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Isle Of Bute Saint Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I did this from Inverness town centre not sure if it's the club or local bus service that run it.is got it from the ground to the train station even wearing my Saints top no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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faraway saint Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 FFS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumbarton_bud Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Pricing - Adults £12 13-17 £5 12 and under £2 - Fans buying new season kit get voucher for 1 home cup game per top bought. - Half time entertainment focuses on the ensuring the young fans are engaged and involved in activities. - Fix the tannoy and get back to reading out the half time scores around the country. - Pie & Bovril or other drink £2.50 - Bring back the 'Tablet , Macaroon' guy , he can walk along front of stands with the pram selling his stuff. - £50 spot prize every game ( without fans buying a ticket ) by selecting a sold seat at random and fan in that seat with match day ticket or season ticket presenting it at office to collect winnings. - More 'fan days' open training at stadium. FREE - Pay at gate EVERY home game , every home stand. - Terracing - Westbank , remove back 6 rows of seats , allowing relevant amount of people into the space. Can't argue with any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomsons dropped it Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I did this from Inverness town centre not sure if it's the club or local bus service that run it.is got it from the ground to the train station even wearing my Saints top no problem. Free buses from town centre run by a few pubs Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 FFS! For Freedom Syrians ? For Freedom Scotland ? For a faraway Saint . For Forfar Shite ? The choice is yours sweetie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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insaintee Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 FFS Christians are aw fannies We are aw Fannies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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insaintee Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 We are. and you are a NNF. Remember when you used to be good at this? No, me neither Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoganSMFC Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 (edited) Location seems to be a big thing. I think the attendances would have been higher if we moved to somewhere more central. Or stayed at love street. For me the thought of walking down underwood road, murray street or thru feegie to get to the ground isnt as nice a journey than love street. I remember you could leave the pub at 5 to 3 and still be pretty much on time. And be back in the pub 5mins after the game. Edited February 25, 2016 by LoganSMFC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Urquhart Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 The walk to/from Paisley Town Centre to stadium is depressing right enough. Could we as a club to anything to improve it? Create some kind of 'St Mirren Way' from Gilmour Street to ground? Few flags, branding, posters? Dunno, maybe no one gives enough of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I've got an idea. I don't know why no-one else has thought of it. What the club should do is they should put on a bring a friend day for season ticket holders. Given them discounts - dunno something like 2 for £5. They should then make all the friends sit in a different stand to the people who brought them so they aren't infected by season ticket holder negativity. Give them the worst view of the park possible because you don't want them to actually see the shite football on the park and hope that they enjoy the matchday experience of a speaker system that only works in some areas of the ground, a large screen they won't be able to see, and overpriced luke warm pies that are only served hot if you pour baked beans on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Urquhart Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I've got an idea. I don't know why no-one else has thought of it. What the club should do is they should put on a bring a friend day for season ticket holders. Given them discounts - dunno something like 2 for £5. They should then make all the friends sit in a different stand to the people who brought them so they aren't infected by season ticket holder negativity. Give them the worst view of the park possible because you don't want them to actually see the shite football on the park and hope that they enjoy the matchday experience of a speaker system that only works in some areas of the ground, a large screen they won't be able to see, and overpriced luke warm pies that are only served hot if you pour baked beans on them. This is a level of sarcasm too far Stuart. Think you have some genuine good points to add here but this stuff undoes that. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) This is a level of sarcasm too far Stuart. Think you have some genuine good points to add here but this stuff undoes that. Sorry. You put it so nicely It's just the common sense being shown by many on here is utterly wasted. The OP will write this up in his dissertation, like thousands of others before him, and yet still no-one within the game will pay a blind bit of notice. You know why? Cause football chairmen all over the country believe cutting prices doesn't work and they can't get their head around the fact that if their clubs stopped wasting money on failed projects they could actually develop the club within the local community and grow from there. When I sat down with Stewart Gilmour in 2000 he talked about John Boyle at Motherwell as though Boyle had lost the plot. Discounted prices, more expensive players surely that would all end in disaster. He was right, it did. Motherwell landed up in administration. The thing is that because that was the outcome no-one looked at what happened at the matches where gate prices were cut. I know cause I took both my kids and a load of their friends to a number of discounted Motherwell v Dundee United matches where the typical crowd for those games rose from around 4,000 to over 7,000. Many St Mirren fans will also remember that Fir Park had 9,277 fans in when they cut admission prices to £5 for the relegation decider on the 12th May 2007. Instead the Motherwell project is rolled out time and time again as to why cheap admission is doomed to fail, always forever amen. Yet that's simply not true. Some of the "new" fans that turned up at Fir Park during those discounted times have stuck. I know quite a few of them. Several are now season ticket holders, many more are occasional visitors. Cast your mind back to Motherwell matches both home and away in the Premiership v St Mirren - remember the large young team making all that racket......now have a look round Greenhill Road next time you are there. Where's the large volume of youngsters in Paisley? Instead Gilmours legacy at St Mirren is an ever dwindling number of grumpy middle aged to well past retirement age fans who've gotten more worried about reserving their seat than they are about the clubs performances on the park and if the board do make a nod at discounted prices they f**k it up completely with bizarre promotions like this Bring A Buddy nonsense. I've gone way past fatigued on the subject. There's so much that could be done, so many lessons to learn from clubs all around the country, but this is St Mirren and no-one here can see beyond being handed a self congratulatory pat in the back for ticking all the boxes Mark Wotte and his band of shysters put in place. Edited February 26, 2016 by Stuart Dickson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 This is a level of sarcasm too far Stuart. Think you have some genuine good points to add here but this stuff undoes that. Sorry. No sarcasm at all. He sums it up perfectly. The St Mirren Board should spend the night at a Braehead Clan match to see how to put a proper Show on . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotstounSaint Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 You put it so nicely It's just the common sense being shown by many on here is utterly wasted. The OP will write this up in his dissertation, like thousands of others before him, and yet still no-one within the game will pay a blind bit of notice. You know why? Cause football chairmen all over the country believe cutting prices doesn't work and they can't get their head around the fact that if their clubs stopped wasting money on failed projects they could actually develop the club within the local community and grow from there. When I sat down with Stewart Gilmour in 2000 he talked about John Boyle at Motherwell as though Boyle had lost the plot. Discounted prices, more expensive players surely that would all end in disaster. He was right, it did. Motherwell landed up in administration. The thing is that because that was the outcome no-one looked at what happened at the matches where gate prices were cut. I know cause I took both my kids and a load of their friends to a number of discounted Motherwell v Dundee United matches where the typical crowd for those games rose from around 4,000 to over 7,000. Many St Mirren fans will also remember that Fir Park had 9,277 fans in when they cut admission prices to £5 for the relegation decider on the 12th May 2007. Instead the Motherwell project is rolled out time and time again as to why cheap admission is doomed to fail, always forever amen. Yet that's simply not true. Some of the "new" fans that turned up at Fir Park during those discounted times have stuck. I know quite a few of them. Several are now season ticket holders, many more are occasional visitors. Cast your mind back to Motherwell matches both home and away in the Premiership v St Mirren - remember the large young team making all that racket......now have a look round Greenhill Road next time you are there. Where's the large volume of youngsters in Paisley? Instead Gilmours legacy at St Mirren is an ever dwindling number of grumpy middle aged to well past retirement age fans who've gotten more worried about reserving their seat than they are about the clubs performances on the park and if the board do make a nod at discounted prices they f**k it up completely with bizarre promotions like this Bring A Buddy nonsense. I've gone way past fatigued on the subject. There's so much that could be done, so many lessons to learn from clubs all around the country, but this is St Mirren and no-one here can see beyond being handed a self congratulatory pat in the back for ticking all the boxes Mark Wotte and his band of shysters put in place. The aging of our support is becoming more and more evident and must be related to the morgue like atmosphere at the games and a boring family stand isn't going to fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 You put it so nicely It's just the common sense being shown by many on here is utterly wasted. The OP will write this up in his dissertation, like thousands of others before him, and yet still no-one within the game will pay a blind bit of notice. You know why? Cause football chairmen all over the country believe cutting prices doesn't work and they can't get their head around the fact that if their clubs stopped wasting money on failed projects they could actually develop the club within the local community and grow from there. When I sat down with Stewart Gilmour in 2000 he talked about John Boyle at Motherwell as though Boyle had lost the plot. Discounted prices, more expensive players surely that would all end in disaster. He was right, it did. Motherwell landed up in administration. The thing is that because that was the outcome no-one looked at what happened at the matches where gate prices were cut. I know cause I took both my kids and a load of their friends to a number of discounted Motherwell v Dundee United matches where the typical crowd for those games rose from around 4,000 to over 7,000. Many St Mirren fans will also remember that Fir Park had 9,277 fans in when they cut admission prices to £5 for the relegation decider on the 12th May 2007. Instead the Motherwell project is rolled out time and time again as to why cheap admission is doomed to fail, always forever amen. Yet that's simply not true. Some of the "new" fans that turned up at Fir Park during those discounted times have stuck. I know quite a few of them. Several are now season ticket holders, many more are occasional visitors. Cast your mind back to Motherwell matches both home and away in the Premiership v St Mirren - remember the large young team making all that racket......now have a look round Greenhill Road next time you are there. Where's the large volume of youngsters in Paisley? Instead Gilmours legacy at St Mirren is an ever dwindling number of grumpy middle aged to well past retirement age fans who've gotten more worried about reserving their seat than they are about the clubs performances on the park and if the board do make a nod at discounted prices they f**k it up completely with bizarre promotions like this Bring A Buddy nonsense. I've gone way past fatigued on the subject. There's so much that could be done, so many lessons to learn from clubs all around the country, but this is St Mirren and no-one here can see beyond being handed a self congratulatory pat in the back for ticking all the boxes Mark Wotte and his band of shysters put in place. Stuart can I ask you who you don't know. Jeez Gilmour must have stuck it up you really hard here we are 16 years later ( 16 years ) later and your still shedding crocodile tears. Lowering prices does not work if a team is playing great football scoring lots of goals gates will soon go up. If St Mirren were to charge a fiver just now the gates would still not go up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 The aging of our support is becoming more and more evident and must be related to the morgue like atmosphere at the games and a boring family stand isn't going to fix that. As I wrote above only a good team playing well will bring a larger crowd. Mate , I attended games where less than a thousand turned up for a league game even many games below the 2,000 mark. so you can imagine how that looked at Love Street when it had the old Love Street and St James end. Get a good team playing the atmosphere will also lift. Take your mind back the night we thrashed Celtic. Take your mind back when Billy's boots scoring from the penalty spot to put Celtic out the cup. Its not the stadium that makes the atmosphere its you me and the rest of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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