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.

There there

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.

I am bereft - he was turning my football team around and getting the best out of mainly middling footballers. Thanks for doing that.

Balatoni slipped, but the damage had been done by Cairney (?) giving the ball away. Balatoni also made a number of good interceptions and wasn't any worse than the others at the back. I was standing next to the door into the dressing room at the end of the game. No-one could look the fans in the eye - manager, coaches, players. They know what had happened and it's up to them to earn their money next Tuesday. Why do we try and play the million dollar pass when a sideways nudge to someone in the same coloured shirt as you keeps possession and allows us to build a move? We are not Barcelona, but Partick Thistle. Play within our limitations for god's sake.

Yes!!! I suspect though that it will be a poor crowd with more noise from the Culter supporters. But we can expect a backlash, can't we?

On the BBC website is the confirmation that Chris and Colin Weir have given the SNP a £1m donation. Given his alleged Thistle leanings, couldn't the Board stump up the price of a stamp and ask him for something?

Incompetence, corruption, reluctant to move with the times and embrace new technology, jobs for life, racism. Blatter for Chair of SFA?

Surely no-one is that bad to deserve a life time sentence in Liverpool?

I have two but conflicting thoughts about Rememberance Day and the wearing of poppies. Obviously, I feel the same as the people who have posted about not only those connected with Thistle who made the ultimate sacrifice, but all others, both servicemen/women and civilians who died in the Great War and all subsequent conflicts. They died so we could make these statements. But is it only me who is suspicious of the expectation that we all must wear poppies? Did our sporting teams wear them in the recent past? I can't remember Thistle wearing them on the shirts a few years ago. And the sense that it is somehow unpatriotic not to wear a red emblem as a mark of respect? Some people wear a white poppy as a symbol of their opposition to all wars. Red poppies are linked with Field Marshall Haig whose indifference to the suffering of his men and poor leadership contributed to the slaughter of thousands at the Somme in 1916. I also, probably naively, expect the state to provide care and support for all those who suffered whilst serving their country, and not have to rely on charities for their support. The numbers of ex-servicemen who end up in prison or self-harm after discharge all talk of being cast adrift by the army. Even the US does better in supporting ex-servicemen (veterans).