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Definitely remember seeing the monks on more than one occasion. Anyone mind the two Pink Panthers at the promotion winning game against Forfar in 92? I remember somebody telling me that one of them was spotted comatose on the pavement on Maryhill Road in the early hours of the morning after the match.

Two buses running from the Woody.

A good result and reasonably solid performance against a team that has caused us problems this season. Thought Archie took a bit of a gamble putting on three strikers in the second half but it seemed to give us a bit more urgency and certainly paid dividends. Without Paton or Murray the midfield lacked a bit of grit which put extra pressure on the defence but Balatoni and Muirhead were outstanding today. Four consecutive clean sheets shows just how important it is to have our first choice back four fit and playing in their natural positions. Fingers cross none of them get injured or suspended between now and the end of the season. With the gruesome twosome both getting beat too, not a bad Saturday's entertainment.

I don't think you are the only one who has been confused by the toilets at Crappielow, I went to a Morton - Clydebank game there about ten years ago (don't ask) and somebody had left a big steaming jobby in the aforementioned urinal.........

My favourite Thistle away game. Memories of the night include the few dozen Thistle fans in the Celtic end (Celtic refused to sell us tickets on the night for this re-arranged game) getting attacked by the great un-washed when we equalised. Peter Grant sliding towards the Thistle fans and celebrating his goal in front of us, which went down well. Chic silencing all the doubters about his commitment against Celtic with a sublime display of passing. The party in Clatty's after the match! I'm sure it was Pierre Van Hoijdonk's debut as well. And we took 7 points off them that season. Happy days.

Morton have lost 3 times at Cappielow this season, far from unbeatable, have faith people.

Given that we are about to enter a triple-dip recession five years into an economic depression I would say our attendances are excellent relative to your comparison games.

It's on my 'to do' list when I win the Euromillions!

When we do eventually build a stand (seated or preferably, safe terracing) at the city end I presume the NS would resume its role as the away end?

Hopefully not! Despite my mistake highlighting the wrong player failing to celebrate Doolan's goal at Livi I still think the communication and body language between Dools and Craig at Dumbarton was poor.

Apologies, I stand corrected, just watched the video and it was Welsh who picked the ball out of the net and didn't celebrate (which was a bit strange in itself). I'll need to wear my specs in future when I've got my CSI head on.......

Craig and Doolan should not start together, they are too similar and do not communicate, in fact I would go as far to say they actively dislike each other going by the body language and the former's failure to celebrate the latter's goal at Livi. At Dumbarton they were constantly running in to each other's space making them easy to mark although I would qualify that by saying that the high cross balls we were putting into the box in the first half played to Dumbarton's strengths.

Whilst we're on the subject of fitba shirts has anyone bought Thistle t-shirts from this site http://www.zazzle.co.uk/partick+thistle+gifts ? Just wondered what the quality was like as they are a bit on the pricey side?

My strangest sighting of Thistle merchandise on sale in an out of context kind of place was 20 years ago in a back street sports shop in Verona. They had three of the old Spall white away tops with the red and yellow vertical stripes down one side. The sports shop must have bought an unseen job lot of surplus Spall gear as they had various English lower league teams gear too. Happy to say we were the only Scottish club although with the old stealth bomber badge and nae writing on it I doubt any Italians would have had a scooby what team it was. In fact the shirts are probably still there!

I remember reading an article a few years ago that suggested that junior clubs (in the West region at least) were pretty much split 50/50 on their support of a national pyramid system. It hinted that the main reason for clubs being against a move towards this structure was the junior Blazerati's fear of losing office/status/influence etc. Sound familiar? If some junior clubs do not want to join a new national, regionalised set up then that is their right however this should not deny the more progressive clubs the opportunity to progress through a pyramid league structure. With the changing demographics in Scotland we now have largish centres of population (East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Irvine, Bathgate, Musselburgh etc) as well as rural areas (Speyside, Cromarty, Sutherland, Skye, Lewis, Orkney, Shetland) which have seen re-population in recent years, without senior football teams to call their own. By a process of natural selection the 'deadwood' teams that some of you refer to would be replaced in the top leagues by some of the more ambitious clubs currently plying there trade in Scotland's various leagues (amateur, junior, semi-pro) thus ensuring that much of the freshness and competition we all crave can be created from the bottom up and not just from shaking the top of the tree every few years. Scottish football's blinkered, self-serving establishment tried for years to keep Highland League clubs out of the senior set up, privately citing distance and accessibility as factors (but in reality they were just trying to preserve their own status). Can imagine the Scottish football landscape today without ICT and Ross County?

I don't think we need to tie ourselves in knots trying to make the leagues add up to 42 teams. Incorporating a pyramid structure would mean the powers that be could concentrate on producing the league sizes we need rather than what works arithmetically.

I would say that's bang on but also add that it should include the semi-pro, junior and amateur league bodies working towards a national pyramid structure.

In terms of attendances, by my reckoning a 16 team top tier with 30 games per season would only need a 20% rise in gate receipts (probably even less when you factor in reduced match-day operating costs) to negate the drop in revenue from the current 38 game season. That is surely achievable given the boredom factor would be greatly reduced by teams playing each other in the league only twice per season. I would favour a 16-10-10-10 structure with the bottom two leagues regionalised and a solid unified pyramid system in place below.

The Woody was murder before the match today, 15 minute wait to get served as they only had two bar staff on, not for the first time this season.

I remember Dorrans coming back to Firhill with Livi and absolutely destroying us (might have been a League Cup game? we lost 4-1 I think), he was the best player on the pitch by a country mile. I'm sure he won young player of the year that season too.

I'm still trying to work out which Woody barmaid it is that so many people on here find attractive........the blonde milf?

The Christmas shopping factor is bollox............late night shopping, sunday opening and internet retail leave Saturday's free for the important things in life......if they're skint, fair enough but shopping, get a fkn grip!

I played on the full size pitch a few years ago and we had to spend 5 minutes before kick off removing the dog sh*te from the pitch. Thankfully it was during a spell of uncharacteristically hot and sunny weather which made the task easier.

It will be back into the NS for me tomorrow as I enjoyed the experience standing to watch my football again for the league match against the Pars. Being back in the JH last week brought it home to me how much I dislike sitting on a cold bit of plastic in close to zero temperatures.

To top it all off I got fined that night for relieving myself through the gates at the Botanics.