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In 1914 and 1939, when the nation needed men and women to serve in the country’s armed forces, Partick Thistle FC were one of the many clubs whose players and former players became soldiers, sailors and airmen, and not all of them came home. Seventeen Jagsmen paid the ultimate price serving their country. We commemorate them all in our feature piece, 'The Partick Thistle Fallen', updated for remembrance Sunday, 2024. The Partick Thistle Fallen →
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Reminded of a tribute band night... ... after the 'Identical Cocteau Twins', came the final act, 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not Focus'. Following a commendable stab at Sylvia, Helen shouted to the guitarist: “Are you knackered, man?” To which he replied: “No, I’m Jan Akkerman”.
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The old 'Partickles' page has now splintered, Partickles (TTA) will still deliver mostly our own original and exclusive articles. A new page, Partickles (In The Media), will house choice cust from press archives to fanzine pieces to programme articles to pamphlets to books and all sorts in-between, a place for all the general PTFC interest cuttings which don't have a natural home on player profiles or match hubs... several 'Partickles' in there already... Partickles (in the media) →
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Who Are The Jags Players In This Photo?
The Thistle Archive replied to Jaggernaut's topic in Main Jags forum
Thistle's earliest-known match action shot, added today to our virtual museum, read a little about it... Match photo at Meadowside, 18 August 1900 → -
~ "Do you know the phone code for Glasgow mate?" ~ "Oh, 4-1" Just like the universe, our mega-hub for the '71 game is ever-expanding, so you can luxuriate in the build-up, the match day and all the fun of the aftermath... 23rd Oct 1971 Partick Thistle 4 Celtic 1 (League Cup Final) →
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What club-record did we set vs. Falkirk? All is revealed in this week's 'Stats Watch'... also, a brand new 'Gallery' module is introduced as the previous slideshow module just suddenly stopped working, a real pain. 100 photos to a page to try and keep up with Donald Wilson's rapid trigger-finger... Thistle 1 Falkirk 1 →
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^ Ooft, some well-earned bonus points there. Although have to take one off you for failing to mention Gavin Duncan being the Jags hero!
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Full overview in... The Managerial Comings And Goings →
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Wasn't us AJ, but Cormack was the oldest living 'permanent' manager, that is true. The full list today (C for 'caretakers' only): Donnie McKinnon (84y, 1m, 23d) C Bobby Watson (78y, 4m, 28d) C Jimmy Bone (75y, 0m, 21d) C Derek Johnstone (70y, 11m, 9d) Dick Campbell (70y, 10m, 21d) Sandy Clark (67y, 11m, 15d) John McVeigh (67y, 8m, 18d) Murdo MacLeod (66y, 0m, 19d) Tommy Bryce (64y, 8m, 16d) Ian McCall (60y, 0m, 13d) Derek Whyte (56y, 1m, 12d) Gerry Britton (53y, 11m, 23d) Jackie McNamara (50y, 11m, 19d) Alan Archibald (46y, 10m, 0d) Kenny Miller (44y, 9m, 20d) C Scott Allison (44y, 1m, 26d) C Gary Caldwell (42y, 6m, 1d) Kris Doolan (37y, 10m, 2d)
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And so to the 170th (!) instance of Thistle & Scotland playing on the same day; check out the full lists via the link below. Always remember, the Thistle IS the flower of Scotland, we hope and pray for another one of these fine winning doubles... Thistle & Scotland on the same day →
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Absolute scenes at Peasy as Partick Thistle eliminate the Scottish Cup holders! What. A. Result. Our top level youth class of '24 mark the 75th Scottish Cup match with the club's best-ever result in the competition, knocking out the holders for the first-time ever! Last knocked out Rangers in 1991 and ran to the semi finals… Partick Thistle in the Scottish Youth Cup →
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Beautifully written tribute on the club website embedded into our two Peter Cormack pages... Peter Cormack (player) → Peter Cormack (manager) → Couple of our tweets from today...
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Admin - for some reason can't embed this video on WAT, the afore-posted Dundee game at Dens Park keeps appearing, despite being a completely different URL. Several failed attempts now. Could be an internal cache problem at your end as the exact same post is ok at Pie & Bovril? More incredible vintage footage uncovered, a cup shock vs. Hamilton Accies (then 2nd tier) at Firhill on 26 January 1952. The conditions are beyond belief, different days indeed! Full match hub developed to celebrate the find, read all about it... Thistle 0 Accies 1 (Scottish Cup 1st Round) →
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Around 1,500 news updates in the Archive this year, hope you're keeping up to date with each and every one! 😉 Archive News → ***************************************** Did you know? On Saturday, Thistle played in front of over 4,000 for the 3rd time at home in the league this season. Never before have they opened a second tier campaign with 3 crowds over that mark. Keep an eye on 'Stats Watch' every week for such gems! Our 7-tab Dunfermline match hub is packed with all sorts; line-ups, man-of-the-match, reports, reactions, DLD Podcast, scrapbook, photo gallery, video highlight options and lots of exclusive stats... Partick Thistle 1 Dunfermline Athletic 0 (SPFL Championship - game 6) → ***************************************** Satisfying to complete our 73-74 Reserves season today, the last pesky match date (31-Dec-1973) finally being found by a friend of the Archive via Rangers News. Of course, it was there all the time in the Ev Times, doh! 8 eyes are better than 4 etc! Jags were top of the league going into 1974... 1973-74 (Reserves) → ***************************************** On this huge night in Thistle history (1972) players and fans are crushed as the year-long UEFA Cup build-up ends in a 3 goal defeat at home to Honvéd - Jags were too anxious and didn't do themselves justice. Full and packed hubs for both legs now in place... Wed-27-Sep-1972 Partick Thistle 0 Honvéd 3 (UEFA Cup 1st Round, 2nd leg) → Wed-13-Sep-1972 Honvéd 1 Partick Thistle 0 (UEFA Cup 1st Round, 1st leg) → ***************************************** The best part of 100 new match videos have been added to the site in recent months, mostly improving on what was previously there. Plenty more to follow in the months to come, with some crackers in store. Good to see extended, clear versions of the likes of the Falkirk game, 20 April 1991:
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Partick Thistle 🔴 🟡 Vs Dunfermline Athletic ⚪️⚫️
The Thistle Archive replied to jagfox's topic in Main Jags forum
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Partick Thistle 🔴 🟡 Vs Dunfermline Athletic ⚪️⚫️
The Thistle Archive replied to jagfox's topic in Main Jags forum
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A 4-0 win over Dunfermline Athletic last night - not a bad way to start our PTFC weekend! With Petershill out of bounds, our young nomads haven't had a "home" game all season, but don't seem fazed, that's now 10 wins in 14! 2024-25 (Youth - Under 18s) →
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Years and years of digging, scanning, cropping and whatnot continues to pay off as we're seeing our 1,500th Partick Thistle first-team player (Graham Rainey) image today, found on an Australian Facebook group. This is surely a world record for any club archive; we'll keep at it, you just never know what could still be lurking out there! Could you help with our missing player images? 1,500 down, 542 to go! If you can help with any on the list please do get in touch →
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Full match hub now in place for Saturday's depressing shocker featuring Andrew Holloway moonlighting on Alloa co-comms! Who gets our MOTM? What's our record defeat vs. Alloa? All is revealed... Thistle 1 Alloa 3 → alloa.mp4
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^ Not at all CJ, this is the thread! A fascinating post, albeit a little confusing maybe? A brush and shovel was part of a gate at Firhill? Or are we looking at two different pieces with different purposes at different times?
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Was sure the name was in the clippings somewhere Rob. The Aberdeen hub of January 1990 is fast-forwarded, with this very nice preview piece from your good self, capturing the essence of that period...
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In today's 'match of the day' we're looking back to the momentous league opener on 4th September 1971, but it's tinged with sadness. In the early hours of that morning one of our own didn't make it. You can read more about it in the 'Scrapbook' section of the match hub... Sat-04-Sep-1971 Thistle 3 Rangers 2 (SFL First Division - game 1) →
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If you enjoy your Thistle history, please don't forget to bookmark our home page to keep in touch with all the site developments... over 1,200 news updates this year alone... one of the things we've been doing lately is presenting fully developed match hubs for select matches "On This Day" (all clickable links below). Today's selection, for example, features newly seen video footage for all the Thistle community to enjoy... enjoy! 21-Aug-2004 21-Aug-2004 Hamilton Academical 0 Partick Thistle 1 (SFL First Division - game 3) Exactly 20 years ago today, 3,543 were there for Thistle's first-ever visit to New Douglas Park; a narrow but deserved win for newly-relegated Thistle over newly-promoted Hamilton. Match hub now features new video footage for all Jagskind to enjoy! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Video Highlights' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced… 20-Aug-2024 20-Aug-2011 Partick Thistle 1 Hamilton Academical 1 (SFL First Division - game 3) Jags are in their new all-black versus Accies as CHRISTIE ELLIOTT scores within 8 minutes of his debut, just 24 hours after being signed by Jackie McNamara! Read all about it… 'Scrapbook' tab introduced… 19-Aug-2024 19-Aug-1995 Berwick Rangers 0 Partick Thistle 7 (League Cup 2nd Round) On this day in Thistle history, we've lost Lambie but Murdo MacLeod is here and everything is going to be just wonderful, read all about it… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced… 18-Aug-2024 18-Aug-1971 East Fife 2 Partick Thistle 3 (League Cup Section 7 - game 2) On this night in Thistle history, match day 2 of the 1971 League Cup campaign and a big crowd at Bayview, it's spicy on and off the pitch, read all about it… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced… 17-Aug-2024 17-Aug-1991 Partick Thistle 1 Kilmarnock 0 (SFL First Division - game 3 On this day in Thistle history, hopes of a return to the promised land are rising, as are the crowds at Firhill, with 5,572 there for the visit of Kilmarnock. Davie Irons makes his debut… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced… 16-Aug-2024 16-Aug-1975 St Johnstone 2 Partick Thistle 4 (League Cup Section 4 - game 3) On this day in Thistle history, Jackie Campbell "possessed by McQuade" scores his one and only goal for Thistle! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab expanded; 'Ye'll no' believe who scored it!' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced. 15-Aug-2024 15-Aug-1956 Partick Thistle 3 Heart of Midlothian 1 (League Cup Section 4 - game 2) On this day in Thistle history, the Scottish Cup holders are defeated at Firhill, could this be our year? 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab expanded; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced. 14-Aug-2024 14-Aug-1971 Partick Thistle 4 Arbroath 0 (League Cup Section 7 - game 1) On this day in Thistle history, the 1971 League Cup campaign gets off to a fine start. It's 4 nil at half-time with goals from Bone, Lawrie & McQuade, sounds familiar?! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced. 13-Aug-2024 13-Aug-1952 Celtic 2 Partick Thistle 5 (League Cup Division A, Section A - game 2) On this night in Thistle history, Jags go nap at Celtic Park and there's a hat-trick for Alex Stott! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced. 12-Aug-2024 12-Aug-1972 Cowdenbeath 1 Partick Thistle 5 (League Cup Section 1 - game 1) On this day in Thistle history, amazingly, the defence of the League Cup begins where it left off - 4 first-half goals! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced. 11-Aug-2024 11-Aug-1993 Albion Rovers 1 Partick Thistle 11 (League Cup 2nd Round) (on this night in Thistle history, a number of records are set in Motherwell! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 09-Aug-2024 09-Aug-1947 Falkirk 5 Partick Thistle 6 (League Cup Division A, Section B - game 1) (This day in Thistle history, David Meiklejohn's first game in charge is a bit lively as Jags concede 5 yet win the 2 points! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 08-Aug-2024 08-Aug-1891 Partick Thistle 3 Ayr 2 (Scottish Alliance - game 1) (This day in Thistle history (1891) a new era begins. Shunned by the SFL, Thistle and others form their own 'Scottish Alliance' league, our own John Boag as President! Watty Keay & Willie Paul get the historic goals and 2 points vs. Ayr… - 'Scrapbook' tab introduced) 07-Aug-2024 07-Aug-1976 Raith Rovers 1 Partick Thistle 2 (Anglo-Scottish Cup Preliminary Round, 1st leg) (on this day 1976, Jags' first-ever Anglo Scottish Cup tie and Andy Anderson scores on his birthday… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 06-Aug-2024 06-Aug-1983 Partick Thistle 2 Swansea City 1 (Friendly) (on this day 1983, it's 4 goals in 3 days for Super Mo as another big gun is defeated… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 05-Aug-2024 05-Aug-1984 Partick Thistle 3 Manchester City 1 (Friendly) (on this day 1984, Benny Rooney defeats Caesar! 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 04-Aug-2024 04-Aug-1983 Partick Thistle 2 Leeds United 0 (Friendly) (on this day 1983, 2 goals from super Maurice Johnston ensure that the mighty Leeds United leave Firhill defeated… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 03-Aug-2024 03-Aug-1974 Partick Thistle 4 Aalborg Boldspilklub 3 (Friendly) (on this day 1974, Bertie Auld's first game in charge is a strange one. full hub now in place… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 02-Aug-2024 02-Aug-1969 Crusaders 0 Partick Thistle 2 (Friendly) (on this day 1969 - debut for Bobby Lawrie as the Irish tour concludes with a win, read all about it in our now fully developed hub…… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) 01-Aug-2024 01-Aug-1992 Partick Thistle 1 Airdrieonians 0 (SFL Premier Division - game 1) (on this day 1992 - Jags return to top-flight action after 10 years in the wilderness! Read all about it in our now fully developed hub…… 'Match Information' tab introduced; 'Match Report' tab introduced; 'Gallery' tab introduced; 'Scrapbook' tab introduced; 'Video Highlights' tab introduced; 'Stats Watch' tab introduced) ssstwitter.com_1724250406364.mp4
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PTD, you will be thrilled to know we've updated 'We'd walk a million miles' with the latest 5 seasons - our average round-trips this season are now the 2nd shortest this side of the war! In other news, we've created one of our most astonishing list pages to date, 'Jags who served in WWI/WWII'. Incredibly, around 6% of all Thistle players in history served in either WWI or WWII. Three of them (Johnny Houston, Jack Thomson & Willie Wiseman) even served in both. 17 lost their lives. This fully sortable table links you to their profile page on the Archive (reserve players & chairman excepted) and clicking on fallen / returned will take you to their entry on either of our two feature pieces, 'The Partick Thistle Fallen' or 'The Partick Thistle Returned'.) Jags who served in WWI/WWII →