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Another thing not mentioned is that prior to yesterday Airdrie were flying, but they now finish off with Dundee Utd and QP, there's a reasonable chance the latter still have something to play for on the last day. Their form and confidence could go quite quickly.

You can't tell from that angle but from the Jagzone camera it looks as if the DU player nearest the corner flag to stop the short corner is playing BBG onside

Was their first goal not from a corner that was given despite the ball hitting a Livi player on the way out? Our players were very upset with that decision at the time. Yes we have to defend the corner better but if he gets the correct decision there's no corner to defend. Although on the other hand I didn't see much wrong with their disallowed goal and another ref might have given the handball claim on Milne just before their winner.

It is the son of the ex Scotland international I believe, although he's a defender

He won't be allowed to play unless Ayr pay a fee to make his move permanent. Up to them whether getting an extra couple of games out of him and freeing up a loan slot for another player is worth whatever fee we'd want.

Goal difference is the first tiebreaker if it comes to that , full list below If clubs are level on points at the end of the group stage, the criteria for separating them is 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored, 3) away goals scored, 4) matches won, 5) away matches won, 6) head-to-head record, 7) drawing of lots.

Only if Dundee Utd beat Falkirk on Tuesday which I would not say is a given. Anything else and we're relying on other results, either Falkirk to drop points vs Peterhead or 9 points (and whatever goal difference) being enough to be one of the best 3 runners up. Too many permutations for the latter, but if we'd won the shoot out today then a win on Saturday to put us on 10 points would almost guarantee us getting through.

So if we were to sign this Harrison Nee we have on trial, who is 20 it's going to cost us about 80k euros based on 10k per year?

That doesn't seem right, or more likely im reading it incorrectly. It would mean every "free" transfer under the age of 23 actually costs at least 10k euros per year?

Either the two above or the 2019-20 season, all have red shorts in common, the 2019-20 kit was like an Albion Rovers kit and not Thistle.

I see David Amewe has signed for Croo

We're going to have some great crowds this season, there's at least 3 Stewart McGregors and 2 Jacqui Lows

These are cross-border rules to start with (although it does say domestic rules are to be brought in line within 3 years) and that players 21 and under or club-trained are exempt. It's designed to stop the likes of Chelsea (who had 48 players out on loan in 2018-19) and Man City stockpiling players, loaning them out for years at a time and then selling them.

Holt headed it and Rudden kicked Holt in the face at the same time.

I think Ayr, Arbroath and Morton as well as ICT are making streams available to all season ticket holders. Not sure about others yet. Might not be a good look if we end up being the only team in the division not doing it.

One for the stattos, if this game finishes 1-1: Since the leagues went to 4 meetings a season have we ever a) drawn all 4 games with the same team in a season, and b) had the same score in all 4 games vs a team in a season I think we drew all 3 with Killie in the top 6 season (which seems about 27 years ago now) but didn't play them a 4th time.

No, it's 4 domestic and unlimited non-domestic at any one time. Last year (sorry for bringing some of these names up) we had Gordon, Jeffries, Scobbie, McMillan, Hazard, and Anderson domestically and Mansell from outside Scotland. Jeffries and Scobbie had to go back before we could sign some of the others.

Higginbotham from that Motherwell game to the end of that season was probably the best player I've seen for Thistle in easily 20 years, probably going back to the Lambie team of the mid 90s and even then there's an argument he was better, we would 100% have finished 11th - and could well have lost the playoff to Accies- if not for him. The other season and two thirds with us and everything after he was unproductive but I'd still have to give him his place in the team Cerny SOD <RCB> Lindsay ATS Osman Lawless......................................Higginbotham Erskine Taylor Doolan Unconventional formation to shoehorn in a couple of players. Could easily accept McDonald in place of Taylor given how vital he was last season and if I was playing a more conventional 4-2-3-1 then the pre 2016 version of Banzo would be the other midfielder. For the right centre back I could make and dismiss cases for all of Frans, Keown, Balatoni, Muirhead, even Archie tho his best days were clearly behind him this decade. Barton only as sweeper in a 3. Probably go for big Aero given his performances in the 2012/13 season, and his penalty against Hearts after he'd missed the one in the cup final, nearly took the back of the net away.

The only one out of the whole squad I can make a positive case for keeping is Cole purely down to his set pieces. Although we have had a number of guys who start off well on these and then defences (or even our own players) get used to them and the usefulness drops. The two off the bar vs Montrose and Alloa were better efforts than the one that went in on Saturday, and the first few corners vs Alloa were causing problems though this tailed off second half.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40barnsleyfc&src=typed_query&f=live Lot of unhappy people, and some Hibs fans piling in asking them to take Heckingbottom back.

Assume this is vs Morton, 97/98. Originally thought Accies but that would have been too much of a colour clash. Farrell and Gaughan? Too easy- Chico. The foul conceded would have been a red card for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity from about a season after that game until about 2 years ago when the "double jeopardy" rule stopped. Not sure it would have made a difference to the end result though!

You get a reduced parachute payment in the 2nd year. We got £500k last year and £250k this as we finished 11th and County who finished below us got £300k, they would have got a further £125k if they, er, hadn't actually gone straight back up by not f*cking everything up like we did. Assume Caley would be similar in parachute money to County so only £125k last year.

He grew up a Kilmarnock fan and didn't / doesn't need the money after his career down south. Not sure there's a Thistle fan in a similar position in management.

Doolan wouldn't be able to play until January if this did happen. Suspect it'll be a crowd-pleasing appointment given the division of the fans recently therefore McCall / Lennon or maybe at an absolute push Stephen Craigan - yes he's inexperienced at 1st team level but so were McNamara and Archibald (both of their ships have sailed imo). Some of the other names on the McBookie "next manager odds" list would keep you awake at night- Jim McIntyre or Mark McGhee ffs.

The attacking set pieces are far from the biggest of our worries, so far we've scored from corners or free kicks vs Airdrie, Clyde, Ross County (twice), and from a 2nd ball vs Dundee Utd and the fact we're mixing them up is a good thing. Not defending where we are or the manager or indeed our defending set pieces which is god-awful, but after years of watching Sean Welsh or Martin Woods hit the first man or float it gently into the opposition goalies' arms, we're actually putting thought and effort into these things and I'm all for it. In that particular one above it "worked" in as far as Robson got the ball on the corner of the box with no-one within 5 yards of him. He then duffed it straight to the front post, but that's on him.