wee jim

When Hammy were last in this division their first game of the season at Firhill I thought they looked like the team that would go up. And they did. Still, I’ve gone for a win for us today.

I remember the Pink and Green well. There was tremendous rivalry between the Times and the Citizen to get their results paper to the newsagent first. They had small town type vans which tore around the city. The van boy would literally throw the papers at the newsagent’s door where the paperboys would be waiting. I had memorised my paper-run so that there was no need for the papers to be addressed and I could hit the streets running. I think eventually the two papers used the same delivery company and the cut-throat competition to reach the shops was gone. Later in the evening when all the results were in there was a hushed silence in the house,imposed by the old man,as the football pools results came over the wireless. The announcer had a certain intonation in his voice so you could almost tell whether it was a home or away win or even a draw before you heard the actual score.

I’ve got a time honoured routine on Friday nights and that’s going to the pub with a few friends. I’ve also got another time honoured routine and that is going to Firhill on Saturdays. Am not too bothered at what time. If given the option of what to do on Friday nights and especially with the team performing the way they are there would be no competition. Firhill gate money would definitely be one down. So it’s no no no for me. Mind you I'd have no objection if they wanted to try it for away games

Just read milhouse’s comments on McNamara’s demeanour. Funny with my less than perfect distance eyesight he reminded me of The John Lambie standing there be-suited with hands in pockets. It was nice to briefly reminisce on those great days and to fantasise of perhaps times come. Maybe it was a good omen.

Don’t actually go to the pie stall at half time but take a stroll up and down. I’ve noticed that when someone’s order is taken they don’t sort of move along to let those following behind them get served. And those behind the one whose order has been taken don’t pass by to get served themself. The result is there are three or four servers waiting for one customer to move on for the next customer to appear in front of them. With just a little bit of organisation at least three customers could be served at one time. Dead simple. Bad management. the servers should be told to shout "next, move along please"

I have a friend who I occasionally meet for a few drinks. He has virtually no interest in football but because he knows am a long time Jags fan he sometimes looks up the Thistle websites to see what the latest news is. It also gives us something else to talk about. He asked me last night why is the current longest thread, by far, on this forum all about Rangers. I told him I didn’t have clue, it happens quite often, but I’ll logon and ask. So if anyone can explain to my mate Iain why some of us have so much interest in Rangers he’d be interested to hear. He did put forward a couple of theories but I refuted them entirely.

It is reported in the Herald that the very nice Mr Weir is a Partick Thistle supporter. Does anyone recognise the very nice Mr Weir, possibly from the pie stall queue? Anyway don’t you think it would be entirely appropriate for the Club or even the JT to send the very nice Mr Weir our heartfelt congratulations on his good fortune to win such a large amount on the Lotto. And with absolutely no strings attached invite him and his very nice wife (though perhaps not with his teetotal wife, wouldn’t want her to dissuade Colin from making any rash commitments) along to match day hospitality for a glass or two of celebratory bubbly.

What is wrong with getting a gorgeous looking lassie like Ami to a bit of promotional work for the club. Not only does she look good but sounds it too. Someone said their friend laughed at it. Laughed at it! Good god why on earth would they want to do that. Even more, why would he want to tell us. Well done Ami.

I must be an insensitive old git. Offended, shocked, disgusted. Sometimes I can be all of those things. Though not very often. And certainly never over what an announcer says at a football ground of all places. I wonder how the posters who used these words would describe their feelings if they were actually faced with an event, not just a few regretted words uttered over a tannoy, which truly deserves them to be, offended, shocked, disgusted. Perhaps a course of cognitive therapy would help the poor souls not to let a misguided attempt at a joke affect them so much. For god’s sake get a grip and give Lance some peace.

Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is estuary speak

I have a problem with my printer. I get a error message saying the Printer Spooler Service Is Not Running. I now know how to restart the service which allows my printer to work but only for a few times before I have to restart the service again. Its not a major issue but a bit of a fouter. Any idea how I can keep the spooler service running. Cheers.

What’s wrong with the weans waiting outside for you. If it’s raining just make sure there is a close nearby for them to shelter. And give them a packet o' crisps to share.

You don’t say why you’re not coming back to Firhill. Do you find the walk to the turnstiles getting a bit too much? I sometimes feel a bit breathless but it helps if I take my time. Are you moving from the area, perhaps going to Australia. Surely you haven’t found another team to support, surely not one of the two….. I don’t suppose you’d like to say why. It's good to talk. Who knows someone on here might be able to help. Please don't go.

It’s Sunday evening and I’ve calmed down a bit. But not entirely. Yesterday my daughter phoned to ask if I was going to the football as she was thinking about coming to visit with my two grandsons. I said, sorry am going to the football maybe you could come next week. Okay dad see you then, she said. To arrive at Firhill at 2:40 and find that the game is postponed totally pissed me off. I had checked mid-morning to read that a referee had passed the pitch as playable. Now it has been said a million times and again repeated on this forum if a club requests a pitch inspection it should be the match official who does the pitch inspection. How more simple can that be. The club issued a statement yesterday which says “Equally no blame should be attached to the SFL or any of the match officials that inspected the park”. Now that is a load o’crap. The f***kwits who run the SFL are to blame. It is them who make the rules which allow some local guy to inspect and pass a pitch playable then have it overturned by the match official three hours later when there has been no change at all in the weather conditions. In fact Ian Maxwell said there had been an improvement in the pitch. This situation will arise again and again and nothing will change we’ll get the same old platitudes from the SFL and clubs about how lessons will be learned. Aye Right. But when will we learn. Well maybe I have as I am seriously considering walking away from going to Firhill. Scottish football is indeed dying on its feet and a lot of that is due to the way fans are treated like shit.

Talk of women not knowing the off-side rule! There are guys near me at Firhill who go ballistic when the linesman raises his flag for off-side when its obvious a player is off-side. They either need specs or just don’t know the rules. Or maybe both. No sir it ain’t just the lassies, well some of them, that don’t know the rules.

A few years ago I went to Kwikfit for two new tyres. While in the waiting room a fitter called me out to have a look at some dangerous shockers which he said I should get replace urgently. I mentioned that the car, a Golf, was going for a MOT in a few days. He immediately withdrew his claim that the car was dangerous. He said the dealers have different standards. He was correct the car passed its MOT. The garage said all the shockers were fine. I’ll still get the occasional tyre or exhaust from them but nothing else until I get a second opinion.

It might just be my age (been round the block a few times) but all this po faced declaring by people that they are deeply insulted and offended at the Dallas email. What was it about the Hokey Cokey again? Mr Reid the so called political attack dog, offended! Aye right). Jeezo it was an email! doing the rounds showing a satirical school sign. Something that Have I got News For You might use. Well maybe not. Catholics, and others, should get a grip and cut out all this feigning of pious indignation. We get enough of that stuff from the Moslems. There are a lot more other things the church should be concerned about. You can say that again. But there is nothing like a nice diversion. Unless of course that church is so closely linked to a football club, which in itself is a bit dubious, then I suppose the email is an ideal club the beat a referee over the head with.

I’m a big radio listener, I still call it the wireless which probably gives away my age, even more than I watch the telly. As already said most of the local FM stations are absolutely appalling. Mostly a constant diatribe of innate drivel. Especially the phone-ins. How do I know this? Because these are the stations on at the local gym. Mostly I listen to Radio2 and Scotland but also Radios 3 and 4 and the excellent World Service. If you haven’t tuned into the these stations recently give them a go and see what you think.

I’ve got a lot of sympathy for lennythistle. There has always been a scumbag element who go to football matches and I fear there will always be. They get all tanked-up and just cannot control their base instincts no matter whose company they are in. And they actually see it as their right to behave as they do at football matches. I know some of these guys who are otherwise perfectly respectable people. Really strange. It was a number of years ago I was at Clydebank, think it was the old Bogside, with my ten year daughter. A bunch of fellow Jags fans were directly behind me, with one guy in particular, letting loose with all the foul mouthed obscene language you could imagine. I turned to look at them a few times, as if to say cool it down a wee bit lads. But they didn’t. So I moved along the terracing only to find one of the guys actually followed and stood behind us to continue his tirade of foul language. Thankfully it only lasted a few minutes when he moved back to his mates who all thought this was a fantastic laugh. I hope this family aren’t put off going to see Thistle but shamefully I have to say sometimes you have to move seat to distance yourself from the worst element at football matches. It may not be a very principled thing to do but trying to reason with a tanked-up ninety minute moron is just about impossible. And besides, as proved, you are likely to end up worse off.

Don’t know too much about boilers but the advice I’ve received is to go for a Bosch or Vokera high efficiency combi boiler “A” rated. With wireless heat control. I am told a boiler can be bought from a supplier for about £600. If you can find a qualified competent engineer to fit it you could save a good few hundred quid. Perhaps there is an engineer on here who’d take on the job. Providing the engineer is qualified there would be no problem with the manufacturer’s warranty. You will also want to be assured that the boiler can produce sufficient hot water to feed both your central heating and shower/bath running at the same time.

What a load o’ guff, overshadow the position we find ourselves in, aye right, maybe for two minutes. This guy has some imagination. This is or was a thread about the Spitting Jags Fan. How on earth can that be construed as a rouse to divert criticism from the board. And how on earth can it be considered because Cowan comments to the papers about the Spitting Jags Fan he is attempting divert our attention away from the board. The Spitting Jags Fan thread will peter out soon but before it does we should have a campaign to out the scum-bag. Come on someone must know his identity. Point the finger now.

Every poster on this thread has condemned the filthy disgusting and totally unacceptable behaviour of the Spitting Jags Fan. And quite right too. Though some have made an attempt to link the deed to the poor performance of the team. That’s not right. I say spitting, at all, full-stop, is disgusting. Yet you see it going on all over the place. Mostly done by young men, you don’t often see females spitting. But the biggest spitters of all are footballers themselves. Even on five-a-side pitches they are at it. Why is that? Other sportsmen and athletes don’t habitually spit. Any ideas why? Is it some sort of hardman image thing? Or is it simply footballers and young men have filthy habits.

Tee hee. If I’d thought I would have put it back down to return later to pick it up again as you get a lovely warm feeling when you get your hands on it.

Went to Firhill yesterday and picked-up my season ticket book. So am a happy contented bunny.