Jaggernaut Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 Where would we be without them? For a start, I'd be more likely to listen to or read a post-match interview if I thought any of these were unlikely to appear: We lost a goal early doors (= early), and it's a learning curve (= we got beat again). They wanted it more (= were better than us), and we need to learn from that (= it's about time we started to win). Next Saturday at the Kentucky Fried Financial Energy Powerhouse Stadium (= basically a junior-standard ground with a couple of hundred local supporters) will be tough (= we'll probably lose again). There are no easy games in this league (= we're not confident that we can beat a bunch of part-time teachers, fishermen, and accountants), and X (= a manager sacked many times but still on the merry-go-round) has them well-organized (= they are thugs and we don't know how to handle them). But the atmosphere in the dressing room is good (= we have a laugh, coz nobody really gives a monkey's), and if the fans (= mugs) stick by us we'll soon put a smile back on their faces (= string them along a bit more). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonehJags Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 That more or less sums up the past couple of years. I think in some cases the Stockholm syndrome set in and folk almost accepted the cliches as 'typical' Partick Thistle. As for not so cuddly anymore? When you look up cuddly toy, were top of the list above the generation game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivad Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 Derek McInnes trotted out one of the usual clichés after a 0-0 draw with Hearts last season. "It's never easy to come here and get a result". Trouble is, he was speaking after the first ever Scottish league match at Murrayfield Stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 There's no easy cliches in football these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb1876 Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 The team gave their all out there = we are crap but at least we tried! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbank boy Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 It was a game of two halves = for 45 minutes we were cr@p/couldn't be @rsed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robphil Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 have always felt that cliches should be avoided like the plague... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayfarer Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'm over the moon with this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggymct Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Sivad said: Derek McInnes trotted out one of the usual clichés after a 0-0 draw with Hearts last season. "It's never easy to come here and get a result". Trouble is, he was speaking after the first ever Scottish league match at Murrayfield Stadium. It should also be noted that no matter what you will get a result in every game of football regardless of where its played, whether its a positive one or not ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 21 minutes ago, jaggymct said: It should also be noted that no matter what you will get a result in every game of football regardless of where its played, whether its a positive one or not ! Yes, but it's a results driven business. As if virtually all businesses are not dependent on results. I favourite cliche of late has been "He plays with a smile on his face". Last thing I want to see after a trouncing is one of your players walking off the pitch grinning like an eejit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 What gets me is that no one seems to know whether you're supposed to "leave everything out there on the pitch" or "leave nothing out there on the pitch". The inconsistency in the use of this cliche may be what is wrong with Scottish football, maybe Thistle under Archie. Like, what if the manager tells the players to leave nothing out there on the pitch, and the players think full effort is to leave everything out there on the pitch. This is going to lead to problems. I think it's important that we sort this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcia blaine Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 “Yeah, he’s got that in his locker” after a player does something. Well obviously. He just did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve61 Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 "He's useful in the air." (so are the RAF) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 3 hours ago, marcia blaine said: “Yeah, he’s got that in his locker” after a player does something. Well obviously. He just did it. Also "he's not that sort of player" after the player has just taken an opponent out with a bad tackle. In a season that has been short on laughs this has to be the best thread so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglemon Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 My pet hate is the constant references to being on the front/back foot No one used to say this and now it's everywhere. And if Alan Shearer mentions "pace and power" again I won't be responsible for my actions (i.e. I might turn the volume down) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sick in the basin Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 Use of “top” as in he’s a “top top” player and we were good/bad “up top” get on my wick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 "Great touch for a big man" "He ploughed a lonely furrow up front" And as a keen chess player, I always cringe at what is now known in chess circles as "IAGOCOT" ie "it's a game of chess out there". This generally means a dull defensive slow manouvring game of football, whereas games of chess are as likely as football to be fast, exciting and attacking. No one ever stops by the chessboard and says "It's a game of football out there". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rid Skwerr Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 "at the end of the day, it's what you do on the night that counts...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Auld Jag said: Also "he's not that sort of player" after the player has just taken an opponent out with a bad tackle. In a season that has been short on laughs this has to be the best thread so far. This thread's been decent up til now, but I'm concerned that it might lack quality in the final third. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 17 minutes ago, allyo said: This thread's been decent up til now That's a complete understatement. This thread is massive, massive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 “They play in a certain way’ whereas “We like to get the ball down and play football”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QXBoy Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Do you think that on Saturday the players "will step up to the plate"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Once they cross that white line it is up to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 3 hours ago, QXBoy said: Do you think that on Saturday the players "will step up to the plate"? I'd rather sit down to my plate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAGSMAN1968 Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Hope you're not sick as a parrot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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