Coventry Saint Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 21 hours ago, PSJ.84 said: It may have been that there was a bit of a reaction to St. Mirren’s losses that made me think there’d be one for us, though the more I think of it, it was mostly an Old Firm ticket related pile on Yeah, there were wind-up attempts from other fans on here - I was surprised as well - and some panic among the looney fringe in our support. But more widely it was mainly thick-as-pigshit OF fans/observers who couldn't work out that 1) the financial period with the loss applied to the year before we reduced their allocations and 2) the reduced allocations has improved our attendances. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewh Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Coventry Saint said: Yeah, there were wind-up attempts from other fans on here - I was surprised as well - and some panic among the looney fringe in our support. But more widely it was mainly thick-as-pigshit OF fans/observers who couldn't work out that 1) the financial period with the loss applied to the year before we reduced their allocations and 2) the reduced allocations has improved our attendances. We had an open fans meeting where I mentioned your approach, and its results, which I commend the club for. First response from the floor, “but St Mirren made a huge loss of £1.5m.” I had to explain that, as you say, the loss was incurred prior to the new policy, and that we could surely learn something from you. Many people just see the headline. Edited September 16, 2023 by andrewh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saintee Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 40 minutes ago, andrewh said: We had an open fans meeting where I mentioned your approach, and its results, which I commend the club for. First response from the floor, “but St Mirren made a huge loss of £1.5m.” I had to explain that, as you say, the loss was incurred prior to the new policy, and that we could surely learn something from you. Many people just see the headline. I remember that. No surprise it was Roddy and Flaherty that didn't understand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJFCtheTeamForMe Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Coventry Saint said: Yeah, there were wind-up attempts from other fans on here - I was surprised as well - and some panic among the looney fringe in our support. But more widely it was mainly thick-as-pigshit OF fans/observers who couldn't work out that 1) the financial period with the loss applied to the year before we reduced their allocations and 2) the reduced allocations has improved our attendances. The very same Old Firm diddies are claiming this time it was some kind of financial doping and why aren't we being relegated to the third tier... despite it not being in any way similar to the EBT tax evasion going bust thing... It's.just another example of the internet providing the platform to put their opinions out there and despite them having no real understanding of the situation having a few followers on Twitter gives then gives that empty opinion credence. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 11 hours ago, tree house tam said: The three of them are to blame. Broon for being a huffy p***k and walking away( typical ***). Broon for putting Flax in charge then giving him free reign. Broon for agreeing with Callum about giving him 90% of the Kerr/McCann transfer takings to spend on his squad. Callum for being a useless, one dimensional, grunting moron and Finally Flax for being a pushover, a weasel who didn't have a clue what he was doing and lying p***k to boot. It all makes sense now, thanks for clearing it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Davidson was guilty of signing shite players for too long and having no overall strategy to develop the squad. If we’d signed a decent goal scorer after the double we had a great chance of making the group stage of the conference league and maybe even keeping McCann for the season. Instead we waited until we were deep in the relegation shite before we decided we had to sign players, so that January 2022 we dished out a lot of money on long term contracts to a lot of poor players, as agents knew we were desperate and ramped up the deals to milk us for every penny they could. But I still think the club are more to blame. Most managers in the league would keep spending money if no one at their club was telling them to rein it in, albeit few would make as bad a job of it as Davidson did. Just sitting back and placing no sensible limit on player spending whilst we rack up £1.5m worth of losses is scandalous management, and so out of tune with the previous 15 years. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 1 hour ago, PauloPerth said: Davidson was guilty of signing shite players for too long and having no overall strategy to develop the squad. If we’d signed a decent goal scorer after the double we had a great chance of making the group stage of the conference league and maybe even keeping McCann for the season. Instead we waited until we were deep in the relegation shite before we decided we had to sign players, so that January 2022 we dished out a lot of money on long term contracts to a lot of poor players, as agents knew we were desperate and ramped up the deals to milk us for every penny they could. But I still think the club are more to blame. Most managers in the league would keep spending money if no one at their club was telling them to rein it in, albeit few would make as bad a job of it as Davidson did. Just sitting back and placing no sensible limit on player spending whilst we rack up £1.5m worth of losses is scandalous management, and so out of tune with the previous 15 years. Wee Broon had left the building and left the gobshite in charge. Who then in turn let Davidson do as he wished. It does all stem from the top but there were three involved and they're all culpable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double deluxe Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 On 15/09/2023 at 10:21, RandomGuy. said: Bair was less than Mahon, and under 6 figures, im sure. Correct, was about £90k 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saintee Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Courier reporting that's Sprangler sorted and Clark and Wright fit. And hopefully Gordon has had some sense knocked into him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJFCtheTeamForMe Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 What section was initially on sale for Hibs? The right half of the section still on sale? If so, many aren't fancying it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 7 hours ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said: What section was initially on sale for Hibs? The right half of the section still on sale? If so, many aren't fancying it Fairly sure the sort of half section is sold out and they just the other half up yesterday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 The biggest problem is folk will go on to buy a ticket on Saturday morning then realise they are physical tickets this time and not e-tickets. Is this in response to the absolute shambles outside at the turnstiles? Lot of folk talked about the great atmosphere at Easter Road last October, that certainly wasn't the vibe outside when the game was kicking-off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 We are where we are and the manager will get a fair crack of the whip but doesn't take a huge leap to read between the lines here and see why he was such an attractive prospect when it came to making an appointment. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/st-johnstone/4738210/st-johnstone-fc-loss-transfer-cuts-steven-maclean/ A properly functioning St Johnstone know that continuity should only really follow a period of success, which we certainly weren't enjoying. To give MacLean his dues though, he has tried to shake things up, part of the reason he'll get that fair crack at things in terms of fan backing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSJ.84 Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 12 minutes ago, Radford said: The biggest problem is folk will go on to buy a ticket on Saturday morning then realise they are physical tickets this time and not e-tickets. Thanks for posting this, I genuinely hadn’t realised! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly78 Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Radford said: The biggest problem is folk will go on to buy a ticket on Saturday morning then realise they are physical tickets this time and not e-tickets. Hadn't realised this either. I was on the fence with paying £38 for me and my son to watch this (£12 for an under 13 is a bit of a fucking rip off), but the fact I couldn't get tickets in time for kick off without going to McDiarmid, when I live about 4 miles from Easter Road, has probably made my mind up for me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenrothes 1884 saint Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Nelly78 said: Hadn't realised this either. I was on the fence with paying £38 for me and my son to watch this (£12 for an under 13 is a bit of a fucking rip off), but the fact I couldn't get tickets in time for kick off without going to McDiarmid, when I live about 4 miles from Easter Road, has probably made my mind up for me! The SLO would meet you outside Easter rd I’m sure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muirton Saint Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 11 hours ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said: What section was initially on sale for Hibs? The right half of the section still on sale? If so, many aren't fancying it Initially it was the first two, those then sold out so the one on the rights been given 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest Saints Fan Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 A new strip? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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