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When I approached the club about doing this, I told Ian Maxwell that I thought I could get 72 £1 pledges by the end of the season. If the team averaged a point a game from then it would have raised £1000. I seriously underestimated you.

Yes. I discovered yesterday that my new shoes aren't waterproof.

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Have received a note by carrier pigeon. Third Lanark is in for £3/point. I'm rather pleased about that because it enables me to do this...

I have a dream Eleven more points. Please.

Just dropped into the fundraising site. An astonishing £109,940 has been donated.

They would probably be after Archie as well if Hughes left!

It really doesn't matter whether you, I or anybody thinks we are an established top flight club. What matters is where the players in question feel is best for their future. We need to be able to hold on to our players to further establish ourselves. Given the lack of support through the turnstiles, we are unlikely to be able to compete in terms of wages. We shouldn't kid ourselves that this or that player loves playing for the Jags, ambitious players will want to play for more than two thousand fans. If we lose all three to one of our rivals it will be very depressing. The club will need to face up to the unpleasant truth that we will struggle to fully establish ourselves with budgets dictated by a limited fan base.

Already have your predictions Juggernaut. Do you want to change them? I am very short of message space, so if I have ended the conversation it is because I already have your predictions and I need to free up space.

I know this can get a bit confusing, especially with the week off. Already got your predictions.

The expression 'thrashed 1 - 0' springs to mind. But what a night!

Extraordinary.

And this one. Deadline for predictions 9am, Saturday 2 April

Competition starts this weekend. Get your predictions in please. Deadline for predictions 9am, Saturday 2 April

Round 3 predictions please. Deadline for predictions 9am, Saturday 2 April

Don't forget to get your final predictions in. Yes, you two. Deadline for predictions 9am, Saturday 2 April

This is no fun anymore because we have our 19th ______ a. hole b. nervous breakdown c. sponsored top This could be the last time, in fact it definitely is the last time. Last chance to join the merry band. 9 places available. If you're not in, get in quickly*. Kick off Saturday. Winner will choose who to sponsor. *a rolling stone gathers no moss

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We are making a small dent in the cost of replacing the drainage and re-laying the pitch. But what will we have to show for it? To make our effort tangible, at the moment we have raised enough for one six yard box. Eleven more points from eight games and the centre circle is ours. That would be nice. More pledges welcome. Remember all monies pledged count from 31 points onwards.

This game and the one on Tuesday are huge games for our club. Like the Morton game, victory will leave us on the brink of moving up into a higher league. Like the Morton game, we can make a difference. Let's get out in big numbers for these.

I think this is a great idea. http://ptfc.co.uk/news/2015-2016/march_2016/pizza_with_the_players_at_pizza_express Unfortunately my boys and I will be away on holiday.

The following is an open letter from the Shah family. In Rememberance of Asad Shah On Thursday evening (24th March), our beloved husband, son, brother and everyone’s friend, Asad Shah, was taken away from us in an act of incomprehensible, mindless violence aimed at quieting his peace-loving, all-embracing faith. We are devastated by this loss but we will not focus on this evil act. Instead, Asad’s friends and family are choosing to respond as we know Asad would respond – united, with messages of peace and love for all. One’s religion, ethnicity, race, gender, or socioeconomic background never mattered to Asad. He met everyone with the utmost kindness and respect because those are just some of the many common threads that exist across every faith in our world. He was a brilliant genius, recognizing that all the differences across people in the world were vastly outweighed by all of our similarities. And he didn’t just talk about this, Asad lived it each and every day, in his beloved community of Shawlands and his country of Scotland. We are all the same. We can be one, if we make the effort to unite with one another. As a family, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all who have organised and participated in the street vigils, online petitions and messages. You have moved us beyond words and helped us start healing sooner than we thought possible. You have made us prouder about Asad than we already were. The generosity from Asad’s friends and those from around the world who learned about his amazing love for humanity raised more than £50,000 pounds, and we want you to know that Asad’s wife will be the sole beneficiary. Hate may have extinguished one of our brightest lights, but we promise you that it will only be for a brief moment. Asad’s love for all mankind ,and hope for a better world in which we can all live in peace and harmony, will endure and prevail. Asad has left us a tremendous gift, and we must continue to honour that gift by respecting, appreciating, loving and taking care of one another. If there was to be any consolation from this needless tragedy, it came in the shape of the spontaneous and deeply moving response by the good people of Shawlands, Glasgow and beyond, with thousands of messages consistently highlighting the importance of love and respect for all. Asad loved his Scotland and affectionately and innocently called his home the ‘Shahlands’. He loved all of the children in his neighbourhood and treated them as his own. He always had a kind word for all of his customers, and when he said he would pray for you, you knew he meant it. In that vein, our family is proud to announce that we will develop the Asad Shah Interfaith Community Center in Shawlands, a home that will welcome each and everyone to meet, live, laugh and enjoy one another. We will not be making any further comments on this tragedy and ask everyone, especially the media, to allow us the privacy we need to grieve and heal away from the public eye. But we know that you were Asad’s family as much as we are, and we will always remain with you and a part of this community. It is our hope that you will continue to support Asad’s legacy in the years ahead by sharing your stories of peace, love and Asad on www.asadshahmemorial.co.uk and making his home the center of the community once again. We will not let this moment define us. It is Asad that will define us. With deepest appreciation, The Shah Family

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