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17 hours ago, 0Neils40yarder said:
Because its the cheap option that wouldn't saddle us with a load of debt 🤷♂️
And a Stadium like St Mirrens would severely restrict our capacity for income. We have a capacity for 4800 away fans every game, St Mirren have capacity for 1400 that's why their average crowds were so far behind us last season (8620 v 6835) we had room for more home fans and alot of away fans.
If we were to build a new stadium it cannot be with a capacity any less than 12,000.
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8 minutes ago, johnstone said:
Am I the only one who thinks our league is entertaining. I love the SPL. It’s a bit mental, we have some great games and the atmosphere most of the time is good.
Also as we have proved the best way to increase attendance is to improve the entertainment in the ground. Play good football and fans will come and watch, no matter the result, also playing good football tends to bring success.
It’s not all doom and gloom to be honest.
No I'm with you. I think its good and exciting , that's why i'm so against changing leagues cos it changes fuck all. However any product can be improved . Excitement, increase investment and keeping it affordable are what we should be looking at. However there are plenty things we could do to enhance an already decent product.
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It baffles me the amount of Blazers and fans who think changing the leagues changes anything. All it would do is spread limited income even thinner. Not one league reconstruction in the last 50 years delivered any of the promised benefits
- It didn't increase attendances
- It didn't result in more young players
- It didn't improve the quality.
- It didn't make the games more exciting
- It didn't remove the fear factor.
Its actually a sad state of affairs that it is all anyone can come up with and they think its radical thinking. Probably explains why fuck all ever changes in the Scottish game.
For me to be radical we should try and get more excitement and generate more money rather than shuffling who the teams are (off the top of my head)
- Move to summer football, stop trying to be a cheap version of the English Leagues. Secure better TV deals based on Summer Football
- If a game ends in a draw it goes to a penalty shoot out. If you lose the shoot out you get 1 point , if you win it you get 3 points. If you win in normal time you get 4 points.
- Stop seeding in the League Cup.
- End the League Cup sections (Another thing that was done 50 years ago and was binned because it was boring and fans didn't turn out).
- Away tickets capped at £25 (most clubs home tickets can be obtained for less than that)
- Every teams games able to be streamed live on an SPFL TV reliable platform (lets look at it realistically many folk already get it illegally anyway, so get the money to the clubs not the IPTV providers)
- Create one ticketing platform where fans can also buy away season tickets (Having to get a physical tickets that gets scanned anyway at the grounds is a pain in the arse )
- Stop allocating a seat number on visiting fans tickets. Print "Sit Anywhere" on every ticket.
- All grounds to have QR codes at the gates so folk can buy at the gate on the day of the game.
- Stop Sending offs (it generally ruins a game) a 10 or 15 min sin bin to replace sending off.
- All referees wired to stadium speakers as they have in Rugby to explain VAR decisions .
- All top League grounds to have Large TV Screens where the VAR pictures are replayed as the decisions are being reviewed (as they do in international rugby)
- Strict limit of 2 mins on VAR reviews. If they cant decide in 2 mins its not clear and obvious and on field decision stands.
- Points deductions enforced if fans destroy away ground facilities.
- Points deductions if fans enter the field of play.
- End the Rangers / Celtic strangle hold on the voting structure
but ALL the authorities will ever do is change the number of teams in a league cos we are "all bored watching us play the same teams". Not once in 50 years have I ever gone to a game thinking "aw fuck Hearts for the 4th time I wish it was Dunfermline"
Scottish football is so utterly pathetic because they couldn't have a radical thought if their life depended on it.
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56 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
Its always the same when we lose a game, suddenly half the team are rotten and questions to be asked.
We lost a game, its our first defeat of season, it happens
The problem is some of our fans are believing the hype.
Against Dundee United we played well but we were against 10 men for 75 minutes. To listen to the media and some of our fans you'd think we were world beaters and we weren't, just as today we were poor but we weren't as bad as some are making out.
We are 3 points better off after same games as last year. . It also took us until 25/10/2025 to win two league games. We also lost to Falkirk at home in round 8 and the second half performance in that game was worse than today.
So lets take a deep breath of reality.
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10 minutes ago, robsterwood said:
Think we getting carried away with ourselves at times. We haven't done anything yet. Looks promising but wait and see.
Bang On.
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5 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
Regarding the theme of the last few posts, Rangers probably played as well as they have done this season whereas we put in a performance similar in quality to the game against Falkirk. Still we only got beat by one goal that we literally gifted them.
Correct.
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8 minutes ago, Prestwickwell said:
Never seen the game like I said
but the issue is rangers have been dire this season so we should have been able to lay a glove on them
would very much doubt any other team has conceded 27 shots
seb should have started up front & we should have had a go at it
fadinger looks like he needs a rest, maybe said as well & we need to start playing with a purpose to hurt teams
As I said we played poorly and even at that Rangers only got 6 shots on target and would have scored with none of them had it not been a keeper gift. They still only got one goal that we gifted as poorly as we played. Folk need to get some perspective. I said before the game I thought too many Motherwell fans were thinking we'd turn them over comfortably that was never going to happen at Ibrox.
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What I take from today is to play as poorly and but for a poor error from the keeper we could have got a point.
Its alright everyone saying Rangers should have had 4 or 5 goals but they didn't.
We pay a defence and goalkeeper to stop goals and but for one lapse wed have played poorly and got a point.
Everyone saying they had 27 shots but yeah only 6 on target. Thats nearly 4 in 5 shots didn't require the keeper to save. Its not all gloomy.
Ill be more worried if we are as slow and pedestrian against Aberdeen.
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1 minute ago, Stuwell2 said:
The important part is that he laid the ball on instead of trying to take on the Dundee Utd defence himself.
The important part is his general touch and control are invariably poor and have been for months.
Two simple lays offs don.t change that fact. If we are going to evidence two simple instances in a game that hes playing welI. I'll counter with him missing the penalty on Saturday, lost the ball for St Mirrens 2nd goal. Last night he lost an easy ball the nearly resulted in a goal for Dundee Utd and sent a shocking ball for SOD who'd burst a gut to get into a great position. See its easy to cherry pick.
For me He loses the ball far too often and fluffs it far two often.
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9 hours ago, grizzlyg said:
Watching highlights Maswanhise actually 2 assists in 2nd half
I could have laid on the balls for the 2nd and 3rd goal. I don't doubt his effort but his touch and control are poor and have been for months..
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31 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
Noticed on Instagram post from club at end of game when players applauding fans Alfred putting his arm round Vogt. Poor lad just looks devoid of confidence. Hope he can turn it round, there are glimpses there but when confidence low its hard.
I noticed that last night , he looked like he was trying to lift his spirits.
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Some lovely football and great goals, thought we were wasteful from some great moves in the first half. Sure we were up against 10 men but you can only beat whats in front of you and we did. Lowry was outstanding.
I'm done with Manwanhise. He does not merit being an automatic fist choice. Windows closed so hes not going anywhere time to let him know his performances are deserving of his arse being on the subs bench.
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9 minutes ago, Orinoco said:
Watching the players go through a warm up routine of passing and shooting. Comically bad finishing it has to be said. Hopefully different in match conditions.
Young goalie looks the part. Good he is involved on match days. Do him a world of good.
Looks a strong team and subs on paper. Hopefully we turn up and show what we know they are capable of.
LOL I watched Maswanhise at Paisley taking shots form teed up lay offs. He had 10 efforts, scored one keeper saved two and the rest either went wide or high but he still scored in the game so maybe doesn't tell us too much. Although I think his shooting is piss poor when he has time to think about it.
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2 minutes ago, Benson said:
How is the crowd looking?
Poor so far, don't think it will break 6000 tonight.
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4 minutes ago, wellfan said:
Yes, according to a Sky Sports News journo, we knocked back an £800K bid last summer.
https://x.com/anthonyrjoseph/status/1948361694570553735?s=46
They'd get him for 800 pies now.
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9 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
Well Lyall Cameron is bound to score a header against us!
i just think because the general feeling among the fans is high and everyone thinks we've had a good transfer window that something will bite us on the arse. I've been watching us far too long that it fucks up rational thinking. 🤨
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Looks like poor attendance tonight from the ground map. Don't know why this game wasn't moved to the cup weekend. This game could go either way depending what defence turns up? With Ibrox being our next game a win will be very welcome. Don't know why, just got a strange feeling we might struggle tonight.
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4 hours ago, robsterwood said:
For leagues top scorer that is nonsense. That is a ridiculous comment. His form has dropped but he has pace and proven record last season.
Correct his form should not as yet impact his value and we should sell him based on being the leagues top goal scorer. Ive a feeling that position will change dramatically by January so Id be inclined to cash in on him now.
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1 minute ago, Spit_It_Out said:
We are in the position were we really dont need to sell anyone unless its ridiculous money so we hold all the cards.
Out of all the players really hope we keep hold of Longelo still have a year left plus club holds option of another year he is only going to get better.
Likewise Id hate to lose him but we've gotta be fair to the players too if they've performed and a big money bid comes in from a bigger club. Nature of the beast supporting s smaller club sadly. That said if no one wants our players we'd be Partick Thistle.
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1 minute ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
Ive heard good things about him at hibs, utd...but he wasn't the toughest from memory...tbf I could be getting him mixed up with someone else.
i remember him more at Dundee Utd and always looked the part.
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26 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
As the window in most of Europe along with England closes today, unless we are selling to another Scottish team, which is very unlikely the Thursday close should not be a problem.
Yeah but if no bids in by tonight both the OF clubs know they can come in unopposed however unlikely, they'd still need to meet our valuation though.
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1 minute ago, grizzlyg said:
Unless maybe Priestman going to be out longer than anticipated.
my mates just said the same thing and thats a possibility.
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4 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Well, I didnt see that one coming! Not sure we really needed another midfielder, but as others have said, it may signify that Fadinger is outgoing. That would be a hard one to take, but if he does go we will certainly get good money for him given he just signed a contract extension.
Hopefully it doesnt come to that and we are just going all in for a title push this season! (I am joking).
Its gonna be a nervy 24 hours (I dont expect us to sell anyone to another Scottish club).
If we can get through it unscathed, Im really excited about the season ahead and what this team could achieve.
Re Maswanhise. I kinda agree with others that we should accept any reasonable bid, purely as he is entering the last year of his contract and losing him for nothing next season would be silly.
It would leave us short on the attacking side though, so we would still need a replacement in. So we should be careful what we wish for.
Roll on midnight!
You've a bit longer to wait buddy. The Scottish Transfer window closes at 5pm on Thursday.
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3 minutes ago, MJC said:
Really chuffed with Levitt signing, as long as he stays injury free he’ll be a great addition.
I don’t see us getting through the window unscathed without losing one or more key player unfortunately with Fadinger and Longelo being the most obvious ones but will be will be. Maswanhise hasn’t kicked his own backside since February so if we get a decent bid in for him then we’ll have done well out of that one.
My fear is losing Fadinger and/ or Longello . Maswanhise I couldn't care less about if the moneys good.
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2026/27 Ins & Outs Discussion
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Oh Elivas Shivute is right up there with biggest waste of space as was Bob Malcolm but at least we didn't pay any cash for them.