Harrybriscoe

Can I just offer an apology. After the first 45mins of his tenure, I commented prematurely on this forum that Brian Graham was unlikely to get the job full time. Sorry Brian. In recent weeks there has been a marked improvement in all departments which must bode well for you and your management team if it continues. You certainly deserve an opprtunity to go for it, so all the best.

I hope this performance puts to bed the notion that Brian Graham is the the man to manage this team. We don't deserve a top 4 finish.

It was inevitable, but still hurts. A number of players should be hanging their heads in shame this morning. All the best Kris. No doubt you'll bring a side back some time in the future to give us a good thrashing, or hopefully a bewildering display of endless sideways passing.

In thirty-five years of following Thistle, I can't recall feeling so despondent and angry. Our performance yesterday was just humiliating. If we drop out of the play-off position, which feels inevitable, then Kris Doolan, nice guy that he is, needs to go. We look as though we go into matches with no game plan, with our endless passing of the ball in uncontested areas with no penetrating out ball and fail to match our opponents in desire or determination. The lack of discipline in the team is a major problem, with Stuart Bannigan's pathetic tantrum yesterday being a perfect example. The endless moaning and whining at referees needs to stop. Questioning a decision is one thing, but having a strop is pointless and achieves nothing. Instead, you need to focus on the game. Bannigan, Turner, and Graham in particular are guilty of this, one reason why I wouldn't want to see the latter step up the manager's role at a later date. And when is the manager going to address the problem with Fitzpatrick, who might as well have stayed on the team bus yesterday. He has the body language of a sullen teenager and has to step up his workrate, or, if it's due to external influences, then he needs to be dropped until a resolution is found. There's a player in there, but this can't go on.

Well, that was just embarrassing.

This bunch of pussies are playing Doolan out of a job. Not a leader amongst them.

Jeez, we are a poor, poor side.

With all due respect to Stuart Bannigan, who I think is a decent footballer with a good work ethic, he is never a full back in my team. From memory, he's had several woeful games in that position and isn't, imo, the bravest of players, an attribute I like in my back four. I've never forgotten how he ducked a free kick in the wall at Pittodrie many years ago to gift Aberdeen a goal. Keep up the good work in midfield Stuart.

Mmm, I gave his dad a lift into the city centre after the game a few weeks ago. I thought it strange at the time he was asking how long it took to travel to Dingwall. Makes sense now if that rumour is true.

I thought it was odd that the linesman getting the flak was up the tunnel very smartly at the final whistle, not waiting for his colleagues as per the norm. Maybe some of his decisions were down to him having something else on his mind.

I too find the walk out to the Caley stadium both dull and unpleasant on a poor weather day. On our last visit there, I found out that Stagecoach run a bus to and from the stadium on match days if there is a enough demand, which there was for our fixture. I just asked at the enquiries desk at the bus station. It may be a while before we have a chance to use the service again.

Good luck to young Ava in her career. I'm sure she'll be disappointed with her positioning at the first Rangers goal when she watches the replay. She left so much space on her right, I thought it was one of these 'fair play' incidents where you let the opposition score.

Wow, worth coming just for that goal. What a cracker!

Jeez oh, we must have somebody else who can play in goal. Stewart's gonna be a bag of nerves in front of the Jags support second half.

And that's a perfect example of our defending just now...just awful.