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13 minutes ago, C4mmy31 said:
Surely Killie would have made St Mirren aware we would sell it out considering tickets were only being made available to season ticket holders and even then on a first come first served basis with no general sale.
Totally bizarre.
Kilmarnock are consistently the away side that sell out their allocation at St. Mirren park more than any other outside the arsecheeks so it's a strange situation that we haven't just handed them the full stand.
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Historically, there's also absolutely nothing been shown from WWE as of yet that suggests the foreign PPVs are anything other than just glorified house shows.
You'll maybe get a tag title change or something but if Drew wins the title, it would certainly mark a massive change in direction as to how these overseas PPVs normally pan out.
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I think I paid about £50-£60 for Raw when it was in Glasgow and that was in the gods.
Those prices are utterly ludicrous. I did suspect as much when they announced their gate for Mania was up something like 70% on last year given there wasn't anything like 70% more fans over the two nights.
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38 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said:
It was terrible.
@djchapsticksabsolutely nailed it.
Thing is, there's so many hindsight 'ifs' that would have made it make sense.
If they hadn't fired the biggest draw in the company over a skirmish, this could have made sense. But now we need to suspend disbelief that the Bucks and Perry are impossible to fire but Punk wasn't.
If TK hadn't announced on national TV that he was in fear for his life over getting shouted at, he could have presented his retort in a way that he'd come out swinging at them... a mad wee coked up b*****d who'll put a team in front of him to get them back and this could have made sense. Instead he made himself a bit of a joke figure.
If Jack Perry had gone away and came back an all conquering, must-not-miss level talent who was basically indispensable, this could have made sense. They already bagged their biggest name talent and WWE hoovered him up ASAP. They can't play the 'I can't sack you as you'll go there' card as would they f**k! They are probably close to Ryback levels of persona non grata in terms of WWE.
Instead you now have someone who was essentially blackballed for 8 months over a whole lot of nothing, now doing something a lot worse than he was blackballed for and folk are expected to just brush over that the guy he dropped has a recent history of legitimately disciplining him a lot harder for a lot less.
Unless they come up with something watertight in storyline terms as to why Perry and the Bucks stay on board and in power then this one's already off to a slow start for me. It already is anyway as TK as an on-screen character gives me the fear anyway.
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7 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
If your squad is struggling to cope with "anxiety" over finishing 5th then I'd be concerned massively by that.
Managers in the top six should be brave and baws oot to achieve the most they possibly can. Settling for 6th as fine when there's literally nothing to lose is pathetic.
And he says a European place is still the aim. Nowhere in the interview has he said he's settling for sixth, you've just conjured that up in your head.
Seems like you just decided that rather than say nothing, it was easier to have a pop at a complete non-issue.
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45 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Shitebag.
I'm guessing you're just choosing to ignore the part where he clearly says 'European place is the aim' whilst tempering things a bit and easing off on the anxiety of his squad.
Or you reckon as a man-manager, he'd be better served saying 'Europe or bust, if bust then they can all GTF' and really add to the stress?
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16 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said:
St Mirren fan takes over another thread because someone made a criticism ..... Aberdeen's new manager .... boom. Other teams match threads not involving St Mirren ... boom. It's a sad recurring pattern
Nothing mentioned about on field performance. And its not a cop out not to indulge you, a recognition you'd be at this all day back and forth.
Away and dig out your passport, enjoy your day in the sun and stay classy.
Jesus mate. I only asked you to at least partially quantify some of the shite you were talking.
Glad it's nothing to do with on-field performances though and you reckon we're hurtling towards a financial disaster in the next few seasons, so at least you've 100% nailed your colours to the mast and outing yourself as totally clueless.
Enjoy your night.
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14 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said:
I said you're going to have a reckoning like we did back then, to assume otherwise I agree is delusional.
Ours at the time were mental fuelled by a host of craziness both in our boardroom and with digital TV which is a different age.
Let's set a date in the diary for 2030 and see who gets to whip out the "told you so".
'A reckoning'
Go on then, put your cards on the table - what exactly does this 'reckoning' we're hurtling head-on towards look like?
Or are you just using deliberately vague wording so any downturn in our on field product (which is very likely at some point in the next 6 years) can be framed as a 'gotcha'?
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1 minute ago, Vietnam91 said:
Any of it untrue?
Apart from pretty much all of it, not really.
Love this 'they are doing better than us just now so they must be spending 2004 Motherwell levels above their station' mindset, though. Keep up the delusion.
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22 hours ago, Vietnam91 said:
We really shouldn't be getting twitchy about teams like St Mirren using our squad from 4 years ago to emulate our league placings/summer tours from 10 years ago which will ultimately lead to a similar financial reckoning that we had 20 years ago.
I'm sure that sounded intelligent and insightful in your head.
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4 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
I'm amazed it took nearly five years before Tony Khan made himself an onscreen character.
So a real life situation where a relatively minor backstage pushing and shoving match led to one person being fired with cause and another being suspended for 8 months and the owner 'in fear of his life'
Fast forward 8 months and said owner gets dropped on his head by one of the previously involved parties who will, in turn, obviously not be fired for an attack (kayfabe) that was much more violent than anything that happened backstage.
I'm all for suspension of disbelief when it comes to angles but it needs to make at least a bit of logical sense. Stone Cold got to regularly leather f**k out of Vince back in the day because it was acknowledged that he was putting arses in seats and there was always the unspoken threat that Austin would go back to WCW and make them money of Vince bagged him.
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10 minutes ago, AW saint said:
Get him on a longer deal and give him first team football next season. The lad has bags of potential.
The shite aspect of it is that it simply doesn't work that way.
If the opportunity to play first team games for SMFC presents itself against the opportunity to be on the books of a club the size of City or Chelsea, there will only ever be one winner. These clubs aren't looking at guys in the 19/20 age bracket up here for their academy and to progress to first team football. 16/17 is where they catch them so if there is firm interest in Ethan that becomes an offer then it's highly unlikely, even if he was to stay and shine in our first team, that those particular levels of club will still be interested in him in 2 seasons even with first team football under his belt. You'd be looking at English championship level clubs at most.
If City or Chelsea make a bid then it's quite literally a once in a lifetime opportunity and I don't think there's anything that we could offer that would tempt a player to hang about. That isn't a sleight at us either. Even Celtic stood no chance when Liverpool decided they wanted Ben Doak.
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1 hour ago, FTOF said:
Sadly, for the most part, that seems to be the way these things play out when it comes to young players with potential at a club like ours, who catch the eye of English premiership/championship teams.
I suppose the only positive is that he's under contract for another year.
Maybe we're trying to tie him down for longer. Although, that may prove to be difficult if his head's been turned.
Apparently he turned down both of the bigot brothers to sign with us.
He apparently signed a two year extension last summer so should be under contract until summer of 2026.
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1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:
Unsure about this 'Wyatt 6' stuff.
What will make them better than Final Testamant or The Pride? We also have Judgement Day, The Bloodline, Imperium and The New Day. Bit worried about there being too many.
I get that.
The New Day are more a straightforward tag team now though.
Also Alpha Academy which will shortly be done but apparently Gable leading up a new stable with the Creeds will be happening.
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Few good things going on, on Smackdown.
The Bloodline stuff is pretty interesting and the way that most of it was shot feels fresh and new.
The new tag titles are just unreal looking.
Another QR code teaser as well giving coordinates to a cave in Slovenia that translates to 'Cross Cave' which probably suggests that Nikki is going to be part of the new Wyatt 6 group as rumoured. Also accompanied with the words 'I set them free out of the miry clay, opened their eyes while you did nothing'... in January of this year, 5 people were rescued from this cave in Slovenia after being trapped following flooding which is obviously unrelated as it was a real life event but again, plays into the symbolism of the Wyatt 6 and I'm sure it's no coincidence that they picked this cave that 5 people were very recently rescued from - why else pick a cave in Eastern Europe that bears no real relevance?
Also known that Bray and Bo were keen cave explorers.
Thing is that everything we've seen so far points to a pretty heelish and cult-like group but the fans want this so much and want it to work so much that there's absolutely no chance they are coming in and getting booed. Fans by and large want something, anything of Bray Wyatt to just sort of cling onto and if that's his brother carrying on at least part of his vision, then they'll buy in at least short term.
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17 hours ago, Bobby_F said:
Last minute penalty away to Hearts not given at 1-0 down.
82nd minute penalty home to Hearts not given at 2-1 down.
3 goals chopped off against Hearts in 1-0 home win.
That's 2 points and +5 goal difference - and that's all just against one team
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Frustrating as those things were, the only decision that has categorically changed a result was the double kick Aberdeen penalty that absolutely cost us 2 points earlier in the season.
Will be very hard to take if we miss out on Europe if we miss out by 2 points.
I'm all for a big conspiracy but that was last season.
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7 minutes ago, 8MileBU said:
Is it just me who finds the Young Bucks incredibly boring? Whether it’s face or heel everything they do as characters comes across so forced and false.
As for their in-ring work, they’re clearly two very fit athletic guys - but their matches are almost always very boring with no real flow. Just a couple of spot-fairies going through the motions until that synchronised flying somersault over the ropes or that back flip from the top turnbuckle etc.
I cannot go them at all. Not their promos, not any gimmick. They just strike me as perpetually small-time in a way that guys like Kenny and Hamgman simply don't.
They can put on good matches, some great matches even and I do love a spot-fest on occasion as a spectacle but their matches are just that. Youve seen one, you've seen all. There's a total lack of cohesion and psychology in what they do.
I roll my eyes so hard at everything they do. Whether it's their wee insider jokes, playing the plucky underdogs, pull the power hungry EVP gimmick out, it is all hard to buy into. Especially the wee ratty looking one who looks like a stiff breeze could put him on his arse.
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Back when I were a lad, 'woke' was used as a term almost exclusively for or by conspiracy theorists.
As in the rest of us were asleep and 'sheeple' and they were woke and could see what was really going on.
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22 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
JK Rowling appears to have infiltrated the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission.
In competitive full contact sports, I fully understand the standpoint. Wrestling isn't MMA, Boxing or Kickboxing though.
In a performative show such as Wrestling, where both participants are working together to put on a show and entertain first and foremost, not to hurt or physically maim their opponent.
Intergender matches are a pretty standard part of wrestling and have been for a long time, so in reality, even if they classify it as a Male vs Female wrestler, there still isn't a leg to stand on here.
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10 minutes ago, Rod1877 said:
Are Celtic not playing Dundee at Dens with a 3pm kick-off on the Sunday while we play Rangers at 12.30 the same day?
They are, I saw a 3pm KO and Parkhead and just took for granted it was the Saturday.
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I'll add on though that whilst I understand the concept of 'back to back top six finishes is success', it's not a notion I share.
Context is everything.
If we'd been in a St. Johnstone position and milling about 8-11th all season, pulling off a massive run and sneaking into 6th, I'd definitely call it a successful season. However, we've occupied one of the top 5 places since week 1. In my head, I had 4th as a definite probable goal and something that we should have been pushing towards but always felt that 5th - if it came with European football - would also be a success for us given most of us haven't actually seen the club play European football.
If we drop into 6th and stay there after spending 33 out of the first 33 weeks in a European spot, for me at least, it will be a massive boot in the stones and the season ultimately will not have been a successful one in my opinion, particularly with two of the teams ahead of us being clubs that were promoted after we were.
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The draw at Dens last night doesn't change all THAT much.
By the time we are next in league action, we'll know the outcome of Dundee's visit to Parkhead and if that results in a defeat for them, then we're going up against Rangers knowing that a (lets be honest, long overdue at this point) positive result against them will put us in a massively strong position for going up to Dundee the following week.
I'm confident that we'll pull a couple of results out of the bag. The week off has probably come at a decent time for us after losing a few players to injury at Parkhead last weekend and we'll hopefully be at 100% for the run in.
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On the subject, who do folk think WWE would/will be contacting when their deals are up from AEW? Aside from the obvious in MJF.
Think Malakai Black and Swerve would be locked in for returns for sure. HHH would never have gotten rid of either.
Always feel it's just a matter of time before Mox and Renee are back. Mox in terms of they will 100% want one last bite at the Shield at some point. Renee because she's good at what she does and admitted it was Vince's verbal abuse that drove her out.,
Adam Cole, Kyle O'Riley? Again with injuries has that ship sailed? Would they go all out for Cole so long as Britt was part of the deal?
With regards to folk who have never worked there, Starks and Hobbs are both obvious. Darby, probably not so much as although WWE audiences would love him, they'd 100% curtail his insistence of trying to kill himself in a Darwin award level manner in his spare time.
The Gunns, the Acclaimed, Anna Jay (maybe not if she sticks with Jungle Boy) and Julia Hart all would fit as well in terms of already having that look about them.
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5 hours ago, TheGoon said:
Omega isn’t the best promo, but excels in, high speed, long matches - in a style that WWE very rarely offer. I couldn’t see him ever going.
I guess I couldn’t have seen AJ Styles going back in the day either, but he was already a ‘sports entertainer’ in his latter TNA days.
In a world where you have a young and fit Omega , I think WWE could pivot and make it work. Again though, there's too many other factors.
Kenny Omega is in a spot where he's massively respected by hardcore wrestling fans for his ring work but doesn't have the profile for casuals to instantly recognise him showing up on WWE telly, certainly not on the reduced schedule he's need to work even at full fitness. He also doesn't have the body that will allow for a full time schedule any more and is pushing 40 so that 'grind' never will be for him, even before illness and injury had wrecked him.
He's sort of in the spot that Danielson was upon joining WWE only a fair whack older. I think WWE would find something worthwhile for him though to be fair, he's good mates with a load of guys there and could offer up plenty.
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The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread
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Think most of the level-headed ones amongst the support understand that there is a fine balance to be had between the SMISA representatives and the Kibble representation and generally it's a beneficial partnership for the overall good health of the club.
Others believe that they are sitting back waiting to asset-strip or doing a jobs for the boys type deal and despite no concrete evidence of either ever being produced, several 'yer da' types unfortunately bought into this narrative. There was also a big thing made that we wanted Stevie Naismith (one of the two candidates along with Scott Brown) before appointing Robinson - apparently he did interview and some folk concluded through a look at the higher ups in Kibble that a relative of Naismith was on the Kibble's BoD so was being primed as a shoo-in for the job and ended up looking daft when he didn't even get close to being offered the job.
Indeed, our former chairman, who over the piece, served a mostly admirable tenure are the helm of the club, seemingly decided that he couldn't let his legacy be what it was and had a few mates on socials putting out a lot of nonsense regarding the stewardship of the club - insisting he had to get back involved via the SMISA board (but not the club board) to take Kibble to task and hold them accountable and more or less ran a campaign that was basically solely along the lines of 'kibble bad' - he got his seat on the board as a result....just and no more.
As yet, his vow to 'take them to task' has not transpired because, as suspected, there's nothing to take them to task over.