Jaggernaut

Simple solution: with the possible exception of crowded town centres, cyclists should use the pavements, with due care and consideration for pedestrians. I often see youngsters cycling on the pavement beside a busy road where I live. It makes sense; safer all round.

I know that various celebrity (non) fans of Thistle have been listed in the past, but here's one that I didn't know about: the former "Bing Hitler", Craig Ferguson. According to his Wiki page: "Ferguson is also a fan of Scottish football team Partick Thistle F.C." Is this another piece of garbage?

= "Nae evicting me!" Quote from IM?

Is their goalie any good?

Not a peep about his failure to avoid three defeats in three matches to part-time teams. I've long been a McCall supporter, but anything other than 3 points against one of those teams, Cowdenbeath, on Saturday, should see him shown the door permanently. Pay him his wages if required, and promote one of the current coaches. That wouldn't cost too much, and couldn't lead to a worse set of results than we've had in the last 10 months.

I'd rather be the one who receives the passback from kick-off and who then blooters the ball out for a shy. That way you'd feel that you'd made a positive contribution to the cause.

Nothing wrong with the team selection at Stirling. It was the negative approach and failure to concentrate from the start that did for us.

Ach, he'll just take it on the chin.

Nothing even on this guy, a bit nearer to home: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/cups/scottish-cup/2010/10/24/edinburgh-2-threave-4-86908-22655780/

No.

Now that you mention it, the resemblance between those players are ours is remarkable.

You're right; the similarity between Cairney and Roberts in terms of never finding their earlier form after illness is striking. And although Marco is certainly doing the business for Ayr these days, somehow I don't think his legs would be up for it in this Division. Cairney is younger, however, so we can only hope that he recovers his form. He's also starting to remind me of Dosser, who looked great at times, but could never quite keep it going because of injuries.

Good point. Another of McCall's mysterious approaches to managing a team.

The one of Halliwell giving away the penalty reinforces my view that it should not have been given.

The way things have been going, there may be no more than around 50 Thistle fans who'll bother to go in any case.

Slightly odd that the "hospitality" prizes are presented lower down the list than the cash prizes, although they are actually worth more than most of the cash prizes. But I digress; this was just to add my usual: "Fix!"

I kind of felt like that about the Thistle support on Saturday.

As Nessie Jag said on Saturday, the team looked as hopeless and heartless as during the DC reign with one major difference: no inspirational Boab McCulloch type of player to take the game by the scruff of the neck.

Their position actually seems a lot worse than many people might think. According to this article, they're £2m in debt and owe over £400K in tax: http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/sport/more-scottish-football/chisholm-dundee-board-were-bewitched-by-melville-s-millions-1.1062370 Maybe, current league position aside, we're not that bad off after all...

Congratulations!

Yes, there's not much to celebrate on or off the pitch for Thistle fans just now. But it has been worse. We have some good players, and they have shown against Dundee and Falkirk that they can match the so-called stronger teams when things go right. The problem is that things usually don't go right, and that is down to the way they are being "managed". Three defeats in a row against part-time teams surely shows a manager's lack of ability.

I can see where this thread might go unless the pun polis step in.

Hmm, not easy to disentangle the various factors because of the way we play so deep so can't ever break forward at speed and keep it going (it has to come to a halt in midfield to wait for others to arrive), and because of the inevitable punt-up-the-park-lose-possession tactic after we've kindly waited for the opposition to get back fully behind the ball, BUT, we're outpaced by just about everybody else in the league. Stirling's first and fourth goals yesterday were largely down to fast attacks. Also noticeable against Dunfermline a couple of weeks ago. Take any one of our 30+ players and test them in a sprint against guys who are 10 years younger from just about any other team in the division and I would bet the Thistle players would be left standing.

Halliwell: 30 Hinchcliffe: 38 Archie: 33 Donnelly: 36 Hardie: 34 McNamara: 37 Robertson: 34 Rowson: 34 One big problem: The squad's too feckin' old.

He played well in the Save The Jags match at Firhill. Some nice ball skills and quick one-twos.