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Why the rush? Could this not wait till Monday? 😃

Great to see us come back from goal down, not concede but score again right after scoring and also tactically see game out after being reduced to ten men. Off to pub now to ask for a pint of Imrie’s tears.

This really is the big one. Incorporating the 139th Scottish Cup and the 53rd Women's Scottish Cup from the First Rounds to the Final ties. All 158 matches. Usual rules apply with one important exception. No longer will predictions be determined by results in the previous round. Every player will be able to make a prediction for every game. The draw for the Men's First Round takes place this evening (Sunday). The Women's Preliminary Round games are played next weekend and the draw for their First Round will follow. Here is a timetable of fixtures over the next nine months. How to play Select the winning team in each Scottish Cup tie. Simples. Seeding For scoring purposes, teams are seeded as shown below MEN Premiership Championship League One League Two Highland League / Lowland League EoSFL / WoSFL / SoSFL / Others WOMEN SPFL 1 SPFL 2 Championship League One SWFL / Highlands & Islands League Scoring One point awarded for each correct prediction in the First Rounds. This increases by one point in each subsequent round. Therefore, predicting the winner in the Men's Final is worth 8 points; in the Women's Final, 7 points. If your chosen team beats a team with a higher seeding, additional points will be awarded commensurate with the difference in seeding level. Should the victory be away from home, one further point will be awarded. As an aid, the seeding points available in each tie will be shown in the published fixtures. Logistics The fixtures for each round will be published here shortly after each draw takes place. Post your entries on this thread. "H" for home win, "A" for away win. Please post as a single string of letters (hereafter known as HAHAs). This enables me to copy and paste into spreadsheet with little intervention, thus reducing the chance of errors. Post your entries before the deadline stated alongside each set of fixtures. I'm not too strict about this but it's annoying. Should your entry arrive after any matches have kicked off, however, entries for those games will be void. League table will be published after the completion of each round.

You don't think we're playing a high level of technical football compared to many Thistle teams of the past? Scoring better crafted goals? Scotland may be dropping in level relatively, but I think football generally is of a much higher standard than it used to be, and our game is being raised in that way. Try watching a rerun of Scotsport from the 1980s and you'll see what I mean.

So the league in which we sit is tarnished beyond reasons we can't possibly control. So what. All we can do do is compete in the time and phase we are in.

Meantime to try and avoid this thread being completely hijacked, that was a really significant win today. It was consistentl winning this type of fixture last season that saw us finish top six. It will be by digging out wins like today's that will allow us to repeat that feat. The win demonstrated the girls' ability to dig in and grind out a win against decent opposition as wrll and showing the strength in depth within the squad.

LAWLESS & GRAHAM ON THE ASCENT ● With his 45th competitive goal, Steven Lawless moves up to joint-48th in our elite competitive goals chart, overtaking Jimmy Davidson and George Wyllie. ● With his brace on the day, 58-goal Brian Graham moves up to joint-33rd in our elite competitive goals chart, overtaking Chris Erskine, Jim Melrose & Maurice Johnston in one fell swoop. ● Tomi Adeloye scores his first goal for Thistle. Peachy. ● Harry Milne's 77th minute dismissal leaves Aaron Muirhead as the last-man-standing in terms of 100% competitive game-time in 2023-24. ● Good to see a spread of 7 players on the goals/assists sheet. Four different players (McInroy, McMillan, Robinson & Stanway) register an assist, matching a tally last seen in the 5-0 win at Cove Rangers in April 2023. ● Thistle register their 100th competitive win over Morton, who become the 4th club to have been so defeated, following on from Clyde (126), Airdrie (112) and Killie (103). ● Thistle have registered more competitive wins at Cappielow (45) than any other away ground. ● Thistle have now failed to keep a clean-sheet in their opening 9 competitive games of the season. You need to rewind to 2003 (16) to find a longer opening run in that regard. ongoing sequences: ● 12 competitive home games without defeat; 4th Mar 2023 to date. (Longest run since: 13 games; 19th Jan 2013 to 27th Aug 2013. Club-record: 24 games; 5th May 2001 to 17th Aug 2002.) ● 37 consecutive competitive appearances for Aidan Fitzpatrick, 3rd Dec 2022 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Jack McMillan - 52 games, 9th Jul 2022 to 4th Jun 2023. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

I'm a member of TJF but I don't want to micro manage the club board. They don't need to justify every decision and source of income to me. With 2 TJF members on the club board I trust the decision makers to help run the club correctly.

Standings after Men's First Round joe the driver accelerates away from the starting line.

In terms of what we could have done better yesterday: Distribution from Sneddon was slow and poor... ...though that was not entirely his fault I think. I was crying out for the full backs in particular to spread out and move up the pitch every time, but they didn't (presumably under instruction). That in turn, even it it hadn't provided an out-ball, would have opened up the centre of the pitch for a throw/pass. Also real failures of movement, in the midfield particularly, to show a bit of movement and display their availability for a pass. Because of the above but also more generally, we were so often forced into a lumped long ball, which is the one single thing you should never do to Arbroath. They eat that stuff up for breakfast, every single time. Our press was abysmal, especially compared to Arbroath who snapped at our heels all day. Time and again we had a man on every player but we were 3-5 yards away from him. We really lost the game through poor play without the ball, imo. Look, Arbroath are never going to be littered with players who'll dribble past you when you get touch-tight. They will look for a quick simple pass and then run fast towards your goal. Giving them space to do that is bonkers.

It's another big day for STUART BANNIGAN who becomes the 9th longest-serving Partick Thistle player of all-time. This is such a rare feat and he deserves all the plaudits going. Congratulations Banzo, and lang may yer lum reek!

Queen's Park 6-0 Partick Thistle. Open question to the Board. Why did I have to go to the Queen's Park website to find a report and the score? The OS advertised the match and said details would be posted at half-time and full-time. Where are they? If they are lurking in Facebook of Twitter or whatever, why? Please give us reports with teamlines etc in the OS for us all to see, free and readily accessible.

I've a paid subscription so not sure how many people can view it. Good article though. I saw this Herald Scotland article on the Herald Scotland app and thought you’d be interested. Ian McCall on brutality, broken dreams and second chances in football https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23792170.football-manager-ian-mccall-broken-dreams-second-chances/?ref=psapp For more great content like this subscribe to the Herald Scotland app here: https://www.heraldscotland.com/subscribe/

Still has loads to offer. A good manager and a good guy.

I’ll give you that …. Killer Shark Kwiksave Krispy Haddock Kilmarnock (a pla(i)ce in Ayrshire)

Very solid performance from Sneddon tonight in terrible conditions for a goalie.

Thistle will play their 150th season in 2024-25 & the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest international - Scotland vs. England - is being celebrated this week. We doff our cap to the 25 who earned Scottish caps as a Jag. After all, the Thistle is the flower of Scotland!

That's where you whip on that ever present balaclava 😉

'Interestingly both Aberdeen and Dundee United have stands named after people other than players/managers. I'm sure there are others. I'm comfortable with stands etc. being named after those that have made a significant contribution to a club, on or off the field. Not that it's something I give much thought to. It's a curious debate though to have at our club given how long it is since the Main Stand was renamed. While Colin Weir didn’t work hard to acquire his Euro millions win I don't doubt he was a hardworking man who provided for his family. He got lucky with the lottery win. The measure of an individual IMO is what they do with that wealth rather than how they acquired it. Partick Thistle were far from the only recipients of Colin Weir's generosity. You could argue that there are others that deserve the honour he received at our club as much, or more, than he did but to say he was honoured simply because he had a lottery win is a cheap shot.

It needn't even be cash really. If clubs had a way of tapping your card to a contactless reader to get in, they'd get the automation (and hence cost-cutting) benefits while not inconveniencing most people. I know a further minority would only pay actual cash but it seems like a no-brainer to let people tap their debit card for entry.

This. I think the signs are there of a more settled squad beginning to emerge

My intentions by starting this thread were to gauge folks opinions on both the level to which Davie should be permanently remembered and ideas how we go about that. Judging by the posts it appears everybody feels Davie should be remembered most highly. And there's been a good few suggestions regarding what can be done. Perhaps my timing is due to the dust now settling on fan ownership. Tho' I realise fan ownership doesn't mean the Club is run by fans, I expect communication between fans and Board to be greatly improved. Plus far more openness re matters of a non sensitive/non confidential nature. Who said what and who did what on previous Boards be it Low or Beattie era, is in the past. I'm going on the premise that Davie McParland should be permanently remembered in a more fitting way than present, Doing so I'm wondering whether this is an issue that should be open to the wider fan membership re suggestions and implementation?

Highly recommended: The "Gameday" video on Youtube, for great footage of the pre-match warm-up, alternative views of the action, and Kingsley's celebration of the third goal! And how good was Lawless!!!

Hi all I thought I should contribute here from a position of certain knowledge. 1. There were investment discussions which TJF were part of and central to. Two of us including myself were subject to NDAs in respect of this. IF these discussions had progressed to a successful conclusion, there would have been full transparent disclosure / consultation with members given TJFs involvement in the process and the consortium of investors. 2. Those particular investment discussions did not proceed to an investment. For various reasons but it is entirely wrong to say it was rejected by the club nor anything to do with Ian McCall. Completely wrong. 3. The club needs investment. That remains the case as we have mentioned previously. The process was useful as it showed that fan ownership and private capital / investment could Co-exist with the right investor. 4. I am very happy to privately discuss further @javeajag if there is any specific questions that remain unanswered. Sandy Fyfe

I do have a lot of respect for the anonymous fans who put in big amounts of cash in these times and others.

That isn’t correct. TJF Chair’s AGM remarks, referred explicitly to attempts to bring together an investment group, in which TJF played a co-ordinating and facilitating part. Ultimately however, the parties were unable to agree terms. For very obvious reasons, the granular detail of investment negotiations is commercially sensitive. Those contemplating or being approached for investment signed NDAs as a matter of course, to be able to understand the nature and extent of the Club’s financial problems before any public disclosure of losses and cashflow issues had taken place. Therefore the specific terms of those negotiations, and the reasons they didn’t bear fruit, were not then plastered all over the internet. That would have been profoundly inappropriate. Indeed, the one thing most likely to squander the arrival of new private capital would be for the Club, or anyone else, to give a public running commentary of the terms on which potential investors might invest.

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(Another 3 nailed thanks to Andy Mitchell. Only 3 League matches remain on the list from the last 100 years, amazing. Please do get in touch → if you can help with any of those missing, as identified in our list.) 13-Sep-2023 Season 1938-39 (all half-times for 1938-39 completed - pleasing!) 11-Sep-2023 Season 1962-63 (all half-times for 1962-63 completed - Thistle nearly won the League you know!) 11-Sep-2023 Season 1954-55 (all half-times for 1954-55 completed - pleasing!) 08-Sep-2023 22-Jul-1979 Canada National Students 0 Partick Thistle 2 (Gathering of the Clans Tournament - game 3) (Miller Reid piece added to 'Scrapbook' tab) 08-Sep-2023 09-Apr-1885 Arbroath 6 Partick Thistle 1 (Friendly) (opposition forenames added - thanks to Simon Reynolds) 08-Sep-2023 03-Jan-1896 Arbroath Casuals 1 Partick Thistle 6 (Friendly) (opposition forenames added - thanks to Simon Reynolds) 08-Sep-2023 Charles McQuarrie ('Gallery' tab introduced - gravestone beautifully restored by Rangers Founders Trail) 07-Sep-2023 22-Jul-1979 Canada National Students 0 Partick Thistle 2 (Gathering of the Clans Tournament - game 3) (press snips added to 'Scrapbook' tab; 'Gallery' tab introduced - thanks to Dave MacKinnon) 07-Sep-2023 19-Jul-1979 Scotia Olympics 0 Partick Thistle 6 (Gathering of the Clans Tournament - game 1) ('Scrapbook' tab introduced) 07-Sep-2023 Dave MacKinnon (action shot vs. Rangers added to 'Gallery' tab - thanks to Dave MacKinnon) 07-Sep-2023 09-Feb-1980 Partick Thistle 1 Celtic 1 (SFL Premier Division - game 21) ('Gallery' tab introduced - thanks to Dave MacKinnon) 07-Sep-2023 02-Sep-1961 St Johnstone 4 Partick Thistle 3 (League Cup Section 1 - game 6) (half-time score added; potted report improved; 'Gallery' tab introduced) 06-Sep-2023 Davie McParland ('Scrapbook' tab introduced with an Evening Times profile piece from 1965) 06-Sep-2023 The Firhill Diary (28.04.1959 Eaglesham vs. Bearsden, Scottish Amateur Cup Semi Final added) 04-Sep-2023 Euan East (Linfield added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Jamie Taggart (on loan to Gartcairn Juniors, added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Sallu Turay (on loan to Gartcairn Juniors, added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Ji Stevenson (on loan to Clyde, added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Harrison Nee (Peterborough Sports added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Dominic Morgan-Griffiths (Bedford Town added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated) 04-Sep-2023 Gallagher Lennon (leaves the club; St Mirren added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated; '2023-24 Stats' tab removed; 'Career Stats' tab removed) 04-Sep-2023 Lewis Mackle (leaves the club; Kilmarnock added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry updated; '2023-24 Stats' tab removed; 'Career Stats' tab removed) 04-Sep-2023 Eddie Gallagher (St Mirren and Instant-Dict added to club-list; 'Bio Extra' entry expanded)

Although that was the worst performance since Doolan took over, I’m not overly surprised by how easily we were turned over by an experienced manager who easily picked out our known weak spots. The warning signs have been there since the beginning of the season with a gaping hole in our midfield (look no further than the first half at Somerset), and a malfunctioning defence… only one clean sheet this season and ironically that was Somerset. Doolan urgently needs to find a more effective blend in defence and midfield before other teams suss us out. Something that will need to be further addressed in January as he’s got too many attacking midfielders and a scarcity of defensive ones. If it had been a game of battleships then The Bunnet had our positions before the game started!

As usual your analysis is spot on. I think that the conclusion I am reaching with the help of your analysis is that with the current squad a 3 at the back formation just isn't feasible as it would require too many compromises further forward. The 4-2-3-1 formation has served us well, last seasons play-off games, for example. I just think we have a player in Adeloye and if we don't play him we will lose him. His problem is that the player keeping him out seems to be the heart and soul of the team. I just wonder if Doolan will be brave enough to teplace Graham with Adeloye when his form shades off as it generally does at some point in a season I will keep the 3-5-2 formation up my sleeve for the time being and think about it again when we replace Holt with somebody similar and sign a strong ball winning, holding midfielder. Thank you for your insights they were very helpful. We definitely cannot drop Lawless!

McCall came in with two assistants and the long term plan to "move upstairs". Turns out he had the wrong assistants. Not that it'll happen now, but McCall's ability to spot a player and Doolan's apparent ability to get the best out of them would've been great to see.

I agree. When we won the league in 2012/13 Championship clubs were able to compete with League 1 and league 2 English clubs. Now we can't compete with non-League English clubs. Even Scottish Premiership clubs are struggling to compete with lower league English clubs. When you add that that the influx of European players has dried up since Brexit and now Saudi Arabia taking all the top talent its difficult to see it getting better. Nowadays you see youngsters like Ben Doak and Cameron Cooper being snapped up for decent money before they have got anywhere near the first team. Any Scottish talent will get snapped up by English and in recent years Italian clubs forcing clubs at our level to play players they wouldn't have considered good enough a few seasons ago. We are fortunate at this stage to still have guys like McMillan, Milne, Lawless, Graham and Fitzpatrick. Replacing that sort of natural talent will be even more difficult when they do leave.

Decent coverage of the match from an Ayr supporter here:

If it wasn’t for lawless 2

Aye, and to be fair, you don't see many people who turn into headbangers after their third cup of tea!

Looks like the two gentlemen in the background may have been enjoying rather too many Pilsners and Currywursts over the years.

Worth pointing out three things I think: (1) This consultation is from an independent regulator. Although it’s published on the UK Government website the powers of the Traffic Commissioners are exercised independently of the UK Government. This is over officious do gooder behaviour rather than a party political agenda. I see even Douglas Ross has condemned the plans. (2) The proposed rules around both pubs and stadium parking are likely to have the opposite of the desired effect. If you don’t let supporters’ buses go to the pub, you’re obviously going to get more fans sneaking bevvy on the bus itself, in a less controlled environment to prevent drunkenness at the game. You’re also going to drastically increase Police Scotland’s administrative burden even if they’re minded to grant consents in a common sense way. This is treating a Thistle visit to Dingwall like Millwall going to Elland Road. (3) Fundamentally, it’s revealing that a consultation that claims to be about regulating travel to and from sporting events generally is, in fact, only proposing restrictions on football fans. This is a continuation of a trend where football fans are demonised for (big ticket fixtures aside) posing no more and arguably less of a risk to public order and safety than (say) a crowd at Scotstoun or Murrayfield. The mind still absolutely boggles that the Glasgow Warriors could serve pints of Heineken, at a 10k capacity match at Firhill, that you could drink at your seat, but it’s strictly forbidden anywhere in the ground for a pre-season friendly against Berwick Rangers with 1/10 the people in attendance on a sunny July evening. Football’s promoters are always asking why fans don’t stay in the stadium footprint before and after games unlike other sports? That they can get served a pint round the corner until kick off is about 70% of the reason why.

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Thanks to both Bowen Boys and Auld Jag. My interpretation of the new rules is that they are underdog friendly, ie when one set of extremely underdog underdogs departs the scene, rather than my number of choices being severely restricted, they can be replaced by another set of slightly less underdog underdogs, but nonetheless still underdogs in that specific context in comparison with the overdogs they are challenging, ie the supply of potential underdogs (though progressively less underdog-like) will be self-replenishing. I hope that I have got it, or I might just have confused myself and everybody else totally.🤔

It's an absolute joke - having to create yet another online account with some duff platform (I came across a few bugs on their password checker...) just to get a ticket and then there was no official way to have an "offline" ticket. A lot of people don't have "smartphones" or google wallet - ended up using the browser to print out a cobbled together set of QR Codes. Absolute nonsense given that you could pay by cash last year without any of this faffing about. Get to the ground, get searched, get into ground, get told by steward that seating was for infirm people. Baked in the sun and moved over at half time seeing as there were plenty of seats available. At least the result was good 😀

Not really answering your question in general. But as a specific Morton obviously hold away supporters in total disregard. As you point out you have to check a weather forecast before going. Unless you're Ronnie Corbett sized and don't mind a restricted view the stand is out. So if raining you get soaked and if you sit you have to mind to bring paper towels. Supporters can still get drenched even if they're in that DVT Stand, assuming they take the hike to the toilets and/or are keen to try the local cuisine on offer outside the toilet. Where I was positioned yesterday it was obvious just how many fans missed a Jags goal most likely down to taking that downhill trek. All in all Cappielow is a horrendous ground especially for the elderly and less mobile. To cap it all they charge roughly the same price as other clubs. Yesterday over and above the result, Morton must have been additionally upset to see away fans basking in the sun. Apologies for the slight hijack, QX Boy. Rant over.

I'm not convinced that a great big decomposing hulk of emptiness is a great tribute to anyone.

Our new songs over last few years are immense. Kris Doolan is our leader is one of the best we’ve had in decades

The access up the city end was renamed McParland Way? As much as Alan Rough did not cover himself in glory, I don't think we should start airbrushing him from our history, despite everything, he is still our most capped player, most appearances (I think) and 71 player.

Both were knocked-out of the League Cup at the group stages, so had no fixture last weekend. Both sides presumably preferred a Saturday kick-off in August rather than a Tuesday evening one in October. Mutually beneficial, no one else inconvenienced, simple request really.

Queens Park asked for it and the SFA granted it - obviously handy to have Willie Haughey on board for them

We sat too deep at times in that second half, our third goal came entirely against the run of play. We simply failed to press them for the first third of the second half and a big gap between Graham and the midfield as a result. At one point we even had all 11 players within 20 yards of our goal and we weren’t even defending a corner! As others have pointed out we are short of defensive midfield options despite a plethora of midfielders! Perhaps Doolan can get Dowds out next week and bring another option in. More positives today with plenty of desire in that first half, Mcinroy looks a player for us, Lawless was magnificent, McMillan had a great first half and Milne had a good game. Neilson had a good debut and the central defence looked stronger with him. Couldn’t understand why a clearly tired Graham wasn’t subbed but maybe Dools was relying on his defensive help at corners. Special mention to the ref who was entirety inconsistent in his yellow cards and seemed to go out of his way to give us nothing.

Thought my iPad was on the blink! Not the same without the constant coughing & clearing of the throat!

A scrappy 1-0 win will do me perfectly. Doubly so if it stops this thread becoming like the previous game's thread which from page 3 had nothing at all to do with the game in question.. Whatever happens tomorrow, please refrain from hijacking this thread with historical irrelevancies.