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  1. Before, surprise surprise, signing for us. Gerry Baker is one of the biggest St. Mirren legends of the 50s/60s. Scored the clinching 3rd goal in our 1959 SC win. I don't mind getting players off Motherwell who can do a decent turn for us - it's a far cry from the days of Andy Dow, Jim Gardner, Stuart Carswell and Kevin Twaddle. In fact, in my formative years, the only players I recall getting from Motherwell who actually did us a turn were the excellent (but often injured) Ian Ross and the good (but always injured) Jamie McGowan.
  2. I'm looking at the bench like 'That boy on the NI bench looks like our assistant manager' Because it is, forgot all about that.
  3. Why is Tierney being booed by the away fans? Aren't we led to believe that Scotland fans pick on Scotland players based on the club they play for? Surely a fanbase lamenting this practice wouldn't be booing a player for the club he used to play for...
  4. Some of the most virgin behaviour you're likely to see.
  5. He only really had one loan. He loan to us was basically us getting him back for the remainder of his contract rather than seeing it out and leaving at end of that season. His only real loan move, as pointed out, was a short spell at Sunderland.
  6. It's a red neck and a half. It was for us too in the 2 hours the sign went up 10 years ago before we instructed it to be removed. Slapping a Rangers badge right there over the Hearts badge is just as bad, possibly worse.
  7. Exactly, no complaints on whataboutery here. In a way, I actually prefer us having a shite inexplicable brain fart to losing our to stupid refereeing decisions as that least what happened on Saturday is within our control to fix. People can talk about how easy goals 4 and 5 were but the two goals that got Killie back on terms were really annoying as well. I thought at the time that there was a foul in the build up to Killie's first and was confident it would be chalked off but on seeing the highlights, two players go for the ball...our player waits in anticipation, Killie's player though decides he's winning it and wants it more, absolutely nothing wrong with it and taking my St. Mirren head off, it's nice to see that VAR decided there was nothing in it as that was correct... these ones are always at risk from a pernickety VAR official. Then for the penalty, the annoying thing is that Flynn just putting pressure on Watkins meant he took a heavy touch and that would have been enough as he had knocked it out for a goal kick. He didn't need to launch into him whatsoever. He did the exact same thing against Hearts last season in a crucial game with a player running away from goal in the 93rd minute and cost us two points then as well. Flynn looks OK in early stages of games but certainly doesn't have the legs for even an hour of football now.
  8. Flynn and Dunne are far weaker options than Taylor and Brown and I think almost everyone of a St. Mirren persuasion is of this opinion. The defence today scared me on paper and it absolutely proved true in the second half.
  9. No chance. There was still 25 mins left and our heads had completely gone at that point. Kilmarnock were cutting through us at will and would have carved plenty more out. The warning signs had been there in first 15 mins of the 2nd half. Today was just one of those unexplainable things and regardless of Killie's improvement, there is no real reason for our performance, which was bery good in the first half to fall so dramatically off a cliff. We should still have had more than enough to go toe to toe with Kilmarnock and we simply didn't, especially with a bench of very decent quality. Not only losing but being absolutely hammered from that position is something we need to not let get to us. We're still in the position that we *should* have Killie again before the season end and we need to rectify today if we do.
  10. Still struggling to get my head around how inexplicable thst was today. We were miles on top in the first half and we've been superb at defending leads all season... the old cry of 'right, nothing stupid' went out the window and then some as the players appeared to have swapped the boots onto their other feet for the second half. Fair play to Kilmarnock. They smelled blood in the water at the point where Gogic made an arse of a passback (again) early in the second half and got away with it and at that point knew they didn't have to do anything fancy to get at us, just play right through the middle. We absolutely folded on a spectacular scale, every time Killie came forward they looked like scoring and for one torturous spell, were doing exactly that. We need to lift it and quickly. We played a get out of jail card against Aberdeen and today was a huge step backwards. Also, Dunne and Flynn should be thanked for their services and this should be the end of their tenures in St. Mirren shirts. I'd not be up nor down if that was the case for Marcus Fraser either
  11. Just a total shit eating grin watching Rock roll back the years and do what he's best at.
  12. According to O'Neill himself, this is exactly what has happened as he's having a go at the Scottish press today for doing so. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/michael-oneill-responds-rumours-linking-28820594
  13. Exactly what I said in the Aberdeen manager thread. It came from a combination of his presence and someone on Radio Scotland commenting that he's there despite there being 'No Northern Irish players on the pitch'.
  14. Exactly the reason that I was happy Killie took a punt on Magennis in the summer when a lot of St. Mirren fans were lamenting us not being in for him. He's a huge injury risk and it just seems like he's always going to be. Based on ability alone, he'd be nowhere close to playing in the SPFL still.
  15. If they are still within 3 or 4 points of 11th by the split, then it definitely could happen given how cutthroat it becomes. On the other hand, they'd be just one well-timed win away from safety as well in that scenario. They are due to travel to Perth post split. Do they also visit Dingwall?
  16. That's now 4 players we have called up. Ayunga - Kenya Bwmono - Uganda Gogic - Cyprus Baccus - Australia I'm going to guess that McMenamin and Boyd-Munce will also make the NI squad and Strain would have been in the Australian squad but for injury.
  17. What has happened to Will Fish this season? He looked decent last season and clearly was as Hibs went to pains to get him back from Man Utd. He's looked dreadful near enough every time I've seen him this season, though.
  18. Think you could extend that to nearly every side in the division but a home game against Livi who look to all intents, pretty much done and Hibs who have been on a good run of league form since we won 3-0 at ER is pretty much a home banker all things considered.
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