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Makes sense . Where else could we have found the money for Cheesys wages.
Still doesn't add up. It's common knowledge of course that Marc was only on £10,000 a week in his final year. So making reasonable estimates of the four years before his last season I estimate that he probably only earned about £2,000,000 over the full five years. And worth every penny. So another couple of million still to be accounted for.
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I've got a feeling that the climate change agreement is again going to be a fudge. Hope I'm wrong. In any event I don't see how any agreement would be policed. China and India are likely to carry on as before.
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When someone in Latvia comes home on a cold winter night do they say "It's f**king Baltic oot there."?
Only if his/her English is up to it. The 'oot' bit is bound to present a problem unless some of them were lett into Glasgow for a few bevvies.
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Well , smited , would be the past particple of smote. Though , you will see that BAWA wants you to correct the word , smited , though it is happy with smote. .
Greeks bearing gifts isn't biblical , it's only Virgil from the Aeneid. .
. .anyway , if the legend comes back we will see goals for us again on a biblical scale and our opponents will be smote. .
I reckon it should be smut.
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Aye but I bet he wasn't using a bloody iPad.
I'm happy with geeks although genius would be more apt.
Not using the iPad today as you can see.
No, it was long before iPads or even calculators. He didn't need notes. A guy with a genuine photographic memory. He had a glittering career starting in Andersons Colours on Hawkhead Road which became Geigy and is now of course Novartis. Last I heard he was in Switzerland but he'll be long retired now.
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there is absolutely ZERO chance of a lowly store manager having access to that sort of information.
FFS.
There is most definitely a much better than zero chance. Once the deal is done, many big companies send out details to their branches/outlets to demonstrate what clever boys they were yet again. In that case of course they were far from being clever and we should all be eternally grateful.
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this is a decent summary of the scientific method.
Hell, Bluto, beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Or do I mean geeks? I leave you to point out one of the 't's.
Gloval warming hahaha
irish rick, less so
An Irish rick is either Paddy with a sore back or a haystack in Donegal. I like to use capitals. A real scientist once told me it's more important than science. And that's a true story.
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The inhouse critter was actually talking about pollution not global warming but dont let that minor error spoil a hilarious rant.
I thought I'd been very circumspect. What makes you think I was referring to you? Nice to hear from you. Your sense of humour is almost blooming now.
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I've read virtually nothing on this thread but I'm curious. Does his cock actually feature anywhere?
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So there was a plague of icebergs?
Would icebergs not have melted by the time the reached Egypt?
Ah, got it now, this global warming malarkey isn't man made, it's god sending his icebergs to plague Egypt. He didn't really think this one through very well, did he. c**t!
Oh, uh!! You'll go to hell for saying that. It says that in the bible somewhere.I think.
A lot of folk getting hot under the collar. For every pseudo scientist who says global warming is real, there is another one who says bollocks it is. Scientists tend to be patronising bastards, just like our (alleged) in-house critter. Does anybody remember the John Cleese skit about patronising merchant bankers? At least that rhymed. Whether global warming exists and if it does and becomes problematic, man will sort it out. Engineers will probably help a bloody sight more than scientists, whatever they are. Remember, Einstein made mistakes and some of his 'discoveries' are under serious scrutiny even though he was a genius.
1963 was f**king freezing right enough. No football for nearly four months. Rusty Hutton opened up the Camphill gym on Saturday mornings so the football teams could at least play indoors. Getting up Camphill was treacherous. Icy as hell.
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Don't even know what dodgy pop-ups are supposed to look like but if that lassie who lies across the top of our site advertising Debenhams Magic Wire Bras is one of them it's OK with me. She wears a cracking simmet. I'm happily married but if she asked me nice, I could be tempted.
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It's feckin ludicrous having 4 versions of the exact same thing. Money making scam.
Boxing started making a clown of itself years ago. I was an avid fan years ago but now barely bother. When guys like Don King have influence and make megabucks there's a lot wrong. Some UK promoters were dodgy too. King is a caricature. He would look OTT in a boxing movie but unfortunately he's for real.
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I know plenty that can write shit shit.
#thichasfcuk
You and I both wrote it. The spelling was perfect.
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... you've been saying almost the same thing now for about 4 seasons!
What does shit shit actually mean? Does it mean really shitty? I thought everybody shits shit or should it be shat shit?
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Ridiculous. There are plenty of other ties that are way more attractive than that one. Still at least it prevents our game being moved to a daft time......unless this Friday nonsense is true.
But just imagine they get stuffed. The highlights would be a bit of fun.
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Perhaps contracts should be restructured to reflect this but I'd insist that if annual loans from directors are required to keep the club running then the budget is set too high.
If it's true that the loans are short term to even out cashflow then it's not a big deal. I suppose it remains to be seen. Oaky says he refuses to call putting money into a football club an investment and I think that's correct. An investment is supposed to give a return but in Scottish football there can't be many people making money from their investment. At least,not legally. The only way forward for St.Mirren if we can't find a sugar daddy, seems to be fan ownership but judging by apathy in the past, unless there's a sea change in the attitude of fans to digging into their own pockets, then it's beginning to look like a non starter. Stalemate.
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I'm not sure that the budget is set too high, rather it's the nature of the cashflow cycle that we take lump sums at the start of season (season tickets) and a lump sum at the end of the season (prize money) and that in between we have limited funding barring cup runs or player sales. Overall the money we spend is pretty much what we take in, just slightly out of kilter to when we take it in.
I've always understood the position is exactly as you've described it. We more or less break even but if that's correct just think how much better the position would be if we never had to pay up contracts to failed managers and players. The 66% of budget we've used up isn't all that much higher than the 60% that's always quoted as the maximum football clubs should pay. It strikes me that January signings are probably out of the question.especially if Ian Murray gets punted. How much realistically would we save if some of the deadwood goes?
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Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
7kms of bridge and tunnel - probably the most exhilarating crossing I've done, anywhere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge
A small toll.
Does size matter?
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18 hours ago I posted this. Since then, the prime suspect has trolled out the 'SNP Baaaaaad' line and still people fall for it. If only I could forecast lottery numbers as accurately...
Why do you all keep responding to him? I've had him on ignore for years but see too much of his rants on my phone. If I didn't believe that basically he's thick I'd be wondering if he's a puppet master pulling all your strings. Or possibly pushing his hands up your arses depending on what kind of puppets. Some of you Nationalist guys don't seem to know when you're making tits of yourselves.
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Did they dance to Moonlight Serenade?
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Heard Mull Of Kintyre on the radio this morning and I can't help liking it. Wonder if FJ likes it? I've got a soft spot for Brown Girl In The Ring because it takes me back to Ibiza in 1978. And Another Brick In The Wall whem my kids from my first marriage along with their cousins from Liverpool belted it out all night in my parents house in Glenburn. A lot of Floyd purists seem to hate it. Don't know why. In Santa Ponsa 1981 we had The Birdy Song. Takes me back to another great holiday but I swear to God I hate that f**king number!
Anybody willing to own up?
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When I played football if the game at Love Street was off then so were our games. There was virtually no football on TV and the bloody pubs closed at 2-30 until 5pm. Long boring Saturdays. Kent Walton and Billy Two Rivers helped a wee bit.
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What these accounts tell us is that running St Mirren on a pretty tight budget is difficult and very unlikely to generate much of a profit unless the team has some real success on the field in some shape or form. With Saints, this is a transient position at best.
As said by a few before, the fans buy out option is highly unlikely, as funds needed when difficult decisions need to be taken both on and off the field, may necessitate for a call for finances and unless the fans Council have a sinking fund established and can agree to release it, then where does the cash come from? The Company has to be run on a continually solvent basis for a Council system to work.
As much as I'd like to see the club in theoretical public / fans ownership without any one person having a controlling interest, I believe that when it comes to the hard decisions, the conglomerate of fans would not be able to make them.
The present BoD's are fans, they appear at present to be inserting Director's loans into the company which they will be entitled to take out if the company has the money to pay them (at a point when someone comes along and puts money on the table, or the club is profitable through trading).
What I don't get is that many think that someone coming in is going to invest money in the club and bring in new players and that they will 'invest' money and that they will do this willingly !!!!!!!!???????
Wake up and smell the coffee, no-one will put money into St Mirren unless they see a way of getting the money back out or get an annual return out of the profits of the company.
To achieve that they may have to gamble significant amounts on new players (+ maybe Manager) then hope / dream / pray that the money spent will succeed on the park. It's a big gamble and as Shull has argued for a long time the players are overpaid so if you bring in new (arguably better) players, in theory the wage bill will rise further.
In times gone by we traded players to make the books balance. These days are gone and we now depend on home grown talent coming through the U20's set up, holding onto them long enough to see the potential grow and hopefully someone paying us a figure which represents a return for the investment spent on that player that came through the ranks.
We are stuck with the present Board, which doesn't please me, but unless a fan wins the Euro lottery and can afford to play Football Chairman with say £10m as a pastime, we are stuck with what we have got and any fan's dreams of a Council run club is highly unlikely.
Sorry to be so negative, but I don't live on
I agree with virtually everything you have said but disagree with the figure of £10m. that you quote. If we had the hypothetical sugar daddy who paid cc £1-5m. for the club and could start off with no debt and let's say £1m in the bank, he/she/they should be able to make a good fist of it providing there was a fairly good manager and a go ahead board willing to work hard and shake the club up. If there was £10m. in the bank, it would take an imbecile of the highest order and totally clueless to fail to radically improve our club's fortunes.
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I cannot forgive him for THAT cup final v 9 men, so its a no from me.
Agree entirely. As soon as those pricks went down to ten men, I said to my mates that we would get beat. I've hardly ever felt so sure of anything in my life. Bastards!
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Right enough. Better add another £500. That will about cover it.