Tom Hosie

It's gutting news from a Thistle perspective, but I'm chuffed that Emma is getting a well deserved chance of full-time football. It's a reflection too on the coaching staff at the Club. Brian and Ross have played a huge part in her development. It's not just Emma either. Abbie Ferguson came on leaps and bounds while on loan. Now on a full-time professional contract at Hibs. Ava Easdon showed maturity beyond her years while on loan with us last season. Signed her first full-time contract elsewhere on the back of that. Players come to Thistle and become better players for that. So, yes, it's gutting that Emma is moving on but there should also be pride in the role Partick Thistle WFC have played in her development. There will be even more pride when the inevitable full Scotland caps follow.

Just for the benefit of clarity as you have a habit of running with something nobody actually said. Questions aren't boring. You consequently posting the same stuff over and over again is boring. And tiresome. And repetitive. But questions aren't.

I have no idea why you reply in this fashion. Why you ignore the points made and go off on another tangent. Why are you asking me questions that I neither know the answer to or care what the answer is? If you want to know why some people are commenting on one subject and not another, ask them. I don't care. I really don't care. And do not try and not put words in people's mouths simply because they find you, not the current or future state of Partick Thistle, sometimes amusing but more often tiresome., repetitive and boring. I'm going back into hibernation now.

I'm not sure if there is such a thing, but your responses are something akin to online tourette's. Your latest response, which in essence is nothing more than a rehash of the points you have been making on and on and on for last few weeks, has virtually nothing to do with my last post. Why do you do that? Is it an unwillingness or an inability to engage directly with a poster's point, or can you just not help yourself? There will obviously come a time when Kris Doolan will not be our manager. Can we all agree that we hope that will be sometime in the not near future as that will mean he has been successful in his current role? Until that point, it is a hypothetical vacancy and a hypothetical appointment. Trawling social media to find Thistle fans expressing concern, in fairly benign fashion, over a bad result and even worse performance is not a sign of some campaign to oust Kris Doolan and replace him with Brian Graham, or whoever. It's just Jags fans venting on social media. Nothing more, nothing less. There is no conspiracy. And using quotation marks for something nobody actually said, isn't evidence to suggest that the wagons are circulating round the manager should we lose at Ayr on Saturday. It's obvious, or at least it should be, that any manager that finds his team trailing the league leaders by such a margin should we lose on Saturday is going to be under pressure. It doesn't mean they will be sacked or that they should be sacked. It's just an acknowledgment that in a results business if you are a manager and the results are consistently poor then you are under pressure. Again nothing more, nothing less.

Should the hypothetical vacancy become a non imaginary one then I'm putting Clare Doc forward for it. Ticks a lot of boxes and allows Brian to keep his vital role with the Women's team. https://x.com/ThistleWFC/status/1833086722155937971?t=UhTkEnQoW-6PP3K6D-Fx-A&s=19

Statements by influential people? You really mean social media posts by Thistle fans stating the obvious that potentially falling 13 points behind the league leaders in mid September puts a manager, any manager, of a promotion chasing team under a bit of pressure don't you? So having to answer my own question, it's a hypothetical appointment to a hypothetical vacancy. The rest is just stuff you are making up in your head. Here's hoping it remains all hypothetical and a thoroughly decent human being leads the team to three points on Saturday and back into the promotion mix over the course of the next weeks and months.

Can I just ask a couple of quick questions, I wasn't paying too much attention to stuff related to our men's team yesterday - too busy watching our women's team perform so well at Fir Park yesterday. When did the vacancy for team manager of the men's team become available? Or are we talking about a hypothetical appointment to a hypothetical vacancy?

I'm not.

The humour starts to wear off after a bit so if you don't mind a piece of constructive advice, I'd change your material occasionally just to try and keep things fresh.

You do make me giggle.

Interesting phrasing.

Would be helpful to know who this quote is from, and the context it was made. Brian Graham has done well with PTWFC, that isn't in question but the unattributed quote may well not have been made in context to what is currently a hypothetical vacancy*. Or perhaps it isn't a quote at all. *Very much hoping it remains so

Two Thistle fans expressing concern and disappointment over a piss poor result and performance, whatever next? Does their involvement with TJF prevent them from expressing an opinion? At least they put their own name to their social media output.

Great result for Partick Thistle Football Club.