AthensSaint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 As somebody who watched mid-eighties games home and away, he was decidely ordinary. In saying that, some of my most enjoyable times in supporting St Johnstone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik2304 Posted November 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 What kind of striker is May and what style suits his play? Steve Lomas didn't rate him. So he is pretty feckin awesome! He's a very direct,hardworking,creative goalscorer. Also it would be doss if Rotherham could sign/unsettle Billy McKay before saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBored Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 No disrespect to Rotherham, but I'd be very surprised if he went there. As has been mentioned May said he had no interest in Peterboro, so I'd have expected the same response for Rotherham. Having just signed that contract extension the club will be in no hurry to accept an offer either. The Peterboro one might have appealed slightly as May was out of contract in the summer..but no longer. You'd have a better chance with Tony Watt. Seems he's pissing the Belgians off (well their manager anyway) and could be back across the channel quite quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-montrosesaintee Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Billy MacKay is better than Ronaldo - and £350k would be plenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerman Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Well, it also wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be a red herring and we were deflecting focus while bidding for someone else. Whatever happens, I now know about Stevie May, and if he stays or comes to us, good luck in the cup!! Edstar101, fazman1977, ex-montrosesaintee and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garydavidson Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 If you want to know more this is a good one tostart off with - http://terracepodcast.net/chrismillarlounge/2013/11/20/break-it-down-coming-of-age Plenty of his goals can be found on the SPFL youtube channel as well. millerman and Jiangsu Sainty 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Jenkins Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Is it a worry that Lee Croft is training with us... Potentially freeing up hasslebank to fill the may roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinese Eskimo Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 I think the hardest obstacle to overcome for Rotherham in their pursuit of Stevie May is the player himself rather than the money. Steve Brown said that he would have accepted Peterboroughs bid of 300k if it had been in one installment so a large bid in one installment could be accepted. However Stevie May didn't want to go to the Championship in the summer and would take a lot of convincing to move to Rotherham. ex-montrosesaintee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Welcome to the Rotherham chap, who is as pleasant and intelligent as the idiot from Peterborough was condescending and stupid. May is probably our best young "find" for a good few years - in terms of strikers, probably the best since Fat Ally. (We don't talk about him now much, because he's the manager of some lower-league bunch of tax-dodging Sectarians called the The The Sevco Rangers or something). With all due respect to Rotherham (who I vaguely remember getting to a League Cup Final in nineteen oatcake and causing a lot of excitement?) it is disappointing that Scotland's current player of the month is attracting bids from League One sides. We're under no illusions about the terrible decline in the standard of Scottish domestic football, but surely we're not now at English League One level? I mean no disrespect, but that is quite hard for us to get our head round. I think May would now go for half a million - maybe less with very generous future move clauses. AthensSaint 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhq Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 I think the hardest obstacle to overcome for Rotherham in their pursuit of Stevie May is the player himself rather than the money. Steve Brown said that he would have accepted Peterboroughs bid of 300k if it had been in one installment so a large bid in one installment could be accepted. However Stevie May didn't want to go to the Championship in the summer and would take a lot of convincing to move to Rotherham. Peterborough are not in the Championship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryangordon86 Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 We wont sell him for anything like 300k now. He was pretty much untested at this level back then and had less than a year on his contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-montrosesaintee Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 We wont sell him for anything like 300k now. He was pretty much untested at this level back then and had less than a year on his contract. Yeah, he'd scored a slightly lucky goal against Hearts (good strike but a dodgy offside call) and a quick thinking goal against Rosenborg. He wasn't even a regular fist team starter until a month or so later. Very good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintdunc Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Big and Fat ex Saintee Steve Evans, the HMRC's favourite son, is the man leading our local club and they are destined for the big time having moved into their super state of the art stadium but I think Stevie May would be better off staying put and not to get too unsettled by this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Mind you, Rotherham, as one door closes another one opens. We have an outstanding young midfielder called David Robertson you might be interested in. Strong, creative, pacy, scores as many goals with his left as he does with his right. I can honestly say that there has not been one single word of criticism about his play for the first team for many, many months now. I think the price would be about £250,000 to move him on. Who do we make the cheque payable to? ex-montrosesaintee and Saintdunc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-montrosesaintee Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Who do we make the cheque payable to? There'll need to be a sell-on clause to ensure the long term job security of our physio Abernethy Saint 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerman Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 An interesting comparison the SPL and the English Football League. The decline of our national team is because of the amount of imported players, meaning that many talented players now need to ply their trade lower down the league ladder. Last year in League Two, we had Kari Arnason signing for us after turning his back on Aberdeen with a £5k per week wage demand (allegedly). And one of our first games in our new stadium was against a full strength Hearts side who we narrowly lost out to 1-0 with a newly assembled squad. We have just offloaded Lionel Ainsworth to Motherwell, and another ex-Miller from our League Two days, Nicky Law, had success in the SPL. Michael Tidser came with rave reviews from Greenock last year, but he can't force his way into the team just yet, and I would hazard a guess, he would have been one of the first names on the team sheet for them in the Scottish Championship this time around. Peterborough in the same league as us, paid £1.5M for a striker recently. And Wolves who are in top spot have a number of players reputed to be on £30k - £40k per week. So I would suggest that in terms of stature and squad ability, there is certainly a comparison to League One and the SPL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik2304 Posted November 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Y iz at all ra best posturs urnae Saintees? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 An interesting comparison the SPL and the English Football League. The decline of our national team is because of the amount of imported players, meaning that many talented players now need to ply their trade lower down the league ladder. Last year in League Two, we had Kari Arnason signing for us after turning his back on Aberdeen with a £5k per week wage demand (allegedly). And one of our first games in our new stadium was against a full strength Hearts side who we narrowly lost out to 1-0 with a newly assembled squad. We have just offloaded Lionel Ainsworth to Motherwell, and another ex-Miller from our League Two days, Nicky Law, had success in the SPL. Michael Tidser came with rave reviews from Greenock last year, but he can't force his way into the team just yet, and I would hazard a guess, he would have been one of the first names on the team sheet for them in the Scottish Championship this time around. Peterborough in the same league as us, paid £1.5M for a striker recently. And Wolves who are in top spot have a number of players reputed to be on £30k - £40k per week. So I would suggest that in terms of stature and squad ability, there is certainly a comparison to League One and the SPL.Thanks for the response. You're maybe cherry-picking a little there - I could say that Celtic, with Sky money (EPL teams have more in their petty cash box than Celtic get from TV rights) would be a top 8EPL team within a couple of years, but that's no indication whatsoever of the general SPL standard, which is pretty awful. But (and it's difficult to say this without sounding disrespectful) not maybe quite yet, on the average, at League One level (in real money, Division 3).I should say that St Johnstone are also an unfashionable, provincial club who have won feck all worth talking about by the way!!!!!! You sound like you'd fit in here..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiangsu Sainty Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 I too would distance myself from the League 1 slagging. The top half of it contains teams with much bigger gates, and a lot more money than Saints, and a couple of the teams might have better players too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerthSeany Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Y iz at all ra best posturs urnae Saintees? Come again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_Beatson Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 An interesting comparison the SPL and the English Football League. The decline of our national team is because of the amount of imported players, meaning that many talented players now need to ply their trade lower down the league ladder. Last year in League Two, we had Kari Arnason signing for us after turning his back on Aberdeen with a £5k per week wage demand (allegedly). And one of our first games in our new stadium was against a full strength Hearts side who we narrowly lost out to 1-0 with a newly assembled squad. We have just offloaded Lionel Ainsworth to Motherwell, and another ex-Miller from our League Two days, Nicky Law, had success in the SPL. Michael Tidser came with rave reviews from Greenock last year, but he can't force his way into the team just yet, and I would hazard a guess, he would have been one of the first names on the team sheet for them in the Scottish Championship this time around. Peterborough in the same league as us, paid £1.5M for a striker recently. And Wolves who are in top spot have a number of players reputed to be on £30k - £40k per week. So I would suggest that in terms of stature and squad ability, there is certainly a comparison to League One and the SPL. But on the other side of that coin, Jennison Myrie Williams seems to get rave reviews in League One - but is possibly one of the worst players I've ever seen play for us. May could play at a higher level than League One. The Inspiration 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 But on the other side of that coin, Jennison Myrie Williams seems to get rave reviews in League One - but is possibly one of the worst players I've ever seen play for us. May could play at a higher level than League One.The point is, he already does.(Just)!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AthensSaint Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Have a look at there fantastic stadium and see why we should have filled in the corners. It's well smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintdunc Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Passed it nearly every day during construction! http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/19/article-2076163-0F39CE7100000578-779_468x342.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2076163/Rotherham-New-York-Millers-live-American-dream-inside-new-stadium.html&h=342&w=468&sz=50&tbnid=5H6uKRE65Qm_ZM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=134&zoom=1&usg=__CIBXFa9ZH7iUtuGZlbl11UYGu5c=&docid=4_BQiGNO6po7rM&sa=X&ei=WFKOUtHQDoGShQeB-4CwBg&ved=0CEwQ9QEwBA ex-montrosesaintee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryangordon86 Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 Is Jennison Myrie Williams not playing in league 1? One of the worst players to play for us in the past 5 years IMO ex-montrosesaintee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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