Anyway without further ado let's see who's won what.....
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AWARD |
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And the Winner Is...
(2002 TOSSA in brackets) |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
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The "1997 New Year's Day Commemorative Gubbing" Award
for Best Home Performance |
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2-0 win
over ICT
(24 Votes)
(3-0 win over Livvy) |
Wins out by 14 votes over
the 3-0 demolition of Ross County. Third was the 2-0 win over St Midden
with the other win over the men from Dingwall in 4th place.
Others mentioned were the 1-0 win over ICT, the 3-0 cup win over Accies
and the 1-0 win over Ayr with the weirdest choices being the Livvy match
that was postponed and the 2-2 draw with Queen of the South ("just
for giving me a bit of optimism"). |
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The "Any Trip to Dens Park" Award for Best Away
Performance |
|
2-0 v St
Midden
(11 Votes)
(3-1 v Hearts) |
A much bigger range of
nominations with the first game of the season coming out top ahead of
the 1-1 draw at Brockville and the 3-2 win over Ross County with 7 votes
apiece. Others nominated included both games at Ayr, Arbroath and
Dumfries along with the 2-1 wins at Clyde and Inverness and the defeat
at Parkhead.
Strangest vote - the 7-0 win pre-season over Peterhead. |
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The "Let's Ban Sky" Award for Worst Home Performance |
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2-0 defeat
to Ayr
(21 Votes)
(1-4 v Arabs) |
Just under half the votes
for the defeat to Ayr in the game which also saw Hartley red-carded.
Second and 3rd places went to the first and second games against the
Weans both of which ended in a 1-0 defeat.
Fourth was the last game of the season (and still fresh in the mind)
whilst others mentioned included the Livvy cup game and both Clyde
defeats. |
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The "Ochilview" Medal for Worst Away Performance |
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2-1 defeat
v Clyde
(13 Votes)
(0-4 defeat v Hibs) |
The Clyde surrender edges
out the 1-0 September defeat at Brockville and the Scottish Cup gubbing
at Parkhead.
Others mentioned were the 1-1 cup draw at New Broomfield and the
Challenge Cup defeat against Brechin. Depressing reading really.... |
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The "Who Needs a Striker Now?" Certificate for Goal
of the Season |
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Hartley v
St Mirren (Aug)
(14 Votes)
(Tommy's 2nd at Tynecastle) |
JRs cracking run and finish
in the league opener wins by 3 votes from Tommy's spectacular curving
shot at Broadwood.
Quite a good range of nominations with Hartley's free-kick at Dingwall
in the 3-2 win taking 3rd spot from Peaso's volley against Arbroath.
Others mentioned were Tommy's low drive against Alloa, Paddy's header at
Gayfield in the January storm and Murray and Baxters cup goals at Glebe
Park and New Broomfield. |
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The "Craig Brown Selection" Medallion for Save of the
Season |
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Cuthbert v
Falkirk
(13 Votes)
(Cuthbert v Clyde) |
Back when he was still
proving himself, it was the Cat's heroics in the first game at
Brockville which gets the plaudits. As you'd expect the majority of
nominations were for the Cat with the performances against Airdrie in
the cup, St Midden in the opener and at Inverness also getting a
mention.
The now-departed Alan Main picked up 3 votes for his performance at
Dingwall last winter.
But the token "funny" vote is split this year between "Baxter
saving us the embarrassment of losing to Airdrie in the first game"
and the more surreal "Weir getting a years contract" |
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The "Gerry McMahon Injury" Scroll for Biggest
Disappointment of the Season |
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Not going
up
(29 Votes)
(Relegation) |
Probably the easiest award
to predict with a clear 24 vote gap before "No passion"
in 2nd place.
Most other nominations went along the same theme - "Everything",
"Players on the Park", "No entertainment", "We
were rank", "Stark still being there" etc. And not
even a funny to ease the gloom...... |
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The "Kane Header Against Dundee" Commemorative Video
for Most Satisfying Moment or Event |
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There
weren't any
(10 Votes)
(Clark Getting Sacked) |
God you're a depressing lot
- still there were hints of optimism amongst the nominees. 2nd place
went to Falkirk not going up (or at least having to go to the courts to
do so) and 3rd place went to the youngsters making the breakthrough into
the Saints side last season.
Others mentioned included the performance at Parkhead, staying
full-time, Arbroath being relegated(!) and Grady's penalty miss in the
2nd game at Somerset Park.
Weirdest vote (other than "End of the season") was
"Getting the Alloa home score from a mad fisherman in Sorrento!" |
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The "Better Than The Pub" Award for Team Giving Most
Entertainment Value |
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Clyde
(13 Votes)
(Motherwell) |
Clyde win by a couple of
votes from the Weans with Caley Thistle one further behind in 3rd place.
Can't disagree with that though no doubt the media will want to.
Others nominated included Alloa, St Mirren, Cove Rangers (!), Brechin,
QoS and Arbroath. |
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The "Boghead Drainage System" Memorial Award for Best
Away Ground |
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Brockville
(13 Votes)
(Easter Rd) |
Obviously winning on the
atmosphere at the 2 games rather than facilities. 2nd place with 12
votes went to Ross County and the 2 enjoyable trips last season with
Palmerston voted in 3rd with 10 votes.
Others nominated - Recreation Park, Brechin, Gayfield, Love St and
Broadwood. Not that you can gather much from all that other than we
don't like going to Ayr. |
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The "OF Domination" Plaque for the Best Thing to
Happen to Scottish Football |
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Celtics
UEFA Cup Run
(25 Votes)
(OF Told to GTF) |
Clear winner by a massive
majority was the wee Leprechaun's attempt to keep the streets of Glasgow
crime-free in May by taking all the tinks to Seville.
2nd place was "Brockville getting demolished" with 7
votes whilst the state of the OF finances came in joint 3rd with Alloa
being relegated. Nominations also for Falkirk not going up, high wages
starting to become a distant memory and "Bonnetti suing the
coagies"/ |
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The "Sacking of Totten AntiChrist" Award for the
Worst Thing to Happen to Scottish Football |
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OF
Dominance
(21 Votes)
(OF Still Here) |
Plus ca change eh? Yup
despite a token nicety towards Wegielands Bigot Brothers their continued
domination of the game and presence still rankles the Saints fans.
Joint 2nd was Falkirks lack of promotion thanks to SPL rules and a
surprise contender in Berti Vogts.
Other votes went to Rangers winning the treble, the SPL (in general I
presume), Celtic in the cup final, the BBC coverage of the SPL and token
bitch votes for "Jim Delahunt" and "Lee
Wilkie getting a cap". |
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The "Embassy Regal / Roddy Grant" Award for the Most
Saintee-esque Moment of the Season |
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Paddy's
miss v St Mirren
(15 Votes)
(Humping Livvy then blowing the rest of the season) |
Good old Paddy - you might
have known that his sclaff of a rocket over the bar against the Paisley
unwashed from all of 2 yards out would just edge out blowing promotion
in the Saintee minds, although there were only 2 votes in it.
3rd place was JR's departure with the lack of crowd / support a close
4th. Elsewhere and Starks comments rankled although best nomination was
"Blowing the championship with about 5 months to spare" |
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The "Rolf Harris" Grammy for Song/Chant of the season |
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"Stark
must go"
(10 Votes)
("You are a Coagie / Wegie") |
Well it was sung often
enough over the Xmas period and in the end the cries for the manager to
leave won through.
In joint 2nd place was the perennial "If you want to go to
heaven when you die" and "We're blue we're white…..".
. Other ditties to make the Saintee songbooks included -
- "Are you Clydebank in disguise " - New
Broomfield
- "Waltzing Matilda" - for a certain sub keeper
- "Singin in the Rain" - New Years Day
But of course for weird mentions there was the one about "Jamie
Beatsons Mum" and the classic from Parkhead "he used
to have a floppy leg but now hes got a floppy jaw" |
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The "Penalty At Ibrox Miracle" Award for Best Ref of
the Season |
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Hugh
Dallas
(15 Votes)
(Wullie Young) |
"Scotland's no1 ref"
(copyright the media) wins out over last years victor Wullie Young by 3
votes with 3rd place going to "None of them". No real reasons
for picking Dallas but he seems to have won some favour after changing
his mind over the passback at Ayr in the 2nd game.
Others mentioned - Rowbotham, Kenny Clark, George Clyde and Eric
Martindale.
Most unsubtle vote went to "Anybody who gave us a dodgy
decision" |
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The "Aw no him" Award for Worst Ref of the Season |
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Brian
McGarry
(11 Votes)
(John Rowbotham) |
The man who sent off
Hartley and basically fucked up in the Ayr game wins out by a mile.
2nd place was Dougie McDonald with Dallas in 3rd.
Basically every ref we've had this season seems to have been nominated
- make of that what you will. |
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The "Fergus hates Farry" Medal for Most Loathed
Person / Institution of the Season |
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Old Firm
(17 Votes)
(Old Firm) |
Not as clear cut as last
year with the OF just edging out a "certain ex-manager who's now a
pundit" in the hatred stakes.
As for the other nominations well Billy Stark picked up 4 votes but he
was still beaten by Ian McCall, Owen Coyle, Allan Ferguson and Falkirk
(you may be able to spot a pattern here).
And McCall aside there were no votes for Scumdee-related items this
time - you lot going soft or something? |
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AWARD |
|
And the Winner Is... |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
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The "John Brogan Memorial" Award for Best Saints
Player This Season |
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Grant Murray
(18 Votes)
(Paul Hartley) |
Wins by 3 votes from Kevin
Cuthbert, this season saw Murray become one of the rocks of the Saints
defence as he partnered Dods, Maxwell and Weir at various times. Still
he's buggered off now so who cares.
2nd place went to the Cat - totally deserved as he established himself
as the no1 choice keeper. In 3rd with 9 votes was last seasons winner
Paul Hartley whilst Maxwel, Peaso, Baxter, Dods and Reilly rounded off
the nominations. |
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The "Andy Brannigan Understudy" Award for Worst
Saints Player This Season |
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John Robertson
(11 Votes)
(Sammy Youssouf) |
By just one vote he beats
Tommy Lovenkrands and it's a worrying sign that one of the "big"
signings of last summer wins the vote ahead of the usual dodgy trialist.
Missing for the latter part of the season his right-back role has been
taken by Beaky leaving J-Ro looking more like a squad player.
2nd place Tommy failed to live up to expectations (where have we heard
that before) but he's awa now as well so who cares.
In joint 3rd came Paddy and Reilly with Parker just one vote behind ("The
Superstar Syndrome needs to be cured now") with Darren Dods and
Alan Main (!) rounding off the nominees. |
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The "Vinny Arkins £5m In A Few Years" Award for
the Most Improved Saints Player This Season |
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Kevin Cuthbert
(20 Votes)
(Kevin Cuthbert) |
Cat wins out by 3 votes
over Mark Baxter. Picking up Player of the Month awards and plaudits all
over the place the keeper is now the first choice at Saints and surely
should be in line for an U-21 cap soon.
2nd place Mark Baxter made his debut and is one of the few highlights
of the season playing with a maturity beyond his years.
3rd with 7 votes was Grant Murray whilst Hartley, Peaso and Maxwell
made up the numbers. |
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The "Fat Keepers Memorial Rolex" Award for the Best
Ambassador for the Club |
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Jim Weir
(27 Votes)
(Jim Weir) |
Think I'll just give up on
this now - yet again Cap'n Jim wins through although the missus managed
3 votes herself thanks to the BBC documentary earlier in the year.
2nd place was Geoff Brown with remaining nominations going to Stuart
Cosgrove, Super Saint, Kevin Cuthbert and 3 votes for Mr William Stark. |
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The "Marble Staircase Story Revisited (Again)" Award
for the Biggest Embarrassment for Saints |
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(12 Votes)
(Sandy Clark) |
Well - not many fans would
vote their manager as biggest embarassment but by 2 votes Stark beats
Paddy Connolly although it has to be said that the list of nominees
wasn't exactly short (especially the number of players mentiones).
3rd place went to "The team" with Kirkwood, Sandy
Clark, J-Ro, Weir, JR, Mrs Weir making up the rest along with 2 votes
for the chairman (one vote being thanks to his "tantrum over
his opposition to Falkirk being promoted"). |
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The "I Cant Be Bothered Typing Dinos Name Out In the Match
Reports" Award for the Best Nickname of the Season |
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Cat
(11 Votes)
("J. R." Hartley) |
A good range of votes but
the keeper wins through by 4 votes from "Mavis" Reilly
and "Cher" Noble in joint 2nd place.
Others mentioned included -
- "Beaky" Baxter
- "Rocky" Miotto
- "JR" Hartley
- "Puff" Stevenson
- "Peaso" McDonald
- "J-Ro" Robertson
and finally "*unt seems to fit most of them these days"
just to add a hint of cynicism to it all. |
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The "Chirpy Cheeky Chick Charnley Red Card" Award for
the Funniest Moment of the Season |
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Paddy's
miss v St Mirren
(13 Votes)
(OF being told to GTF) |
Oh you're a cruel lot -
wonder if it would have been so funny if we'd lost. Anyway Paddy's
sclaff easily wins out over Falkirk not being promoted and JRs punch on
Eddie Annand.
Other votes went to the St Midden match mascot backing us to win at
Love St, Miotto picking a fight with the Paisley Panda in the same game,
Baxters goal v Airdrie, Parkers celebration on scoring the winning
penalty and strangest of all "Smoking co-commentator on
hospital radio, nearly bringing Brockville's wooden stand to an early
demise!" along with "The Cove fan who got upset when
he found out that he wasn't cool because he wore a baseball cap!!!".
Wicked people all of you. |
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The "Fererro Rocher 'With These Players You Are Spoiling
Us" Award for the Ideal Saints Side |
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Cuthbert,
Baxter, Forsyth, Reilly, Maxwell, Weir, Stevenson, Paddy, Mixu, Hay,
Peaso
(Main, Murray, Forsyth, Weir, McCluskey, Hartley, Panther, Marco,
Tommy, Jones, Parker) |
Interesting mix of votes
with most going for a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 formation. Plenty of votes had
blanks in the midfield with signing expectations to fill these in.
In defence Cuthbert was the choice of everyone (especially votes in
before Nelly signed) with all but 2 people putting Baxter in at right
back. Left-back had a mix of Murray / J-Ro and Forsyth with the central
defence of McCluskey / Weir / Dods / Maxwell permutations.
Midfield had about everyone you could think of being mentioned although
Stevenson was a bit of a surprise.
And finally up front Mixu, Hay and Peaso were the most popular choices
with McLaughlin mentioned and Noble and Parker also in the running -
strangely though hardly anyone wanted Paddy up front.
Finally the token witticisms went to "Any squad without Paddy
and J-Ro" and ".....would play Sunday League football". |
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The "Almost fit to lace Roddy's boots" Medallion for
Best non-Saints Player in the Scottish 1st Division |
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Dennis
Wyness
(12 Votes)
(Peter Lovenkrands) |
Wins out by one vote from
Oweny the Sellik-Daft one with ex-Saintee Alan Kernaghan in third place
with 10 votes.
Other names mentioned included Martin Cameron, Lee Miller, Barry
Robson, Mark Kerr, Roddy (!), Colin Samuel and two keepers in Tony
Bullock and Craig Hinchcliffe. |
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The "Oleg Salenko" Medallion for Worst non-Saints
Player in the Scottish 1st Division |
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James
Grady
(11 Votes)
(Karl "I've got a mortgage to pay on only 5 grand a week"
Ready) |
The wee gobshite we all
love to hate and took great joy in missing a penalty at Ayr wins through
by 2 votes from Allan "Shoot me I'm a donkey"
Ferguson. These pair were well clear of the rest.
Other names were Derek Soutar, Scott Crabbe, Andy Dow, Mark Kerr, Oweny
the Sellik-Daft One, Free Wullie Falconer, Ritchie Hart. Kris "Oops
it slipped" Robertson and "Any Ross County player except
Bullock" |
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AWARD |
|
And the Winner Is... |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
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Favourite Hartley Moment
|
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Goal v St
Mirren (Aug 03)
(12 Votes)
|
The solo effort at the
start of the season wins out over the goal vs Livvy last season and his
free kicks in general. Other mentions went to the red cards this season
and 2 years ago against the Arabs with his "Wage demands in the
sun" and "None - he's a lying wee shite"
making up the more cynical votes. |
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Favourite Marco Moment
|
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The song /
driving ban
(26 Votes) |
Not many memorable moments
for Marco and unfortunately his motoring mayhem in Edinburgh seems to be
what sticks in the mind along with Stewart Duff's favourite song.
2nd place with 10 votes was his lifting of the SPL U-21 trophy that day
in 1999 when everything went right in a packed McD. Memories are made of
this you know. |
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Favourite Lovenkrands Moment
|
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Goal v
Hearts 2001-02
(22 Votes) |
Well at least he's
remembered for something competitive with the cracking brace at
Swinecastle last season the more popular choice.
2nd place with 16 votes went to his debut in a Saints shirt at Roddy's
testimonial - remember when he looked like a good signing?
Other mentions for the goal at Broadwood this season, his chip v Hibs a
couple of years ago and off the park and allegation about something to
do with an ex-soap star. |
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Favourite Main Moment
|
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Save v
Dundee May 1999
(27 Votes) |
Winner by far was that late
save from Grady in the game which saw us qualify for Europe.
2nd place with 16 was the inspired heroics which kept Monaco at bay for
70 minutes whilst 3rd was simply "Too many".
Others mentioned were "Him leaving"(hmm so he wasn't
that popular then?) and "pissing off the paisley fans". |
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The County Sports Home Strip NameCheck for the Cult Hero of
2000-2001 |
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Mark Baxter
(12 Votes)
(Paul Hartley) |
Well for someone we'd never
heard of this time last year the teenager's made a big impact amongst
the fans winning by 3 votes from Darren Dods.
3rd was Paddy (see we love him really) , with Stuart Noble a surprising
4th.
Elsewhere mentions for Murray, Miotto, Weir, Stevenson and Marco with a
solitary vote for "the ball boy at Clyde" and a couple
of Victor Meldrew-isms in "None of them" |
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The East Stand Moaners Selection for Cult Hero of 2001-2002 |
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Mixu
(26 Votes)
(Emmanuel Panther) |
Easy-peasy for the big Finn
(yup remember the dismay when you heard he was linked with us), with
practically all of the later votes naming Mixu as the man to dominate
shirt tops next season (well 4 letters is a cheaper option).
2nd place with 7 votes was the other youngster to debut last season in
Eddie Malone whilst just behind was Beaky Baxter and Brian McLaughlin.
From the cynical / optimistic crowd we had a couple of votes for "None
of them", one for Noble and one for "The next youth
star whoever he is". See optimistic or what? |
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AWARD |
|
And the Winner Is... |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
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The "Danny Griffin Namecheck" Award for Best National
Newspaper Coverage |
|
Sun
(16 Votes)
(Courier) |
Much closer this year with
the Scum just edging out the Retard. Otherwise it was par for the course
with 8 votes for "All shite", 6 for the PA, 4 for the
Scotsman and mentions for Scotland on Sunday, the Evening Tele and the
Courier. |
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The "Jim Griffin Namecheck" Award for Worst National
Newspaper Coverage |
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Daily
Record
(11 Votes)
(Daily Record) |
Yup OF Daily does it again
winning by 2 votes from the Sun. Mentions for about every other paper in
Scotland including some wit who went for "Morning Star".
What do you expect in the 1st Division? |
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The "Sky Comes to McD" Award for Best TV/Radio Saints
Coverage |
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Radio
Scotland
(21 Votes)
(Radio Scotland) |
Looks like the Delahunt
factor kicked in again (either that or our esteemed manager on the telly
on a Sunday afternoon is just too much) with Dickie Gordons Fitba Show
just winning against Scotsports "All the goals, none of the
camerawork" coverage of the 1st Division.
Nominations for Sportscene (eh?), Radio Tay and a token vote for "Hospital
Radio Perth" - not that it was a biased vote of course. |
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The "Cover the OF Instead" Award for Worst TV/Radio
Saints Coverage |
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Sportscene
(22 Votes)
(Scotsport) |
Well Scotsport didn't
triumph again - instead it's the Dougie Donnelly Show (you know the one
that doesn't involve furniture.
2nd place came last years winner Scotsport along with Radio Scotland
whilst Sky were 3rd and Radio Tay way down the list - so either we like
them or just don't listen to them. |
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The "Muirton Park Press Card 92-93" Award for Media
Falsehood of the Year |
|
Manny
Parker
(11 Votes)
(Peter/Tommy Lovenkrands) |
Only about half of you
bothered to vote in this category but Manny Panther's renaming wins out
over the pernnial "Peter Lovenkrands". Of course now it's
Panther of the Partick what's the odds on a re-occurence next season?
And in the tradition of the TOSSAs there was the token vote to a forum
member from the official site with a wit going for DuncM's early
season proclamation of "We will win the league by 20 points". |
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Pundit / Reporter of the Year |
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Dickie
Gordon
(7 Votes)
(Stuart Cosgrove) |
Yup Radio Scotland's
Sheep-fancying anchorman wins out although votes went all over the place
here. 2nd place was another sheep-sh*gger in Willie Miller with Saintee
Charlie Mann in 3rd.
Otherwise it was as usual across the board with mentions for McPee,
Leckie, Traynor, Spiers, Cowan (we know who you are and the doctor will
be in soon), Bannerman, Spence, Sandy Clark (we know who you are
than the vet will be round soon), Chic, Murdo and Dougie Vipond ("best
laugh in years") and Rob McLean ("sympathy vote for
putting up with Clark") |
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The "Gerry" Hall of Fame for Worst Pundit / Reporter |
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Sandy
Clark
(37 Votes)
(Sandy Clark) |
I'm saying nothing but
you're all very bitter people and sound like Scumdee fans these days.
2nd place was shared by McLeod and McPee (sounds like a dodgy firm of
Wegie plumbers) with Spiers, Smith and Chic all in there. |
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The "Almost as Popular as the Pammy Video" Scroll for
the Best WWW Site of the Season |
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Official
Saints Site
(17 Votes)
(BBC) |
The official site reigns
supreme with twice as many votes as the BBC in 2nd place.
Other mentions were for the Saints forum, Football365, the Temple (one
day someone will read the question properly), Blue Heaven, Scotsman and
others. |
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The "I'm not interested in the Tannadice job" Award
for Quote of the Season |
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"We're
not getting the breaks" - B. Stark
(18 Votes)
(Peaso worshipping Rangers) |
Not sure if this should be
the winner given the number of times the mantra was declared by Starkers
last season (see every bloody defeat).
The rest of the list was along similar lines for the most part with
"3rd is good enough", "The goals will come"
etc.
Of the more prosaic proclamations we had the classic from an ex-manager
on the telly - "Clark: No-one's been better than John Hartson
today. McLean: Who's your man of the match, Sandy? Clark: Alan Thompson"
and the surreal "The Americans are not in Baghdad" (as
spoken by next season's post-match PR man at McD). |
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AWARD |
|
And the Winner Is... |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
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The "Aggies Army" List of Season Ticket Holders |
|
Yes - 31
No - 20(Yes: 29 No: 23 |
A few non-votes here (was
the question too complicated) but the distribution between the ones that
put their dosh up in the summer and the ones that don't was the same. |
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The "Sit Us Amongst The Bigots" Roll of Season Ticket
Holder for 2002-03 |
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Yes - 24
No - 23(Yes 23 No 29) |
More interesting with (if
these figures are reflected across the support - aye right) a likely 20%
drop in season ticket sales for the 2003-04 season again. |
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The "Let them eat Pie" Barometer of Club / Fan
Relationships for Last Season |
|
Improved -
5
No Change - 19
Worsened - 28
|
Speaks for itself really.
There's not been any major PR disasters this season but it must be
worrying that the club are not believed to be doing anything to improve
things (see below) |
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The "Worse Ratings than the SPL" PR Marks out of 10
Score |
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4.392(4.48) |
Down slightly but when
you're depressed it looks like nothing is getting better. |
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The "Whitewash The Stand" List of Suggested
Improvements to the Club |
|
Improve PR
(28 Votes )
(Better Relationship with season ticket holders) |
Right with over 150
suggestions this was top reflecting how much the club need to start
selling themselves.
"Reduce Prices" came second with "More
involvement with the community / schools" in 3rd - again PR
related.
From the rest on the field improvements were suggested - "Sack
Stark", "Re-sign Murray", "Fans chip
in to sell J-Ro" and "Shooting practice" were
all mentioned.
And as usual the off-the-field suggestions were slightly more esoteric
- "Exotic dancers at half-time" - a prime example.
Serious suggestions included closing the stands behind the goals for a
better atmosphere (Done), a repeated plea for more benefits for
long-term season ticket holders etc. Student prices garnered only 1 vote
which is surprising given the debate it's had on the forum. Also
mentioned were more support from the club for fans travelling to away
games, request for more "Meet the board" style meetings and a
couple of pleas to scrap the supporters federation and start again. |
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The "Alex Totten Bin Liner" Rating - should the
manager go now? |
|
Yes -25
No - 23 |
Of those who expressed an
opinion......Well it looks like he's got the backing just now but there
were a lot of qualified Yes votes - basically unless BIG
improvements can be seen within a couple of months of the season start
it'll be time for a change |
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The "Sack the Board" Rating - should Geoff leave now? |
|
Yes - 6
No - 46 |
Usual strong backing for
the chairman - even though he wants to sell up we don't want him to go. |
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AWARD |
|
And the Winner Is... |
OTHER NOMINATIONS |
|
The "Roddy or Ronaldo?" List of Players Saints Should
Sign |
|
Top 3 are
::
Chris Templeman
(8 Votes)
John O'Neil
(8 Votes)
Ricky Sodding Gillies
(6 Votes)
(Novo, Gillies, Midfielder). |
A late surge for O'Neil
(mostly after the Hibs decided to release him) saw him draw level with
Brechin's Chris Templeman with 3rd place going for the umpteenth bloody
time to Ricky "I'll never bloody sign for the Perth Saints"
Gillies.
Anyway other names in the field (as opposed to the "creative
midfielder", "left-sided midfielder" etc.
included Ritchie Hart of ICT, Simon Donnelly, Kevin Fotheringham, Stuart
Noble (hmm sounds familiar), Alan Kernaghan (player or manager), Oweny
the Sellik-daft one, Leigh Hinds, Alex Williams of Morton, Lee Bullen,
Jason Dair, Jack Ross, David Bingham, Chris McGroarty and Stewart
Petrie!!!. As usual nobody suggested any of the players we've actually
signed. |
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The "Mystic Aggie" Prediction List for Next Season |
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League ::
1st(29 Votes)
League Cup ::
3rd Round
(25 Votes)
Scottish Cup ::
£rd Round
(31 Votes )
Bell's Cup ::
Win it
(20 Votes )
(1st / Qtr-Final / 3rd Round / Semis) |
And after all that gloom
and despair there are heaps of dedicated Saintees out there that are
looking forward to 2 trophies next season. Leaving aside the CIS and
Scottish Cups (2 folk for each though we'd win them), the 1st Division
has no one predicting a finish less than 5th and 75% of the votes going
to 1st or 2nd. Even the Bell's Cup has three-quarters of voters
expecting a trip to the final at least.
It'll all end in tears you know........ |
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The "Kenny MacDonald" Prediction for Most Promising
Saintee Next Season |
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Mark Baxter
(23 Votes)
(Emmanuel Panther) |
Heaps of votes for Beaky
making him a clear winner and therefore prime candidate for curse of
this category (look at last year if you don't believe me). Interesting
to note that last year nobody had even heard of him - so will next year
see another unknown make the breakthrough.
Plenty of other votes with Mark Ferry in 2nd place, Cuthbert,
Fotheringham, Forsyth, Malone, Gibson and Ryan Stevenson making up the
remaining nominees. |
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The "School or Club" Dilemma of Youth Opportunities
at Saints. |
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Yes - 30
No - 20(Yes 40 No 12) |
More kids please seems to
be the plea although again there were several spoilt ballots /
non-votes. With the reduction in the youth numbers at the club we should
hopefully see some of the younger players make the breakthrough sooner -
although whether or not they'll last the pace remains to be seen. |
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The "Kirkwood View From The Stand" List of Tactical
Changes |
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More
attack-minded
(26 Votes )(Play the players in
their natural positions ) |
Right it's gloves off time
for most of you with no more of this lily-livered pussy-footing around
showing the opposition respect crap. Nope from now on we want goals by
the bucketload and Saints to start slaughtering the rest of this shitty
league.
Easy first choice with almost everything else (at least the stuff that
wasn't along the lines of "Learn to manage", "I'd
teach him to make a noose" level). Three players up front every
week, no more deep defending, ball on the ground, etc.
Of the more precise tactical suggestions two stuck out "Don't
play Paddy" and the even more precise "Dont play right
footed players (called John) on the left". |
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The "Steve H Pessimism" Vote on Saints Future |
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More
Optimistic
(26 Votes )
(16)
Unchanged
(2 Vote )
(7)
Less Optimistic
(24 Vote )
(29) |
After all that it looks
like despite all the cynicism and slagging of the club there are a lot
of Saintees willing to believe that it'll all come right in the end.
Of course you could also say that there's a lot more polarisation of
opinion as well - be interesting to see next summer who'll be able to
turn round and say "told you so"
COME ON YE SAINTS !!! |