Jaggernaut

Excellent photies. Yep, we should have gone in at half-time a couple of goals ahead.

We were well beaten by Falkirk last night, for one main reason: attitude. There was really only one team that seriously looked as it they wanted to win. Falkirk won the vast majority of 50-50 balls, and almost everything in the air. Sure, a lot of their challenges looked like fouls, but the bottom line is that they won them. So, attitude. And pace. When they attacked they were fast, and the ball went forward. Their first goal was a brammer that resulted from a fast series of passes. We looked like clodhoppers in comparision, with every move grinding to a halt as whoever had the ball turned back and either waited for support to arrive (which it did, but only alongside more Falkirk defenders), or passed it backwards. So, attitude and lack of pace. And tactics. I felt sorry for Greehan and Doolan being surrounded by at least five Falkirk players everytime they were near the ball, with our midfielders casually trotting upfield from their own half. The substitutions weren't associated with any change it approach that I could see, other than shambolic failures even to decide who was going for the ball, who is was being passed to, or even where the ball was on some occasions. The final 20 minutes were some of the worst footballing moments that I can remember from Thistle, and that's no exaggeration. If only Erskine's excellent attempt had crept under the bar in the first half...... PS: Boyle looked back to his old form last night; not very impressive at all.

Actually I thought he was good last night. A real handful, and has a bit of pace.

All sensible. As for your last point, that's me this evening. Well, more precisely, it might be sunny, there'll be no bevvy, and I'll be well wrapped-up.

That seems to be one of those words that has crept into the language because nobody has come up with a better alternative. Attendant? (Clearly not) Attender? (Sounds strange.) Attendist? (Sounds like a member of a cult.) One that irks me is "allow for": "If we sign a good striker that will allow for us to win promotion." What it should be is that will allow us to win promotion. The "for" is actually worse than useless, as "allow for" really means to tolerate or excuse. Starting to sound a bit like Sigesige00 here.

It's quite easy to come up in hindsight with ideas that might have boosted the score. I do wonder how some of the teams above us have handled the whole thing. It's remarkable that when it came to simply sending in texts on your mobile phone we came out tops (excuse the pun), but when it comes to collecting fizzy drink tops as far as we're concerned it's not even a close call (again, no pun intended).

We've always had Law men (Bobby) and polis types (PC Andy Murdoch) to ensure that our players don't drift too much with the flotsam of society.

You might just have sunk the whole thread!

Is that what they mean by getting a long-term deal at Cappielow these days...?

You might be right. Maybe after the meeting of the Falkirk fans tonight we'll know if he's weathered the storm, or if it's time to wave him goodbye.

Maybe it's all part of a government plot to get us walking more instead of hopping on and off buses for short distances........ the nanny state at its best worst?

Any club that submits inappropriate tops should be barred.

That was lucky!

Their crowds are generally lower than ours (derby matches excepted), and they have three stands open at every match, I think. That must all mount up, along with players' salaries etc.

How old is Pressley? He must be in his Forties.

He certainly didn't sound very buoyant yesterday.

Ah, that explains it.

Am I right in thinking that there was a half-time announcement yesterday abut the current (no pun intended!) standings in this competition? If that was what the announcement was about, we weren't even mentioned as being in the top four.

Glad you managed to sea that one.

Yes, Raith, Dunfermline, Falkirk and Dundee against each other are all derby-like matches that can attract crowds of 5,000. We've been starved of those kinds of matches for years now, only matches against the OF (few and far between) beating that figure. There's no doubt that more people attending would make it easier for us to keep afloat.

Excellent photies.

For years he'd been telling his wife that her constant nagging would be the death of him. Maybe that'll Learner.

I always feel sorry when any of the cuddies dies in the race. But it's now nowhere near as bad as it used to be. And I do think that the horses probably enjoy running and jumping, much as marathon runners and hurdlers do.

Regrets? I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.

Tell me about it. I use memory aids. For example, complete this sentence: "Yesterday we beat F*****K." The fact will now be etched in memory until well into this evening.