Tom Hosie

I have a fair idea who is absolutely NOT going to be getting the last word on here.

To really selectively quote, I want to add to that. The amount of tracking back and running that Brian Graham has put in over the course of the last few games ( well every game he plays really - it just magnified right now) has been nothing short of phenomenal. He might be a second rate legend in some viewer's eyes. I see a top rate Championship striker but also one that offers a lot defensively both in terms of tracking back and picking the ball up deep, but also at set plays against. It's an aspect of his game that I feel is often overlooked.

Can you imagine the nick we'd be in if we go through after extra-time and penalties on Friday! I'd bite your hand off for that scenario right now though. I think laukat's post above is pretty much spot on. Last night's game followed the pattern I thought it would with one major exception. I thought it would finish 0-0. The last few games haven't been pretty to watch but the sheer grit and determination shown is worthy of praise. We've players putting their injured, tired bodies on the line and that's commendable. Or at least it should be. We are where we are in terms of players available. It's very much a case patching a team together right now. I've seen better Thistle teams. I've seen Thistle teams with more flair and excitement. I doubt I've seen many with a greater work ethic. It might not get us to the Premiership, in fact it probably won't, it might not even get us to the semi-final but I'm going to give this group of players praise all the same. You can call it accepting mediocrity if you really want to be that person. I call it accepting the reality of the situation we find ourselves in.

Disappointing and I'd rather be in Ayr's position than ours but tie far from over. Winning a football match away to Ayr United is nothing outrageous.

There's, unfortunately, no printed programme available tonight. What would normally happen for a Tuesday game is that the bulk of the programme would be prepared in advance of the weekend game with the remainder going to the printers on Monday morning to be printed that day and delivered to Firhill on the Tuesday. On this occasion we were scuppered by our programme producers, Curtis Sports, and their printers being closed over the bank holiday weekend and not reopening until this morning. That ruled out printing and delivery today. Printing ahead of Livingston on Friday was just too risky. A Livi equaliser in injury time on Friday and we would have, even with the minimum print run, been left with hundreds of programmes for a match that never took place. Rather than have no programme at all the usual 48 page all singing all dancing programme has been produced, but in a downloadable pdf format. I've not long since sent that pdf over the the Club who will make it available to purchase from the Club Shop. How long that will take, or the process involved in making it available I don't know. Well beyond my skillset. A retrospective printed run could be made if there were sufficient demand but that would need to be the minimum print run and I don't know how practical that would be. The printers are, however, printing a special one-off A5 printed copy for me because I'm sad and need a physical copy to treasure. Normal service will be resumed should we make the semi-final. Link to programme purchase: Programmes | Product categories | Partick Thistle FC

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.