Jump to content

Semi Nurainen

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,182

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Semi Nurainen

  1. Jags vs DABs

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    With the possible exception of McGinty for Saunders, team pretty much picks itself these days.

    Is it just me or does the Subs bench, Sneddon  aside, look like the items left in the 'Must Go January Sale'?

    Looking  forward to the game I think we can cause a big upset. 

    • Like 1

  2. Jags vs DABs

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Lambies Lost Doo said:

    It's days like this that make me seriously consider moving from Scotland.  Weather is f&&&ing grim.  The older I get the more it bothers me.

    Aye man. Not long back from 16 days in the Canaries where I hardly saw a cloud.

    So f--^^&g grim and dark.

  6. Colin Weir Dead

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted · Edited by Semi Nurainen
    missed a bit

    I was on holiday when this happened, just back, and didn't know about it until after the Morton game.

    Regardless of how or by whom the club ends up being run, this is very sad and the timing is particularly cruel, as Colin hasn't lived to see his dream of fan ownership coming true. He was, however, able to see the turn round that has been happening on and off the field, and he was able to do something that most, if not all, of us have dreamed of. 

    His generosity was remarkable and was aimed, it appears, at supporting not one but two good (if never particularly popular) causes: supporting a non-sectarian football club in this great city and the ending of Westminster rule in this great country.  A folk-singing, and Jags supporting, friend of mine used to say that once being a Partick Thistle fan in the 20th century was like being a Jacobite in the 18th and 19th!

    Colin would have appreciated that, I'm sure.

    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

    • Like 5
    • Downvote 1

  7. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    43 minutes ago, West of Scotland said:

    So copying and pasting comments from pieandbovril counts as constructive debate on this website these days?

    Maybe Partick Thistle is f**ked is this is the level we're at.

    I should have copied and pasted from the Bowling Club site, that would have been ok. 

    And WTF would you know about anything constructive?

    • Like 1

  8. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    Some other views from outside the (hermetically sealed) Bowling Club’s Ministry of Truth bunker.

    ---------

    Goodwin’s presentation on fan ownership as an overall concept was fine, but when questioned about what things would mean for Thistle he gave a lot of politician’s answers where he talked for ages without actually saying much. Bryan Jackson told some stories about clubs going into administration which didn’t seem particularly relevant to anything, and I’d bet that Dundee fans don’t agree with his assertion that they enjoyed admin because they got to find out more about the inner workings of their club.

    Didn’t feel that the pair of them fared well to the cross-examination which came in the Q&A afterwards. Dismissed Motherwell’s poor recent financial returns as pretty much “oh well, these things happen”, and repeatedly refused to answer what would (will?) happen if the new board aren’t ready to take the shares on from TBC by the deadline.

    --------

    Thought Mr Goodwin came across poorly with no answers to very important questions. “That shouldn’t happen” was the reply when asked about what happens if 3BC turn down the proposal the working group come up with.

    Don’t really know why Jackson was there. 

    And for those wondering how we’re going to plug any budget gap when the fans take over - we’re going to hire out the Rough Lounge more often.

    Its all pie in the sky as far as I can see. If Goodwin has been doing this for 10 years but can’t answer basic fundamental questions, his motives and competence must be in doubt.

    Comparing fan ownership in Scotland to Germany and Spain was laughable.

    Didn’t like the sound of it to begin with, and still don’t like the sound of it.

     

    ---------

    Goodwin should be chased. We’ve been well warned by fans of several different clubs. 

    ------------

    Really doesn't inspire confidence, considering what we've already been told about Goodwin. I'd obviously love this to work out well, but I can't help but feel this has disaster written all over it

  17. Fan ownership poll

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    15 hours ago, Garscube Road End said:

    But you certainly fawn over Colin Weir and J. Low

    And then some.

    To be fair she hasn't had much time recently as she's been too busy helping with Boris's campaign. Now that she's helped destroy the nation she will now turn her spectacular incompetence to helping to destroy Thistle.

  18. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Jordanhill Jag said:

    Ok interesting - How do you know-  I know Alan Heron ? 

    Ive never mentioned his name - so how do you know that ? Its not widely known as I know him outwith PTFC  

    Also I did ask Questions of TFE - still waiting on answers  - so thats a waste of time - others asked Questions to the Thistle Trust - no responses 

    Your not involved in the TFE thing-but you know I know Alan Heron ? And why didnt I contact him

    - its simple I think TFE /Thistle Trust  are taking this Club down a route the Fans have zero interest in - I think it could either end up with our demise- or have the Elected Board as a toothless Bowling Club Committee - with the real decisions taken elsewhere - I think they did this because its there View- not that its reflected in the Fans and this is imposed on us - like it or not  

    I think there is a Danger of it repeating the Dundee Trust Disaster- and the Club including the Ground which is a tidy Assett being Sold off in the Cheap - and my instinct is that even at this moment people are looking with interest - Kilbowie ? 

    So I have no interest in Communicating with Alan Heron- Goodwin or the Trust Members or the Cabal who are part of it-  but Post on here as just ordinary Fans - talking about people being negative - pushing there agenda but not declaring who they are

    This Season we had a £750K Budget deficit which was the difference between Forecasted Revenue and Overhead plus we have a £250K Parachute Payment - the deficit was   made up due to unforecasted Transfer Fees in the May 2019 Budget  - thats £1MN on Non Repeated Income for Next Season   -WHERE IS IT COMING FROM ? 

    Go on - explain ? your the Finance Expert - where we getting £1MN from  

    They are real figures - Not my opinion stated at the AGM so where is the Cash coming from - TFE - Thistle Trust - those who pushed for this - the Anti Beattie Brigade on Twitter - where is the £1MN coming from ? as the ordinary Revenue Streams showed that was the shortfall 

    Negative - sorry Amigo - Im just a realist - Whatever Happened to the Training  Ground ? 

    So lets just see what happens shall we before making comments about people - lets see what they all deliver - talking is easy - delivering is the hard bit   

         

      

     

      

     

       

    Couldn't have summed it up better myself.

  19. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    1 minute ago, allyo said:

    Is it pedantic to point out that JJ didn't ask any questions?

    No you're right Polyanna, he just pointed out that there were a whole series of unknowns that he 'invited someone to answer'. But nobody did.

    Inviting some to give an answer is definitely not the same thing as asking question, not no time not ever, could it ever remotely be interpreted as such.

     

  22. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, javeajag said:

    here you are .... I wonder how many of the question masters will actually go...,
     

    https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/an-evening-to-explore-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-fan-ownership/

    As a Partick Thistle fan I will be going to the Glasgow Cup game to support my team. Even though it's a diddy competition, and clearly regarded as such by TFE and its adherents.

    Why anyone connected with the Club, and with 'the best interests of the CLub at heart' (boom! boom!)  would organise a Q&A on a night which clashed with a competitive match  truly passeth all understanding.

    If this is a taste of thing to come from TFE … mind you it is the sort of thing a failed 'communications expert' might do.

  23. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, javeajag said:

    Ok I was in that camp ...so factually can you explain 

    1. what did the consortium do ? 
    to my knowledge they did nothing (!)except bid for 55% of the shares .... no statements , no plans , no fan engagement .... that was part of the problem 

    2. on what basis was there anything to say positively on the consortium bid ? 
    there was no proposal circulated , no plan jj tried to pretend there was one but couldn’t provide it , No press statements ... literally nada 

    3 what was there to critique if no information was provided ?

    well I guess who were the consortium - which was never disclosed (!) except paul conway it later turned out chien lee was never involved , or we could look at their business track record except it wasn’t provided or we could look at Barnsley and when you did it was not good 

    no coherent support for the consortium was ever put forward other than 

    - they were business people as though that in its self meant anything as we all know there are all types of business people 

    - they would run the club at a profit ... I never quite understood why that was intrinsically good as it’s just taking money out the club 

    - they were a better option than fan ownership .... in my view they weren’t even though I’ve never been that keen on it 

    we are now where we are and we need to make the best of it 

     

    When you answer the points JJ made about the unknowns, I'll catch up with this.

  24. Fan Ownership Working Group

    in Main Jags forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, dl1971 said:

    Helpful. Cant you debate or discuss in a reasonable manner?

    Funny you didn't ask that when the previous poster attacked individuals on here as 'as undermining the process with rumour, personal slights on the people involved, a constant implied suggestion of inside knowledge that may or may not be real, and ridicule of those who take an opposing view.'

    I mean funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.

×
×
  • Create New...