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23 hours ago, Coventry Saint said:

Those playoffs were one of the least enjoyable football experiences of my life. I would hate to be involved with those again. As people have pointed out, if we did end up in them, it'll be off the back of a truly atrocious run of form and it'd be very hard to fancy our chances.

@elvis I'd like to politely point out the difference between @FTOF pulling together a balanced, well-reasoned post, and someone just making 'we're doomed' their default position and claiming they were correct when it all goes wrong.

The play-offs were horrible in 2019, but given we were a newly promoted club and the season we'd had it was a great achievement to stay up. We also went into them on pretty decent form.

If we end up in them this time around it will be after a horrendous slump and you really wouldn't fancy our chances. IF we did win them, the likes of Tom English would be fully justified slagging off exuberant celebrations given we should have been nowhere near such a position.

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Aberdeen seem to have appointed Kevin Bain as physio, from a quick check online he seems to have been at St Mirren with Jim Goodwin, meanwhile the clubs are miles apart on their valuation of Charles Dunne according to reports today.

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1 hour ago, starryfish said:

Aberdeen seem to have appointed Kevin Bain as physio, from a quick check online he seems to have been at St Mirren with Jim Goodwin, meanwhile the clubs are miles apart on their valuation of Charles Dunne according to reports today.

Hard to put a price on the ability to fall to the ground every time the ball comes near you. If Goodwin can take any of his other ex-Motherwell players with him as well that would be much appreciated. 

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1 hour ago, starryfish said:

Aberdeen seem to have appointed Kevin Bain as physio, from a quick check online he seems to have been at St Mirren with Jim Goodwin, meanwhile the clubs are miles apart on their valuation of Charles Dunne according to reports today.

FFS, I was strongly of the impression that Bain was outstanding (based mainly on our players' prognosed recovery times vs the actual. This happened a lot.)

Re Dunne, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens, which is much like the approach he sometimes takes while deciding whether or not to clear a football. 

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9 hours ago, Coventry Saint said:

A weekend without Saints has had the inevitable effect on me of making me feel somewhat optimistic again. I don't know why but I think we'll take something from the Hibs game.

That was my thinking, but i see that they've bagged their manager.  Wonder if they'll get anyone in before our game... 

New manager bounce?  

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2 hours ago, houston_bud said:

I like Dunne but if Aberdeen are willing to throw decent money for him then let him go. Offer some of it to Andy Considine. 

I’d rather stay away from Considine, 35 years old and just back from serious injury. He’s also rumoured to have knocked back a contract worth a lot of money. 

He’ll end up at the old people’s retirement home down at Kilmarnock with his old boss, Del Boy. 

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52 minutes ago, glenburn bud said:

I’d rather stay away from Considine, 35 years old and just back from serious injury. He’s also rumoured to have knocked back a contract worth a lot of money. 

He’ll end up at the old people’s retirement home down at Kilmarnock with his old boss, Del Boy. 

You're probably right. Or Roy MacGregor will throw a few quid at him to entice him to Dingwall. 

I think he'd be a decent addition though, obviously fitness would be a concern but he's an experienced player and a very good defender at this level. 

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13 minutes ago, ulysses said:

Some interesting comments from Robinson here. Namely that we’re appointing a Head of Recruitment and have 3 players signed up on pre-contracts already.

https://news.stv.tv/sport/robinson-lasley-appointment-is-one-of-many-positives-at-st-mirren

:lol: - I wonder who it could be...

https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/sport/football/morecambe-announce-martin-foyles-exit-as-head-of-recruitment-3661609

Robinson's fair doubling down on turning St Mirren into Motherwell circa 19/20.

Fully expecting Liam Grimshaw to be announced as one of the PCAs next.

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50 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

:lol: - I wonder who it could be...

https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/sport/football/morecambe-announce-martin-foyles-exit-as-head-of-recruitment-3661609

Robinson's fair doubling down on turning St Mirren into Motherwell circa 19/20.

Fully expecting Liam Grimshaw to be announced as one of the PCAs next.

I'm looking forward to seeing how we shoehorn a claret and amber away strip into proceedings...

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I'm looking forward to seeing how we shoehorn a claret and amber away strip into proceedings...

It’s when the club announce the building of a ridiculously out-of-proportion away stand that I’ll start worrying…
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1 minute ago, capt_oats said:

Because they're two completely different jobs?

Though they are, we've had Fitzy doing both roles and before that, the supremely talented Brian Caldwell.

Don't think it's a bad thing to have someone specialising in each role though.

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20 minutes ago, codfish said:


It’s when the club announce the building of a ridiculously out-of-proportion away stand that I’ll start worrying…

To be fair, that would end the 'giving them two stands' controversy.

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