douglas clark
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I am also quite fond of our daft Aussie. I think we ought to be fighting to retain Mr runabout, otherwise Mr always fit, Ryan Edwards?
Am I wrong?
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Fearchar,
I kind of agree with you, though Erskine may have a year or two in himself. I agree that Penrice and McCarthy have to be seen as amongst the future of this club. It is absolutely essential that we promote folk from the 'Development League' to playing first team football. Otherwise, what is the point of it?
On the subject of Doolan, AFAIK Doolan is on a long term contract and I, for one, see him as a future manager. He also scores goals.
Thoughts?
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It would have been a better club statement if it wasn't all platitudes.
There are serious issues like we can't score for toffee, nor hold onto leads, nor have the ability to either dominate or adapt to opposition tactics. Addressing some of them in public right now would have been a positive.
There are going to be a lot of changes over the summer. Some of them will genuinely upset me, I think we will see a lot of departures, and the future, for me at least, is unclear.
Does anyone else think that the minor positive of this is that we might, just might, start to play youth? Y'know younger guys? We are scared of playing young guys.
I wish I was more gutted about this relegation, but there was something alltogether weary about the way we approached this entire season. I went to both of the games against Livingston and we couldn't counter their tactics. After they scored I was deflated and thought we would struggle. There was something inevitable about our failure.
It has been a masochistic thing being a Jags supporter this season.
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Lenziejag,
Err..
No.
This is a must win game. I doubt we can play as poorly again as we did at the Tony Macaroni. I hope I am right and you are wrong.
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I think, always have, that Sammon is a better player when the ball is played into his feet. His heading ability isn't out of the top drawer. But he is able to hold and pass a ball played to him at ground level in a fairly decent way.
It is apparently a sine qua non around here that players are deliberately pathetic. I was there and I thought a lot of our players got caught up in Livingstons' game plan without being able to develop anything other than a Neanderthal reaction. This team, too often, too frequently reverts to hoof ball when the chips are down. If we know one thing, and I have watched much of this disastrous season, the minute you think your best option is hitting long balls into the sky with no immediate target, you have lost the plot.
If, and it is a big if, we are to stay up, we have to play the game on the ground and find a modicum of space.
Sunday may well be decided on who scores first.
I'll be there shouting for our team and wishing and hoping.
Perhaps someone else could start a thread entitled:
"Sundays, wtf?"
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twinny,
Thanks for the advice. As it stands the comments have been funny and amusing. So I'll live with this humbling experience!
Perhaps someone else can ask:
"What do we know about Livi? Should we be worried?"
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Thanks,
Quite frankly I didn't know you all cared! What will amuse y'all more is I have no idea how to correct the mistake! I hope we win over the two legs and I'll be there for both of them. Could I encourage you all to come along too on the basis of outing me?
There are better reasons for going, but, if that is what it takes....
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Anyone got an opinion how difficult Livingston might be as opponents? Apparently they are a very physical team and work their socks off.
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Jimmy Bone?
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What an incredible result! Chris will always be my hero.
Doolan, Doolan, Doolan, Doolan!
We will have to build something on the gnome field, a 'get out of jail stand' subtexted that Chris Doolan is magic?
Your moderator is a bit drunk.
And so to bed. Have fun you little rebels.
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It seems to me that this is still in our own hands. Stick Penrice on the park somewhere up front, just to take corners and free kicks. If he is still capable of doing it, his ability would outshine every other Thistle player on the pitch. Hopefully, if we were losing, or otherwise had to get a point, playing balls into the feet of Salmon might be a tactic we could use, rather than kicking the ball into the sky. Quite why we did that after going 0ne - nil down in the last game is a complete mystery to me. It was never going to work and it was, essentially, a surrender.
We can play football, we desperately need to play football.
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Auld Jag,
Thanks for posting this, it is about time we were talking about it!
In my opinion, this is amongst the most important games in the history of PTFC.
It is so important to us to retain our Premier League status, both from a financial and a directional idea. Are we a genuine Premier League team or not?
I think we are, but this, this is very, very scary.
A win would take us away from the automatic relegation spot, a draw would be unhelpful and a loss might, just might, mean that we were relegated. I hope fans turn up in their thousands, for supporting the club right now is critical.
Looking at our games and Hamiltons games, they are there to be run down, if we are good enough!
I have high hopes for Friday, and I will be there shouting and bawling!
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Harry,
I do so hope we can get two wins and a draw! I'll be there on Friday for sure.
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First rejection of one of their posts. I.e. deleted.
I am not at all convinced that either person is using this forum for anything other than personal and mutual dispute at the expense of the site itself.
Let us be clear, if you don't want moderation then I, for one, will walk away.
This site, in the interim, will become toxic and, in all probability die.
No web site can allow itself to be taken over by petty minded stuff.
Your choice, dear reader.
Moderation or not?
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18 minutes ago, allyo said:
To be fair I think it's a reasonable question regarding the persistently negative attitude towards the team and the management that is on regular display from many posters here. I have no doubt that everyone is a Thistle fan and wants the team to win, and I'd guess that many people use the forum to express their frustrations, and that's where it comes from. But I do think that there is a danger that constant negative posting feeds through the forum, to the wider support in general, and therefore adversely affects the club and the players.
I think we saw today what a positive attitude from the stands can do for the performance on the pitch. Great to hear on the videos, the Jags fans singing and getting behind the team even before we scored our equaliser. That's the attitude that will get us out of this position, not constant sniping about how pathetic we are.
So to those more negative posters; you may think I'm talking nonsense, but maybe just consider. If there is even the slightest chance that a positive attitude from the fans could help bring success over the next few games, wouldn't you rather be part of that?
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Metz,
Please take your arguement with Barney Rubble elsewhere. I will delete any further correspondence between you and Barney Rubble, or between Barney Rubble and you on this thread, or excuses for this thread. . I will also acknowledge that I have taken that action.
I am a bit astonished that either of you would use this forum for a personal vendetta.
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Metz,
Ad hominem attacks by either you or Barney Rubble add zero to this web site.
If the two of you have a dispute please find another forum to discuss it on. We do not want it on here as it has nothing to do with football and more to do with who claims who is sober.
This is a forum for Partick Thistle Supporters, it is not a forum for ad hominem comments. Sure, we can disagree about things, but disparaging each other is not really the 'name of the game' for this site.
Could you both - 'ahem' - back off?
You are both stretching my patience and, given your considerable investment in this site, you do not want to test that.
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Oh! and Metz:
BTW, the word you were looking for was personal, not personnel.
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Incidentally, as your friendly moderator, could we keep this civil?
We won!
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Can I just also say that the Woody rocked and rolled today. Both before and after. You could look on this as one of these 'trip advisor' announcements.
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Phew! It is quite a while since I felt as emotionally drained after a game as I did after that one.
I'd have thought, assuming fitness isn't an issue, that the team in the second half should run out for the rest of the season. Putting both Salmon and Edwards on was a near masterstroke from a manager who has faced criticism.
As an irreligious git, I did look up to the sky when we were one - nil down. I wonder what heaven looks like with doo-cots?
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TJR,
Good points.Perhaps the route to the top position in any club should be via the guy that develops our younger players, not through external appointee's? Assuming they are any good, obviously. I quite like the guy, forgotten his name, that manages our under 20's crop of players. (Interviews on Jags Zone, etc.) He, too, seems to have his head screwed on.
Incidentally, George Smith must be within his target range?
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I may have said this elsewhere on the forum, but Dools comes across as a good communicator and is doing his badges. I'd quite like it if, after the end of the Archibald era, y'know decades hence, that Kris Doolan would be considered as our new manager? For there have been only a few folk that loyal to the club. Apart from that, he seems to know what he is talking about.
Thoughts?
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So nothing then?
Quite an arguement about zero?
Phew! That's a relief.
As you were.
Lady Isobel Barnett and the amazing Juke Box Rebel misunderstand the purpose of moderation powers. It is not a matter of taste, I probably agree with both of them, however it is a matter of potential liability. No regulars here want this site taken down because of irresponsible comments.
Please play nice.
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Could someone explain to me what the song is? Then I could moderate all of your comments?
I am unaware of any song sung by our fans that is ridiculous. Perhaps 'Mary, from Maryhill' but that is satirical or just ridiculous / funny..
Give me evidence of an unacceptable song and I will delete it.
To remind you all, this site is subject to curiosity by people that would like to see it shut down. We really don't want to give them grounds.
Please play clean?
If there are indeed unacceptable things being said here, then I have the facility to remove them.
Frankly, I have never seen the need.
So, what's the story?
Club board meeting
in Main Jags forum
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Archie stands or falls on his own managerial credentials. No one else's. The jury is out on whether or not he is good or bad. IMHO he has a season to prove himself, but I kind of doubt he will be allowed that sort of space. Which is a bit sad, but understandable. The question is, who would we get next? Who's available and who is going to turn us around?
Answers on a postcard or, preferably here.