Oldchap
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Ross County and ourselves are both now free on Saturday 9th March. It would make sense to move our midweek game till then. More support could travel up and the team would not be playing two games a week at the end of February. Would Sky be willing to drop the game and would the stay at home supporters be happy not to see the game on TV to allow more to travel to support the team?
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Came along as a neutral. What a disappointment. Football was rotten,pies were worse and Clyde fans were an embarrassment. On the latter point I have rarely seen such a bunch of odd people both young and old . Couldn't help thinking that some of the young guys need to get their first girlfriend . Too late for the older guys.
Won't be back
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23 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:
Looks like Dec Gallagher is off to Dundee United.
I recall him saying he lives in Dundee so it makes sense . If he does go should we maybe have tried harder to keep Shaughnessy
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Started with a Deuchers IPA and now on to this beauty before dinner. Good follow on from a better St.Mirren performance
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On 05/07/2023 at 23:51, Ben Reilly said:
There's a free carpark right outside Lesser, which is a continuation if the even bigger free carpark outside Hampden.
Both will be available on Monday night and there will be plenty of space.
Enjoy the game.
Sorry to be a pest. Is the entrance from Kinghorn drive or somewhere else
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9 hours ago, Ben Reilly said:
There's a free carpark right outside Lesser, which is a continuation if the even bigger free carpark outside Hampden.
Both will be available on Monday night and there will be plenty of space.
Enjoy the game.
Many thanks. Would prefer if it was a competitive game but my St.Mirren duties don't give me an opportunity before you move to Hampden .
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2 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
Thing is, it's a pretty big impasse.
If he wants away then a club will need to stump up the cash for him. Will a club pay a six figure fee for a 35 year old? He's got a full two years left as well so not like he can just sit it out.
We hold all the cards on this.
I'm clearly not ITK. Can anyone enlighten me on what the issue is.
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Coming to the Livingston game simply because I want to see the new ground. Can you guys advise where it's best to park . Thanks
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1 hour ago, glenburn bud said:
I was on the receiving end of said bricks and bottles at the old brunden park stadium. It was so bad we all had to run back to the top of the terracing wall and crouch down to avoid the onslaught. One or two folk got nasty head wounds.
Was worth it though, Jimmy Bones diving header to win in the last min of extra time remains one of my best memories from back in the day.
Happy days not. I got a doing at Bolton station that night. I've wished them ill ever since.
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Just now, Oldchap said:
Anders Dryer?
Drayer
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2 hours ago, Biscuits said:
Pop quiz hotshot- who was the last st mirren player to play against Scotland?
Anders Dryer?
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2 hours ago, Biscuits said:
Pop quiz hotshot- who was the last st mirren player to play against Scotland?
Gudmunder Torfason?
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60 years of supporting us and it's been the same old thing for most of that time apart from mid seventies to mid eighties. We think of ourselves as one of the bigger sides but our league positions suggest otherwise. Since the premiership started in 1998/99 ,with the exception of us ,all the current premiership clubs plus Dundee, Partick, Caley Thistle and Dunfermline have finished in the top six. We just don't seem to have it over a whole season. We have been ecstatic when winning the Championship three times in that period but in reality we were over the moon about being the 13th best team. I know we won the league cup,one of the better days of my life, but that just involved 5 games. Going back to league positions since world war two our mean average league position has been 12th. That sums us up .A bottom half premiership/ top half championship side. Even the way we are organised is small time - a friend trying to book hospitality and another private event likened it to dealing with a bowling club .
I genuinely thought this might be the season where we may just manage to make it . Given recent displays and the injury list leaving such a limited squad I have my doubts but I live in hope. Maybe we just need to accept who we are . Saturday coming will tell us a lot.
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There is certainly something odd going on with Dylan Reid. No mention of him at all on any Crystal Palace related sites
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48 minutes ago, flyingscot said:
I mean if County get a bit of form start winning and Brophy replaces Charles Cook as their regular goalscorer whilst our strikers fail to hit a barn door and we end up struggling at the wrong end of the table I can see a downside.
Of course there is the possibility of that happening but we have a manager who is paid to take risks and will be accountable for his actions. We can't afford to keep players " just in case. " Whenever we get rid of any player people come on here saying we should keep him as it might come back to haunt us. We would have a massive squad and no money to pay them . Management involves taking risks. Having said that I would prefer if we kept Brophy and got rid of others but I'm not paid to take these risks.
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I've not missed many StMirren games over the years but the one that sticks out is when we won 4-0 at Dens to win the first division in 1977. My car broke down on the way.
Also I regret never having travelled away with St.Mirren in Europe. I had a young family and couldn't afford it. Now that I would be able to afford it it doesn't show signs of happening. When/ if it does happen I guarantee I'll be too decrepit to go or my family can go using the money they got from my will .
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12 hours ago, DA Baracus said:
We've all missed games we wished we saw.
So, for your own club, for your country and one other game of your choice, what games do you wish you were at?
Club: Either of the cup wins would be amazing, but I have to go for our win at Tannadice in April 96. I was only 10 so couldn't attend, but for me and many Pars fans it's an absolutely legendary game featuring an absolutely legendary team with, in my view, our most legendary manager in charge. That it was such a huge game (despite being in the First Division it was the feature match on Sportscene) with a sell out crowd, huge away support and full of drama sells it for me.
It was the penultimate game of the First Division 95/96 and Dundee United led the league by a single point over us. Victory would have won them the title that day. They had a ludicrous squad for that level (Craig Brewster, Christian Dailly, Steven Pressley, Maurice Malpas, Owen Coyle, Gary McSwegan, Billy McKinley, Andy McLaren, Robbie Winters, Paddy Connelly, David Hannah, Ray McKinnon, Ally Maxwell).
Stewart Petrie scored early on due to a comical keeper/defender mix up. United had a few chances first half but did little. Second half we had a chance from Andy Smith that went narrowly over. Then Petrie was sent off. From then United absolutely hammered our goal. Dailly hit the bar twice. It was not to be for them, as we won and went top of the league. They drew with Morton the week after so we won the league in front of circa 13,000 at East End where we won against Airdrie (which I was at), so went up as champions. They beat Partick in the playoffs to also go up. But Tannadicd 96 would be my pick. Just incredible scenes in one of our most memorable seasons. The tension of holding on second half when wave after wave of attacks came at us would have been immense, but the joy at full time would have been unreal. The footage still gives me goosebumps. Paton raising a fist to the crowd is electric. Kirkwood slithering down the tunnel is always amusing. The entire side of the stadium given over the Pars support looks incredible.
Also, two current League 1 managers played in that game. Can you name them?
Country: There's been loads as I don't get to many Scotland matches. In fact I haven't been to one in years! Quite a few candidates, like beating France home and away, the game that never was in Estonia, beating England in 99, Ukraine in 2007 at Hampden and many more, but I'd have to go with Brazil at France 98, just for the occasion.
Other: So many to pick from! France vs Italy World Cup Final. Motherwell 6-6 Hibs. Brazil 1-7 Germany. These stand out, along with many others. But I have to go with Manchester United 4-3 Real Madrid in 2003. The Real team had some of my all time favourite players (especially Zidane and Ronaldo, although Figo, Roberto Carlos, van Nistelrooy, Raul, Scholes and Giggs were no bad) but in general it was such a tremendous game. It's what the Champions League should be, not what it is. I don't support either side (I don't have 'an English team' or indeed any other team) but it was just a sensation match. L
Believe me your best team and manager were in the sixties. Even after Stein left the momentum carried on for quite a while. The same happened with Ferguson at St Mirren. I still think of Dunfermline as a big team because they were so good when I was at an impressionable age at school. Clearly things have changed with Dunfermline but that's the view that sticks with me. Similarly I think Dundee utd are thought of as a bigger team than they are because a lot of our current journalists were at the " impressionable" age when they were top notch under McLean.
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11 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Why not?
You are quite right if hatred is your thing. Who am I to deny you your freedom of thought ? I do find it a bit disturbing ,indeed sad, that someone thinks like that but hey I'm entitled to my freedom of thought as well
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6 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Imagine actually referring to someone as 'her/his/your majesty' and being serious about it.
Agreed but some people see it differently and that's their right in a free country which thankfully we still have. It's no excuse for hatred.
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The football authorities are guilty of virtue signalling and have got it all wrong. I've lost £40 in advance fares for a game tomorrow and I'm very unhappy with that. Also unhappy that when games are played may well be inconvenient. I'm not a royalist but can hardly blame the royal family for what the authorities have done . The level of hatred spouted out on this is quite disturbing and juvenile . Very sad.
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I'm scared of Shelley Kerr . Even when I'm sitting in my living room and she can't give me a kicking I still feel intimidated. I hate to imagine what she is like with a drink in her.
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I always thought that Sky had to give six weeks notice of a game being on if the date/ time changed.
There's been no notification of games on after 3rd September. Most of us have lives out with watching football and need to plan to try to fit football in.
EPL and EFL games are announced way in advance
Not sure either Sky or SPFL give a toss about those who actually go to games every week
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1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said:
IIRC the last time Saints played Northampton was the mid sixties, they lost 2-0 in the annual Paisley Charity Cup match.
Think Archie Gemmell suffered a broken leg in that game and missed a good part of the season
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14 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:
Same thing happened a few seasons ago with Morecambe. They cancelled the game v Saints in order to play an English team (can't recall who).
It was Wigan. Morecambe did compensate me for accomodation and travel costs as I'd pre-booked these. I assume there may be some Hartlepool fans looking for their club to do the same . Forgetting financial costs they have messed up people's plans for Tuesday which is unacceptable and questions yet again how much some clubs bother about their fans . Would have been different if covid or weather had caused postponement
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The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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The club (and most other clubs too) have encouraged these types by treating them as wonder fans and even giving them their own part of the stadium .I presume the club think they create an atmosphere . Personally listening to a group of kids singing and banging a drum does nothing for me . I have grandchildren who do that. They are a bunch of immature wee neds although you do see some people in amongst them that are a bit older. I suppose that these are people who struggle to have any status in amongst their own age group .
The answer to this lies with the clubs themselves.