JAG1970

Harry Hood beaten to the cross by Roughie?

Memories of a fabulous 3.1 win in the Scottish Cup from the late 80s at Love Street. Gerry McCoy scoring with a diving header for our third. I think St Mirren were in the premier league and we weren’t.. A good omen perhaps…

QP selling Fowler seems like an act of suicide given their league position. But I’m sure Haughey is only concerned with pocketing as much cash as he can before leaving the club in a worse position (including a joke of a stadium) than what he inherited. Given Fowler has allegedly gone for over 100k, any story about us missing out would seem greatly exaggerated. Slightly surprised if we’re looking for another defender, especially given we are allegedly linked with an attacking midfielder and another striker (Sule) although I think his loan to Motherwell was cut short a few weeks ago due to injury? Possibly was/is something in the Sule story given Wilson’s links to sourcing Celtic or ex Celtic players. But if Lawless and Turner were to leave, and if someone signed Stanway now, then we would certainly be busy in the last few days of the window, and maybe into February for one more loan.

The board have messed up the finances, as per the other thread, with continuing heavy losses year over year, and a seemingly never ending rotating door of office staff arriving and departing. We appear to be failing to reach non gate revenue targets. Either they were fanciful or we failed to execute properly. As for our poor cup exits last year, we apparently budgeted for early exits, yet we still have a big loss in the latest accounts, the largest loss since 1997. Continuing losses curtail Wilson’s budget. Low and her crew were rightly criticised, very heavily, I don’t see why the current board should get a pass. I’ll leave the last word to TJF. We must be consistent in our assessment: these financial outcomes are neither acceptable nor sustainable. Fan ownership will be lost at our Club if the Board continues to deliver operating cash deficits.

From today’s Record Mark Wilson wants to add to his squad but budgets are tight. He needs to free up before he can add. I am told that Thistle are keen on signing Josh Clarke and Ben McPherson from Celtic on a permanent basis. Talks are on-going on that front with both loan players. I see Thistle1876 and I both posted the same thing simultaneously.. To add, Wilson is presumably keen on signing up Smyth too, and I read at the weekend Robinson seems open to this, unsurprisingly. With only 6 players signed beyond this season I’m hoping Barraclough has contracts waiting to be signed although the recent club finances suggest it might be a struggle to get players to put pen to paper. Pity we seem to be getting it right on the park whilst the boardroom is making a mess of things.

Crikey, it’s a revolving door of ins and outs that never ends. Must be a dizzying experience working in the club offices, between “who are you?” and “when’s your leaving do?”

This is true. Be interesting to know WHY so many have left so soon after arriving. Something is seriously wrong.

I may have misunderstood, so happy to be corrected: We lost £366k despite fan contributions of £169k. Those kind of losses (and being bailed out the two previous seasons for £1m?) are of the magnitude of Save The Jags? We’re losing £500k a year over the last 3 seasons? What makes this even more concerning is that this is only up to May last year. Have we continued to burn through money since then, and are we in for another “surprise” next year? Things are so bad we now have 7 (seven!) people working on our finances… so surely we can get a heads up on a forecast for this season? Just build in simple A/B/C scenarios around our final league position/knockout exit/cup exit. It’s not rocket science. Examining what’s sustainable for the women’s team needs also to be of an overall assessment of how we become truly break even as a club. Serious questions need to be asked about the stewardship of the club. These results show we don’t have the right people leading the club.

You must have been… he did - eventually- walk off the park

No Lawless again today, anybody know his situation?

Clarke obviously at fault for the goal, but let’s not forget he made a very good save early in the match to stop Montrose going ahead (and no doubt sitting deep afterwards). Thought Stanway was MoTM. Diack took his goal well but clearly isn’t going to do the same work rate as Samuel, but early days. We’re still seeking our early season mojo. Middle to front just not clicking like it was. A signing or two would help. Given our lack of conviction at the moment I’d take a cash bonanza in the next round…. Although another home tie against lower league opposition wouldn’t go amiss before then.

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/loan-update-16th-january-2026/

Shipping goals all too easily in recent weeks. The starting 11 didn’t help things against decent opposition. Felt it was a mistake to sub Samuel (easily our best player) when we had the initiative and that gave them less to deal with. Ok, you want to give him a rest and give others a chance. But if Wilson really wanted to win the game we had a better chance with him remaining on the park. A serious error. The new boy looked comfortable and took his goal well, hopefully he’s a good signing. What is abundantly clear is the squad players won’t help us secure 2nd spot in the league. But we knew that already. We clearly need more quality if we can afford it.

There’s a livestream for £10 https://tv.ptfc.co.uk/?_gl=1*10pszp8*_ga*NjE0NDMxNjQuMTc2MzE2NTE2MQ..*_ga_4V34FR191H*czE3NjgzMDY3MjEkbzExMSRnMSR0MTc2ODMwNjk2NyRqMzkkbDAkaDA.

Yes, Wilson said Watt, McPherson, Stanway have been unwell recently. If we assume the three of them are rested then: Clarke (or does he opt for Bud?) Logan, Reading, OReilly, Ashcroft or McBeth Martin, Letsosa, Turner Chalmers, Samuel, Fitzpatrick Subs: Clarke/Bud, Ashcroft/McBeth, Lawless, Diack (now fit)… plus youngsters Crawford back training.