Richard Nixon

How exciting! Zzzzzz

We're hardly into our second season in the top flight and crowds already seem to have bottomed out at two-and-a-half thousand home fans. That's despite Thistle currently being the second-highest placed team in Glasgow. We might have a huge possible catchment area, but that doesn't translate to attendances. Perhaps it's just this website and it's not representative of all fans at Firhill, but the atmosphere seems overwhelmingly hostile, negative and morose. What would a cup win or a top-six finish really do for our long-term future? I could see some sort of drastic reconstruction maybe securing a stable future for Partick Thistle. A joint venture with Glasgow Warriors perhaps, where we sell the three-sided, now almost soulless (and soon to be smothered in a rabbit-warren of apartments) Firhill and move to a new place with an artificial pitch suitable for both rugby and football. A new stadium in a different part of the city, designed for the best atmosphere possible - fully enclosed, safe standing, better and more varied facilities - might make the product more palatable. A sort of united sporting club with Glasgow promoted as part of it's identity might be attractive to more people, especially Old Firm fans tired of everything that has gone on with their teams. Making the matchday experience better value for money might encourage a new generation of families to attend. Of course, there are deeply-ingrained problems with football in Scotland that go well beyond our own team that don't look like they're going to be fixed any time soon. In all honesty I can see, if and when Rangers finally return to challenge Celtic, the clamours for their exit into the EPL will begin immediately and anew. And why not, with the result of the recent referendum debate? Scottish football will quickly resemble the Welsh leagues. Everyone outside the Old Firm will be reduced to part-time teams, and clubs such as ours will be a parochial pastime for a very small handful of dedicated followers. Everyone will still keep moaning, though.

You seem to be labouring under the impression that every opinion is actually worth reading. This is demonstrably not the case. Stick me on ignore instead of telling me to f**k off, you child. Some people remind me of Man Utd fans last season, bitching and complaining about Moyes. They got him sacked and look how well they're doing now. Don't worry, Partick Thistle fans will get exactly what they deserve.

I think there is some severe historical revisionism going on with people thinking we "could have, should have" finished top six, and "were unlucky" not to last season. It wasn't that long ago! More than some people spent the entire season predicting our relegation and demanding the managers' head! From a perspective of not six months on, we were apparently a baw hair away from Europe, whilst now we're the same distance away from a pub team. Let it never be said that Partick Thistle fans lack a sense of proportion or are prone to over-exaggeration.

So apparently we were a top six team last season who finished tenth. We've played seven games this season so far and we're going to get relegated. I guess we should just quit now, and give the championship trophy to Dundee United, because nothing will change between now and May. Can't wait to see how Hamilton get on in Europe! Unfortunately there's always boring moany ********* in every pub, but you notice they're always sitting on their tod. It's sort of natural selection for burst-faced football fans.

Makes you miss the old Firhill where everyone would line up on the terracing to scream and bawl out the players as they left the pitch. Much more therapeutic ...

Please! Don't directly quote dimholes like The Cup and javeajag. Some of us keep them on 'ignore' so we don't have to read their shite. Speaking of which, this thread definitely qualifies.

At least their stadium has character. It's a hole, but it has character. And there's still some residual gloat leftover from a few seasons past.

Is there any team in the country you could care less about playing, than Kilmarnock?

Maybe we could combine the game with the postponed league match, just get them both out of the way.

Don't think we'd sell 2000 tickets anyway.

Jesus, the average IQ of this thread dropped sharply I see ...

We''ll get put out by Dundee Utd. It's an absolute stick-on.

Thank Gawd for that ... now everyone can go to bed.

SO, are we all betting on nil-nil and losing on penalties, then?

But ... but ... the powers that be renamed the leagues after the English ones and copied their logo? What else could they possibly do?!?

Fox still in goal. Wowsers trousers.

Four in six games. If only that were goals.

If Ian McCall, or someone else of his ilk, were to be employed in some sort of coaching role, exactly how many games would have to pass before people started clamouring for Archie to be sacked and replaced? One defeat? Two? Who here would employ someone who would immediately be a direct threat to your own job?

Don't quote his pish! The ignore function is there for a reason.

For the love of god don't mention that thing lest it reappear to haunt our souls once more ...

We're poor, ICT are poor, Buddies are poor, everybody's poor. At least we're all gash together. You want good football give money to Rupert Murdoch and watch some Sky Sports.

Calm down, dear ... this team isn't even in the top 100 of shite Thistle teams ... of the past ten years. There's a team called Ross County who are so dross we'll have to go bust to finish below them.

Exactly. We seem to take our mental foot off the pedal when we think the opposing team is inferior - and we don't know how to switch when it's clear they aren't.

The crowd will lower even if it's free on Tuesday ..