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  1. A very important and imo a well deserved 3 points yesterday. Some teams who only a few weeks ago looked as if they would be playing to stay away from the relegation play off position have now put themselves in contention for 4 th. Praise for whoever thought of putting the advertising boards a bit closer to disrupt Morton's long throw tactic, which we dealt with very well.

  2. Well deserved win. Graham took his goal well. McBeth did really well at centre half, unlucky not to get a clean sheet as we stood up well to their long throw tactic. Strapp wanted to dismantle the advertising boards every time he took a throw. Hope this win gives us confidence and we keep in 3rd place.

  3. When asked on last night's View From The Terrace who his favourite team to score against is, Brian Graham replied Greenock Morton, time to 'fill your boots' Brian. :fan: 

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  4. It won't be easy but for me we should be looking to win this game to get our season back on track. Our defending will need to be a lot better than recent games and any chances we get we will need to take. Strapp's throw ins are better than corners or free kicks at times, so we will need to keep our concentration. If Lawless and or Fitzpatrick are getting double marked that should make space for our other forwards to exploit. We are at home and we need to start winning games again if we want to stay in a play off place. 

  5. On 2/29/2024 at 10:13 PM, robphil said:

    I outrank you by a few years having first attended estadio firhill in 1956. I am currently receiving treatment for cancer so I might never manage along again. But supporting thistle over the decades has been one of the great joys of my life. Like The Beatles, a nice Shiraz, playing in the snow with my weans and more recently grandweans. I have loved being a Jag and being surrounded by fellow jags at firhill. We might not have the best team in our history at the present time but, by god, they're MY team and I'm mighty proud of them...

    All the best and i hope you manage back to see the Jags in person.

    Like you and every other fan i have great memories and not so great memories following the Jags and although we didn't win yesterday it was great to see the team put in a much improved performance which was appreciated by the fans who created a very good atmosphere.

    Haste you back to Firhill. :fan: :thumbsup2:

  6. 1 hour ago, partickthedog said:

    Strangely I thought that the referee was quite good today and let the game flow. He did not give a foul every time a player fell over, like most referees tend to do.

    Agree, i felt this made it a more enjoyable game.

    I thought that every player earned pass marks, with McBeth, williams and Milne deserving extra mention. We looked far more confident than i thought we would've after our last couple of results. Keep playing like that and we should hold onto our top 4 place then who knows what could happen.

     

  7. 23 hours ago, Albert's Ghost said:

    This round of results make it look much like a battle between DU & Raith for 1 & 2, and between us & Morton for 3 & 4.   We & Morton both have to play the top 2 twice in the run in.  Morton have the momentum, but we have 2 more points.  So despite Friday's awful result , we're still looking good for a playoff place.  The competition is reassuringly far behind.

    The perfect set of midweek results imo would be.

    First and foremost  We beat Ayr

    Raith beat Morton

    Dundee Utd beat Airdrie

    Those results would just about guarantee us to finish in the top 4.

    Our next 3 home games are big ones, Dundee Utd, Raith Rovers and Morton, let's hope we get big crowds for them, although with the Raith Rovers game being a Tuesday night and also on BBC Scotland that will affect the crowd.

  8. 3 hours ago, Fawlty Towers said:

    Whilst I am as scunnered as everyone else after last night - we did not play well in the second half which we can't blame the officials for we will still be 3rd after today's game with 12 games remaining. I would still rather be in our position than Morton's, Airdrie's or Ayr's.

    We will see how the scores go today. It wasn't all that long ago we looked a stick on for 3rd, if we don't sort out our defending we could struggle for top 4. Morton are the form team, we were the last to beat them when we won 2-1 at Firhill. Unlike us they seem to have had the refs decision's go for them,seems Dundee Utd should have got a penalty when Morton beat them 3-2 and we should have also got a last minute penalty against them at Cappielow that ended 1-1. They say these things even them themselves out over a season, we will see.

    Agree with @lady-isobel-barnett our game management is very poor, if it was better we would be a premier league team this season and also in the next round of the Scottish cup are 2 examples that come to mind.

  9. 5 minutes ago, jaggy said:

    One other decision that baffled me and had a massive bearing on the game and possibly not been mentioned. 

    The equaliser comes from a corner given when our keeper catches the ball on or behind the goal line, I’m not sure exactly as even on tv it’s unclear, but either way he moves forward with the ball not backwards. If he catches behind the line it’s a goal kick, if he catches on the line it’s play on. It was never a corner, yet just like with the Livvy game it’s wrongly given and we concede.

    Did anyone nearer the goal line have a clearer view & opinion?

    At the front of the Lambie stand so impossible to say if corner was correct call. What i did see was us clearing the ball and nobody challenge the Dunfermline player who was allowed to stroll forward and have a shot unchallenged. We should have put a tackle in.

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  10. At the game i couldn't tell if goals were chopped of correctly, in fact from the front of the Lambie stand i couldn't see what happened with our 'second goal', but after seeing a replay of the second it was a terrible call. Our defending was terrible as it has been to many times this season so far and it has been what has stopped us putting in a real challenge to finish second or higher, but they do say goals change games and if the first 'goal' was not disallowed and Graham then goes on to put us 2-0 up, for me we go on and win the game comfortably. But we really need to sort out our defending or we could struggle to make top 4. When you consider the way Dunfermline defended in the first half in particular you see the difference, if they hadn't blocked a number of shots we had in the box we could have been out of site by half time. As has already been said i know this was his first game for us but Stewart didn't fill me with confidence he could be the answer to what is undoubtedly a problem position for Thistle.

  11. I am not sure many if any Scottish championship clubs could afford to refuse £500,000 and then a further £500,000 investment 6 months later. I do realise this means the fan ownership % being reduced.

    If we are an ambitious club and looking to get back in the premiership i don't think Morton are the template for that, they haven't played in the top flight for nearly 40 years.

  12. 2 hours ago, elevenone said:

    And hopefully a half competent ref today 🤔

    digressing but i note its the ugly sisters game today (or do you say brothers?) and that Rangers have cancelled all away tickets to Celtic acting on intelligence.  Sad, pathetic and shameful that their bile is spreading to the womens league.

    Anyways good luck Jags :fan:

    As soon soon as they both entered the women's game it was inevitable that this nonsense would come into it as well. 

  13. 14 hours ago, JAG1970 said:

    Doolan tends to focus heavily on the positives in post match interviews, so it’s refreshing to hear Brian articulating the frustration he - and no doubt his manager - really feel.  

    We have seen what happens when the manager publicly slates players, Ross County for example. Being captain and a senior player i would think gives you more leeway to say what you feel.

  14. 16 minutes ago, javeajag said:

    Sneddon needs to be dropped …..we had two keepers in the bench give one a start on Friday …..the defence needs a shake up as well.

    we have conceded 1.6 goals per game and every team knows we can’t defend cross balls.

    all of their goals today were simply awful 

    Agree, which is why i said defence needs sorted out.

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