The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread

[pozbaird]

I’d be very happy if Watt stays. The best thing about our squad this season, in my opinion naturally, is that there were no wastes of a wage, no shirkers, sand-dancers, bad attitudes, or non-triers. No-one was a ‘dud’ IMHO. I reckon we’d be hard-pressed to name one St Mirren player who invoked the wrath of the North Bank and Gentleman’s Pavilion for being a complete and utter Djemba.

[djchapsticks]

14 minutes ago, Captain_Sensible said:

Play in a reserve league like they used to

No to B teams 

Voted no to conference league, no to the proposal having a benefit to SMFC, yes to a B or reserve team in general and voted on the provision of it being solely within a B or reserve league in its own format and not part of the senior pyramid.

[Captain_Sensible]

1 minute ago, djchapsticks said:

Voted no to conference league, no to the proposal having a benefit to SMFC, yes to a B or reserve team in general and voted on the provision of it being solely within a B or reserve league in its own format and not part of the senior pyramid.

Totally 

[medals]

40 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

I’d be very happy if Watt stays. The best thing about our squad this season, in my opinion naturally, is that there were no wastes of a wage, no shirkers, sand-dancers, bad attitudes, or non-triers. No-one was a ‘dud’ IMHO. I reckon we’d be hard-pressed to name one St Mirren player who invoked the wrath of the North Bank and Gentleman’s Pavilion for being a complete and utter Djemba.

Some did not contribute very much : Toyosi, Henderson,Tait, Brophy 

I doubt many of us would argue that they were good value for money in our squad.

I guess there are always some, through injuries etc this can happen too though.

[DumbartonBud]

48 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

No-one was a ‘dud’ IMHO. 

Olusanya?

[pozbaird]

Just now, DumbartonBud said:

Olusanya?

Oh, I recognise that some were loaned out, on the periphery, or mostly on the bench, but the normal starting XI plus five or six others, all seem to have been a tight group, and popular with the fans. I genuinely don’t remember even shrugging my shoulders once and quietly wondering to myself why Robbo’ was picking a certain individual. 

[pozbaird]

OK. I’ve followed St Mirren for a long time, been to a couple of Normandy hotel PoTY do’s, seen plenty of player table photies… but this is verging on the ridiculous. There’s five blokes at the back there, way too good-looking, way too sharply dressed, and way too cool to be St Mirren players. I’m not buying it - looks like the NFL draft back there. Stop it lads, you’re giving the rest of us a showing up.

 

[RandomGuy.]

27 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

OK. I’ve followed St Mirren for a long time, been to a couple of Normandy hotel PoTY do’s, seen plenty of player table photies… but this is verging on the ridiculous. There’s five blokes at the back there, way too good-looking, way too sharply dressed, and way too cool to be St Mirren players. I’m not buying it - looks like the NFL draft back there. Stop it lads, you’re giving the rest of us a showing up.

 

Tried to see who you were on about but my eyes were automatically dragged to Gorgeous Joe every time i looked at the photo.

[Arch Stanton]

Richard Taylor looking as cool in that picture as he does before making one of those great passes with his left peg.

[houston_bud]

1 hour ago, pozbaird said:

OK. I’ve followed St Mirren for a long time, been to a couple of Normandy hotel PoTY do’s, seen plenty of player table photies… but this is verging on the ridiculous. There’s five blokes at the back there, way too good-looking, way too sharply dressed, and way too cool to be St Mirren players. I’m not buying it - looks like the NFL draft back there. Stop it lads, you’re giving the rest of us a showing up.

 

Sunglasses inside though. If that's not due a fine I don't know what is.

[Munoz]

13 minutes ago, houston_bud said:

Sunglasses inside though. If that's not due a fine I don't know what is.

Drinking Budweiser deserves more of a fine.

[houston_bud]

2 minutes ago, Munoz said:

Drinking Budweiser deserves more of a fine.

Straight on the transfer list.

[djchapsticks]

@RandomGuy. I know you like stuff like this.

Independent data analyst who does freelance work for FC Twente in Holland was asked about Mark O'Hara by someone and his data for this season. He's stuck a replacement price of €2.7m on his head.

Added in screenshot as twitter not embedding for some reason.

https://twitter.com/JoostvanderLeij/status/1663112123939975169

Edited May 29, 2023 by djchapsticks

[RandomGuy.]

34 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

@RandomGuy. I know you like stuff like this.

Independent data analyst who does freelance work for FC Twente in Holland was asked about Mark O'Hara by someone and his data for this season. He's stuck a replacement price of €2.7m on his head.

Added in screenshot as twitter not embedding for some reason.

https://twitter.com/JoostvanderLeij/status/1663112123939975169

Don't worry, i'm already following him 

[craigkillie]

44 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

@RandomGuy. I know you like stuff like this.

Independent data analyst who does freelance work for FC Twente in Holland was asked about Mark O'Hara by someone and his data for this season. He's stuck a replacement price of €2.7m on his head.

Added in screenshot as twitter not embedding for some reason.

https://twitter.com/JoostvanderLeij/status/1663112123939975169

He's a good player clearly, but it's a stretch to credit St Mirren's scouting when it was basically just part of Robinson's "sign all my ex-Motherwell players" strategy. A lot of these guys seem to just be world class aftertimers.

[Coventry Saint]

17 minutes ago, craigkillie said:

He's a good player clearly, but it's a stretch to credit St Mirren's scouting when it was basically just part of Robinson's "sign all my ex-Motherwell players" strategy. A lot of these guys seem to just be world class aftertimers.

To be fair to the guy, I think he's not really involved with the Scots game and was just responding to a request to look at MO'H. He's seen the value and the £0 fee and has filled in the blanks.

[smellthepaw]

4 hours ago, Captain_Sensible said:

Tempted to say it’s because we have no good young players coming through. But we did have Dylan Reid and back in the day these youngsters would have been able to come through and get games before getting sold. 
 

That and the OF hoovering up all the pro youth

I genuinely think the timing of Reids contract running out was unfortunate as i felt that next season was probably going to be his chance of stepping up, if he had extended his stay. 

[FTOF]

5 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I’d be very happy if Watt stays. The best thing about our squad this season, in my opinion naturally, is that there were no wastes of a wage, no shirkers, sand-dancers, bad attitudes, or non-triers. No-one was a ‘dud’ IMHO. I reckon we’d be hard-pressed to name one St Mirren player who invoked the wrath of the North Bank and Gentleman’s Pavilion for being a complete and utter Djemba.

He certainly seems to be part of the squad.

[AW saint]

I would be surprised not to see him back for next season. 

[ZingaliMan]

9 hours ago, Coventry Saint said:

Yeah, it seems like a deal must have been done based on that.

No idea just a teaser he wrote on twitter mate.