ChiThistle

Yaaaaaaaas!!!! Another unmarked header. Pars looking sloppy this far.

Bought the PPV ticket last night before this audio commentary silliness. Anyway, Docherty completely unmarked. Completely unmarked. Easy header. The kind of stuff that usually happens to us. Get in, and f**k off Dunfermline.

Full match replay wouldn’t include away games though right? I definitely plan to do PPV for all the home games I can and am considering getting back into the sponsorship thing again. I can appreciate the perspectives of those who want to keep $$$ out of the pockets of the clubs who voted to keep us down, and I think @Fearchar’s point about an SPFL Championship package makes a ton of sense. We get CBS Sports/Paramount Plus here and am looking forward to some live matches too. Ultimately it’s been a real b*tch of a year. Somehow work got MORE demanding during a pandemic, and Saturday mornings (6 hours behind most of you. Probably decades behind most of you in terms of football acumen) have become my limited available free time away from family commitments. I can sit the kids down to watch two hours of Bluey while I watch the game, lol. I might just give away games a try but still make sure I’m getting money back to the club. Several of you made a very good point there.

I’m intent on following more livestreams this season, even for away matches. Are there any clubs at our level that just aren’t worth the money (poor camera coverage, unreliable app, bad user experience, etc)? Pars at the weekend will be my first attempt giving 12 quid to a non-Thistle club.

I dunno if I would call him a homer with all those soft fouls he called against us, particularly Ally Roy being knocked over by a stiff breeze as I recall.

Seemed to be almost spent towards end of game yesterday but was still fighting to stall/close it down - big reason, as others have said, that we closed it out professionally. Great work ethic.

Some really slack passing today at times - hope that improves.

Whew! Will take it.

Yaaaaas!!!

Christ…

More encouraging than the first 10 minutes where it looked like they were just meeting each other for the first time.

Classy. I would wear that top to a wedding.

First time I’ve been able to do the PPV thing this year, and not bad timing. Video quality and presentation seemed great and well worth the money to me. Well done to all involved! I’ve seen posts on here about the camera often following a wayward bird. Didn’t catch any of that today - have they improved the service or did I just catch a break?

There was commentary?!?? Did not pick up any of it. Thought it was all chatter on the pitch.

My first, unsubstantiated guess was one of those siblings we were linked with a few months ago. Can’t recall the names - one played uni football in the US and the other bounced around a few clubs.

Saw “Nielsen twins” and immediately thought this:

“The Dundee FC check, no uncheck, no wait it’s definitely a check Stadium at Firhill” has a nice ring to it.....

You don’t even wanna know what I had to do to get the free shipping!

Disclosure request could potentially tie things up, as “documents” in this case will refer to emails, chat messages, phone logs, etc. Much of this is better reviewed in electronic format - hopefully we have that capability. I’m sure their side will attempt to under-disclose and provide incomplete info.

Just got my shirts - quality/fit are excellent. Thanks @BowenBoys!

Phil et al, do you know if the printer will ship overseas? Thanks!

Hindsight being 20/20 and all, I’d say we are in this position due to a mix of our inability to spot young talent and maybe just a lack of identity. The talent that’s gone out the door in the last 5 years or so (Dools, Erskine, Nisbet, O’Donnell, Taylor-Sinclair, etc) hasn’t really been replicated and neither has the unified team feel from the promotion season when you had young, hungry players who visibly believed in themselves and each other. Kids v Experience - the idea that we are outsiders and nobody believes in us, but us (but that’s all we need). I haven’t really felt like that as a fan in some time. When you keep losing and no one has any answers, chemistry is often part of it. With Dools and Erskine, you had two pros that embodied the club and personified our identity - we’re a smallish club punching above our weight in a large city (in possibly the dumbest football league). I don’t think we’ve since had such players who personify the team in the same way. In the time since I think we’ve made some dodgy decisions with management, lack of consistency with the first team, and at board level (e.g. those monthly comms) that’s all come together to leave us feeling “So who are we, again?” Every season lately has felt like a rebuild and we can’t get out of first gear. Given recent league developments, I’d like the club to try re-establishing a bit of that outsider, “us against the world” mentality, both on the pitch and off. We have a toothless yellow sun for a mascot, after all. We are, on some level, a club for weirdos and outsiders by design. And maybe with this relegation McCall 2.0 will unearth some gems and the cycle will stop.

So McCall gets one win in his first league match back. If he can keep this pace...<takes out calculator>.....oh my! Mon the Jags! Congrats to all the Jags fans tonight. Hopefully more good stuff to come.

Ah makes my heart happy. McCall was manager when I first got introduced to Thistle. Still remember Ami Small arranging for me to meet him, Dools, and Jackie. Incredibly hospitable to a faraway supporter like me. Best of luck, Ian!

Eh. I find people who throw around the term “snowflakes” usually are ones who don’t deal with change very well. Definitely not sexist to not want Shelley Kerr as a manager. Didn’t think Kingleo’s argument was sexist at all - comparing a Kerr appointment to a Yorkie’s isn’t exactly flattering but it was in regards to experience at least. Judge the person on her merits - that’s fine. She shouldn’t get special treatment due to her gender. But simply deriding it as “trendy” with no specific objections to her qualifications and then expanding it to “popular choice” to appoint those “non-male and straight into positions these days” just smacks of fear/frustration about how the world is now and how it ain’t the world you grew up in. Who’s to say we can afford Shelley Kerr anyway.