Tom Hosie

I have no issue at all with some Falkirk fans in home sections of the ground on Friday. If the situation was reversed we'd be trying to make sure we were all inside the Falkirk Stadium on Friday night. Remember Thistle fans booking hospitality at Dumbarton for the final game of season 2012/13 when it was thought that it might be a title winning fixture? I certainly won't grudge Falkirk fans celebrating winning the league on Friday as a win for them will almost certainly mean. I'll be out my seat and on the way home before a single Falkirk fan sets foot on the Firhill pitch. I am pleased though that the Club has resisted, perhaps purely for financial reasons, the opportunity to give Falkirk fans tickets for either the JLS or JHS on Friday. They gave is a bit of the their main stand as well as the stand behind the goal when we won the league there in 2013, but their season was done by then. Ours isn't. Yes, our recent results have been poor but we are still 4th, we do still have a chance of finishing in the play-offs. Maybe giving Falkirk fans part of the home ends wouldn't give them that much, if any, of an advantage. I'd rather not test the theory though. Winning on Friday and keeping our season alive will be hard enough without giving away any advantage we might have as the home team.

I'm really going to miss this place come the season's end. Not.

Ferguson had long since left St Mirren when they qualified for European competition for the first time.

Two goals in his last 4 Thistle appearances from Alex Jakubiak, and a goal every 7 minutes of his second spell. The stats of a legend.

True. I'd be buggered. I don't like fish.

Should be able to help with catering too.

Why do you find it strange? Stranger than, say, saying that unless you have direct discussion about a player's wage then it would be difficult to know what they earned, and then providing figures for the wages of two players? Aside from the impact it has on the overall sustainability of the football club I have no interest in speculation as to what any individual at the football club earns. It's none of my business. It's a private matter, or it should be, between employer and employee.

Yet you seem to know not just what two players were on, but also that one of them was unhappy about the wage the other was receiving. Odd. I kind of go with the line that anyone who did know what someone was earning wouldn't post that detail online. Everything else is just guesswork.

I’m at a loss trying to figure out why an organisation which represents a sizeable number of Partick Thistle supporters, which contributes an annual six figure sum to the Club in addition to supporting financially the Partick Thistle Academy and Partick Thistle WFC shouldn’t have influence and representation commensurate with that financial commitment and size of membership. It also happens to be a democratic, members’ organisation. Which means if you are unhappy in how it is operating then there is recourse available. It’s also probably worth emphasising, again, for the benefit of clarity a few things. The Jags Foundation is a trustee, alongside The Jags Trust, of the PTFC Trust the vehicle with which sits the majority shareholding in Partick Thistle Football Club. If you are: A member of the Jags Foundation A member of The Jags Trust A Season Ticket holder 71 Club Member You are a beneficiary of that majority shareholding. In being a beneficiary you are entitled to: Participate in the vote (or stand yourself) of two representatives of the above to the Club Board. To emphasise, those two representatives are not restricted to solely members of The Jags Foundation. Participate in any beneficiary vote that may be required. We saw one such instance very recently with the Tranche Two vote. To summarise then, The Jags Foundation does not elect the Board of Partick Thistle Football Club. What it does currently have, in addition to the two fan representatives on the Club Board, is the ability to nominate one of their elected reps to sit on the Board, and currently that is an option that they are utilising. You can argue that an additional, solely TJF rep, on the Club Board isn’t necessary, and I offer no view one way or the other, but that is something that the membership can change if they so wish to do so. That’s exactly how it should work. It’s perfectly valid to express concern about how the Fan Ownership model is working. It’s no more exempt from scrutiny and criticism than any other ownership model. What it does provide though is influence into how the ownership model works and an ability to shape the future direction of a fan owned Partick Thistle in addition to the built in protections that come with being fan owned. It’s still very much in its infancy, and it will grow and evolve over time. To my layman’s eyes the Club -Trust agreement looks robust and the level of transparency and consultation re the Tranche Two was exemplary.

Not at all. It's badly phrased. I'm saying Caldwell was the riskest appointment from recent history and going further back Cormack and Auld were also risky appointments. Caldwell didn't work. Cormack didn't. Auld emphatically did.

What has tended to happen when there has been a managerial vacancy is that the senior pro, or pros when it was Gerry Britton and Derek Whyte, are given the job an interim basis. I forget the length of that interim basis for Britton and Whyte (or indeed if there was any notable uptick in results/performances - it could scarcely have got worse to be fair) but McNamara and Archibald were in temporary charge for not inconsiderable periods, Doolan for approximately a month. All three did well during that interim basis. Archibald fantastically well, It's not a perfect approach by any means, not least as you are unlikely to have a transfer window while in temporary charge and it isn't 'their' players that they are working with, but it does give you a better gauge of how someone in their first managerial role is going to perform than a simple interview would. It's almost like an extended job interview. Appointing a manager is probably the most important thing to get right for a club, but also almost certainly the hardest thing to get right. They are so many variables to consider that it is no real shock that clubs often appear to take the safest option. From a Thistle perspective the riskiest appointment was Caldwell, going further back Peter Cormack maybe even Bertie Auld immediately before him, and that clearly didn't work.

At 2-1 up I felt that we would need at least one more to get something from the game. The first penalty is a clear penalty. No complaints at all. First yellow for BG soft. The second incredibly so. The kind of foul you see every game, the kind of foul that 999 times out of 1000 doesn't see a yellow card given. Indeed Turner committed a near identical foul on 90 mins and wasn't booked. Simple foul, free kick and get on with the game. It was the haste, dare I say desire, that Hardie had to get the second yellow out for Brian that especially annoyed me. Second pen, sometimes these go for you, sometimes against. It hits his hand but at pace and at a short distance. It's a tough call. I'd want it. I'd be annoyed, as I was, if it was awarded against us Falkirk are a good side. We may have lost 11v11 in any case but the red card is a pivotal, game changing, moment.

He absolutely hasn't. Second yellow was as soft as they come.

Depends on the score.

This scenario is, of course, a complete figment of my imagination and definitely hasn't happened, nor will happen. Nameless local ref turns up at lunchtime, pockets his pitch inspection fee, takes a cursory look at the pitch, shrugs his shoulders and goes 'looks okay to me' because as it isn't ultimately down to him whether the game is on or off he doesn't care one way or the other. The actual match officials turn up circa 6pm. As they are the ones directly in the firing line if someone picks up a serious injury, live on TV, due to the pitch they quite properly take a long look at the surface. Examine in detail any potential 'problem' spots. Deciding to be cautious they decide it isn't worth the risk and circa 60 minutes before kick-off they call the game off pissing everyone off. I'm sure none of the above will actually happen tonight.