Jaggernaut

Looks like a great result! Well done! Now let's hope it's a straightforward tartan scarf, and not some jazzed up version.....

I remember reading somewhere that UEFA would prefer all their countries' top leagues to have 16 teams. Every team plays each other twice, and plenty of time for preparation for European ties etc. Simple as.

And don't forget that only a minority of fans consult this forum. If the tartan scarves make a comeback then I'm sure that many more will sell than it looks like here.

Excellent ph...... Ach, somebody got there first!

A decent result last night, especially the late equalizer. But the BBC gives us as having 2 shots on target in the entire match. Is that accurate?

You do realise, don't you, that Donnelly is by far the best footballer at Firhill. He's so good that others just aren't on his wavelength. So good in fact, that even supporters don't realise just how good he is. His should be the first name on the team sheet for every Thistle and Scotland match.

I watched the game in a pub in Kyoto. Japan should have won. The goal against them was an unlucky deflection.

The BMMMH talk got me thinking about how Trigger was another top player for us back then. What became of him?

No doubt about it, BMMMH was a great player for us. Shame we didn't get another couple of seasons out of him while he was still in top shape. I reckon with his age and injury problems, he'd be too much of a risk now, unless it was some kind of pay-as-you-play deal.

Really? Including away matches? In that case I'd be interested to know more about what the home teams receive from this when the Bairns are away from home. Presumably, quite a few Falkirk fans would prefer to stay at home and simply pay a few quid to watch the game on Falkirk TV, the money going to Falkirk, rather than travel to the away ground and pay entrance money, which would go to the home club. Unless the home clubs are compensated adequately for this, I'd be surprised (well, maybe not) that the SFL permits this, as it's costing other clubs money for Falkirk's benefit.

Ach here we go again with Donnelly. A question: Does anybody ever have the feeling that Donnelly will change the way the match is going if we're struggling and he comes on as sub? I certainly don't. Another question: Did anybody tremble at the thought of Donnelly playing against us for another team when it looked like he was offski? I certainly didn't. A final question: Would 10 Donnellys in the team see us win the league? I certainly doubt it. For all some people think his vision is somehow out of this world, his influence on our team's performances has been next to nothing for a couple of years now.

If the club saw this level of interest and was smart, they'd simply buy several big rolls of the tartan then engage with a couple of local's to cut and sew the scarves for next to nothing. Result?: Profit for the club, not for the manufacturer who will cream it all off.

Sounds great. If possible, organize a raffle with a couple of prizes (hospitality, a jersey or two, etc.)?

Even smaller crowd than would have turned up today.

Dropsy? Oops, somebody beat me to it.

Definitely.

There's an aspect to this that many people appear to be overlooking. If the relegated team(s) get an even bigger parachute payment than at present, then they can remain much stronger (in theory) than teams that they're now competing against, who have been leading a hand-to-mouth existence. Although history shows that they're not especially advantaged when it comes to winning promotion back up to the SPL at the first attempt, I can't help thinking that this arrangement is in no small part aimed at maintaining the "closed shop", making it even harder for other teams to break in.

What Doncaster and his supporters seem to be ignoring is that their radical blueprint for improving everything about football in Scotland is simply to turn the clock back 15 years to when we previously had a 10-team top league and a play-off spot for an additional relegation/promotion result. If my memory serves me right, that format was ditched immediately after we got relegated through the play-off (the only team to have done so), because teams were already terrified of dropping out. So it was changed to being only the very weakest (i.e. last) team that went down. Things became worse when they again engineered another two teams for the SPL but retained the one-relegation-place-only rule. I see that the St Johnstone chairman, his team having spent what, 15 years or so trying to get to the SPL, is now against a bigger league. Having survived for a couple of years in the SPL, he now thinks that his team is safe as one of the elite. This was exactly Yorkston's view a few years ago when he was crying out for the need for relegation but an elitist league. Now, down in the wilderness with the rest of us, the Dunfermline chairman is bleating on about the need for a bigger league! You can be sure that St Johnstone and ICT would think the same way after another couple of seasons in the 2nd tier or worse. These wild swings in chairmen's views really reflect the short-term, gravy train view of those that happen at the time to be in the SPL. Of course none of this addresses the sheer drudgery of the 4-times-or-more per season format of 10- or 12-team leagues. They say that up to 90% of SPL teams' supporters want bigger leagues. Well, it's about time that those fans took pre-emptive action and announced their intention to boycott matches until they get what they want. It's no good SFL teams doing it, as we have no influence whatsoever on whoever happens to be in the SPL during any season. It needs to come from the likes of St Mirren, Hamilton, Dundee Utd, Killie etc.

Those ideas are certainly no crazier than what Doncaster is proposing. In fact, they have a lot going for them, imo.

They might try to do that, but I would expect any team buying Griffiths or Harkins would want to play them, rather than simply hand them back to Dundee.

R.I.P.

Agreed. They've won every match since the reduction was announced (I think). And they don't think they've done anything wrong.......

Tae hell wi' fashion. Long Johns are the biz.

When you look at the density of housing around Firhill up to around 35 years ago and compare it with now, the decline in attendances at matches is easier to understand.

Pleasing to see that keeping the Foxmeister is a priority. So, now it's another 2-3 year plan......