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Very enjoyable day out in a relaxed location. Great for those with young children, as you could wander about anywhere and the grassy bank on the far side from the stand was nicely angled to provide an excellent view. First half we were very sound defensively with Bud in goal and Ashcroft and O'Reilly at centre back mopping up everything. Reading looks a good acquisition at left back. You could see that he was an experienced player who knew what to do. Trialist right back (Cammy Logan?) also impressed and took his goal very well with a shot into the roof of the net when anything lower might have been saved or blocked. Lawless looked up for it. McKay eased himself back in to playing football with some nice touches. He was not particularly penetrating but did combine neatly with Falconer to set him up for the first goal. Main disappointments in the first half were Diack, who kept falling over and never got into the game, and Mackenzie. I was willing Zander to do well in centre midfield, but he kept losing possession. Second half was a different game entirely with mainly a different team. The young goalkeeper Cameron has a bit to do yet to become a confidence inspiring back up for Bud, and sadly was at fault for the Glenafton goal, allowing himself to be dispossessed by their striker, who trundled the ball into the net. McBeth tried to co-ordinate the defence, but there were some shaky moments with his young colleagues. Further up the park we were much sharper in midfield and attack, Stanway was very prominent in winning possession and driving the team forward, and seemed to be embracing a leadership role. Fitzpatrick had one electrifying burst where he ate up ground on a defender, but was a bit quiet apart from that. Chalmers was excellent and the go to player through whom most effective attacks were directed. To me the main and perhaps surprising encouragement was young Thomas Horn at centre forward. Unlike Diack, he gave the defence no peace and was up and at them the whole time. Took his goal brilliantly, powering past the goalkeeper and firing home confidently from a challenging angle. Unlucky not to score more. It would be great to see him really kick on this season. Not the most robust of games, just an understandably gentle easing in, but several encouraging signs to keep us all optimistic!

https://queensparkfc.co.uk/mr-robert-reid/

Sad, sad news indeed. A class act of a man: intelligent, educated, polite, funny, sympathetic, helpful, and a greater, non-millionaire supporter of PTFC there can never have been. Thanks for the French and Latin classes, Mr Reid, and for the great chats we had in and around Firhill, and for your hilarious and entertaining Hospitality tours, which were always the highlight for those lucky enough to have attended. I doubt if he realized just how much he was treasured by so many people. RIP Condolences to all Robert's family and friends.

I think Logan has deserved his offer. Here's hoping everything works out.

And the little suspense that there was is gone 😂

Agree with @lady-isobel-barnett that we can be quite fixated on formations such as 4-2-3-1, 3-5-2 etc when in reality they are only really starting positions. From what what I have seen in the 2 friendlies so far Wilson is changing the nature of how the fullbacks play. We have for the last few seasons been used to seeing overlapping fullbacks when we have possession so that it creates overloads in wide area's. To my mind it was noticeable against Glenafton and against ICT that Wilson is looking for the fullbacks to either underlap or be more central and almost become the midfield allowing the likes of Stanway and Crawford to make runs into the box and get beyond the strikers. In theory pulls a wide defender into central area's and leaves our wingers with more space and a 1v1 against the opposition fullback which in turn makes us less predictable in attack and less reliant on a striker for goals. Second half of the ICT game showed this particularly when Lowe and Logan were our fullbacks. Logan is very good at making underlapping runs, Lowe is pretty good on the ball and able to pick a pass and put in a decent cross. Harkness tried to play as an overlapping fullback putting more pressure on our weak midfield and whilst Reading was trying to underlap Fitzpatrick he's not as good as Low on the ball and got caught in possession a couple of times. So if we are looking at formations against ICT we looked more like a 2-3-2-3 when we had the ball with occasional periods where either Logan, Stanway or Crawford would go further forward and we end up with almost 5 up front but people finding space in the defensive channels rather than just out wide and overloading the fullback. Downside is that if an opposition can break quickly they will find space in wide areas which will in turn mean our centre backs getting pulled wide. So might not be the worst thing to have a centre back play as CDM who can drop in central in that scenario and immediately have 3 at the back. Where I think the issues are is that I'm not convinced Reading can play in that system as he looks more like a wingback who can carry the ball but struggles with delivery and on defensive duties. Low looks better in possession but still not got the physicality required for the defensive work. Whilst we become less reliant on a striker to score goals we need a striker with better movement to create spaces for the advanced midfielders to exploit. For our wingers to exploit the 1v1's requires them to have a few tricks which I think only Chalmers and Lawless truly have as Fitzpatrick and MacKay are more about pace. Conversely we need the wingers to have pace to cover back quickly and Lawless doesn't have that. I would also add that we will be asking O'Reilly and Ashcroft to do a lot more quick changes of direction so we might well find they start to pick up more injuries than last season. I like Dolan and I think he can cope with first team football but we might still need another centre half for cover

£24 for match entry for two, 2 pies, a poke of chips and 2 bottles of water. Bargain! And a decent game in lovely sunshine. Lee Ashcroft employing the John Lambie school of motivation . 😁

Someone on P&B says RB is Jack Harkness. Rangers lad. Not the Torchwood guy.

I thought i read payments received from Academy player transactions went towards the Academy? Not sure if this is still the case? I'd hope a part would anyway to move that facit of the club towards sustainability or even a positive on the balance street.

Comes across as a decent lad in interview who is raring to go. All the best Cammy.

Fabrizio Romano reporting that AEK Athens have signed Penners from Hearts👍 Gaun yersel wee man, he was outstanding in every game I watched last season.

As long as Wilson doesn't refer to them as a pool of players. Be a bit insensitive, methinks.

You make a good point but...... Six foot nothing, Eyes of blue Quite Big Lee Ashcroft is after you. .... just doesn't scan 🙂

i think the best 3 players at the club are all centre backs, if we do go back 4, then i think macbeth will be sacrificial lamb into midfield. Which i dont agree with, for me, since he signed hes been best player at the club (thats still here)

I think he could be the answer tho. Strong, can break the lives Vlad the Impaling Jag?

For those with children and/or grandchildren: https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/junior-jags-packages-now-on-general-sale/

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/robert-reid/ So sad news. Lovely man, excellent company. Can't express in words strong enough my sadness at his passing.

That is such good reading

So many genuine and lovely tributes on here, it’s difficult to add much other than to reiterate Robert was - in my very humble opinion- a real gentleman, a Partick Thistle legend (in the truest sense of the word) and a kind, giving thoughtful ambassador for our club. I echo the condolences to his family - please know that Robert will live long in mine and many others’ memories. I wish he’d been my French teacher!

Agree with everything already said. Condolences to family and friends. I know he is in the HOF, but it would be good if after consulting with the family the club had a tribute of Mr Reid at Firhill. RIP Robert Reid, gone but will never be forgotten.

A gentleman and a gentle man. As so many have said, the start of the game often rudely interrupted his hilarious hospitality anecdotes. Many of which I shamelessly reproduced in the pages of the Telegraph. My thoughts with his adoring family...

So sad to hear and thoughts with all his family and friends. A true Jags legend and gent and his stories back in the days of boardroom banter at hospitality were a joy to listen to. RIP Robert ❤️💛🖤

Thanks to those who have provided updates. Good to get through the game without any knocks by the sound of it and on to a stronger test against ICT on Tuesday night. I won't be there but has it been explained why the game is at Petershill - I assume it is to protect the playing surface at Firhill but would be nice if the club actually communicated the reason for this.

Thanks for that. (Why didn't I even think to take a look there!)

The live stream has been a godsend for us nomads so hope it keeps going. Ive also had a season ticket for most of last 20 seasons since moving to Norway, but only made 4 home games last season, in 2 minds about purchasing this season with the new TV deal meaning more Friday night games as depending on flight availability and how up front the change to fixtures are I wouldn’t want to book up an expensive trip to Glasgow and find out I’d miss kick off as I’m still driving from my flight from Aberdeen

That's the whole point of TJF and something the detractors should consider.

As FT has said, the PTWFC pledge is a minimum of £5k per season. Last year we honoured this through five £1,000 payments staggered across the season. We've made the first of these for 2025-26 already and the plan would presumably be to do the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in September, November, January and March (or thereabouts). The cumulative figures to date in terms of financial support across pledges, donations and sponsorship are: £397k to the Football Club (£170k in season 2024-25) £38k to the Youth Academy (£24k in season 2024-25) £11k to PTWFC (£7k in season 2024-25). £446k in total in just over 3 years (and significant financial support to the Club only really started properly in early 2023). The figures £170k and £7k above are higher than the respective year-long pledge totals (£150k and £5k) because of supplementary fundraising (mainly last year around the hospitality takeovers and Foundation shirt-related raffles/auctions). Additionally, the Foundation has about £55k of cash reserves and has made (cumulatively) about £7k of support to various community causes, including (indeed mainly) those spearheaded by or partnered with Jags For Good and/or the PT Charitable Trust.