Mr Kipling

Yes, made a couple of sub appearances during the second half of the season. Looked to have some potential and I was a wee bit surprised when he was freed. All the best to him, except when he's up against us.

New strip is an absoluted cracker, liking that a lot.

Pleased with this signing. Think Welsh has a lot of quality and is a good passer of the ball. Good bit of buisness by McNamara. Just a centre half and a striker to go and I'll be pretty happy with the squad.

Sadly many of these pricing ideas, whilst good (especially the dancing girls idea), are unlikely to be ever adopted by any of the clubs as I believe that the minimum pricing for entry to games is set by the league and not the clubs. I recall a year or two back a statement in one of the tabloids mentioning that the minimum price for attendance for entry to first division games was £15. That was about 3 years ago so I would guess it's gone up now. Sadly until the powers in charge of the game take a look at how things are panning out across scottish football (i'll not hold my breath) then we will never move forward and attndances will continue to drop. Sadly clubs like Thistle who seem to have more forward thinking people in charge just now, who may be willing to take a pop at lowering prices to entice people back won't get their chance due to the leagues policies.

Was just watching Challenge TV (i'm a bit sad that way) and saw an episode of the Crystal Maze circa 1991. Is the team captain who I think it is? If so it's a wee secret I didn't know about. Apologies if this is old news or not who I think it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBU5dC1YmZg

Not really that bothered about the logo but is much as I expected as it is the correct size and shape to be put over the macb logo on the shirts. At the end of the day as long as the Jags get the money I don't really care what the logo looks like. Well done to the club for getting another sponsor in so quickly. This would never have happened under the previous regime IMO.

Went to uni with a girl called Mary Hill, and she was scottish!!! Obviously wasn't from Glasgow.

I'd expect Balatoni to drop out of defence, Robertson to move back into the backline and Hutton to take his place in midfield.

Deals officially fallen through. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14741993.stm Would be interesting if we could get one or both on loan, finances will most likely dictate otherwise however. Edited cos my link didn't work so just put the web address up.

Think Sinclair had a decent game an will only improve, will have hopefully learned a lesson about clearing his lines today however. Thought Erskine was ok, tried to create and make things happen but wrong decisions cost us, electing to pass when he should have shot and shot when he should have passed but was ok for me. Rowson was prety solid as usual and the backline played well until kinniburgh went off IMO. Balatoni had a bit of a shocker and looks low on confidence. Robertson didn't inpress me, felt the game passed him by at times and he is pretty slow looking, hope it is only a fitness thing, didn't get involved as much as I hope he would. Doolan and stewart worked hard but it didn't come off for him. Cairney was ok IMO but his Fresh air shot at erskines cut back in the box was pretty bad. Just feel we were unlucky today, Dundee were solid but have lost a lot of guile going forward, their front two were pretty poor and I couldn't see them scoring today, the penalty being a gift from the ref dont think they will be in the running this season if that is the best they have to offer. We were the better tem however Our finishing was poor but we played well, certainly look more dangerous going forward than we did under McCall. If we can keep up that type of performance then we will do ok this season.

The wikipedia font of all knowledge states him to be a striker, who's goal scoring record is not hugely impressive. He has however won 7 caps for the full Slovenian national side between 2004-07. We shall have to wait and see how accurate this is, if we ever hear anything of him officially from the club.

Start of July according to the chap in Greaves. Wouldn't give too much away about the style but said it was fairly retro but with a modern twist.

I believe that the rules were at the time (probably changed since we were in the SPL), that, once a team with terracing had played in the SPL, even if they were relegated back to the First, the terracing could no longer be used for any league match. Why this is the case I have no idea, maybe something to do with safety certificates, but I recall hearing this at the time. Would expect that money and planning pemission meant that JO's vision didn't go ahead but to be honest I don't remember the plans at the time as I was only about 11 years old.

Thanks that ones cheered me up this morning.

The woman who lives across from me manages to do a similar thing and if it's not her it's her daughter. Irritatingly they have a driveway that could easily incorporate 3 cars but seem to enjoy taking up parking spaces by the side of the road that others depend upon. We have a driveway so it's not a problem for us but it becomes a problem when you have people visiting. Oh and working on-call, overnight in your work on Christmas Eve