Auld Jag Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 5 minutes ago, The Thistle Archive said: Until this weekend we only knew him as 'Maxwell'. As is so often the case, one tiny little news snip was all it took to reveal his proper identity, and we now have the full story of JAMES MAXWELL who sacrificed his life in an Iraqi hell-hole in 1917... James Maxwell → His middle name Morton and his only game for us was against Port Glasgow Athletic. What a coincidence. Another young man to lose his life in war,very sad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted September 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 28 minutes ago, Auld Jag said: His middle name Morton and his only game for us was against Port Glasgow Athletic. What a coincidence. Another young man to lose his life in war,very sad. And his first game for Killie was against Thistle! Yes, disgusting what these young men had to go through, and for what? His boy was his literal facsimile and did his Dad proud. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted September 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 Our Archive News section leads the website action daily and is worth bookmarking for those of you interested in Thistle history, always with the emphasis on breaking new ground. A trip to Falkirk library has paid dividends and today, better late than never, amazing goalie TAM GOURLAY joins our A-Z, with a first-team appearance found in Aug 73! • Penalty debut for Thistle • Alex Ferguson's first-ever signing • Clean-sheet record • Double amputee • The letter from Fergie Tam Gourlay → Amazing how one little match can have so much impact. We'll have another THREE one-offs going into the A-Z later today, so keep it bookmarked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 Great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a f kincaid Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 This is a long shot (as long as a Jackie Husband throw-in) but to try and bottom out the line-up and used subs for this friendly with Stenhousemuir on 6/8/1973 does anyone have a programme for the next home match (either Dundee Wed 15/8/1973 or St Johnstone Sat 18/8/1973)? Hoping there might be a report and line-ups for the match. If so, please PM me. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 5 hours ago, The Thistle Archive said: Our Archive News section leads the website action daily and is worth bookmarking for those of you interested in Thistle history, always with the emphasis on breaking new ground. A trip to Falkirk library has paid dividends and today, better late than never, amazing goalie TAM GOURLAY joins our A-Z, with a first-team appearance found in Aug 73! • Penalty debut for Thistle • Alex Ferguson's first-ever signing • Clean-sheet record • Double amputee • The letter from Fergie Tam Gourlay → Amazing how one little match can have so much impact. We'll have another THREE one-offs going into the A-Z later today, so keep it bookmarked! Great stuff from @The Thistle Archive. Also a nice touch from Sir Alex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted September 28, 2022 Report Share Posted September 28, 2022 22 hours ago, a f kincaid said: This is a long shot (as long as a Jackie Husband throw-in) but to try and bottom out the line-up and used subs for this friendly with Stenhousemuir on 6/8/1973 does anyone have a programme for the next home match (either Dundee Wed 15/8/1973 or St Johnstone Sat 18/8/1973)? Hoping there might be a report and line-ups for the match. If so, please PM me. Thanks. You've probably thought of this, of course, but there's always the official history book....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a f kincaid Posted September 28, 2022 Report Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 hours ago, Jaggernaut said: You've probably thought of this, of course, but there's always the official history book....... Thanks, Jaggernaut but the match isn't listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted September 29, 2022 Report Share Posted September 29, 2022 (edited) AFC, both games (League Cup) are listed on page 245, with line-ups. Sub is given for the Dundee game but not the St J game. Two home defeats, and two doings by the same teams at their middens. Hearts also gubbed us in what was a terrible set of results. Thankfully, we sorted ourselves out and managed to finish 11th out of 18. ETA: Oh sorry, my mistake. I understand: maybe there will be some details about the friendly game in the programmes; it's not the LC line-ups you want. Note to self: Read to the end!! AGAIN ETA: Just spent an enjoyable hour or so checking old online newspaper archives. No details in either the Evening Times or the Glasgow Herald, other than the momentous news that goal-scoring machine Alan Munro scored in our 2-1 win. I've learned from my own research on season 70-71 that PTFC sometimes didn't bother issuing programmes for midweek League Cup programmes...... Edited September 29, 2022 by Jaggernaut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted September 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2022 We're closing in on 6,000 match referees identified at the Thistle Archive database. Exactly 1,000 to go. If you're in a position to help via your programme collection or whatever then please do get in touch... Who was the referee? → Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 Hundreds of interesting new Thistle history snips have been flowing into the Archive lately, please bookmark the site → and keep an eye on the News! After some considerable time hunting him down, our Joe finally cracked it with fallen hero Tom Callaghan. A late baptism, census mis-truths and a multitude of document spelling variations was challenging, but we identified Tom Callaghan's family unit and forced the issue with great results. A pleasure to get to know him. Begone the asterisk of doubt! Tom Callaghan → ************************************************************************* 1971 legend FRANK COULSTON, has just turned 80 and, to celebrate him, we've added a tribute video and a wee photo gallery as well as writing up a decent bio for him. The hitman outscored even Jimmy Bone in the title-winning season 1970-71, with 28 competitive goals! He also notched 6 goals in the winning Cup run, including a brace in the crucial 5-1 QF 2nd leg comeback vs. St Johnstone. Frank Coulston → ************************************************************************* We're very excited to be seeing the earliest video of Partick Thistle in action at Firhill being introduced to the Archive today (teaser pic below). Featuring the game from 18th February 1956, it's endlessly fascinating to see. The relevant match hub data has been 'fast-forwarded' to back up the find so you can identify the players from the numbers on their shirts. Click on the hub below to explore this great find! 18-Feb-1956 Thistle 3 Brechin City 1 → ************************************************************************* The latest 600 news items have just been filed as 'Archive News 30' a good way to get a handle on what we've been up to in recent weeks... Archive News 30 → ************************************************************************* Our match hubs from 1876 to 1924 are now hopelessly out-of-sync in relation to all of the great work with births, new photos, renames and such-like, not to mention the usual never-ending improvements with small extra details. Worse still, there are also some broken links in various places as a result of some of these changes. Hopefully we can get back on top of it in the coming month(s). The Thistle Archive is in need of volunteers to help with uploading these pages - an easy but repetitive copy and paste exercise. If you can spare a few hours now and then, please get in touch. Page upload volunteers required → 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camallain Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) William , regarding you appeal for referee names. I have discovered the programme that covered both the Peterborough & Chesterfield games 26 & 29th July 2000. Your list numbers are 970 & 971 Officials for the Peterborough game : Referee - Bobby Orr; Assistants -J Boyd & C Kerrigan Officials for the Chesterfield game : Referee - J Gilmour; Assistants - A Muir & C Smith Also list number 973, Forfar Athletic , 2nd December 2000 Referee - Bobby Orr ; Assistans - Allen Thurston & Steve Todd Found another one! List number 998, Alan Archibald Terstimonial Referee - Stevie O'Reilly ; Assistans - John Gilmour & Alasdair Ross Edited October 6, 2022 by Camallain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 A belated happy 80th to Frank. Coulston and Bone,went together just like fish and chips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 The way keepers are given to much protection from refs now i am not sure our first goal against Brechin would have stood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Camallain said: William , regarding you appeal for referee names. I have discovered the programme that covered both the Peterborough & Chesterfield games 26 & 29th July 2000. Your list numbers are 970 & 971 Officials for the Peterborough game : Referee - Bobby Orr; Assistants -J Boyd & C Kerrigan Officials for the Chesterfield game : Referee - J Gilmour; Assistants - A Muir & C Smith Also list number 973, Forfar Athletic , 2nd December 2000 Referee - Bobby Orr ; Assistans - Allen Thurston & Steve Todd Found another one! List number 998, Alan Archibald Terstimonial Referee - Stevie O'Reilly ; Assistans - John Gilmour & Alasdair Ross Nice. 995. http://thethistlearchive.net/help-referees The match hubs will all get updated in one fell swoop at a later date. 42 minutes ago, Auld Jag said: The way keepers are given to much protection from refs now i am not sure our first goal against Brechin would have stood. Unusual celebration from Bobby Gibb, just puts his hands on his hips as if disgusted with the keeper who, let's be honest, had a 'mare. He should be down for an assist for the second! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted October 7, 2022 Report Share Posted October 7, 2022 Amazingly good views of Firhill in that 1956 film of the match vs. Brechin. And it looks like a boy in the crowd might be wearing a R&Y bar scarf. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 (edited) Every match, every birthday, every day... worth checking in to see the daily happenings, keep the Archive home page bookmarked! Somewhat ambitiously, we're trying to keep up with adding extra bios for all born OTD on a daily basis, with 9th October boys Zubar, MacKinnon & Smith all going in today. Willie Smith recently featured as goalie in the Brechin video from '56. We remember today half-back WILLIE HAMILTON who played in every round of our Scottish Cup odyssey of 1921 bar the final. The first of the gang to die, Willie succumbed to his TB illness exactly 4 months after the cup was won. http://www.thethistlearchive.net/ Edited October 9, 2022 by The Thistle Archive 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 Painstakingly compiled after more than a decade of poring over countless thousands of newspaper pages, our two brand new 'list' pages detail every sending off in PTFC history. The first covers all the way from Thomas Campbell in 1891 to Kyle Turner in 2022. The adjacent page details the same for every opponent, from Cosgrove in 1891 to Scott Allan in 2022. 239 to Thistle, only 174 to the opposition, but don't worry these things balance themselves out over a season!?! Thistle's sendings-off → Opposition's sendings-off → Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 10/9/2022 at 10:23 AM, The Thistle Archive said: Every match, every birthday, every day... worth checking in to see the daily happenings, keep the Archive home page bookmarked! Somewhat ambitiously, we're trying to keep up with adding extra bios for all born OTD on a daily basis, with 9th October boys Zubar, MacKinnon & Smith all going in today. Willie Smith recently featured as goalie in the Brechin video from '56. We remember today half-back WILLIE HAMILTON who played in every round of our Scottish Cup odyssey of 1921 bar the final. The first of the gang to die, Willie succumbed to his TB illness exactly 4 months after the cup was won. http://www.thethistlearchive.net/ Haha, Declan Roche looks like he knows something that we don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Re the sending offs against us. With the obvious exceptions of Draper and Imrie there's been no real "pantomime villains* red carded since the "Alex Rae" season. We don't seem to have the like of Rae, Lovering, Novo, Hartley, Jimmy Gibson etc getting the jotters these days. Can't even think of anyone in our league at present that could be elevate to the rank of "Player We All Love to Hate". Maybe Simon Murray but he's not really a very good villain. As an aside one of the classiest sending offs against us in recent years was that of Mark McLaughlin, the ex Hamilton captain . He is a legend with Accies fans and was playing his last ever game for Hamilton. He managed to get carded with about 15 minutes remaining. Got showered and changed and was in the Accies Bar at Peacock Cross before 5pm buying drinks for fans as they entered the premises. Classy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 This was apparently on this day in 1975 - which frankly just makes me feel old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 2 hours ago, lady-isobel-barnett said: As an aside one of the classiest sending offs against us in recent years was that of Mark McLaughlin, the ex Hamilton captain . He is a legend with Accies fans and was playing his last ever game for Hamilton. He managed to get carded with about 15 minutes remaining. Got showered and changed and was in the Accies Bar at Peacock Cross before 5pm buying drinks for fans as they entered the premises. Classy. Love it! Will keep this in mind if the list turns into a 'Partickle'. Talking of ON THIS DAY, born 11th October 1880 was the legendary JIMMY McMENEMY who, at 40-year-old, inspired Thistle to Scottish Cup glory in 1921. His winners medal sold for an incredible £6,300 and, today, it becomes the 10th item to find a place in the Archive Museum. Which, thankfully, is virtual, and therefore we've saved a small fortune. Archive Museum → Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 3 hours ago, JeanieD said: This was apparently on this day in 1975 - which frankly just makes me feel old. A view that no longer exists....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Love the museum! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thistle Archive Posted October 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2022 Back in '85, Indian-born JOEY PATHAK, made his debut in Scottish senior football for Partick Thistle at Bayview. On that anniversary, our latest Partickle looks back at his story, and wonders about that great sleeping giant... From Madras To Maryhill → 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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