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As FT has said, the PTWFC pledge is a minimum of £5k per season. Last year we honoured this through five £1,000 payments staggered across the season. We've made the first of these for 2025-26 already and the plan would presumably be to do the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in September, November, January and March (or thereabouts). The cumulative figures to date in terms of financial support across pledges, donations and sponsorship are: £397k to the Football Club (£170k in season 2024-25) £38k to the Youth Academy (£24k in season 2024-25) £11k to PTWFC (£7k in season 2024-25). £446k in total in just over 3 years (and significant financial support to the Club only really started properly in early 2023). The figures £170k and £7k above are higher than the respective year-long pledge totals (£150k and £5k) because of supplementary fundraising (mainly last year around the hospitality takeovers and Foundation shirt-related raffles/auctions). Additionally, the Foundation has about £55k of cash reserves and has made (cumulatively) about £7k of support to various community causes, including (indeed mainly) those spearheaded by or partnered with Jags For Good and/or the PT Charitable Trust.

Just as a bit of an example of why this rumbles on... the interview with PLZ has people commenting on Facebook saying that Brian Graham turned it down because he didn't want to give up playing. Which is bizarre, because he still had a year left on his Thistle contract and what he was offered was a combined head coach and playing role. No one was asking him to give up playing.

Worth remembering that James Cairney did specifically interview Brian Graham about the Sporting Director/Head Coach dynamic at the very outset back in early April. https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/25081630.graham-expects-change-thistle-summer-following-baraclough-chat/

No real disadvantage to them, and would bring a lot of goodwill. The one advantage here is that the two clubs have got six months to work something sensible out here so that you don’t have 800+ people who would otherwise have watched this game simply going to the Boxing Day sales.

I was thinking the one in November.

Thinking aloud here... I wonder if the Clubs might discuss the possibility of reversing the fixtures.

Important context here: (1) Edinburgh City do not own Meadowbank Stadium (I believe it’s owned by Edinburgh City Council) - they only have a rental agreement in place so they can use it for matches (2) The stadium is also used for other events and Edinburgh City don’t control when those happen (3) Back in August 2024 (!) an organisation called Deadly Dozen (who run fitness challenge events) had started advertising tickets for an event on Saturday 12th July - tickets appear to have been on sale for 10 months and have been sold out for a while (4) If a date is likely to be unsuitable for a League Cup fixture, it is incumbent on the home side to notify the SPFL in good time and before the fixtures are announced and confirmed (5) Thistle were only very very recently notified that the date set by the SPFL was not going to be possible (6) If the Clubs are unable to agree to an alternative date for a fixture, the SPFL has the authority to set an alternative date anyway

That particular picture was taken at Prague Castle in January! An eclectic mix of football stadia in the Czech capital...

TJF Election Results 2025 https://thejagsfoundation.co.uk/tjf-board-election-results-2025/ 684 participants (slightly down on last year, better than turnout in recent SMISA, MCT and SMISA elections) 41% turnout (as above) Votes totals Graeme Cowie - 479 Simon Dickson - 368 Ben Parker - 276 Davie Brown - 258 Charly McGlinchey - 255 Max Ramsay - 215 Three positions available, so Graeme Cowie re-elected, and Simon Dickson and Ben Parker will join the fan board at the AGM on Thursday evening. With Stuart Goldie stepping aside during the voting period, it was not possible to alter the voting process to give each member 4 votes instead of 3. This means we couldn't fill the 9th spot on the board with a shorter-term (unlike what happened last year). It's for the new-look TJF board to decide whether/how to fill that position via co-option, and that will be one of the items on our agenda when we first meet as a group (some point later in June). Thank you to everyone who took part in the process yet again. And on a personal note, thank you to those who have, probably in grave error, placed their trust in me for a second term. Edit to add: here is the Balotilo page with the results. The email members were sent with the link to vote contains a unique auto-generated code to them, for authentication purposes (as was the case in the Tranche 2 vote).

Undisclosed fee can mean literally anything. The last time I can remember that a player left or arrived at Thistle for a "disclosed" or "reported" fee was Aidan Fitzpatrick to Norwich for £350k. Liam Lindsay went for an "undisclosed" fee. It was about £350k up-front and a bunch of accumulated add-ons that ended up earning more than £1 million in payments. Chris Erskine went to Livingston for an "undisclosed" fee. It later turned out that it was £1 and Stevie Lawless mercilessly wound him up by getting him the new nickname Quiddy. People will read whatever they like into the fact that a fee is undisclosed. The mundane reality is that football clubs, both buyers and sellers, don't like disclosing transfer or contract information because knowledge about the figures gives their competitors an advantage. Which, of course, doesn't stop agents putting about figures (sometimes accurate, often not) on behalf of their clients, to talk them up, to talk clubs down or to engineer a better deal for their guys.

On the budget, we’ve set in the diaries a meeting for Monday for the Finance Working Group, reps from the Club Board, and the trustees to discuss it. Earliest that diaries work while allowing for proper feedback on the initial questions/feedback. Nothing sinister, everyone seized of the need to get this done promptly now that we have a draft and notes and the opportunity to discuss.

1. St Johnstone 2. Dunermline 3. Raith Rovers 4. Partick Thistle 5. Ross County 6. Ayr United 7. Airdrie 8. Morton 9. Arbroath 10. Queen's Park

That one took me minute. 99 not out

I should say there were some volunteers came forward and I did pass details onto admin but I’m not sure what’s happened with it?

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