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Lots of info here if you trawl back through posts
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46 minutes ago, Alan Murray said:
You predicted our demise every season I can remember!
Yeah he predicted relegation half way through the top 6 season and then stopped posting when we started picking up points. Didn’t have the balls to give credit to the manager he was slating when he was proved wrong.
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Amazing that we aren’t joint favourite for the league but we are for the cup, in which we compete against the same teams.
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On 30/06/2018 at 3:52 PM, Garscube Road End said:
If we are looking c at can under 20 loan from Motherwell it shows that our budget is tighter than we thought. I Don't think Archie has a lot to work with this season. Again I think that any Thistle fan expects us go challenge for the title needs to take a reality check. This is a season for consolidation.
From a Motherwell fan on P&B
“It makes sense. He's a Northern Ireland u21 cap and truthfully he's far better than u20s/dev football. We signed him from Sheffield United with a view to fast-tracking him into the first team I think. He was around the fringes of the first XI towards the end of the 16/17 season but picked up an injury last season and just totally dropped off the radar for pretty much the full season.
He's energetic and quite Cadden-esque but like Ross MacLean (who we've got out on loan to Morton) there are loads of options ahead of him in the first team and right now he needs games. Fwiw: we offered him a new deal at the start of the summer so it's not like he's someone we're just trying to offload.”
Doesn’t sound like a nightmare signing.
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2 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:
The two Celtic pics look like some kind of benefit match, in view of the small crowd and the beer bellies. Looks like Jimmy Bone in the centre circle in the top one! Badger No. 11?
The bottom one, vs. Morton?: Glad they got the roof problem sorted.
Molly Stallan’s testimonial for the Celtic ones. The bevel in the roof is excellent, the curse of taking a photo of a photo
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37 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
Bringing in players on trial to have a look at them is absolutely an acceptable way to build the core of the squad.
I couldn’t agree less with your view. The squad can absolutely be bolstered by trialists but the ‘core’ of your squad should be targeted signings.
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I’m really disappointed that we are back to training on Monday with just 2 confirmed signings. In my opinion bringing in trialists to look at in training and bounce games is not the way to build a core of your squad, and it’s the core that we need to build rather than the fringe.
Although you can pick up players this way history is littered with players that looked good in preseason, when they were knocking their pan in to secure a deal, but faded badly over the course of a season. To build a strong first 11 we should be identifying players we want and going to get them rather than seeing who is available and looks good over the first few weeks of training.
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11 hours ago, Yellow & Redneck said:
Freddy Frans to Dundee United it looks like. Would be disappointed if we were outbid for him, as he clearly wanted to come back to Firhill. Would be so like us for him to slip through our fingers, either through dithering, or being tight-fisted like last time. If it's true, the entire club has pulled off a remarkable achievement in making the west end of Glasgow less appealing than the arse end of Dundee. Astonishes me that we can't seem to sell players on a move here. Aw well.
Were we outbid? Did we have a credible interest in him? Is a Twitter conversation with a fan real proof that he ‘clearly wanted to come back to Firhill’? Is he going to be living in the arse end of Dundee, or somewhere nicer along the east coast?
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I wonder if the absence of any mention of Shaggy in the club statement is relevant. It’s been suggested before that Archie could benefit from having an older head alongside him in the dugout, so this talk of Duffy being at Firhill raises the question of a change to Archie’s coaching team.
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The thing about a gamble is that there is always a price to pay if it doesn’t come off.
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Access the link? Yep no problem at all
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54 minutes ago, ScottyDFA said:
I don't know if Kris Doolan feels insulted at the beginning of every season when it becomes apparent that the boss has decided to once again give preference to some vastly-inferior forward.
All I know is that I feel insulted on his behalf.
Archie doesn't deserve Dools.
If Archibald is going to be at Thistle next season I hope Doolan leaves in the summer for some place where his talents are appreciated. Not easy for me to say, given Doolan is the best footballer we've had at the club in recent years, but I think the slight has gone on long enough.
And yet Doolan continues to sign new contracts knowing Archie is the manager. So Doolan is not insulted by Archie’s managerial choices, but you are on his behalf. It’s almost as if Doolan respects Archie’s right to choose his team and understands that means he will sometimes be in the team and at other times sitting it out.
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1 hour ago, The Jukebox Rebel said:
Not true. That stat was based on finishing in the Top 10 5-seasons-in-a-row and his side have blown chance after chance to make it happen.
That’s what I get for not reading your informative posts in detail TJR, thanks for the correction.
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Is his position untenable? Does one awful season negate the fact that for 4 years we were on an upward trajectory? If he keeps us up (big if) he will be the third manager in our history to retain top league status for 5 or more seasons, that’s an amazing statistic particularly when you consider the top league used to be much bigger than it is now.
Ive seen some trying to revert history by saying that we only finished in 6th because everyone else was rubbish, it we only stayed up because the league was weaker. I don’t buy that and don’t remember many calls from fans claiming that when we were doing better than we are now.
Im not saying Archie should stay simply asking if one bad season overrides all that has gone before.
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6 hours ago, Big Col said:
And based on performances in last couple of games, what's the most likely?
Who is more likely to win on Tuesday? If I had to predict then based on form since the split I’d say Thistle;
-County 2 points DLD
-Thistle 5 points WDD
Of course neither side may win but as DL1971 pointed out no one can predict with any certainty what will happen so why don’t we wait and see before writing our team off?
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47 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:
If Ross County win their next game and we lose or only draw, we are in the relegation position.
Alternatively if we win and County lose we are safe from finishing last.
Do you see what I did there?
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Not entirely, the tv pictures showed quite a few supporters in the JH stand. It wasn’t a full crowd though so maybe limited to family and fellow club members
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2 hours ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
This is completely of academic interest only something that a number of us were talking about after today's game. The incident as it happens.....
St Johnstone, a goal to the good, and the ball goes out of play for a throw in.
The St Johnstone player follows the ball out of play. It's our throw in but that's largely academic. The St Johnstone player from an out of play situation boots the ball fifty or so yards down the pitch after both flag up and whistle . The referee reaction is to award the throw in to us and NOT yellow card the St J player. Can anyone explain a situation how that can occur and the player booting the ball away from outside the playing area not be booked?
BTW The ref today was more than decent, only guilty of maybe not allowing advantage rule, but I don't believe I've ever seen a situation where a booking was so unavoidable than this incident. Really weird.
I wasn’t able to get to Perth today but did head along to see Clydebank play. In that game a Kilwinning player did exactly the same, following the ball off the park kicking it far away, the referee immediately booked the Kilwinning player and pretty much put a stop to any future delaying tactics. It’s crazy that low level referees are better at addressing the rules of the game than those at the very top of the tree in Scottish football.
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Guys the refereeing team is miked up these days so they are constantly talking, unlike in the past when the linesman had to flag to get the refs attention. What is wrong though that they won’t make a decision until they are in agreement so you see the linesman wait until the ref has awarded the throw before they will put their flag up which just makes them look stupid.
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Erskine was behind every Accies player, you can’t interfere in that position unless you try to block their movement somehow.
The other week Storey was in front of the keeper which gave the referee a decision to make.
They are 2 very different scenarios.
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I saw the Motherwell goals last night. Every one was a big kick up the park and picked off the scraps, great when it comes off but brutal football to watch. Livi proved years ago that a tall and powerful teams do well in Scotland, but I don’t know if I could watch that style of play every week. I’m sure though that there won’t be a single unhappy Motherwell fan anywhere to be found right now.
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Very true LIB.
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On 28/03/2018 at 1:04 PM, The Jukebox Rebel said:
You're right with that, it doesn't happen often. From 1970 onwards, 8 non-loanee ex-Jags have went on to win debut caps for Scotland. In order of their international debut they are: Jimmy Bone (1972), Arthur Duncan (1975), Ronnie Glavin (1977), Joe Craig (1977), Alan Hansen (1979), Billy Thomson (1980), Maurice Johnston (1984) and now, the bold Jack.
Fascinating stats throughout this thread TMJ. Quite startling just how few players exist that have been at the Jags and went onto represent Scotland later in their career. When you consider the flow of young players to bigger and better things from clubs like Killie, Motherwell, Dundee, Accies etc it really shows how far off we’ve fallen from our highly productive squads of the early 70s
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Aiden FitzPartick Thistle vs Brendan's mobile disco
in Main Jags forum
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The minute Elliot loses his man the whole defense is pulled out of shape as they’re trying to cover the massive gap that’s opened up. As they said on the commentary if you can’t see the ball then you’re too close to the man, it’s basic defending and it’s all down to Christie’s failings as a defender.