djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, elvis said: You are correct before end of season he told my son he wished he was back to help us out of the mess we got ourselves into. Mallan coming back would be excellent business. You'd probably give Motherwell, Killie, Dundee Utd and St. Johnstone a shout too if you consider the size of club and area he'd be aiming for - he's not going to get a gig at any of the Edinburgh clubs or Aberdeen you wouldn't imagine. Edited May 24, 2022 by djchapsticks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: Mallan coming back would be excellent business. You'd probably give Motherwell, Killie, Dundee Utd and St. Johnstone a shout too if you consider the size of club and area he'd be aiming for - he's not going to get a gig at any of the Edinburgh clubs or Aberdeen you wouldn't imagine. Great, now I've got visions of us playing a midfield of MacPherson, Mallan and Crawford. Softest midfield any team has ever had. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said: Great, now I've got visions of us playing a midfield of MacPherson, Mallan and Crawford. Softest midfield any team has ever had. If you put Mallan in the side with the expectation that he's not going to be physical and get others players around him who can be, he'd be good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 29 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Great, now I've got visions of us playing a midfield of MacPherson, Mallan and Crawford. Softest midfield any team has ever had. Mallan playing beside the Liam Craig and Murray Davidson of 5 years ago would be some midfield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZingaliMan Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, djchapsticks said: Genuinely incredible stuff. Are you on the wind up ? What exactly is incredible I take what was said to me at face value. . You think it's pish fine . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said: Are you on the wind up ? What exactly is incredible I take what was said to me at face value. . You think it's pish fine . The issue lies in then passing on that info as fact, without qualification or disclaimers. A bit of gossip you've heard from Jim McAllister is absolutely welcome here. It's a great bit of info, and fair play to you for passing it on to us. But have the sense to position it as such. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbud76 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 14 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said: Are you on the wind up ? What exactly is incredible I take what was said to me at face value. . You think it's pish fine . I was told a couple of weeks after Robinson came in it was going to happen. The only stipulation at that point was that we mustn't get relegated. Possibly something could have changed but we will need to wait and see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 (edited) 23 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said: Are you on the wind up ? What exactly is incredible I take what was said to me at face value. . You think it's pish fine . You stated on here a couple of days ago that Davis was signing for St. Mirren, named your source, that you trusted him etc. All very cocksure of yourself and your source...the next piece of information you've said, from the same source is now actually not that he's signing, but has a contract on the table that he's considering. The incredible part in particular is that when I pointed out there is a massive difference between 'Davis is signing' and 'Davis has an offer on the table', instead of putting your hands up and admitting you've shot your bolt WAAAAY too early, you instead decide to tell me 'believe what you want' despite you being the person who offered up the wrong information in the first place. That's what's incredible. That you somehow think it's my fault for you willfully and without prompt posting this as 100% fact when it's clearly not. If you'd said a few days ago that someone had told you there was a contract on the table and was possible, then fine but you didn't and you've got angry at me pointing this out. Hope that clears up my standpoint on this. Edited May 24, 2022 by djchapsticks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSaints1877 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 It’s gonna be a long summer. Transfers rumours should be exactly that. Rumours. Always best never to name your source. Can you imagine if anyone had ever hinted that there was a chance of signing Ronaldinho back in the Hendrie era? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellthepaw Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, glenburn bud said: I can’t see Davis signing for us tbh. If it’s a players coaching role then maybe. If it’s about wages then we will be miles down the list of clubs looking to get him for next season. Do we have the budget to bring in someone else on a 'coaching role' whether it be player/coach or just coach? I am not sure what the deal is with Flynn, though I know he is focusing on doing his badges whilst playing. Is there a position at the club for him once he has the required badges too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSaints1877 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 1 minute ago, smellthepaw said: Do we have the budget to bring in someone else on a 'coaching role' whether it be player/coach or just coach? I am not sure what the deal is with Flynn, though I know he is focusing on doing his badges whilst playing. Is there a position at the club for him once he has the required badges too? I’m surprised we kept Flyniesta on. Perhaps he is on a reduced contract with a view to get him to help with the younger players. I still feel that our young players would develop far better if there was still a reserve league where they could play alongside older pros. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 10 minutes ago, SuperSaints1877 said: It’s gonna be a long summer. Transfers rumours should be exactly that. Rumours. Always best never to name your source. Can you imagine if anyone had ever hinted that there was a chance of signing Ronaldinho back in the Hendrie era? Wasn’t there another great St Mirren transfer disaster that involved Aston Villa, Alan McInally, and some other Villa striker either getting sent off and banned, or seriously injured, in a pre-season friendly? Without Googling or anything to see if it throws anything up, somehow I seem to remember it ended up with us not getting a player who was definitely meant to be signing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, pozbaird said: Wasn’t there another great St Mirren transfer disaster that involved Aston Villa, Alan McInally, and some other Villa striker either getting sent off and banned, or seriously injured, in a pre-season friendly? Without Googling or anything to see if it throws anything up, somehow I seem to remember it ended up with us not getting a player who was definitely meant to be signing. It was meant to be Alan McInally we were getting. The story went that Villa had agreed a deal in principle with us and played us in a pre-season game that got pretty meaty. Warren Aspinall who played in that game for Villa (and was a horrible dirty b*****d) ended up doing one of our players by stamping on his foot or shin and Graham Taylor, who had already put him on his last warning with regards to discipline, was so angry with him he sold him and McInally started playing more games. So yeah, us arranging a friendly with a team we were meant to be getting player from, led to us not getting the player due to his team-mate's arseholery. We've had a few to be fair. Ian Harte turning back at Gretna services. Knocking back a young David Platt and Ally McCoist. Roy Dayan coming over for a trial, looking pretty tasty and then his club only then telling us they wanted £500k for him. Oleg Blokhin and Ozzie Ardiles Keith Wright and Tommy Coyne were both agreed in a double deal from Dundee in late 80s and they bagged their manager and put the blocks on it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 A topical one I vaguely recall is we were due to get Mark Noble on loan in about 2007 but it got nixed as West Ham had an injury crisis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 39 minutes ago, Stu said: A topical one I vaguely recall is we were due to get Mark Noble on loan in about 2007 but it got nixed as West Ham had an injury crisis. Andy Carroll as well at one point was rumoured before he broke into the Newcastle side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZingaliMan Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Coventry Saint said: The issue lies in then passing on that info as fact, without qualification or disclaimers. A bit of gossip you've heard from Jim McAllister is absolutely welcome here. It's a great bit of info, and fair play to you for passing it on to us. But have the sense to position it as such. Jim knows I'm a bud just passed on what he said regarding Davis could be heading to Paisley. The exact words were Davis going to Saints big man. Have not used the word fact he will be a Saints player. Also wrote there must be a deal on the table which there must be if we are interested. Only Davis knows if it's good enough or not. Jim lives near the training ground in Ralston so any Buds see him in Paisley feel free to ask him he is a sound guy. McCoist wants him to stay at Rangers , Motherwell are waiting in the wings we now know . So we will learn the outcome soon enough. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 55 minutes ago, Stu said: A topical one I vaguely recall is we were due to get Mark Noble on loan in about 2007 but it got nixed as West Ham had an injury crisis. I think it was because they had sacked Alan Pardew and appointed Alan Curbishley in December 2006. Curbishley wanted to get a measure of all of the squad so stopped the deal. That was according to a mate who worked for the Daily Record sports section. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torfason Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, djchapsticks said: It was meant to be Alan McInally we were getting. The story went that Villa had agreed a deal in principle with us and played us in a pre-season game that got pretty meaty. Warren Aspinall who played in that game for Villa (and was a horrible dirty b*****d) ended up doing one of our players by stamping on his foot or shin and Graham Taylor, who had already put him on his last warning with regards to discipline, was so angry with him he sold him and McInally started playing more games. So yeah, us arranging a friendly with a team we were meant to be getting player from, led to us not getting the player due to his team-mate's arseholery. We've had a few to be fair. Ian Harte turning back at Gretna services. Knocking back a young David Platt and Ally McCoist. Roy Dayan coming over for a trial, looking pretty tasty and then his club only then telling us they wanted £500k for him. Oleg Blokhin and Ozzie Ardiles Keith Wright and Tommy Coyne were both agreed in a double deal from Dundee in late 80s and they bagged their manager and put the blocks on it. ...... and Mahrez stealing a bike. The Wright and Coyne deal would have been amazing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 Another of our signing confirmations coming by end of the week - possibly even tomorrow as the scarf picture was apparently taken today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 7 hours ago, djchapsticks said: Warren Aspinall who played in that game for Villa (and was a horrible dirty b*****d) ended up doing one of our players by stamping on his foot or shin ... Jings, I remember being at that pre-season "friendly". Totally unprovoked, Aspinall stuck the studs into one of our players (can't remember who). Off topic, I seem to remember another pre-season fixture (similar era) against Oxford United where their thuggery was breathtaking. Does anyone else remember this game or has my dementia revisited me ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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