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There are reports up here that Celtic’s initial offer to Hibs for McGinn was 750k. If true, says everything you need to know about how Celtic operate. Well done Villa for giving them a bloody nose.

I tuned in to watch Sky last night to see McGinn and how he got on. He didn’t play... so I changed channels and watched Celtic getting pumped out of the Champions League, with Celtic apologist commentator Chris Sutton almost having a tear-stained mental breakdown about it live on air.... just wonderful. Thank you Steve Bruce for not playing John, and affording me the opportunity to watch those chunts take it right up the Mike Ashley from AEK Athens.

That’s crazy. Would that mean Nottingham Forest having to completely re-design their crest should they return to the top flight? As much as I have no time for Celtic, their crest proudly displays their star, earned in 1967, in gold above their badge.

As an outsider looking in, I always wonder about the star in the Villa crest being small and in the shield with the lion. I reckon winning the European Cup is so important that the Villa crest would look tremendous with the star in gold, above the shield, and a bit bigger. Just my opinion, it seems somewhat lost the way it is represented.

Stephen McGinn is our captain and an excellent midfielder / leader. He had stints down South with Sheffield Utd and a couple of others, so he has a decent pedigree. Paul McGinn is a full-back, signed from Partick Thistle. More of a no-nonsense, no frills defender type. Still, all those brothers carving our good careers at the fitba’. All turned out for the mighty St Mirren. (Mighty in my mind).

In regard to a couple of earlier posts...If anyone is looking for a Scottish team to follow... ? OK, here’s my Dragons’ Den pitch for following St Mirren. John McGinn is one of our own, and if you keep an eye out for our results, you will also be able to see how his brothers Stephen and Paul are doing, as they are regulars in our first team. We are five miles from Ibrox and ten from Celtic Park, so have a constant battle with huge amounts of fans in our town and county going to watch the two big uglies and ignoring their local team. We are an underdog, but not a hopelessly rubbish one, we punch above our weight, so if you pick us, you should, maybe, hopefully, see some wins. (Terms and conditions apply!) Finally. I own an Aston Villa Nike ‘Acorns’ sponsored jersey, and wear it regularly to the gym. Which was great this week with Celtic fans there slabbering about their penny pinching directors missing out on signing John McGinn. Pitch over. ?

We have two of John’s brothers in our first team... captain and midfielder Stephen McGinn, and full back Paul McGinn. Goodness knows what they slipped into Mrs McGinn’s water!

Hello there. Dropped in to see how John McGinn got on in his debut, and reports would indicate he did pretty well. He’s one of ‘our own’ - came up through St Mirren’s youth ranks, broke into the first team as a kid, stayed there, made over 100 appearances for us, won the League Cup with us in 2013. Then, as is the case with many clubs our size in the post-Bosman era, left for a bigger club (Hibs) for next to nothing. See also other recent cases of St Mirren losing Kenny McLean to Aberdeen, Stevie Mallan to Barnsley, Kyle McAllister to Derby, and Lewis Morgan to Celtic. Fortunately, we seem to have negotiated a decent 33% sell-on in the Hibs deal, so now he’s with Villa, we’ll get some decent money. Decent for us, but he’s a steal at something around the 3 million mark. Just like us when Hibs got him from St Mirren, Hibs were in turn powerless to get any more for him, such is life. Hibs certainly improved McGinn, he has grown older, stronger, played for Scotland. Hibs fully deserve credit for developing an already excellent young player. However, he is one of St Mirren’s own, not a Hibbee! Don’t let them tell you otherwise! Best wishes to Aston Villa on your Championship campaign.

Hello there. Dropped in to see how John McGinn got on in his debut, and reports would indicate he did pretty well. He’s one of ‘our own’ - came up through St Mirren’s youth ranks, broke into the first team as a kid, stayed there, made over 100 appearances for us, won the League Cup with us in 2013. Then, as is the case with many clubs our size in the post-Bosman era, left for a bigger club (Hibs) for next to nothing. See also other recent casesof St Mirren losing Kenny McLean to Aberdeen, Stevie Mallan to Barnsley, Kyle McAllister to Derby, and Lewis Morgan to Celtic. Fortunately, we seem to have negotiated a decent 33% sell-on in the Hibs deal, so now he’s with Villa, we’ll get some decent money. Decent for us, but he’s a steal at something around the 3 million mark. Like us when Hibs got him from us, Hibs were powerless to get any more for him, such is life. Hibs certainly improved McGinn, he has grown older, stronger, played for Scotland. Hibs fully deserve credit for developing an already excellentyoung player. However, he is one of St Mirren’s own, not a Hibbee! Don’t let them tell you otherwise! Best wishes to Aston Villa on your Championship campaign.