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2 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:
I'm in two minds whether she is a fucking nutter or just jumping on board the grifter bus.
Both?
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20 hours ago, BFTD said:
We all knew that Truss was useless years before being made Prime Minister as some kind of bet (presumably), but folk are being far too nice in believing she's nuts. She's a chancer who was too talentless to take advantage of her good fortune and has decided to follow the bottom-feeding right-wing grift that we've become familiar with in recent years.
Her actual politics are probably still closer to the stuff she was coming out with before she realised she was never getting near power as a Lib Dem but, as with all of them, the top priority is personal enrichment.
I agree. I also think she's looking for validation, she's a national joke in the UK, so she's jumped across the Atlantic to speak to the nutters there and has had to spout even more ridiculous nonsense for bigger rounds of applause.
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42 minutes ago, Mordecai said:
I agree with your point and think that overall he was a good manager for us, but we were hardly comfortable in his first season. If we'd lost that final game against hearts by 2 goals we'd have been relegated. His time with us was generally an upward trend though and we were unfortunate to not achieve a top 6 finish.
Fair point. Looking back it feels a lot more comfortable than than the previous season's penalty shoot out play off. Although, given Dundee Utd's ability to score penalties it was maybe similar.
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2 hours ago, bishoptonbuddie said:
Jim Goodwin would never have been appointed St Mirren manager if it wasn't for his past association with the club. He was appointed because of who he was, not because of what he had done as a manager at Alloa, which was bang average. His appointment was uninspiring but the board knew there was a lot riding on getting someone that would get the fans onside after the Stubbs shambles and the somewhat acrimonious end to Oran Kearney.
Arguably, Goodwin getting the Aberdeen job is the best thing that has happened to the club over the past six years. It allowed the new board to pick a manager on merit and the results prove that.
Goodwin got Alloa promoted and kept them in the Championship, they were the only part time team there at that time.
As St Mirren manager, we stayed up pretty comfortably in his first season (admittedly the short covid season), he got us to two semi finals missed out on top 6 by a last minute goal the following season, then had us well on track for top 6 before he left for Aberdeen.
You're probably right that wouldn't have got the job had he not played for us - although we have taken managers from part time teams before like Lennon and Hendrie - but he did well for Alloa and he did well for St Mirren.
I wouldn't swap him for Robinson, but Goodwin was a good manager for St Mirren (and Alloa) by any measure.
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1 hour ago, TheScarf said:
That's big Keith away.
Sad news, what a great character and played brilliantly. The bit where he's getting his appraisal gets me every time.
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11 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
There has been a simply massive change in pupil conduct in the last couple of years.
I don't understand why the Covid interruptions have had such an impact, but it seems that they really have.
The violence at the heart of these reports is eye catching, but is really just at the more extreme edge of a massive shift. It's seen school attendance drop really significantly. It's seen instances of defiance, or complete refusal to work or follow instructions escalate hugely. It's seen this phenomenon of pupils attending the school building, but not classes, become established.
The bulk of kids are still perfectly fine but behaviour that was once confined to around 5% of pupils, is now displayed by something closer to 30%.
I'm honestly not sure how schools respond. We're clearly seeing something societal, and that makes anything schools try to do, pretty feeble in the face of such forces.
I expect the whole picture regarding schools to undergo change in the coming years, but I've honestly not got a clue what that will involve.
Covid is factor but it's not the only reason. Rise in poverty/inequality, social media with it's 'copy cat' stuff like trashing school toilets, plus a number of other factors. A lot of schools at the same time have moved towards 'restorative' forms of discipline, and for a lot of kids that'll will work, but I suspect there's a fair number of kids that just see it as there being no consequences for bad behaviour. Once behaviour starts to get bad in a school, it is pretty difficult to claw back.
Edit: another thing I would add is that some of the school buildings are in a terrible state with little sign of new buildings/renovations. This doesn't excuse any violence, but i think maybe part of the reason for the disregard shown by kids. If places are a shit hole, then they're less likely to take any care or pride in it.
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I guess "Cillian Sheridan trains with Queen's Park" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
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3 minutes ago, billyg said:
This has been going on for over half a century though , even before vids and internet. 50 years ago I saw the aftermath of an attack on Airdrie supporters buses at LS , they had beaten us 6-0 and every window on every bus was smashed in. It's nothing new and, let's face it , it's a countrywide problem which is unlikely to ever be solved !
It's definitely got better though, to a point where it almost never happened. It seems to be creeping back in, and whilst I wouldn't overplay it (we're not seeing supporters buses have all their windows put in), I'd much rather it wasn't happening.
I agree that it's a countrywide problem, it happens in lots of other countries too. It might never be completely solved but we should still try and tackle it.
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12 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said:
It's never going to be run properly.
I'm inclined to agree, but there are definitely places where it's used much better.
I've been to a few games in Korea recently and they definitely intervene a lot less there. At half time of the first game I went to, I had assumed there was no VAR. There was one check in the whole game, for a red card. The ref immediately went to the monitor when play stopped and pulled out the red card in about 30 seconds.
I'd still get rid of it.
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4 minutes ago, btb said:
Bring back National Service!
Now that I'm too old for it, I completely agree!
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13 hours ago, larry the lion said:
they were behaving disgracefully at the Livi North train station, utter thugs. We were genuinely scared for our daughter who was getting off coming from Edinburgh, coupled with their behaviour after the game to some fans including a disabled Livi fan, I think its safe to say you have a problem.
One that needs addressing immediately before it gets further out of hand.
Its a reflection on you, your club and community, so I'd say step in and sort it out through whatever means possible...
The club should be handing out bans to anyone involved in any violence or physical abuse. Hopefully that would act as a deterrent. There's a bigger problem than St Mirren though - and I don't say that to play down what happened or absolve anyone of responsibility.
There's an increase in violence in schools, so there's definitely a societal issue. It's difficult to know exactly what's causing it; rise in poverty/hangover from the pandemic/social media? Groups of teenagers, probably with a bevvy (possibly more) in them, always has the potential for aggro, couple that with seeing endless videos online of other wee dicks causing trouble at games around the country.
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9 hours ago, 54_and_counting said:
It is shite at games where time is taken for decisions, it is shite for the ticket paying fans, but unless someone comes up with another way to get more decisions correct during games then it's probably the best we'll get
Is it worth the trade off though? Ok, there is more correct decisions, but there's also more controversy, and long stops really make the game far less enjoyable.
There's so many decisions that are subjective - I made the same point on the other thread - if qualified officials (plus the panel of so called experts) can look at several decisions multiple times, and from multiple angles, yet still arrive at a different conclusion then it tells us the system isn't fit for purpose.
I can't imagine ever stopping going to St Mirren games because of VAR, but I definitely watch fewer games on TV and I've turned off more games than I can remember in the past couple of seasons. VAR is a big part of that.
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On 13/02/2024 at 01:47, jimmy boo said:
Quite enjoying this but not quite as much as i'd hoped. Haven't seen The Pacific but will do so when this finishes.
I think I enjoyed the Pacific more than Band of Brothers, possibly because I hadn't seen as much TV/film about that part of the war.
I thought Masters of the Air started quite slowly but the last two episodes have been good.
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On 14/02/2024 at 23:50, GNU_Linux said:
Ulsan HD
There's some class kits in the KLeague. Seongnam in K League two just released this cracker
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1 minute ago, smellthepaw said:
It seemed to be ( i could be wrong) the Northbank boys who formed 7/8 years ago, set out to bring colour, visuals and atmosphere back to the club. As that part of the support gained a larger army of followers over the last few years, a minority casual culture seems to have connected its self to it, outwith NB1877s hands.
Yeah, I think you're right. I'm not pointing any fingers.
There's a domino effect to this sort of thing, as soon as one or two clubs have some folk wanting to be seen as hard men, then it will follow at other clubs too.
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59 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said:
They were going to have a go at me and a mate. There was a faint club badge on my hoodie which one of them seen that made them move on they were looking for Motherwell fans. Police arrived in time before they got to the Motherwell fans. I'm capable of looking after myself trained with paisley police boxing club in my young days . But a bunch of young ones I'm past that. Football made huge strides from the dark days of violence would hate to see it returning.
The 'ultras' have made a difference to the atmosphere and it's definitely better for it. But if the trade off is that means we need to endure wee fannies looking to cause bother, then I'd rather see it all binned. It seems to be creeping into a lot of clubs now, whilst it's not exactly the Shadwell Army, it's still not nice for folk to get caught up in it. Especially if you're trying to take kids, or there's older folk there.
The clubs probably need to put their heads together and come up with something to try and nip it in the bud, I think it's difficult for individual teams to tackle it alone.
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I'm not really looking forward to this. The last game against St Johnstone in Perth was horrible, we actually played better against Livingston that we did in the game at McDiarmid but I had a similar feeling after both games.
I think predicting our games is a really hard thing to do. We don't really draw games, have pumped a few teams, have been pumped, have lost out to the odd goal against teams at the bottom of the league, have edged out some so called 'bigger' sides by the odd goal. I honestly have no idea how Saturday will go.
I watched a bit of the St Johnstone game yesterday and they looked ok. If Rangers found them hard to break down, then we certainly will.
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He says 'not once have I had a call from a big club at home'. Is there an implication here that he's had a call from a club he doesn't deem big enough?
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I probably consume more audiobooks than paper books these days. I started listening to them in the first lockdown when out walking, as I find walking pretty tedious, and they've been a permanent fixture since.
I learned quite quickly that a narrator can make or break an audiobook, so always listen to a sample first. The Ambros Parry books are excellent on audiobook as the narrators are terrific.
I just finished Liz Cheney's book about the attack on the US capital and subsequent investigation. Whilst there is a bit of self aggrandising about how 'freedom loving' she is and some vomit inducing stuff about the US being 'the greatest country that god ever created' and other such shite, it was still an interesting - and terrifying - read (listen).
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1 hour ago, Torfason said:
Reading the striker partnership thread is just depressing
Yard's and Basher were great but in 40 years supporting us, I can't remember a great top level partnership.
Even Yardley and Lavety only had a season together. And we played with a front 3 that year.
We've had some decent strikers over the years (Thompson, Higdon, Sutton all come to mind) but I can't remember many 'partnerships'. Sutton and Kean for a season? Dargo and Mehmet?
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6 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
This maybe a hint?
Certainly seems like it. You'd think Robinson would he experienced enough to ignore it, or challenge it in a calmer manner. Seemed to lose the head.
There are some fans that deserved to be called out though.
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I started watching St Mirren in the early 90s and I can hardly think of a 2 up top partnership. Yardley and Lavety in 99/00 sprung to mind but that was more a front 3 with Junior Mendes.
Mehmet and Dargo, but Dargo was injured half the time and neither were exactly prolific for us.
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Olusanya does go down easily at times, but the penalty decision was the correct call. We needed about 3 camera angles, so I guess you could make a case for it not being 'clear and obvious', but he was tripped and it was a foul.
As annoying as it was to lose yesterday, fair play to Livingston. They've given themselves a good chance of staying up now, which no one gave them a couple of weeks back.
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He certainly lost his cool. Wonder what the guy said, although I'm guessing it was constant, rather than just one remark he reacted to.
Yesterday was a poor result, but on another day we take something, so I'm not going to get too excited that we lost.
Aberdeen and Hibs don't look like going on a run any time soon, so I'm pretty confident that we'll make top 6. Fair play to Kilmarnock though, they're certainly in the driving seat for 4th spot.
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St Mirren V St Johnstone 24th February
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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The foul by Kwon is so soft. A slight nudge and the player has gone down. The referee had a perfectly good view of it and decided to play on. Had the referee given it at the time I wouldn't have complained too much but I'm not having that can fall into 'clear and obvious'.
3-0 wouldn't have flattered us. St Johnstone rallied a bit at the end, had they managed to get score from the one that went past the post we might have got nervous. But other than that, we were pretty comfortable.