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45 minutes ago, allyo said:
I think the announcement is absolutely right. And I don't know if you'd be calling it shitebaggery if your job depended on it.
Of course he wouldn’t, he’d be screaming for the club to keep him employed on full pay.
Its a simple and obvious statement to make , i.e. We don’t have the money to make a legal challenge
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Knowing us, we’ll win the legal battle, the season will be played to a finish ( at some stage) and then we’ll be relegated!
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1 hour ago, Jaggernaut said:
If we end up relegated, and the tarts are somehow saved from relegation, then I hope that every single Thistle supporter will agree not to pay any money to any of the clubs that voted for this to happen. No crap about "supporting the team."
If you want to support the team, then give that money you would spend on transport and then to get into those grounds to PTFC instead. By giving your money to those who voted to get us relegated, you are in fact enriching them while possibly prolonging our stay to where we have been banished.
For a "cuddly toy," we have very few friends in Scottish football.
Well said Sir.
All Jags fans should treat every one of those clubs the way Liverpool ( the whole damn city) treated the Sun newspaper.
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20 hours ago, Anniesland Jag said:
Off topic I know ...cycled by the ground today and it looked glorious in the sunshine with the pitch looking tip top..hopefully a portent of better times round the corner.Also a pair of swans nesting in the basin..fair cheered me up .
Good on yer AJ . Glass half full mentality , just what we need in these current times.
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21 minutes ago, eljaggo said:
Donald Dewar told a story told to him by Tony Higgins.
As Higgins went to take a throw-in from in front of the Shed, fan 1 shouts" C'mon Tony gie us some magic"
As Higgins ran forward, fan 2 shouts " Aye f........... disappear"
I think the original version of that one concerned a certain erratic player, namely one Bobby Houston.
Can Robphil confirm?
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C'Mon Robphil, give us once again your account of the 'mazy' goal scored at Firhill, its well worth a repeat reading.
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20 hours ago, Arete said:
Not sure I believe that. The payment is made to those who can't work from home. A footballer clearly can't work from home ( unless he has 21 mates and a very large garden). He can maintain his fitness in the same way another person might use the time to maintain or even catch up on their learning of a job.
As Jaggernaut said " the title of this thread is McCall"
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4 hours ago, wrighty said:
Can't believe it's been 25 years since this great guy was cruelly taken from us so soon.. ... No matter your team.... Always remember this guy as one of Scotlands greats..
I first saw him in 1970something..6 maybe..everybody was talking about this young boy at clydebank.... So we made a point of going to firhill for a Scottish cup replay after several draws.... Rangers won 2-1... But The Star was a young Davie Cooper.... So many great memories of him.... Especially in Wales in 86....sorry if my dates are wrong....time and booze and all that... Great memories but so sad.....
It was 1985 Wrighty and as they say,’I was there’
Sadly I it was the night Jock Stein died.
Incidentally, I think Leighton started out in goal but Roughie took over at some stage?
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On 3/16/2020 at 4:04 PM, delurker said:
The club better be getting ready to fight our corner; I have zero confidence we will not end up getting shafted here.
Will not be happy if we roll over meekly and accept going down for some woolly 'greater good of the game' notion.
I would also be arguing the point that as we avoided relegation in our final game of the season, there is no way they can automatically relegate us with 8 games still to play.
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2 hours ago, Big Col said:
Just reading about what some other clubs are expected to do. Looks like the shareholders and directors will be digging deep to keep their clubs afloat.
So I imagine we’ll be the same?
With fan ownership? That’ll be right!
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8 hours ago, AndyMac said:
I think they will wait to see what the English Leagues decide, then quickly copy it.
Which is what they’ve always done, except for the one time they didn’t and came up with the idiotic idea of the splitting our premier league two thirds of the way through the season.
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1 hour ago, sb1876 said:
The 2020 version of the Cowdenbeath fog to the rescue!
You might not be far wrong there!
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I enjoyed that.
Shame about the swearing. I got the impression Kris only swore to keep up with the others.
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12 hours ago, kevin energy said:
Why if someone suggests anything or any one for that matter they suddenly get mocked or dirided, they are actually a person at the end of the keyboard
The Graham has been scouted by scottish senior clubs
Well said Sir.
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19 minutes ago, elevenone said:
Scores going our way so far. QOS on horrendous run also so Tuesady is vital. Think it’s fair to say a 3 horse race for bottom 2 places now.
And McGinty playing in a team that scores 4 and the defence keeps a clean sheet!
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......to the Centenary Draw ? only 10 days late.
Are we returning to slipshod ways where we can’t organise a raffle?
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25 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
What we need is a plastic pitch !
Don’t you start!
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1 hour ago, Emsca said:
Why are many posters so defensive.?
A guy says in conversation that yes the perception is that our Club is a bit of a shambles at the moment - quell surprise. Folk have been saying that on here for months.
It is his view- he is not trying to impose it on anyone else or to make a public point about it. He said it in conversation with Kingleo- the type of conversation that goes on every day throughout the country. Kingleo has, quite correctly, chosen not to reveal which Club the guy is connected with - he was simply making the point that the perception many have, is shared by a Board member of another Championship Club.
If the guy is wrong and actually the Club is running perfectly like a well oiled machine with everyone knowing their roles and responsibilities and working to their maximum potential- that's great . What harm has been done by this guy expressing an opinion in a private conversation.
If, as I expect, there is a large dose of truth in what he says, then it is useful for the Fans to be aware that there may well be issues at Boardroom level.
Don't shoot the messenger.
isdcommon
Good point, well made.
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3 hours ago, laukat said:
After last nights depressing performance I've tried to get myself in a better frame of mind for what lies ahead. If you're loking for an optomistic way of looking at things then I think its the following...
With Alloa drawing last night we are only 3 points off 9th and have played the same games. Considering how bad our results have been in January we're not adrift. If QOS lose today then theoretically we could be joint 8th next Saturday if results go our way and at that point QOS would only having 1 game in hand. With QOS and Morton having to play each other twice its hard to see how we get detached so we perhaps have time to recover.
Last nights performance was awful however we were missing some first team starters who will be available for Dunfermline next week (i.e. Zanatta, Brownlie hopefully Mackinnon and Rudden) and a couple of better options for subs (Barjonas and Mayo)
The performance v Ayr at home suggested that the recruitment in January was positive with perhaps the only problem being it didn't go far enough. We should have probably signed another wide player so that we weren't reliant on Cardle. Without seeing Mayo its difficult to know how reliant we are on O'Ware at left centre back or MacKinnon as a holding midfielder.
What is obvious is that the duds in the squad are still largely still those pre-McCall. Austin, Mansell, Jones, Williamson and Robson look to be not good enough and question marks appearing over Saunders, O'Ware, Cardle, Zanatta, Fox and Gordon. So far of the McCall sigings Graham, MacKinnon, O'Connor and Brownlie are clear improvements. Hopefully Rudden and Mayo will be when we get to see them. I've not been impressed by Barjonas but the early assesment of McCall's signings suggest he still has an eye for a player therefore if we can scrape by this season then next season has promise.
With the ICT game being postponed we have 10 days to prepare for QOS at home on the 3rd March which looks like a 6 pointer. QOS will have had to play Morton on Saturday prior to playing us which will be 2 6 pointers in a row for them so you would like to think we are getting them at the best time.
Overall I still think we won't really know have a sense of where we are until we play Morton at home on the 28th March. With 3 out of 5 at home in March and all the home fixtures against those around us (QOS, Alloa and Morton) it looks the make or break month. If we win our home games between now and Mortonon the 28th the situation will look entirely different.
Amidst all the doom and gloom, at least your positive post has cheered me up.
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On 2/1/2020 at 8:01 AM, Jaggernaut said:
I wish he was still with us.
I don’t.
I agree he always gave 100% but thought he was completely lacking in skill. He wouldn’t have got near the team I supported all those years ago.
To me he was an indication how We and Scottish Football in general have ‘dumbed down’ over the decades.
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There’s an update on today’s official site.
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42 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
I'm not convinced that it was just the players. For 2.5 years now we have had a succession of players who have not delivered at the level they did for other clubs, or even for Thistle in the past. I think that there is something more to this, perhaps the turmoil in the board room with now 3 changes and a 4th to come. I just hope that this current crop don't suffer the same fate.
Completely agree DD.
There seemed to be a feeling/culture/malaise, call it what you will around the club, that affected ( or dis-affected) the players when they signed for us. I’m amazed ( but pleased) that despite having a temporary Board, serious efforts are being made to get us back on track.
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8 minutes ago, dibble said:
Ok I do have a slight doubt about too many changes mid season. Since McCall took over we have been one of the form teams on the divison. I do think on paper the signings make us a far better team on paper but it make take a bit of time for the new team to settle and it certainly looked that way on Saturday. I do think we missed millers link up play on Saturday . So lot of his running does move the opposition about and create space for others. Hopefully McCall hasn’t thrown the baby out with the bath water . Yes he’s a good manger but it’s not to say he gets everything g right. Hopefully my doubts are misfounded! Ps. Miller could still come back to haunt us in the play offs
As the great man said " the game isn't played on paper"
From now till the end of the season McCall is really going to have to earn his crust.
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From hereon in, this is when Mr McCall earns his money
What if they shut down the season?
in Main Jags forum
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Did we pay for initial advice? I don’t think so