2 weeks away. Nae Surrender
Lol

Pleased to advise that our new look homepage design is now live, ready for the new season.
Main changes are that the content on the homepage is now fully responsive, which means it adapts automatically to work perfectly on mobile and tablet devices as well as laptops/desktops.
We're going to be publishing a lot more content there in the new season too with our new reporter Andy McGonigle on board.
We'll have photos from most matches from our man John McCarney too and we have a new social media mashup feature on the homepage for those people who don't do twitter. It's a great way of seeing what' happening across a few key social media accounts.
Each article on the homepage has a discussion plugin built in, so you can get involved with the chat about what will hopefully be lots of new articles about lots of new signings !

I think the sponsor logo is still on the large side, but at the end of the day at least it's black & white too.
It's a zillion times better than last seasons. Happy buddie here !!

Championship winning strip

Top class Top

Love it !!

Indeed.
Rangers last ever game in Paisley was on Christmas Eve 2011. Goals from Paul McGowan and Aaron Mooy gave the Saints a deserved win.
Rangers died the following July.

Add JD Sports on to that for the ridiculous stripes we've been wearing all season.