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Do season ticket holders still get access to St Mirren TV for home games? Mrs away the weekend and don’t fancy taking a 9 month old along on Sunday.
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5 hours ago, Coventry Saint said:
Yeah, though the arrival of Ronan has clearly been what was missing. Fairly damning indictment of Kiltie who was meant to be doing the same thing and was well short of the task.
Today I guess it's a straight choice between Erhahon and Main to start, depending on whether we play two sitting CMs or two strikers.
Ronan has definitely helped. However, I know the boo boys have started, but I think Millar has also made a big difference purely by giving us some balance on the right and being someone that knows that position.
Both have made a difference, just in different ways.
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26 minutes ago, AW saint said:
Dunne is injury prone. We should have looked elsewhere
It’s a kinda win as it means Goodwin plays our best defender.
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1 minute ago, ZingaliMan said:
St Mirren earned £100,000 last night with Paul McGinn starting for Scotland being reported.
Also heard that Hibs included the kitman and Potter in the swap deal for McGrath…
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Some of the stuff directed at John Needham on Twitter is disgraceful.
We’ve got some right bellends in our support.
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24 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
Think Fitzy's ship has sailed here.
Looks like in George Adam and the new chairman's eyes, a lot of the issues stemming from the club recently, the buck stops with Tony.
Yeah, I’d be surprised if Tony is still in the CEO role by Xmas.
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1 hour ago, ZingaliMan said:
How long is Power suspended ?
More a question for Scottish Power…boom boom.
Sure it was two games, so will miss Saturday.
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17 minutes ago, Ric said:
I'm going to be honest here, I don't think anyone expects McGrath to down tools in any way.
I do, however, think the transfer talk may have "taken him off the boil".
Ideally he'll come back with a point to prove, have a stormer of a half season with a club paying more than they'd have been willing to just now purely to guarantee his immediate contract rather than gamble on a PCA. That's unlikely to be the case, well the latter part of it, but we can but hope.
Hard to know if he’s off the boil in our world of fucking hoofball.
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Just now, jm1 said:
Curtis Main's aerial ability, strength, pace, work rate and attitude is superb. I like him and really want him to do well.
His ability to kick a football is not good though and unfortunately that's a pretty important part of football.
Paul McGowan couldn’t kick a football either. Decent player for us though.
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5 minutes ago, Hendo said:
If we play 4-2-3-1 they could both play in the same team, Kiltie on the left and McGrath through the middle.
Would also suit Jay Henderson more…and a resurrection for Kyle?
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4 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said:
Subs were all wrong for me yesterday but that's the managers call. He has lost players he wanted due to budget constraints which will continue unfortunately until we can up our income. Booooing is an individual choice personally for me it only makes matters worse if fans don't think boooing affects players then they never will understand.
I’d disagree on the budget element. He’s brought in a number of players, all of his choice. I don’t see his hands being significantly tied behind his back on that one.
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11 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said:
Last three games we have had a player sent off in each game that's very concerning. Last two games we have had perfectly good goals chopped off due to bad refs . Is Mrs Fate going to give us a bad season. Last seasons hero Jim Goodwin fast becoming the point the finger and blame culprit. Seen this all to many times in the past it will soon lead to players being shouted at on the park . That leads to confidence seeping out the team that ends up struggling. Did I hear booooing as our players walked off the park yesterday. Its all building up to a c**t of a season 4 games in.
I don’t think there was booing of the players, I think the frustration was directly aimed at Goodwin and for good reason. 0-0 is what you’d expect playing 6 defenders plus Ethan, who’s not exactly famed for being forward thinking. Ethan wasn’t having a good day. Goodwin completely stubborn and didn’t change it.
He just made like for like changes too, but what use was that when you still don’t get the ball forward?
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1 hour ago, AW saint said:
Hopefully we can improve the squad this week
Definitely think McGrath will be away in the next week.
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Where does he live currently?
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2 minutes ago, NorthBank said:
For me the problem isn't 3 at the back, it is 2 strikers closely supported by 2 midfielders and 2 wingbacks leaving 1 sitting midfielder and 3 CBs to cover the rest of the pitch. Last season we played with 3 CBs and 2 sitting midfielders and had one of the best defensive units in the League. We also played football on the deck through the sitting midfielders. It was maybe too slow but this launching the ball straight up the pitch leaves us woefully exposed when we lose it.
Very much this. Kiltie and McGrath are too similar, and neither is ‘box to box’ to play in a 3-5-2. Two wingbacks start really high, so we just bypass the middle of the park and don’t really build anything.
It can work, as the Jonnies have proved, but have to have logic and personal to deliver.
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2 hours ago, Ric said:
Sifting through shit will still leave you with shit on your hands, even if you find a penny in that shit.
After reading the “stewards” thread on BAWA, I’d take a daily RG post over that…
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1 hour ago, Ric said:
I've said it before and after today I still feel the same. All the separate parts are there, we're just not putting them together as a whole.
Agree with this. Don’t think we’ve got the players to play that system and it leaves Kiltie being pretty ineffective. Also think McCarthy is our best centre back, don’t think he deserves to be missing out.
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5 minutes ago, Ric said:
Subs: Lyness, McCarthy, Erhahon, MacPherson, Henderson, Dennis, Erwin
If I didn't know better, I'd say that's a 4-4-2!
Nah, think it’s 3-5-2 with Tait straight replacement for Henderson.
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4 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Anyone who has been successful in a ballot so far able to shed any light on this for me? At the turnstiles, did you waft a mobile phone or iPad at the automated ‘card reader’, or did you print out your ‘ticket’? Ta.
Phone is fine.
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11 minutes ago, Coventry Saint said:
We're in for Lewis Morgan on loan, too:
Looks like Chris Wreh impressed on trial.
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56 minutes ago, FTOF said:
Although you had to wear one to get in to the ground yesterday and if you moved about the stadium, very few people sitting watching the game were wearing masks. Rightly so, as we were all at least1m socially distanced, and sitting in an extremely well ventilated area.
The ticket did imply that a mask was to worn at all times. It’s never going to happen, especially in that heat.
I listened to Fitzy on the radio (had to fill the time) and was quite surprised by his response, seemed almost defensive. We’ve lost seats as they are using the main stand for the players during the week (ralston being done up) and that’s why. Can’t understand why, it’s not like they are using the same entrance.
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11 minutes ago, elvis said:
Glenafton had 1000 people in at the weekend for a junior game go figure.
Yes, heard similar at junior games close to us. And no masks for supporters.
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5 minutes ago, NorthBank said:
Jim seems to have decided we do not need a midfield this season. Tactic is long balls from the back three either straight up top to two strikers or out to the wing backs to throw in crosses quickly. I understand what he is doing. We were far too slow last season getting the ball up front with too many side and back passes. And even if the strikers do not win the headers then Kiltie and McGrath are there for the second balls. Problem for me is it is turning into hoof ball and McGrath's talents are wasted. Would have preferred if we had mixed it up more and at least tried some passing through the middle. If we keep this up we won't need McGrath this season.
Slightly concerned yesterday that McGrath was very deep at points of the game. A couple of times Fraser overlapped and McGrath dropped into his space to take the ball. I’d rather McGrath was the one breaking the lines and making that movement.
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6 minutes ago, RiG said:
Lewis Jamieson - talk to me. I know he had a decent wee loan spell at Clyde last season. The rumour mill has us taking him on loan to help pad out the squad as Dodds shifts to playing two up front and we only have Mckay and Duku there with the former being injured at the moment.
Highly rated and appears to have done well at Clyde. Not really seen much of him in a Saints shirt to comment, but has had a good reputation coming through the various youth levels.
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St Mirren v The Rangers 2012 Sunday 24/10/21
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Looked like he was holding his abdomen, so don’t think it’s a knee injury. They didn’t put a brace on either.
However, still stands as injuries there can be horrible. Ian Ross missed the whole of the 00-01 campaign from an abdomen tear.