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  1. 5 hours ago, portmahomack saint said:

    Good luck to him

    But not for me he isn't, time will tell who's right 

    Loads of good prospects fail to make it due to a multitude of reasons.  If he doesn't make the grade then it won't have stopped him being a good prospect at this stage

  2. 1 hour ago, John Meiksy said:

    I met the guy who has him on his books earlier  this year and he said not very complementary things about him, not his ability but more where his head is, so possibly that’s why he didn’t get much game time and why he’s gone.

     

    How much earlier this year?

  3. I don't understand why we took him back and used him so sparingly.  He was never a long-term signing for us which means he was there to be used rather than nurtured.

    I wish him well, a really good prospect who deserves a good run playing at a good standard.

  4. On 12/24/2023 at 8:37 AM, W6er said:

    Thanks for this. 

    Nicknames are interesting. I prefer Saints to Buddies, but then I appreciate others don't, particularly as Scotland has another Saints (AKA the Fakes). There's also Southampton, of course. There's also the Welsh club, The New Saints. Any other Saints? There must be some in South America, I'd have thought.

    Sao Paolo

  5. 20 hours ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

    You’re advocating dropping Tanser who has arguably been our player of the season so far??

    I'd say redeploy rather than drop, I think Thierry may be the paciest player in the side and I'd like to think we could get more from Tanser further forward.  I'd take any re-org to get Gogic back to his most effective position behind the centre of midfield

    We need 3 decent centre backs and the ones we have, with their undoubted skill, are all prone to gaffes.  Fraser is defintiely the most solid on recent form though and I still have hopes (maybe misplaced) for Bolton.  

  6. 14 hours ago, BanburyBud said:

    Well, as good as it was to be able to attend this evening, I was left with the dreadful st Mirren of old. 
    killie pressed us easily in the first half and were very well organised. they were the team we were in the first ten games of the season. 
    what is, in my view, hard to take is lack of commitment and effort from many of our players tonight. Baccus, for example, didn’t even get his socks dirty and clearly not wanting to get injured before international duty. 
    Our captain, for whatever reason, has lost it all positioning, ball control, passing. The boy needs a break for his own good. 
    from the first whistle we didn’t look up for it. 
    tansers creativity has been stifled and Gogic is wasted in defence. 
    all in all there are no positives to take from this game and credit to the vocal away support. 
    back to the drawing board I’m afraid and based on current form a dramatic slide down the table looks imminent. 
    good to be home for a game though 

     

    Ever since the cup game at Easter rd it's been obvious.  If the opposition get in amongst us early and keep at it then we simply don't perform.  Anyone watching that game could see how easy it is to knock us out of our stride and I think the spine of the team is missing.  Without a decent centre half who is not gaffe-prone like Taylor & Dunne we are forced to play Gogic there when the team is better with him slightly forward.  That leaves O'Hara exposed and there is not central striker option at the club.

    Strain has been a big loss as his final ball has been more successful than what we get down the left and he gave the midfield a breather with his runs, Small looks a definite prospect and i think we should have Fraser on the right and Thiery in left back.

    McMenamin hasn't produced any goods yet and we paid a fee for him, with hindsight there were maybe better options around at the time however he didn't seem to be a punt for the manager, he was hell-bent on getting him in and unless Conor turns it around after the break I'm afraid it will be time to cut that particular loss pretty soon.

    We could still threaten top 6 again and I'd be contant with that.  If we can maintain that status then the manager would deserve another year, which would depend heavily on his January and summer signing targets.  The board should look very critically at the names he puts forward because if it still doesn't look right at that stage then a decision point has been reached.  The model is to supposedly bring in talented underperformers, turn them round and sell on for a profit. A good strategy that relies on a good eye, so far the only decent money we have made in years has been in selling on the youth-scheme graduates.  That tells a story that neither the board nor the manager have the industry nous needed to build us beyond the current level and we will slowly sink into another downward cycle.

     

  7. 17 minutes ago, bazil85 said:

    In January, cut so much dead wood  

    Olysana 

    O’Hara 

    Bolton 

    McMenhamin 

    Dunne 

    Grieve
    Boyd-Munce 

    Bring in 2 or 3 players that are this level & improve the first team. Last 11 games have been miles off acceptable. Pathetic.  

    Settle down

    we need to steady the defence and either find a final ball supplier or a striker-maybe both

    Other than that, not much needs changing, unless the manager can't see the above.  In that case he would need changing too

  8. We can't score, therefor opposing teams can play without fear, it makes us look a man short.  Same problem we have had for all but a handful of seasons in the last 15 or more.

    I was worried when I read the statement that the manager was going to rotate the forwards to see if anyone could "own" the slots, he should know he hasn't signed an effective striker or a player with a decent final ball in his time here.  And he let contracted players, good ones, go to Dundee and united and now we don't have a reliable central defence.  I can only hope Bolton can come good now so we can at least plug the gaps.

     

    I feel like a mug, I gave up my status of last-remaining Robbo-sceptic a few weeks ago and we have basically stopped

  9. 1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

    Luckily, we have you elvis. The man who is never wrong !

    Feel free to tell the manager where he is going wrong. Just a wee phone call from you is all that's required to put him/us back on the winning trail. You are surely our Messiah, and not a very naughty boy after all.

    :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

    To be frank, that is a post made on a huge denial of reality 

    For all his faults, Elvis nailed this one and only an honest appraisal will address our failings

    maybe we have been mugs thinking we could crash top 6 twice in a row

    we are worth a punt whilst not  being top 6 contenders and have maybe deluded ourselves that we are better than that 

     

  10. 1 hour ago, ALBIONSAINT said:

    Prevention is always better than cure. However the days of turning up with trivial ailments is well and truly over. You are triaged before you get to hospital and directed to NHS inform. 

    I was taken in for a heart problem in May,  A&E was full of skint knees, people who ran out of prescriptions, and people looking for sick notes for a bad back (it was an old firm weekend)

    People who get triaged and turned away can  just go to A&E

  11. 6 hours ago, ALBIONSAINT said:

    Really? The NHS has a productivity problem, more doctors and more nurses than in 2019. It’s a money pit that consumes money at an alarming rate but has worst productivity figures than most comparative European health systems. 
    I am mindful that this is not the politics section and this thread should probably be moved.

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    The NHS' biggest problem is the attitude of british people, we just don't look after ourselves properly and expect the state to cover the bill.  The ageing population also presents with diseases that are difficult to treat and the outcomes are less good than the same people might have experienced in their younger years, however a decent enough proportion of conditions are preventable, or avoidable, or better mitigated by diet, exercise and moderation

    The NHS is also  somewhat abused by people who turn up looking for hospital attention for trivial diseases.  

  12. Good-ish signing and could prove to be a find

    I hope we also get a decent central defender to boss Taylor & Dunne and release Gogic back to the middle of the park.  All areas of the team will work better with AG back in midfield.  O'Hara in particular seems to be missing AG as back-up and if we can get A O'H back on form then the rest of the team should spark up nicely again.

  13. 31 minutes ago, W6er said:

    Was it not to also prevent strike action, due to the blackouts in the 1970s?

    No, it was all about Keith Joseph's and Thatcher's vision that if you make the rich richer then they would trickle their wealth down to the rest of us.

    In the end, they trickled something else down on us.

    She took on the unions directly, most of the black outs were caused by fuel shortages, oil in the early-mid 70s and coal in the late 70s, although some of those shortages were partly driven by labour disputes.

  14. On 12/17/2023 at 11:18 AM, ALBIONSAINT said:

    We are now feeling the full force of poor economic management from the current SNP government. 

    In case you havent noticed, the cuts administered by Westminster have consequential knock-on in Scotland

    Hunt's recent tax giveaways are really cuts elsewhere and the consequential cut passes on to Scotland's budget.

    All that being said, i can see that in this century there is less need for physical estate and the major Police hub in Govan is only a few miles away,  if it means we spend less on buildings like Mill St, which wads decrepit after less than 10 years use, then the actual policing of the town can be better preserved

  15. 1 hour ago, Slarti said:
    2 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:
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    Let's play, spot the person on the forks. emoji1787.png

    Nope I COULDN'T see anyone either. emoji1787.png

    Maybe it's just cos I can't find my glasses, but I can't see any forks, never mind someone on them. Looks more like a big clampy/grippy thingy (feck knows the right terminology) holding the big red metally thingy. And if you think that's bad, you really don't want to hear me explain how da interweb workees.

    the two right-angled parts either side of the beam are forks, they are being used to support the beam

    The man must have pissed off while you were zooming in on the photo, or more likely fell off.

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