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Proposed Tranche 2 Investment Update Open Meeting | Partick Thistle FC Seems to be the case.

Watched the highlights on youtube and the chances we missed look even worse than in person yesterday. We should have been out of sight, some good saves by their keeper but some terrible finishing. Graham berating Abade for his missed header is pretty rich when you look at the chances he missed. Poor finishing has cost us this season and it did so again yesterday. Some poor goals to give away which is, to be fair, unlike our defence so far this year. Really poor stuff in the cups this year which has cost us some much needed extra finance.

Fitzpatrick has the ability to play at a decent level, clearly Norwich saw that in him. His current attitude and fitness levels will see him play no higher than the level he’s at. It’s frustrating as hell to watch as a fan, don’t imagine it’s much better to play with.

Very true, never ideal having a game off when in the chasing pack. With conditions as they currently are, there'd be absolutely no chance of any decent football being played. Cappielow is possibly the last place you want to go on a day like today!

Horrendous conditions out there, don't think it would be a bad thing for this one to be off.

I’ve said it previously but the only way to answer your posts, Jordanhill Jag, is to go to the meeting. Even if as you say it is already a “done deal”, would it not be better to call that out publicly rather than posting the same thing over and over on here? Otherwise, what is the end game? On another note, if we had a £1 for every time “JLo” is mentioned we’d have no requirement for any Tranche 2 😊

I walked by the Hamilton "Ultras" as they wandered towards Munns. It was fairly obvious they were out looking for trouble, well fairly obvious to everyone other than the police car that drove by in the other direction and completely ignored them!

Agree with this. Roberts was maybe guilty of trying to be too cute with his pass instead of launching it but every pass the Jags chose from the time we had it high up on the right wing, was either the wrong one or under hit. It was during a period of play where we seemed to take our foot off the gas. No harm done yesterday but a lesson for future games.

A couple were dropped in between rows rather than chucked on to the concrete concourse. Not the brightest bunch

Enjoyable game, very good performance. Started really well and should have had at least one before we scored. I felt we got a little casual after going 2-0 up and their goal came from that. We had the ball high up on the right and played a series of lazy passes that ultimately saw a tame pass back gifted to their striker by Roberts. It was perhaps the shake we needed as we started the second half well, really clever ball by Robinson and a brave finish from Graham. Again, I felt we sat back and invited some pressure on when it was clear they were there for the taking. Great work by Chalmers for the 4th, he's really come on to a game. Fitzpatrick frustrates the life out of me, showed with his assist for the 5th what he can do but rarely shows it. I've been critical of Crawford but thought he was very good today, carried out the dirty work. Bannigan played very well again, he's certainly upped his level recently. Robinson a deserved MotM, a great team player and brings the best out of Graham. Special mention to Kyle Turner who I thought had a really assured game at full back. His distribution was excellent and his free kicks were back to the standard we know he can achieve. Thought Ablade looked lively when he came on and a great reception for Lawless, you'd never have known he'd been out so long. We're starting to find some form and with results elsewhere we've made up some ground. A long way to go and a big game next week to show we really are back in it.

Are you going to head along to the meeting on the 29th, Jordanhill Jag? I don't think you will get the answers you are looking for on here. I think you raise some credible concerns but they start to become diluted by the volume of posts you make repeating the same thing that 99% of folk on here can't answer.

Bannigan showed more in 25 minutes last week than the rest of our midfield have all season.

He'll get a stay of execution with the point but that was brutal again. I said it last week but why are we playing Turner out of position to accommodate Crawford? He offers nothing, on or off the ball. The difference Bannigan made was obvious. He proved again that he is our best midfielder, the only one who showed any intensity or willingness to get his foot on the ball. Get Turner and Bannigan in the middle. McBeth has potential but he's not ready to be a starting holding midfielder. I'm not convinced Falkirk have 11 better players than us. What they do have, is a manager who has a set formation, set tactics and has his team extremely well drilled in how to play one way. We have a manager who changes tactics every week, shoe horns players in to different positions every week and refuses to learn from any of his mistakes. The first half today was awful. We offered absolutely nothing. Our tactic is give it to Milne and Fitzpatrick and pray they can get by the 3 players marking them. Graham has nothing to work on but took his goal well, the one time we actually ran at Falkirk. Special mention to Diack for one of the worst substitute cameos I've ever witnessed! Absolutely no idea what happened to him today, looked done after 30 seconds. Home support of 3,500, down again and that will continue as the weather gets worse and we put in that kind of performance. What happens to Doolan will depend on where we want to go this season. I can't see him being able to change our current form. We have decent players, we need someone who can get the best out of them.

I think it is a must win game, both for Thistle and Doolan. A win to give us some confidence that Doolan can turn our season round and also that we still have a shot at winning the league. I don't think a draw will show any great improvements and a defeat could sadly spell the end for Doolan. Big crowd looking likely so hopefully a big performance from the Jags to kick start the season!

I didn't think Diack was great on Saturday. Plenty of effort but he's still very raw and seemed to be a little off the pace. By that I mean he seemed to take a spilt second too long in a lot of his play which allowed the defenders to take the ball off him. I think Lyon is in the same boat to be honest, never been that impressed with him. The only way these boys will improve is by getting game time but I don't think in our current predicament we can afford to try and bed them in. Diack would have really benefited from a loan deal but with our lack of striking options that was never going to happen. Obviously the form of Graham is a concern but he'd still be my pick to start over Diack. Lyon has been to both Stenhousemuir and East Fife and by all accounts hasn't performed that well. If you compare him to Bannigan at a similar age, he had a great loan spell and came back ready for the first team. I'd have Mackenzie ahead of Lyon in the pecking order now.