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    Treble Chasing Motherwell vs St Mirren - 28/09/24

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    I think Saints have had a decent enough start given the context of the start to the season.

    Of the 5 league games we've played to date 3 were against sides who finished in the top six last season and the other two against two of the bigger lads in Hibs and Aberdeen.

    The two of those we lost were against Celtic and Aberdeen, and nobody else has even taken a point of either of those.

    Throw in the extertions of the European fixtures and a fair few injuries and I don't think it's been a bad start at all.

    Motherwell look in decent fettle but if we are to repeat the top six finishes of the last two seasons then it's games like these that you need to take something from.

    Would probably take a point right now if offered, but the script is surely written for KVV to get the winner.

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    Be mental to turn our nose up at KVV despite his age and lack of football, given how many goals he scored in the Premiership just two seasons ago.

    That said, we don't really have months to wait for a player to get up to speed and there is also a genuine question about how many chances we're actually creating for any striker to thrive off. It's not been that many to be fair.

    We've got a good squad, but when you look around the Premiership I think you could say that about most of the teams to be honest. It's going to be very, very fine lines between "success"  and failure this season. A couple of key additions in the next couple of days could make all the difference, particularly with a few players missing and quite a few of the new boys still struggling to get fully match fit.

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    GIPHY Integration

    in Pie and Bovril Official Announcements

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    The good people at GIPHY have been in touch to advise of a new pricing model for using their (currently free to use) GIF library on the forum.

    I was up for spending a few quid a month to keep that integration and appreciate there is no such thing as a free lunch, but they've asked me for, and I shit you not, £570 a MONTH. To use their GIFs!

    I have politely declined this offer so at some point in the I guess immediate future, that feature will be removed from the board.

    The guys that produce the forum software might come up with an alternative integration for us.

    Until then, fill your boots, cos these GIFs are gonna disappear. As will GIPHY in the fullness of time I expect!

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    Don't think there are many teams in the division who wouldn't struggle if you took five midfield players out their first team squad and that's what we were dealing with yesterday.

    Add in the exertions of Thursday night when we went toe to toe with a very good side on a heavy pitch, and the fact the players and staff had one day to prepare for the game in Dundee and I think it's fair to cut us some slack.

    We were also a whisker away from taking the tie to extra time with the deflected shot that squirmed just past the post in the last minute.

    Whilst I don't think we really deserved to take anything from the game I don't think there's any need at all for pressing panic buttons.

    The board need to back the manager though by investing as little of that Euro money, I do still think we are one or two bodies light and even if they are loan signings.

    Next Sunday is never a write off but I don't expect Celtic to drop too many points this season so it's as free a hit as we are going to get and hopefully with a couple of the missing midfielders back we can give a better account of ourselves than we've done at either Pittodrie or Tannadice.

    Hard to take too many positives from yesterday but Fraser Taylor can certainly hit a good dead ball and it was good to see Sutherland get some minutes.

    The glaring negative for me was the performance of Balcombe who was heroic in his first couple of games but looked incredibly shaky yesterday, particularly dealing with cross balls. Hopefully just a bad day at the office but he wasn't particularly great in Aberdeen or Norway either to be honest.

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    The Indigo Comms Pie and Bovril Predictor Competition 2024/25 Week 3

    in West of Scotland Football League

    Posted

    On 12/08/2024 at 14:56, jimbaxters said:

    @Shannon @TediousTom @Emiliano ZaBankie @Forfoxsake @Cairn Cheerleader @EK man @93glens17 @dagane @happy @Shanner @99blue baloons @Kenny*******Powers @BC63 @Budandavodka @funky monkey @megaspinnernet2 @coineanach @coolerking83 @Johnstonian @Darvel legend @amnarab @Dean Learner

    I thought it would be a bit unfair to the rest of the forum to start another thread so I'll post this here.

    The final money pot consists of £100 donated by Indigo Comms (Cairn Cheerleader), £50 from Jim Wylie Mortgages (Darvel legend), £50 from Pie & Bovril and £230 entry fees from you guys. Therefore our total prize pot is an amazing £430! Site owner @Div now has the prize pot and will hold it until the end of the season. Can you confirm this for everyone please, Div? Thanks

     

    Confirmed. I am holding the £430 and I definitely won't spend that in Norway this week. 😉

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, medals said:

    There is a game here that we need to play in too.

    Miovski purchase and selling fee gives the Dons more than enough to pay our entire wages bill for well over a year.

    Hibs with Bowie (was impressive at the weekend out-muscling Tic's best CB)

    And there are others who clubs see great potential but will happily sell if their valuation is right.

    So we've started paying fees too. We need some of them making a big difference over the seasons and a sell on or 2 to boost our war fund.

    Sidebe looks a bargain at 0.5 £M

    We're miles away from being able to spend half a million on a player I'm afraid.

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, dylan_leggatt said:

    Is the match on Norwegian TV? heading over there without a ticket, had restaurant tickets but they got cancelled, (was woth a shot) . Now wondering where to watch it, if my 17yo will be allowed in a pub in the evening to watch it or if it will be a case of watching it on the TV. 

    The game is being shown in the FootballPuben where all the Saints fans. tickets or no tickets, are gathering.

    All ages welcome.

    https://www.blackandwhitearmy.com/opinions/2303-norway-were-on-our-way

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    Thursday obviously took a lot out of us, that was pretty evident second half yesterday and that was even after making 5 changes to the starting XI.

    Looking at Kilmarnock's performance yesterday probably points to a similar story for them and if you remember last season saw both Hearts and Aberdeen struggle badly in the opening weeks of the season as they tried to cope with the Thursday/Sunday shifts.

    Easier to cope with those once the season is in full swing, but it's very difficult to do it when the players have only just returned to competitive action.

    There's being fit and then there's being match fit, it's a really difficult situation.

    Kilitie has been a big loss in the final third but the loss of O'Hara has really been key for me. We're really missing his energy in the middle of the pitch particualrly with likes of Dennis, Smyth and Idowu still getting up to speed.

    I thought CBM was the big disappointment the last couple of games though, his set pieces were shocking yesterday. Dunno if it's the speculation about him moving on, but he's been nowhere close to being at his best.

    Anyone who watched that game last Thursday would know why Brann are massive favourites to beat us this week. They played us off the park and if we turn in the same sort of display in Bergen then there's no doubt they will beat us comfortably.

    I'm really looking forward to the trip, but the game terrifies me a wee bit to be honest!

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