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The home dressing room should be named in honour of Ricky and Chico.
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Bad egg may be a little harsh, but he has definitely gone off the boil. Not one to be poached.
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I would fully understand if The Rangers fans ran into the pitch if they won the cup next year. After all, it would be the first in their history.....
Running into rather than on to the pitch conjures up an interesting picture of being swallowed up by the ground and disappearing.
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I think I would take a cup win combined with narrowly not gaining promotion, as has happened with Hibs. Sunshine over Maryhill. You can look back on a reasonably successful though ultimately disappointing league campaign with the expectation of going one better next season. That is quite different from a cup win combined with a relegation which sets us on a downward slide with no certainty as to how far down the slope we will go before we can hammer in the piton to stop us falling further.
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I remember the young Derek Lyle scoring his first goal to win the game for us at Palmerston. It was a vital win as I think I am right in saying that it finally lifted us off the foot of the Division 2 table after a start to the season similar to the one just past. Maybe a sliding doors moment. A draw or a loss that day and the rot may have set in and taken us down to Division 3 from where recovery might have proved impossible. So I will always be a little bit grateful to Del Boy.
Really stretching the memory here. Did George Rowe of Queen of the South miskick, allowing Lyle to nick the ball off him and round the keeper and score? I do recall it was a real "fans' goal" and one of the best celebrated ever!
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Much as I want Falkirk to win thru it's far from an ideal venue. Plus we're still stuck with another plastic pitch. Another in a long line of poor away day grounds.
I really like a good grumble but McDiarmid, Ibrox, ICT, Fir Pk, Parkhead, Pittodrie are all grounds that aren't exactly by location away fan friendly. Some are still good days out spoiled only by the misery of getting to and fro the stadia.
Should we be too unhappy about another plastic pitch? Our record last season on plastic pitches was won 3 drawn 1 lost 0. 9-3 to us overall (sorry for recalling bad memories of that particular scoreline).
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I hope that this is not Frexit.
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Excellent stats my friend, but perhaps it is worth mentioning our DoublOOns, the players with a double O in their surnames.
Kris DOOlan, David AmOO and Calum BOOth finished first, second and equal fourth in the top goal scorers list and between them contributed 22 goals, more than half of our total for the season. I have spoken to Archie and explained how this should inform his recrOOtment for the coming campaign, and accordingly I can exclOOsively reveal our intended starting line up for the first match of the nyOO season (in goalkeeper plus 4-4-TOO formation), Some old fans' favourites return to the club and a fyOO veterans and controversial names are in there alongside the big money signings, but hopefully the Firhill rafters will sOOn be ringing to the tyOOn of Hey JOOde.
Marc POOm
Allan MOOre
Jim GOOdwin
Glen LOOvens
Calum BOOth
David AmOO
Wayne ROOney
Adam ROOney
David GOOdwillie
Vyaschlev MOOc
Kris DOOlan
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You even give us something to look forward to after the end of the season!
You are the forum's star, TJR!!
Barney began a poem, so let me finish it, in true McGonagall fashion
You are the forum's star,
TJR.
Thank you for all your time and trouble,
From me and Barney Rubble.
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Correct and well remembered MKJ. 2 March 1963. A flashing og header (30) and a penalty rebounded off the keeper (60) in a 1-1 draw. Niven, Hogan, Brown, McParland, Harvey, Cunningham, Cowan, Hainey, Whitelaw, Duffy, Fleming.
Did Hogan ever get a Hogan?
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Doolan secures his Hogan against Kilmarnock by scoring in 3 of the 4 games. He is going for a second Hogan against Dundee United on Tuesday and Matthias can round off with a Hogan against Hamilton on Saturday.
10 out of 12 points on plastic pitches is a great return for the season. Might that change any thoughts as regards an artificial surface at Firhill?
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Welsh playing well?
Yes!!
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What does Sean Welsh have to do to get dropped?
Are you at the game? I am not one of Sean Welsh's greatest fans, but today I would have to say that he has been our best player through most of the first half. Covered just about every blade of artificial grass.
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Blair Spittall looked to be a promising young player, but seems to have dropped out of the picture recently. I have not seen enough of him to give any sort of expert comment on his general play, but his dead ball expertise, especially from free kicks, might be worthy of consideration.
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As I have said several times before, from the North Stand, I can never make out the name of the halftime guest, so am not sure how enthusiastically I should be clapping! If the announcer has to shout it incoherently for whatever reason, could he not then just repeat it in a normal voice?
I am sure that there are many Jags legends who have not received the welcome they deserve because we have no idea who they are.
Then again some less than legends may be happy to go under (or behind) the radar.
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Tom Cruise as his (Kris Doolan's) early strike partner/rival Liam Buchanan
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Stevie is also the only Jags player to win another award this season-see the Stats Watch thread.
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MEAT LOAF WATCH TJR, you will correct me if I am wrong and let me know of any I have missed. But I think I am right in saying: 1) If we make the top 6, then Pogba has meatloafed Hamilton and Doolan has meatloafed Dundee United and twin slice meatloafed Kilmarnock (2 doubles). If we do not make the top 6, they can aim for Hogans. 2) If we finish in a different 6 from St Johnstone, Lawless has a meatloaf, failing which he can try again for a Hogan. Oddly enough, I had meatloaf for tea tonight. Very tasty!
MEATLOAF AND HOGAN WATCH
It is confirmed that Stevie Lawless is the only player to perform a Meatloaf this season, having scored in 2 of our 3 wins against St Johnstone.
Kris Doolan will be gunning for Hogans against both Kilmarnock and Dundee United, and Matthias Pogba aims to bring down the curtain on his season with a Hogan against Hamilton (hopefully he can score against somebody else too).
Just to remind anyone who is wondering what on earth I am havering on about:
1) To do a Meatloaf is to score in 2 out of 3 games in the same season against the same team (which goes on to finish in a different 6 from us), named after the Meatloaf hit "2 out of 3 ain't bad".
2) To do a Hogan is to score in 3 out of 4 games in the same season against the same team (who end up in the same 6 as us), named after Ben Hogan who won 3 of golf 's Grand Slam tournaments in one season (better than Sunshine on Spieth has ever done).
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Maybe he fancied a career change and is now A German, Shepherd.
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As brokenhearted as a dethroned Masters Champion. Sunshine on Spieth!
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Erskine is ALWAYS that guy.
Number 10? Erskine.
False 9? Erskine.
Winger? Erskine.
Next Bond? Erskine.
End to world hunger? Erskine.
Requirement for road bridge to link communities north and south of the River Clyde and relieve traffic congestion in Glasgow? Erskine
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Only Dundee have beaten us in this mini-League (twice).
If we could take out Dundee and put in St Johnstone, we would have a barnstorming 9 wins and 6 draws!
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How about a live performance by a gospel choir singing "Dumbuya"? That would be inspirational.
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An incredible 27 times out of 35 is the answer to that one. Of those, there have only been two HT results; 17 times 0-0 and 10 times 0-1.
It seems clear that we're witnessing this phenomenon as a direct result of gameplans deployed.
For sage advice and further comfort on this issue see post #461
Yep, there have only been 5 competitive Thistle goals at the Northy this term, an astonishingly low number. Only one of those was a winner - David Amoo's opener in the 3-0 win over United. For us, the only North Stand goal in 2016 so far has been Amoo's consolation in the January snow vs Dundee.
All of which evokes a sense of day-Jah-view; Stats Watch regulars will recall that we finished last term with just 1 goal of the last 15 at the Northy.
Ha-ha, you can keep me right mair like! I think I was blathering a load of Rafael earlier about doublets for this season. We agreed the doublet was the old-skool pre-75 double right? The modern-day 2 out of 4 is nowt?
Pity the #9 never got more time to stake his claim on a Killie triple crown / grand slam, really thought that could have been on.
Your summing of the story so far is bang-on... all will become clearer on Saturday afternoon... or maybe even next Tuesday night (groan)...
By the way, if big Andrew Davies bangs in another beauty for us on Saturday does he qualify?
Listen, that's us 19+ years now since the pain of the play-offs; the catharsis from Doolan's winning 09th goal of the season is most soothing.
Going backwards these are the season's where our finishes get higher, 'til we get to our joint-club-record finish of 1963:
8th - 2014/15
6th - 1980/81
5th - 1976/77
3rd - 1962/63
FWIW I reckon our chances of a Top 6 finish are currently around the 20% probabilty mark, rising to somewhere around 85-90% if we get the win.
No need to be nervous on Saturday. What will be will be, we've done well this season whatever happens.
MEATLOAF WATCH
Thank you for that. Funnily enough my thoughts turned to Dingwall in the course of the day and I did wonder if there were any candidates for a further Meatloaf but then realised as you did that Andy Davies is the only possibility for this honour. Just aim every shot and cross at him and one is bound to go in.
Matthias maybe has a quasi-doublet as I do not think he had been signed by the time we played Hamilton in the opening game of the season. Hopefully it will not be the case that Matthias fails to score again this season, but if that were to happen would he be the first Thistle player to score only in Meatloaves?
By the way I had meatloaf for tea again tonight. This means I am guaranteed a Meatloaf as long as I do not have meatloaf again tomorrow night, if that makes sense?
Just to confirm that there is as yet no official title for scoring in 2 out of 4 games, but if you want one, how about a Hamlet, 2 Be and Not 2 Be?
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Can see why L-I-B would oppose the signing of Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Such a distinguished titled lady would put her in the shade.