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Real composure there. Wouldn't have wanted to be him if he missed and had Brian Graham screaming in his face for not squaring it for his hat-trick mind!

Statistical pedants are the vital core of our support.

Gross league prize-money difference is about £100k between 1st and 2nd, then £90k for each place between 2nd and 5th, then £30k between 5th and 6th, then £15k per place between 6th and 10th. The net impact on the budget for each place is smaller (for example you need to take into account the footballing department’s bonus structure) but the fundamentals of the numbers haven’t shifted very much for many seasons now. The team finishing bottom of the Premiership get roughly double the pot that the Championship winners get.

That's us mathematically guaranteed at least 5th, as Dunfermline and Ayr play each other final day (so only one of them can overhaul the 9 point gap). But a bit nervous now with Airdrie. Playing each other, both still to play the league winners, and then they have Queen's Park while we have Ayr. Probably their run-in marginally easier. Big game Saturday. Finishing 3rd instead of 4th is really handy financially.

Not for long...

I think the point is that if we'd won the game instead of drawn it, we'd have finished above both Ayr and Queen's Park.

Apart from today and last weekend, when if at all have the surnames of the Thistle goalkeeper and the entire back line all begun with the same letter (Mitchell, McMillan, Muirhead, McBeth, Milne)? What’s the highest number of Thistle players with the same first letter of surname to have been on the park at the same time? And what was the narrowest alphabetical spread of any Thistle starting XI (eg today’s was F(itzpatrick) to R(obinson) but had an astonishing 8 players across consecutive letters LMN)?

Boing. Boing.

Only two teams have ever finished second bottom in the second tier of Scottish football on more than 39 points. We are already on 40 points. Bad as the last few weeks have been, we really would be setting new trends to be a relegation risk this year.

That was genuinely painful viewing from start to finish. This run is grim.

Hampden is a terrible place to watch a second tier football match. G4S are a consistently rubbish organisation.

Raith Rovers: living off advances for working capital, directors' loans and even selling off their floodlights Dunfermline: £1 million loss and a tricky going concern statement Queens' Park: lost £750k over an 18 month (extended) accounting period, despite this (mostly) not involving the lion's share of the Lesser Hampden redevelopment costs. Being propped-up by, among other things, the multi-million cash proceeds accrued from selling Proper Hampden.

Neilson ultimately to blame for the goal by failing to clear, but he looks much more comfortable in the defensive mid berth than at left centre back. Think we also learned today that it’s more important for Wasiri to be at right centre back than for Muirhead to be. Scott Robinson was decent too. Folk were worried that with this line up we’d be overrun in midfield but it was anything but. Tired a bit late on but much optimism. Also Dundee United are an incredibly dirty team.

Really good performance today and much more assured in defence. Excellent performances from Mitchell and Wasiri especially. We’re going to be fine. Doolan is learning.

Wasiri deserves that one!