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A very merry and healthy Xmas to all my fellow fans and everybody else with a connection to Thistle. I hope you get everything you want and more importantly are healthy and spending it with those you cherish the most and if that is not possible for whatever reason think of all the good memories you have of them. I raise a virtual glass to everyone. 🎅

Still a few hours left of 2025, but i wanted to wish all my fellow forum users, Thistle fans and anybody with a connection to Thistle a very happy and healthy 2026. With Thistle doing well and Scotland back at the world cup finals, 2026 is going to have a lot of talking points and also some ups and downs. You can say many a thing about supporting Thistle and Scotland but it is very rarely predictable or boring. All the best everybody.

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To be honest, I don't really think the build up was the problem really. During the periods we were on top, we were creating chances perfectly well. We scored 3, missed a pen and at least two absolute sitters, and got behind their defence many more times. We built attacks perfectly well. 3 goals obviously should have been enough for a comfortable victory. Unfortunately, the problem was 1) the periods when the midfield disappeared so that we never had the ball for minutes at a time (therefore were not in a position to build) and of course 2) the defending itself. Though if you replace essentially the whole of the defence and keeper then you will tend to struggle defensively. Oh, and 3) Turner (who I've never really rated other than during the play off run to the final).

Lucky there was no fan in the way.

Ok an old manager but I for one don't want to come over all churlish. So can I just congratulate Gary Caldwell who steered his team to scoring a goal against Manchester City today. All the best, Gary 👍

May I echo AJ’s comments and extend my best wishes to all folk Thistleish for the festive season. It has its ups and downs but I wouldn’t swap it for the world. C’mon the Jags

Folk living in overseeing properties missing a business op as could charge for window view and have some add on extra’s like a cold finger buffet and tea tray. VIP package could be radiator switched on for the afternoon and 4 cans of tennents.

CHALLENGE CUP WOES ● Logan Chalmers hits 17 in the goals-assists (9+8) stakes for the season, 1 beyond his 2024-25 tally of 16 (7+9). ● Cale Loughrey becomes the 6th Canadian to play for Thistle and joins our scoring debutants club. ● Thistle take part in a 36th penalty shoot-out and lose for the 21st time. 7 of the last 8 non bonus-point shoot-outs have been lost, 2009 to date. Amazingly, all 6 Challenge Cup shoot-outs have been lost (see graphic below). ● Thistle exit the Challenge Cup against lower league opposition for the fourth season in a row. ● The H2H joint-record of 4 without defeat versus Inverness CT comes to an end.

As a lot of people have said, the real worry is the lack of depth below the settled starting XI. Despite injuries to MacKay, Martin, and Crawford, we have been pretty lucky this season (i.e., our backline, wingers, and forwards have barely changed). Only when you see some of the guys last night do you realise that we would be pretty snookered if we have a string of injuries in key positions. Cammy Logan is pretty hopeless. Someone who totally flattered to deceive with his goals in the cup. He joined through the SPFL Open Trials - and even the Forfar fans were very, very surprised with his move. He clearly isn't a good enough defender. Fudinauckas is a really annoying one. A totally lazy signing by Wilson. He was dropped for David Mitchell at the end of last season because MW and BG didn't trust him - and then somehow was expected to be a promotion winning keeper this season!? The first goal was his fault. Craig Hinchcliffe levels of "sack of tatties" when he went down. The third goes into that "corridor of uncertainty," but was still in the 6-yard box which he needs to command. His performance last night was second only to his display against Celtic at Firhill. O'Reilly and Ashcroft have had a free ride in the fast lane for too long with a lack of competition. Hopefully Cale can challenge O'R at least. He looked okay last night, but there was once or twice under the highball he almost let an ICT player charge past him. Finally, the less said about Turner the better. He should be ashamed of that performance. Not only the penalties, but also the glaring misses. He missed an identical one against Morton. He must have a foot like a 50p piece. Hopefully gives something for Wilson to chew on. He was quite honest with his post-match assessment. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the league is gone. Having waited 55 years for a domestic cup trophy, I am actually quite annoyed that neither MW or AR took that game seriously last night (despite what he said). The prize money is modest - but with the state of our club at the moment, every penny is a prisoner. Shame we have yet again pissed it against the wall.

Four posts in and no one has mentioned the game itself, and I'm not going to buck the trend. I often state that SFA/SPFL don't give a toss about the fans. Nothing changed today but the BBC have to also shoulder the blame. Selecting a match home or away involving Ross Co at this time of the year is both madness and highly insensitive. The Polis up there should be stepping in here if travelling conditions are such as travel should be avoided. Certainly better use of their power than selecting which end to take a penalty shoot out.

Great time spirit! All archived... 03-Jan-2026 Thistle 3 Morton 2 (SPFL Championship - game 21) → A GAME OF TWO HALVES ● Morton are Firhill "first-footers" for the second time in history (reasonably limiting the stretch of the festive period to the first 3 days of the New Year). Thistle also had to come from behind to win, way back on 2nd January 1947! ● Thistle have failed to convert 4 home penalties vs. Morton in just under 4 years. ● As they did back in July 2025 (a 3-2 friendly win vs. ICT), Thistle overturn a 2 goal half-time deficit to win. In competitive action, it's the first such occurrence since April 2006 (a 3-2 league win at Dumbarton). It's the first time at Firhill in any game since August 1980 (a 3-2 Anglo-Scottish Cup win vs. Rangers) and the first time in a Firhill league game since December 1951 (a 5-2 league win vs. Airdrie). ● It's 8 home league games without defeat vs. Greenock Morton, 2022 to date, matching the H2H record set in February 2012. ● In total, it's now 50 home league wins versus Greenock Morton, exactly matching our second highest tallies, the others being Kilmarnock and Motherwell. Our most-conquered club in the category remains Airdrieonians (60 wins). ongoing sequences: ● 6 away League games without a win; 11th Oct 2025 to date. (Longest run since: 7 games; 6th Apr 2024 to 28th Sep 2024. Club-record: 26 games; 20th Mar 1935 to 29th Aug 1936.) ● 12 home League games without defeat; 25th Apr 2025 to date. (Longest run since: 14 games; 16th Mar 2024 to 28th Dec 2024. Joint club-record: 23 games; 27th Aug 1910 to 14th Oct 1911 & 29th Aug 1970 to 6th Nov 1971.) ● 42 consecutive competitive appearances for Aidan Fitzpatrick, 11th Mar 2025 to date. (Longest run since: Robbie Crawford - 51 games, 14th Sep 2024 to 4th Oct 2025. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

Thankfully Wilson is our manager 😃

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/11/exeter-city-gary-caldwell-manchester-city-10-1-fa-cup

Love it!

Couldn't really give a shih tzu about Morton's dead dug. Probably got stuck between the benches in the Wee Dublin End and froze to death.

GirlsResults Had I known how difficult it would be to get reliable information on the women's game, I may have thought twice about incorporating the women's cup into the competition. The SFA should hang their heads in shame for their lack of leadership in driving the women's game forwards. Fortunately, I stumbled upon a site called GirlsResults. Run by Paul Johnston, it provides a comprehensive results service for women's and girls football at all levels in Scotland. A truly mammoth task that he has been performing for 5 years. I discovered yesterday that Paul has decided to stop. In a final blog he vented his many frustrations with the game. The section below caught my eye. Clubs who never respond to any message, especially the really big clubs. The higher up the pyramid, the worse it gets. When I started my site, I was also updating Wikipedia with SWPL players’ details. Some clubs (Partick Thistle springs to mind) were very helpful, while others couldn’t be more unhelpful if they tried. In the end, I gave up doing it. So much for us all being in this together to drive the girls and women’s game forward. Good to see our club being singled out for praise.

Marking the 150th anniversary of Partick Thistle, this new open-ended / work-in-progress article presents new information and lays out the backdrop to the time and the place relating to the birth of the club, bringing out all the key facts, and focusing the lense on some of the earliest names in the Partick Thistle story. 19th century Partick Our Partick predecessors Are we staring our foundation stones in the face? Anyone for cricket? Partick Thistle Football Club, formed December 1875 So, who were our founders? Happy 150th anniversary to each and every one of us, 'mon the Jags! The Birth Of Partick Thistle FC →

Having been at the game, I think that I would be reasonably charitable in my assessment of the players. We made a lightning start with free flowing combinational moves and 2 excellent goals. The only period where I would fault the team would be in the middle to latter part of the first half when for some reason (hopefully not complacency) we took our eye off the ball, making careless passes in the wrong parts of the pitch and conceding possession, which eventually led to the penalty and the first QP goal. After the sending off, the 10 players (and their replacements) put in a tough shift and I think that their efforts were appreciated by the fans inside and outside the stadium. We were fairly comfortable through the second half. You are never going to get absolute perfection when defending for so long, and it is perhaps slightly unfortunate that the one clear cut chance we conceded was expertly finished. What really encouraged me was the last 10 minutes where, far from holding on, our 10 men were dominating possession, forcing corners and looking for a winner. Ben Stanway was immense throughout and has to be the first name on the midfield team sheet. He also has good deadball delivery from corners and free kicks, which perhaps makes Kyle Turner even more expendable. Credit also to Alex Samuel who held the ball up well and gave the defence an outlet. In terms of targets for this season, it may be that at the start of the season even finishing in the top 4 would have been regarded as being a considerable challenge. However, I think that we have to re-assess based on where we are now, and must be looking to finish at least in the top 2. Past experience over 4 seasons tells us that ending up 3rd or 4th and having to battle through the whole play off schedule is likely to be a bridge too far. If we cannot win the league (not conceding yet!), the only realistic possibility of promotion is finishing 2nd and conserving some energy for a 4 game push. Accordingly I will be looking at the gap to 3rd rather than the gap to 5th!

Hospitality vs Rovers was very good imo. The Christmas Fayre was tasty and well compered by Craig. Staff worked tirelessly on a busy day for them.

Very old topic that I'm commenting on after a rummage in the attic. To my surprise my wife had a Super Striker set, all complete and boxed. I only have three sets of players, the outside "tape" around the pitch, two goalkeepers and two footballs, kept in an old shortbread tin. I turned the standard red team into the Jags, still have standard blue and somewhere down the line bought a Birmingham City team, because they had left AND right footers!! ⚽ A new Christmas game / challenge unwrapped.

Be careful! Gotta feeling the way things are these days, the Club would likely just advertise for the post of "Executive Manager of Explaining to Fans what Happens Behind the Scenes" 🙂

That is half more right and half less wrong than I usually am

From the commentary on the official site Samuel is onto a through ball from Chalmers and his powerful shit hits the side netting. Sounds messy

Both played against Forfar so they are fine to play

Positives: Chalmers was good. His goal was brilliant. Samuel fought hard, deserved his goal and occupied their defence. As soon as he went off, ICT were under little pressure and came back into the game. Loughry looked promising and took his goal well. We took a League One side to penalties rather than losing in normal time as we have done on the past 4 occasions in the Challenge Cup. Having run out of positives, there is not a lot to say. Twice, at 1-0 and 3-2, we were well in control of the game, but relaxed and allowed ICT to dominate. Turner's two penalties, his second especially, were bad enough, but he also had a terrible miss in the first half when he skied the ball with the goal at his mercy. Stanway was hugely missed. I would have backed him to score at least twice tonight, and to bury a penalty. Bud was Fox-like in never looking anywhere near saving a penalty.

An excellent 4-0 victory today in what looked like terrible conditions. The performance was very good and hopefully we can take that in to the league games before the split.

Unfortunately, waiting for a fit MacKay is akin to waiting for Godot.

It annoys me to see us beaten by utter shite.

Booked into the Premier Inn with a view to my usual combination of Friday evening football/Saturday morning local parkrun. 3 of the 4 parkruns within reach already cancelled, with Nairn still hanging on in hope. I know how hard local organisers try to put these events on even in adverse weather, so that is probably commentary enough on conditions in the area. The annoying thing is that I opted for continental breakfast, so as to be in reasonable shape for running. If I had known that all local runs might be cancelled, I would have gone for full cooked breakfast!

I’d prefer Paton over Shaw who I always feel has been overhyped, but I’d be surprised if we have money to pay for either of them, especially as we have 2 main strikers

I remember the back-to-back comebacks against Clyde and East Fife back in November '86. We were so bad back then that these were the highlights of the season. We didn't win any of our first 10 league games that season.

Inspired by Saturday's 3 goal comeback vs. Morton, our brand new page is introduced by popular demand, featuring every comeback win in history as well as all the comeback draws from 2 or more behind: Comebacks → The natural companion page to the above, this new addition to our 'Club records' section, features every loss from a winning position, as well as all the games drawn after being 2 or more up in-play. What's the record? Collapses →

We should (as a club) be getting to the stage where TJF members money isn’t needed to balance the budget, but as a bonus to be used on other things. For 25/26 we were promised a balanced budget (no loss) and with a home tie against Celtic on TV not in the budget that has to be delivered. Going forward that balanced budget needs to transition away from needing TJF members money, so a pot can be built up to see real benefit to the club via bigger card items, if it continues just offsetting a loss, I would see membership drop

The Jags Foundation 30m · There’s something special happening at Thistle right now. Yesterday’s comeback wasn’t just a result. It was a statement. This team has heart, belief, and a connection with the fans. Here’s the simple truth: the more of us who stand behind them, the stronger the Club becomes. TJF’s approach to fundraising is different from other fan‑owned clubs. Your pledges go directly into supporting the Football Club and its core budget. We don’t have a big reserve to fall back on, we’re fully committed to helping the team compete right now. Other fan groups can hold more back for academies or community projects. We’ll get there too, but only when Thistle is less dependent on fan fundraising just to keep the lights on. That’s the long‑term goal: a Club run sustainably, where member contributions become a bonus, not a necessity. And when we reach that point, you get even more say in how member funds are used. But to get there, we need more people in the tent. If you felt something yesterday… join us today. More members = more stability More stability = more investment in the team More investment = more moments like that comeback This is Our Club. Our Future. Our Hands. Become a TJF member today https://thejagsfoundation.co.uk/

It always amazes and frustrates me to see players taking their time, passing to and fro across the defence and generally frittering away time when drawing or even a goal down in the closing minutes of the first half or near to the end of a game. IMHO the coaching staff should be making it clear that that carry-on won't be tolerated, and more urgency is to be expected.

Never in doubt ❤️💛🖤 Happy New Year all 🥳

Derek Fleming?

Have a wonderful evening everyone! Best to all of you for a healthy, successful 2026!!! -Len/ChiThistle

We get £50k if we get through If 1200 adults turn up gate receipts are £14,400 Take VAT of = £11,520 Give Caley 30% and we are down to £8,064 to pay appearance money (& hopefully bonuses), power floodlights, USH (possibly), stewarding, staff, etc. Even £10k from TV might not make a decent profit. I honestly can’t see a crowd above 1000 total (kids & adults combined) if weather is bad, so that £8,064 to cover our costs could be closer to £5k, if players get a mere £150 appearance money (Most contracts have a basic wage + appearance + win bonus) then £2,400 is gone on that (plus NI), leaving not a lot to run a football operation for 3 hours

Exactly how i feel as well. It is a bit special for me in that the final will be only national final i ever attended with Robert

To quote John & Yoko: And so happy Christmas for black and for white, for the yellow and red ones let's stop all the fight. A merry merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Let's hope it's a good one without any fear.

What about the rest of us? 😉 Merry Christmas to one and all on WAT🎄🎅❤️💛

Almond One ?

It won't be easy. I have a bad feeling about this...

Not the premier league manager I was expecting to be sacked today

2-1 - cracking free kick from big Jo!