TediousTom

I fail to see what one could possibly think was supposed to be humour in that story. In fact you have me at an absolute disadvantage as I simply fail to understand as to why serious news stories are now considered humour. In my day comedians such as Hector Nichol stood up in front of a crowd and told jokes. In later life I also came to appreciate one Dave Allen. However if modern cutting edge humour has changed somewhat then I confess to being blissfully ignorant, blissfully ignorant indeed.

A couple of questions spring to mind when I read about this Gary McKinnon chap. In fact I now have three 1) Can he play left back? 2) Can he play up front? 3) If Div is busy could this be the guy we need to revamp the official site?

I know we often think of our referee's as harsh and sometimes we say nasty things about them but what about this in Brazil http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/south-american-football-referee-beheaded-fans-killing-player-084120459.html To summarise my feelings......I read this and said "my goodness".

That he was young Drew, that he was indeed. This is sad news indeed. I remember city lights fondly, it was responsible for making me laugh on many an occasion. Rest in peace Mr McColl, you will be forever remembered, especially by the small and closely nit Scottish acting community.

This is good news indeed. Good news for young thingmie Guy (you forget them so quickly) as he was obviously wanting away. Good luck in your future career Lewis erm whats your second name again? Good news for the Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co as the fellah whose name has completely gone obviously was not in the "plan", the mythical "plan" that never seems to pan out. Does anyone else still feel that tinge of excitement as the expectation of another new signing increases? I am like a child at Christmas only older, hairier (in the wrong places) but with just as many teeth. Who will our new striker be.........Will we have heard of him?..........Will he be any good?..........Will he exist? Off to the speculation thread with you all people!

My days of doing young, impulsive and creative things are somewhat behind me but I just read that and thought "Bumped for Spangle" would be a great name for a band. A proper band though with drums, guitars and occasionally a guest instrument such as a saxophone or something. I would go and see them if the venue doesn't have stairs! Back on topic: Sad news this. The Nolan lassies always seem that nice when I see them on the television.

Having given this thread another quick read it is unfortunate to note that you have not actually contributed to the rich and lively discussion/debate that has graced the preceding pages but somewhat dampened the quality with your meaningless diatribe only designed to insult or humiliate your fellow forum user's. A dramatic change in your posting style is evident over the past calendar month whereby it has deteriorated to meaningless nonsense. Obviously some life event has occurred that has caused this sea change In posting quality but I would not presume as to what that could be, merely point out your collapse in quality for your own good and the good of the forum. I am afraid I must inform you that having once regarded you as a forum member who regularly made valuable contributions I now find you to be a fellow who utters complete gibberish. You should take note of the fine post made by Drew above. A fine point that just invites intelligible conversation. Must do better....to briefly lower myself to your level may I suggest that you also change your forum name to NotFarawayEnoughSaint. Anyway, back to Drew's point. I think you are entirely right. It is just a shame that our Mr Lennon is so bland in his interview's as this is probably why journalists are having to stretch the truth or even speculate in order to get a story from him. Not that I am excusing the journalists but merely pointing out that our Mr Lennon maybe needs to adopt a more direct approach when addressing the media.

I assert that you are now making things up. People who have lost arguments and debates often resort to the "making up of facts". In this instance you have "made up a fact". Going back to my days of being a young whipper snapper even the teachers would skelp you round the lug (strike one forcefully around the area of the ear, either left or right) for blatantly making up such a fact whilst informing you via the medium of shouting "you are not big and not clever". Consider yourself a beaten forum user and move on to the next forum topic. Such variety of debate based on fact and factual observation strives to keep the forum an interesting and worthwhile place.

You are wrong my fellow forum nuisance, wrong indeed. I cannot be wrong when I assert that such negative press stories (that are extremely repetitive) annoy me to a great extent. As I am the person experiencing the annoyance then I am of course the only person duly qualified to assert that annoyance has indeed been experienced. Your assertion that I am wrong is an assertion that you are unqualified to make and as such I assert that you have been slightly stupid in making your assertion. When asserting I assert that you assert with more thought or I assert that you are probably best not asserting at all.

Sometimes one has to change the goalposts for the sake of convenience. When I was a young whipper snapper me and fellow whipper snappers would regularly change the goalposts in relation to the weather. I shall explain Season Goalposts Summer T-shirts or light jerkins Autumn Jackets or jumpers Winter Jackets Spring See Autumn Of course environmental factors do not stop at just the weather. Bins, lamp posts and even bicycles have been used. One of our peers was a disabled child who walked with sticks (they were called spastics in those days, I never liked that word) and I even recall young David (that was his name) sitting helplessly at the side of the park watching whilst we utilised his wooden crutches as goalposts. Even this slightly cruel type of goalpost was subject to environmental factors as in winter the ground could be too hard to push the crutches into the ground and also the ground could be too cold for David to sit on whilst he watched us. Sometimes goalposts just have to change!

Stuart Gilmour is a Saint Mirren professional football club pte ltd co fanatic and he was all over the news recently after the league reconstruction vote. As such In Scotland I submit that Stuart Gilmour is a famous fan. I can also confirm Shull's previous post regarding Jocky from take the high road. He sits fairly close to where I do and a couple of seasons back I remember thinking "I know that fellow" and as such I said "hello" to him. Some time later I saw the young chap on an advert for Aldi (or Lidl, I get those two mixed up) and that's when I realised it was off the television. Whatever became of Effie?

I fail to understand your derision toward your fellow poster here. Indeed I will assert that it is somewhat unjustified and if anything you probably owe your fellow poster an apology for your flippant tone. I could state "OMG what you not getting bout this? Im like totally affrontit" What I would really mean is that the point made by your fellow poster was both simple and clear. The club should be promoting themselves as an exciting and upcoming club that are full of promise (again this will assist in getting season ticket holders on board and bums on seats for the pre-season fixtures). Whether our great wee club are intending on making a number of signings or not is actually beside the point. This is the time of year when the powers that be at our club would be well served to cultivate the close season excitement as some of that will equate to ticket sales. Simple marketing really and a football club will benefit from good marketing as well as any other business. A simple "we at St Mirren are always on the lookout for new talent and this close season is no different. We have targets in mind and as always we will explore new opportunities". Such a simple statement will be entirely true but gives a positive image of our club. The article may well be written in a far more negative manner that our Mr Lennon would have intended but when speaking to the press all he needs to do is to continually spurt out such meaningless but positive diatribe and the journalists will reflects this. I want to see my club painted in a better light.

I am patient and I do not believe very much that I read in the paper's. Indeed I often double check the television listings! That said I do maintain that the article does not paint our club as one that harbours ambition and as such cannot be a good thing for season ticket sales. As to why Mr Lennon continues with this boring monotone style of media interview I just do not understand. Anyway, today is another day and I shall go find something else to worry my auld heid about.

I would if I could afford it but alas as usual I spent my "fun money" on the major purchase that is my annual season ticket renewal. What is it these days, still two shillings to see a pair of knockers? I wonder if the chap at the lap dancing club releases such statements as "I have released 13 erotic dancers from my establishment and I have replaced them with four (one of them being a youth) but the lap dancing will still be as good as ever, now come give me your money".

Sadly it would appear not. I thoroughly enjoy a well thought out and informed conversation as much as the next (educated) man. However as often occurs on this fine forum some of our less desirable posters show that they are unable to hold a conversation without swearing or insult making.

Put yourself in Danny's shoes and ill put mine in the shoes of a young Saint Mirren supporter considering buying his first ever season ticket with his (or her) hard earned cash pulling tricks or whatever else the youth of today do to earn money. Now imagine the young chap/chapess thinking "I don't really have very much money but I quite fancy spending what little I have as I want to be a season ticket holder like the good guys such as TT" The young chap or chapess who is surrounded by tempting offers to spend ones money on such things as cigarettes, hard drugs and prostitutes then reads the paper before despatching oneself to our beloved ground and reads "Danny Lennon says there may not be any more signings, doom, gloom and pish". The young chap or chapess then could think to oneself something like "bugger it im off to the lapdancing". One season ticket holder lost! I can also imagine this Cutthroat agent says "Mr Daniel sir, I want top bucks for my player because the paper said that you want a player big time and my player is big time and good for you Mr Daniel". Daniel Lennon is free to reply "f**k off, you are getting offered an average wage and you can take it or leave it. The paper story was to keep the fans excited and promote interest in this wonderful little club, now is your client signing or not as I have plenty more players to see as I have been doing the spadework that I am paid handsomely to do". You and people like you should refrain from commentating on the skills held by other forum users when you are posting from a position of complete ignorance. In fact your a cheeky wee bar steward who is insulting other forum users without any need.

That is a very good post my unfamiliar forum friend, good post indeed.

I hope you are right my frighteningly similar to St Sid forum friend. The reason for such behaviour just seems bizarre and I reassert that I find this to be counterproductive, find this to be counterproductive indeed.

You are guilty of misquoting me here my mischief making forum friend. I renewed my season ticket approximately 27 hours ago.

My blood pressure is bubbling away!

Thank goodness for that. I only wish you had told me that several minutes previous as I have just smashed my false teeth off of my old grandfather clock in an animalistic rage. I also threw my oldest underpants out of the window (they used to be white but are now a yellow/grey colour) before deliberately knocking over my pill box. I shall now go pick up my bunnet before putting my mince and tatties in the liquidiser so I can sook a nice home cooked meal. Sook a home cooked meal indeed.

I disagree. In fact I am more than happy with my contribution to the forum today. I am also content that I have used the forum to air my views about our manager using the press in such a pointless and negative way. In fact I fail to see why any reasonable person would disagree with me. I can evidence that by the fact that faraway saint seems to disagree with me and that lately is clearly a good thing. If I may repeat Prospective season ticket holders may be put off by such negative nonsense. In what way can that be considered a good thing? I demand more players...MORE I SAY!

He may well be playing the media young Gary but to what end? The club have absolutely nothing to gain from such a story being printed but do have something to lose (season ticket holders being put off as I have stated repeatedly). Young Mr Lennon needs to stop "pissing on the chips" of its supporters with such down beat nonsense. In fact what was the point of the story at all? The team clearly need more personnel or we will be looking at yet another second bottom finish and quite frankly its not good enough. I am so raging I have taken my bunnet off and thrown it on the floor.

I agree with you to a certain degree but you are way short of being justified in such an assertion at this moment in time. Our club has released a high number of players and yet has only signed four (one of whom we are being told is a youth player). The team that underperformed so badly in the league last year WILL be weaker again unless we bring in more players. I have no issue with the squad being more streamlined but at the moment its bloody ridiculous. I am not even going to start on the issue of the left back position. Such a negative story is an act of stupidity.

At this time of year the club is trying its level best (or bloody should be) to sell season tickets. Such an article will certainly not persuade those who are considering making such a big purchase to make that leap of faith and part with the cash for a season ticket. Every season, including January transfer window time, the same boring story is rolled out. The fact is that our club has absolutely no need to play mind games (in fact you just made up mind games). If this Is true and Mr Lennon does not intend to add to the squad then one must question the ambition of the club. A number of players are NEEDED just to reach the same level as last year let alone to move on up that table. I want better for my team and I bloody well want it, bloody well want it this season!