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And it has to be a screen from a previously unknown foreign supplier sourced through Baraclough's unique contacts book, not a Scottish one that everyone knows about anyway.

Thanks to all who came along to the launch last night. A completely packed room. What an unforgettable memory, for me at least. 0fb5175a-1da7-4fee-9bc4-b7f96612c649.mp4

You've made your opinion several times. Let's see how it pans out. Very few fans grumbling at moment.

Another fine win last night for the Under 19’s

Pt. 14 (the 2010s) of our internationalists story is out tomorrow. Meantime, the Academy is writing new chapters, the Fisher bros. going viral!

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McFarlane has done nothing wrong never mind anything that would warrant being dropped. 1 goal conceded in 5 championship games. Seems to me the defence, even with a few changes is solid. It ain't broke

I'm actually a nice fella. 😁😁😁 Thistle frustrate the life out of me at times, that's all. My rose tinted spectacles got launched out the car on the drive back from Dundee in May 1996. The penny dropped that we will forever be pish. I've been miserable ever since.

Hearts and Motherwell seem to be making very good use of analytics in recruitment of managers and players. My original understanding of Analytics was that it identifying playing statistics so you could get relatively unknown players in but improve performances and results. However I think it also gathers information on player contracts, market valuations and family history to understand the likely total costs of a player. I suspect the analytics they use aren't cheap enough or cover the markets we recruit in to be viable for a Scottish Championship club and we have decided to go with a Sporting Director as affordable interim step. So for Barraclough to be doing his job well he either need to have the information on relatively unknown players and/or have information on player contracts and costs that provide better value from known players. Someone like Dempsey was clearly a player Ayr wanted to keep and rumour was he wanted to go back south. So perhaps Barraclough's knowledge and influence brought him to us without a fee and at a lower cost that our management team would have had the time or knowledge to do? Drozd wasn't someone on most Thistle fans radar but he does look to be a good player, got decent experience at this level, secured without a transfer fee and probably not on huge money. Henderson also could fit the mould of relatively young, good experience at this level and again probably not on anything like the money of Turner, MacKay etc So maybe the value in Barraclough isn't just in finding and unknown from the 7th tier of English football, maybe its in securing the best known talent at a cost we can afford? To understand that probably means seeing the accounts 12 next year

For those not there…. last years accounts , still being audited, showed a small surplus but this turned into small deficit after depreciation and spending £60k on the JHS roof. It was described as more or less breakeven outcome. we have a £175k cash buffer and the objective is to maintain that over the next financial year.

Tiff is not the player he was when he left us. There is a reason why he can’t get into a poor Killy side and was punted by Dundee. We tend to have rose tinted glasses when looking at former players and see the player they were rather than the player they are.

Man of the Match today was a battle between Paddy Reading and the New Scoreboard. In answer to criticism above, I thought that the new scoreboard was great. Among other things it made me much more aware of the various sponsors than I would otherwise have been. Surely it will pay for itself very quickly if the extra exposure encourages increased sponsorship.

Exactly. Less punts, less signing failures, i.e. the right thing to do when "every penny is a prisoner". I don't think you can pass judgement on the quality of individual players, where they came from etc. It's about the quality and cohesiveness of the squad overall, less passengers. It's about steady improvement in the quality of the squad year on year, not lurching around because a raft of players have all left, and the manager has been dealing with player recruitment off the side of his desk. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I find the criticism of the Sporting Director appointment strange, when we appear to be steadily heading in the right direction.

I'm sure Wilson isn't complaining but at our level where every penny is a prisoner then the role is an indulgance. We're not trawling multiple markets in Europe, we're shopping in an under stocked Scottish market . If we start unearthing gems that Wilson/Rae couldn't have sourced themselves I'll maybe change my opinion. Baraclough at the minute is a glorified overpaid Admin Assistant until he proves otherwise.

Do you honestly believe that Barraclough has scouted any of the players signed , the majority of signings Dempsey , Henderson etc played against us in our League and were familiar to MW I’m not sure having a Sporting Director at our level is a good idea . What we did before was take punts on players through agents , some worked and some didn’t , so employing a Sporting Director to actually scout , identify and evaluate players seemed a good idea . Before players contracts etc were dealt with by the Chief Executive ( Gerry Britton , Ian Maxwell etc ), nothing to with the manager I fail to see what our Sporting Director has brought to the table that hasn’t been done before.

And the more I'm convinced that if Mark Wilson was spending his time scouting players, dealing with agents & negotiating contracts, then the product on the pitch would be severely diminished. And I don't get the George Constanza analogy, & I've watched every episode of Seinfeld

Return to winning ways after Livi loss with a 2-1 win for the u19’s at Montrose last night.

Alas, our site is down today. A copule of bits n bobs for those missing their Monday morning TTA fix... TTA report: When you have 76% possession, 19 corners, 20 shots (7 on target, but invariably straight at the keeper) and your keeper has no saves to make against a pointless team with 10 men behind the ball, making time wasting an art form, it's not your day. Thistle's finishing could have been more clinical but inevitably they just ran out of ideas. Stats Watch: For just the second time in history, Jags have opened the league season with the concession of just 1 goal in the opening 4 games, matching the similarly mean tally of 2012-13. For the first time in history, Thistle go 10 home games unbeaten vs. Queen's Park in all competitions. Thistle go 18 league games unbeaten, and now take over from Inverness CT as the club with the longest such run in the SPFL. Thistle are now just 2 off matching the all-time best run of 23 home league games unbeaten, a club-record which has stood for 115 years. (ongoing sequences): 9 away League games without defeat; 30th Jan 2026 to date. Longest run since: 9 games; 15th Oct 2021 to 1st Mar 2022. Club-record: 13 games; 5th Dec 1970 to 11th Sep 1971. 14 competitive home games without defeat; 17th Jan 2026 to date. Longest run since: 14 games; 20th Oct 2007 to 1st Apr 2008. Club-record: 24 games; 5th May 2001 to 17th Aug 2002. 18 League games without defeat, 24th Jan 2026 to date. Longest run since: 21 games; 19th Jan 2013 to 16th Aug 2013. Club-record: 27 games; 21st Nov 1970 to 18th Sep 1971. 21 home League games without defeat; 25th Apr 2025 to date. Longest run since: 21 games; 5th May 2001 to 17th Aug 2002. Joint club-record: 23 games; 27th Aug 1910 to 14th Oct 1911 & 29th Aug 1970 to 6th Nov 1971. 29 consecutive competitive appearances for Robbie Crawford, 24th Jan 2026 to date. Longest run since: Paddy Reading - 33 games, 4th Oct 2025 to 18th Apr 2026. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.

Most rational fans i would argue would say the squad that has been built is stronger than it has been ( let's say going back 5 seasons ). We will know after the first round of games whether that is true or not. If we had won that game on Saturday I don't imagine any fan would criticise the recruitment.....the term knee jerk absolutely applies.

Do people realize we are a Scottish 2nd tier club? It's very difficult to get past 10 players in a low block. I feel in these games people have been watching Sky or TNT Sports and thinking English Premiership & Champions League is the standard for everything.

This is your fault Thornwoodjag. 😡

Thought it was a nice touch to have Charlie Fox doing the draw. And rather poignant given he stood only a few yards away from where he sustained his injury.

Usual revisionist nonsense being spouted. It's almost as we haven't lost a home game for 500 days and counting. Not perfect but this is a good thistle team.

We didn't miss Brian Graham last season, that's a plain fallacy. MW and AR changed our system and we were a better team for it. Regarding today, it was plain that trying the same old, same old which hadn't worked for six corners wasn't going to work, so why continue with a strategy that wasn't bringing benefits? Two things - we could have driven more low balls across the six yard box instead of launching hopeful high balls. And criminally, we didn't try any shots from the edge of the box, when there were plenty of opportunities to do so. That said, spinning the analysis on its head, QP's defence was excellent, that cannot be denied.

We need a striker. Simple.

Special Agent Penrice does his duty

Sad to hear a fan passed during game last Sunday. Two fans this week who went to a match and never returned home. Thoughts with all their loved ones.

Too often in recent seasons we've not exactly done ourselves proud against top league opposition. We've sat back and kinda not displayed much confidence in our play. That wasn't the case with our three recent games v St Mirren when we competed admirably. All I ask is more of that, please. We'll no doubt start with a good game plan plus we've got the subs to vary and freshen things up.

Thank you. That's some feat

Back to floodlights, I've long wondered whether the vast surface of the JH stand roof (and maybe even the main stand roof) would be suitable for solar panels. I've seen tennis courts that get lit that way, albeit it admittedly in a sunnier country!

Unless I’m mistaken, we don’t know how the screen was funded? So why get worked up over something that we don’t know the answer to? I very much doubt the board decided to prioritise a screen over a striker! And if they did, I hope Barraclough ensured it was the best screen available to us or he isn’t doing his job properly

I've been saying this for a while and that we have missed Graham. While finding someone who can as a natural attribute score goals against packed defences it is not the full solution. Perhaps more importantly we need a midfield that can not not only dominate the opposition but include players who possess the footballing brain and guile to create chances by unlocking packed defences. Going bu Wilson's comments related to the QP game we made numerous chances but didn't take them which presumably a natural striker would do. It will be interesting to see his comments about yesterday's game with Ayr. I dont recall to many occasion in the 60+ years of supporting the Jags when teams played league games against us and parked the bus. An interesting and challenging difference from last season.

Thought McBeth was fairly fortunate to stay on the pitch. Nothing malicious but he racked up the fouls after his yellow and thought he’d have ended up with another yellow. I liked him at the Jags and was sorry to see him go but today showed again he’s not a midfielder.

I do wonder if we had not lost the late goal against ICT and then Samuel scores in the 3rd minute against QP and we get the victory if we are even mentioning Ian Baraclough at the moment? Personally I think it is a good thing having a Sporting Director but it actually does not matter what I think, it comes down to what works best for the head coach in terms of the first team (remembering that the sporting director also has the youth & womens team in his remit).

For Thistle, there was no respite from the volatility of the 1990s as the first decade of the new millennium unfolded. Following the financial devastation and near-liquidation of the late 1990s, legendary manager John Lambie spearheaded a remarkable sporting resurrection, winning back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002 to reclaim a place in the Scottish Premier League. To comply with strict SPL criteria at the time, which mandated a minimum 10,000 all-seated capacity, Partick Thistle was forced to replace the north terracing at Firhill with a new 2,000-seat stand. Club executives later reflected that this massive capital expenditure severely hindered their financial flexibility and on-pitch competitiveness during the decade, and back-to-back relegations in 2004 and 2005 placed Thistle in the third tier once again, albeit the situation was partly rescued with an immediate bounce-back via the play-offs in 2006. 20 Jagsmen representing 11 countries won 271 caps in the 2000s, the club-record tally in terms of caps won, albeit the likes of Jackie McNamara, Prince Buaben & Kenny Miller do not meet our "internationalists club" criteria until joining Thistle in the following decade. Adrian Madaschi (Australia), Jákup Mikkelsen (Faroe Islands), Jonny Tuffey (Northern Ireland), Quinton Jacobs (Namibia) and Stephen Craigan (Northern Ireland) won 14 caps between them in the 2000s whilst Partick Thistle players, keeping a long-standing tradition alive... The Definitive Who's Who Of The Partick Thistle Internationalists, part 13: 2000s →

They absolutely could be done without a Sporting Director, but then the Head Coach is distracted from other aspects of his role - training, coaching, tactics etc. When I've heard the management team talk about this, it very much sounds that recruitment is managed collectively with Wilson having final say.

We won't win the League unless the players and the Club take risks. They are currently risk averse.

The most one sided draw i think ive ever seen. queens were just as bad as brechin, so very frustrating we couldnt get the goal. will play worse and win, had we scored early in 1st half that wda been 4/5-0

I think @Dick Dastardly has a better chance with Euromillions than that happening.

I think we’ve discovered it’s Simon Donnelly. Mystery solved, hopefully.

Got my copy last night. A belated birthday present from my son. This year, at least, he had a good excuse. It's a fabulous book. I cherry picked last night and couldn't put it down. So many great personal stories that rise from the pages, bringing life to the sea of faces in the stands. Great contributions from many players and managers. From those submissions, there is one notable omission and that, perhaps, tells its own story. Lovely photos too (my favourite is on the back cover) and superb detail (see: red and yellow bookmarks). Congratulations Kenny (and Halcyon Publishing), a great piece of work.

Poor second half, posed not real attacking threat , not sure what we thought we were doing.

Our copy arrived today. Many thanks to @KennyP for including the tribute to Robert complete with photo of the memorial plaque in the Lambie stand. Eunice and Robert Watson.

From the few games that I have seen him play in, when he shoots it is on target in the vast majority of the time.

Good interview with Craig and Sandy.

I am pleasantly surprised that the SFA have went for none of the usual suspects or names thrown about by media colleagues. However given the usual level of competence at the SFA I do wonder if they wanted Postecoglou and just made a few spelling mistakes

Maybe you're right, and the Hibs keeper had a good game, which indicates that we were having a real go at them. But I must admit that on seeing the team line-up I asked myself who was likely to score in that team..... nobody stood out (certainly nobody like Doolan or Graham in recent years.) BTW, BBG seems in fine form just now for RC.

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I know the WC was disappointing but Steve Clarke gave me some amazing games at Hampden which I will genuinely treasure with peak being Denmark which was genuinely one of the best experiences of my life. Players loved him. 3 tournaments. Promoted to top Nations League. Full houses at Hampden.