TediousTom

Why would you be shot down my forward thinking forum chum? It is a great idea if it were to mean that an increase in travelling support would result in such an increase in away crowds that the cost of running a bus would be more than off set by the increased crowds. Increased crowds also means an increase in programme sales and (as Shull will tell you) sales of pies, bovril and other such overpriced rubbish that is sold to the football supporter in this damn fine country of ours. Another angle would be that less fans would drive horseless carriages meaning that less petrol will be expended resulting in a complete reversal of global warming thus saving the ice at either pole. Even the tree huggers could be persuaded! Such an idea is unlkely to prove cost effective at lower division clubs where the cost of the bus is more than the gate receipts likely to be received from the 15 or so travelling supporters so each game would have to be considered on its own merit but certianly for SPFL games such a scheme would prove to be a positive move both for football clubs and the un-common travelling supporter. Good idea as I said, good idea indeed.

I am fair enjoying this thread, fair enjoying it indeed. I want another go 1) Jens Paesleck (the spelling may not be accurate) is known as a- Thon wee silky German striker b- Thon big thieving German c- The singing and dancing St Mirren star who later featured in strictly come dancing (the German version) 2) Gus McPherson signed a foreign left back who is remembered fondly for his footballing ability and for slapping Scott Brown a- Franco Miranda b- Mo Camara c- Jure Travner 3) Why did Jose Quitongo leave the field of play whilst playing in a St Mirren professional football club pte ltd co first team match a- He had to pray urgently to Mecca (not the bingo) b- He had the turtle head in that he was bursting for a poo c- He wanted to check his watch was okay as Jens Paesleck was hanging about 4) In 1927 St Mirren won the Scottish cup, who lifted the Scottish cup that day a- Jack Bristol b- Jackie Birmingham c- Jock Bradford d- It is a trick question, St Mirren won the Scottish cup in 1926, 1959 and 1987 5) The following people are well known Paisley characters who are fondly remembered a- Minging MIlly and Bert the Bastard b- TaTa Bella and Cuthbert c- Paulo Nutini and Davie Sneddon If a score is 4/5 then a bonus question could be added Alan Prentice was famously sent home from training one day by Jimmy Bone. Why was this a- Jimmy caught young Alan buying awatch from a big German b- Alan was found to be wearing ladies underwear c- Alan dyed his hair a pishy yellow colour

Ah now what would the five questions be my forum friends, what would they be? Here are my suggestions 1) The Saint Mirren professional football clubs greatest ever player? a - Dan McGarry, although Daniel McGarry would also be acceptable 2) In the early days of Scottish football the Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co were not a pte ltd co at all but rather a football club with amatuer status. Who were the local rival's who also plied the trade of football in the world's greatest town? a - Abercorn 3) Shull is a well known user of our fan's forum. What topic of conversation is he most renowned for? mutlipe choice a - How much money he spent on prostitutes during the past week b - The price of pies or c-Greggs the bakers customer loyalty card a - b 4) Hugh Murray is often remember for scoring "that goal". When a knowledgable fan of the Saint Mirren football club mentions Hugh Murray and "that goal" what goal is he talking about? multiple choice a - His keepy uppy effort v Clydebank b- a toe poke against Johnstone Burgh in a pre-season friendly or c - a goal against Stirling Albion a - c 5) Reginald Brealey was a highly succesful businessman who wanted to take over the Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co, invest in the club and take our team to a higher level. What was Reginald's background before he bacame known to us mere Paisley folk? Multiple choice a- dubious businessman who ruined Darlington fc and had a warrant out for his arrest due to dodgy business practices in India b - A high ranking member of the Tory party and a renowned member of the "better together" campaign. He made an honest fortune selling weapons to Arab nations with the help of his Tory friends. c - We know nothing of him. He was a mystery billionairre who, after being denied the opportunity to spend tens of millions on our club he moved to Sierra Leonne where he currently lives a life of luxury as a local warlord and well known "better together" supporter. a - a How many of you mere mortals would have got all of them correct?

James Goowdwin of the emerald isle is a fine player for the Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co, is a fine captain and has proven to be a fine ambassador for our club. He is becoming a "marked man" in terms of fellow professional's attempting to cheat whereby they attempt to earn yellow and red cards for our captain. Such cheating against Mr Goodwin of the isle emerald is due in part to his determination as a captain and as such the trepidation that opponent's feel toward Mr Goodwin's name being on our teamsheet. This serves as a compliment to him as a man and player of the game of football. James Goodwin is a fine Buddie and one whom we Buddie's can be rightly proud of. James Goodwin is one of our own and not only does he deserve a new contract we Buddie's deserve not to lose one of our own. James Goodwin for a new contract! Edited to add: Not only has Jim earned a new contract he has also earned the right to have his name spelt correcly in the first line of my post!

Terrible, terrible news. Like so many other's I did not know "Kitled Buddie" personally but he was a well kent face both at home and away. One of the character's of our support whom will be remembered by many amongst our number. I think it is fair to say that many of us who did not know him will remember him and that is testament to the man's character. RIP my fellow Buddie, you will be sadly missed.

Football is all about entertainment (or so we are told) and a moment such as this was (in my opinion) entertainment of the finest quality. Little Jamie Hamill will long be remembered in the minds of many a supporter of our game, a thought that will often bring a wry smile to the coupon of the one remembering. As I type this I am remembering and I have a wry smile! The thought of Derek Adams face down on the track has increased my wry smile to a full blown cheesey. Memories are what football is about and Mr Hamill has certianly provided us with one. That said he should be hung out to dry by the SFA (or whoever governs our game/league now) and given a ban of Aber proportions.

Throughout my many decades on this planet I have learned a thing or two, some from the mistakes of other's and more often due to my own stupidity. 1) Your gutters are fine, they do not need suddenly checked 2) A good quality driveway costs a lot more that £1500 and you do NOT need to give any proper company the money up front for materials. 3) It is good practice to keep your doors locked 4) You roof is fine and you do not suddenly need it checked. 5) The man at your front door selling you a cut price sofa probably stole it. 6) The man at your front door selling you a cut price lawnmower probably stole it. 7) The man at your front door selling you a cut price generator probably stole it. 8) You do NOT have any consumer rights when you purchase things from a man at your front door. 9) Elderly people are vulnerable, if you have an elderly relative then go visit them and if need be YOU check the roof and gutters (or pretend you did, just give them peace of mind) 10) If you have a van it is NOT a good idea to keep your tools/wares in the van overnight and especially not in full view. Now that I just happened to mention those facts may I say it is apparently a wonderful thing to have diversity of culture.

Mr Moyes will undoubtedly collect himself a rather large cheque for his troubles so I do not feel sorry for him at all, in fact he is a jammy git. More importantly I am uninterested in the fortunes of Manchester United for the following reasons 1) Manchester United are English and I am not 2) Manchester United are not due to play the Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co in any sort of game in the forseeable future 3) English football as a whole is pantaloons. Give me our beloved team away to Partick Thistle on a friday night anytime! I do have a soft spot for only one English football team but seen as they play in the Evo-stick stick league Manchester United remain completely uninteresting to me.

Do you mean that he will go from being the messiah to a very naughty boy? Sadly you are correct. I recall a Mr Fitzpatrick of the clan tache gaining the godseat on two occasions with everyone that lived and breathed Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co wishing him every good fortune. I still wish that Tony that tache had worked out as manager!

If our current holder of "hero status" Mr Thommohawk the greatness were to be interested in becoming the next manager of our beloved, dear, wonderful, gracious and gallus club then I wonder if he would be considered a front runner for the job? Whilst I always worry when my most important of football club's moves for an inexperienced manager I must admit that Sir Thommo of the Hawk would instantly command my respect, patience and goodwill whilst injecting my old marrowless bones with a painkilling injection of optimism. Would/will he be considered a front runner? (as asked above) If (as seems to be widely accepted) Mr Daniel Lennon's bus ride home is paid for in advance, then is Sir Thommo the great being "lined up" for the job? If Thommo the truly great was to apply for the job and be overlooked for a different human being would that different human being immediately be under negative scrutiny for beating the fans favourite to the godseat? Who will Thommo the "tastic" seek to employ as his assistant? What will be "Thommo's philosophy" and does it involve signing an extremely high number of first division players, releasing them, signing more and keeping a few, releasing more and changing the philosophy anyway with reckless abandonment? Will Thommo the messiah be as great at football management as he is in everything else he does?

To return this very forum thread to the very subject that it was initially intended to disuss I shall step forward, take the mantle if you will and make a prediction as to the number of points our fine team require to reach in the SPFL relegation group, or bottom six if you will, in order to avoid the contest that will be known as the relegation play-off. In most season's where only one team drops through the trap door of relegation it is commonly accepted that a points total of around 34 points is (in most cases) sufficient to "avoid the drop". This season however such a points total is unlikely to be sufficient as we have the added excitement of the "play off" as already discussed and as is common knowledge. As such one may assume that 34 points is unlikely to result in the relaxation that safety will provide, not at all. Our beloved team currently have 34 points, as a prediction I would wager that a further six points is entirely reasonable to expect and once our beloved team achieve the 40 point mark I predict that safety will be achieved. 34 points will not be enough 37 points could be enough 40 points will be enough Ladies and Gentlemen of the forum, I present you with a prediction......40 points!

Sometimes, just sometimes I really do feel like throwing my hands up in the air and saying "lord I just don't care" but alas I do not feel like that today and even if I did that would not be a suitable topic of discussion for this very internet forum. I do hope that all those who took part in the Saints aid match as featured above (and all the Saints aid matches and events) really enjoyed the experience. One of my many "only wishes" is that I was afforded the opportunity to don the boots of football, run onto the playing field at our old Love street (or new ground at Greenhill road but I would have to have been born in a somewhat much more recent generation and in all likliehhod I would not have been the fine upstanding member of the community that I regard myself but a selfish, priveliged fandan like much of today's scruff) and play the fine game in the company of my heroes. One can only imagine the feeling of sheer delight one must have had when stroking the ball home in the very same goal that the great Dan McGarry scored against teams such as Third Lanark and the devilsh Greenock Morton. Yes I look on to events such as Saints aid with a certian admiration but also a tinge of jealousy. You youngsters really are lucky to have such access to our fine club!

He has probably kicked policeman harder! A nice little shot of the old lady of love street, goodness how I do not miss her! No really I do not, days like Saturday make our new home...home!

To be fair in a million years no-one will be calling for the head of our manager as no-one will remember him nor any of us who have been doing the calling. It is also entirely possible that the human race as a whole will not even exist let alone a few Paisley folk still bemoaning the quite bemonable perfomance of the much bemoaned Daniel Lennon. That said my opinion has been set and I want us to be shot of him at the earliest. That said I also wish no ills of Daniel Lennon and I too wish him and his young assistant Tommy all the best for the future but shot of him I still wish us to be. That said I understand the viewpoint that many have adopted whereby we stick with Daniel to the end of the season but I still want shot of him at the earliest.

Now whilst I dislike the BBC generally I must say I have taken to BBC radio 2 of an afternoon. In the morning we have that speccy ginger bloke called Chris Evans and all things considered he is far less annoying than anyone else whilst I attempt to digest my breakfast. But did you ask about breakfast radio?...no. Chris Evans is followed by a bloke called Ken Bruce who host's a cracking dailly quiz called popmaster, it really is good. Lunchtime and early afternoon radio 2 has a bloke called Jeremy Vine and he normally host's a debate about something or other and I rather enjoy it. Following Jermemy Vine and pushing toward the 6pm section of your preferred time slot a programme called "drive time" comes on and again it is not at all annoying. I forget the name of the chap who host's this show that I listen to most days but often I have fallen asleep on the couch following my lunch so I forgive myself. Usually some sort of confession is read out on air where some stupid twat of a listener confesses to some stupid twat like thing and it is normally rather funny, rather funny indeed.

What a fantastic idea, fantastic in the indeed. Would it not be great if our old firm foes ran a similiar scheme? If so I would buy every season ticket for 10p each and then of course never darken the door of either stadia. One would also be left to wonder why the attendance would still be claimed to be 40k plus every week of course! Great idea for a club like the good old Albion, Would it work at a glorious little club like ours? Of that I cannot be sure as I would be rather upset if anyone extracted the urine in a taking the piss sort of way. Perhaps some more financially comfortable fans like Shull would pay double for a season ticket (with all that money he has saved on pies over the years) thus off setting the discount taken by many others. Another idea would be a free season ticket and we "pay what we can" to get out of the stadium after each match. The downside of course would be that I would have paid plenty after the recent victories over Motherwell and Kilmarnock but nothing after almost every other game. In fact after the St Johnstone debacle I would have demanded a refund!!!!! Anyway one must applaude the Rovers of Albion for trying something new.

I will also renew regardless of the division but then again I am hopeleslly hooked on all things Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co. However you state "is that not what you are meant to do?" and the truthful answer for most people is a resolute "no". People are under no obligation to part with hard earned cash to attend football matches, buy season tickets, strips or over priced pies, no obligation whatsoever. Our glorious football club must always appreciate that the supporters do not have to stump up cash for anything and be grateful when they do so. If certian people do not wish to watch first divison or championship football or whatever its called then thats up to them. That said I have every confidence that our glorious football club do appreciate the fans.

Are you perhaps thinking of Triiggers overhead kick vs Aberdeen at Pittordrie in a cup match in the early 1990's?

The most entertaining part of the original poster's original post on this here thread is the part when the original poster refer's to the supra's as "back in the day". For me "back in the day" conjours up memories of rationing and getting the belt at school and doing nothing on a Sunday and walking places instead of driving and going to the pictures to see the news and horses pulling carts up and down new street the Summer cup win and Mr Dan McGarry ruling the wings for our club. Anyway I do not see why we need to let this drum issue get under our skin or indeed get remotely tight about it at all. The worst thing that can happen is we get beaten and if so our manager can "stick it". I can see why we are solo in this instance but as it is a matter of time before such instruments get band altogether such an issue is nothing but music to my ears.

Now either I did not see the offending post or I have actually read the offending post and not realised that I have read a post that would go on to such infamy. In any case I am unaware of the content of the offending post. I do however have faith that Div and his team of (presumably) unpaid mods (mods being a shortened term for moderators) have looked at the issue that has arisen with all due dilligence, made an informed choice as to the correct course of action and taken such action that is in the best interests of our beloved (and underperforming) club, the forum itself and possibly to some degree the person behind the anonymous online identity that made the offending post. Now if someone has breached the trust of our club by posting internal club matters on this very public of forum's then I demand that they be dragged naked by horsecart to Paisley town hall, birched within an inch of life itself and mercifully thrown into the hamils to be dragged away to certian death. One would also assert that they should be sacked forthwith. In any case if the person behind the online identity is an employee of our beloved and most great of clubs then I hope they be found out at the earliest. In any case may I applaude Mr Caldwell, Div and his team of mods for taking the swiftest and unquestionably correct course of action.