djchapsticks

No thanks. Both well past it. Heffernan has already been punted on trial by both QotS & another championship club.

Nothing like twisting facts to suit an agenda. They rode their luck more than a little against Hibs.

So you want 9 more signings? Yeah, chances of that happening are zero. GK, Centre-half, Centre forward and another wide player will be our whack. And rightly so. I'd rather we did blood youngsters and stay down for a season to rebuild and recoup, coming back stronger in the future than go for the quick fix that has killed so many clubs' ambitions in the past.

Seriously? I like Samson but Hinchcliffe and Ludo were both far better and more reliable.

The media in this country will never change. They are all too busy scrambling over each other to have some succulent lamb and wouldn't dare jeopardise this by bad mouthing or overlooking Rangers. It's even funnier that it's Graeme Spiers, the man who claimed to have coined the phrase 'succulent lamb' to mock journalists who toed the party line to curry favour and get nice European trips for so many years, that is now fawning over their 'great behaviour' whilst overlooking the blatant arseholery that went on last night and does in general, as he's breaking into a cold sweat at the prospect of never setting foot inside Greyskull again as long as his ban stands.

I think there's definitely a gameplan in place in terms of Murray and Spalding, which is refreshing and encouraging in equal measure as for the last couple of last seasons we just seemed to stumble from one defeat to another with no coherence or discernible structure to our play. This will clearly take a while to come to fruition though and I accept that there will, of course, be teething troubles along the way but at least it looks like the gaffer has an idea of what he wants us to be and how he's going to get us there.

We showed plenty of character at 2-0 down yesterday. The team of last season would have capitulated to a 5 or 6-0 defeat. The most impressive part for me was that when the junkie was on the park, Murray brought his players in, had words and there was a significant shift in the way we played from there. It's encouraging to see that Murray was willing to change it and actually engage with the players, something that has been heavily criticised in terms of gaffers in the past few years.

I'm still willing to give both Howieson and Conlan a chance given they are playing in their first league starts of their careers. Remember Conor Newton's first game in stripes. I had him written off when he was hooked at half time against County. So I'll not write either off, Howieson looks out of position and Conlan needs to improve, but will only do so with better protection from his winger.

Love the guy to bits but I've said it for long enough now, running the channels himself, especially against a team as fast and fit as Rangers was never going to end well, not at his age and the fact that he hasn't really done so as effectively for the past year and a bit now.. He's going to be a big player this season, he's going to chip in with 10-12 goals hopefully, but his place now is unfortunately starting against the so-called 'lesser lights' of the division and being used from the bench when we need him to make an impact in other games.

Keeping it tight's the last thing I want us to do. Rangers in both games this season have started sluggishly and looked a yard off the pace. Hit them fast, hit them hard!! COYS!!!!!!!!

The sad reality of our situation is that if McGinn impresses at Hibs and earns a move, then 1/3rd of any future transfer fee will dwarf what we've got for him. There isn't a club in Scotland other than Dundee Utd who have a better record at inflating player prices than Hibs. Pains me to say it, but he's in the right place if we're looking for proper cash. We could probably pull anything from £250k to over 600k from their future sale of him.

The deal is apparently already done for both guys but McInnes couldn't let anyone go as he'd have depleting his 25 man Europa League squad and couldn't replace them until a later round. It was always going to be after this round of European fixtures had been completed.

Apologise for what? For stating a fact that you don't rate him after following his career 'extensively'? Stick to being a shite Batman villain.

Not completely happy. Ras Al Ghul doesn't rate him after following his career 'extensively'.

So let me get this straight. We've signed a young lad who clearly has an eye for goal, is fast, is good in the air, seems to enjoy putting pressure on keepers at corners and loves being in and around the six yard box to get on the end of half-chances. Is this St. Mirren we're talking about?!

Murray said in the official interview he'll get settled in with the squad and be in consideration for Friday.

Certainly seems a good signing on paper and perhaps sums up Rangers since they were reformed. These are the sort of guys who perhaps should have been given a chance, indeed a lot of their supporters wanted this type of player to prove they can hack it and instead they spent fortunes on shite like Daly, Kyle, Boyd, Miller and Sandaza who between them are lucky if they bagged 25 league goals. More than happy with this. Welcome to St. Mirren!!

It's not chucking the towel in. It's a dose of reality. I have a 4 team league winners accumulator and Rangers to win the championship is one of my four. Does this mean I'm less of a St Mirren fan or want us to win the league any less? No on both counts, but I bet with my head instead of my heart. Thompson isn't allowing his heart to rule his head and accepts that if we are in a title push this season then it would be a fantastic bonus. Some of the attitudes and sometimes abuse to our captain and an absolute club legend on this forum this preseason and last season has ranged from the unsettling to outright disgraceful.

This season will be oneof consolidation. I'd never in a million years not want to see us go up, but I'd be worried if we did somehow sneak up at the end of the season, we'd be straight back down. Much prefer a season stabilisation and building a squad for a tilt at it with a strong squad next season. Anywhere between 3rd and 6th I reckon.

Or beat Oldham, a league one side 1-0. Of course, folk will gladly bring up how Burnley pumped us 3-0 but fail to mention that about 70% of the squad that day were trialists. But let's not let facts cloud vendettas.

When?! I don't recall us beating an English top flight side in the two decades I've been attending matches. I've seen us lose to Newcastle, Wigan and Middlesboro in that time from the top of my head. And we can't compete with teams like Sheffield Wednesday, nor should we feel we need to given that they play in a completely different country to us. If we have even a tenth of their resources then we're lucky. For the record, we lost 4-0 to Charlton in a friendly 2 pre-seasons ago whilst league cup holders and after a shocking start went on to finish 8th in the SPL. Pre-season is the square root of f**k all when it comes to significance.

They certainly do. However, the entire kit system this season HAS been shambolic and it's certainly something the fans are right to compalin about. It's also something which St. Mirren won't take on board as a pressing issue as they'll get the revenue agreed upon regardless of how many kits are sold. Part of the contract with JD was that even though you'd have to go out of your way and not be able to get a kit at the stadium, at least launches and stock would be handled professionally. Not that I ever felt it was a massive issue. Professionalism was always something which I felt we were getting with out former kit distributors. Just think about it, we booted Alan Provan and his family into touch despite the fact that in over a decade of being St. Mirren's kit suppliers, they were far more professional and didn't have 1/10th of the stock issues or general f**k-ups that a national chain of sports shops has had. It's definitely time to say goodbye to this bunch of shysters.

We didn't sell McGinn for peanuts, we decided we'd be better of getting at least some amount of money for a player who had already left. He wasn't our player anymore and to that end there was really nothing we could do other than negotiate a fee with interested parties, given no-one in England seemed to be willing to take a £270k gamble, I'm not sure what else you think the club could do under the circumstances after he'd made it clear that he was not willing to sign another contract.

Would you be surprised or upset if Murray was lying? Consider this: Ian Murray makes it clear to all and sundry who his transfer targets are and the players he's allegedly 'waiting on', only for a bigger club to be made aware that these people may be available and are negotiating with us....other club swoops in and takes them from under our nose. For this, see the cases of Carl Finnigan, Ian Harte and Alan Gow many moons ago to name but three. Personally, I'm pleased Murray is denying the players he's in for. No-one, at our level anyway, ever conducts good transfer business through the press.

I'm not saying it is conclusive, nothing like it. I'm saying there's more than 'never anything at all' to it.