RickMcD

Can everyone I know, and especially all St Mirren fans please share. We are planning a minute's applause for wee Raymie Balloch on Saturday, on the 58th minute of the match v Dundee Utd. Raymie was a Saints season ticket holder and Saints fanatic, as well as a great charity worker. He passed away 2 weeks ago doing one of the things he loved most......a charity bike ride.

Always reminds me of this . .
 

Naw, but the guy behind you was. 

Aye. They nearly reached your neck of the woods.

That c**t Thompson should never ref our games he goes too far the other way trying to prove he's not biased towards us. 

Who mentioned atmosphere mate? I said the ground was devoid of personality and soulless.  ( perhaps as you say character is a better descriptive word ). And how can I be wrong when it's my own feelings on our old ground and our new ground?
 
I myself have a great many memories of our old ground, both good and bad. The very first full game I attended was back in 1975 When we beat Dunfermline  2-0 (I say full game as  before that we used to get in free at half time ). Around the same time I watched The Paisley Lions Speedway and witnessed Ivan Mauger showing off his golden bike.  As a boy, I loved going over to Caiters Corner and listen to all the great patter and smell the older gents smoke their pipes. " Stark! Come up here and watch yersel play!!"
My all time best game both for atmosphere and result was the 1979 Anglo Scottish cup win against Bristol City. A fantastic night.
I was at the Scottish cup replay against smeltic and yes the atmosphere was electric. And the crowd was 27,000.  Brilliant European nights, some fantastic friendlies and fireworks on Guy Faux night.  I also remember being cold soaking and being among a shitty crowd of 1500, of pishing in some of the worst toilets you'll ever see! But I loved going to Love Street. When I walked up the slope toward the Northbank and the pitch came into view, I'd get all goosebumpsy.  I just loved going there . A  state of the art stadium it was not. 
I am not decrying GHR. Our new ground was built almost on the site of my old house where my family lived in the 1970's. (2, Ferguslie Park Avenue).  I suppose the ground will make it's own memories.  But Love Street was special. Not living in the past Faraway Saint , just remembering a dear 'old lady'.

I started this website 15 years ago to give Saints fans a platform for discussing the club and the team with each other.
We won't always agree on everything, otherwise there would be no point in having the forum at all. The only thing we all have in common should be a desire for the very best for the club. We want the team to succeed on the park and the club to thrive off the park. That should be a given.
It's important to me that when we disagree we do so constructively and with respect for each others views.
It's also important to me that the forum is not used as a vehicle to continually attack the club. The club make mistakes and should be called out on it when they do, but the players, the staff and everyone else associated with the club shouldn't be continually attacked by their own. It's not what the forum was created for.
The stuff posted in the last 48 hours on a couple of threads, which have now been hidden, has been miles away from the sort of stuff I expect to read on here, and yes I'm including myself in that.
It's been poor. Let's draw a line under it and move on and try harder to be civil to one another, using the ignore function if necessary to block out those users you don't wish to engage with.

For the love of god..................puns.

Had a good laugh at a guy stittng a few rows back in the hospitality seating area yesterday. Top of his voice at Houston - Did You Yake Yer Team To Blackpool Beach For Preseason training ( pause ) Ya Fukin Donkey.
Next full volume directed at a Falkirk player - Your Face Is Like A Horses Arse.
Respect you brought me and my compnions a giggle. 

Just used shull piss posts and you will be fine

Nah, that's Smokie you're thinking off.

Well spotted Sir. 

Where do I even f**king start.
No fume hoods despite stuff foaming from every flask.
No gloves or safety specs.
That lab coat is four sizes too small and won't provide adequate protection.
A huge f**k off flask dangling unsupported whilst full of green foaming stuff. Same with the flask at the back.
No obvious signs of a lab book.
Clearly attempting several experiments at the same time.
Untidy and cluttered workbench.
You may well vote for this scientist but IMO this is a disaster waiting to happen.

How do you know Neymar is a moron? How much does he give to charity?

I'll use 'bollocks' next time.

Most of the posts on the "must go" thread have been supportive against a few.
I don't agree the league Cup is "effectively pre season" as it's a major trophy which has provided the best day in our history in recent years.
Again, not many have forgotten our finish t last season but that was with a different team and after a 5-0 thumping some are concerned with the current strength of our squad.
The vast majority still have faith in the manager and have faith we can get close to the form of the last few months of last season.

Agree with most of this but think this game can still be quite important to us.
Granted, the result however it goes changes nothing as far as this competition goes but a decent performance and win should instill a bit of confidence in the team after the last 2 poor results. Last thing we need is to be going into the  Falkirk game with our heads down.
Its also a chance to see who's actually up for it and who wants to step up after last week's shocker. 
We've no doubt been working on a few  of things in training so it's another chance to put them to the test as well before the real stuff starts. 
Damp squib yes but not a totally pointless exercise.
Fully expect us to put in a performance and get a decent win giving us all a wee lift before Falkirk next week.
 

My work here is done

vituperation  elvis is thick as shit, he is still struggling with the concept of how to use the word you, he
uses yous frequently, dopey cunt can't help himself 

Because they're a very different beast to 110 footballs. Pretty obvious that TVs etc would be more involved...as would filling a corner or safe standing.

Mate, let it go. Its not worth the airtime. Sure, the forum is about opinions and debate, maybe even the odd heated one to keep us all going though the cold winter months but this guy just takes the opposite view on topics simply to draw attention to himself.

He posts shite, people respond calling it it out and he posts even more shite like some nauseating ouroboros.

You've got better things do be doing surely?

People do know that our budget isn't aimed at spending every penny the club has at all times don't they? We may have money in the coffers - who knows? We shouldn't be blowing it all before the end of July on players when there is every possibility that we will need a contingency fund to cover possible injuries in the coming months. We also presumably, as a club, don't want to have big earners who are not in the manager's plans, so offloading them before committing to any more ongoing expense is the right way to do things.
 
Chill out everyone, please.

A reasonable question.
Let's speculate. It is the speculation thread after all.
Extensive repairs to the training ground.
Deals for Eckersley, McKenzie, Smith, Samson, McGinn, Stelios, Davis and McShane. I doubt that these 8 will be on peanuts.
Add on Quinn, Sutton and Irvine, who we've been saddled with due to prior contract agreements. Again , they'll be on substantial money, no doubt.
Deals for our other signings, plus, as has been speculated, a couple may have required small fees for in contract players.
Also suggestions that the old board are entitled to a wedge of any transfer money as part of their pay off.
Money to make for loss of JD deal. Although that may well have been offset to some degree by our new sponsorship deal.
Employing Langfield, Webster and Clarkson as non-playing coaches/staff.
Employing sports scientist and data analyst.
Certainly some of these costs won't be huge, but they all mount up. However, increased season ticket sales could have boosted our coffers.
I'm sure that there are other costs that I've omitted and since the majority of us have absolutely no idea what the day to day running costs of the club are, some of these costs could be fairly substantial.
Also, just to be clear, I'm not making excuses, I'm simply making suggestions.
I'd also like to add that we are competing with Falkirk, for signings, but we lost out on Loy, due to a business consortium paying his wages and a fee to Dundee. Falkirk, can't afford to sign anyone else of note either, unless they offload Sibbald.
There's no way we should be competing with Dundee United. But that's another argument.
 

Meant to reply earlier to this. Asked about but none of my friends saw it. I knew there had been a punch up because the parade stopped for about twenty minutes. It was near the front of the parade so I suspect it involved a Bangor lodge as they were leading the march. It's par for the course.
The first parade my wife and I saw was thirty years ago. Against our better judgement we were persuaded by friends to go up to Belfast. We were near Sandy Row across the road, appropriately I suppose , from the Rangers supporters club. About fifty yards along the road from us a fight broke out. I'm talking about bandsmen, not spectators although they soon joined in. What a donnybrook it was. Bottles, glasses even flutes and drums were used as weapons. It went on for ages. I never did hear what it was about or how many got injured. They hush these things up. When the parade was finally over and we were heading back to our cars we were knee deep in litter, glasses and bottles. I decided that would be my last parade and by and large I have stuck to it. This year's parade started about an hour late and that's why I got caught up in it.
I don't know how anyone ever came to think I have any time for the Orange Order. Over the years on this forum I have knocked them. But we allegedly live in a democracy so I have to respect their right to march. My original post was intended to polnt out the ridiculous Rangers association and as far as I'm concerned, exploitation of children.
There are kids of two and three years in the parades. Babies are carried by some. I even saw a big dug with a collarette! A red, white and blue one! The collarette, no the dug.
Aye, I just love the 12th.

Meant to reply earlier to this. Asked about but none of my friends saw it. I knew there had been a punch up because the parade stopped for about twenty minutes. It was near the front of the parade so I suspect it involved a Bangor lodge as they were leading the march. It's par for the course.
The first parade my wife and I saw was thirty years ago. Against our better judgement we were persuaded by friends to go up to Belfast. We were near Sandy Row across the road, appropriately I suppose , from the Rangers supporters club. About fifty yards along the road from us a fight broke out. I'm talking about bandsmen, not spectators although they soon joined in. What a donnybrook it was. Bottles, glasses even flutes and drums were used as weapons. It went on for ages. I never did hear what it was about or how many got injured. They hush these things up. When the parade was finally over and we were heading back to our cars we were knee deep in litter, glasses and bottles. I decided that would be my last parade and by and large I have stuck to it. This year's parade started about an hour late and that's why I got caught up in it.
I don't know how anyone ever came to think I have any time for the Orange Order. Over the years on this forum I have knocked them. But we allegedly live in a democracy so I have to respect their right to march. My original post was intended to polnt out the ridiculous Rangers association and as far as I'm concerned, exploitation of children.
There are kids of two and three years in the parades. Babies are carried by some. I even saw a big dug with a collarette! A red, white and blue one! The collarette, no the dug.
Aye, I just love the 12th.