Bairney The Dinosaur Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 11 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: There's no one rabidly defending them. People are rabidly defending the right to have them assuming they meet the correct standards of footballs governing bodies, and the right to not be dictated to based on opinions of a small and (relatively speaking) rich few, based on nothing but aesthetic preference. If you think you can mount a decent argument from that platform fair play. I don't agree. You can mount a decent argument that grass is preferable. But from there, you then move to something else, which can't IMO be defended by any person with any capacity for critical thought. Couldn't have put it better myself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 The fact UEFA allow them in the Champions League, which is the elite of European Football shows how tinpot those running our game are. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Comedic timing. Another local club helped because of our pitch. Let’s rip it up if we gain promotion though! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Don't they know there's never been a good game on astro? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 18 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said: but thankfully we don't have a Lego stadium. Someone has nicked a whole side of lego from your "stadium". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 18 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said: but thankfully we don't have a Lego stadium. You don't, that's true... but then you don't have a stadium at all. Your council has 3/4 of a stadium that it let's you play in. -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatapyBairn. Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 minute ago, djchapsticks said: You don't, that's true... but then you don't have a stadium at all. Your council has 3/4 of a stadium that it let's you play in. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story eh?! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 St mirren is another case of football pissing a large amount of tax payers money down the drain. Given millions to build a brand new stand only to see it knocked down a few years later and no one batted an eyelid. Livingston 250k of rent arrears written off again.Roll on a few years and now we're on the verge of having to tear up a brand new surface backed financially by the sfa and govt and yet noone seems to bother about these sums of money being wasted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Perrin Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 28 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: You don't, that's true... but then you don't have a stadium at all. Your council has 3/4 of a stadium that it let's you play in. This is as lazy as it is inaccurate. Really feeble effort. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Our stadium situation has been living rent free in St Mirren fan's brains for 20 years. We shouldn't be surprised by this vote. Anyway, did anyone manage get an Invincibles strip this morning? Sold out online in seconds it seems. I get they are "limited edition" but surely they could have made a couple hundred more....it would have been easy money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Just now, Baggio said: Anyway, did anyone manage get an Invincibles strip this morning? Ned Jnr got one online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 2 minutes ago, Baggio said: Our stadium situation has been living rent free in St Mirren fan's brains for 20 years. We shouldn't be surprised by this vote. Anyway, did anyone manage get an Invincibles strip this morning? Sold out online in seconds it seems. I get they are "limited edition" but surely they could have made a couple hundred more....it would have been easy money. Me! Thrilled because I missed the Champions one. Had been mashing the F5 button from 9.20 onward. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Just now, Baggio said: Our stadium situation has been living rent free in St Mirren fan's brains for 20 years. We shouldn't be surprised by this vote. Given we couldn't buy a win at Brockville, ever, and yet you rolled over and let us tickle your bellies at your new place on the regular before you fell into seaside oblivion, I'm not sure that's quite true. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Lucky fella! Just now, Ned Nederlander said: Ned Jnr got one online. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 minute ago, Rizzo said: Me! Thrilled because I missed the Champions one. Had been mashing the F5 button from 9.20 onward. Jealous! I did what I usually do and got distracted reading something else waiting for 9.30, so probably my own fault! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 hour ago, Coventry Saint said: As the fan of a club that was made to upgrade its stadium to meet spl rules while other teams splurged on expensive players instead, I'd rather the league system was a true meritocracy. St Mirren upgraded ahead of, and not because of, the rule did they not? I genuinely don't remember if this is true btw, just some Cap post I seem to remember. We need to bring back the Stadium Forum 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Just now, Baggio said: Jealous! I did what I usually do and got distracted reading something else waiting for 9.30, so probably my own fault! I was possibly a wee bit OTT. Had an alarm set on on my phone at 8.45 to remind me to take my phone into my room instead of shutting in my locker like I normally do. Set another one going off at 9.15 to remind me to get on the site. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 minute ago, Ned Nederlander said: St Mirren upgraded ahead of, and not because of, the rule did they not? Nope. We had 8000 seats and 6500 standing and removed the standing for 2500 seats 6 months before promotion. It was definitely reactive rather than proactive. The Caley stand was built in 1993 and that was before the rule but a direct response to the Taylor Report. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: There's no one rabidly defending them. People are rabidly defending the right to have them assuming they meet the correct standards of footballs governing bodies, and the right to not be dictated to based on opinions of a small and (relatively speaking) rich few, based on nothing but aesthetic preference. If you think you can mount a decent argument from that platform fair play. I don't agree. You can mount a decent argument that grass is preferable. But from there, you then move to something else, which can't IMO be defended by any person with any capacity for critical thought. Good post and I appreciate the debate. The fact I've been red dotted twice for saying very clearly that I don't agree with the ban does somewhat underline my point about heads being gone, though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroMoutinho Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 12 minutes ago, Baggio said: Our stadium situation has been living rent free in St Mirren fan's brains for 20 years. We shouldn't be surprised by this vote. Anyway, did anyone manage get an Invincibles strip this morning? Sold out online in seconds it seems. I get they are "limited edition" but surely they could have made a couple hundred more....it would have been easy money. I get that releasing thousands would kind of defeat the point of the limited edition tag, but I do think only having 75 for sale online is crazy. They could have sold out many times over and added additional funds to the playing budget. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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