Ginger Bakers rebel army

Ayr game at Arbroath called off 1 hr before kick off. Ayr will not have played for over 2 weeks by Tuesday.

Pars play on Tuesday so cant rearrange for next week. Chance for us to go 8 points clear next Friday night, thats a massive incentive.

Noon pitch inspection at EEP, frozen patches on surface, game in doubt. Would be happy if postponed as coukd give Thistle an extra midweek game.

Stockport County wage bill is 7.5 million.They have loads of players on well over 5k per week. Dont want to see him go in this window but everyone has a price. Cant see saints letting him go for less than 250k.

Clearly time to try something different because none of the various home support options have worked.

Agree, its not ideal but i dont think there is much chance of us keeping the East stand for these games. Coming out of the East when OF are in the Ormond is never going to get any better.

Tickets for OF games are the same price for all seats regardless of stand if i remember correctly. I would be happy if we kept the two thirds of the GB and the Ormond and gave East Stand ticket holders the option to take a seat in either. I would much prefer 1,000 saints fans in the Ormond than 1900 OF. If marketed properly then hopefully a lot more than 1000 East Stand season ticket holders would opt for the Ormond. Its madness giving OF both ends and the atmosphere outside the stands would improve if OF fans had to access East via back of North.

Moving to Ormond has never been tried before. Pretty sure we will not keep the East at these games as saints will want the income. With OF in East, North and One third of GB they would get over 6,000 tickets at £30 a pop thats £200,000 from each OF home game. Apart from Livingstone no other SPFL team gives the OF the advantage of their fans behind both goals. Lots of folk wont want to move out of East but as its likely to happen the Ormond option full of East Stand season ticket holders sounds like the best alternative.

Hopefully promoted again at the end of this season but if not then it will happen sooner or later. Once again we will have the same issue with seating for OF games. Saints will want to maximise revenue. We have 1,800 season ticket holders in the East Stand. The Ormond stand holds about 1,900. Instead of moving saints to GB stand would it not be better to pack out the Ormond and keep two thirds of the GB. Access for the OF to the East should be from around the back of the North stand with the gate at the Ormond end of the East closed. Instead of our players having to endure OF behind each goal( which is madness) it also reduces the OF fan influence at one end shouting and claiming for everything from the ref. Saints fans would occupy the Ormond and two thirds of GB which would be plenty. A packed Ormond would give our players a lift. Getting in and out of the stadium would feel a lot better than past arrangements. We cant stop the bile that comes from the OF areas but it surely feel safer, give our players more support and still allow saints to maximise important revenue. Thoughts please and Happy New Year to all saintees when it comes.

2 nil now. Wheels off Thistle.

Yes

It was at McDiarmid 3 times in the last 15 years whem we were in the SPFL. Venue will probably be influenced by the finalists. Last 3 years played at Falkirk. Been to Fir Park a few times and we won it Dens but cant remember which division dee were in at the time. If it was us and Partick or the pars. Tynecastle might work.

£150,000 to the team that wins the cup and £100,000 to runner up. Loosing semi teams get £75,000 each. Prize pot up over 50% on last year. Always great to win a trophy but thats decent money to go with it. Pretty sure saints will take this seriously with that money at stake. Anyone know where the final will be held. Would love a final at Tynecastle.

1,660 more fans than atteneded Dundee Motherwell last weekend, says it all, winning Chammpionship team versus VAR infected SPFL dribble. Everything feels better than it has for a long time. Well done to GB for finding Webb and bringing back the feel good factor. The stadium is being improved bit by bit. The squad is better than we have had in the SPFL for the past 2 or 3 years. A nice points gap at the end of the first round of 9 games and odds on bookies favourite, quite rightly to win the league. Weekends are much better when were top of the league.

Thats the plan, view from the GB stand tonight will be great. If theres a cash gate that might fill in the remaining seats in the East, will be very close to full.