Jump to content

Jaggernaut

Members
  • Posts

    17,874
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Jaggernaut

  1. I read in a biography that Symon was depressed, and simply no longer interested in football after being shown the door at Ibrox. It was almost as if he was the automatic replacement for Willie Thornton, who left us to go back to his beloved Ibrox. But it was a terrible appointment; it soon started appearing to me that he was getting money for doing SFA at Firhill,. I think many supporters who were around then would agree, looking back on the absolutely dreadful results and performances. Although I was sad when McParland stopped playing, I was genuinely over the moon when he took over as manager.

  2. Scot Symon... a disastrous tragedy for Thistle that should have been avoided much much earlier.

    I suppose if you take the "every cloud..." view of things, the disaster actually gave us the wonderful Dave McParland: from the very worst to the very best in that table.

  3. 6 hours ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:

    Here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPA5N73knfE&t=1179s

    10 Feb 1980. Key moments Rough at 6.56, Rough at 15.34 and Melrose at 19.04.

    Enjoy.

    That was a terrific game. No prisoners taken on bomb site of a pitch, Roughie showing why he was worth dozens of points for us over the years. Wee Park and big MacAdam getting tore in. So many heroes on display there!

  4. 38 minutes ago, partickthedog said:

    Too early of course for talk of legendary status, but Ben McPherson and Paddy Reading already both looking very promising, and I am sure that there will be much more to come.

    Agreed regarding both.

  5. 13 minutes ago, Thistle_1876 said:

    Doesn't specify length of contract either which is odd

    And IF we get promoted, if they are still on loan, it means we'd lose them for every match against you know who...

  6. It is indeed excellent news.

    However,....

    There's something about the phrasing that has me wondering. "Extending permanently beyond their loan," and "having an agreement" with Celtic sound a bit woolly. Will they be 100% Thistle players? Wages entirely paid by us? Ours to keep and/or sell as we wish?

    Anyway, delighted at this development.

  7. Yep, good news. It's been donkeys' years since I was in hospitality, but things from back then that aren't in the "what to expect" list now, from memory include:

    reserved parking behind the JH stand

    welcoming glass of champagne

    complimentary wine with your meal

    tour of the stadium or Robert Reid's presentation

    complimentary programme

    pre-match comedian (i.e., before the comedians appeared on the pitch)

     

    Just sayin'.

  8. 3 hours ago, Duke Gekantawa said:

    His interplay with McMillan was something else. Between them, they seemed to get behind defences with amazing regularity. While the injury clearly had the biggest impact, the absence of McMillan was also a factor in his drop off of form, I think.

    This. It was amazing how he and McMillan could pull it off time after time. Stevie in general was/is a great passer of the ball.

  9. Lawless will rightly be remembered as an excellent player for us. A shame about that bad injury, and then lack of real opportunities to show he could regain his true form.

    I hope he gets another gig if he wants to continue playing.

  10. 6 hours ago, partickthedog said:

    Cannot believe that Scott Tiffoney is still only 27 years old. 7 clubs already (some of these for a decent length of time), which includes both loan and permanent spells with Morton and us. He must have started at a very young age!

    Surprised me too. He was great with us, but then seemed to go off the boil.... I wonder why.

  11. On 1/30/2026 at 9:50 PM, Albert's Ghost said:

    Kenny Arthur?

    He's not in the photo, was gone before then.

    Three keepers were Cerny, Gallagher and Scully.

    Maybe you were thinking Scott Fox? Also gone by then.

  12. 6 hours ago, Albert's Ghost said:

    Stattos can confirm, but I reckon we've already scored more competitive goals than we did the entire last season.

    Another stats question: it might be just my imagination, but it the percentage of games when we've taken the lead and then lost it higher this season than usual?

  13. 8 hours ago, CotterJag said:

    Got a taste for it when I was in Ghent before Christmas.

    Strong stuff. There's nothing over there less than 6.5% it seems.

    image.png.b8016849b79ad5889579aca45cdb5283.pngimage.png.7219ef175f7ec411f6abd0ac197b8473.png

     

     

    For years I heard "Cherry Chouffe" and thought it was a Belgian porn star.

    • Haha 2
  14. A few days ago somebody posted that neat squad photo (2015-2016) with the players all in front of the turnstiles at the old city end of the stadium. I think I'm right in saying that if/when Stevie Lawless goes, that will be the last player in that photo to have any current connection with PTFC. 

×
×
  • Create New...