Pie Of The Month

The finest number 10 on the list.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/scott-fox-need-leave-partick-5758200 It mirrors Tuffey needing to leave for the sake of his international career and making a c**t of it. With Fox being average at best I wish him all the luck if he really thinks he's capable of playing at a higher level but I don't really see how him moving to another Premier League team to do the exact same as he's doing for us will somehow force his way into Strachan's plans. He's 3 years younger than Marshall and 5 years younger than Gordon and McGregor, by the time they are all looking to retire from international football as he's never going to be better than any of them Strachan will want to be looking at the younger keepers like Bain.

As long as we keep Lawless I don't really care where Higginbotham ends up. The 3 month or so excellent spell last season from him turned out to be the exception rather than the rule.

Does pay as you play even exist at our level? You can see it happening at a higher level when players are earning thousands per week or at a part time level where a player has his other job's income to fall back on. If the club want to be nice then offering him training facilities or if he is retiring letting him get involved in coaching would be a decent thing to do but other than that I don't think we should be waiting around for another season on the off chance a guy who has played about 2 seasons worth of football in 7 or 8 years finally gets fit.

Sod is gone. They are all gone. However Osman stays so we are cool.

I suspect next season will be Bannigan's last season at Thistle. He turns 23 and I think that means we don't get compensation for him. Can't really argue with that if he goes really, we'll have had 4 full seasons of him playing every week including the promotion season.

Archie up to 6th (joint) longer serving manager in the SPFL now with Murray going to St Mirren. If McKinnon goes to Raith Rovers he's up to 5th.

Archie in his PTTV interview has said that's all the players who are going to be offered deals been offered them and he reckons they should all be fairly quick and getting back with a yes or a no so I guess we'll get more signing (or not signing) news in the next week. Edit - beaten to it bt R&Y Going by Slacker's post above we are in pretty decent shape before any of the out of contract players even agree deals. I expect some of them will sign up too meaning the club probably only need to make a handful of signings this summer. We have cover for most positions GK - Scully, Waters (I'm assuming he's signed up) - needs improvement RB - Elliott - need a RB CB - Seaborne, Frans, Lindsay - need cover LB - Booth, possibly Seaborne or Bannigan providing he's not up against Ainsworth CM - Osman, Fraser, Bannigan Stevenson AM - Stevenson, McDaid, Elliott - need wide players ST- Doolan, Stevenson - need 1 more striker

Meh the only real concern is the lack of Welsh in the list of those released. Archie's ruthless decisions in the past such as Craig, Dowie and Mair have been largely justified and turned out for the best.

2nd round is the one before we play someone like St Mirren. So if we get a home tie it'll be against someone from about say 6th in the first division down depending on the results in the 1st round,

Best just to lose both to be on the safe side. I think it might've been mentioned in here that there was a player interview (possibly Lawless) mentioning that we felt we should be a top 6 side before the Kilmarnock game so that's the reason for that loss.

Next week is going to be a fucking lol fest with Motherwell down. I'm going to be in that corner near their ultra c***s with my cock out laughing like f**k

Good luck with that.

Excellent news. I could watch that GIF all day, shame when I made it I had no idea how to cut out the full size bit from instagram.

From WAT I'm surprised at the OK reaction from JHS season ticket holders. Night and day from the NS reaction last season where many, myself included, were rightly pissed off. If they're fine with it then I'm fine with it. For purely selfish reasons I'll be happy to get back to around the usual area I stand at in the North Stand. This really is the type of thing the club should be consulting with fans with before making such a decision though. Last summer should've confirmed that but it would really appear Beattie doesn't give a f**k what the fans want or think in reality and any talk about fan engagement and fan experience are nonsense. If he was as committed to it as he likes to make out by having articles in the Sun showing what a great chairman he is then he would've continued regular meetings with supporters like appeared to be promised last year.

Just give him a 2 match ban, I'm sure going on his summer holidays early will send a message to him that gambling is not acceptable.

Balatoni screams a player who has found his level and even then it has taken the best part of 2 seasons in the premier league to find a partner he's completely comfortable with. I could see him back up here next year if he moved.

Last time Beattie done a cracking interview at the end of the season he fucked it up spectacularly by trying to chuck home fans out of the North stand. He talks a good game about fan experience but he needs to back it up by doing something.

If ever there was an argument in favour of plastic pitches. I'm not fussed if Higginbotham stays or goes. If he's on a big wage I'd probably rather he went and let Archie use it on someone else.

If he isn't happy. He's 3rd choice goalkeeper at the moment and under contract, he'll do as he's told.

Not sure how great save % is as an indicator of how good a goalkeeper is compared to others in the league. Of late I'd say Fox has made plenty of straight forward saves due to the defence being excellent, there's other goalkeepers with better defence like Gordon who will face even fewer clear cut chances which require good saves and then you'll have much worse defences where the goalkeeper is having to make 4 or 5 saves a game to keep the score respectable. There's a few of Fox's clean sheets recently that Bryn Halliwell would've managed due to the defence being very good.

I've seen Mhairi at Firhill a few times, Chris Stephens who won Glasgow South West is a Thistle fan too. Better to play a Championship team who should bring a first team up rather than play the kids of a Premier League team. Hope the club announce if they are going away soon, if it was Spain again I'd quite fancy it but if it's somewhere shite it'd be nice to know and then I can book a proper holiday for that time of year.

Was told today that it's in one of the papers that Fox has knocked back a new deal. As long as it's not the first of a load of the out of contract players leaving then I don't think I'm really bothered by that in the slightest.

As long as he's not been a complete idiot and bet against his own team I couldn't really care less if he bets. I find it quite daft players can't be trusted to bet on games not involving the league they play in. Hopefully the hearing is this season and they get the punishment out of the way so he's fine for next season if he signs a new deal.