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Archie for Sevco?

And a very young Kevin Nisbet banged in the goals on loan to East Stirling. By the way what is the difference between being loaned out and being farmed out? Does the latter only apply if you end up in a tractor driving part of the country?

I am fairly sure that Christie Elliott, Mark McGuigan and James Craigen were all loaned out.

Is Jordan Turnbull not technically on loan? He has been one of our better performers. Without the head of steam which Dorrans and Santala in their different ways enabled us to build up, we would never have crawled over the promotion line at Peterhead. Peter Lindau's loan period helped to lift the gloom and to pave the way for the positive promotion campaign in which he was involved the following season.

Turnbull's challenge was well timed and was certainly not a penalty.

While they may not have been world beaters, Hibs were certainly not garbage, in particular in the last 20 minutes when they dominated possession very effectively.

Agree with this. You only have to watch Match of the Day, Sportscene etc a few times to see how often a shot at goal, even a poorly hit or off target or half blocked one, can take any sort of weird deflection and end up in the back of the net or at least at the feet of a player who has not been marked in the way that would normally happen when defending a regular pass or cross, and is free to score. Maybe a sclaffy and unsatisfactory or even undeserved goal, but they all count just the same. Moving on to an observation on yesterday's game. The last 20 minutes were desperately disappointing as Hibs dominated possession and saw the game out in an efficient St Johnstone like manner. We could not pass through them or go down the sides, and hitting it long was equally ineffective. Because that was the final and most enduring memory, it tends to mask the recollection that much of the play in the first 70 minutes was quite decent (though not spectacularly good). A win at Kilmarnock, where we have performed well in recent seasons, would be very welcome, if not verging on the essential.

If you place your calendar too high on the wall, you may have to put a stilt on to reach it. When I was a student, there were a lot of negatively themed rock concerts like Rock Against Racism etc. I always thought that there should be a positive event called Roquefort Cheese

Arrived at work a bit earlier than usual this morning and met the man who cleans the stairs in the building where my office is situated. He looked scarily like Craig Levein. Indeed I think it might have been Craig Levein. Should I be worried? PS He appeared to be deploying a sweeper system.

You could help Donald Trump make America grate again.

Chances of success are 1 in 80. More likely that Thistle will win the Scottish Cup!!

Love the way you put dog and bone together in the last line. Wuff!! Thank you for that detailed analysis. Looks like a plan that will bring some extra excitement and variety. I still have confidence that Partick Thistle and East Fife will meet in the final this year. I only need two picks.

The Thistle Legends Stand You can then name each row individually, giving the opportunity to honour several heroes. Kris would of course be given Row 9.

Hopkirk will always choose Randall before Penrice

I was listening on the car radio and the immediate indication was that the shot or header from May hit Broadfoot first and then bounced off O'Donnell and therefore was technically an O'Donnell own goal. I have not seen it and it may be that the received wisdom has since been updated. However, it looks like Steven at least made sure that the ball went into the net!!

Good to see Steven O'Donnell scoring an own goal for Aberdeen to help us out. Once a Jag...

I have really enjoyed this year's competition and am grateful to BB for organising this. A few little thoughts to make next year even better. I am not mentioning these because I have been the worst competitor this time round! However, it would be good to encourage predictions favouring smaller rather than bigger teams. Suggested new rules for Wayfarer to misunderstand: 1) In every round, and this could apply to the preliminary rounds as well as the main competition, you have to choose at least 1 team from each league division/level (counting all non-league teams as one level) and if there are more levels than picks available, you must take one each from the lowest level up. 2) If one of your chosen teams defeats a team from a higher league or level, you are given the bonus of being able to select an extra team in the next round. Therefore picking the shock troops rather than the predictable big guns is rewarded.

I have lifted the following from my earlier post (Number 200). Maybe a starter for ten that others can improve: IN LOVING MEMORY Robert Watson (Rab the Jag) 19??-2017 Disability Rights Campaigner Wheelchair Footballer Jags Fanatic Lived Life to the Full An Inspiration to us all

Thank you AFK. That has solved the mystery. LiIB was remembering 2006 and I was remembering 2007. Was 2007 Ian McCall's first friendly in charge which would explain why all these players were new to me? To take LIB's other point, maybe the plastic pitch was new in 2007. I am not an expert in such matters but perhaps the black ash spurting up was a temporary phenomenon before the pitch "settled".

I am going for Partick Thistle and East Fife, in memory of a friend who was an East Fife fan and who died far too young this year. That would be a cracking final if both my teams could get there!

I remember that pre-season friendly at Montrose. When the ball bounced on the artificial pitch, it threw up black ash. First sightings of Liam Buchanan, Scott Chaplain, Marc Twaddle and a returning David Rowson. And I kept thinking somebody was our new signing Gary Harkins, but found out later that it wasn't him at all.

Perhaps because as yet there is no game to commentate on?!

Somewhat surprisingly Sevco have won all their away league games this season...except against Thistle at Firhill!

Always amazed at the length some will go to in taking a result between two totally different teams to make a negative point about Thistle. Is there a Dundee fan somewhere who works himself into a paroxysm every time someone else beats Thistle and immediately bemoans the fact that Dundee have lost to the Jags 4 times in a row?

I am still alive thanks to cracking wins for Fraserburgh and Brora. Either of these away would be a brilliant draw for Thistle, but my dream of seeing the Jags playing at Elgin has died, at least for the time being.