Remember trips with my dad to do Berties garden when he stayed in Hillend Road ....and also asking him during what must have been my first games aged 7/8 in the late 70s why the fans were singing about Old Moscow
Absolute pleasure to get the chance to ask a Dools who would join him in his Fantasy Thistle X1.
Big thanks also to @BowenBoys for getting my Kr1s D00lan scarf design made up.
Kris - thanks for the memories and outrageous the manner in which you’ve been treated.
Hopefully see you back at Firhill in the future and all the best to you & the family.
Am I right I’m thinking this was made all the sweeter by the first replay being abandoned when the floodlights failed at Shawfield whilst we were 2-1 down. The 6-0 game was one of my first away games ....happy days
The first job of the new boss is get this shower fit - and try teach a defence to actually put pressure on the forward or better still a tackle in. The number of times we either back off or don’t close crosses down quick enough is frightening- and has been an issue for a couple of years (as has a notable lack of fitness).
Neilson must be thanking his lucky stars of his choice this week !
Applications from Africa - Bobby Williamson as a left field shout?!
One name that thankfully hasn’t (yet) appeared but gives me the fear is Terry Butcher - think he had a brief coaching spell at Firhill years back?
You can’t blame Archie for not resigning - which of us would voluntarily give up our job without knowing where next pay is coming from?
The Board are equally if not more culpable here :-
The time to act was after the Livi games.
Competive Budget - looks nonsense.
Act now - new man can’t sign anyone till January.
How many of this squad would you genuinely keep if you’re the new boss? Hence choice likely to be more limited than it was 8 - 10 weeks ago.
Ten+ transfer windows - STILL no proven striker other than Dools who himself is struggling
The biggest worry for me is that apathy is replacing anger - when people start to stop caring that’s when you have real problems amongst a dwindling support.
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hopefully this will help Thistle clean up in the future :)!
Already a lot to be thankful to him for - sure he helped start the move that Jimmy Craigan scored v Morton to get us up
A commanding, goal scoring defender - one down , another 7/8 additions to come hopefully!
45 mins late - feel for those who made the trip up to watch this gutless shower. To be fair there is a lot of revisionism going on re Archie but it's hard to defend such constantly negative tactics and baffling selections this season.
Zero creativity in that team selection - as others have said definitely set up not to lose rather than go for the win. Osman & Woods together nowhere near mobile enough either - how the management can't see this I don't know.
* FT County 0 Thistle 2 (Osman, Woods)