BearsdenLoyal

Yep, 1st Bearsden for me too. Thorn Park (2nd pitch) was our home ground. Norrie Darroch was our trainer/manager late 1960s. We won the league in 1968, I think. Great memories.

Hitler Youth? Surely you mean the Young Glasgow Rangers Supporters' Association? And the bloke in white you were probably talking to was the ghost of Hermann Goring ...

I can just hear the songs from them, safely guarded in the old centre stand, like ... "there's no a team like the ... and "for it's a grand old team play for, and it's a grand old team to see ... "

"You should". One of the most invasive phrases of all, innocuous as it sounds. Well, three pints as in an aperatif, upstairs, and a glass of white has just arrived on the table, downstairs, at Charlie Parker's on Exchange Square ...

That's total bullshit. You're makin' it up as you go along. And the band played believe it if you like. He got one kick of the ball, it was a header and he missed it. He wasn't on the bus when he fell aff.

Do you really believe that's the kinda thing you'd read in a fitba forum?

Yer wastin' yer time wae that lot, pal. They think it's the Glasgow Academy Philosophical Debating Society in disguise. As you know, some people are (rightly) allowed to express themselves in whatever way they choose. Others get shafted. It's unpredictably selective. Almost like bullying, innit? Weird. Advertisers come first. It's not actually a fitba forum, as such. They're smart-arsed control freaks. They've no other power or influence in life and have to exert it on here. No doubt, I'll get a bollocking, or worse, for this. Just imagine if you had to meet them in reality, eh?

Hell mend him. He took the shilling ... so he can humiliate himself in cup games and then go back to being substitute keeper in league games every week. And then when his contract is up, he can look back at the comical reality of it all -- safe in the knowledge he could afford a better lawnmower and the wife could finally get the washing machine she always wanted.

Peculiar how people will humiliate themselves ... just for the sake of a few extra bob -- then go back to playing second fiddle. Fatally flawed. As yet another goal went in, he was probably thinking: "**** it, who cares how big the crowd is. I can afford to buy things I couldn't when I was playing for Thistle."

AC/TH/EP ... somehow, looking at it, the notion that it's nearly an anagram of the word "pathetic" springs to mind. Dunno why.

It's a classic case of "some things change so much, they end up staying the same". Resigning from the board was an attempt to distract attention towards him, and others like Cowan and Hughes, by disgruntled fans. He's still lurking in the shadows with his shares stuffed in his back pocket. Can somebody tell me if he is involved in this PropCo racket? And who else with club connections is on that PropCo board? How much do they stand to profit from redeveloping part of Firhill?

PropCo Phase One planning application CANNOT get the the green light. I've already lodged an objection by email to the planning application with the district council. More could do the same. The hyenas are lurking on the canal bank. The vultures are circling the old main stand. The plan for the old home-end and old main stand needs to be completely reconsidered with proper planning consultants brought in to draw up imaginative proposals to transform that half of the ground for the ENTIRE benefit of the club. Not speculators flashing filthy lucre.

Sure, it's a grand old team to play for ...

2-1 Thistle on Saturday -- based on law of averages more than anything else.

Like Ian McCall ...

Whit? No offence intended, but maybe that's a bit naive? Sounds like the fans still need to be better informed at this particular stage? Whose representing us? I'm as daft. Right now, I just can't fit this particular odd-ball jigsaw together. The team is losing so many games early in the season, directors just happen to be strangely jumping ship and the manager is also under extreme pressure from the fans, including me. It's all too political, behind the scenes, yet it's only a fitba club. Where's the Co-op now, eh? Or is it all just a fait accompli because we, the fans, didn't see it all coming as we were too interested turning up, regardless, on a Saturday afternoon, anyway? Is that why we're always patronisingly subjected by players, manager and club on ptfc.co.uk to stuff like "the fans were great, as usual". Anyone for tennis?

Two of the board have coincidentally "jumped ship" (three more to go?) just as the shit starts hittin the fan, so is there more to come before planning permission for the old home-end does/doesn't get the go-ahead from the council? Make sure you lodge your objection with the council before it's too late. Hyenas are lurking on the canal bank. The vultures are circling over Munn's Vaults. And does that mean those two "ex" directors are taking money out of the club? Or, by suddenly shnukkin out, does it now make it easier for them to flog their shares to whoever they ******'-well like? Can anyone clarify?

Ok, let's say we keep McCall. How do we get rid of a board of directors and what do we replace them with? Administration? This PropCo nonsense has to be stopped, too. How do enough people, including Thistle fans, object to the council about the planning application?

The 70s at Firhill were brilliant for a variety of reasons. Mad football, mad players, great laugh in The Shed, the songs in The Huddle, the dark winter midweek game nights cuttin' through the old tenement close at Queen's Cross for a shortcut to the chippie after the game, dodgy "haufs" in a certain pub not a million miles from the ground (drip tray dregs from the night before, disguised as dark rum?) The 80s were just ok, overall. Can't remember the 90s. Hey Jim, whit time is it now? Like yourself, after 40-odd years supporting Thistle, why am I now worried about the authenticity of this development plan and whether it's going to benefit PTFC first? It has a whiff of death about it. Could it be a certain supermarket chain hyena lurking in the shadows in disguise until we go under? Doom and gloom, glass-half-empty Armageddon merchant that I am ..

So, this is not the second season watching the same players? Harkins is bangin' them in elsewhere, Thistle's bank manager got some of the interest paid back on the overdraft and Tuffey is happy being #2 just because he's in the SPL. ******' marvellous. We're sad ******* peasants. It's high time the club's fat cat directors put their hands in their pockets and proved they actually are real Thistle fans ...

Except for Harkins, Tuffey and Twaddle, that is ...

Exactly. It's McCall who needs to go immediately. Not the fans. We need to stick with the team. If we start walking, it affects the side more and more as each week goes on. They'll turn it around eventually -- if they notice the fans are sticking with them. If we stay away, things will only get worse. But McCall has to do the decent thing and walk now "by mutual consent" instead of hanging in there for a salary until the end of next season. The players will get a new impetus -- because if we drift too far at the bottom of the league with McCall in charge, we might never win enough points in the end to stay up. And if those dodgy development proposals for Firhill are part of a plan by stealth to let the team implode on itself and destroy the club while property speculators go in for the kill, I'll swing for the hyenas behind it. As if property investment and relegation go hand in hand ... Call me paranoid if you like but it doesn't mean I'm wrong ...

Jeez, I never noticed that! Don't tell me the old main stand is staring us in the face empty, too, at home games? ******' hell. Talk aboot blint. I thought that, and the old Enclosure below it, were exclusively for directors' kids and other palsy-walsy types who didnae need security? When I robbed the milkman as a teenager, I could afford to sit up there late 60s, the odd time, and admire/listen to the Choir in The Shed opposite. Anyone remember McKenzie, the leader-aff? Like, hey Jennifer, imagine if the right architects were appointed and transformed the whole place for the entire future of that part of Maryhill? Where's the ****** imagination, eh? Bigot Bros can't exist forever.

I just hope nobody thinks they can make money out of PTFC -- for their own selfish financial gain. Ye can shove yer filthy lucre where the sun don't shine. PTFC is not for sale. Now **** off.