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Is this not the sort of thing Willjag used to sell on e-bay on behalf of the Trust? Could someone from the JT not do something similar?

Ryan McGuffie to Q o S from Morton. (others free to find clubs Finlayson (Morton), Masterton (Morton), and btw Kenny Arthur transfer listed at Rochdale)

Haud me back!

I was thinking that myself. Besides just about every second manager could be accused of doing an old pals act when it comes to picking assistants etc. Hardly surprising when you see just how insecure football management is. Just about any manager is going to have a hairy time of it from his board and/or fans. Can't blame him for not wanting to get stabbed in the back by his backroom staff as well. Coming to think of it McCall didn't know Gerry Britton or Gardner Speirs that well. Same I'm sure with Sid till McCall came here.

Aye, that would be all we would need, a Tom Hughes conducted means test.

Eh, thought this was a forum to discuss all things Partick Thistle?

Tend to agree that only in an absolute emergency should Maxwell be fielded. Re-signing Hinchcliffe is a bit of a catch22. We need a goalkeeping coach if Scully & Shepherd are to develop and at our level our No 1 goalie, whoever it turns out to be, will probably require near constant coaching as well. We can't afford two new keepers and unlike outfield players you can't (or certainly shouldn't) field young goalies too early. But if the No 2 spot goes to Hinchy he'll probably not be up to first team appearances. We've only got the first Dunfermline away game to go on but that was poor and he'll be another year older. We're clearly going to have to hope that our new goalkeeper doesn't get injured or loses form and/or that Scully develops very fast.

that's below the belt.

Tommy & Laura perchance? I may be late I've something to do that cannot wait.

If you feel that masterminding a 4th place finish in that "awful" division was some sort achievement feel free. In hindsight you may still have a point. It was Mark Roberts that got us out of there but in fairness he was Campbell's signing.

He's obviously done awfy well this season but you're being a wee bit patronising given that his team lost the play off final last season.

Spot on. Only thing vaguely positive I can think of is that those stay away from Firhill fans we hear about will have less to enthuse about regarding those oh so enjoyable away days. That said of the three Fife venues we'll visit I'm fairly certain Cowdenbeath will be the most enjoyable. That's not exactly saying a lot though.

Nonsense. We were well beaten 0-1 on quite a few occasions this past season but imo, and coming to think of it that of the BBC and most press I read, the cup game v Dundee Utd certainly wasn't one of them.

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Not a V neck then

Either that or their competence level rises accordingly. We can but dream

Don't think so but we came across him a few times when we played Ayr in the 2nd div a few seasons ago.

Very sad state of affairs. If they had internet forums in my day folk would've been posting drunken pish Friday, Saturday, Sunday and at least twice during the week.

I heard that the news of next season's £1 rise on gate entry put a real dampener on the occasion.

Thought County could have been a little more positive. If anything United were the more nervous but that was negated when Ross didn't push on.

I find that interesting. Did your case study involve Motherwell? I've always be led to believe that the numerous Boyle initiatives involving reduced pricing have lowered revenue and thus been an expensive failure. Another thing that you probably looked into would be the amount of travel/expense the average fan incurs for home matches. For example clubs like say Falkirk, Stirling, Arbroath, Raith etc probably draw the lion's share of their support from the home town and travel costs will be on average very low. Thus when you bracket expense of travel and entrance costs together a reduction in gate money will be a large percentage to fans of those example clubs. Whereas clubs like Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, St Johnstone, Ross Co plus maybe Killie, Ayr etc will have a much higher percentage of fans travelling extra distance. Any reduction in gate money will be of a much lower percentage of overall matchday cost. I would suggest that Jags fans might tend more to the latter camp. In short the incentive of attending a game at Firhill by reducing the gate price may not have the desired effect if the cost of travel remains static or, as has happened from the turn of the year, considerably increased.

Does that happen with the other pay to view packages with other clubs? Would imagine that would be a serious infringement of copyright.

I wouldn't put any restrictions on when an unemployed person can purchase a ticket, shouldn't take more than a few seconds to check ID etc. If anything someone out of work coming to support the Jags (even at a reduced cost of entry) is showing even more commitment. Guess it would be worthwhile to see how other clubs (I'm sure there'll be a few) operate unemployed gates and also any other places of entertainment.

Light yellow and red touchpaper and retire

Hadn't really thought about this as a 12 monthly thing. I suppose I could always downgrade from a silver centenary member to bronze to pay for it.