Richard Nixon

You have to pay Top Dollar for The Greatest Mascot In The World, dontcheknow? There's a sucker born every minute.

Womp, womp. The Curse Of Kingsley continues.

Sounds like we had plenty of shots today.

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The real question is, will Kallum Higginbotham score more goals himself than Thistle will this season?

Down, and down, and down, we are going down.

2946 in attendance. Poor b*stards

Inverness are relegation contenders this season?

Scotland are wonderfully predictable. Is anyone really surprised to see them balls it all up yet again?

What would this theoretical money be used for? Foundation Of Hearts has the purpose of eventually transferring their club into complete fan ownership. With sixteen thousand season ticket holders and god knows how many fans overseas etc, that sounds like an achievable goal. What would our fanbase be able to do? Maintain the upkeep of a dilapidated stadium only half owned by the club? Help the manager purchase more players? That would please the people who think the current one is unable to do the job. I think the only people who would consider this are the thirteen hundred or so season ticket holders, and do they not give the club enough money already? The contribution would be so small the board wouldn't be interested in allowing fan representation - I'm sure that idea has been mooted several times and not gotten anywhere.

You are a bit of a strange old troll, aren't you? Going from praising Arhiebald for getting us promoted and calling other posters "knickerwetters" in April to stating, "If we do sign anyone it won't be any better than we have! We are rank!" and "Scored in 1 game in 7??? CERTS to go down" in August. For someone in their 50's, as you claim to be, your attitude is extremely childish. There's no fool like an old fool, they say. In May you wrote, "This will be my last post on this site. You will all get peace!" What a shame that wasn't true; anything for attention I suppose.

You seem to think everything is the fault of the fans.

Aye, maybe they'll cancel out that goal and we'll only have lost 1-0 instead.

If winning one header during the entire match is acceptable then fair play to him, he earned his pay for the week.

You have a go at the people who don't go, and then you have a go at the people who do go. Well done in being universally stupid, that takes some doing.

Be good when he's signed up for the big team at Tannadice. edit: it's interesting that three people on here use quotes from me as part of their signature at the foot of their posts. Your obsession is endearing, thanks!

It's pretty surprising, all this negative reaction to the teamwear. I thought you guys would buy any ol' shite - if they stick the mascot on it, that is. Even a home shirt that looks nothing like a Thistle shirt. Look at Motherwell's strips for next season; a professional club putting out professional gear. You'd get confused as to which club out of the two of us nearly got relegated a few months ago.

REALLY?!?!

There's plenty of people who can't understand what the f**k is going on with that logo - unarguably a crudely-drawn doodle, because that's how the artist himself describes it! Meanwhile, the mascot was created by simply lifting said cruddy corporate logo and placing it onto a yellow Lycra suit. Clearly lots of effort and thought went into the entire enterprise. Fair play to you if you were familiar with David Shrigley's work and actually liked it before Monday afternoon. I know there's no accounting for taste. But it was obvious that there was no intention to make any kind of deal from this - except the usual space-filler in the Evening Times perhaps - until it took off on social media as a "so bad it's good" joke. I'm sorry, but that doesn't make it any less embarrassing, no matter how much you try to embrace it's stupidity. We are being laughed AT. I cannot stress that enough. It's great that Kingston media are fans of the artist - good for them; and it's fine that we're so desperate we'll welcome any old shite for money, apparently. Just remember that once this (exceedingly thin) joke gets old - and after the ghost of Tam Cowan has wheeled out his schtick on the next Off The Ball, the joke will be nothing more than a violated, rotting corpse - both logo and mascot will stinking up Firhill for the next two seasons. That's as long as we wore the jester shirt, but at least then we were so far down the leagues no-one took notice. But what's the point of arguing? It's Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers amongst attention-starved Thistle fans, like the pimple-faced nerd who is pleased that the school bully actually remembered to wedgie him this week. I love how it was assumed to be an utter piss-take until it got a whiff of attention on the internet. Whoops! It's now a Don Draper-esque genius publicity stunt, well done the club! That's akin to claiming that Andrew Tosh (the idiot so drunk he was dragged off a plane in handcuffs) is actually a wonderful advertisement for the city of Dundee because the video of his arrest briefly swept around social media. It was so well-thought out someone belatedly decided to get some cheap t-shirts printed up and then punt them at £20 including postage! Pre-order it though, because David Shrigley still has to fluff out a design this afternoon. Actually, one of his assistants can probably complete the project; it really won't take more than a minute. It's a shame really: two weeks earlier with all this, and those t-shirts could have been sported ironically by beard-clad w*nkers at Glastonbury. I can imagine we've sold hundreds more season tickets since Monday because of this worldwide recognition. The Kilmarnock game will be packed out with fresh crowds virgin to Firhill, eager to see a walking internet meme. The new strips will be tearing off the shelves next week because of the scribble excreted onto the chest. Who knows? Thanks to this rip-roaring success, Kingston Capital Bussiness may start buying up a majority of those new shares. Once they take full ownership they can change our club colours to electric green and neon blue, and re-name us the Ppartick Cockfluuffers. Imagine how much attention we'll get on social media then! It'll be a real laffer - and that's with two 'f's! Because idiotic stunts should be what Partick Thistle are known for - god forbid for football. A vital player is off to Luton whilst nothing Is happening on our transfer frOOOH LOOK GUYS OUR NEW MASCOT IS ON THE TELLY WHOOOOO LET'S MAKE UP SOME PHOTOSHOP PICS Can no-one see the dichotomy of the official site placing that logo directly next to an image claiming we're "not so cuddly anymore"? If there was a dictionary definition of Cuddly Toy Football Club, this is it. Obviously this will be completely shot down and I'll be called all the arseh*les under the sun because I obviously don't possess a sense of humour. Whine whine whine, moan moan moan - how dare I not join in with the bubbly bonkers bohemian bullsh*t Partick Thistle are beloved for. I'll try to take an extended break until the season actually starts and leave you all to revel in all this glorious stupidity. Unfortunately for me, it feels like you're all mad. PS - If anyone gets the chance, please remind Ian Maxwell at some point that we're not called "Partick"; it's actually "Partick Thistle" or "Thistle". "Partick" is the term people completely unfamiliar with us use - or opposing fans who are trying to wind us up. It behoves our general manager to act like he has at least a basic level of knowledge of the club when conducting TV interviews.

Half a day of derision on Twitter ≠ "worldwide phenomenon".

There's no such thing as bad publicity. Oh wait there is. Still, we had fifteen minutes of fame on twitter yesterday, and everyone had a good laugh when the mascot was on the news last night. It's a shame we only get attention for pulling idiotic stunts like this. But easily pleased Thistle fans are over the moon someone's paying attention to us for any reason I guess. They're not laughing with us - it's at us. For the next two years we're sporting something that to call amateurish, is to insult amateurs. That's a whole lot of away fans having a right good laugh at us. That's a whole lot of defeats where we also get to look like f@nnies throughout. The amount of Grape-Aid being drunk around here is unbelievable.

As Ian Maxwell as quoted on STV - one of the stipulations of the deal was that the club would use whatever David Shrigley came up with. Praising the board for taking the money and letting people have a laugh at our expense. Great stuff. I'd love to see the design work and sketch preparation which went into that logo and mascot. Must have taken him ages.

Sorry for voicing my opinion Chief.

Aye, great. Trending as a laughing stock.

A company making $400 million from five clients doesn't sound like it needs to advertise. Tax write-off? This whole story sounds mad. He likes an artist who likes Thistle so he's giving us money? Okay, if they want to pump silly dosh into the club don't let us stop you! That mascot though. The horror ... the horror. Remember the days of respectable sponsors like sewage waste management companies? edit: Actually, I can't stop laughing now, it's so farcical. Thanks for cheering me up, Thistle.