I sympathise with the St Mirren fans.

Frustrated/complaining/angry that they look set to lose one of their star players (Mallan) for 'peanuts'. It's not just us then!

 

The difference is we're not fighting a similar battle with them.

They're bottom of a ***** league. We're fighting for play offs to the best league in the world and the team we're chasing to get that sixth spot, we sell our top scorer for next to nothing and the only money we're gonna make out of the deal is if those rivals for sixth place, go up!

 

I doubt they care about our predicament. It's still their club and money that could be reinvested. Dog eat dog capitalism. [FONT=&quot]¯\_(ツ)_/¯[/FONT]

 

My point was that it's swings and roundabouts. We've all got our place on the ladder and can only compete financially so much. Who's to say that if we do sign Mallan, three years down the line we will probably sell him on for a modest profit.

 

Justify it all you want, it's no different us cherry picking from a perceived smaller club than others do to us. It's how football is and always has been and one of the reasons I've not done any 'bairning' about Winall or Morsy.

 

ABSOLUTE ********. No one begrudges when our players go to premier league clubs they resent them making side steps for profit. How often do you see threads on here cheering on Holgate/ Stones/ Mawson. Tired of people on here absolving players with too little loyalty and too much money.

PS trading your average wage job for a massive pay rise is not the same as a footballer going from big wages to bigger wages. Stupid analogy.

 

Torquay fans complained - MacDonald
Halifax fans complained - Roberts, Tuton
Wrexham fans complained - Jackson
Wycombe fans complained - Scowen

All their star players being picked off by the rich clubs like Barnsley, for very little profit. The never-ending recycling project. We're just a part of it, just like everybody else.

 

Myopic. What we're doing to St Mirren really is no different to what other clubs with bigger budgets do to us. Playing football is just a job. We're the ones emotionally attached not the players.

 

The lenses in your glasses are really red.

 

Why isn't it? Just because they earn more money doesn't make it less valid. It's a short career, and they try and earn as much as they can, like we all would.

As much as we don't like to admit it, we paid Winnall to play for us, and he returned that with plenty of goals. He doesn't owe us anything. He's now moved on to better his bank balance, and his chances of promotion, despite probably reducing his opportunities for minutes on the pitch.

 

The football food chain.

 

Exactly. People speak of loyalty. Why should Irish born Celtic fan Conor have loyalty to us just because we gave him a job? By that logic he should still be playing for Plymouth who resurrected his career.

 

It's weird watching folk crying about an 'unequal system' that allows clubs to earn vast amounts of money at the expense of others and certain people within those clubs to earn massive sums with no sense of loyalty to those they represent.

If people they ever extend that logic to the rest of the economic system, there'll be trouble

Edit: Maybe we should have a system where all the money from all leagues is divvied up equally amongst all teams and a cap is put on wages and transfer fees. The price of a player is decided by stats and value calculation so there's no inflated pricing.

 

I think people confuse the loyalty issue, with the issue of honoring contracts.

 

For a long time I've advocated a system where the league gives an equal "playing" budget to each team to pay for players and transfers. A team can have 1-2 big earners but have to make up for it by paying less to the rest of the squad. 30 players limits for first team and U23s, and gate income/sponsorship pays for facilities, coaching staff and academy/development of new players.

 

Are we really in a battle for the playoffs, or are you just being silly, be honest with yourself pal.

 

10th in the league in January suggests we are

 

I think you are correct. Though there are very few players that refuse to play in reality.

 

In reality though we have lost convincingly in most cases to all the teams in the top 6 and Fulham who are outside it. We aren't in contention for the play offs and weren't with winnall in the side.