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Word filtering out of the prawn sandwich lounge is that Martin Hardie will start, in a strikers role.

Or swop, for old '71 final / Thistle stuff (don't need final programme) Perfect condition. PM me if interested.

Quite, we could maybe ask The King of (S)Pain to be that man.

We could ask The Police but they would probably only want to send out an SOS.

There are Jags fans on Every Street but someone has to satnd up and be our Local Hero.

If Chizz thinks he has any chance of getting the Hobs job he must be dense. I thought Calderwood would be a stick-on but it seems former player and Shamrock Rovers boss Michael O'Neill is the man they want.

Just wrong, it's all pulled and squashed at the same time. Terrifying indeed!

As far as I understand the BBC website reports are done via phone-feed from former footballers. The press association have an arrangement with the SPFA where they send former SFL league players along to commentate incidents at games as they happen to a copy taker miles away down south in a PA factory who in turn fires it onto the Beeb. Little wonder mistakes are made. It's a stupid way of doing it.

Can't argue with that! Good luck with it and see you there.

Why is the meeting at Glasgow University on a midweek night? Would it not - in terms of convenience and getting lapsed and new people along - have been better to have it at Firhill maybe on a Saturday?

Went to Cub-scouts in at the First Glasgow in the west end. It's now a Doctors Surgery!

Me too, looks good.

But no quotes from the man in question? Anyway back to Glasgow... Some of the smaller papers and news websites in Glasgow sometimes get a wider and more balanced view of things.

Happy Birthday Jim, hope it's a good year for you.

With childish and sneering attitude displayed by some it's a wonder The Glaswegian provide this at all.

Is The Evening News not linked to The Scotsman / SoS? You don't know anyone within the club? Ask for Mr Allan Cowan - 0141 579 1971.

Hi Premjag, who do you write for? Edinburgh isn't very far away. If you're a news reporter then perhpas you should write something about the stuff behind the scenes.

If (and it is a big if) Cowan and co walked away in the next few days or weeks then I think there might be a consortium of fans willing but not quite ready to take over. If (and it is a big if) one of them was involved in the forefront the way I suspect he might then I suspect his vision is to sell Firhill, leave the SFL go junior and try and run a sustainable and successful club at lower - but perhaps more realistic - level. This is not my own vision nor is it what I've heard from the horses’ mouth. Just a hunch. And if I was a betting man I’d say Cowan might walk but the rest won’t.

Ian McCall also said that he was annoyed by some of the messages coming out Firhill at the start of the season. Quite who they were by, or if how they were interpreted was the problem wasn't identified or picked up but it was in reference to him saying consistently from the summer that this was going to be the hardest season since he took over at Firhill. The gaffer spoke very highly of Jackie McNamara. While he would love him to stay at Partick Thistle for a long time he expects Jackie to go and manage his own club sooner rather than later. And fully expects him to take Simon Donnelly with him. He repeatedly stated that the financial plight of the club was not the present BOD's fault. He thinks Partick Thistle should and will stay a full-time football club, but was unclear (perhaps someone else can fill in) if he was surprised or not at the chairman’s comments in the press last week about the reality of part-time coming. On a side note: while I enjoy these events it might be better if folk were allowed one or maybe two questions each. Some folk rabble away like they are in the pub and try and talk over the question they have asked.

This is all very sad. Firstly it should be recognised and accepted that we have some (like most if not all clubs) real lowlifes in our support. I'm not going into specifics but some of the stuff I've seen, heard and read recently really is rock bottom. If only these individuals would try and be responsible and accountable for what they say and do on here and at the match itself. Anyway... Craig Hinchcliffe must be some sort of sick ******* if he was to agree to fabricating a story about about being spat on by supporters of his own team. People should see this as completely separate to any views they have of the board, the manager or the players. Someone spat on a player, and I have read nothing here nor any reason to believe this has been made up. Indeed those who are proposing this have a twisted view of reality.

It was a Bosman.

Sorry but I completely disagree with this no fight, no passion stuff. Anyone who was unlucky enough to still be inside Cappielow when the players were warming down wouldn't agree with this. It might not look like that from the terraces but the current crop care deeply about losing and respond well to winning. I suspect inconsistency that comes with having a young team, lack of leadership on the park (I like John Robertson but he's not a captain) a lack of confidence in each other and maybe even trying to play a style of football that is perhaps beyond the players abilities in a league of kick and rush are what's making this team underachieve so far this season.

Ex-Evening Times print journalist. Who said the transition to broadcast was easy!?