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Rothesay Saint

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    Rothesay Saint reacted to FS in 20mph Coming To All Towns And City's   
    The answa ma feind os bowin in the wind...
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to oaksoft in 20mph Coming To All Towns And City's   
    About time to be honest.
    Our relationship with our cars is almost as arrogant, poisonous and destructive as our relationship with alcohol.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Tam M in Dummett's Cup Final Shirt On Ebay   
    Won for £509... Waiting on Paul confirming he wore it during the game at some point before I part with my cash!
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to sally02 in Buy The Buds   
    After 6 years with no takers, don't think anybody's rushin !
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Drew in Buy The Buds   
    Can I be (perhaps) the first to give credit where it is due to a former supporter and occasional customer of the club for fronting up £25 a month in support of this bid.
    In all seriousness, its a decent gesture from the portly pipefitter, and I for one commend him for it. Fair play, Stuart.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to pozbaird in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    Damn. My expectations were that my twelve quid a month would see me consulted on everything from appointing a new manager to changing the brand of coffee served in corporate.
    SMiSA and GLS can do one. I'm out before i'm even in.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to northendsaint in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    I,m in,My family will be in and i will be canvassing lapsed Saints fans and drinking buddies in my local to support their local team.Hopefully now we will have positivity coming from within the club but we need to do it as one.Fans council,Smisa,supporters clubs,season ticket holders.We should all be in this together.STID and all that.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to HSS in Joint Us/english Bid   
    Good point mate.....why waste a tenner when you can be a laughing stock for f'ck all.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Wilbur in Joint Us/english Bid   
    Investors ?? Are you sure that is the correct terminology ??
    Since when did pumping hard-earned £££ into a diddy club equate to an investment ?? Just ask Stewart Gilmour or George Campbell how their investment in St Mirren is performing for them. They could have pished their money away in Las Vegas or Monte Carlo and had some fun instead of the misery and stress they have suffered while striving to keeping St Mirren afloat.
    And why do all the rumours posted on B&W Army always seem to involve a consortium ? Consortiums (consortia ?) imply a need for combined wealth from a number of rich investors. Right now St Mirren could be purchased for buttons, a pocketful of loose change for anyone who has had a vaguely successful career in football. For instance, Peter Crouch could buy St Mirren or instead he could cough up for 4 frocks for Abby Clancy. Which choice is more likely to guarantee him his Nat King Cole ?
    St Mirren desperately needs a new owner but the danger is that we could be picked up by someone as a plaything (similar to Romanov ?). What we need is a mega-rich philanthropist who has a deep emotional attachment to the club and who can afford to shrug off financial losses.
    If that fantasy owner doesn't exist then maybe SMISA (and safe mediocrity) is our best hope.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to HSS in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    A League without the Ugly Sisters is the best thing that could happen to Scottish football.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to FS in Ally Mccoist   
    Coisty's gardening skills in fact go all the way back to when he used to tend to Hazel Irvine's bush...
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to BuddieinEK in Paisley Pubs   
    Someone come up to me the other day and cut the bottom of my touserleg off then said he was taking it to the library.
    I thought "that's a turnup for the books"!
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Drew in St Mirren V Alloa Athletic 30/1/16   
    I have a 100% loss record when attending corporate.
    Only been once, right enough, and did win a signed ball (smarted a wee bit, but was worth it).
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Drew in St Mirren V Alloa Athletic 30/1/16   
    Might as well stay to the final whistle, then.
    *sorry*
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Drew in Totp 1981   
    Is that the Ramblers Remix?
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to oaksoft in Yes Chef   
    Aye but he thinks he is Elvis.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to the digger in The Oscars And Black Actors   
    Black and minority ethnic actors do not want "positive discrimination", "affirmative action" or "token nominations". the issue for them is that the Oscar voters (around 6,300) are overwhelmingly white older males, and as such, are arguably less likely to acknowledge (or to be fairer, less likely to enjoy) certain performances and movies. This also works against the likes of Tarantino and previously Scorcese, whose movies might be less appealing to a bunch of old white guys.
    The current ratio is in fact, 94% white, 2% black, 2% latino, 2% other; the average age, meanwhile is 62, many of whom haven't been involved in making a movie for over 20 years.
    What many black and ethnic minority performers would like to see, therefore, is to be better represented in voters, rather than simply be given token nominations.
    As for this year, Samuel L Jackson was well worth a nomination for the hateful eight, whilst Spike Lee's movie Chi-Raq might easily have been recognised in several categories.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to northendsaint in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    For your information Stuart i have the following.
    Founder member of the BGB.(now the panda club)
    League Secretary of Johnstone and district football league.
    Founder member of St Mirren FCBC..
    Thick skin not required only tolerance of thick cunts.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to pozbaird in Worst Film You Have Ever Seen?   
    A.I. is one of my top five favourite films of all time. Jude Law is brilliant in it, and the Rouge City scenes are stunning. Absolutely wonderful film, first time I saw it I also had a wee tear in my eye at the end. The only other movies that happened to me was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Awakenings.
    Talk about art being a subjective matter!
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Bud the Baker in Worst Film You Have Ever Seen?   
    Moving way off topic I once went to see a play of the Iain Banks novel The Bridge. It was kinda avant-garde, there was no stage and the audience, cast and props were all together on the floor. You were supposed to follow the actors around and mingle, now I'd just finished a long shift at work so I sat up on a bed to rest my weary legs for a minute and like Goldilocks fell fast asleep so when the hero crashed his car and had to be lifted onto the bed in a coma they had to wake me up before they could continue the play.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Drew in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    GLS was effectively site manager when the new stadium was under construction.
    Those of us involved in the Final Chapter book were afforded the opportunity to get in and about the site as the build progressed (recording this process was an integral component of the book itself), and it was invariably Gordon who welcomed us and showed us around. His enthusiasm, attention to detail, and commitment was abundantly clear, and the hours he spent there are testimony to that.
    Say what you will about the final product (and I am no huge fan, while appreciating the constraints the club was operating under),but the extent of his input was undeniable. Indeed, I'll take a punt and suggest that the stadium might have been further developed, and earning a higher commercial income had he still been about.
    I've only met Gordon a handful of times, I'm not a mate, and have no reason to brown nose or butter him up. I'm simply passing on my direct experience,for what it's worth. We will require a new Chairman of the club soon enough, and if that is to be Gordon, I'm comfortable with that.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to div in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    Was part of the board that got us SPL compliant, got us promoted, got us promoted again after relegation, eradicated the club debt, brokered deal that got us the new stadium, built the new stadium and developed Ralston.
    Yeah, apart from that, he did f**k all.
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to div in English Bid For The Club ?   
    He had me at "Hello"
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to rea in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    So it works for smaller Clubs (and when i say works i mean they have remained solvent not that they have suddenly become Champ League contenders) like Stirling, Clyde and Annan, it works for bigger Clubs like Hearts, Portsmouth and Bayern Munich...so it is just the ones in the middle that it is "pie in the sky for"...dont get you, fell free to expand on your reasoning or show your working
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    Rothesay Saint reacted to Chris in Smisa & Gordon Scott Submit Bid   
    As someone has already pointed out, the business plan will be put to those expected to fund it if and when the proposal is accepted. That seems like common sense to me, and I am a member of SMISA so I would be one of those funders.
    Disagree with your bottom line too. While Gordon Scott is in charge, I'd imagine the situation would be no different to it is now. Once the shares have been purchased from him, nothing stops SMISA's members continuing their monthly subscriptions, and that money could and should be built up to provide working capital.
    As for where it has worked in the past, a number of fan-owned clubs are doing very well indeed. I'd say AFC Wimbledon, who have risen up the leagues into the professional ranks, and FC United, who have just built a new stadium for themselves, are good examples.
    Your attitude is short-sighted because it looks only at the present. Would we be at a competitive disadvantage to clubs with rich chairmen splashing cash that the club doesn't generate? Quite possibly, yes - although fortunately the size of the budget does not always equate to the performance of the team. However, that is simply not a sustainable model, and we will see less and less of it in Scotland. You can't make money from Scottish football clubs, perhaps unless you qualify for the Champions League or we get a Premiership-style TV deal. Neither of those outcomes is realistic, so there is no incentive for the benevolent rich owner to buy a club. The only way forward is for clubs to spend only what they bring in. As more clubs realize that and adapt accordingly, competitive disadvantages with the likes of St Johnstone or Ross County, for example, will fade away.
    This is about the long term future of the club, and there is no doubt in my mind that supporter ownership is the only way forward for small clubs like ours. As I said at the end of last season, the only good thing about relegation was that it would make this a more feasible option in the eyes of the consortium. I don't think anyone - and I'd imagine the consortium would include themselves in this - is happy with the current way of operating the club, and things on the pitch are pretty poor. This makes it the ideal time to transition to supporter ownership as we have neither top flight status nor promising performances to - potentially - jeopardise.
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