taffthejag

Re: Martin Hardie at Airdrie - Who got sent off that day? I remember Juan Ramon Escalas almost keeping us in the game. Oh, and another absolute shocker from Brian Cassidy who was out there by himself as the worst ref I have ever seen.

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I'd notice he wasn't figuring at Grimsby. Had he been released by them and now without a club?

Evening Times today. Caolin McAleer signed until end of season. He's a product of the Linfield youth system and plays in midfield. One for the future?

CAn't bring in Dargo - no cup run, no money, been released.

Can the board afford to sack Macnamara, and also the coaching team he appointed before appointing someone else with no uarantee of success and more outgoings if the replacement is at another club which wants compensation? Who is available anyway who would come to a broke, piss poor club anyway?

Staff slow and surly. I was going to say not too bright or polite either, but who wants to work selling pies etc to the hoards? Food itself was awful, burnt, over-priced. If clubs like Alloa and Pollok can get it right, why can't Thistle?

WHat will we be saying if the team goes on an extended unbeaten run and by some miracle wins the league and gets into the SPL?

We can all blame Macnamara for todays pish, but really, we have to accept they are Thistle players, not Barcelona, and are very limited. They couldn't pass through QOS, nor work round them. What do you expect?

Made my day. My H*ns chums are tying themselves in knots to find a way to justify what's going on in the cesspit.

A poor read from start to finish. What was the ghostwriter doing?

Excuse my cynicism, but league re-construction will mean the turkeys voting for Xmas, which isn't going to happen. The Scottish preference appears to be an SPL of 2 clubs, with the rest of little interest to them, and they can organise it amongst themselves.

Interesting comments from Ivan Sproule in The Herald today about the poor refereeing in the Aberdeen-Hibs game yesterday, and his call for SPL refs to be demoted to the SFL if they have a poor game. Why should we suffer? Don't we have it bad enough without having refs imposed on us from above? Yesterday, Mike Tumelty was the usual mix of inefficiency, poor decision making and inconsistency that we have to put up with every week. What is the SFL doing about it - besides nothing that is. In saying that, we didn't deserve to win yesterday. No guile or the ability to put crosses in from wide areas to strikers who can't score anyway. Ah, the joys of being a Thistle fan.

In today's Evening Times David Beattie gave a good interview but was clear that we, along with just about every club in the country, face financial difficulties. He offered suggestions such as plastic pitches for a wider use by the public during the week. The financial hit from the Warriors going is going to bite though. Part-time football?

Thanks for the respect shown to Gary Speed today. It was brilliant and what one would expect from both sets of fans.