Dick Dastardly

I have doubts about the rest of you, but I’d do a better job than McCall. (Mutley for assistant).

And if I was the old supplier or manufacturer, I wouldn't want to find out we had lost the contract this way. The club has commitments and t's&c's with sponsors, suppliers and manufacturers, both old and new which leaks like this could jeapordise. As others have said, I would leave things like this for the club to announce

Do they have to replace someone ? Can’t we have them as well ?

I’m not sure that was an option. The previous board didn’t want to continue and were trying to sell their shares. However they couldn’t find anyone to buy them that wanted to run the club themselves, which is exactly why we are where we are

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In other words, where would we be without hope ? .... Alive !

I thought that until the arrival of Mayo. I don't think he came to sit on the bench and I don't see Brownlie or O'Ware being dropped For me, 3 at the back exposes us defensively, unless the defenders are uber concentrating. They need to cover for the wingbacks going forward and they need to watch for one of their own joining the midfield. So easy to be exposed 2 on 1 out wide or 3 on 2 down the middle. It would be 4-1-4-1 or 4-4-1-1 with the wingers supporting the front man for me, but I'm not sure we have the players for that

I never want to see 3 at the back ever again. It was a shambles at Arbroath. If we try that, we will lose

My expectations are low and I would probably not be surprised if this Thistle team fails to meet them. I'm relying on others to do us a favour.

I hope that luck doesn’t come into the equation and that we are still in next seasons Championship on merit

I thought it a good effort for wee Joe to get big Aaron in a headlock. Ref probably didn’t give it because he thought it couldn’t possibly have happened.

Have to disagree. They may have gone about it in a different way but still got only 1 shot on target and had a calamitous defensive blunder. Think I’ve seen that story before

Firstly that was definitely a penalty. O’Connors arms were all over him. The only way that is not given is if you are in a green/white or blue shirt. Brownlie as much to blame as Banzo for the goal. As soon as he set off you could see the space open up and knew he had to win it or we were in trouble. Graham did look good I the first half when he had support. When they dropped deeper second half he looked isolated. He will score more. Overall that was pretty typical of so many recent games. We looked good at times without ever threatening to score (did Doohan have to make a save ?) We were always just one moment away from conceding and you knew it would come. Need some big games next month Edit to add that bbc stats say we had 8 shots with just 1 on target. Sounds like an old story

4-5-1 ? Looks a bit defensive unless the midfield are going to get forward to support Graham. Wonder which of O’Ware and Brownley will play on the left

Any players would have to have been registered by midday today to be eligible to play tomorrow, so not exactly a big deal. Other than saying he wants player X, I'm not sure that the manager has much to do with the legal shenanigans behind transfers.

It probably needs players to move on to release the money to bring someone in. I expect that the ground work on who he wants/is available has been done, but other factors mean that he can't

Now there's a program I would watch .... Matt Baker taking a chainsaw to Alex Jones !

I don't think I'm guilty. Normally I'm cheerleader for the happy clappers (although I've never hidden that I don't like McCall). I think if Archie learns from the mistakes he made then he could well be our next manager and I'd have no issue with that. I'd be over the moon if we won tonight. This season my knickers are so wet I need incontinence pads.

I would say more than decent in his time. I doubt that I'll ever see another striker score as many in the red n yellow (although I'd be delighted if I did). However that was in the past. One of the reasons that he had a better goals per minute ratio to Miller is because his legs were shot after an hour and forced us into a substitution (worse when playing with Squiddy which forced 2 after an hour). I think (my opinion and others may differ) this in turn cost us the chance to make tactical changes later in games.

I'm not getting why people are thinking that this has been a great transfer window Graham for Miller and McKinnon for Harkins appear to be like for like and I'd be surprised if Graham scores as many as Miller did. Likewise Bajonas for Palmer doesn't look to be a huge game changer. Brownlie for McGinty doesn't look to be that different. QotS fans were not exactly weeping on the steps of Palmerston at the thought of him leaving. And Lyon we wont see in action until next season which is hardly going to get us out of the current predicament. That leaves Rudden and O'Connor for Slater and Wilson. Hard to make like for like comparison and I will admit that an attacker and defender for 2 midfielders does help the balance of the squad and addresspositions where we were lacking. However Rudden hardly set the heather alight down in Plymouth and O'Connor is largely unproven. Maybe the new guys have a much better mental attitude and we'll find out over the next few games if that is the case, but I don't get why this is being touted as such a great transfer window. It will certainly have had a negative impact on the clubs finances which were rumoured to be in something of a mess. Is it just that the new players were signed by golden bollocks McCall ?

I guess you're entitled to your opinion, even if you are both wrong I wouldn't have taken Graham for exactly your reasons, but we had to do something and I don't know who was available. Wighton would have been a great signing as he knows where the back of the net is at Firhill.

Take off your rose tinted glasses. Dolan was not good enough for us last year and is not good enough for Ayr this year. His playing days at our level are over. I don’t know about his coaching ability, so I leave others to comment on that, but as a player, even a backup, no thanks. As for Morton, he would be wasted with their style of play

I'm not convinced that it was just the players. For 2.5 years now we have had a succession of players who have not delivered at the level they did for other clubs, or even for Thistle in the past. I think that there is something more to this, perhaps the turmoil in the board room with now 3 changes and a 4th to come. I just hope that this current crop don't suffer the same fate.

What we don't know is whether the replacements are any better. Jury is out after Saturday's debacle

Atleast I have one team in every tie ! Livingston, Celtic, BSC Glasgow, Motherwell, Ayr, Aberdeen, Rangers and Hearts 21 goals will be scored