As their club heads straight towards League One St Mirren fans are unlikely to see Peter Lawwell as the fall guy for the demise of their club.
Just four years ago the League Cup was being paraded through Paisley after 17,000 Buddies had got along to Hampden to see their side beat Hearts.
The first trophy of the Armageddon era had gone to St Mirren with others like Ross County, Inverness Caley Thistle and St Johnstone soon to enjoy the benefits of a relatively level playing fields.
While three of those clubs are enjoying life in the top flight, pushing on from their day in the limelight St Mirren are heading towards the third tier of Scottish football and debating the value of remaining full time or not.
Last night on Radio Scotland’s Sportsound programme former chairman Stewart Gilmour presented an audience with the answer beloved of the keyboard warriors who can’t accept responsibility for their own fate.
Pushed by Ibrox fanatic Kenny McIntyre Gilmour claimed that Peter Lawwell was running Scottish football- a view that isn’t shared by Celtic shareholders involved with the Resolution 12 motion.
Blaming Lawwell, blaming the Co-op Bank, the SFA, the SPL, Glasgow City Council and the Vatican is the fall-back position of the deluded who can’t accept that their own part in the events of 2012.
At Ibrox the fans shrugged their shoulders, looked for a sugar daddy and proclaimed ‘Somebody’s going to have to do something’ as liquidation followed administration.
For an example of what to do they could have used administration in the same way as Hearts and Dunfermline fans did and claim control of their club.
St Mirren were presented with a golden opportunity in 2012 and failed miserably.
The SPL club closest to Ibrox were perfectly placed to pick up disillusioned supporters of the new club, especially after their League Cup win.
Gilmour and his fellow directors failed miserably but deflection is an easy outlet.
At the heart of the problem is a mindset that they were only a support act to their cousins along the M8 at Ibrox.
After much debate in 2012 St Mirren reluctantly voted against providing the tribute act with a place in the SPL.
Alongside the announcement the club warned: “Regrettably, the commercial, and hence financial, impact is still not clear to the club.
“We are very hopeful that this aspect will become clearer in the next few days.
“This will play a major part in the decision-making for the board of directors as to the way forward for the club in the short term.
“We are obviously hoping that our commercial and television partners stay with the league through this very difficult period.
“It has been impossible for the clubs to downsize as quickly as we would like due to the contractual obligations of the club. These are considerable and must be maintained to ensure the club does not slip into the fate of others.
“It is possible that major cutbacks may have to be made within the company.
“This may well involve people in the club losing their employment – not a good situation – so please accept that the club will be unlikely to be signing any new players until this situation is clear.
With Gilmour and his mindset gone hopefully St Mirren fans can find directors worthy of their club, taking advantage of a large population and unbroken football heritage as Gilmour snipes from the sidelines as the pin up boy for the BBC and others that believe in the wildest of conspiracies.