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Slightly off topic, but the last time we played Dunfermline at East End Park, they were about to go into administration, and could not afford to put on the floodlights. Towards the end of the match, you could hardly see the players, far less recognise them by the colour of their shirts.

I really hope that this site continues to operate, it has been very well run and strikes an excellent balance between free speech and responsible posting. It might be helpful to those who may be interested in helping to run it to know what skills are required, and perhaps admin could set these out.

Only line I can remember from Taggart was someone bursting in saying "there's been a murder at Firhill" To which the reply from Taggart was "It's always murder at Firhill"

Thistle - the expectations are higher despite all the evidence and your own experience. With Scotland I'm just numbed after decades of crap, which is what I expect and am never dissapointed. Good article in today's Guardian about the Scottish team, which makes the very good point that Scotland never overperform.

A terrible thought, but could Dundee United view Archibald's performance over the past 3 years (especially taking into account budget constraints) as sufficiently good to try to entice him to Tannadice?

I do not know what these amounts signify. I suspect that they are total assets net of all liabilities, including fixed assets such as stadia, land and possibly clubs' estimates of player market values, as well as liquid assets. If I'm right, they are pretty meaningless w.r.t running the club on a day to day basis.

If Kevin Nisbet Nisbet NISBET is the answer, what was the question?

Sounds good. Hope that the Olympic qualifying does not take up too much of his time.

If you could get into the kitchen, then so too could others, and I suspect that the fat men you saw running onto the pitch had beaten you to it and had eaten all the pies. The context was an overweight nation.

Messi signs a 3 year deal (paid for by the sale of all heritable property in Maryhill)

Perhaps Archie's strategy is to have fewer, better quality players up to the January transfer window, rather than pack out the wage bill with additional poorer quality players. That would leave extra money to bring in players during the January transfer window (at which Archie is adept) That strategy may also encourage bigger crowds during the early part of the season on the back of good results, thus adding to the coffers.

"Partick" - "star" Naw must be a misprint.

Never a penalty in a million years!

Another great performance to seal another successful season for Alan Archibald & Co. With his record of astute signings, we should be confident of another good season in 2015/16. Couple this skill to his growing experience, and the target should be top six, and some expectation of a long run in the top flight. Onwards to Europe!!!!

Where do you start? I suspect that he/she is using a pseudonym, and probably posts here on a regular basis. Total garbage! We have probably the smallest budget in the league, and should finish comfortably above the play off place. My indignation about this crap is matched by the BBC's manager of the year list: No Archie but the Celtic geezer is mentioned first!!!

Goal of the season? Avoid relegation.

Who is 368?

Nice idea, but when do you stop (and start)? A bad result at Dingwall makes the following games equally if not more important, so do you then subsidise travel to those games? And so on. The lack of subsidised travel to ICT did not seem to affect our 4-0 win there a few weeks ago. Each game carries the same reward.

Will be interesting to see how Archie sets up the team. His instinct, I suspect, might be to err on the defensive side - after all a draw is to our benefit. I hope that he does not, and that a balanced team is selected that can take the game to Motherwell and defend high up on the pitch. It's a shame that James Craigen will be missing - he has the stamina and ability to link attack and defence. PS. Surprised at so few posts on this thread given the importance of the game.

"not much in that" as a defender gets yellow/red carded for trying to break someone's leg.

I disagree. Owen Coyle hasn't been seen anywhere near Firhill in over three weeks, and Alan Archibald has never to my knowledge been linked with a move to Ibrox. Besides, the 2-3-5 formation you are advocating, while it worked recently for Brora Rangers, has no place in the Scottish Premiership simply because signing 5 strikers is beyond the budget of most teams.

We chose the goalie because he was the tallest. He was blind as a bat and wore glasses, and because we played on a Sunday, we persuaded him not to wear glasses on the Saturday so that his eyes could become adjusted for the Sunday game. Problem for him was that he went to the dancing on a Saturday night, and relied on us to give a verdict on who he should dance with. Big mistake!.

Looking at the unpredictability of the Jags' performances over the years, you begin to wonder whether the manager de jour has any influence at all on the results, and that these are simply random events. If so, perhaps we could save some money by dispensing with a manager altogether. Teams would be picked by a guest manager of the week, who would be chosen by a draw at the previous home game (home supporters only obviously) with tickets costing say £1 . The day to day training could be delegated to the Army, which would add a little something to team attitudes.

He might be related to Rab C.

Only 1544 attended the Hamilton Ross County match on Saturday. Is this a Premiership record or a Grauniad misprint?