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  1. Scott Fox

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    Foxy was immense last night , done everything that was required of him in his usual quiet, calm and composed way. BRILLIANT.

     

    Kept wondering who Scott Fox looked like and then it came to me--Chistopher Dean of Torvill & Dean.

     

    Maybe inspire him by playing Ravel's Bolero before we take on Morton?

  3. Off-Beat Low Points As A Jags Fan

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    I had almost forgotten the incredible 1 -6 and 0 -5 defeats , but I do remember vowing not to renew my ST ! That ws a truly disgraceful period in Jags history. I did renew of course. The success of the current team has obliterated the memory.

    How many of the older posters remember the 10-2 defeat at home to Hibs? Before the aforementioned, that stood out as my lowest point.

     

    The stramge thing was that despite those 2 heavy home defeats against St Johnstone and Gretna, due to decent results elsewhere, we were not far off top of the league and indeed I think we would have gone top a few weeks later if we had beaten rather than drawn with Clyde at Firhill, probably the only team in history to be top of a league with a vastly negative goal difference.

  4. Serious Vowel Play

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    Posted · Edited by partickthedog

    Davie Irons

     

     

    Thank you all for your suggestions. I am delighted to say that I no longer need to bulk out the squad with expensive foreign imports and we can have a full team of Jags

     

    Kenny Arthur

    Jean Yves Anis

    Andy Anderson

    Davie Irons

    Alan Archibald

    Stephen O'Donnell

    Alex O'Hara

    Davie Elliott

    Isaac English

    Kemajl Avdiu

    Chris Erskine

     

    Supersubs

    John Arrol

    Moses Apiliga

    Pedram Ardalany

    Graeme Eaglesham

    Christie Elliott

     

    I envisage a flexible 4-3-3 formation with plenty of movement among the front 3 in particular. By moving the younger Alan Archibald out to left back I have incorporated the older Davie Irons in central defence and got StephenO'Donnell back over to the correct right side.

     

    My Thistle supporting career has come in two phases, an initial burst in the mid to late 1970s and total obsession from 1996 to now. There is a gap in the 1980s to mid 1990s and therefore while I know most of the names and approximately where and how they played, I am not sure who is left, right or middle. Accordingly if there is an expert from that period, perhaps you would be kind enough to re-arrange the team formation for me.

     

    Anybody else for the bench or to challenge for the first team?

  5. Well Done Boys

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    Well said. We've even delved into that mindset ourselves, getting much more dross (Anis, Mooc, Dave-the-U, Bonnes, Madaschi, Klein, Cadette!!!) than good players (Jacobs, Lindau). Ramon and Sentala probably also make it into the "good guy" category, and Chiarini at a stretch.

     

    Jean Yves has to be a good guy for his sheer entertainment value.

  6. Dunfermline

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    I guess Fred must be a legal expert as he has already decided what all the options are.

     

    Have to agree with the man of the cloth here.

     

    In brief summary any claim for damages would have to arise out of a breach of contract or an actionable wrong (Scots Law word is delict though some may be more familiar with the English equivalent-tort). I cannot see any relevant contractual relationship here.

     

    Delict would require us to have suffered quantifiable loss naturally and directly arising from a breach of duty of care by someone who owes us such a duty. I am not sure how you could get any such action off the ground.

     

    Then again, maybe you were not thinking of training your litigious guns on Dunfermilne FC, Gavin Masterton, Jim Leishman, Sammy the Tammy or the SFL or the SFA. What about Craig Dargo for diving, Aaron Muirhead for bringing him down, Conrad Balatoni for being outjumped by Andy Barrowman, or Ross Forbes for missing the penalty. Sue them all jointly and severally and see how you get on!

  7. Serious Vowel Play

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    Was watching my favourite non-Thistle player Andres Iniesta running the game for Barcelona as usual on Tuesday. Felt a bit sorry for him having to try to work with such an unimaginative and substandard player as Lionel Messi, and thought how much more effective he would be if played in combination with our own maestro Chris Erskine. Noted then that both Iniesta and Erskine begin with a vowel and soon had put together a team of half Thistle half others with vowel initiated surnames.

     

    Kenny Arthur

    Jean Yves Anis

    Andy Anderson

    Alan Archibald

    Stephen O'Donnell

    Mikkel Arteta

    Leon Osman

    Chris Erskine

    Sergio Aguerro

    Andres Iniesta

    Zlatan Ibrahimovic

     

    I would envisage this team playing in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Arteta and Osman in holding roles (with licence to one or other to break forward). Erskine, Aguerro and Iniesta would switch and combine like crazy behind Zlatan and no doubt tie any defence in knots. Love the thought of an Anderson/Archibald centre defence and my only small problem is having to play O'Donnell on the wrong side to accommodate the mercurial talents of Jean Yves Anis (playing as he did against Livingston and Falkirk, please). Would have liked to include a U surname but could only think of David Unsworth and John Utaka who do not quite make the grade.

     

    Any improvements on that team (while keeping a reasonable Thistle/others balance, but if you can do all-Thistle, then so much the better)?

  8. Dunfermline

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    Will every effort not be made by the powers that be to enable Dunfermline to limp to the finish line this season, especially as the end of the season is not that far off? I appreciate that it was the SPL rather than the SFL, but was this not the approach taken for Gretna? I cannot recall the precise detail but were not monies brought forward that would normally have been payable at the end of the season? Even if by the end it is a youth and coach team with Leishman and Jefferies on the bench, as long as they fulfil the fixtures, that should be enough.

  17. Goal Of The Season

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    Posted · Edited by partickthedog

    And still no mention of Chris Erskine's against Raith Rovers in the Ramsdens where the move started with a Herculean effort from Paul Paton who retrieved the ball with a sensational tackle inside his own half, then delivered - for me - the pass the season: a stunning diagonal ball through to the Bridge whose control, turn and finish we're out the Brazil 1970 playbook.

     

    I did mention this one above. But your description is so much more eloquent!

  18. Goal Of The Season

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    Different style of goal. Would never win goal of the season but perhaps a place in a top ten showcasing every aspect of the art of goalscoring. Conrad Balatoni's header against Dunfermline (at 1-1 remember) crashing into the net right in front of the New Shed was truly inspirational.

     

    If one has to be chosen has to be by Chris Erskine, but which one? Best single shot strike v Airdrie, wonderful run and lob v Falkirk or finshing off Paton's crunching tackle and pinpoint crossfield pass v Raith?

     

    Then again, team goal Stephen O'Donnell with the incredibly cheeky dink has to be in the mix as well!

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  19. Ground Bagging

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    Excellent thread. Think I'd done the lot way back when we were in the old 1st division (70-71), but might be delusional. Plenty of the new grounds that I haven't been to, but hope to get lifted at some of them before it's too late.

     

    Another one lacking only Elgin & New St Mirren Park.

     

    Two of my hits are slightly dodgy.

     

    Pre-season friendly at Montrose and under-21 game at the old Firs Park (East Stirling).

     

    The rest are all competitive first team fixtures.

     

    Can also add Deveronvale as well as the now defunct (at least at the top level) Clydebank and Gretna.Have been to both incarnations of Airdrie, but not yet to Rangers Newco. Old grounds include Boghead and the former Bayview.

  22. Best Thistle Goal Ever

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    Anoter one from the dark days of the Second Division.

     

    Graham Connell rocket shot at Firhill against Inverness.

     

    If I can go off topic, the other memory from that game was towards the end when we were hanging on desperately at 2-1. Inverness won a throw in with seconds to go down at the corner where the turnstiles for the North Stand now are. Ballboy threw ball to Inverness player. He was so nervous and in so much of a hurry that he dropped the ball and it ran right away down the hill to waste a valuable half minute which was just enough to see us through.

  24. Best Thistle Goal Ever

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    Posted · Edited by partickthedog

    A few more from the memory banks.

     

    Andy Lyons 3rd goal in 3-0 home win v Ayr in the Save the Jags season. Took off from the near (to the JHS) corner of the halfway line in weaving run during which he beat around 13 players before squeezing the ball past the goalie and embarking on a safely excuted Klinsman dive into a puddle.

     

    Late winner by Mark Roberts at Firhill in near end of season 1-0 success against Dundee which destroyed their promotion hopes. Excellent team move in which Marc Twaddle had some involvement before Roberts did some neat footwork and lifted the ball over the goalie.

     

    Amazing Darren Brady (yes-him!) lob in early season cup tie at Dens Park (reminiscent of Cairney last season v Falkirk as already mentioned). We won 3-1 with Billy Gibson and Scott Boyd also scoring.

     

    Some goals are more memorable for their celebration value than their quality. These two come from our turning of the tide season in the 2nd Division which laid the groundwork for the two forthcoming consecutive promotions. It is difficult to recall how depressed the support was at that time. Our first season in the 2nd Division had stumbled to an inglorious conclusion and we had a horrendous start to the next campaign (5 points from first 10 games). So, although these may not sound like spectacular results, in their context they were huge!

     

    A very young Derek Lyle robbing George Rowe and running away to finish and clinch a 2-1 victory in a bottom of the table encounter at Queen of the South.

     

    Albert Craig ghosting in for a last second winner at Firhill against Stirling Albion (it was so sweet as it had happened against us so many times!).

     

    If there was a category for best double salvo, it would have to be Alan Archibald's stunning volleyed brace at home against Hearts in the Premier League. More of the same today, Archie!

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