elevenone Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/club-statement-3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 It wont be easy a number of clubs in the Championship can win it. We can only wait and see what they do. Season tickets will be important for the club to get money in,lets hope we sell a good number.I will be renewing mine in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 The Club Statement is, in my view, little more than asinine nonsense - "............return to where we belong", patronising and typically wide of the mark. We are where we deserve to be given this season's performances and looking at the opposition awaiting us in the "Championship" I suspect we will be "where we shouldn't be" for a while - assuming that we actually stay up next season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 We wait with bated breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laukat Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Was expecting it to say Archie has left. It really should have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowenBoys Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 "It is crucial that the work starts now" "In the next few days, the Board is meeting to plan the strategy" The strategy should have been ready now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 What a pointless statement. Lets say something for the sake of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Fully expect them to say that Archie will lead us next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggy Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, Auld Jag said: It wont be easy a number of clubs in the Championship can win it. We can only wait and see what they do. Season tickets will be important for the club to get money in,lets hope we sell a good number.I will be renewing mine in the summer. And let’s hope it’s not pissed up the wall on duds and crocks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 I suspect that was written some time ago and has been sitting in Beattie's bottom drawer. Don't think anyone will disgree, we got what we deserved but still gutted........can't wait for the new season, close seasons a real bummer no matter what league we are in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, BowenBoys said: "It is crucial that the work starts now" "In the next few days, the Board is meeting to plan the strategy" The strategy should have been ready now. You would like to think it is and that discussions have been undertaken during the season to have plans in place for even forseable outcome. As many others have noted on the site it's been a possibility since before Christmas. Makes the new training ground seem miles away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norgethistle Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 21 minutes ago, Auld Jag said: It wont be easy a number of clubs in the Championship can win it. We can only wait and see what they do. Season tickets will be important for the club to get money in,lets hope we sell a good number.I will be renewing mine in the summer. Season tickets will be the same price or slightly dearer than this season all be it in the championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TartanC4 Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Dundee United, Ross country, Inverness, will all be hoping to get promotion, it's tough and we can only be speculative and wait for movement from other clubs. The argument is Archie has won us promotion from the championship, but five years ago when the opposition was significantly weaker. He hasn't proved to be any great manager, top six was luck rather than tactical masterclass. He should have taken the Shrewsbury job and cashed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, TartanC4 said: Dundee United, Ross country, Inverness, will all be hoping to get promotion, it's tough and we can only be speculative and wait for movement from other clubs. The argument is Archie has won us promotion from the championship, but five years ago when the opposition was significantly weaker. He hasn't proved to be any great manager, top six was luck rather than tactical masterclass. He should have taken the Shrewsbury job and cashed in. I would also add Dunfermline,Falkirk and maybe Morton to that list.QOS are usually up there as well.It wont be easy if our board want us back where we belong it will take a lot of money and having the correct manager in charge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert's Ghost Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Ayr United have a good manager too - don't forget them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 That statement is a load of nonsense 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljaggo Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 It's hardly surprising that they are taking their time, since they have much to consider. The issue is not just the manager's job, but that of the general manager and the decision on the training ground, as well as the financial implications of relegation. They will also probably want to talk to the Weirs. I hope that they take their time, do a thorough review and publish its results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas clark Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 It would have been a better club statement if it wasn't all platitudes. There are serious issues like we can't score for toffee, nor hold onto leads, nor have the ability to either dominate or adapt to opposition tactics. Addressing some of them in public right now would have been a positive. There are going to be a lot of changes over the summer. Some of them will genuinely upset me, I think we will see a lot of departures, and the future, for me at least, is unclear. Does anyone else think that the minor positive of this is that we might, just might, start to play youth? Y'know younger guys? We are scared of playing young guys. I wish I was more gutted about this relegation, but there was something alltogether weary about the way we approached this entire season. I went to both of the games against Livingston and we couldn't counter their tactics. After they scored I was deflated and thought we would struggle. There was something inevitable about our failure. It has been a masochistic thing being a Jags supporter this season.      Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow & Redneck Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 The club could have avoided this scenario by growing a set of bollocks like Maxwell said at the start of the season, and sacking Archie in January. It seems the board are merely reacting with platitudes to a problem that should have been addressed months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milo Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 "Together we are Thistle ". = T.W.A.T. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckstone Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 1 hour ago, eljaggo said: It's hardly surprising that they are taking their time, since they have much to consider. The issue is not just the manager's job, but that of the general manager and the decision on the training ground, as well as the financial implications of relegation. They will also probably want to talk to the Weirs. I hope that they take their time, do a thorough review and publish its results. I agree that they have a lot of decisions to make, and need to take the appropriate time to make the correct choices. However, the prospect of relegation hasn't just appeared. If the board were in any way pro-active, they would be well prepared for scenarios like today, and have a contingency plan in place. But then, it's Thistle we're talking about - we don't exactly have a good track record for getting organised promptly .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljaggo Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 You are right Buckstone, especially on the last point, so perhaps there is one decision already made, but still to be ratified, that affects other parts of the review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fearchar Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 So not just the manager has lost his way, but also the board. Perhaps that should have been obvious since the unfulfilled assurances following the Kilmarnock debacle. How do the board members run any businesses, if they don't prepare any strategies beforehand for all likely eventualities or ensure that failure is handled appropriately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 27 minutes ago, Fearchar said: So not just the manager has lost his way, but also the board. Perhaps that should have been obvious since the unfulfilled assurances following the Kilmarnock debacle. How do the board members run any businesses, if they don't prepare any strategies beforehand for all likely eventualities or ensure that failure is handled appropriately? Not answering your question but things are compounded with no replacement as yet for Maxwell. Agree with others that the wording of the statement could have been less patronising. Anyway, contingency plans or not, nobody's expecting decisions or news of decisions quite so immediately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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