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I don’t see too much unreasonable with wanting a Club Board to understand club revenue sources and build a plan to maximize those. Two questions: 1) Is it unreasonable for the board to not have a super comprehensive plan on this yet given that it’s been in flux for some time? 2) Are you more or less confident in the current board than you were with the board that ran us into 300k losses? Or does it remain to be seen?

Is the club board on the PTFC site current? There have been so many ins and outs that I can’t keep track.

That’s a fair point. I wasn’t sure if Glasgow Uni students stayed local for breaks and holidays. Still, I could see potential because there’s a continuing cycle of students. Maybe give international students free or discounted Jagzone/PPV so they can continue supporting after they graduate? (Edit to add: Just a year after they graduate) Ive pumped a decent amount of cash into Thistle despite not being remotely local. Building that bond is definitely possible.

Also I’d just like to point out that we’ve had more discussion about women’s sanitary products (and their availability) this week than at any point in my time on the forum. That’s probably progress. At the risk of being crass, but in the interest of notoriety, I’d like to be the first to openly say the word…. Tampons. Thistle Archive Admin, please record this day for posterity. Thank you.

Why wait? I’d say get in there now. I like the idea about some kind of partnership with the Uni team. Did McGuigan not come to us from a Uni team?

Are there any Scottish clubs - fan-owned or not - that have significantly been able to increase their fan base? Or that have been able to sustain smaller upward trends year over year? And how closely did these trends coincide with performance on the pitch? Glasgow seems like a potentially unique challenge - lots of competition for your entertainment dollar, er, pound, compared to other locales.

I’m a little fuzzy on your definition of “investment” because buying/selling shares of a company in a cash transaction is precisely what investing is. Unless we sold other assets I’m not aware of?

Because our scouting is a little suspect?

I think JJ has a point. Simply put, I would like to know what our board’s approach to budgeting is, given the loss incurred from last season and the need to constantly marry promotion ambitions with sustainability. Are there scenarios in which we take calculated risks (e.g., if DU goes up but a club like Livi - who likely wouldn’t overspend to go back up - comes down, do we “go for it” and spend a little more ourselves?) I am willing to accept that the position was so dire that we needed urgent funding to stabilize things, but I’d like to be reassured that this isn’t the go-forward plan. I’d prefer the majority of McClymont’s money be used as a safety net or an investment into something revenue generating, not the player budget. Side question - was there a web conferencing component to this AGM? Or was it only available to direct shareholders and not beneficiaries?

If ever a Thistle team has been cemented into a specific spot in the table, it’s this one. Glimmers of greatness that we can’t seem to sustain, which is still more than half the league can offer. Onwards and hopefully upwards.

Happy new year everybody!

Honestly that would be the smart thing to do - use the rest of this season to try bedding in some new signings for next season while trying to maintain a playoff spot.

Felt like we ran out of ideas pretty quickly. Amazing how we can go from pummeling their 18-yard box to looking like we were playing down a man.

My guess is the closest we’ll come to seeing those figures is in the “other operating income” line of the income statement. And even then it probably will be lumped in with other income so we won’t know the exact amount. I kind of doubt players would be demanding more money due to the results. A player who signed a contract should have accepted no less than market value (or a combination of market value and personal value, which is what I suspect Lawless might have done - agreeing to less money because he loves being here).

Adeloye’s MO seems to be getting into the box and backing down his defender, which he’s pretty good at. But at this point, if we have our own Academy kids that show ability at this level, as Diack did, we probably need to be playing them more. (I’d also love to see Zander McKenzie played in whatever his preferred position is) If we can maintain some distance between 3rd and 4th, I hope Dools takes advantage of this by playing the kids.

Saw that one coming…

Yaaaaaaaassssss!!!!

GET IN

This must be the 3G pitch. As in, “G, this pitch sure sucks.”

One back!!!

Oh Jamie…..no excuse there

On the goal, Sneddon seemed to have an obstructed view with our defenders in front of him.

Lawless and McMillan strangely out of sync

Plastic pitches are so gross

In the spirit of the kinds of things Jim is bringing up, I admit I greatly fear upcoming capital expenditures like, having to fix the Weir Stand roof or replacing floodlights or something. If and when that happens, I don’t see how we can afford it without handouts. I figure to pay for that out of trading surplus, we’d have to have existed in the premiership for a few seasons using a team of extremely young players.