RickMcD

Yep, Sarfend was known as a shitehole but the council have chucked a bit of money at it.
Popular venue for East Londoners beano's.
TOTS was a popular nightclub that attracted all sorts.
They've revived The Kursal & done up the pier.
Get some good bands at Cliffs Pavilion & Adventure Island gets busy.

1 mile along the road is Leigh (on Sea), a wee bit more refined & gets packed on weekends.

Here's hoping St Mirren FC come to play a preseason friendly sometime soon.

It's the "Never had ma Nat King and never likely to get it aff any Human"  tattoo........

http://www.stmirren.info/strips.html

Naw a didnae!

Shut the f**k up

1970 - Wasn't even called Glastonbury at that point. Good to see Al Stewart still going strong, saw him in May. Oh and who is this Mark Boland?
 
1998 - Ronnie Williams headlining - undoubtedly the evening rock music died as a force for rebellion - RIP.
 
2009 - Conscience of the nation Lilly Allen, Caligula and a dirty dingo - is that a real line-up or a Comic Strip spoof?,

I see one of the German 4th tier leagues are struggling for a 20th club and have invited China's under 20s. Surely Rangers Colt team could just go over there.

Sutton, Reilly, and Stewart.  Smith is classed as a forward, as is Hilson, but not sure if they would be played up top.

Thank Feck. I'd hate to think they got away with it completely!

I'd get a new bike if i were you . .

They'll get it quicker than they would without an accelerated payment, which funnily enough is what was being discussed. Less slowly is quicker, unless teaching has changed dramatically since I left school in the 80's.

Correct ! Although you wouldn't have thought that at the Smisa quiz  , last night. Great night , Directors/ex players team , management team , current players team (including new signings) and around 60 fans. Shame there wasn't a bigger turnout of members , I would hate to think that some of the current agendas flying about was the reason behind some supporters non-attendance !

In essence, it's not from the club. In theory they still get paid by SMISA just as anyone taking over would have paid them the same money.

But, the actual process around the accelerated payment is convoluted and very difficult to understand or explain in full. Luckily, that's what David Nicol is there for.

All welcome or just St Mirren Season Ticket Holders ? 

This afternoon I have been told. 
He will be modelling the new strip along with two other new signings. 
Exciting times for St Mirren supporters except those who do not possess a Season Ticket. 
 

Exactly! Churning out is the right choice of words. In fact it's becoming more likely that a surplus of talent is the danger where we are not able to fulfil the ambitions of our academy graduates due to the numbers. I can't wait to see if my grandkid continues to develop under their stewardship. They are doing a fantastic job from what I see.

Who was the poster who was hyper critical of David Longwell and called the youth setup a failure just a couple of years ago? 
I think that it's obvious that our system has been and continues to be a total success. In the space of two decades we've gone from a club who maybe produced a player good enough for the level we're playing at every two or three years (McGarry, Murray, Lavety) to producing one or two of these types of player consistently every season, guys who are actually getting moves onto bigger clubs. 
There was a time not so long ago (Stephen McGinn first time around) where my biggest worry about losing a youth prospect was the concept of who was going to replace him, I can honestly say that doesn't bother me so much any more as I'm confident we're capable of churning out good players regularly. 
These success stories also bode brilliantly for future youth intake. Why wouldn't the parents of an 11 or 12 year old want their child to come to St Mirren when you look at the chances given to so many young lads and the moves that so many of them have gained as a result? 

I seem to recall a few years go that some geezer on here never shut up about how useless our youth set up was and it was a waste of time and money. Who'd have thunk it right enough? Who was that Bud?

I guess it's in their plans but depends on delivery of the kit. Only guessing mind, but can't see it being any another date starting with a 2 in June, unless it's possibly an open day being planned by the club on 24th., June. An open day is one of the prizes in the season ticket draw, so more likely that than in the evening of the 23rd., that would suit all ages better, Just guessing though.

What's Catalan or Spanish for 'Hope tae' fcuk one of them has brought their away strip'.

The Koh-I-Noor was one of my favourites when lived in the old country. Good to hear it's still going strong. I can recommend The Bangla in Main Street, Bangor if you ever visit Co. Down. Won some big national awards at ceremonies in London.

This is my third attempt at replying. The cat buggered up my first and I buggered up the second. Here we go.
In the early 80's before I moved to Northern Ireland, the company I worked for was chosen to advise Coats employees about pension rights and investment advice when they started their early retirement and redundancy programme. Because I was from Paisley and still lived there I was heavily involved. I met a good few guys who had been at Camphill at the same time as me and I knew a fair number of the guys who were leaving. I really enjoyed my regular visits although it was bitter sweet knowing the mills were closing. Like almost everyone from Paisley, a load of my family had worked in the mills in the preceding 100 years. I used to hear the tales, probably apocryphal , about how mill  lassies used to handle young boy apprentices. Sounded like fun.
The personnel manager at the time told me he was concerned about some of the staff. He had done research on the effects of early retirement or redundancy of long term employees and there were loads of Coats staff at that time in their 50's and 60's who left school at fifteen and never worked anywhere else. Senior management apparently told him to keep quiet as they felt the leaving terms were generous and management felt they had done enough. The benefits were generous, I came across an example of an employee who couldn't contemplate life without Coats. He was a 58 year old manager who had joined at 15 straight from school. He was receiving a terrific pension which he no longer had to contribute to as he already had more than forty years in the pension scheme. He broke down in tears in front of me, in a right old state. He wanted to work for free and couldn't understand why Coats wouldn't wear it. I never did hear how he made out but the last I heard he was doing all right.
Another difficulty Coats came across was employees who had lived in places like India and South America. A lot of them lived in very rural areas and quite often they might be the only English speaking person within miles. A lot of these guys seemed to develop psychological problems. I was asked to see a lady in Johnstone whose husband had worked long term in either Columbia or Peru. Can't remember which. The (very attractive) lady told me that her husband had gone native. Instead of coming home on leave, he had taken to going by canoe up rivers into jungle areas where to put it mildly any stranger, let alone a white man. was far from safe. Coats had sent out his redundancy and pension entitlement but he just didn't want to know. Needless to say, his wife did. I was given a number to ring the bloke. Sounds crazy now in this day of mobile phones but in 82 or 83 I had to get the go ahead from my boss. It was a waste of time anyway. I'm pretty sure the phone was answered by the right guy but got the 'no speaky da English'. Me neither. Coats made sure, rightly, that the bloke's wife got her entitlement. The guy's wife told me confidentially, that she was pretty sure he used to take a local girl with him on his canoe trips to interpret. And possibly provide other  services. Never heard the outcome.
I have a second cousin who retired at that time. He is still around at the age of 91. I was speaking to him at a family funeral a few years ago and he told me he could hardly spend all his monthly pension. The annual increase compounding over thirty odd years made sure of that,
I felt almost privileged to have that involvement with The Mills. I always wondered what they were like inside and I got to see some of it. Just so sad that it all came to a terrible end. Pityme's post above more or less says it all. Don't think there was an alternative.
 

It wasn't Neil
That statement went out not to alarm people
My mate stays next door to the incident
He said it was no firework and there's still 2 police still in the flat while the guy is in the nick

I got a response after a few days, no problem with that, just the minutes have not materialised. I am sure the SMISA fellas are busy blokes & being involved in organisations/projects like this can be a thankless task, for that reason, I have no desire to be critical but by now, I would have expected for us to be notified of the timeframe for the minutes to be distributed.
As the secretary of the youth football club I am involved with,  Questions would be asked and I would run the risk of being lynched if I didn't distribute the minutes of the meetings within the agreed timeframe.
I think the problem here is, SMISA have never (as far as I know) distributed the minutes and their resistance to do so now is because, historically, they haven't done so or been asked to do so. Just a handful of members asking for them doesn't seem to be registering that the proper/right thing to do is to distribute the minutes of their meetings.
You can only ask for something so many times before you stop wasting your time & money.