Ancipital
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I wondered before we signed Logan if we might look at Adam Devine at right back who is a free agent now. Obviously he was here for about ten minutes during the league one covid season before we binned him to get Scott Tiffoney in but he did OK at QP last season.
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Bobby Law I think. That's 93/94 away strip and through judicious use of thistle archive one of our away games vs Motherwell that season was a Tuesday night in November so wouldn't have been daylight.
Of the outfield players in the daylight game vs Motherwell in April you can rule out about 4 or 5 of them for having fair hair.
Could be Ian Cameron, Willie Jamieson or Albert Craig but based on the shaggier hair I'd go Law.
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21 minutes ago, javeajag said:
What about Jim Slavin, he must have come close?
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East Fife would at least have a small novelty value since the last time we played there, in that it's gone from one of the grounds in the SPFL which was furthest away from a train station to one of the closest.
Elgin would obviously tick all the boxes, Spartans is a new ground and Montrose and Annan are good away days if on a Saturday.
Obviously it'll be Dumbarton though.
From pots 1 and 3 just don't want anyone in the same league or if possible no-one we played last year either
Pot 5 is a home game against a team we should be beating which we managed to not do last year.
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11 hours ago, partickthedog said:
Hi Mr Archive
Your interesting feature on opposition players who had kindly scored own goals to benefit Thistle, culminating in the Livingston defender last Friday, prompted me to post a question with has crossed my mind on a few occasions. For the avoidance of doubt, I am leaving aside own goals and focusing on players scoring for the team they were actually playing for!
How many players who have scored both for and against Thistle scored more against than they did for Thistle?
I can think of lots of players who in recent years have scored both for and against Thistle, but in virtually every case the balance seemed to be positive.
Without thinking too hard, here is a quick list of 22 (in alphabetical order of surname) to which no doubt many more could be added:
Alex Burns, Joe Cardle, Robbie Crawford, Kris Doolan, Graham Dorrans, Barry Elliot, James Grady, Brian Graham, Damon Gray, Martin Hardie, Gary Harkins, Kevin Holt, Stevie Lawless, Scott McLean, Jamie Mitchell, Aaron Muirhead, Mark Roberts, Scott Robinson, Connor Sammon, Lyle Taylor, Scott Tiffoney, Paul Tosh
We can discount some players who played for us and scored plenty against us, but as far as I am aware never scored for us in a competitive fixture, such as John Baird and Kevin Nisbet.
The only players who spring to mind who might have a negative balance are Paddy Keogh, Robbie Muirhead and Dario Zanatta. Am I right about them, and are there any more to add?
Cammy Smith scored one goal in two years for us compared with a hat trick in about 20 minutes for Dundee Utd against us
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Wasn't too long ago some folk on here were pishing their pants and saying QP were going to leave us behind and become Glasgow's third team 🙄
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It's not a direct comparison obviously, but this model is roughly similar to what happens in the NFL, where a General Manager has responsibility for signings so would be similar to our sporting director, and a head coach for tactics and in game coaching.
7 NFL teams sacked their head coach either during or at the end of the season that finished last month. Of those, 3 have also sacked the GM so just under half of those teams are ripping the whole thing up and starting again rather than just appointing a new head coach. Admittedly easier when there's no threat of relegation but still shows it's not necessarily a long term appointment.
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3 hours ago, ClydebankJag said:
Who have we sold pretty much straight from our Academy structure to other teams? I remember….
Fitzpatrick to Norwich (never made it, now back north). He did though make an impact at first team level.
Lindsay to Barnsley (made a career at Championship down south). He too had a first team impact.
Hendry to Wigan (initially failed down south but had a very successful career)
Cooper to Rangers (never made it at Rangers and moved down south but is now at Airdrie)
Loney to Everton (at Everton still)
There was another player in last couple of years, Aiden or Hayden something I think though he might have gone via one of the OF similar to Cooper.
Cooper funnily enough has just been loaned out by Airdrie to a team in the Lithuanian second tier which presumably have a link in with this Consillium agency.
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An issue not mentioned there with European playoffs is that under the current setup it has to be the last game of the top division's season.
e.g if the Scottish Cup final is Hearts vs Celtic and Hearts are also in the last European spot in the top part of the league then you'd have to play the cup final first as it'll determine whether Hearts are required in the European playoff. I suppose the Premiership playoffs are now after the cup final.
As said the proposal in the video doesn't also really change much as you're still playing a good chunk of teams 4 times a season especially in bottom section.
If you wanted to get really creative you could have a 16 team division splitting into 3 after 30 games with the sections playing each other twice so you'd still get your 4 arse cheek fests a season for SKy TV. The middle section winner gets one of those European play off places. Think Czech republic and Romania (?) have something like this and the Welsh are adopting something similar next season.
1 hour ago, Duke Gekantawa said:Whilst I've given up on any change in the top tier for the reasons you've given, I can't for the life of me work out why the divisions below the top are these stupidly small leagues. Why not two leagues of 16 (or even 18 if clubs want to keep the same number of games) below the top league? Is it really just the relativley small dilution of prize money?
I agree with this, in reality I think we're stuck with the top flight as is but the Championship should have a bit more flexibility - it can easily be 18 clubs if there are still 3 playoff spots. We've benefitted from it in 2006 and very nearly again a couple of years ago but 4th in a league of 10 shouldn't be getting a shot at promotion, 4th out of 18 is more deserving.
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Even the OF don't have the power to stop this as the examples of Billy Gilmour and Ben Doak show.
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https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-fixture/hamilton-academical-v-partick-thistle-9th-may-2015/
photo is in this gallery and in other photos Higgy is wearing red boots, don't think any other Thistle players are. Plus he was wearing shirt 15 and that could be a 5 on his back.
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From cheating slightly / detective research
it's away to Hamilton in 14/15 season as we only wore that strip one season. Stevenson didn't play in the first game so it's the game in May, sunny weather backs that up.
Stevenson was subbed in 33 minute so had to be one of the other 9 starting players
Think it's Higginbotham
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I think at the top level some kind of play clock will be brought in over the next few years.
Whether it's as simple as stopping the clock after goals / during subs / injury stoppages, with the ref still having discretion to add on additional time at the end for time wasting, or a more USA sports style where the clock starts running when ref blows whistle and team with ball have X seconds to take set piece or concede foul / corner etc.
I think a ball in play clock with reduced game times would be too hard to monitor.
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Kyle Turner played for Stranraer in that game
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That's Brockville in 97/98. Definitely Andy Lyons as 11, might be Nicky Henderson as the other one?
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He got absolutely roasted by Lionel Ainsworth at Motherwell in 2014 as mentioned above and that was largely the start of Christie Elliott becoming a full back rather than a winger, as he moved to left back after about 20 minutes after Bannigan had given away a penalty and been skinned about another half dozen times. Elliott at least had the pace to keep up with Ainsworth which Banzo didn't.
Looking at the team that day I'd guess Bannigan went into central midfield and James Craigen to right wing where Elliott started
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I don't have any inside information but I'd be surprised if the 3 year contract for Sayers didn't have a break clause in our favour.
Also I'm not writing him off after 5 games or whatever, if we'd done that with Doolan and Erskine (both of whom were older than Sayers when they signed and took at least a year to get up to standard) the last 15 years of the club would be very different.
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32 minutes ago, jlsarmy said:
You’re absolutely right , you don’t win Leagues in November, when we got promoted 10 years ago Morton were circa 10 points ahead and as the song goes f…ed it up
I think we had 3 games in hand and at no stage were we ever needing other results to go for us. As it is, we've only got Falkirk to play twice and they're 12 ahead of us.
They've also already had a good few injuries, MacIver as average (at best) as he was for us is excellent for them and has missed quite a few games plus the winger Morrison has missed most of the season.
I don't think they'll keep going at their current pace , if they do, no-one is catching them, but we need to be aiming for mid-70s in terms of points in case they do drop off.
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Based on last couple of weeks of a team full of central midfielders, shunting Turner out wide and playing Robbie Crawford then he might already have been doing it as that's what we did in 21/22
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Noticed that Dowds injury for Ayr was an ACL so he's finished for the season and McAvoy is out for months as well before he's even kicked a ball for them, could well be something in the theory about Brown over working them.
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Not sure I'd be putting a whole heap of reliance on someone who signed up to P&B to post that Walsall guy rumour as their first post but you never know.
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Did that tackle not end Gordon Wylde's career? I was very young at the time but remember my dad going mental at him and folk shouting "you're a f-ing animal Abercrombie" from the shed when he was walking off
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Not that Ayr didn't deserve to win that day but Ive never understood how the goal wasn't disallowed for the Ayr player not being ten yards away. You see it all the time now if someone tries to block a quick free kick it's a yellow card and I don't really recall the rules being different back then.
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1 hour ago, Fawlty Towers said:
So having finished 3rd in the league this season, reached the play off final last season and got to the semis this season is that enough to be seeded?
The 8 top seeded clubs will be Dundee and the whole bottom 6 in the Premiership and Dundee Utd. We will be pot 2 which means we will be away to the pot 1 team. I'd obviously hope to avoid Livi as it guarantees a 5th game against them and avoid DU as I hate Tannadice (even if we did win there in the same competition in the season just finished)
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Penrice played 24/27 games in the season he left. Nisbet has stated multiple times that he wasn't living a professional lifestyle at Firhill and us releasing him gave him the kick up the arse he needed.
Fair play to Penrice, if you'd asked me where he'd be 4 years after leaving us I'd have said Scottish Championship at highest.
I agree about MacKenzie though, he broke through at end of 22/23 season and has basically wasted 2 years on the bench, we still don't even know what position is best for him. Now he's in the final year of his contract and we don't know whether we should be looking to offer an extension.
Diack is a more difficult one as we've played with one up front since Rudden left and Graham was very rarely injured or suspended and we've had likes of Dowds and Adeloye as backup. Probably should have had more loan time that he did but if we put him out on loan and Graham got injured for a couple of months then folk would have moaned about that.
Cieran Loney was referred to earlier, he's just signed a 2-year extension at Everton today and we do have a sell on in that deal
https://x.com/EvertonAcademy/status/1941467099723120792