Jaggernaut

That's exactly it! For the tartan scarves (both the fluffy kind and the smooth kind), I'd certainly go for replacements. By the centenary scarf I mean the modern one that's in Greaves. Do you mean another kind?

I remember as a nipper being at, but seeing almost nothing of, the 3-3 Firhill game against the tims in the SC in Jan 1969: 35,867. My biggest ever Firhill crowd. I was squeezed in somewhere near the back of the old city end terracing.

Great to see: Official crowd given as 16,800.

Or how about this liquorice allsorts thing: http://www.greavessports.com/ptfc-stripe-scarf-p42345 I quite like the look of the centenary scarf, though. Anybody got it?

I was disappointed to discover recently that Maybury's had gone. I swear that I had one of the nicest meals of my life in there a few years back. Maybe it was just too far off the beaten track to stay viable.

According to one of the papers yesterday or the day before, our trains are the cheapest option, in other words designed to work in Mediterranean types of climate, rather than in climates with regular freezing temperatures and snow. One thing is certain: whether it's leaves, snow, or ice; the equipment just isn't up to the job.

Anybody seen these rumours about John Lennon having been shot?

All these years later I still look upon the appointment of Cormack as the start of a mostly steady decline in our power and status.

All very useful, many thanks. Tried to make it to Glasgow from Stirling by train this morning, but impossible to do so anywhere near the time I needed to be there. It's a mild morning by any winter standards, yet still absolute chaos on the railways. What an embarrassment for a so-called developed country.

Me too, whether it's the audience or the musicians. One thing I loved about Pink Floyd was not a word from them between songs. Just the music (and show).

I used to respect the Liberals and then the Lib Dems, but they're rapidly and irretrievably sliding into an abyss of toryism from which they'll never recover, in my eyes at least. (Labour are already there, I should add.) My brother brought this home to me. Three kids, up to £9K per year in tuition fees for 3 years each, add on books etc, and that's already £100K. You can at least double that for accommodation and general living expenses, and you're looking at an outlay if getting on for a quarter of a million quid just to get his family a basic university education (basic being the word) according to the "education for all" mantra that we get rammed down our throats. And don't forget that to be able to do anything with a uni degree these days you need FURTHER training, hence the new con of getting students to pay up for an MSc, which in most cases is worthless because just about everybody who is daft enough to pay for one gets one. THE FANTASTIC JOBS THAT WILL SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE EARNING HIGH WAGES SO THEY CAN START TO PAY BACK THEIR LOANS DO NOT EXIST! (Except for a tiny minority of graduates.) This is one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on an entire nation, and it will (is designed to, perhaps) reinforce the gap between the poor, who while educated will always remain in relative poverty due to a lifetime of debt, and the rich who can merely soak it all up.

I'm putting this here rather than in the general topics forum so it'll reach more people; and it's bound to influence the team's performances: I'm looking for an old-style scarf from the later 50s or early 60s. Simple black cotton, with a regular series of R&Y pinstripe diagonal stripes along the entire length. No logo. Mine got lost somewhere recently. I see a few guys who still wear these at matches. I'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for one in good nick.

Wrong, I think. The reason for McParland's departure is pretty well known, and it was down to honour. He had been promised by the board that Hugh Strachan would be retained in a coaching role when he retired from playing, but then the board reneged on their agreement (what a surprise!). McParland's moral standards were simply too high, so he did what he thought was best. Of course he went on to have a fairly successful career in management, coaching and scouting afterwards, though it's true that he never replicated the dizzying heights of that 2-year period with Thistle.

Tommy Docherty certainly took a shine to that young Jags team.

On the news last night they said that Firhill should be OK for the Warriors match tomorrow evening but that it might need to be behind closed doors "because of the poor conditions around Maryhill." Interesting that they never mentioned anything about snow or ice!

Dull, but correct! Thanks.

The Jags Wikipedia entry has a list of players who played at international level, either for Scotland or some other county. But 5 players' names are printed in red. I can't figure out why. Anybody else know?

SShhhhh! Don't give them ideas!

Article in today's Times here: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk:80/sport/britton-babes-the-future-for-thrills-at-firhill-1.1073297

Anybody see Newnicht last night and one of the most stupid performances by an interviewer (Gordon Brewster) that I think I've ever seen? John Swinney apologized for everybody's inconvenience and gave a perfectly lucid and reasoned account of what happened on the M8: two lorries jacknifed and so blocked access, after which much more snow than anybody anticipated fell and froze, and with all the traffic jamming up, it simply got worse and worse. Nobody's fault (except maybe for everybody in a car or van who knew that conditions might be hazardous). A classic "act of God" if ever there was one, yet all the interviewer wanted was somebody to blame, demanding that the Transport Minister had to be sacked etc etc. Terrible stuff.

Frankly, if students expect another special set of reductions, say 50p a game, then the club might as well start paying students to attend matches. If finances are so precarious for students (and they are for a hell of a lot of non-students), then why would any of them pay anything up front if they know they might not even make it to all the matches? Surely they'd want to save that money for basics, like food or drink? Here we go again...why not further specially reduced packages for: The unemployed Pensioners Asylum seekers Anybody who needs further persuasion to go the match for whatever reason OF season-ticket holders (let's try to convert them) Gingers etc. etc.

Some kind of thaw is expected to get underway tomorrow.

Was supposed to stay in Dunfermline after last Saturday's match. As it turned out, didn't get back home from dan saff until 9 pm, and game was off. Jaggernautess in her infinite wisdom changes the booking to tomorrow (Wednesday). WTF??!! :blink: I have no valid reason whatsoever to go to Dunfermline tomorrow, even if I could go there. Especially not to freeze my ass off in some poxy Fifeshire hotel.

If it didn't, then maybe somebody up there is trying to tell us something.

Maybe, but it is also rank rotten.