Right, I'm excited. I've tried to avoid reading this forum too much in case it ruins my strange (mostly unfounded) sense of optimism, but I haven't been to Firhill in ages (trying to work this out - I don't think I've made a game since the Friday night shambles against St Mirren...) and given I have a quiet week at work this week I've booked my flight home for tomorrow night rather than Thursday.
So what can we expect on Wednesday night? My head tells me it will be ******* freezing, a low crowd, poor atmosphere and a stale game - probably a 1-1 draw. But my heart tells me that Thistle fans will make every effort to get to the game, realising that the players need support now more than when things are all going right; the North Stand will be loud, the atmosphere helped by the floodlights through light mist on a cold January evening. Thistle will come out fired up after Saturday, pushed on by the noise of the crowd, playing good football and creating chances. We'll score. We'll win. We'll celebrate. We'll do it as a team - players and fans all pulling in the same direction, all striving for the same result.
We got this?