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You've obviously never noticed the leaning front door tower of the Abbey from bygone years never mind when all the different bits of the Abbey were erected. [emoji6]

My old man was John Brown, not much of playing career  although was with WBA and Morton for a short spell, never made it though, was a coach from an early age with Partick Thistle end then most of his life in the Juniors. Coached Neilston Juniors,  Johnstone Burgh and was with Dickie Brock at Pollok, Largs & Scotland.
Remember the night I answered the phone and it was Alex Smith asking for him to join him at St Mirren. Spent many times at love street with him. 

Back Row, middle right was Bobby Holmes the physio, I think he broke his leg just before the 1959 final which finished his career and missed out playing in it. 
Was a member of Meikleriggs bowling club and I think ferguslie cricket club for many years. 

Listening to reports from there game today we will do well to get anything  from there we haven't played well for weeks.

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I can only remember it being on smithhill street at the piazza. 
 
Whatevery’s owners the weisfelds lived in Paisley for a number of years. 
 
 

I can only remember it being on smithhill street at the piazza. 
 
Whatevery’s owners the weisfelds lived in Paisley for a number of years. 
 
 

That clubhouse is still in use by Powerleague. 
Sadly an ankle injury may be about to cut short my promising 5 aside career at the age of 52! 

That clubhouse is still in use by Powerleague. 
Sadly an ankle injury may be about to cut short my promising 5 aside career at the age of 52! 

Offering a contract to get a fee is only for young players (possibly under 21) where you are due a development fee if they move on and you have made an offer on at least as good terms as they had.   
Contact offers to Flynn and Shaughnessy are because we see it being worthwhile having them next season. 

Offering a contract to get a fee is only for young players (possibly under 21) where you are due a development fee if they move on and you have made an offer on at least as good terms as they had.   
Contact offers to Flynn and Shaughnessy are because we see it being worthwhile having them next season. 

Offering a contract to get a fee is only for young players (possibly under 21) where you are due a development fee if they move on and you have made an offer on at least as good terms as they had.   
Contact offers to Flynn and Shaughnessy are because we see it being worthwhile having them next season. 

The issue is making £88k per annum profit when our position is an underlying loss with current playing budget.  This year we have only benefitted from player sales of £375k and c.£400k from Trevor Carson saving penalties v Dundee to get a lucky cup draw.
we have to make albeit in real terms a profit of over £1m over 20 years when Ckubs like us break even at best and our underlying trading is a loss. 

Maybe if supporters of a certain dead club had piped up about the state of their affairs during what was their best ever period they would still have their old club.
Success on the park doesn't necessarily mean good governance off it.

Any football club, be it fan owned or privately owned, needs to be led by good, competent, trustworthy and capable people at the top.
I'm not massively convinced we have that right now.
 

Kicking myself for missing this, saw them at Strathclyde union back in the day. Hope you enjoyed the gig. 
 
Flaming lips in the Manchester 02 this weekend for me. 

McDougal's, quite a bit before I visited it, looks like Charlie Chaplin was in buying a book.
I still have a couple of books up in the attic that I picked from here with vouchers awarded in primary school. 

 

There was a big older guy, think he was called Mr Graham, bit of an attitude but was actually ok. 
Back in those days, it was the make up girls that thought they were a cut above the other workers. 

That brings back some memories, I had a Saturday job in there in the Electrical Dept. Initially it was located above where pendulum is now and latterly it moved to the warehouse up the ramp at the far end of the photo beside the furniture section. 

I’m pretty sure I bought my first tank of fuel for my first car there which would have meant it was still open in the mid 90’s. 

I had a Saturday job in Arnotts working in electrical sales, teles, video’s washing machines etc. Used to buy a cd a lunchtime from Stereo 1 or the Record Factory and would be able to play them in the shop in the afternoon while watching the scores roll in via teletext. 
It worked well until I bought the Surfa Rosa / Come on Pilgrim Cd by Pixies and Nimrods Son got played out across the department…….

I had a Saturday job in Arnotts working in electrical sales, teles, video’s washing machines etc. Used to buy a cd a lunchtime from Stereo 1 or the Record Factory and would be able to play them in the shop in the afternoon while watching the scores roll in via teletext. 
It worked well until I bought the Surfa Rosa / Come on Pilgrim Cd by Pixies and Nimrods Son got played out across the department…….

I sold my car last May and looked at We buy, Motorway etc and in the end the dealer offered me the best price. 
 
The online webuy price changed significantly over the space of 7 days and I found Motorway disappointing, they essentially set up an auction for your car, my car was a clean low mileage car just over 3 years old.  Their suggested price and reserve price was in line with the highest I’d had offered elsewhere but on auction day the closest bid was about £4k down. 
I think the market is a bit less volatile now than May but my advice would be not to budget on the offer or suggested price from these buyers until you have the cash in your hand. 

You're in for a shock about the Titanic. [emoji14]

Happy New Year.
As a shareholder I have received a copy of the full accounts for May 2021 to May 2022. Over a stiff drink tonight I have noted the following points you may wish to consider. I will probably not comment further until after the AGM. There are a number of obvious questions that need to be asked and hopefully answered at the AGM. My accountancy skills are a bit rusty. Maybe I have misunderstood some of the important details – God, I hope that I have. I’m not going to waste time sparring with some of the childish regulars on here.

The cold facts are that the current board enriched with the financial “expertise” of our Kibble partners appear to have managed to turn a profit of around half a million pounds into a loss of 1.5 million pounds in short the space of 12 months. That in itself is quite an achievement.

The £1,598,506  loss divided by 365 days is £4379 a day. 

No doubt Covid will be blamed but you have to remember that the furlough scheme should have covered much of the wage bill and the government have loaned the club £1.7 million.

Even so the wage bill has gone from £2.8 million to £3.5 million. The number of players has gone from 37 to 39 but the number of management and admin staff has gone from 38 to 75. That is around two management and admin staff for every player. I presume (sincerely hope) there is a plausible explanation for this I just can’t think what it might be.

Importantly cash at the bank is down from £2.7 million in May 2021 to £972 thousand in May 2022 that is a reduction of about £145K a month. So what is the current cash balance?  Say 6 months of losses at £145 K is £870K. Take that away from the May 2022 figure of £972K and there is a lot to worry about. Possibly £100K left at present? I hope we can sell a couple of players to help the cash flow. 

Kibble claimed they would “bring our commercial expertise to St Mirren”. Perhaps that is the kind of expertise we could all have lived without.

Mention is made in the preceding narrative of “exceptional costs” but I cannot see any actual figures that directly relate to this statement. I assume this may partly be the rumoured very large cost overrun at Ralston but is hard to imagine what £1 million plus of “exceptional costs” could be.
You have to also ask why this financial situation has not been made very clear to SMISA members many months ago. After all they own most of the club.
PS To anyone quoting recent increased attendance at home games – please ask yourself how many of these are free tickets.

Now I think I need another drink.

See you all at the AGM.