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  1. 23 minutes ago, Soctty said:

    The only banger is the one who can't understand simple English. Suspect I'm in the minority who would be delighted if one or more of Stubbs' signings proved a hit.

     

    I thought Heaton would of turned out good mate but I hear he is struggling big time and won’t be here for much longer.

    The words I got from somebody at the club is that January is going to be a huge month for us, incoming and outgoing.

    We need to stay within touching distance of the pack until then.

  2. 46 minutes ago, Stu said:

    Is that in addition to Jackson - so three trialists at the moment?

    Cedric Gondo is the striker: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/st-mirren-boss-oran-kearney-13310406

    Not exactly the most prolific record in recent years. Same as Jackson, although a hat-trick in a bounce game isn't to be sniffed at.

    Just hope this is a bit more successful than the waifs and strays Tom Hendrie brought in during 2000/01 in a bid to sort our lack of goals.

    Jackson to sign tomorrow all going well. 

  3. 33 minutes ago, glenburn bud said:

    I don’t think it matters to some of our fans that Gus will or won’t be capable of carrying out his new role,as TD at the club. For some reason there seems to be an agenda against Gus, with a section of fans who have already made up their minds that he will undermine Oran Kearney and step into his job. It’s all a conspiracy don’t you know.

    I spoke to somebody lastnight and I asked would gus have any say In team selection, the reply was “no chance”.

    He will be watching opposing teams and I believe he will have a lot to do in the scouting side of things.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Buddist Monk said:

    So in an attempt to "give something back", I've gone on a little hunting mission regarding Ferdinand.

    For a start he was done for speeding last year, which fair enough is a bit naughty but the interesting thing is that according to court papers he was being paid £690 per week while at Southend. That doesn't take into consideration any bonuses or initial singing on fee of course. It's reported several places but here's the BBC.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-41172265

    Going by the consensus of posts on their forum https://www.shrimperzone.com/forums it would seem that he was excellent in the first season, and was given an extension on his contract based on that, however suffered injury at the start of last season and had some personal issues, both of these things apparently kept him out of the team (although Soccerbase doesn't really show a gap:  http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=34292&season_id=150) and when he did return the general comments were that he was not the player they saw the season before.

    Phil Brown, yeah that Phil Brown, took him to Southend but he was placed on gardening leave at the start of this year. Here is a statement from the club: https://www.southendunited.co.uk/news/2018/january/club-statement-regarding-phil-brown and Steve Powell took over with Ferdinand featuring in 9 of the 14 games left. He was still under contract with Southend, but the club agreed to mutually terminate his contract after no-one came in to buy him during the recent transfer window.

    Here is the official club tweet: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035524626821070848

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Stu said:

    If McIntyre comes in he'll almost certainly bring Dodds with him. Rice is highly regarded so he could stay as we currently have a three man management team, would be a case of finances I guess.

    Not overly convinced McIntyre will be much of an upgrade on Stubbs but if we are making a change I don't see who else we can get. Goodwin said no in the summer so can't see him being interested now and we don't want to end up with Yogi!

    More chance of us bringing in Paddington Bear than Yogi.

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