Chicob

Stand corrected on the official wording Brick top but I don't accept there is a WORLD of difference. 'Fk YOUR pope,queen,allah,mohamed, or whatever' is in my language offensive.Try that out on the street with a total stranger and I'm certain their reaction would not be 'That's okay mate as long as you said 'your' and not 'the' otherwise I might have been offended'. Sorry if you think I am misconstruing things but maybe YOU are not seeing the real issue.

Have been enjoying myself too much recently to start a serious thread but I think it’s now okay to throw this out for debate. ‘Hello hello how do you do, we hate the boys in royal blue...etc’. I have sung this song for a very long time now and it was one I used to sing with great pride as 1. It showed how we were distinct from the OF. 2. Its irony showed how quirky we were with a great sense of humour and 3. Probably somewhere in my subconscious it gave me a sense of being able to take the moral high ground as it demonstrated how we genuinely had no time for bigotry. However, times change and on reflection I now feel it is time we ditched this ‘classic’ for 2 reasons. Firstly, as other people have alluded to elsewhere, someone will undoubtedly wish to register a complaint. This will probably cause ourselves problems as a club and also give the other two the excuse of being able to point the finger elsewhere whilst playing down their own true bigotry. Secondly (and this is probably the contentious point) I feel we should stop it voluntarily because it is outdated, from another era and simply wrong. Even if it is irony, singing ‘Fk the pope and fk the queen’ just isn’t acceptable anymore and doesn’t seem quite as witty as it once was. The songs this year have been imaginative, hilarious at times and able to get the passions stirred, so I am sure the guys who have came up with these are more than capable of coming up with a new song which highlights how we are so different from the other two whilst winding them up at the same time. Thoughts?

Yes it was Muirhead. Don't mind mentioning his name now that he is saying the same thing in public.

I think it is obvious that Dundee Utd are pulling the strings here but McNamara cannot be blameless. He is not a gullable teenager who is desparate for a break in football. He clearly did have a choice and decided to go along with the shameless tactics.I think I am right in saying that Tommy Burns used similar tactics when leaving Kilmarnock to go to Celtic and later claimed that doing so was one of the biggest regrets in his life. Not sure how the compensation in that case turned out though?

Would also like him to stay but the guy I want to stay more than anybody is our top scorer Lawless. When he is on form he creates havoc.

Ironic thing is that I spoke with one of the players at the celebrations in the star & garter and he told me that that he truly believed we wouldn't have won the league had McNamara stayed.He liked him but felt that Archies tactics were far better away from home. McNamara he said told them to play the exact same way all the time.Makes mcnamaras claim all the more ridiculous.

I don't beleve for one second that McNamara will ever be able to make this ludicrous claim stick in court. Its plain daft. But I also find it even dafter that some folk would even consider handing money over to DU to boost their coffers even more and contribute to the bonuses of the utd players when we are down £80k. The need for the twelth man at tannadice is a red herring in all of this. Archie will have them well ready for that one. The suggestion of giving the money to thistle is spot on. Even people who don't always go to away games could be attracted to this idea and it would send out a message to other clubs to avoid such shabby behaviour as it will backfire. Boycotting tannadice is the right thing to do.No doubt.

sorry guys you are all obviously still steamin fae Saturday(Yeah I know that's not an adjective)

Thanks so much for putting that together.Really appreciated it. Totally tugs at the heart strings. What a season,what a team,what a bunch of fantastic fans.

Had a brilliant moment on the the star & garter bus when during a lull in the singing a greenock morton supporters bus drew up alongside ours. Suddenly it was bedlam on one side of the bus, passing the usual hostilities and shouting at the driver to catch up with them so we could continue the abuse.Great laugh but heh ...best jags team I've ever seen over a season and that includes 71.Well done. I'm clapping my hands cos I'm proud to be a Jags fan!

Absolutely agree. Loved it when the fans started singing the name of the wee asian lad manpreet singh who along with his pals have been solid in their support wae their banners. We stopped them outside the ground and asked them for a pic. They loved it and obviously felt like celebrities. Which they are, wee jag celebs!

Only the second time i've been in this boozer. It was magic, what a night. I was up on the chairs wae ma son and daughter singing our lungs out full pelt for 4 hours. Talking to the players, Craigen a smashing boy, even if he makes a mistake next year I will not be slagging him. Muirhead told me Archie's tactics got them through the last few games and he was convinced it was Archie that got them over the line which was great to hear. In addition it would genuinely appear that apart from Paton and Erskine the rest have nothing lined up which is encouraging.Anyway, I will definitely be back at this pub thanks to ian mac for organising the bus and introducing me to a brilliant jags pub and the bagpipe player.Top notch. CHAMPIONEEEEES!!!!!

Theres a big difference between boycotting cos you don't get your own way with a persecution complex and having a legitimate dispute where you are being 100% shafted.We're partick thistle and we are not doormats.

I don't want to single out any of the team either but I would like to give a thanks tae they two wee Asian boys who have done their upmost to get their banner behind the goals at every away match. two wee jag maddies for the future. on yersel lads.

If they still owe us £80k I don't think any Jags fans should go there anyway.

agree with most of what you say although I would add in balatoni especially at the run in.is it not fantastic that it so difficult to choose. what a season, what a team.however I do think you are being a bit harsh on smith.sure, he had a nightmare start at Hamilton but he was reasonably solid thereafter.

I've detested that mob since that night we lost in the play off at tannadice.Their fans were disgraceful at the end of the game when rather than celebrate all they did was aggressively goad the jags fans from the pitch. Had it not been for the restraint of our support there could have neen a riot that nigHt. I love anyone beating them and sadly that included Celtic on Sunday.

totally agree. this song is brilliant.me and my kids are driving my wife nuts with it.we use it for everything. we eat when we want, we sleep when we want, we put the bin out when we want. every request is met with the appropriate chant.

apologies if this contribution appears twice cos I thought I had posted already?? but I have never experienced such a feeling of euphoria at a game as when doolans goal went in at the final.however I do think a major turning point in the season was when the fog machine was switched on at cowdenbeath.

yes you can.I'm taking it for granted that we are goig to be CHAMPIONS. yyeeeesss!!

ha ha brilliant

I'm with you on that. Harkins was good but he wasn't as good as many make out.

thanks for putting that clip up much appreciated. I totally remember roddy grants winner cos as I explained I had missed the first two but my memory was completely wrong on the dons goals.I had clearly mixed it up with another game were dodds curled one into the corner and I think there was a bizarre goal where Nicky walker headed the ball outside of his area for mckimmie (?) to punt it right into the goal from near the half way line or am I mixing another two games together? can anyone remember the outcome of the game(s) i have described?

I remember I had tickets to go and see Nelson Mandela at the royal concert hall(on a Sat afternoon). I set off down Gt Western Rd with my wife and young son listening to radio Scotland to see the great man .By the time we got to the lights at Botanic Gardens it was 3.06 and Thistle had scored their second goal to go 2-0 up against Aberdeen.To my shame, I immediately took a left and headed for Firhill thinking sorry mate I know you gave up 27 years of your life but it looks like we are going to hammer Aberdeen and that also might not happen for another 27 years. My wife dropped me at the ground and continued on without me. By half time it was 2-2 (I recall Billy Dodds scoring one of them). Fortunately we did win 3-2 with Roddy Grant getting the second half winner. On reflection I did get my priorities a bit skewed. However,I might be wrong but I am sure I read in his book that the only thing that got him through those 27 years was the thought that one day he would get to see his heroes in red and yellow at Firhill.