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Wow, what a game! Stay at homes missed a treat, with Stanley more than holding their own against the 6th best team in Scotland. Some great football from the Reds and too many stand out performances to mention, apart from Toto who is going to be a Stanley legend. Tony Warner was the keeper , by the way. Can't understand why it's supposed to be a secret. Beats sitting in front of the tele and watching the Olympics by a mile! Shocking turnout by Accrington's so-called supporters, even allowing for holidays.

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What was the crowd RR???? :)

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I'm very pleased with our team, I'm quite excited for the coming season. Millers goal was a cracker and is already the goal of the season.

The future's bright, the future's red.

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I think they announced the crowd as 797. Didn't reckon much of the Striker Stanley brought on five minutes from the end.

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750-ish given over the tannoy. Majority were St Mirren fans though. They very sportingly applauded our fine goal.

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In reply to the post so called Accrington supporters not attending today I am a season ticket holder very rarely miss a home game and go to a few away games been to 3 pre season away fixtures including yesterday at Padiham. I like putting a bit of money to the smaller clubs and spent quite a bit in the bar yesterday today choose not to go but watched Dan,s live text doe,s that mean I am a part time supporter don,t think so.

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Cheers!!!

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Since when did Stanley become a big enough club not to need the money ?:D

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:) Team sheet from todays game :) Attachment 23170

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I enjoyed the game for a friendly. Toto had Thomo in his pocket all afternoon. Toto goes off and a minute or so later what happens ? :)

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Bet that their No 7 - Dougie Imrie - was well impressed at being named on the team sheet as "Doughie Imrie"

:p

Unless he played like a pudding (which I'm sure he didn't) :D

See that Lewis Guy (ex Oldham and MK Dons) is playing there now

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According to Dan he can only be named until international clearance is given, as hes played in KIWI (New Zealand)land ;) last season...As for the number 20 hes Frence and would think the same applies, who i thought had a good game when he came on in 2nd half,looked strong and had a good tuch.Number 18 looked the part as well,infact the whole team put in a good shift this aft. Boulds well for the coming season:) And what a great bunch of fans the Saints fans are acredit to St Mirren fc :)

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Well impressed today,thought the midfield played really well with good technique and tempo,centre forward did ok as well

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Well an enjoyable day at the Crown, with some great away support from St Mirren.

Thought the draw was probably a fair result.

Only thing annoyed me was their tackling which I thought was massively OTT, their Midfielder with the grey hair should have been red-carded, or forced to be subbed at least seeing as it was a friendly.

Warner made 2 or 3 cracking saves and did his prospect of a deal no harm whatsoever.

Striker or 2 and we look good :)

Enjoy the golf boys !

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He reminded me of McClean, ex Grays, Peterboro and now Hull, I think, who Coley tried to sign a few years back. Sign him up! Pity he had to come off with a pulled muscle even though it was fun seeing Bavs directing things up front.

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There's some bandits on the golf trip !,Saw coley and joe sat with proccy today,what's the odds of him ending up at Rochdale ?

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Sounds like it was a decent game and another good result for the first team:)

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Hi all I'm a st mirren fan that attended today's game and thought I would give u my thoughts. Firstly what. Cracking club and friendly bunch u all were far better than the welcome and hostile atmosphere at Carlisle. As for the game I felt u tried to pass the ball around and play some nice football at times. We started the games with a lot of youngsters and squad players which didn't help but to be fair most of them will be in and around our first team squad at some point during the season.

I believe u play Carlisle in ur first competitive match in a couple of weeks, I think they will probably beat u but only because the were very physical and u lot looked a little bit light weight and will be out muscled. U certainly play better football than them but sadly that doesn't count for much in Britain. As for the grey hair thug in our team his name is Jim Goodwin I absolutely agree his tackling today was a disgrace and I'm only glad he didn't do anyone any serious damage.

Best of luck for the season ahead I will keep an eye out for ur results and as my work takes me to Darwen a lot I will try and attend a mid week match.

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Overall thought it was a good game, St Mirren caused our defence very little trouble all afternoon, The Jock fans a credit to em, andyd i doubt very much if that post was referring to people like you,so put yer dummy back in.:rolleyes: The gate was very poor from accy people in my opinion n the lads deserved better, Cannot comment first hand on Millers goal, was gone fer a slash n missed it.:( Thought our keeper did pretty well over all,theres more to keeping than shot stopping n he showed it. made fer me a couple of over commitments in first half, but it did not detract from overall performance i thought, Totos defending was great, just needs to improve his passing n will go on to much bigger things imho, Well Done Reds.:)

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Probably his level,mid table league 2:rolleyes:

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Played some decent stuff, but dunno if we'll get the ball in oppositions box enough to score lots of goals.

Thought Toto was different class, whole back 4 impressive and Gray up front looks like could be a real find

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You, sir, are honorably excluded from my remarks, which were aimed at the Accy public in general!

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in my opinion friendlies should be aimed at the non regular fan, something attractive and priced to suit. For the regular fan its only real benefit is to satisfy the lack of football for two months.

I personally haven't been a fan of friendlies for many a long year, the lack of ANY atmosphere, the lack of edge to the game, the constant changing of personnel, the unfamiliarity of the line-ups, the guessing game of "who is he, he's awful", the annoyance of "who is he, get him signed, he's ace" -quickly followed by the aforementioned being released, the paying of a tenner or so for the privilege of all the other points.

There are obviously many for whom its a welcome return to a saturday without shopping bags and DIY shops, and the chance to cast their eyes judgementally over the new signing, but I'll never be one.

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I enjoy em, fer reasons yeh stated Rob, Do agree they should be aimed more at non regulars n priced accordingly, was talking to one very occasional fan this morning n he said, enjoyed the game but won't pay a tenner fer another friendly.:eek: Thing is to me,if priced attractively, yeh may just get a few coming fer league games, if they get the taste, summat the club should consider in my view.

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Or give anyone who attends a home friendly a ticket or something similar that could perhaps be used against a future League Two fixture to get a turnstile discount, it is all about incentives you get people through the gate you have half a chance of getting them to come back again and again but you also have to advertise and shout about it.

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Would just like to say how much we enjoyed our trip to Accrington yesterday.

Great pubs (Castle, Oaklea and Crown) and a friendly welcome from the Stanley fans and staff. A marked contrast to the Carlisle game on Friday! A far more edgier affair altogether.

You were a tidy outfit on the field and I will be keeping an eye out for your results from now on. Particularly impressed with the big lad at the back who shackled Thommo and your young goal scorer. Fantastic finish!

Best of luck for the Carlisle cup game. They're pretty strong, particularly on the left wing and they shoot on sight ;) But I've got a feeling you'll do them :)

Anyhoo, thanks again and with a bit of luck the clubs might make it a regular event. :cool:


All the best


Martin and the rest of the 'Blackpool Saints'

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Thank you looking forward to Carlise trip.

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Great weekend, friendly fans, great atmosphere in the pubs, only thing i would have changed is would have liked to have been standing behind the goals as i miss standing at the football
Good luck in the upcoming season

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:) Link to General St. Mirren Discussion - virtual west bank :)

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I think that end was kept closed because the Olympics borrowed quite a few Stanley stewards :)