beyond our ken

seems this one has been in the pipeline for a while, hopefully he can take the pressure and will provide an outlet fr the defence, but I'm not overflowing on this one We are siphoning loan signings and I hope we don't become dependent on them-I never fosset it would come to this

That really is the bare bones of a team though, considering at least 2 wont be likely to have a full season in them and at least one needs to show that end of season form is carried over into a whole new attitude. Just like yesterday, we are still 6 players short of a basic first team squad

The bit in bold-you won't get many people admitting to THAT. I mean of course, eye colour, hair colour, the presence of freckles and athletes foot. With maybe a wee emphasis on pace, stamina, strength on the ball and other stuff. all things that can only be improved by work and all things that several, not all, of our players have room for improvement in.

I dont understand the attempt to attach additional meaning to my post. Our young players are highly rated by our support but not, it seems, by anyone else. Anyone who watched our young players in the recent international with Holland will see how much of a men v boys contest it was. Working on your physical attributes does not necessarily mean body building and i dont see where i inferred that it might.

He spent game time on the bench experiencing top league football at close quarters, it is only a wasted year if this young man did not spend extra time adressing his physical development and skills development. if he has the skills that people say he has then he can as easily develop them at St Mirren as he would at Ayr, Clyde or any other league club People seem to forget, it is as much down to the player as it is to the manager how far and how quickly he progresses, it is the ones who put in the extra work and develop the edge who move on to a bigger stage. DL put him in the mix and he failed to step up to the challenge in the way that other youngsters did. He either learns from that and applies himself or he is added to the long list of promising & unfulfilled potential stars. he might have been born good but nobody is born competitive

Gauld is clearly the superior player and has shone in what is basically a better team. Food for thought for those that say St Mirren should have done better last year with the squad we had. Players are moving on from teams above us on very good deals whilst our better players are seemingly only rated in the low 6 figures. Reality check required, the recent offer we had from Sheffield may well prove to be the best we will get. As said before, if our players dont work more on their physical attributes then they are simply proving why they are not already at better clubs

I am wearing extremely well

Nobody on here is touting harkins as a potential big-money target for an upwardly-mobile championship club, but plenty are suggesting that McGinn & McLean are worthy of six-figure sums and more. i was simply highlighting the quality of the players they will be assessed against and that they are works in progress on the fitness and physique front

I'll be surprised if they move this year. Both have performed well for us but are probably seen as only slightly better than average in the scheme of things. they are also well adrift of the fitness standard required for Championship clubs. Both need to do a power of work before they start to measure up to the benchmark down south-it really is fitness and physique that is the difference between average and good players these days.

If we are getting plummer then maybe a toilet bowl is more appropriate

Maybe the 35, 000 are hiding in case the red arrows crash into each other, concurrent with UK government policy they are not fitted with crash alert devices

sometimes, the only things that come to those who dont give up are savage and repeated humiliation & disappointment

I, Hatto!

Haven't read that one, is it your autobiography? It sounds a bit like I, Claudius

Ricky Hatton is tiny-i'd have to give him a punty-up on to the pony, never mind the high-horse Anyway, the high-horse isn't looking so good since you started flogging it to death. i may have to get him put down

could have been a plumber & decorator undoing the damage that Dilo is supposed to have done to a flat Could have been a 3 in a bed romp could have been someone other than Gary Teale Could have been Teale getting flung out by his missus You see where i'm going with this

You are grasping at straws here, the 30 years of rent wont even cover the cost of borrowing the capital, building the house and then maintaining it for 30 years. Local authorities have enough to contend with without getting involved in the property market-most of them were damned glad to offload their rental stock onto housing associations who would build more if they could raise the capital-but governments won't allow that as it affects the profits of private builders. i thought you were a free-market champion who wants to see everything that comes from central and local government outsourced to the private sector-not someone who champions state involvement in the private housing sector. Time you made yer mind up, little man.

Could be a private party

Should be pervades, Ill give you an example on how to use it "just goes to show that lack of grammatical talent pervades all lesser trades"

Peter weir was also out of football completely for at least a year before going back to the amateurs, and then he joined saints

Positive looking signing, makes my other post on another thread look stoopit

getting back to the subject, with only a few weeks until the friendlies and only around 6 until the league starts, it would be nice to have seen a couple of decent outfield signings by now. As said before, contracts in england don't expire until the end of the month. If anyone really wanted to sign for us they were already free to do so which suggests that everyone we have targeted thinks they have better options-otherwise they would have landed or have been announced by now

the answer is simple maths, councils and housing associations cant afford to build 100 houses, sell them off for the price of building 30 and then replenish the stock fully from the funds raised. it's an ever decreasing circle and a local authority with other constraints on it would be daft to enter it. councils do work with private builders to ensure social housing is included in new developments as part of a planning gain

the much-predicted transfer activity, deals all but done and only the return of people from holiday is required to close them. that is a small sample of the things that are not happening yet.