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Is the Hibs player Willie Ormond?
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13 hours ago, elevenone said:
Euromillions draw tmrw night has a jackpot of £152m. Should be enough for one of us to be the new Colin Weir. Granted the odds are 140,000,000-1 but that seems more likely than this takeover happening anytime soon.
Ah but there's 2000 of us that brings it down to 70 000-1. It's coming home.
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11 hours ago, eljaggo said:
6th place - would you credit it.
Aw shit. I remember the last time that happened.
Kidding.
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I'm going to go out and buy a new 21 plate motor
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11 minutes ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
Posted this week that would be imo a realistic outlook. Strictly speaking tho' his task he was given (and the one he accepted) is to get us promoted (or maybe it was just into the promotion play offs?). I'd suggest in a league of ten that being completely safe from the relegation play offs you're likely to be close to challenging for 4th place.
Just to clarify I would expect us to be at least in the play off next season. This season I'll settle for reversing 18 months of horror.
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My take on it is the players have until January to prove themselves and the manager has until May. Caldwell's biggest problem will be he won't be able to replace all the dead wood in January. His task is to get us clear of the play off spot well before the season finishes and to have concrete signs that we will be at least heading for the proper play offs next season.
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1 minute ago, sick in the basin said:
Applications from Africa - Bobby Williamson as a left field shout?!
One name that thankfully hasn’t (yet) appeared but gives me the fear is Terry Butcher - think he had a brief coaching spell at Firhill years back?
At the time the vast majority of the support were disappointed he didn't take the post permanently.
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1 hour ago, stillresigned said:
Won't be going as I see little prospect of us competing far less winning! As someone who has followed Thistle for over 40 years I have never felt as scunneredwith my team as I did the other night against Sevco!
And let's be honest whatever you think of them Sellick are a class above them.
Seriously? you've not been paying attention then.
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Surely if we are playing Pedro's World Beaters then they have to expect that with their superior skills and international class that we can only compete with such class by fouling them.
If Jack jumps into the air and lands two footed under Edwards' boot then so be it - if Pedro and Chris "I want to start a fight in an empty head" Sutton saw differently then good for them.
The lesson from the the two "2 footed tackles" is if you're on the receiving end don't try to win the ball, you might make contact with your assailant. Just jump up out the way and writhe about and the perpetrator will be sent off.
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On a week where two other players had their red cards rescinded and Thistle were denied a stonewall penalty. the spotlight is on bad decisions against Rangers. I think Pedro knows exactly what he's doing and don't fancy any team getting a 50-50 decision v Rangers for a while
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Doctor Doctor when will I be able to reach for crosses.
Probably 2 months.
That's great because I couldn't before it popped out.
Kidding. KIDDING.
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I heard that on radio at the weekend. Ball-park figures suggest 2,000,000 attend football matches per season from a population of 5,000,000 - 40%. The figures are grossly distorted by Celtic and Rangers attendances however and are not nearly as impressive or competitive if you exclude them.
If you exclude the top 2 from any league their figures won't look as impressive.
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In the context of English football, they're complete no marks.
In that case, in the context of Scottish football so are Thistle. Why are we here?
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How many different centre halves has he played alongside?
He is still only 20 of course he'll make mistakes,but he's still at least 6 years from his peak.
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I do not see what BT Sport see in games like East Stirlingshire v Rangers and tonight's encounter at Ibrox.
I've turned on to both
You answered your own question.
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Let's get things in perspective. Luxembourg's a Giant compared to Gibraltar.
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Have the club sorted out the drainage problem or just relaid the turf?
Drainage as well according to this article in the Times.
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OK please clarify what other countries of similar size you are referring to. Do these nations have fully professional top leagues?
We most certainly do not over achieve at European level and haven't done so for decades.
Countries of a similar size as Scotland (population not area) according to wiki Scotland comes 25th in population table. We are currently 23rd in UEFA Coefficients. In the last single decade we have never been lower than 25th but have been as high as 10th. To me that is over achieving.
In the UEFA rankings we are between Poland UEFA 22nd (pop.38m) and Azerbaijan UEFA 24th (pop 9.6m) and in the population rankings we are between Slovakia UEFA ranked 32 and Norway UEFA ranked 20.
I'll repeat that I think our clubs are failing to develop talent. That has already ****** up the National team and failing to bring on young talent and over spending on imports sent our biggest club to the wall.
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Are our clubs and league wealthy?
Compared to other countries of our size yes. If you compare it to England, Germany and Spain, no. But why would you compare us to countries with 10 times our population.
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I don't think Weebaw1 is that far from the mark with his 2 claims to be honest. The evidence speaks for itself.
Every team in our top league is full-time, apparently "professional". Can anyone name me a league in Europe with all full time teams that consistently perform worse than ours do in European competition? Our co-efficient is that bad that our teams have to start their European campaigns in June. They only ever seem to come up against part time teams at that stage. Are there any other full time leagues who's teams have to start that early? If not, this would suggest that the original claim is true. I don't have an answer either way but would be interested to find out.
The 2nd point about the national team - again the evidence would suggest that the original poster is correct. For our population size and given the fact that we have a full time league set-up, we are one of the worst teams. We haven't qualified for a major tournament in 18 years. We couldn't even qualify for an expanded 24 team Euros this year. In fact, we couldn't even make the play-offs for it as we finished 4th in a group of 6. So even if the Euros had been expanded to 32 teams this year - WE STILL WOULD NOT HAVE QUALIFIED.
The national team is an absolute embarrassment and has been for some time.
So I would say, given the evidence provided, that Weebaw1 is absolutely spot on with their observations about our domestic league and national team.
According to UEFA's coefficients we are 23rd out of 54 so the evidence says we are one of better leagues and for the size of our country we probably over achieve. The part that can't be argued is that we have become really poor at developing our own talent and considering how wealthy our league and clubs are that is indeed embarrassing.
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I'm struggling here.
Roughy,?, Frank Coulston Dennis McQuade, Bobby Lawrie, I think Alex Rae Based solely on red hair and tache.
?,?,?, Davie MacParland.
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Now we know why Clyde wanted to move to Shettleston,. To sell clothes pegs to the away support at Parkhead.
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Ian, all of this rhetoric is well and good but do you know how attendances are calculated? Are kids included? The 24% drop. Do you know if it is adults? or kids? or both?
Until we know what we are talking about, we are making it up as we go along.
It's already been pointed out that when you replace a 2nd home game with Celtic with a 2nd home game with Inverness.
A 2nd Aberdeen with a second St Johnstone.
2 Hearts with 2 Hamilton
2 Hibs with 1 Dundee 1 Ross Co
Add in the one Celtic game with Celtic was a midweek February game and the bumper 7800 v Dundee united in our first game back in the Premier league and you've accounted for over 20000 of the 27000 missing supporters. That leaves about 350 a game. Most of that imo is down to the novelty visits from teams we hadn't played in a while. Home and visiting supporters.
But apparently that's an excuse and not a reason.
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and County.
Never found out if we lowered the patg price for the North Stand if we'd have to lower the price for away supporters.
I believe it's like for like. So if we were to charge less for sitting behind the goal we wouldn't have to charge the away support less as they would have the same view
as the Thistle supporters in the JH.
Penicuik
in Main Jags forum
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Why punish them for having a big support?