Jaggernaut

Excellent photies. That was one wild spell of weather in the 2nd half! Who knows if Doolan's goal was meant as a cross or a shot, but I had one of those feelings that it was going in as soon as it left his boot. Wow, a picture of Erskine winning a header!

Most folk seem to be in agreement! QoS not very good, but we let them back into it in the 2nd half. Some excellent and important saves by Fox, who was actually the busier keeper! Rowson covered every pile of mud on the pitch. Erskine as enigmatic as ever. But I thought that Boyle and Flannigan both had stinkers, especially in the 2nd half. Paton put in an excellent shift. Could Fraser be that elusive striker that we need so badly.....?

The "current form" (last 5 matches) of Thistle and Queens (see official site) makes interesting reading. We've lost only 1, whereas they've lost 2. And yet they've amassed more points than we have, thanks to the fact that they've managed to win one match (we've won none). They've scored 9 times, whereas we've managed only 4 goals. But they've also conceded 9 (us: 5), so maybe even our powder-puff forwards can do some damage tonight. Monra Jags.

I'd join the boycott.

So they've finally sorted out the pigeon problem in the JH stand?

I do come across as an excitable juvenile at times, not especially befitting.

You've got me scratching my head now, but I always imagine him playing either on the right wing or as an inside right. I'll need to check in some old programmes. But my memory these days is like two monkeys fighting over a banana, so you may well be right. For those who might be wondering, here's Flanagan (apologies for the earlier spelling mistake) in action, wearing a short-lived strip that I'd love to see resurrected as our away outfit. http://ptfc.fotopic.net/p5814655.html

Worst pun ever alert!!!!

Yeah, before the moustache?

I sympathise. Used to like the Sunday Herald, though got fed up with their rabid anti-SNP (non)stories week-in, week-out. But since they've changed to their "magazine" format the overall value for money has gone right down. They don't even have the weekly tv schedule any more. Think I'll need to drop it, but hell, what's the alternative? Certainly not SoS. Maybe, after all these years, it's back to the Sunday Post for me.

Don't swither, or don't play???

Good shout.

Thanks for that info. But presumably (hopefully) the overall sponsorship deal is worth more than that?

Dunno where the Firhill scenes come from. I recognize Bertie, of course, and John Hansen and John Craig (I think), but not sure of the other guy sitting in his undies.

Hmm, let's hope that the club can persuade a company or two to plough in the cash, as in the current economic climate there is probably less money available for this kind of thing. Or is there...?

Recently I stumbled on a Clydebank site that showed lots of old photos and programmes of the Bankies since they started out as E.S. Clydebank. I sent a congratulatory message to the site's owner, and told him that I remembered a game between the Bankies (I thought it was ES, but it was Clydebank) and a Thistle "A" team at Kilbowie. He kindly sent me the Evening Times report on the game; it was in 1966 and the Jags won 4-2. There were only two players in the team that day who really ever played in the first team: John Flannigan (great wee winger) and George Cumming. Anybody remember the latter? A fascinating character, as I'm pretty sure he remained amateur throughout his entire career at Firhill (Offical Handbook says he played 55 times for the first team). I can distinctly remember that in those days the Scottish Amateur International team often consisted entirely of Queens Park players except for George Cumming, of Partick Thistle. Yon wonderful player stats site (http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/partick/partick.htm) gives his total appearances as 34, and St Mirren as his subsequent team, so there's some disagreement between the two sources. Just thought I'd bring it up, as I've never seen him mentioned since those long-gone days, yet he got many caps at his level. Thank you for reading.

Superb. All already available on other clips, but a great editing job. Always love how the reporters behind the goal go mental each time the Jags score against the tims at Hampden. God bless Arthur Montford, who stated that we'd finally and definitively shaken off the "unpredictables" tag! Err, not quite, Arthur.

Fixed that for you.

Dunno if the organizers want suggestions, but a Beat the Goalie competition is usually popular at these kinds of things. A silent auction for a piece of memorabilia of some kind would also bring in some readies.

Thanks for that; just spotted something else that I'll be picking up tomorrow.

I've got one of yon Jags "tartan" (not the real Jags tartan) waistcoats from the late 80s or early 90s. How cool is that!! Err, nah...... I don't really think so either. Though they do complement flares quite nicely.

Brilliant. Is the bouncy castle available for all ages?

That will do very nicely!

If the game had gone on another 10 minutes, we would definitely have put more shots over the bar or sclaffed past the post than them.

Anybody seen this? Mildly amusing: The keeper throwing the ball into his own net is an all-time classic.