The Terminator

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I know this thread is from the Stone Age or thereabouts, but that's me just completed the main story having bought the game a bit late. Thoughts now that the dust has settled?

I can certainly imagine Hughes saying something as unintelligible as that.

Ah, sorry WJ, my mistake after all, thought you were still talking about the Berwick Rangers game for some reason.

Weren't Dundee playing Brechin?

he was one of the few, if not only, positives to be found. Fiercely determined whereas others such as Hodge are happy to sit back and observe. One quick break in the first half fell apart because of Hodge taking the two slowest touches ever recorded by man followed by a sclaffed pass to the wing. Complete liability.

Okay, what have we learned: - No striker on our books will score no matter who we play and how we deploy them. - Hodge is still gash. - We haven't even one player who would dare to try to beat an opponent or leave him standing, as a result we have an abundance of square passes across 90 minutes and none that really do anything. Rowson, although he does his job well, is more guilty of this than most I feel. - Falkirk are crud. - That doesn't matter, because we are worse.

Well...um...what now? We can't score, 4 games against first division opponents and 1 goal scored. Says it all.

Jorge Cadete anyone?

And me, totally forgot Adams was on the pitch with his "influence" on the game. Number 4 was Charlie Grant, THE Charlie Grant. Anyway, that was fantastic from the team. They all seemed delighted at full time aswell and McCall spoke sense at the end aswell. Hope we beat Allan Moore's mediocre cobbled together team next week. This was just the springboard needed to give us a good chance to win 2 games we should be winning in the league. I know Cowden won today, but they are mince really and Morton we know all about. Onwards and slowly upwards!!!

I heard that Halliwell is in Fabio Capello's thoughts at the moment though. Mind you, Halliwell will probably retire from international football too.

Something like that.

Apart from the attend the game bit, drowsiness kicking in.

Steven it seems that we can agree on something The turning up late idea is a very plausible one, as is the one where the fans stand at the car park. A few banners would be nice too though. IIRC correctly it was you and your band that made the "We Believe" (gee, that feels like donkeys ago) banner? Even something that simple could help the cause for change.

With the "not the fans' job to plan" you are being far too widespread in its use. Of course a protest needs some sort of vague planning/ideas etc, but you are tarring that with the same brush as those who feel that planning for the next step as far as the club is concerned is a the BoD's responsibilty. No-one is saying bang the doors of Firhill and hope for the best. They are only saying that we cannot plan the future direction of the club as it is not our position to do so.

We get Kim Jong-Il to take over the club?

But it's not the fans' position to plan. The fans are like a judge, not a governor. We are supposed to point to the failings and applaud when things are going the way they should be. To point to an extreme example, Manchester United and the Glazers. They want the Glazers out, they protest. They don't make excuses about what happens next, that is for the board to handle, not the fans. We can influence what happens next in some way but to think that we can somehow "plan" our way to a better future is nonsense. Planning doesn't make headlines. Protesting does. Thanks to out lack of action, no-one outside our little Thistle bubble will know the names Allan Cowan or Tom Hughes and will just see us as being the way that others in this city want us to be, sh1te by nature, not because of a plane wreckage of a board.

And the ones who are left are incredibly divided. We have also lost the cuddly toy image. As it is, we are not needed as such in scottish football anymore. We are nothing more than a declining and disliked club. In turn, that means that the general community won't be so supportive either. It doesn't have to be a STJ just yet, but soon it will have to be unless the captain and his crew leave the wheel for someone else to change the course. (Cliche, sorry)

Sadly true. As soon as we are a goal down, heads drop and it's over. That's the way it has been since McCall first took over. Another thing however: McCall stated that finishing easy chances would not be a problem this season...um, well. I am afraid it seems we have a broken man at the helm. He seems out of ideas, hope and inspiration. He seems resigned to defeat and that is going to spread like the runs before long.

Hardly has a more accurate statement ever been made. Paton has the attitude of one of the street corner types. He gives the impression of being everything you would see on a street corner in govan, possil, pollok and the like. For example, lashing out the way he did at Annan last week. He gets paid say, £400 a week to do a hobby, keep in shape and "work" for around 2 hours a day. He doesn't seem to appreciate that he has it easy as far as work goes. He obviously doesn't do overtime to improve as a player, as is obvious with his continued failure to do anything with his left foot, his complete predictability and his inability to deliver a cross that reaches a Thistle player.

Precisely. We all know a board cannot be sacked. Unfortunately it seems some are taking the phrase too literally and labelling those who chant it as irrational. It is clear that as we are going, the club will die. That's the fact. in a few years, going as we are, there won't be a board to grumble about, no manager to question and no team to support. We are all desperate to avoid that but we won't unless something is done.

It's not the position of the fans to plan the future of the club. That is the job of the BoD, a duty in which they have shown repeated stupidity and incompetence.

Too right! Muttering dissaprovingly on a forum won't make them bat an eyelid. We need to get out to those games and make it quite clear that we do not want them here!

Amen to that. It's gone on long enough. We all just say "oh, but everyone has it tough just now" and "what can they do?". Sod it, enough is more than enough. We have had these clowns here far too long and for what reward? And for all the smart so and so's that say "eh, you can't sack a board". Are you happy with this situation, when diddies like Raith Rovers beat us to average players like Baird and then gub us because our own board will only sanction new contracts if they are handed to the cheapest available and as late as possible. Heck, it wasn't even a majority that chanted "sack the board" today. We have been fed this nonsense for years and I for one am long past the stage of being at the end of my tether. Wake up. Get the incompetent leeches out of here.

You've really taken to that name haven't you