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The ticket office gets a bit of stick now & again but today, they're bang on it.
Tried to renew 2 season tickets (bought separately) overnight but could only get 1 done.
I emailed the ticket office around 11pm last night and received a call about 10am & my st renewal was done in no time at all.
Delighted with the promptness of reply & sorted.

It's just one more bit of crap this site, in my opinion, doesn't really need. The fact that you're actually encouraging it says more about you than anything I could possibly say. Debate is healthy but this petty minded rubbish is beyond puerile.
For balance I've previously pointed this out to FS too when he and BiEK were indulging in some of their bitch-fests.
 

There should be a big reduction for us concessions as we might not make the full ten years. 😰

Stop now, this is getting depressing  -  I need a drink -apres meal digestif, I think.

Aye. There's wood at my mum's that's been there since before we moved in over 54 years ago. I mean, it's doors, skirting and a loft hatch but I think that's irrelevant.

There are bits of wood in my garage that were there when I moved into this house 33 years ago.
Can anyone beat that?
 

I wrote a wee piece on the events of the last 10 days if anyone is interested.
https://www.blackandwhitearmy.com/opinions/2279-kibble-0-wardrop-0

As I recall from the St Mirren AGM a couple of months ago, when this issue was raised, it was stated that Kibble had applied for funding and/or planning permission for land adjacent to the area owned by St Mirren , not land owned by St Mirren. That is a bit different, but perhaps still dodgy.
Which is it?
The Kibble folk at the AGM did not deny this, but said the funding/ planning permission has been turned down anyway.

I heard that Boehly asked for advice and was told to get Frank. Unfortunately he got Lampard instead of Thomas Frank from Brentford - haha!

I heard that Boehly asked for advice and was told to get Frank. Unfortunately he got Lampard instead of Thomas Frank from Brentford - haha!

I heard that Boehly asked for advice and was told to get Frank. Unfortunately he got Lampard instead of Thomas Frank from Brentford - haha!

200 odd Livi fans diid not help with the total attendance. Our 3 stands were pretty full.
You will not be missed.

200 odd Livi fans diid not help with the total attendance. Our 3 stands were pretty full.
You will not be missed.

200 odd Livi fans diid not help with the total attendance. Our 3 stands were pretty full.
You will not be missed.

200 odd Livi fans diid not help with the total attendance. Our 3 stands were pretty full.
You will not be missed.

Of course, I had to write three times to enforce the point. 😁

He didn’t really mate. After he signed for Kansas he was called up for that trip to Peru and Mexico (which Morgan and my granny were also called up for). I think he’s only been called up on one other occasion since then.
He only got 14 caps in total and I’m sure the vast majority were pre MLS. 

Of course, I had to write three times to enforce the point. 😁

Townhead Terrace?

One of my favourite ever chants at a game was when when we played Celtic in the Scottish Cup at home (we lost) shortly after the semi final League Cup win.
'What you doing on St Patrick's Day?'

One of my favourite ever chants at a game was when when we played Celtic in the Scottish Cup at home (we lost) shortly after the semi final League Cup win.
'What you doing on St Patrick's Day?'

Some absolutely iconic images there , particularly like the Maradona one which I hadn’t seen before and the Bolt image summed up perfectly the man and his incredible ability .
We could all add another fifty to that list if we put our mind to it , Nadia Comaneci standing in front of her “perfect 10 scoreboard , Torvill & Deans image at the end of Bolero and my own personal favourite,   this one…….😎⚽️👍
 
 

Terrific article in the Guardian for all you sports fans.......
 
‘We could feel the gravity of it. It was electrifying’: 50 photographs that reshaped sport | Sport | The Guardian

The oppression of Jews didn't start with extermination of Jews or transportation to concentration camps.  It started with talk, escalated through minor acts of violence through to terrorism and on to genocide.  At which stop on the route do you suggest we speak out,? cos it seems that the lesson of history is that allowing these things to fester leads to a situation where it is no longer possible to speak out. 
Right now, the stop we are at is the suppression of free-speech by right wing politicians supported by their media allies, we have already witnessed the effect that lies and deliberate misinformation had in Liverpool where we were pretty close to a riot outside refugee accommodation.  There are no gas chambers just now but we are at the same early stage where power is siezed and then retained through the demonisation of a minority.
Lest we forget, before the holocaust an awful lot of decent people were silenced, oppressed and murdered as the conditions for the genocide were prepared and many of them were not Jewish.  I don't get how it's wrong to speak out and cite that particular lesson from history now before things get even more unpleasant.

I have read this forum for years (usually only when we win!) without ever setting up an account, however, I really feel compelled to pitch in on this one.
I had taken the decision long ago to stop attending matches against the old firm as I find the experience so unpleasant but added the games to my family ticket this season as a show of solidarity with the decision to keep three stands.
Sunday’s events reaffirmed for me why I can’t attend these matches. On my way into the family stand, I was treated with contempt and aggression after pre-emptively offering up my gym bag for searching – to the extent that I was ordered to remove a pair of socks that the security person suspected was a pyrotechnic device. In the family stand!
I then enter the stadium to find no fewer than seven police officers lounging around under the stand eating pies and drinking hot beverages, and then as I go to take my seat find myself confronted with a sea of giant tricolours and banners across from me – apparently easier to conceal upon entry than a pair of socks. (The obligatory pyrotechnic display followed later in the match.)
I had decided not to bring my sons to this game after the last Celtic match (“why do they hate the royal family so much, Dad?”) but even as an adult I would really rather not sit in my own stadium listening to incessant singing about terrorist organisations and Orange b*stards (I am a practicing Catholic, just for the record) so ended up doing something that I have never done in over 30 years supporting the club and left the match early.
To then discover that the Celtic supporters were able to vandalise our stadium while we pay for security to harass St Mirren supporting families and Police to stuff their faces just compounds what was a seriously displeasing episode.
I don’t know what the solution is to this – personally, I will take the games on my season ticket next season (they may be include as standard anyway) but will never again set foot in our, or any other stadium, when either of these vile, poisonous football clubs are playing.
I appreciate that there are financial implications, but the way I feel just now I would love to see the club just refuse to allow them into our stadium going forward.