AllyM
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If we'd gone with no relegation and a 13 team top league, we could have Hearts stepping in to play the fixtures when one of the big teams have had a night out on the lash
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11 minutes ago, AW saint said:
Our strength in depth is worrying. We are light in quality on the bench.
Sheron not even on bench, is he injured?
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9 hours ago, EdinburghLivi said:
Best post ah've see this year
#beautiful #youreallyareapoet #HHGH
Some guy condemning this shite was told he was being harsh as 'JP' was "only expressing his feelings not literally stating what folks should do". lol
Imbeciles.
It's almost as if they don't want the St Mirroon pound.
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8 minutes ago, Golden Gordon said:
With Jon Obika becoming a St. Mirren legend within 30 games of playing for the club, I thought it might be interesting to see if there were players at other clubs who had achieved legendary status within a shorter or equal number of games.
Isn't he a legend at Hibs already? He's well under 30 games for them.
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58 minutes ago, steelmen said:
If St Mirren were bottom, there would have been a bit of moaning and groaning but they would have taken their ‘medicine’ and tried for extra cash behind doors. Their ceo doesn’t have to cover their ass for all the monumental mistakes they have made.What have we got to do with it? It's no fair.
We were NINTH when the fat lady started singing, just a few minutes after Jon Obika picked up the ball and ran with it into the Hearts net.
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3 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:
One of the ways to increase test capacity and reduce costs is running a single test on multiple samples. And if there is a positive test in a batch each one is then individually checked.
So it might be the case that the batch came back positive and the lab called the people to ask them to self isolate for the time it takes to do the individual tests.
Sounds like a great idea. I hope the NHS are looking at a similar logic to reduce costs for terminal cancer tests.
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It just all adds to our badness towards Hearts:
Dundee 2 Hearts 0 - we sold the league to Celtic in 1986
St Mirren 3 Hearts 2 - we stole the league cup in 2013
St Mirren 1 - Hearts 0 - we relegated Hearts in March 2020
St Mirren 1 - Hearts 0 - we relegated Hearts again in April 2020
St Mirren 1 - Hearts 0 - we relegated Hearts again in May 2020
St Mirren 1 - Hearts 0 - we relegated Hearts again in June 2020
6 false positive CoVID tests - we blew Hearts arbitration argument about recommencing football in July out the window in July 2020
*St Mirren 1 - Hearts 0 - we relegated Hearts again in July 2020
*pending
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25 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:
If anyone was going to be clatty and disease ridden it would be the Paisley Buddies.
So I guess one would classify this post as a "false negative" then?
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Just now, Insaintee said:
It's most likely been cross contamination of samples
I agree - but that is just incompetence and/or lack of training. False positives are false positives wherever in the process the cause lies .
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35 minutes ago, Coventry Saint said:
It's understandable that the process is prone to human error at some point. The whole thing - not just @ SMFC - is relying on non medical experts to carry out large batches of tests and, apparently, get them couriered to England.
The good news is that we are erring on the side of caution and, as a club, clearly acted correctly in response to the (false) outbreak.
Well yes, but that is a huge error. You can't run a testing system with that number of false positives (generously 6%, if 100 at the club were tested). A viable test system (from the sampling through the transport to the lab test itself) needs a false positive rate of much, much better than 1% . Otherwise it is a waste of time. Yesterday, Scotland reported 16,338 tests. This outfit could easily have reported close to 1,000 new positive cases with their level of accuracy/competency.
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6 minutes ago, Junior Pub League said:
One of the main reasons it changed was Wigan getting a 12 point deduction, Luton appointing a manager who knew what he was doing and more pertinently for hearts - Hull being an absolute clusterfuck of a club owned by charlatans and managed by a grossly incompetent buffoon that they refused to sack.
It sounds like there is a blueprint for finishing bottom then?
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Slightly off topic, but what is the biggest collection of fans of your own team that you've ever been part of? Mine, for St Mirren, must be the Scottish cup final of 1987. The attendance (folk actually in the stadium) was listed as just over 50,000. I reckon St Mirren had a larger support that day than Dundee Utd, so I would put our support at around 30,000. That must be the largest gathering of our fans in the last 50 years and a fairly impressive number, if not quite the 200,000 gathered together in a bar in Seville a few years back.
Over to you lot to wave yer willies.
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On 09/07/2020 at 22:31, NorthBank said:
Claiming they would survive with 8 games to go is almost as good as claiming they would win the League being 3 points clear going into the last game of the season.
Hearts can't even win from a winning position. Doon ye go....... which is a particular embarrassment in 1985-86 given that it was two points for a win that season. How did they manage to blow that?
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On 30/06/2020 at 23:46, Ric said:
I've spent most of the day racking my brain to think of any other "connection" we've had with Gillingham. In the last 4 decades, Hodson is the only one I could think of.
I’m the connection. My youngest was born in Medway Maritime Hospital close to Christmas 2013 and the Gills players and then manager, Peter Taylor strolled in for a photo-op.. I was ‘in celebratory mode’ and had a quiet word about mutual reciprocity between the Gills and the buds. PT seemed so impressed he peeled away mid conversation, presumably to set the ball rolling.
Saw Simeon Jackson score a 90th minute winner for the Gills at Wembley in the league 2 playoffs in 2009.
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53 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:
Auntie, baws, Uncle etc...
These things even out over time though. Remember 1986 when....... wait.
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It is interesting that in addition to the 6 clubs listed, you could easily add Celtic, Rangers and Motherwell as already having a broadly similar perspective. It is rare to get so much consensus so quickly between the BIG CLUBS in Scotland. Budge should be given a lot of credit for that, in all fairness.
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10 minutes ago, Speroni*1 said:
Why are you always such a w**k over the most trivial of things? Does it make you feel good about yourself? Jeezo.
Fair point. There wasn't a superfluous apostrophe in your post - there were two (everybody' and club's). Poor show from DA Baracus,.
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13 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:
Nope. The results that season were two 1-1 draws at SMP and a 2-0 win and 2-1 defeat at Tynecastle.
http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Prog_Season.php?season=2013
Aye but he’s talking about his own team here - 3-2 win over Motherwell
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1 hour ago, angusog said:
you can buy testing kits ,now ,online
Steady tiger. You can buy a throat swab on line then send it back to a lab for testing. Or you can book a test online. But you can't "buy a testing kit" unless you have a real-time PCR machine at home to amplify up the relevant gene products.
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On 26/03/2020 at 13:57, Bairnardo said:
I am playing with play doh. When did it stop being fun and start being a frenzied and stressful battle to stop them cross contaminating the colours?
Someone needs to invent play-doh that sorts itself back into its component colours at the end of a long day. With magnetic nanobeads of varying strength or some such. Anyone?
You can buy a fairly decent fluorescent cell sorting machine (FACS machine) for about £30K but I think that might be overspec'd and it might get bunged up.
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6 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:
These figures - especially UK ones - are probably totally useless, anyway. But if the government didn't issue figures you'd get cries of "What are they trying to hide?".
By the way, no kitchen roll in Asda, Cookstown.
The absolute figures in terms of number of cases MUST be wrong as government advice for people with mild symptoms has been, for several days now, to stay at home, self isolate and don't call 111. So no-one will know how many of us have had it in a mild form.
We can get estimates of the number of "mild" cases by proper random sampling of small (but big enough) groups and then extrapolating, but there is no indication that this is happening. We will need to know this number in the longer term to determine if our "herd immunity" strategy has worked or not. If we don't know how many people have had it and are immune (hopefully) - we won't know what to do when the second, third, fourth wave comes - which seems to be the main point of our "unique" strategy. In other words if you lock down too quick and most people don't get it, we'll have to keep locking down every few months until enough do or a vaccine comes along.
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9 minutes ago, Mr Heliums said:
The Government does have a plan though. It's based on the best scientific evidence that they have. People are now ignoring it and think they know better.
One problem is that they haven't told us what evidence they are using - they would be well served to make that public. There are some merits to their plan (say for schools, where, if they closed now, many kids would promptly be sent to their grandparents killing many of them as a result), but other aspects of it differ from what many other countries are doing or have done to date.
One difference is that China and Italy had local hotspots which they locked down. Our cases seem more evenly spread, so perhaps it is right to take a different approach. I'm not sure, though - this is where we could do with more transparency on their thinking, at least for the benefit of those that have the expertise to comment on it either positively or negatively.
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1 hour ago, bendan said:
That's what they are trying in China, but we seem to be planning to have most of the population acquire immunity through infection.
Our government's approach is the "Let's get CoVid19 done" approach. It's a viable approach, but if we get it even slightly wrong, there will be a large number of unnecessary deaths, primarily among the old and the otherwise sick. As far as I can see, no other country is adopting our approach at the moment.
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Interesting angle on our goal last night.
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The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread
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