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On the Transfer Window thread, we discussed the first competitive game of the season at Stenhousemuir around 3/4 years ago. In the opening 10 minutes, Thistle played two neat moves both topped off by excellent finishes from a Lampardesque debutant Shea Gordon. For a moment it seemed that we had a team and a player who could ignite our season into something spectacular. You will know or guess the story. The next 80 minutes were among the most turgid in living memory as the fizz went out of the champagne and we laboured to a pedestrian win. The season rapidly imploded into a grim struggle for survival. However, as one poster said "It was great while it lasted". Any other examples spring to mind of joyous celebration and/or excited anticipation quickly or slowly extinguished? I will give you 3 random ones for starters: 1) Chris Turner's debut goal in a cup tie away at Livingston during Ian McCall's first session as manager. He was a Northern Irish under 21 player who scored with a beautiful cultured finish. Looked like a player. Missed a sitter, which would have enabled us to win a cup tie eventually lost 2-1 to Rangers at Firhill, and then vanished from the scene. 2) Dario Zanatta's debut. Enough said. 3) That moment at Parkhead when we were 3-2 down in a cup tie going into the dying seconds. Chris Erskine won the ball brilliantly on the wing and swung the ball into the middle where it fell at the feet of Ryan Edwards a few yards out with the goal seemingly at his mercy. I can still remember that savouring of the moment and the anticipation of celebration before Kieran Tierney snaked out a long leg for an admittedly excellent smother tackle.