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Issue is you need all the share bought last year etc that would enable a new consortium to be in control of 75% of the shares, which is a key issue, 51% is just not enough for this kind of structure of deal.
I looked at doing the deal privately after 10000hours fell through and then selling it back over time, but only 51% was able to be controlled at that time and so the legal advice was not to. FoH needed the 75% collectively also.
Unless one grouping can in total start off with 75% then it is going to be difficult to make this sort of deal work

I'm also a member of SMiSA, and, in signing up, I also signed over a degree of trust as to how they are conducting their business in terms of this initiative.
If they had contacted all members prior to submitting the 'proposal', there could have been two, potentially significant, issues.
First off, there is the time issue in terms of canvassing the views of members as to the proposal. With another group possibly moving in with a bid, any delay might undermine the chances of their proposal being accepted. Secondly, they would be all but publicising the detail of their proposal (it would be all over here like a rash), and this would put them at an immediate disadvantage over any competing interest whose bid would remain private and confidential.
As it is, I'm glad something appears to be moving forward. I am more hopeful than confident about the chances of fan ownership working out, but that hope (and faith) is enough to secure my support.

From a Morton fan
Careful what you wish for, etc. Seems fans of other clubs have more appreciation of our BOD than our own.

I MUST NOT TYPE ANYTHING.....
no, no,no.

It is morally repugnant. Preying on desperate people in this manner should be illegal.

Where else is Dave King to go?

Here comes Bod now. .

Merry Christmas... ☺

This really shocks me. Gow has played 239 games ???

1 No he hasn't - not by a long shot. Mehmet scored 56 goals in 164 appearances for us. Gow has scored 61 in a career spanning 13 clubs and 239 games. Mehmet has also scored 67 goals in 131 appearances since leaving us.
2. Gow had a history of injuries and was woeful for the few months that he was here. To renew his contract was crazy.
Just saying

With Kylie at right back.

Ok.
Just been at a funeral
Had a beer or so.
But the post above and its sentiments are all I'd want from any wish-list.
Thanks, Balmullo Bud.
I believe St Mirren will have a future due to Buddies like yersel.

Sorry to digress from Kylie's videos, which I reluctantly watched and greatly appreciated for their artistic merits.
My best pressie this year will be at SMP on Boxing Day when I see my kids' faces gazing at their new brick (got email today to say it's up and they've no idea about it).
Whenever we make the trek through for a game, as soon as I park they always want to head for the Wall of Fame to see "Great Grandad's Brick". Their names will be the fourth generation up there now and I reckon they'll go nuts when they see it.
It's a nice wee link between their great grandad, who they never met and the Paisley/St Mirren roots from my branch of the family, considering they're born and bred Fifers with no family left in Paisley.
If my dad and I are going to suffer, then so are they.

Well done Andy Murray & The Davies cup team.
But award of the evening has to be young Bailey Matthews
When we have overpaid Prima Donnas like Yaya Toure who complain that their club didnt buy them a big enough birthday cake, this young man is a TRUE sporting hero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/35129597

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Largest Town is irrelevant.
One Town - 3 Teams
And we are third.

That's completely inaccurate btw, his first selection was this with a few young boys to add !
Alec Morrison, Ricky McLachlan, Alec Beckett, John Young, George Brown, Billy Johnston, Rab Laurie, Brian Third, Bobby Biggar, Tony Fitzpatrick, Walter Borthwick, (Alan Hughes, Jason Walker)
He had four players on the books , three from that team plus Bobby Reid, who would become regulars in the top division ! Fergie rebuilt the whole club , and sadly that's what we're looking for now !

Disappointed Davie Hay and Iain Munro don't appear to be in the running

Darren Young has worked wonders at Albion Rovers, winning promotion and making a good start to keeping them in a higher league.
Exactly the managerial credentials we are looking for.
He spent most of his career playing in the top flight so he knows what its about.
I'd go for Young.

What's Goodwin done, apart from being our best player this season...

we're never going to all agree with each other on this one - personally i thought Gus's football was bad to watch so i thought his time was up but i would have renewed Danny's contract. i felt he had learned some hard lessons with us and was a better manager when we let him go than he was when we initially signed him. however i know from threads on here that other fans thought the opposite - that we should've kept Gus and that Danny's time was up.. We only agree when things are really shit (TC & Murray had to go, and should've gone sooner) and when things are great (77-87 anyone, European football, 3rd place finishes, Scottish cup win etc.) hopefully the new manager will unite us all again but this time for the right reasons.

Good set of accounts when you consider the performances on the park.
Thank goodness for our BOD.

Salient points appear to be;
1) Overall loss of £261K
2) This includes depreciation charges of just over £300K
3) Cash trading position roughly break even
4) Turnover of £3m
4) Wage bill of £2m
5) 66% wages to turnover ratio. (PWC recommends 60% for football clubs)
6) Board lent the club £245K interest free last season with no set repayment date. Also £100K the previous season
7) Directors took salary of £0 between them

I'm going to games and supporting the team, same as I always do. I don't go to games to cheer or jeer the board, I go to support the team.
That's what I'm doing.
The board have made mistakes recently. The appointment of Tommy Craig, the decision to not really replace him properly and it looks like the decision to appoint Ian Murray have all been mistakes.
I weigh that up against all the good things they have done for the club over the years too.
I can't forget the fact that we have a new stadium, a dedicated training complex, no debt, had 8 years of top flight football, three cup finals, two cup wins, one title win.
Of course people like you will say that was nothing to do with the board.
You can't have it both ways though.
So yes, I do have a lot of time for the board. I won't apologise for that.
It is time for the board to change though. The club needs new energy and new leadership. I hope that SMiSA & Gordon Scott can pull off their bid.
Talk of "starving the club of cash" is absolute f**king madness though.
As for "twising your words" did you or did you not state "The only way that lot will act is if their cash flow is stemmed or diverted, anyone got the bottle for that?"
You tell me who THAT LOT are and why it is "THEIR CASH FLOW" ?

" 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