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Honk and me going by car
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DEREK GASTON = NOT SAD GREEK
DEREK GASTON = STOKED ANGER
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Sorry Jaggernaut, i cant keep up with your puns, you win, am just a rookie to all this!!!
When is the court heron? Hopefully the birdict will prove that he did nothing ill eagle.
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lets hope this is a goodyear for thistle
And we find the winning formula
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Can't we get one on loan? or if our budget won't stretch that far, how about a scapemouse?
OK it IS getting late...time to go home soon.
The Scape of Good Hope might encourage some optimism about promotion.
The Great Scape might be handy if we are fighting relegation.
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I know. They just don't stop.
You can go on the train
You can go on the suporters bus
Or you can go your own way.
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Oui monsieur!
Un bon capture
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Well, at least we have some friendlies matches arranged. When my mate told me about this game I thought he was just telling little lies.
Probably a breakdown in the chain of communication. Hope we don't stop thinking about playing them.
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When I saw Fleetwood Town mentioned, I thought 'brilliant', then saw that it wasn't away from home. Never mind.
At first I thought we were playing Fleetwood Mac but then realised it was only Rumours
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Let's hope he knows just what he's getting roped into.
Was he suffering from crampon Saturday?
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Surely we'll mount more of a challenge than under IM.
I wouldn't get into a lava about it.
Jackie deserves a fair Krakatoa of the whip.
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My Thistle history comes in two distinct sections. My dad was a Yorkshireman who loved cricket (he used to watch such as Len Hutton) and had a low opinion of football, so there was no encouragement from that direction. At school I was a football follower and keen subbuteo player but without supporting a particular team, though in general always rooting for the underdog. I had a friend who was a Thistle diehard and a few of us got into the habit of joining him at Firhill on Saturdays more for the social occasion and company and getting awy from parents etc rather than from any commitment to Thistle. This must have been approx 1976 at the tail end of the last season of the 18 team league when we just missed out on the top ten. I can remember a wee man selling Lees Macaroon Bars and the halftime ritual of buying pie and bovril. The pie came on a piece of cardboard. I wondered what it was for until one week there was no cardboard and my hand got wet as some strange fluid leaked out of the pie! I recall a very foggy game (against Airdrie?) when all we could see was Alan Rough in the nearest goal and nobody had the faintest ides of what was goiing on over the rest of the park. East Fife were humped 5-0 and the name of their big centre half Mark Clougherty for some reason lodged in my memeory bank (did he score an own goal?). At Christmas the fans sang "Hark the herald angels sing, Joe Craig is the Firhill King". Rooney and Craig scored to beat nearest rivals Kilmarnock and we were promoted as champions. I was happier when Thistle won but had no great life and death commitment to the team. I was regular at the home games for the next season and a half. My final match was a 1-0 home win against a strong Aberdeen team which included Joe Harper and amazingly we were 2nd top of the Premier League.
Increasingly onerous university studies and meeting my future wife prised me away from Firhill and my absence lasted for nearly two decades during which time Thistle seemed to go into decline (I have no knowledge whatsoever of the Thistle players of the eighties). If asked what team I supported, I would have said Thistle and I did try to keep looking out for their results. The turning point came in 1996 when my son began collecting football stickers and expressing interest in the various teams. I determined that there was no way he was ever going to follow either Celtic or Rangers and the best way to ensure this seemed to be to take him along to a game myself. Our first appearance was a dismal wet spring day for a totally rubbish game against Kilmarnock. Tom Black scored a penalty for them in the 2nd minute. Thistle huffed and puffed but never looked like recovering the deficit. A miserable match yet for some reason we loved it and that peculiar internal process took place whereby we both became hooked as Thistle fans without hope of redemption. Occasional home games stepped up into the odd away game and then buying a season ticket and somehow we graduated into attending virtually every game home and away. Now Saturday is incomplete without a Thistle fixture and I have racked up around 5 seasons without missing a league game (the only competitive match missed during that time was an Alba Cup tie which clashed with a wedding-why on earth would anyone choose to get married on a Saturday?).
So that is it (with apologies for the rambling). I am "into Thistle" so deep that there is no possibility of escape and I have seen rather a lot of Scotland (plus some bits of England and Northern Ireland) in the process!
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he went to his team mate who was involved & also went down injured, nothing wrong with that
I was very impressed by the Dundee fans as Martin Grehan was being carried off. Although the game was back in progress and there was every excuse to ignore activity off the park, there was a healthy ripple of applause taken up by groups in different sections of the stadium as the stretcher party went past-rather like a Mexican Wave of sound as Dundee fans co-operated in maintaining the momentum until finally Martin was "passed over" to the Thistle section of the support. All in all a nice touch.
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Players could sit on the hedge for a rest if they were feeling bushed
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That's not a bad start for a squad. Based on Saturday's performance I think that Tommy Steward would be an excellent addition as an attacking midfielder. I also think that Paul Cairney should be retained.
Will save money if a Steward can double as a player.
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I used to live on a canal boat so know all the terminology. You might want to use the following in puns:-
Pound - the stretch of water between two locks
Reservoir - each canal has a reservoir at its top which keep the canal water topped up
Tiller - the steering handle
Gunnels - the bit along the side of the boat for walking along
Central Line - the rope on the middle of the boat.
Pump Out - how you empty your toilet tank
Mooring Pin - steel rod to fix your boat to canal when no Mooring Rings available
Windlass / Lock Key - used to open the sluices on locks
Button - protective ball at front and back of the boat
Weed hatch - allows access to the propellor to remove useless old weeds
Propellor - well, duh
bilge - mixture of canal water, rain and engine oil that gathers at the bottom of the boat
bilge pump - empties bilge
throttle - what I'd like to do to elvis
Looks like Elvis will be replaced by Dean Windlass
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I think the typing up of McCall's comments got a bit muddled here. One more he wants to sign but he wants to sign a few more?? I think he must hope to sign 2-3 at least. Archie is one he'll want, Rowson's essential and he might want either Hodge of Flannigan.
Is Hodge of Flannigan like Vennegoor of Hesselink?
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I hope admin will lock this thread before the canal puns sink to greater depths.
Why should he barge in?
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Straight 10's from our jury for diplomacy on that one, jaf
Maintaining the fishing theme it seems that the casting of the vote followed the party line.
He who pays the piper calls the tuna
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1. Cos no-one in Brazil's ever heard of Cowdenbeath
2. It wouldn't make any sense
I am tempted to email everybody in Brazil. There must be at least one expatriate Fifer and/or stock car enthusiast out there who has heard of Cowdenbeath. I also suspect that if "Cowdenbeath" were whispered in Pele's ear, he would know who they were.
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Almost as good as our nickname. The Maryhill Magyars after the famous Hungarian team of the 50/60s
Why are Brazil not called "the Yellow Cowdenbeath"?
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Holloway is brilliant.
Agreed!!!
partickthedog aka Alan Holloway
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We did have an incredible run one season, could have been 1977, that started with a 1-0 win against Celtic and we had a run when we almost beat everone in the league, excepting a 3-3 draw(presumably not so defensive that day) at Ibrox. Alex MacDonald scored an equalizer at the death; I was heartbroken, would have been my first victory at Ibrox. The run ended with a 1-0 win against Aberdeen. Brilliant day, 12,000 inside Firhill and we went 2nd top in December. The next game at Parkhead, basically after completing a full quarter cycle of fixtures, against the league leaders and I clearly remember that a victory would have have put us top of the premier league at Xmas. Wasn't to be though; humped 3-0 and a pretty dramtic loss of form followed. Heady days though.
I remember the 1-0 win at Firhill against Aberdeen that put us 2nd top of the League. Joe Harper was playing for them.
Just after that University study cranked up a notch and I also met my future wife, the result being that I disappeared from Firhill for 18 years. My absence seemed to coincide with a decline in Thistle's fortunes!
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just make sure you check before you go to firhill, otherwise you could be there on your Sweeney
It would solve all the problems if we played in Midsomer
Balatoni
in Main Jags forum
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Which coloured house is he going to?
Tell me what do you think?
Hopefully the post office.
If you look closely at a photograph of Tobermory, you will see that the post office has red and yellow hooped walls.
By the way CONRAD BALATONI is an anagram of NOT A CRAB ON DIAL. Obviously he is not in the habit of phoning crustaceans.