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1 hour ago, MenstrieSaint said:
Strange one if they are willing to let him go . Wonder if a wee bit of negotiation is required regarding any sell on percentages .
Almost definitely.
If they are comfortable to let him leave a year early then they'll want a sizeable chunk of a sell on, same as Brentford were holding out on for Aaron Pressley last season.
Or....they could be knocking it back as we also do have someone that they apparently want and they may be holding back Balmer as a makeweight.
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1 hour ago, Fide said:
A high scoring draw where football is the winner, if you please.
Much obliged.
I admire the twitchy arse but if Killie blow 4th from here it would be an absolute miracle.
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St. Ettiene would be an unreal move for him. Massive sleeping giant of a club.
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10 minutes ago, Big Gus said:
Papa Shango ya bass.
Billy likes futba.
Billy sleeps wi the light on as he's feart fae Papa Shango.
Good grief!!!
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Butland on Olusanya was barely a foul, much less a red. You can't clear a ball at the expense of going through a player but Butland doesn't go through Toyosi, he clears his lines and Olusanya runs into him. I've seen it compared to Olusanya's red vs Celtic earlier in the season and that'sfair enough but Olusanya in that incident has his foot high and studs showing in an area where Hart's head was. Butland hasn't even got his feet up and sort of just hip bumps into him. Nothing in it for me.
Same with Bolton vs Dessers, Bolton is just really uncharacteristically weak there and allowed himself to be bullied a wee bit. Dessers should never be getting anywhere near that header.
Hemming's positioning at both goals also really annoyed me. He has to have the spatial awareness that if a ball is coming in so high and so fast, let it drop out. Nobody is getting on the back of it without him killing it and knocking it towards the Rangers player given he just kept it in and no more. I think Hemming is easily spooked by those sort of crosses as he left one vs Aberdeen early in the season and it dropped in at the back post. But generally if you're at full stretch and not going to claim it, you should be able to make the snap judgement of where it's going. The second goal whilst not really his fault, he was still in a really bizarre position that you simply couldn't see him getting anything on a cross from there.
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Yeah. 100% not the time or place to write James Scott off. We've bore witness to a few incredible turnarounds under Robinson and he clearly believes he's the man to get Scott back at the level he is capable of.
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Absolutely fucking shiteing it. Not because I fear Dundee or their side but because both sides are pretty evenly matched and this is as high a stakes match I can remember in terms of reward (ie, not just survival) probably since the 2013 LC cup final. I have two wants in my life as a St. Mirren supporter, I want a Scottish Cup win and I want to see us in Europe even if just one time. One is now so close I can actually believe it might happen which instinctively worries me.
I suppose for us, we're in a position where best case scenario we can put it almost 100% to bed with a win leaving us going 5 clear at this late stage, with a defeat though we'd still only be a point behind with 3 to play so it would be out of our hands but not totally dead. We're stumbling over the line though, really.
My optimist says we get a massive away win, coming up trumps when needed. My realist says that I've rarely, if ever saw us do anything comfortably or with plenty to spare so the concept of us all but wrapping up a European place with 3 games to go is simply not on our agenda.
Score draw and everyone to go home with their arses still twitchy.
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15 minutes ago, AJF said:
Not really through choice. The reduced allocation we get from St Mirren (well within their rights) makes it very difficult to go. Think our supporters bus got 1 ticket for it.
You don't get a reduced allocation. You get the exact same allocation as every other club in Scotland.
Closer to the facts would be to say you were temporarily given an increased allocation.
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1 hour ago, houston_bud said:
Poor for the first goal today. The second one too, although Bolton fell into him. He still had a few decent saves.
I think he's had a good season overall, I'd be happy enough if he was still here next season.
He's been poor at cross balls for weeks now. For some reason he'll barrel out and try a mad punch or swipe away rather than catch.
I won't mind if he's here next season but I definitely also wouldn't be too fussed if we rolled the dice.
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We deserved at least a point from that.
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That looked world class from Butland there. Appeared out of nowhere from where I was sitting
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11 minutes ago, Sortmeout said:
From the outside looking in it would appear that (if they are running the club) then they are doing a good job.
Think most of the level-headed ones amongst the support understand that there is a fine balance to be had between the SMISA representatives and the Kibble representation and generally it's a beneficial partnership for the overall good health of the club.
Others believe that they are sitting back waiting to asset-strip or doing a jobs for the boys type deal and despite no concrete evidence of either ever being produced, several 'yer da' types unfortunately bought into this narrative. There was also a big thing made that we wanted Stevie Naismith (one of the two candidates along with Scott Brown) before appointing Robinson - apparently he did interview and some folk concluded through a look at the higher ups in Kibble that a relative of Naismith was on the Kibble's BoD so was being primed as a shoo-in for the job and ended up looking daft when he didn't even get close to being offered the job.
Indeed, our former chairman, who over the piece, served a mostly admirable tenure are the helm of the club, seemingly decided that he couldn't let his legacy be what it was and had a few mates on socials putting out a lot of nonsense regarding the stewardship of the club - insisting he had to get back involved via the SMISA board (but not the club board) to take Kibble to task and hold them accountable and more or less ran a campaign that was basically solely along the lines of 'kibble bad' - he got his seat on the board as a result....just and no more.
As yet, his vow to 'take them to task' has not transpired because, as suspected, there's nothing to take them to task over.
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13 minutes ago, C4mmy31 said:
Surely Killie would have made St Mirren aware we would sell it out considering tickets were only being made available to season ticket holders and even then on a first come first served basis with no general sale.
Totally bizarre.
Kilmarnock are consistently the away side that sell out their allocation at St. Mirren park more than any other outside the arsecheeks so it's a strange situation that we haven't just handed them the full stand.
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Historically, there's also absolutely nothing been shown from WWE as of yet that suggests the foreign PPVs are anything other than just glorified house shows.
You'll maybe get a tag title change or something but if Drew wins the title, it would certainly mark a massive change in direction as to how these overseas PPVs normally pan out.
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I think I paid about £50-£60 for Raw when it was in Glasgow and that was in the gods.
Those prices are utterly ludicrous. I did suspect as much when they announced their gate for Mania was up something like 70% on last year given there wasn't anything like 70% more fans over the two nights.
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38 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said:
It was terrible.
@djchapsticksabsolutely nailed it.
Thing is, there's so many hindsight 'ifs' that would have made it make sense.
If they hadn't fired the biggest draw in the company over a skirmish, this could have made sense. But now we need to suspend disbelief that the Bucks and Perry are impossible to fire but Punk wasn't.
If TK hadn't announced on national TV that he was in fear for his life over getting shouted at, he could have presented his retort in a way that he'd come out swinging at them... a mad wee coked up b*****d who'll put a team in front of him to get them back and this could have made sense. Instead he made himself a bit of a joke figure.
If Jack Perry had gone away and came back an all conquering, must-not-miss level talent who was basically indispensable, this could have made sense. They already bagged their biggest name talent and WWE hoovered him up ASAP. They can't play the 'I can't sack you as you'll go there' card as would they f**k! They are probably close to Ryback levels of persona non grata in terms of WWE.
Instead you now have someone who was essentially blackballed for 8 months over a whole lot of nothing, now doing something a lot worse than he was blackballed for and folk are expected to just brush over that the guy he dropped has a recent history of legitimately disciplining him a lot harder for a lot less.
Unless they come up with something watertight in storyline terms as to why Perry and the Bucks stay on board and in power then this one's already off to a slow start for me. It already is anyway as TK as an on-screen character gives me the fear anyway.
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7 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
If your squad is struggling to cope with "anxiety" over finishing 5th then I'd be concerned massively by that.
Managers in the top six should be brave and baws oot to achieve the most they possibly can. Settling for 6th as fine when there's literally nothing to lose is pathetic.
And he says a European place is still the aim. Nowhere in the interview has he said he's settling for sixth, you've just conjured that up in your head.
Seems like you just decided that rather than say nothing, it was easier to have a pop at a complete non-issue.
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45 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Shitebag.
I'm guessing you're just choosing to ignore the part where he clearly says 'European place is the aim' whilst tempering things a bit and easing off on the anxiety of his squad.
Or you reckon as a man-manager, he'd be better served saying 'Europe or bust, if bust then they can all GTF' and really add to the stress?
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16 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said:
St Mirren fan takes over another thread because someone made a criticism ..... Aberdeen's new manager .... boom. Other teams match threads not involving St Mirren ... boom. It's a sad recurring pattern
Nothing mentioned about on field performance. And its not a cop out not to indulge you, a recognition you'd be at this all day back and forth.
Away and dig out your passport, enjoy your day in the sun and stay classy.
Jesus mate. I only asked you to at least partially quantify some of the shite you were talking.
Glad it's nothing to do with on-field performances though and you reckon we're hurtling towards a financial disaster in the next few seasons, so at least you've 100% nailed your colours to the mast and outing yourself as totally clueless.
Enjoy your night.
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14 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said:
I said you're going to have a reckoning like we did back then, to assume otherwise I agree is delusional.
Ours at the time were mental fuelled by a host of craziness both in our boardroom and with digital TV which is a different age.
Let's set a date in the diary for 2030 and see who gets to whip out the "told you so".
'A reckoning'
Go on then, put your cards on the table - what exactly does this 'reckoning' we're hurtling head-on towards look like?
Or are you just using deliberately vague wording so any downturn in our on field product (which is very likely at some point in the next 6 years) can be framed as a 'gotcha'?
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1 minute ago, Vietnam91 said:
Any of it untrue?
Apart from pretty much all of it, not really.
Love this 'they are doing better than us just now so they must be spending 2004 Motherwell levels above their station' mindset, though. Keep up the delusion.
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22 hours ago, Vietnam91 said:
We really shouldn't be getting twitchy about teams like St Mirren using our squad from 4 years ago to emulate our league placings/summer tours from 10 years ago which will ultimately lead to a similar financial reckoning that we had 20 years ago.
I'm sure that sounded intelligent and insightful in your head.
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4 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
I'm amazed it took nearly five years before Tony Khan made himself an onscreen character.
So a real life situation where a relatively minor backstage pushing and shoving match led to one person being fired with cause and another being suspended for 8 months and the owner 'in fear of his life'
Fast forward 8 months and said owner gets dropped on his head by one of the previously involved parties who will, in turn, obviously not be fired for an attack (kayfabe) that was much more violent than anything that happened backstage.
I'm all for suspension of disbelief when it comes to angles but it needs to make at least a bit of logical sense. Stone Cold got to regularly leather f**k out of Vince back in the day because it was acknowledged that he was putting arses in seats and there was always the unspoken threat that Austin would go back to WCW and make them money of Vince bagged him.
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10 minutes ago, AW saint said:
Get him on a longer deal and give him first team football next season. The lad has bags of potential.
The shite aspect of it is that it simply doesn't work that way.
If the opportunity to play first team games for SMFC presents itself against the opportunity to be on the books of a club the size of City or Chelsea, there will only ever be one winner. These clubs aren't looking at guys in the 19/20 age bracket up here for their academy and to progress to first team football. 16/17 is where they catch them so if there is firm interest in Ethan that becomes an offer then it's highly unlikely, even if he was to stay and shine in our first team, that those particular levels of club will still be interested in him in 2 seasons even with first team football under his belt. You'd be looking at English championship level clubs at most.
If City or Chelsea make a bid then it's quite literally a once in a lifetime opportunity and I don't think there's anything that we could offer that would tempt a player to hang about. That isn't a sleight at us either. Even Celtic stood no chance when Liverpool decided they wanted Ben Doak.
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The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread
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Always felt he was a 1 in 4 player. He'd come up with one absolute belter of a match and you'd think he was going to kick on then he'd play like a man down the rest of the month.
Always laughed at folk thinking MacPherson was a better player than Erhahon because Cammy ran about more and looked busier.