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Wow. I don't remember seeing that one before. What colours were they, and when did they play in that?

That's a bit like the old Centenary scarf that I had, same kind of material anyway, but it was red and yellow stripes, with a big crest in the middle. It came out around 1976 or 77. Does nobody remember it? I saw a cashmere scarf on the Toffs site that looked ok, and I might go for. Alternatively, there is a site that does the scarf in the Thistle tartan but it's about £85. http://www.scotweb.co.uk/buy/luxury-wool-tartan-scarf/material/59859 I enquired last year when I ruined the one I had, and was told, by that tartan shop in Sauchiehall Street, that they would have to run off at least 8 or maybe 10 to make it worth their while. That would work out at a better price if we got a few interested. It was too much for me to think of doing alone. I could ask about that again. If, say, some of us split the costs and got a few run off I'd happily donate my share of any profits to the club. Perhaps to make a point if nothing else. Anybody interested in joining me? Could we start up an alternative Trust with that foundation? hehehe. Only joshing on that one. That apart, I think that Thistle and Greaves are missing a trick here. I still have my tartan scarf, but it's far too short now. My daughter sometimes wears it. I was in Greaves a while back and mentioned that. By ra way, Jaggernaut is getting my old scarf. Here's a pic: http://partickthistleahistory.wetpaint.com/page/Other+Pen-Pics Hope you don't mind me putting that up there.....

Cathkin would suit them.

Brilliant, but true, come to think of it! Am I wrong, or was Craig Brown not working without a contract? In which case, I don't blame him at all.

If that ever happened it would not really be Thistle for me at all. We are bound up in Firhill, or at least that part of Glasgow. If we went to somewhere like Scotstoun it would be bad but maybe there would be hope, not much, but some. Out of town? Forget it. Of course if it ever happened then I'd reserve the right to keep an open mind, but the biggest part of me would know the truth.

Jings. Is that Andy Walker?

Alex Rae, Ronnie Glavin, Andy Roxburgh, but who are the other two? I could probably get the guy in the blue, if I worked at it, I may have that pic somewhere, but who is that beside (I assume) Dixie Deans? He's vaguely familiar... http://www.toffs.com/icat/partickthistle/

I have an old one somewhere, it's a bit short, and is pointed at both ends. I was given it back in the early 80s as a friend had another one. I never wear it, so would I give it away? I'm not interested in money. Maybe it's not what you're looking for anyway. I wish I knew where my old Centenery scarf was. You'd think these things would turn up on ebay occasionally. I bought one of these new liquorce scarves a while back and it's alright, but I had a disaster before. I put my Thistle tartan scarf in the wash by mistake and it ruined it. I tried to get another but they don't do them now. They did offer to do another run but I'd need to order quite a few. Anybody else interested?

I remember the moment where Eddie Gallagher was chasing down a through ball with only Bonner (?) to beat. Just too hard....awww. Billy Dodds in a Jags jersey....I remember him scoring all 4 against East Fife, was that Boxing Day? Anyway, I was once beside him in a Dundee pub and mentioned it. He said "that was a long time ago" and didn't seem proud or pleased to be reminded. Since then I've always thought he was a wee turd, but I had for a while anyway. Never liked that jersey either, but comparatively happy innocent days.

Aw shoot, Dundee fans... We're doomed....

I've never searched for Celtic either, though I found this on Youtube almost by accident once. This one has some bizarre moments, Danny Kellachan, a sad but typical ending, but it's a vivid memory for me. I watched it from the Jungle, Jags scarf and all. It's a strange bit of film, unedited, but keep going through the auto screen blue screen bits and the action does return, sometimes you'll see what you saw already but it does eventually show all the goals, I think....

Typical Evening Times behaviour then, albeit they're about the only rag that gives Thistle a regular mention, even though that's dwarfed by acres of Old Firm keech.

Yes, turned into a good thread. I do remember some great matches, like the time we beat Rangers 3-2 midweek, or was it 4-3? I think Alan Hansen scored 2, one of them a cracker from outside the box, or are my memories wrong about that like they were of the Joe Craig goal v Killie? I remember the goal clearly so must have been at both games. At one point as I walked behind the goal we were attacking towards the end of the game, with us well on top, I heard 2 Killie fans pointing out how we were passing the ball around them, as in, that's the way to do it. A fine memory alright. My 2 Jags heroes remain Denis McQuade, who was gone by then I think, but especially......Jackie Campbell, not least because he played right through all of my early Jags years. I'll not be satisfied till he has his own place in the Hall Of Fame, and I'll keep going on about that till he does.

The Bertie Years. Sounds a bit like The Wonder Years. In some ways they were... Missing out of the first Premier was painful but the promotion next season was fantastic, especially beating Killie 2-0 at Firhill in what was a virtual decider. I can still remember Joe Craig smashing that point blank shot into the roof of the net from almost on the line. There's a great pic of it in Ian Archer's Jags book. We were successful then, as successful as a club our size could ever get really, but I was at school and took the "boring Thistle" jibes to heart. It was a bit like Rangers a couple of seasons ago, maybe a bit anyway, sitting back and hitting on the break, but it wasn't exactly playing the game. I remember Motherwell getting that accusation a few years later, but it wasn't fun when we were doing that. In fact I all but stopped going for a while. Confession done. Thoughts?

Bertie.....hmmm..... We could start another thread about his tactics, in fact I think I will....

Isn't that a bit like the sort of thing that campaigners against the Trump Golf development (and even the Botanics Subway as nightclub) used to stop such developments? Could we try that? Just a thought. We could find some previously unknown species of earth worm....

Always love seeing jerseys with these colours. If I see a team from other countries in what could be a Jags strip then they become a fave. Over the years, that's included Watford, Mechelen, Lecce, and others. I've seen a Dutch team in red and yellow stripes but forget the name. Obviously I like Valencia a bit cos of their badge. I must have missed a few.

Dundee are not getting games on that Griffiths and Harkins could play in, before they leave Dens in January, presumably. I'm taking that as a wee bonus. It's pretty unfair though understandable that they've been able to retain them anyway, but this is reducing the effect a bit. In that sense, it can keep on snowing as far as I'm concerned.

That's good, thanks. There's nothing to indicate that mine is not original.

No, I bought it in the programme shop at the top of Renfield Street back in the early 90s. Niall Kennedy ran it. Anyway, it looks genuine. Is there any obvious difference between the real thing and a reprint? Is it normal to reprint such items?

That reminds me. I have a copy of the 71 Final programme, but somebody once said to me that he wasn't sure if it was original, suggesting that it was somehow different to the original? That doesn't make any sense to me, but it left a doubt in my mind. It looks authentic enough to me so I never gave that comment much credit, but I thought I'd throw this out, in case any of you know anything about it.

I know a lot of Catholics who would not have been offended by that, more likely they'd have agreed with the subtext. That's one of the problems, that certain organisations or individuals are above any form of criticism, including satire, cos that's what this email amounts to. Another church that covers up some cancer in it's own body and won't admit to it in time. Fair enough, they've done it at last, grudgingly, but it's been decades late. Fuxake, he forwarded an email. World gone mad, but it did ages ago.

Fantastic piece of work. A labour of love, and an essential one. I'm bookmarking that one now. Thanks.

From the Thistle Wiki page: In the 2010 BBC drama Single Father, starring David Tennant and Suranne Jones one of the characters is chosen as the mascot for a Partick home game. Some scenes were filmed at a Partick Match. Did anybody see this?

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but it's worth adding that we've been told to play QOS on Tuesday 4th December instead of a later free Saturday, costing both teams yet more money, on top of what this is losing us this weekend, as well as making it less pleasant to watch. It's guaranteed to be freezing, and the away support need to come all the way from Dumfries. Anyway, this will lose money for all. When everybody is struggling financially this kind of treatment is infuriating, yet typical. Not that I'm siding with the likes of war criminal John Reid, and his paranoid minions.