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Must stay. Anything to improve our chances of First Division survival. Although as legitimate an answer would be "Who cares? This is a Thistle forum."

And, dare I say it... the man he came in to replace was, in many respects, the only player who would stand up and be counted when everyone else used to pass the buck.

My understanding was that there was a repayment plan and that we were meeting it and were on course to meet it. I've heard nothing to suggest that has changed.

My notes from the Club AGM in February indicate that the repayment plan agreed with HMRC as part of the quantitative easing measures should expire at the end of this month.

Good post. Clubs' futures are safeguarded when they are self-sufficient, through use of their facilities, advertising revenue and gate income to cover their expenses. Having a Melville of this world compounds the problem of dependency. The only example in Scottish football where a backer has had a veneer of sustainability would probably be Geoff Brown at St Johnstone. Even then, he sold Muirfield to Tesco way back when there was a property boom (rather than what we have now) and despite making annual surpluses occasionally in the First Division, St Johnstone LOST £200k the year they were promoted. For all the words of not chasing rainbows has an ironic context in Thistle's situation, sitting about waiting for rainbows to save you and hoping it carries on raining through the sunshine if and when they arrive is not a lasting solution.

I completely agree. Clearly McCall no longer knows how to get the best of the players he's got, in terms of either ability or application. The team collectively is not performing to a good enough standard. With the right motivation, proper coaching and tactical intelligence of the orchestrator, they could and should be much better than a relegation battling side. The motivation has to be, in part, down to the players, but as past history shows, the strength of character in the coaching set-up plays arguably a bigger part. Clearly where they used to be able to gee players up for a game they just can't any more.

They were good enough in the first half of the season last year and were still good enough to avoid relegation comfortably. We've got to be realistic here. We're skint. The team is "good enough" if the players are capable of a mid-table finish.

They're mostly the same players as last season. With the right man management we might have still lost that game, but it wouldn't have been as close, and we'd almost certainly have managed to beat at least two of Stirling, Cowdenbeath and Queens.

The reason we lost today was because he got the system wrong and because he failed to get the players fired up for it. It's as simple as that.

Dire. Donnelly poor, Rowson off his game while on, Doolan wasted on the left, Buchanan just too slow on and off the ball, Flannigan average, McNamara wasted in defence, Kinniburgh and Robbo not great, Boyle had a poor game compared with recently, Paton not great and Halliwell okay and couldn't do much about either goal. First goal came about 10 seconds after a blatant hand-ball by a Dunfermline player but the goal was a very good one. 2nd looked like Paton and Kinniburgh got caught out of position and Dunfermline pounced on the rebound with a player RUNNING ONTO THE FREE BALL IN THE BOX. Take heed Thistle. Completely the wrong system played by McCall today. Dunfermline's danger was in their ability to move it quickly in the midfield out to the wings. We failed to recognise that, and having a midfield 3, one of which was Donnelly, was just asking to backfire. What we needed was a bog-standard 4-4-2, which would have made the game much stuffier and denied Dunfermline the acres of space they had.

Cardle kept cutting inside and Shields got a battering.

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Doolan to score a brace but us to lose 4-2.

I'm going. We're going to get gubbed though.

Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway!

Banners were obtained at relatively short notice (received at AGM Wednesday evening, game on Saturday). Needs string to be tied up at the front, which I couldn't get in time, hence the make-shift solution with the hangers in the Warriors shop. There are safety issues with getting it up high as well. Geezer in said baseball cap is a little Fawlty! Edit: As FT says there are issues trying to hang it up every game overhead and it doesn't just fit along the bottom of the kiosk as it's too long. It was an issue with the Centenary Fund Banner, which was permanently in place but could fold back behind the Warriors fixture. The CF banner is no longer there, but even flipping it back in front (Allan Heron trying to support me with a foot up!) was probably technically a very dangerous H&S issue last season!

Had another look and I still disagree. I can't see *any* contact at all, and certainly not with Buchanan's left knee. If there was contact, it was on the back of Buchanan's left leg when he planted it on the turn just before going down and by the trailing leg of the defender.

I'll have another look, but I honestly can't see any contact. Gut reaction was that it was Klinsmann-esque.

Got to admit that looks like a dive to me. The angle of the Queens' player's tackle seems to completely miss the line Buchanan travels in.

What I want to know is how Bobby Dinnie feels about becoming a Chief Scout (surely that should be a Sixer or Patrol Leader ) despite being a BB boy in the past. Perhaps the real message here is that we need to "Be Prepared" for a relegation battle. Coat is ON.

17th Aberdeen Scouts - least efficient Scout Troop in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD!

Click Here As a dyed in the wool Scout, can I just say that I'm absolutely appalled at the Club's involvement with THEM and that I'll be pillorying the newest Director for this disgraceful association. ... just kidding Jim

Says the President Elect.

Seems to have been booked at some point as well. Good night all round, eh!