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Around the Rod McDonald 90s times, we had a prominent Glasgow property developer on the board who arranged these sorts of things. McGregor at Ross County has been putting most of their squad up in free flat-share accommodation on top of salary for years. Totally makes sense to build up a base of rental options if we are looking further afield for players.

Unfortunately most of the Thistle “‘Pantomime Dames” have been signed up on long term contracts

Every “ Investor “ has had a link to Thistle If the Social Media Manager cant read the room after the defeat by the Accies and have the Manager saying nothing before the Dunfermline Game - he shouldn't be there and we don't need Investors - we need a Board who can balance a budget

Rod stayed in digs in Bishopbriggs. Think the woman there looked after loads of players over the years. Elliott, Muirhead and Penrice all stayed there at 1 point.

People bed wetting over a simple announcement. Utterly bonkers replies on this. Thistle have always used digs. This is no different.

Scotty if you can’t understand the concept of a forum then go and take your dug out for a shite

Thanks for doing this over the years @BowenBoys, it has given extra interest once Thistle have been knocked out, which sadly is usually to soon. It was good to see you and one of your boys at the game last Saturday, tho the least said about the game and the season the better.

It's a forum. Fans discuss what is happening at the club. I don't agree with what everyone says, but realise that they have the right to share their opinion as well.

Name and shame them. TBH surprised Doolan hung about if that happened.

This is a really boring piece of comms from the Club. It doesn’t imply anything at all about the signing policy at all. Sometimes accommodation support is part of the package when clubs in this division sign new players from further afield, be that a significant distance away but still in Scotland, from the rest of the UK, or from abroad. Absent commercial partnerships or preferential arrangements, you end up paying market rate, and competing with the general rental market for short hotel stays/AirBNBs or for short-term lets. This means you can’t offer as much on wages and other clubs have an edge over you in securing your targets. Last year, Morton literally bought a (shell of a) flat, got some of their sponsors and local trades to renovate it at discounted rates and for sponsorship contra deals, and it can now be used to put up players/other club staff in the process of relocating or only temporarily joining them. Other Clubs have directors, owners or sponsors who are also landlords and/or letting agents. This is just an exercise in understanding what options are out there in the Thistle community, to get more predictable access to short-term accommodation at (hopefully) preferential rates.

Do you happen to know what board members it was?

Site closure Here is another view of the table published elsewhere with cup finals dates added in. It seems likely now that the site will close before we get to the end of this competition. The team would to make it to the play-off final for us to get to a result here. That's a little unfortunate. I will open predictions next week with a deadline before closure date. At least then contenders can do their own calculations when the time comes. A bit strange this.

Standings after Men's Semi finals Couldn't be (much) closer. With the Women's semi finals predictions matching, the winner will be decided in the finals. Predictions for the finals will be invited next weekend.

Afternoon Trigger

A good 1-0 victory in what was, as expected, a tight game. Keeps us 3 points clear in 7th and 9 points ahead of Montrose in 10th (the final relagation spot). QP and Dundee Utd are already down.

There's nothing like an announcement from the club to get supporters embellishing the truth, filling in the blanks and making up stories to further their own agenda. This is usually done by a section of the support who don't seem to like anything Partick Thistle do. Then if the club doesn't say anything they're being secretive and not including fans who after all, own the club and should be involved in every decision!

Yes.

As Admin has intimated, this forum will close 7 days after our final fixture this season. The grim reality is not far away. Will we gather here to celebrate another victory? Or point? Or goal? Or @Camallain video?

So people on our board scouted a player from down south and gave him a 3 year deal and the manager didn't have a say on it.

Club has become a laughing stock We get shot of 8 players in January without recruiting any due to being skint and wanting bringing down wage bill and overall spend We appoint a director of football who hasn’t a clue about the Scottish game and Scottish players and pay him in region of £50K plus and accommodation The new director of football then convinces the daft inexperienced arses on the board to see if fans will host players that I imagine he’ll be bringing in outwith Scotland Do we really think this will progress club and be financially viable ? Do we really think players will come to Scotland when they can even play non league in England or in Northern Ireland and be paid more Do we really want a Charlie Sayers situation again , he wasn’t good enough to get a deal down south but we signed him on a 3 year deal because he played for Spurs youth academy Why didn’t any club in England sign Charlie Sayers? That’s a red flag straight way FFS ? Why did we give Charlie Sayers a 3 year deal plus accommodation when he clearly wasn’t rated or in demand ? ( because our wages are shit that’s why) The red flag now before it’s even started is the director of football coming in and persuading the inexperienced daft arse board to advertise for host families mark my words this is going to end in disaster and it’s staring us all in the face right now Director of football trying to get inexperienced daft arse board members excited about players from south of border and elsewhere, yet his first job should be to ensure recruitment is done sensibly and within budget , which means straight away concentrating on Scottish market before anywhere else BUT he can’t because he has no idea what’s going on in Scottish game and what’s available to him Typical new start in the door and trying to impress without realising we don’t have a bloody pot to piss in

I think the club used to have a flat. Somewhere around Anderston/Finneston. I don’t know if they owned it, or borrowed from a director/supporter, but I am guessing that is no longer available.

There are a couple of things about the issue of signing players from outwith Scotland I wonder about. Firstly, we have had players (good and bad) from England before now - where did they stay and why is it such an issue now? For example, back in the 1990s we signed Rod McDonald - did he stay down south and travel up for games, did he rent a place or did the club have properties they put players up in? Secondly, it was not long ago when Ayr picked up good players like Akinyemi & Adeloye from the lower tiers of English football that we were told this is what we should look to do. I think because some of our signings from "down south" have not been great is not a reason to give up on that large market totally. I mean we have signed plenty of players from Scotland who have been rubbish so do we say let's not sign anymore from Scotland. We just need to make better judgements on the players we do sign (easier said than done though).

I just hope we have seats left to sit on nxt season after hosting that pair in final.

Whichever way we are going it's going to be a very interesting and important few months ahead for Thistle. Let's hope we are encouraged by what happens.

Not going to be a huge encouragement for me to get a new season ticket, player sponsorship, lottery etc etc if we are going to just take punts on players from England only because Baraclough has little experience up here. Of course as someone else has pointed out it could be someone from way up north who would need accommodations as well. 2 players who would definitely not require accommodation as they are from maryhill and I hope Baraclough is looking at are Stephen Bradley and Robbie Fraser. Robbie Fraser is a Rangers player and on loan to Livingston and a very good left back. So there maybe hurdles. But given that he and his family are all jags fans would be really cool to get a jags fan in the squad on the 150th anniversary. I don’t think Stephen Bradley is a jags fan but from maryhill so close.