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I think we should be signing Cammy Logan. If he's relatively low cost (and given he was at forfar last season he surely can't be looking for megabucks) at worst he is decent cover but he does look like he might be better as fullback than Reading is on the other side. Harkness looks a long way short of the required standard. No.9 didn't look brilliant but not sure if thats because he only met his team mates in the last few hours and he maybe hasn't played much in the last few weeks. Certainly didn't do anything tonight that would make you think he was worth a contract. Horn looks our best striker right now and that was before Diack got injured. Midfield was a mess first half. McBeth as CDM steadied the ship and allowed Crawford and Stanway to press higher. However we really need another midfield option as I don't think that 3 are good enough at Championship level. Falconer showed some nice touches when he came on but still not sure he's physically ready. Lockhart looked decent and maybe the most first team ready of the midfield youngsters. Dolan showed up well at centrehalf and looked physically capable of playing first team football. Thought Low's passing was better than Reading but Low does need to bulk up a bit. If we sign Logan then we still need another right-back to at least provide cover. Need at least 1 midfield starter, 2 strikers and another goalkeeper as a minimum.

Of the 3 trialists, who all had a shot at right-back, only really Cammy Logan looked worth another look. Harkness who started the second half looked nervy and generally not at the races. The 3rd trialist never really got much time and didn't do anything wrong but equally never did anything of note. Diack was poor in the first 45, Horn looked much better and scored a nice goal from a tight angle. Thought Lockhart and Dolan also gave a good showing. Midfield looks thin. Mackenzie needs to improve and Falconer needs to hit the weights in the gym as he still looks to easy to push off the ball. Chalmers looked several classes above everyone else and if he had scored from the run he started on the edge of our area it would have been some goal

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Graham's comments are interesting form different perspectives. Its difficult for any ex-pro to get a managers/head coach position. So to reject one can't have been an easy decision. His interview mentions its Head coach and not the actual manager. I wonder if one of the things that maybe played on Graham's mind was that between Doolan being fired in February and Barraclough being appointed in April, Graham was the de facto manager as there was no Sporting Director. He had signed players in February and had undertaken all the aspects of the role. So when he's offered the Head coach position and its clarified what his remit was going to be was it in effect a demotion in his mind?

Rae should have the experience we require in an assistant coach and I think he will be the first coach that wasn't an internal promotion or previous employee of the club in our coaching setup since Neil Scally? so hopefully brings a fresh voice and ideas. As our chairman put it he should also fill the 'alpha-male' role. His obvious Orange tendencies and some of the pictures of him that used to do the rounds on social media do him no favours. However when you look at some of the names being floated about like Gordon Dalziel then on balance I'm ok with this. Doesn't sell season tickets but makes some footballing sense and could have been much worse

I think signing Bud is a sensible move. He didn't look out of place last season and he's young enough that there is still potential for development. Be good to get a more experienced keeper in to push him but I suspect a second keeper might be a loan signing later in the window

I think both your comments and @Norgethistle's can be true. Our last game was 16th May. Assuming an offer was made around 4th June that's about 3 weeks. As Bannigan was our player we didn't need to wait until June to start talking to him. We probably didn't because we didn't have a head coach until the 30th May but then again you would have thought our Sporting Director could have dealt with that prior to the 30th, to at least give him some indication of if he was likely to get an offer. As I said before , Bannigan moving on is the right footballing decision. However it just feels like maybe Wilson wanted to keep him but because there was such a gap between end of season and any offer being tabled it allowed other offers to appear and a degree of dissatisfaction to manifest

In my opinion letting Bannigan go is the correct footballing decision. We need to reduce the age of the team, particularly in midfield and as the only midfielder out of contract he is the easiest to move on. However I suspect we have yet again not handled this wonderfully well and I suspect Bannigan will probably have left because we didn't talk to him not because he didn't want to stay or Wilson wanted rid. If so, thats no way to treat any player and eventually an unprofessional approach will lose us players we want to sign. Now we have to look for replacements and as much as Barraclough is incapacitated I would have hoped that replacements for Bannigan had been scouted before the season end as it was well known his contract was due to expire. I have my doubts and I think the signing of Paddy Reading indicates Mark Wilson is doing most of the work right now without much support.

Thought he always looked poor defensively as part of a back 4. Lawless in particular used to torment him. Ayr have signed Liam Dick from Rath as his replacement which perhaps tells us something. On the plus side he's only 25 so got a couple of years before his peak, don't think he will be on big money and he should be an upgrade on Josh Reid particularly if we play him as wingback. With O'Reilly, Reading and Low able to cover the leftside of defence it just really leaves getting a rightback or two and the defensive positions will be filled.

Right now its difficult to know what to expect I suspect it will be a striker plus the like of Low, Dolan and Rooney announced as graduate's to be considered part of the first team squad. I see Ayr have agreed a cooperation arrangement with East Stirling and I wonder if we might do the same with another lowland league team so we have somewhere to develop our graduates? Wonder if Bannigan will end up being player/assistant to Wilson? Just hoping for a week in which we don't shoot ourselves in the foot and gives the appearance of a normal football club.

Would happily take Shaw as he at least can score goals. However I suspect getting him would involve paying a decent transfer fee to Hamilton and we aren't paying that. Alternatively if he has a relegation release in his contract or if Hamilton goes bust (looks possible) then he would be available but we wouldn't be able to compete on wages. If the Guthrie signing happens is stinks of no real scouting had been done by Barraclough prior to his injury and instead Turnbull has been asked to find a target man striker we can afford. So throws a pin at the long list of English non-league strikers that we could afford and that produces a 32 year old who has been describe by quite a few clubs he's played for as their worst player ever. I hope I'm wrong. I did see rumours of us being interested in Nicky Clark which whilst he's not young can at least score goals. More acceptable if its him but equally makes a complete nonsense of having a recruitment strategy that identifies young players with resale value. If the Ruth story is correct it sounds like Graham & Wilson identified someone that more met that strategy

We were rumoured to be signing Michael Ruth who is now at Queens Park. There's a Dumbarton fan on P&B who does all their interviews and he's saying we had all but him signed and suspects he only went to Queens Park because Graham didn't get the Head Coach job. The deal was seemingly in play from early this year so chances are Graham & Wilson scouted him and had done the ground work along with probably other signing targets so they could get key business done early which makes sense when operating on a reduced budget. So the following is my guess and it is a guess Did Graham as part of his discussions say here's the list of folk I want immediately, they are scouted, not particularly expensive and we should get them now as other clubs are interested. Barraclough or Beastall either say no or give an answer that implied it would need the sporting Director/Head of recruitment to check or budgets agreed before Graham could do anything. Graham looks at that and thinks this is no way to way to work and knocks it back ?

☝️Absolutely this Not going to go over the events of the last few months as there as way too many too list but we are just making terrible decision after terrible decision and never stopping to ask why do we keep trusting those making the decisions? What evidence is that they miraculously get it right this time? When we inevitably struggle in the league who carries the can? Really unfair on Wilson but he will be the guy in the public eye but being forced to play with other peoples players and make the best he can of poor decisions elsewhere I sincerely hope our Chair is going to commit to resigning before he considers sacking Wilson and if our board believe the Sporting Director strategy is correct they need to be the visible presence answering questions on it. Its their decision time to start owning it I got called out as over reacting for saying our club leadership was rotten to the core on May 29th. I have never changed my mind and every passing day just adds more evidence.

Goal Centurion Brian Graham moves to Falkirk | Partick Thistle FC Competely get the idea of Celebrating Brian's achievements. Probably telling how relationships that Brian did not give a interview to thank the club or fans. However please don't let Beastall speak again? Every time he does he comes across as incompetent or says something that just sets up the next failure. From above the following sentence is totally uneeded. “As a club we understand our supporters are keen to see new signings and we hope to share an update regarding that next week.” That isn't a problem related to Graham leaving its a general problem because we have recruited 0 players and can't even get to an end with Bannigan. So next week when we announce some jobbers to replace Graham will Beastall appear to explain it, will we get no signings and a vague promise about how we are targeting quality replacements fitting with our new mould or will we just get a message saying "Welcome to Firhill Mr J. Obber" and Wilson will be left to present/defend it plus poor Jobber forever more gets compared to Graham? From the outside looking in Mr Beastall looks like the problem not the solution

Looks like Graham is signing for Falkirk. Posts on Pie&bovril of him in a Falkirk strip This feels like the worst off season I can remember If we are replacing him with a 32 year old striker who's can barely score and who has been playing in the Jersey leagues then that's truly awful

Allegedly there is a jagsclub newsletter doing the rounds that says the following: "Currently Happening - Season Tickets on Sale Commercial Manager announced Next Week - Final Update on Budget for Summer Squad/Coaching Update Players Return for Pre-Season Fixtures Announced Kingsley Turns 10 Years Old Week Beginning 23/6/25 - Hospitality goes on Sale Kit Release Greaves Kit Release/Media Pre-Season " Seems like the sort of update you would give to people that pay money for Jagzone? Leaving that aside it would suggest finalising the budget has slipped back another week. Either we have really complicated budget or something else is going on

I see Aaron Lyall has left Morton. I would hope he is someone we are looking at as he's young enough to develop and even just now probably adds a but more guile to our midfield. Also Ryan Mullen still in discussions with Morton. Given our lack of goalkeepers I would have thought we would have been looking at him

Not sure I follow the thinking that says 'it was ok for the club to be in a mess the problem was telling people' Barraclough's injury is completely unforeseen, a private matter and equally would have demanded the attention of the board and the staff since it occurred about a week ago. However not setting budgets, poor comms, no strips, lack of plans for 150th year etc are all issues that have pre-dated last week and equally are not related to the football department. We have also had issues in the football department that occurred pre-Barraclough's injury such as why was our head coach recruitment so protracted? What is happening with Brian Graham? We have a long path to correct the situation but the first step is admitting there are problems. I can't believe that any of the current board weren't sighted on these issues or supporters opinions prior to TJF but it appears as though they only sprung into life when TJF went public which gives the impression that they were living in their own wee world. So personally, I fully agree with TJF's actions, a strong fans body needs to be able to hold the club board to account and raise fans concerns as it appears the only way in which standards will improve.

Might just be me but it seems right now that the more we make statements the more confusing it gets. The joint statement suggests that budgets haven't been set for 2025-26 yet but we've appointed or are recruiting some key positions that would only really start to be paid from season 25-26 budget so how does that work? We now want a volunteer financial director to help with the budget process so who's job was setting budgets up until now and what has been the actual delay? Can't be a post we don't have and didn't have last year? We're wanting to strengthen media and comms experience which presumably means another employee or another volunteer but if we're doing that then why keep the current Head of Communications? We're selling Jagzone memberships as a major benefit of the jags for generations season ticket but haven't actually posted any new contents in Jagzone since the 6thJune. surely the Head of comms needs to make sure there is content there to justify the price? Leaving aside what's in the statements we also don't appear to be any closer on a strip launch. Its our 150th year and so far there doesn't appear to be any real plans to mark that. What is the GM doing if not issues like this? How can we be in this mess if the board is actually functioning? Surely the board are asking the GM and Head of comms why their area's are not on track? I'll leave aside the football department because with Barraclough's injury and lack of a budget its pretty clear why we haven't made much progress there.

Hope Ian has a speedy recovery. Does sound pretty horrific

My fear in appointing a Sporting Director is we would become a but like Falkirk and their Gary Holt experiment. However appears we are also going for the Sevco approach and issuing statements like confetti. Today's statement Joint Statement from Club Board and TJF | Partick Thistle FC By now we should be withholding the the red, yellow and black pound but appears like we are instead spending it on a new finance director

I don't think its just TJF and people on this forum raising questions about the leadership of our club Doolan said this in his interviews post being sacked "Behind the scenes if they can settle things down and give that leadership the club needs, then the club is there to be promoted." The reasons for Scott Robinson's move to Hamilton indicated the same problem. Dave Mitchell's interview on joining Ayr seemed to suggest some of the same. So for the board to be reacting in this way when TJF raise concerns suggests suggests to me they are more annoyed that they have been called out than have any interest in looking at what they could improve. Another wee point - The TJF email was sent on Sunday. Did the all the board meet to discuss it and the response on Sunday/early today? If so did the TJF reps on the board put their names to that response when it clearly calls out the body they represent? I doubt it and I suspect 1 or 2 on the board rushed that out without the full board signing it off.

Interesting Club Statement | Partick Thistle FC Personally I think the TJF email probably upset all the right targets going by the club statement

Not seen any posts for this elsewhere but the June update from TJF's Lesley Kane is very good and captures the concerns I have. Good to know TJF are raising them with the board and hopefully that leads to an improvement