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Apologies for chipping in, but I think that Ben Sayers makes golf clubs.

Indeed. Falkirk did rather supply grist to your mill in the way they conceded the first goal to us last Friday!

The PTFC Women's team must really be annoying @Auld Jag. In 7th place in the league table, but already got 5 points more than Motherwell in 6th place. At least a win today would prevent Aberdeen in 8th place from leaping above Motherwell in the points tally as well.

You are right about the fans. When I looked across at the beginning of the game, I saw a reasonably sized squad of seemingly enthusiastic Livi fans waving flags etc. I was expecting a fair amount of noise, but I cannot remember any, and certainly there was no discernible song. Even when our game was level and Falkirk were behind, there was little obvious excitement or reaction. Thistle fans were already well on top in the singing stakes. Of course, after we scored, there was no contest, and you would hardly have known that there were any Livi fans there. I am glad to hear that the fantastic Thistle support came over so well on the livestream. It is to the credit of the Livi players that they kept pushing hard for an equaliser regardless of the lack of backing from their stand.

So many players gave everything they had and a little bit more tonight. Hope they recover well. Difficult to single anyone out, but special praise to Mitchell, Ashcroft and Megwa. I appreciate that he did not have to play the full game, but Terry Ablade put in an incredible shift as emergency wingback.

On the theme of “supporting the team” should we be despatching a squadron of enthusiastic Jags fan to the home end at Hampden to increase the numbers, ramp up the noise, and increase the urgency levels?

Raith actually have a very poor away record this season (even worse than ours!) and have only won 4 away games out of 17. After a terrible run of losses, Queens Park have semi-stabilised with a couple of draws, and will be keen to close out the season with a win. Certainly we can in no way rely on QP, but there are some reasonable grounds for optimism.

Out of likes for today, so thank you very much, Mr Archive.

Underdog for men's final is obvious. Underdog for women not so obvious, but I will apply the same rule I have for the men, that neither of the OF can be deemed worthy of underdog status. Therefore it has to be: HH Many thanks for doing everything possible over the years to revise the rules of this competition to give me a sporting chance, and for counting up all my bonus points. Apologies for having failed you. Brora (v Hearts) and Darvel (v Aberdeen) did their best to help me, but too few others joined the party. I am hoping that @The Thistle Archive when he has some spare time on his hands will analyse the results of all the past competitions and confirm that I do indeed have the highest bonus points to correct predictions ratio.

Great work as always. Other informed sources such as Michael Max have suggested that Brian Graham is currently on 98 competitive goals (and BBG himself seems to think that as well). Is the difference still down to the OG by the Inverness player in our 3-3 away draw 3 seasons ago, or is there another explanation?

So if we draw 5-5 with Livingston and Raith beat Queens Park 4-0, we are in the play offs. That is a relief. I suppose that would be a case of surfiveall of the fittest. Apologies. Coat fetched. Being serious for a moment, I appreciate that this is far from done yet. But to emerge from playing Falkirk with 2 points more than Raith picked up at home to Morton is an initial outcome far better than most of us expected.

Livi unfortunately cruising 2-0 v Hamilton. Being at the game last night was stressful to an extent. However, at least you can see what is happening in front of you, which prepares you psychologically. Not being at games, but having random scores drop in is far worse!

I even said that Terry (who was not on the pitch at the time) would score the winner in the dying seconds, and the referee would blow instantly for full-time, and I followed it up with "you heard it from me first". The first and no doubt the last time I have ever made a correct prediction. Great finish by Terry. Did really well to loop the ball up and over the goalkeeper.

2-1 was enough.

I suppose that if you did not like Kettlewell, you could say that he was not your cup of tea.

Thank you again for all your brilliant work. Much appreciated. Good to meet you at a game a few months ago and to realise that you look much younger than I would expect of an archivist!

I think you have missed the point here. If you had listened to the JagZone interviews, you would have realised that this demonstration of anti-football was a deeply planned strategical triumph by the Thistle management team. We out-thought Neil Lennon, and all it needed was to convert one of our chances to turn it into the perfect performance. Somehow we played so badly that we were almost good?!

Watched the Football Focus item, and did not see any obvious problem or disaster. For those of us with an intimate knowledge of Thistle, it did not tell us anything we did not already know. For the vast majority of viewers throughout the UK and beyond, it was at worst harmless and at best mildly entertaining and interesting. It put Thistle on the map, and that is generally no bad thing..........perhaps somebody will be encouraged to invest?

Dunfermline are 5 clear of Airdrie and level with a collapsing Queen's Park. Rather than relaxing immediately, their mindset might well be more "let's put in one more big push to get the win today, and then perhaps we can relax a little (or a lot if Airdrie fail to win)".

Yes indeed, let's keep paper planes rocking all over the world! Dunfermline (and Raith) to go down, down, deeper down.

Just listened to/watched the orchestral version. Amazing piece of music. Thank you. No idea why it is called "Firth of Fifth", but there you go. Hopefully we can stay in fourth.

Keep an eye out for whales when crossing the Firth of Forth on Saturday. (Hopefully it will not become the Firth of Fifth.)

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/beneficiary-boardroom-experience-welcomes-mark-and-luke/ What happened to Matthew and John?

I was not there, but I heard that there was a long delay in the drinks being served. For some reason, the Hamilton goalkeeper had been put in charge of this.

Yes. Agreed. For once the management team has gone with my selection. That may not be good news! No sign of Jakubiak which does leave bench not looking too strong.