douglas clark

True, He did wonderfully well to get into a scoring position.

You go to development games and such. Anyone there would could play in the First team? Centre Back?

We need to sign a tall, capable, centre back, or find him in the development squad. We lost one and drew one because we couldn't clear our lines. Someone tall enough to out jump a smallish forward and be on the right side of him. Maybe?

twinny, Do we still get paid? I suspect that we still get paid, whether we are on the goggle box or not. I go to a good few home games and a few away games that are local and don't involve the old firm. Kilmarnock, Hamilton, you know the script. Apart from distant fans, who can't attend, who is being short changed here?. Better to actually go than pay to view, I think. Despite getting near hypothermia a few months back :-)

Sort of agree with this. Sort of disagree with this. I would like to have played St Johnstone last weekend for social reasons. But. Scotland games should take precedence. Else we end up being English! The idea that club is greater than country is becoming a new story that folk tell themselves. I am not sure it is true.

GRE, Get well, best wishes. Just a question really. Archie has found some gems in lower English leagues. In fact, I think his ability to find us players where none seemed to be available has been nothing short of astonishing. This guy seems to be a cut above that. I have a feeling this will work!

Get the general idea that the SFA are more about status than development. Money contributed to travel and luxury living is perhaps more important than money towards development. Same as it ever was.

I think Ramsey is the better player. There, I've said it.

WTF is up with eh! tell me.

You have your opinion. Fair enough. In Archie we trust.

Thanks for the replies, interesting comments.

Was chatting with my son outdoors in the sunshine. We came across this conundrum: As they were the first, who the heck did they play? The Queens Park web site didn't help: he minutes of a meeting held on July 9, 1867 begin with the words: “Tonight at half past eight o’clock a number of gentlemen met at No. 3 Eglinton Terrace for the purpose of forming a football club.” They might not seem the most noteworthy comments ever made, but they are the prelude to possibly the most important moment in the history of Scottish Football. That meeting in 3 Eglinton Terrace on the south side of Glasgow saw the formation of Queen’s Park Football Club, and the start of Scottish Football. The game had been played before then, in public schools where they had their own code and their own established rules. But it was Queen’s who really set the ball rolling. The club set about laying down the foundation of the modern game, adopting a passing style of play which employed skilful ball control. The team worked as a unit, utilising team tactics, unlike that of their contemporaries of the day who played an ‘individualistic’ style of game which used kick-and-rush tactics, ‘dribbling’ with the ball, hacking and rough play. It also took a decision that its players would not be paid ; adopting the motto: “Ludere causa Ludendi” – to play for the sake of playing. That decision holds good today, with no Queen’s Park player ever having received a wage from the club. Any ideas?

The guy tells you what is wrong with the media you read. Personally I think he is a tit on everything else. But, on that, he is right, For your information, I am unfriended by our hero, just because. Frankly the results elsewhere such as Argyll, suggest otherwise.. Be prepared to argue the Argyll results, why don't you?

Rev Stu Campbell does a fair degree of research and can usually back up what he has to say, although in my opinion his views on Hillsborough are beyond the pale. However, related to the above topic, it might be worth others viewing this: http://wingsoverscotland.com/a-slight-stramash/ Which at least puts the timescales into some sort of perspective. Doesn't seem worthy of some of the language that has been used in the MSM to describe it. I too have entered the field of play, once at Forfar when John Lambie serenaded us from the stand, and once at Firhill, where I was thinking twice about it up until a woman with her baby in it's buggy went first! Perhaps someone can correct me, but if memory serves, a pitch invasion used to refer to supporters entering the field of play when a game was in progress, no?

TJR, It has all been said above, but you are a forum hero!

Think Dumbaya is the best right back we have had in yonks! Suppose it is all about opinion, but when he is on the park I think the team ticks a lot better!

I think Pogba could be a star for us too. It is hard to see a more improved player than Amoo. That is quite a turn-around that the management have done. I think Pogba offers more on the deck than in the air. Perhaps we should play to his strengths? I am hopeful that he will prove to be the asset that I assume Archie is working on creating. Because Archie seems to be light years ahead of us fans in turning average players into stars. And he has enough confidence in his own judgement to keep playing people who most of us would have dropped. Mr Amoo being the prime example of a man who has grown the more games he has played. It is interesting that he picked up Tomas Cerny who is quite the goalie and came with a fairly high reputation. I am astonished that there doesn't appear to be a fee involved. It is that part, the ability to pick up players who haven't been able to shine in the past, or whose careers have been blighted by misfortune, that makes me speculate that Alan Archibald is a truly great man manager. So, when Pogba gets the treatment, we could be in for the first huge transfer fee in the history of the club! Or better still, he stays and we get to watch a superstar.

Well, I hope we turn up in numbers to see the win what we need... Tough league, right enough... Are we tough enough? As SITB says: FTOF, OTIG OMIW and GOYJ. So, perhaps. I am past being friendly. Jags on tour, I upvoted you but, sadly, I had reached my limit for the day on upvotes. It will, indeed be a tough game. Fingers crossed.I wrote that whilst touching wood.....

I just hope Mustapha is completely fit. The team ticks when he is on the park. Quite extraordinary that he is playing for us and and not some far more famous club. He is only one example of Alan Archibald's true ability as a manager. He can find us players that are totally underrated and support them and turn them into stars. Mr Amoo looked poor when we started playing him, now? With management support he is a changed person. His name is probably early on the team sheet. Our team captain, Abdul Osman, is the player I would most hate to lose. But Abdul's previous career woudn't have you jumping through hoops. It is his recognition of ability and the willingness to persevere with it that makes Alan Archibald an outstanding manager. I didn't make the match today. Two comments. The commentary on the PTFC web site, the official one, made up for that. I really wish I had made it. A top four finish is a tad more than a dream now..

Just to say, this is as good as it gets as a jags fan. Right now, we could make fourth place, and if the evil twin wins both the league and the Scottish Cup, well, we'd be in European Competition, Honved even, If we want to see our players really, really compete, show themselves against great teams, we have to hope for that fourth place, beyond reason, beyond expectation. For that, it seems to me, is what Alan Archibald wants for us. It is what I want for us. It is what you want for us.

We COULD be 4th......nah, I'm not saying it. I am. We could be. How good would that be?

Is Dumbaya still injured? Frankly only injury would explain his exclusion.

Seriously, Archie appears to have amazing contacts somewhere....

I am quietly confident that Gingerjag is only having a dream, and yet contrarywise, my dream of a win is sure, or less than certain,or dubious or downright down to too much booze! Still. Away the Jags at 3:00pm.....!!!!

^ What Lindau said above. It seems to me that a top four finish would open up a lot of options for Alan Archibald, including holding on to Abdul Osman. There is income to be had from league position, which might compenstate for reduced attendances. Top four does not guarantee a European place, we would have to hope Celtic win the league and the Scottish Cup, I think, and that does not sit well with me. But I'd take it. 'Tis a long time ago that we played competitively in Europe. Well, not that competitively, I'll admit. But there were a heck of a lot of us on the terraces that night.