Derby Jag

Yeh that's who I heard and was referring to

New assistant manager announced later today I understand. Not going to do much to lift the gloom...

I agree Patrick Thistle are bigger than Brian Graham

Kenny Arthur was on the bench for a game I'm sure

That is a decent read by Raith Rovers, certainly night and day compared to anything I've read by anything associated with Thistle in a number of years. My perception is that we introduce a lot of initiatives that never see the light of day. I'm sure there are other examples but as examples this strategy seems to have fallen away, we had the Real Scottish Football or whatever it was called in 2010 or so and then there was something about a fan card or similar "revealed" at the Morton promotion game in 12/13. I'm a signed up member of TJF and generally support a lot of what they do but I don't think they are "innocent" in all of this. They announced "Project 2000" at the start of the season, continue to have this as an email signature but to my knowledge have never explained what this is (I assume reach 2000 members), revealed a plan to get there, told us why this is important (beyond the obvious, more members means more money) or reported progress towards target and what they will do if targets aren't met. Little of this is to do with what is happening on the park but based on what I do in my professional life it is very frustrating to see and quite frankly would be unacceptable in a well functioning enterprise. Whilst I'm on a rant, I have had a season ticket for over 20 years but this year is the least I have used it since I lived abroad for a number of years, and I have less enthusiasm for renewing than any year prior. On the pitch I've been to 14 games in total this year, saw 4 wins of which only one was at Firhill (3-2 v Montrose), and saw us score 15 goals (5 of which were against Montrose and Clyde). There are also simple things off the pitch that have really annoyed me this year, for example, in every prior year I could sit/stand in either the JHS or JL, now I can only access the stand my season ticket is in unless I give prior notice to the club to get a comp sent to my fanbase account. The Comms from the club has also been dreadful; there's a clear use of poorly reviewed generative AI at play that is, again, highly unprofessional and also very impersonal. I can't wait for this year to be over but overall at present I honestly feel less attached to the club than I ever have.

I'm not going to contest the praise on the effort which I agree is commendable but I thought the football on display from both teams was absolutely dire. There have definitely been many worse Thistle teams than this but honestly I can't recall one who look so uncomfortable on the ball or creative going forward. They deserve huge credit for the results against Falkirk and Livingston but I don't think objectively you can say we deserved to win those games or even get draws. Also, not to be a old fud but I thought the behaviour of a group of young boys towards the stewards at the front of the JL at the JH side was disgraceful to watch. Completely disrespectful, not watching a second of the game but goading them, filming them looking for a reaction and just generally being little ***** that knew there was no consequences to their actions when they really should have been thrown out the ground. I hope the older steward is ok as he was put in an unacceptable position having to "deal" with it.

Do you know I had the exact same thought. He came across on the jagzone interview as a pleasant, humble guy which I thought was quite refreshing.

Can't help but have my initial reaction being underwhelmed but all the best to him.

It's certainly gone very quiet re Sporting Director We were told it would be announced early last week, then it was this week...

Well said TL! I'm sorry if I was a little harsh on you with my comments yesterday but you've shown great maturity and humility here. At the end of the day we're all Jags fans and want the absolute best for our club even if we disagree on what we think is the best way to get there

When we decided to go down the sporting director route I had figured it was going to be a fairly modern move, bringing in someone with a blend of commercial and football knowledge. I had expected it would end up being someone few had heard of, maybe someone in a football operations team at a bigger club looking for a leadership role just as an example. Going down the "failed" ex-manager route doesn't fill me with any particular excitement or optimism.

It certainly does feel like everything isn't rosy at the moment at the club. I really enjoyed Welshy's MC at hospitality. Very engaging and fun and he will be hugely missed in this role. I have no idea what has happened but reading Andy Murdoch's message in relation to it, it doesn't sound particularly "amicable".

Apologies for my egregious typo... For the record I have no idea what you are on about regarding me mentioning him twice.

You don't know any other candidates You don't know he is "mates" with Levi Gill You don't know he's even a candidate You don't know Joe Savage is a candidate You didn't know until very recently he left Flyde You've made a bizarre accusations about Levi Gill's politics and questioned his motivation. I have no idea why you are talking about Rhys McCave Maybe take a lie down and see what the decision actually is and judge based on what is said by those involved.

Is the Ian Barraclough/Levi Gill chat grounded in any fact or is it another random rumour TL has latched on to and convinced himself is true.