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I think he is more well rounded than McGinn. McGinn could run with the ball but his shooting was pretty poor and passing was nothing special in comparison to Mallan's. Also, Mallan was starting to show a bit more defensively in the tail end of the season. However, you could argue Mallan has been playing at a lower level than our previous players have.

It won't happen now he has premier league experience. I would rather we further developed our own talent anyway.

That's essentially what I was trying to get across but you did a much better job

Spot on. I would be surprised if Mallan goes on to achieve less than Mclsan and McGinn. Won't stop our fans getting on his back though.

Take Mallan's first part-season in the Premiership - 5 goals and 5 assists in 24 starts. You'd struggle to find 18 year old strikers with that return, never mind a midfielder. Carried on where he left off, albeit a lower level, this season.
Check McLean and McGinn's first 24 starts - nowhere near the impact of Mallan. 3 goals and 1 assist for McLean, 1 and 1 for McGinn, in the same league.
Mallan has kicked on big time this season just ended, with 15 goals and 5 assists from midfield, in 38 starts, all competitions. Still had people towards the end of the season complaining he didn't contribute enough apart from the goals and assists...

I guess the difference is, and no offence meant to John, but players like John are not too rare. Whereas how many teenage central midfielders have a goal scoring record like Stevie Mallan?
Look at all the players Dundee Utd produced and sold, Stewart Armstrong for example, had a scoring record of 18 goals in 126 league games, Stevie has 15 goals in 56. Also compare him to Hibs/Celtics Liam Henderson, who is the same age, 10 goals in 59 (League games only, his record is worse if you add in cup games).
I'm not saying Mallan is worth millions, but based on his goal record above the Dundee offer of £60k is insulting. FFS we paid about £30k for Gareth Wardlaw.......
Edited to add: I have realised he has just turned 20

I'd say Mallan has shown much more promise/potential at his age than either McGinn or McLean did.

Good signing if he can get us more goals.
Interview from the website
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=55630

Good signing if he can get us more goals.
Interview from the website
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=55630

Signing news incoming according to official twitter.

If that turns out to be the case... well done the Morton Board. A board of directors who actually listen to their supporters ? we could have done with that in the last couple of years , might not have got the Barcode or Tommy Craig !!

Official. He has signed a 1 year deal.
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=55576

Official. He has signed a 1 year deal.
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=55576

Official. He has signed a 1 year deal.
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=55576

I think we can safely say he has turned around our fortunes at home as he listed as one of his priorities.
Playing at home with a real belief we can win for me is progress.
He said it might not be pretty, he was right, but at times it has also been good.
Roll on next season.

This time next week they will be The Greece.

I'm not bothered at all with them using our facilities, great earner for us.
It does piss me off that there will be more Celtic shirts sold at our ground today than St Mirren strips in the last 3 or 4 years?
Also pissed off that our club crest is being replaced with the Celtic one, a big massive window covering poster/sticker saying "Celtic shop open today" or something would have done the job.
But I won't lose any sleep over it.

I see our new management team have tied Thommo's hands behind his back in case he has the urge to throw anymore of them.

Looking at the BBC today has left me questioning the long-term sustainability of full-time Scottish football.
Considering recent events some of the "football" decisions are a little shortsighted.
The implosion of Scottish football (armageddon?) never happened. We can survive...
But all of our clubs need to be prudent....or part-time football surely beckons.
I don`t claim to be an economist but I do wonder what kind of people are running Scottish football clubs.
For example, from today`s news:
1. Rangers signing Danny Wilson.
RFC reportedly on the brink again. Tangled up with Ashley. Leaving an SPFL club for the Championship.
It`s Rangers...I get it...but they must be offering him a big contract in return.
High risk...
2. Kilmarnock giving a three year contract to Jamie MacDonald.
A 3 year deal seems excessive to me....
That is a long term investment in an average player.
High risk...
I understand how frustrating it is to sit around waiting for a new manager and new players.
But I`d rather SMFC didn`t follow suit and made deals only that make financial sense to us.
If Gow is all we can afford then that must be our reality.....1 year deals make sense to me.
Low risk is what makes sense to me.

Sorry to disappoint but he's signing for Dumbarton...

Last season Southampton started their preseason training with a wafer thin squad. The tweet from their manager of a picture of an empty pitch with the words 'ready for preseason! ' went viral. Many experts and even their own fans predicted relegation.
Of course they went on to have their best season in the Premier League era and qualified for Europe.
In 2010 Kilmarnock didn't even have a manager by this point in pre season, never mind any signings. They went on to finish in the top 6, something they haven't managed since.
In short, I'm certainly not panicking on the signing front.
I will say I was at least expecting all of the out of contract players situations to be resolved by now, and I'm surprised Thompson's hasn't been as of yet.

The St.Mirren Fans Council would just like to say a big thank you to all our fellow Saints supporters for their thanks and good wishes on the new home kit.
We are all St.Mirren ! Come on Ye Saints !

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Great Thread
Let's start all the upcoming Matchday threads now.

Reverse the stripes, so 2 white, 3 black. Easy peasy!

Love it !!