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4 minutes ago, Third Lanark said:
2 strikers that look incapable of controlling a ball, let alone do what they are supposed to do and score ie mciver and Rudden. Beginning to think Rudden thinks he is better than he is - that lack of urgency to pick up a ball that was right beside him and leave it for the Forfar goalkeeper to stroll over and take his time picking it up smacks of laziness
a goalkeeper that looked like he was going to concede any time Forfar was upfield
agree about Williamson the last few minutes rather than throw the ball into the box he threw it constantly to a player about 3 foot away who was surrounded by Forfar players
You can apply that to the vast majority of our squad. That mentality has been allowed to fester year after year since we achieved top six in 2017.
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5 minutes ago, exiledjag said:
I remember when Firhill used to be a bit of a fortress and it was our away record that was poor.
Things seemed to have flipped.
I disagree.
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That rabble (I'll exclude a certain few) of a squad have been getting away absolute murder all season. What utter guff that was, yet again at home.
2 wins from 7 games at home is absolutely unacceptable and nothing short of a disgrace.-
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You have a three month break from watching this insipid, slow and pedestrian brand of football from these full time players and then they pick up from where they left off.
Our style of play is utter garbage.-
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21 hours ago, elevenone said:
Board Update today on this fairly bleak last 9 months.
Yet more tear stained drivel from Mrs Low. Queen of spin.
What an absolute charlatan.-
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On 12/27/2020 at 9:45 PM, CotterJag said:
Thistle look better than any team in the league overall and certainly have a chance to still win it. I know it's only League 1 but that's where we're at.
Take a bow.
What a perfect summarisation of the ignorance and delusion that is rife from those in control of the Club.
The Jacqui Low effect.
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The penalty yesterday is the perfect summarisation of how awful we have been since April 2017.
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11 minutes ago, Fearchar said:
There was clearly nobody lurking in the box and few prepared to run into the box - until Gordon came on, after which he and Graham seemed to get in each other's way. Why do we insist on punting crosses into the middle of the box, then? (Not to mention the standard lower-league Scottish giant centre-back opposition.)
Williamson only needs to work on one thing: making sure he can put a cross in with his left foot. That alone would make him unpredictable and threatening for any opposition defence. (The one-footedness is a wretched habit which coaching should break: all professionals should be equally capable with either foot - including Bannigan!)
His decision making and crossing with his right foot has to improve.
Seeing as all our attacks are primarily down the right side now, then he has to start producing the goods. Other players were just as guilty as him. He will be susceptible to more criticism because his direct overlaps have become the focal point down that right hand side of late. That's not his fault, I don't see any other player try to be as direct as him. Therein lies the problem with this team. -
3 minutes ago, Duke Gekantawa said:
Unlike most, I saw enough there to give me more confidence for the rest of the season. We are improving game on game in terms of performance and now have a solid looking back 5 (four successive clean sheets). Obviously don’t score enough, but play like that (and get some forward players back as we are missing a few) and we should be in with a shout (possibly through the playoffs if Falkirk don’t slip up enough)
On the basis of today we definitely are improving at becoming even less clinical. That's been the story of our season.
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That today is a stark reminder of why we were relegated last season and why we won't be going up this season.
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3 hours ago, Fearchar said:
I think that's a bit harsh on Williamson when both forwards and midfielders were often doing their best to avoid the centre of the penalty box. It's tough to train all week to play crosses in to where the target man and runners should be, only to find nobody's there. Of course, a cutback to tempt a shot would be advisable then, but Scottish football's mantra of "Get to the byeline and whip it in" doesn't really suit playing actual FOOTball - it's more a heading game.
I'm not insinuating he had a bad game. Don't get me wrong, he wasn't alone but he had more opportunities than most, due to his positive running. Good on the big man for doing so. I don't think we've seen enough of that in his time here but when it counted, the majority of his deliveries were poor. Williamson offers probably our most direct running threat in the team. The more our attack is built around that then the more pressure that is put on him to deliver an end product. I'm not trying to find faults in what was probably our best home performance in a long, long time but we need to be more clinical if we want to get out of this league. There is huge pressure on this squad to deliver this season.
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You can only beat what's in front of you. That first half was the best 45 minutes we have played in a few years. It was complete dominance from us and we created numerous openings and chances. Starting on the front foot and stamping our mark on the game from the first whistle. That's what we should be aiming to produce every week, regardless if we are at home or not.
However, our final ball was awful all game. Numerous promising positions we get into are thrown away due to a lack of quality and composure. Williamson being the main culprit. Today was a really great opportunity to claw back on the goal difference too. We should have had, at the very least four goals today. Yet again, we pass up great chances. This has been the only consistent part of our game all season.Finally our first clean sheet in the league this season. Sena had one or two shaky moments on the ball but overall I was impressed with his aggression and he adapted as well as you could have hoped.
We need to build on these two clean sheets in a row now.
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1 minute ago, Third Lanark said:
Was alarming how easily Falkirk players were able to run by him with ease mid to late second half, he was done and should have been taken off
Honestly?
Opposition players have been doing that to us consistently for three and a half years now.
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6 minutes ago, Muscat Jag said:
Partick Thistle shitting themselves in the 3rd tier of Scottish Football. Truly pathetic. The same thing happened in the Airdrie game. We were lucky they didn't get a probably deserved equaliser.
Partick Thistle Family Club
Remember we are a family Club now, not a Football Club. Results on the park are not paramount importance now.-
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It doesn't matter what week, month or year it is. We are subjected to the same turgid football.
That's four games into the season where we have not kept a clean sheet and have conceded first in all of those. We never start the game brightly, we never stamp our mark on the game.
The same core of losers who got us relegated lasts season keep producing the goods and keep shiting their pants when the pressure is on.
That squad of players, bar a select few are absolutely hopeless.-
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1 hour ago, Jag36 said:
What's your actual problem with the chairwoman? Give me some actual reasons? Backing managers in the transfer market, appointing a manager with a good track record that the majority of fans were behind, I think McCall's times up but the demise is not the chairwomans fault. To be honest it all began around the time Maxwell left. Blame the players, full time in a part time league, and the old pals act management team, but from what I can see the ' chairwoman' has provided funds, backed managers and has thistle at heart and is way down the list of people to blame for the club's current position
^^^ Jacqui lapdog found.
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It doesn't really matter that we are sleep walking to League 2 because 50 years ago we beat Celtic in the League Cup.
Please make sure you book your ticket for the celebration next year after we have been cuffed 1v0 off of Kelty Hearts.
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This club is a shambles from top to bottom. From the deluded incompetents running and ruining the Club to the absolute garbage footballers with no bottle.
We must be the only Club in Scotland who reward failure. A continuous losing mentality. Half of those wasters are those who got us relegated last season.
But it doesn't matter, it was 50 years ago we beat Celtic in the League Cup.
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43 minutes ago, elevenone said:
Thankfully no replays of goals in stream to save Sneddon blushes with that 2nd goal.
Or Penrice's woefully bad positioning and timing to jump to head the ball from the cross.
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So, a full kit for a League 1 Club will skin you £70. Laughable.
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No clean sheets in the league at all this season.
I know we need someone else up top but that defence needs gutted. Hopefully McCall can improve it this window. -
Still no clean sheets in the league this season.
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3 hours ago, Firhillista said:
I've no idea whether Kenny Miller will be a good signing or not. I thought Scott MacDonald - retired, hadn't played football for six months - was a bizzare signing, but that worked out okay.
Just okay?
If it wasn't for Scott MacDonald's goals we would be playing in League 1 this season.
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3 hours ago, a f kincaid said:
Time will tell. McDonald was a pleasant surprise (even if he was the exception rather than the rule) but this is the sort of signing that must demoralise young players trying to make their way in the game.
Absolute nonsense.
Thistle v Forfar
in Main Jags forum
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Excellent summary.
I'm not disagreeing with the criticism of the management team at all and it is entirely justified. However, what I've bolded above deserves just as much criticism.
Some of our squad are just really bad footballers with a really weak mentality. Some have ability and a stinking attitude. When the pressure is on to produce the goods and deliver, they don't. The league table doesn't lie.