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1 hour ago, Stu said:
I feel there is some merit to the concerns that have been raised over this Kibble stuff as I'm not overly convinced about the denials that have been issued.. Making the application in the name of the charity foundation without informing them first, even if they were told later, is a bit odd to say the least. I also have my doubts about it just being a mistake that club owned land was highlighted.
But the way a certain individual has gone about raising these concerns has been rather silly and he seems to be just as concerned about his own profile as he is with highlighting the issues - as evidenced by a bizarre quote about how long he's supported the club and where he lived in that Herald article.
Yeah, broadly agree with this.
I don’t think Kibble have covered themselves in glory. However, the performance of Mr Wardrop in public and some other people behind the scenes has been embarrassing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a prominent former board member has his mitts over this in the background.
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On the other side of the coin, disappointing that the board release this statement on the Friday evening before a big game.
To be honest, I think the board and SMISA board both need emptied.-3 -
Embarrassing stuff, and even more so if SMISA don’t remove his application.
Fan ownership is the right thing, but SMISA is in danger of becoming the wrong vehicle.
Fucking bowling club mentality.
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
Qualitys not great but blame the 8mb limit on this site for that
His "best bits" from WyScout
He’s like Junior Morais on steroids.
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18 minutes ago, MenstrieSaint said:
Jose Quitongo,s probably the smallest player I can mind playing for Saints . ( Just went on Wikipedia, it says he,s five foot eight ) . Think I,ll have to agree that Fraser Taylor is the smallest player iv seen in a Saints shirt . Though we did have a player Jimmy Boag who was quite wee .
Garry McGrotty was pretty small too. And the lad we had in Lennon’s first season - McCluskey?
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12 minutes ago, sergie's no1 fan said:
He creates chances. He gets numbers.
If Robinson wants to go 4-3-3 he will need to bring in 2 right hand sided wingers if Henderson leaves.
It doesn't make sense not to try push the boat out an extra £100 a week or whatever to keep hold of this talent and give him playing time.
He's only 21, he is only going to get better imo.
Not sure who will stump up the development fee we will want anyway.
Strikes me as the right footed Simon Lappin.
unsure where to play them (LB, LWB, LW), but crossing ability isn’t in question.
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Buzzing to reach the top six, had that feeling we were going to St Mirren it, but luck and that big win at Hearts got us there!
finally watched the goals back this morning…very uncharacteristic from us. Think Declan needing to come back in for the last 5 games - strongest team on the park, etc.
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1 hour ago, Molotov said:
Feedback from many ICT fans is that he has been outstanding.
It’s been suggested on the ICT thread that his agent is looking for a new contract elsewhere.
Will our club regret losing Jay in seasons to come?
I appreciate that by Saints offering a new contract it’s protects the development fee.
I personally will be sad to see us lose one of our academy graduates.
Given the size of our squad I’m sure we could have utilised Jay far more this season in the first team.
But then the same argument applies to big Joe. Since he’s been back in the team he has made a massive difference.
Who would be a manager?
In Robbo we trust.
The problem for Jay is that he’s doesn’t fit into the current formation and I don’t think he can play the wingback role. Or be better than Strain.
If Robbo switches it to 4-3-3 next season, or at least on occasion, then there’s definitely a place for Jay. He’s just been unfortunate that during his time in the first team we’ve typically played 3-5-2.
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Riccardo Dijkson?
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20 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
Elvis, given your posturing over this guy on BAWA and now on here, let me be the first to say:
He's no gonnae shag ye
I’m betting they are related.
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2 hours ago, ZingaliMan said:
I don't know Mr Dickson his video seems genuine to me time will tell . Some of you St Mirren supporters need to get a grip. Aye ok might be bull but you thick idiots don't know Idjets throw bullshit even though they don't know if it's real or not. But that's St Mirren fans for you. He must be a dick as he has more money that me. Maybe not but seriously who gives a f**k. If he has it then all the better for us. If not then bull let's all laugh.
Google his name. Look at the companies house appointments. Read the accounts.
Our Chairman has said that he’s not been contacted directly by him. Don’t buy into a video of utter tripe…any mug can make one of those.
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23 minutes ago, Stu said:
Anyone know who this chap is who wants to invest in the club? You can skip to about 4 minutes in for the interesting bit:
Aye, comes up on my LinkedIn from time to time. Some lad that does property investment, etc and local.
Seems to quite like a bit of PR and talking about how much he’s worth. Someone who likes a look through Companies House will find out soon enough if that’s true or not…
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11 hours ago, Jobby1 said:
Was going to suggest Goodwin as a manger may be limited and not what Dundee United need at this point in time. However after reading the input from St Mirren fans I may be a bit late. Most Aberdeen fans tried to give Goodwin the benefit of the doubt until the dreaded 42 days but boy St Mirren fans hate him.
St Mirren supporters don’t hate Jim Goodwin. He’s our League Cup Winning captain and an absolute legend. Also came across as a throughly good person with a number of community things.
In terms of Jim Goodwin the manager:
1. some fans were a bit pissed off that he said he would be at the club in the longer-term at a fans forum, then left a week later.
2. We were an incredibly streaky team. Long periods of no wins, but then a great burst of victories.
3. He probably struggled to adapt from playing ‘backs to the wall’ type football and hitting on the counter, to an attacking team. He might be what United need in that sense, but he needs to get over being an expansive football type manager.
4. He seems like a bit of a control freak so also takes all of the training. I don’t know if he needs a stronger assistant or maybe an attacking lead coach, but think this one of his downfalls.
Would I take Goodwin over Robinson though? Absolutely not.
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3 minutes ago, medals said:
He's out injured
Think it was more a general point about people clutching at straws when form drops a little.
just show’s opinions differ so vastly in our support. Take Dunne for example…I just don’t get the love in. pace digs him out of holes at times but, in my head anyway, we lose more goals at his ‘back post’ area than the other side. I also think his positioning is often why Tanser is all over the shop - but Tanser is the one that gets abuse.
I bet there’s some sort of infographic that shows my opinion is a load of shite though!
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1 hour ago, AW saint said:
I am not being funny but put Urminskey up top instead of Joe. He is enormous and would win lots of the ball in the air. Would give it a go
Stuart Pearce tried that with David James at Man City. It was a fucking disaster.
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Are we close to renaming the ‘new manager bounce’ to the ‘St Mirren bounce’?
Reeking form, sacked manager, no confidence…no problem. We’ve been like that for years - never ruthless when required.
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I take it the Mahrez story is the new Tom Hendrie/Ronaldinho, once a year story?
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2 minutes ago, Div said:
Brophy to County on loan is done, should be announced today I would think.
Olusanya also heading out on loan, to the Championship I believe.
Good moves all round, I think.
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2 minutes ago, Div said:
Yip would agree with that. Martindale is a really strange situation, as he seems to pretty much run everything at Livingston, they don't seem to be run like a "normal" top flight football club.
What he's done there has been truly remarkable, but could he take it and replicate it a bigger club? I'm not so sure.
I don't think we'll ever find out though, nobody will touch him!
Yeah, I’d agree with that on DM.
The issue with Jim is a really simple one, and probably comparable with Moyes at West Ham right now. A counter attack manager working with a team that’s an underdog. However, any time they try to open up and be expansive then it’s a disaster.
Jim’s best spells were playing 4-1-4-1, collapsing into our own half and then creating traps. Any time he tried to open up we went on a poor run of form.
Maybe if he’d ‘stuck to the knitting’ at Dons he’d have won more. Probably not impressed the fans much, though.
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1 hour ago, NathanDrake88 said:
As I just said in yesterday’s match thread, our 2 first choice strikers have a terrible scoring record in their careers. Brophy and Greive are clearly more natural finishers. Neither Main or Ayunga are going to score you 15 a season. As always scoring goals from open play is our biggest concern
We rarely get 15 goal a season strikers at this level - most clubs don’t. You end up taking punts in the hope it comes through. Main and Ayunga definitely unsettle defences and, if Ayunga develops, you hope the goals will come.
Thommo and Higdon the only ones to reach +15 goals in a season since the 80s?
In terms of Brophy, I don’t really buy the natural goalscorer thing and I would say Greive is the closest we have to a penalty box striker. Brophy hasn’t exactly been a proven goalscorer in his career and I bet his goal to shots ratio is absolute tosh.
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12 hours ago, SS77 said:
Going by the rumours it’s either Dingwall or Australia.
Only one winner there if it was me
Heard there’s interest from Australia, but he’s not that keen on making the move. Pretty settled in the central belt.
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30 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
Think it's likely both will definitely be gone by end of season. A real shame. Dylan should have had more minutes than he has unfortunately. Even to do what he did at Tynecastle and shore up the midfield and add something different for last 15-20 of games.
I think everyone anticipated him having more minutes this season - but the form of the midfield three has put paid to that.
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55 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Cup game this weekend, so Motherwell on Jan 28th is our next league game. The last time we scored a league goal from open play was Curtis Main at Ferrantibank Thistle on Dec 28th. An entire calendar month. That’s absolutely bloody dreadful. The fact we squeaked a few draws in this run has clearly taken a bit of the heat off our utterly abysmal inability to score some goals that aren’t free kicks or penalties. Go back before the Livvy game and the three against Aberdeen - two were the O’Hara penalties, the other was when ten man Aberdeen went full mad mental and their goalie was at the Buddie Good Food van buying a square sausage & tattie scone doubler, allowing us to ‘score from open play’ into an unguarded net.
Not nearly good enough, just saying that factually, not meant in a ‘not good enough, we deserve better, sack the board’ type of way.
Pretty standard for us - would be far more concerned if we weren’t creating chances.
Main and Ayunga bring a lot to the team but aren’t prolific (hence they play for us!). We probably don’t weigh in with enough goals from other areas of the park too.
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8 minutes ago, smellthepaw said:
Robinson prior to the Hearts game was bigging him up in the press, then he had that unfortunate short lived minutes on the Saturday.
Could he be doing with a short loan move to boost his confidence and game time, or does Robinson think he can genuinely hit the ground running and play a part in our second half of the season?
It has been rumoured Brophy may be away this window, so maybe he's exercising his options that will be here longer.Yeah, I thought a spell at Arbroath or somewhere like that could work well…done a couple of Livvy strikers no harm.
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The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread
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Yeah, people always say we need to do more to maximise commercial revenue.
If replacing a closed club with 250 members with better hospitality (could you do a hospitality lite for £50 - bar meal and couple pints?), then creating a fan zone that’s accessible for all makes more cash, I’m in.