Tom Stronach

Bus now full.

Bus confirmed. Leaving Village Inn, EK at 10:00am with an additional pick-up at Munns 11:00am. £25 per head. Same route on return. Contact: 07760165168 to book your seat.

We’re looking at organising return bus travel from East Kilbride to Dingwall, leaving the Village Inn at approx 11:00am and returning after the game. Prices still to be confirmed. To register your interest, drop me a PM or text me on: 07760165168. Cheers.

You can still make it there and back by rail. 11:13 to Kilmarnock with a quick change arrives in Ayr at 12:30 17:25 Ayr - Central change at Kilmarnock.

Ultimately, I feel it’s the correct decision but like most of us, I’m stunned at the timing of the announcement. Rumours circulating that he had been talking to Motherwell behind the club’s back seem difficult to believe for a number of reasons, but I suppose we’ll find out more in the coming days. I’m genuinely sorry it didn’t work out for McCall, but as history has shown, he’s a stable, mid-table manager at best. In the meantime, I think Doolan is the ideal man to take control on an interim basis. He is universally respected by our fans and he’ll know our squad inside out. Hopefully the positivity from Ibrox can be carried onto Somerset and Doolan can be given the backing he so richly deserves.

This game is the last thing we need. There is a real possibility that the full-time result will be spelled out in brackets.

The implosion from the Morton fans on their forum, p&b and on Twitter has made an already sweet victory so much better. Get it right up them.

The thought of giving McCall another transfer window is soul destroying. Mid-table Championship is his ceiling and that’s fine if you’re Ayr Utd or Morton. Losing to Queens Park three times in one season is absolutely mortifying and completely unacceptable.

Pyrotechnics are part of the match day atmosphere for most well-supported clubs in Scotland and throughout Europe. Only in Scotland is it dismissed as ‘neddery’. The young team at Firhill are trying their best to catch up with teams like St Mirren, St Johnstone, and even Dunfermline - all of whom are miles ahead of us in the fan scene. With the amount of greetin-faced old men and snobs in our support, I don’t envy them. Some of the punters on this thread would be better off at the rugby.

Lettuce hope that Low is gone before ‘Bunter’.

McCall is finished. He’s just repeating the same mistakes from his first tenure as manager. As is often the case with his teams, they promise so much before the arse dramatically falls out of it. It is actually staggering how unfit and badly organised we are all over the pitch. Defenders who look as if they’ve just met each other for the first time. Depressingly, I doubt we’re in a strong financial position to replace McCall and his two assistances, and let’s be honest, you wouldn’t trust the chair and our board to pick even a vaguely competent replacement.

I think some of our fans forget what it’s like to be a young fan following your team away from home.

Sanctimonious garbage.

I know that and I supported his decision at the time, as did most of our fans.

If we don’t make the play-offs, which is becoming increasingly likely, you could certainly present a case for bumping McCall at the end of the season. Had we a competent chairman in place such as David Beattie, I would probably trust him to find a suitable replacement. The prospect of Low and Britton being tasked with finding a replacement doesn’t bare thinking about and if the discontent surrounding our finances proves to be true, we may need McCall’s experience to guide us through the storm. He’s a decent enough manager for mid-table stability but evidence suggests that’s his ceiling. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll need to worry about going for promotion anytime soon. The club is going nowhere under the guidance of the 3BCs.

We have somehow ended up back in the Dick Campbell era. I’m still struggling to believe it, but that’s where we are. Routinely losing to pub teams like Peterhead, Clyde and Cove. To go from where we were at the end of 2016/17 on and off and off the park, to where we are now is staggering, even by Thistle standards. We finished in the top half of the Premiership, we were bringing through some promising young talent, we had no debt or financial worries to speak of and a new training ground was imminent. For once in my almost thirty years of following Thistle, we were in serious danger of becoming an established and respected top flight outfit - a model club for our size almost! Clubs who are/were traditionally smaller than us such as County, Inverness, Livi and St Johnstone had managed to win trophies, compete in Europe and spend more than a few seasons in the top flight, so why not us? I really fear for our future now. During the ‘Save the Jags’ era the support and the club were galvanised by the existential threat to our club and we had a healthy support backing us every week and a large, latent support ready to turn out when the occasion suited. In 2005/06, we were ridiculously lucky to scrape through the play-offs having finished a disgraceful fourth. Now? The club was haemorrhaging fans of even before the pandemic hit because of our rapid decline since 2017 and the support has become featured owing to the internal politics which have dogged our club following numerous changes in ownership. We’re in this horrendous division at the worst possible time. The pandemic will undoubtedly have had a huge effect on our finances and with the rise of new ‘ambitious’ clubs like Cove and a Queens Park, it will only be harder for us to get out of this division the longer we stay here. Unless our fortunes change drastically, we’re well on our way to becoming the new Clyde or Airdrie.

The difference is, Celtic and Rangers consciously try to appeal to bottom feeders by exploiting sectarianism. We don’t. Depressing to read about this story all the same.

Business as usual then.

This nightmare is never going to end, is it? Thistle’s answer to Karl Oyston.

As is often the case with our club, we rarely learn from our mistakes. We’ve had a flavour of what Celtic’s horrible fans are all about with their behaviour at the Youth Cup Final and on the night they won the league. Yet Thistle are prepared to indulge them yet again for the sake of a quick buck. I think most of us reluctantly agree with giving them the JHS and the John Lambie - a club at our level can ill afford to waive such a financial bonus, but to do so at the expense of our own fans’ safety is unacceptable. As other posters have alluded to, the ingredients are there for a night of shame. In recent years, the worst behaviour by Celtic fans saw them destroy seats at Fir Park, riot in Motherwell town centre and Dundee’s General Manager described their behaviour at Dens as the ‘worst he’d seen in 50 years’. The Motherwell match was a Friday night and the Dundee game was an evening kick off on Boxing Day. I really feel sorry for our fans who bought tickets in good faith. It could be a toxic evening. The club have been shamefully negligent here. It wouldn’t have been difficult to deploy a database system where ticket sales are restricted to season ticket holders and to those with a purchase history. Allowing Celtic fans to buy tickets en mass, online is inexcusable. This whole fiasco is even more regrettable given the excellent work of Ian McCall in making us competitive again with such a limited squad. When you listen to his interviews he exudes positivity and is constantly talking our club up. Yet the club have managed to undermine his efforts in restoring morale. Partick Thistle - always the cuddly toy.

The gate receipts we’ll receive from 6,000 peasants is most welcome, but in football terms it’s the last thing we need. Take the giro money and move on. Arbroath the following week is of far more importance to us.

I’m one of the ‘so-called’ supporters who chose to stay away from today’s game. I made the decision a few seasons ago never to set foot in Firhill whenever we play either arse cheek. This is for a few reasons; - I don’t want to sit and listen to sectarian chanting for 90 minutes. - I don’t agree with the huge allocation we give them. Not least because of their behaviour during the youth cup final. - I don’t think any Thistle fan should be forced out of their regular seat to accommodate these scumbags. I understand where the club are coming from in terms of maximising revenue, but I won’t ever accept Thistle fans being treated as second class citizens in our own ground and as such, I won’t ever return to this fixture unless Celtic are given the same allocation as any other club.

I’d rather we treated this competition with the comtempt it deserves.

We have a limited number of seats left on our bus. We will be leaving from the Village Inn at 18:00. Cost is £12 per person. To book a seat, text 07760165168 or DM me.