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9 hours ago, Third Lanark said:
Dumbaya looked brilliant in his first 5 games but then injuries kept creeping in almost as soon as he got a 3 year deal.
He ended up playing about 30 games in 3 years which unfortunately means he was a waste of a wage. No idea if it’s true or was just a rumour but it was mentioned that the summer before dumbayas last season at the club Stephen o donnell having being released by Luton wanted to come back to Firhill but Archie said no because he wanted to persist with the injury prone Dumbaya. If that turns out to have been the case then wtf Archie?
I'm amazed that he played as many games as that to be honest. We persisted with him and several others and that was our weakness which ultimately had a part in our demise.
If the SOD rumour is true, which it very well could be, then Archie has been better for him than his agent. He moved to Kilmarnock, worked under a decent manager that took a struggling Kilmarnock, who incidentally were worse than us for 2 or 3 seasons on the trott prior, and transformed them into a regular Old Firm beating best of the rest side. We go into free fall while O'Donnell is now a regular fixture in the international team, something that would never have happened for him if he had moved back to Firhill.
You only need to look at Livingston's recent run, 10 games unbeaten, won 8, drew 2 with Celtic. They have took more points off Celtic in 5 days than we have done in 25 year. We can only dream to be that good. Infact, we cant go on a run like that in the league were in now.
Hello Doctor, can I get a repeat prescription please.......
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11 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
Why do people keep reminding me of these nightmares I’d managed to wipe from my memory banks ?
We have went from nightmare to nightmare. You forget about one and realise we're right into another
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11 minutes ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
Appears Tam only played two competitive games since leaving us. He was a bit shakey towards the end but I too thought he did well with us. His biggest fault by far was recommending Nitriansky.
Recommending is one thing, actually signing him was far worse.
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43 minutes ago, Third Lanark said:
Not disagreeing that both the management and players have underperformed but where would we find the money to pay them all off?
I was suggesting more that if a club in the leagues that can play football came in and took our players but that would be be the realms of fantasy. Perhaps with the exception of Niang who has shown a glimmer of light in an endless dark tunnel.
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If it went to the clubs to vote to call the season, Falkirk at the moment stand to gain. Would they change their stance from last year, of course they would. Likewise if we were good enough to be top of League One, we would change the way we voted last year. Nobody really cares about other clubs and its all self interest. Unfortunately we are again not good enough to be in that position because we dropped points against the likes of Peterhead, Clyde and Dumbarton.
The reality is, the season should never have started in the first place. Without fans, the game is nothing and there is less money which frankly is unsustainable, especially to a full time team like ourselves. The baw is most definitely burst. How can there be sporting integrity when teams in the championship who we are competing against for players are allowed to play football when we are not?
That being said, if the season doesnt start up again till later in the year, I wouldnt be against letting all the players and management go and building again from scratch because prior to the leagues being stopped, we were going nowhere fast.
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Good idea by Falkirk, that will be two home games they have saved in electricity.
I wonder if we will follow suit when we transfer over to fan ownership given the top priority was being carbon neutral..........
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36 minutes ago, Lenziejag said:
We have changed manager 3 times since top six. So that isn’t the obvious answer.
No we've not
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1 hour ago, jaggy said:
I was asking sabbath what he thinks we should do. He’s good at dishing out negative comments, but not so good at constructive answers.
also, where did I say McCall is the answer? I’m not keen on him or his assistants, but how much would it cost to get rid of them and appoint a new manager? Would a new manager be able to change our style of play with the players we have? Would he be able to make Cardle and Williamson play better balls in the box? The problem runs much deeper than getting rid of the manager
Funnily enough, a defeat at Ross County should have been our watershed moment. Archie should have been pumped then. Instead we stuck out of blind faith. Mistake after mistake has followed, now we are in League One, blown all the money, and are now are entering Dick Campbell territory. A full time team that cannot be coached basic things in a part time league.
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14 minutes ago, McCall Out said:
Options on what we can do short term are limited, but we can change the manager and get some new thinking as the current plan is not working. We were told finances were OK before the £150k hand out so there’s the cash to do it. Either that or give it to McCallto spunk on more injured players.
To turn your question round, if McCall is the answer, what question are you asking ?
The hand out by the Government has a condition that it cant be spent on transfers.
Ross County pumped their manager yesterday, no room for sentiment there. If it was here at Partick Thistle, there would be guys on here saying, after all he's done, he's a legend, were giving him the bullet before Christmas, its a disgrace blah blah. Again, if we had won at Parkhead, that would have given the manager at least another 2 year goodwill in the bank. There is the difference, and that is how to run a football club. No room for the old pals act up there.
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4 hours ago, jaggy said:
Most of us have known that Bannigan was good until his injury and would have left if it hadn't happened. He's been poor to crap ever since. I'll ask you the same as I asked Pinhead, what's your answer to our problems?
The problem is, McCall's long term plan includes Banzo. He's another that should be joining the legends at East Kilbride. Anyone can play in the middle of the park and play a square pass, yet sometimes he even makes that look difficult. The backbone of our team is the same injury prone failures of the past. He keeps harping on about how excited he is about Rudden. He's never made any impact at all after approaching a year. He's only made cameo appearances in about half a dozen games, in a year. Lucky if he's played a combined total of 2 hours. Some job if you can get it. Ive done more work before my first tea break this morning than he has done in a year. That is only one example of the 'It will be alright on the night' attitude hoping that they will eventually come good, by such time we are adrift in the League and now closer to the bottom than we are the top. Firhill for easy money
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Absolute must win today ahead of next weekend. Nice comfortable 3 nil win
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Well, being highly unlikely that a team from League one won the Scottish Cup, i would take the cup glory and all the publicity that went with the roy of the rovers storyline. The prize money would easily offset the loss of being relegated, and people born from the 80's would have their day at Hampden.
How does that sound?
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You never said anything about getting relegated, however seeing as your being pedantic, why is that when winning a cup is discussed, there has to be a choice of relegation as the alternative. Surely they don't have to go hand in hand. We certainly know how to do the relegation bit, its about time we were able to feature in the later stages at Hampden.
By the term diddy league, we're in the third tier of Scottish football playing against mostly part time teams on the brink of obscurity.
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42 minutes ago, Lenziejag said:
Well, that’s the thing isn’t it ? Every club has their cycle of being good and bad. The fact that those clubs are doing ok, doesn’t mean that we won’t ever again. As has been said many times - our ranking in Scottish league football hasn’t deviated very much in our entire history. It’s just that the league structure changed. I would much rather we get promoted in 2021 than win the cup.
If winning a diddy league is in your eyes greater than winning a domestic cup, that in itself speaks volumes
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3 hours ago, Lenziejag said:
So where does that leave your blame on Caldwell, Archie and McCall on breaking the sequence ?
Well it doesn't exactly leave us in a promising position to continue the sequence, thats for sure.
Here's a thought. When we finished in the Top 6 along with the Perth Saints, Livingston were in League one, St Mirren were nearly relegated to the same league and Hibs were in the League below us. That's your Semi finalists, and were entertaining Peterhead this weekend in a quest to cling onto Falkirk's coattails.
Bring on 2026
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9 hours ago, Lenziejag said:
The sequence isn’t every 50 years. We were formed in 1876, right. We won the Scottish Cup in 1921 - that’s 45 years. Then the league cup in 1971 - that’s 50 years. Sadly, the next number in the sequence is 55. So, 2026.
Well thank **** for that. There was me waiting patiently all this time for 2021 but I have another 5 year to wait to see us do something. That makes me feel much better.
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The Thistle sequence, a domestic trophy every 50 years.
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I've not seen any update on the injury front. Rudden seems to come back for a game then out for month. Need more options than relying on Big Mad Mental Brian Graham up front to score goals
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2 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:
To me he never look anything more than average; couldn't figure out why some supporters thought he could be great.
He clearly didn't turn out to be great.
He was capable of doing great things. We just didnt see enough of it. Unfortunately he was seeking medical attention more than he was playing
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2 hours ago, Lenziejag said:
not sure why you are singling out just these 3, if you are talking about lack of success in our history ?
These 3 are responsible for breaking the sequence.
The rest of our lack of success is mainly down to our arses collapsing when we face the old firm and in general not being good enough, perhaps too soft even. I mean, we cant even win the challenge cup for god sake.
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St Mirren v Livi
Hibs v St Johnstone
That is the semi final for the 20/21 league cup. If we had been half decent we could have repeated our sequence.
Cheers to Archie, Caldwell and McCall for their efforts to get us where we are now.
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I thought he would have been one that moved on to bigger and better, but injury and perhaps attitude seen him follow us to the sea side league. He seemed to have it all but instead became a liability.
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On 12/14/2020 at 1:09 AM, Jaggernaut said:
Yep, but IMO, the best Thistle goal this weekend was the women's 3rd against Glasgow Women.
I had to rub my eyes there. I thought I saw Jim Slavin
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15 hours ago, east end jag said:
I don’t know if Jagszone showed this view of the penalty save, but it doesn’t look the greatest strike or follow up from this angle (although it didn’t look like a great strike at the time either). And that is the only fit striker we have missing both chances which is even more disappointing.
If we miss chances like this then l generally think we get what we deserve and yesterday that was only one point when it should have been three.
Its an even worse miss than I first thought. He deserved getting the pish getting ripped out him by the keeper after that.
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I fall into that bracket. The closest we ever came was the League Cup shoot out calamity in 2002