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1 hour ago, Mediocre Pundit said:
The annoyance with Sneddon is that he makes some brilliant saves - he could be a really good keeper, but he’s prone to too many brain farts and the odd shot that seems to go right through him. In the round I’d say he’s fine - but he’s at both the extremes. Mitchell is just more consistently meh.
who was the player you used to fan boy over? It’s bothering me now.
I don’t mind Sneddon or Mitchell all that much, but if we have aspirations of promotion then we should be doing better than that, at least a different option. Sneed on strikes me as a bit of a Jim Leighton type - some great stuff, but some absolute howlers too, like he’s forgotten to take his ADHD meds or his contacts fell out (as famously happened with Leighton).
Wouldn’t say no to Jim Leighton though, the 1980s version, not 2024!
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Personally speaking, while Friday was disappointing, I don’t think we’re really ready for the premiership at the moment. Another year of building and Doolan growing as a manager will hopefully put us in good stead.
Best of luck to Raith, who for a long time looked like they’d edge Dundee United into the playoffs themselves, despite their resources. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope we don’t see you next season! (Unless it’s in the cups.)
Was actually relieved once I saw it was Ross County again - don’t want to relive that. Ideal scenario, Raith go up, we don’t have to go through the trigger warning of going to Dingwall in the playoffs, then we play Ross County four times next year and beat the shit out of them all four times. And go up as champions.
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On 11/05/2024 at 00:44, Wacky said:
Well this is an interesting one. Partick started slow in the last two playoff games, but grew into the game and even looked the far sharper side. Raith have been pretty quick starters in the games I’ve seen them play, and have played some of the best football I’ve seen this season. They are very capable of hurting a slow starting team, and on their game they can hold onto a lead if they don’t switch off like what happened against Arbroath.
If this game is anything close to the last two playoffs it’ll be fantastic.
Purely for selfish reasons I wish Raith the very worst of luck in these playoffs. I want the big game atmosphere that they bring when playing us. Even though they whitewashed us this season, the atmosphere at the games was fantastic, and I selfishly want more of the same this coming seasonAre you suggesting Ross County won’t bring that kind of atmosphere to away games?!?!
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19 minutes ago, third lanark said:
Stirling Albion is another reasonably near team- if they stay up in league one via the playoffs then another club to consider a loan too
Send him tae the Peasy!
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Is this a Thistle thread or a Morton/St Johnstone thread? I’m fine with fans of other clubs offering their perspectives on here - in fact welcome it (even Airdrie, even Killie) - but it’s in danger of getting derailed!
Also, I’m too lazy to go find my previous posts about Doolan’s management performance, but I’ll paraphrase: he’s showing all the hallmarks of a good young manager who is learning as he goes, who gets a lot out of his players, who works hard with them, and whose results speak for themselves. His occasional poor choices/naivete are simply those of a man still learning the trade, and would rather have that than mediocrity from someone who has been in his trade for decades.
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7 hours ago, BillyAnchor said:
Is Airdrie's on 1690?
Actually it’s 1933.
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Does anyone here listen to the Draw, Lose, Draw podcast. And if so, how is it?
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Pretty happy with that, myself. Given how good Airdrie have looked this season, and with playing on that stickle brick surface, I feared that we’d be seriously behind in this contest. As long as we show up on Friday, I think we can clinch the honour of getting easily beaten by Raith.
Mind you, I don’t get to see that stadium much, and I’d forgotten how much cooler Broomfield was. (Though I never actually went to a game there, so don’t know how decrepit it may have been. Just thought it had much more character.)
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4 hours ago, Diamonds Are Red said:
Hibs decided they would put their own fans in the top tier behind the goal with Airdrie fans in the bottom tier. Cue spitting, throwing coins, chucking pies, cups of Bovril and cups of piss down onto the Airdrie fans in the second half.
Thankfully I managed to avoid the "rain shower"
as I was in the main stand at that game.
Sounds like Aberdeen fans at Ibrox on many occasions, from what I’ve heard.
Edit: I mean Dons fans being put in the lower deck….
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7 hours ago, H Wragg said:
There was trouble outside Firhill after our cup game last season.
As a result, the Airdrie fans were kept in for 10 mins when we met in December.
The same policy was meant to have been in place the other week, but the away end was half empty before full time and they didn't bother with it.
The only time I saw notable trouble at Firhill (this is about 20 years ago) was against Airdrie. Though the “fans” in question may have been from a few hundred miles further south….
I once went out with a girl from Airdrie and she was going on about how awful Hibs fans were, and humorously was completely taken aback when I mentioned to her gently that Airdrie fans might have had a bit of a reputation themselves. She refused to believe it.
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On 04/05/2024 at 12:07, Mike the Magyar said:
Congratulations to Mr McCall for keeping Clyde up.
Hopefully they can get themselves a ground somewhere in the city, and rebuild back to being a half-decent club again. At least so they can be in the championship while we look down at them from the Premier.
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On 01/05/2024 at 09:46, Claudia Gentile said:
Quite a season for Mr Graham. We all know what he really wants out of it though.
A UEFA pro coaching license?
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23 hours ago, The Thistle Archive said:
I wanted to know that myself a few years back, so went out of my way to properly research it. Johnny's the top man in league terms:
Most Consecutive Scottish League Appearances
258 - Johnny Jackson (Partick Thistle, GK) 28th August 1926 to 25th March 1933
251 - Doug Smith (Dundee Utd, CH) 19th February 1964 to 18th September 1971
On the 'first class' competitive front (query includes all SFL, SPL, SPFL, Scottish Cup, League Cup, Summer Cup, European, Drybrough Cup and Anglo-Scottish Cup matches) Johnny is still the top man in Scottish football history:Most Consecutive Competitive Scottish Club Football Appearances
288 - Johnny Jackson (Partick Thistle, GK) 28th August 1926 to 25th March 1933
282 - Ally Shewan (Aberdeen, CH) 19th October 1963 to 23rd April 1969The more I look at the numbers, particularly the dates, the more remarkable it is. Undoubtedly an advantage being a keeper, but just imagine playing more than six and a half years without missing a league or cup game - especially given the tackles that players (even keepers) were subjected to in those days.
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20 hours ago, The Thistle Archive said:
HUGE MILESTONE FOR BANNIGAN
● Jack McMillan registers his 100th appearance for Thistle in all competitions. ● It's huge congratulations to Stuart Bannigan who becomes just the 15th Jag in history to reach the 400 appearances mark in 'all competitions' (i.e. major and minor). The club will officially mark the 400 'major' appearances in 2 games time! ● It's just 1 goal conceded in 540 mins (a penalty!) and 3 consecutive clean-sheets for David Mitchell who is hunting down his personal best (4) set during the play-offs last term. ● In all competitions, Thistle go 8 home games without defeat versus Ayr United (2020 to date), matching the joint-club-record previously set from 1930-1937 and 1983-1989. ● Jags go two games without a booking for the first time since September 2022. ● Alas, an unprecedented two-in-one-season 'Grand Slam' is not-to-be for Brian Graham but, having scored in 3 of the 4 league games vs. Ayr United this term, he gets the consolation 'Hogan' joining Aidan Fitzpatrick who did likewise vs. Arbroath this season. ● Kris Doolan's Thistle remain unbeaten in 14 games played in the months of April and May. ongoing sequences: ● 7 competitive games without defeat, 16th Mar 2024 to date. (Longest run since: 11 games, 1st Apr 2023 to 1st Jun 2023. Joint club-record: 16 games, 15th Nov 1975 to 21st Feb 1976 & 30th Sep 2000 to 13th Jan 2001.) ● 29 games in 3rd place (30th Sep 2023 to date), an extension of the club-record for a position outwith outright top or bottom. Overall, it's the longest run since the club-record of 33 games in bottom pace (12th), set between 20th Sep 2003 and 15th May 2004. ● 34 consecutive competitive appearances for Lewis Neilson, 15th Sep 2023 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Steven Lawless - 60 games, 18th Feb 2023 to 6th Apr 2024. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.) That 313 games for Johnny Jackson is insane. Reminds me a bit of Cal Ripken over here (baseball), who played in 2.131 consecutive games (162 a season in baseball) without a rest day or injury spell. Does anyone know what the overall record in Scottish football is? I know not every club is lucky to have such a great archive as we do, but just curious….
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Not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but couldn't see a more obvious place, so here goes.
What is the oldest football ground in Scotland?
I was googling it, but couldn't find much of a definitive answer.
By this I mean, a football ground that has been played on continuously since its establishment, that has hosted football the whole time (not rugby, cricket, whatever), and has hosted professional or semi-professional teams. So Juniors would count. And also, the ground is in the same place it was to begin with, or at least overlaps with the original location.
My brief searching suggests it might be Cappielow? But I fully anticipate getting shot down about that.... ( Some sources mention Tannadice, though I don't think it was used by any first class teams in its first few years.)
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1 hour ago, DreamOakTree1 said:
I have to say again I’m very surprised at the modest targets that similar clubs to ourselves have. Did anyone hear Ange Posticoglou’s response to the journalist who asked him if he’s targeting top four?
He said that’s not a specific enough target as you need to aim for first place and see where it takes you.
Contrast that with Derek McInnes saying he wants to reach the Scottish Cup Final. Why not just extend that ambition to winning the cup? Similarly he started each season as Aberdeen Manager by saying he was targeting third place. I just don’t understand that mindset as no-one would criticise him for targeting first and finishing second or third.
I agree with this. While realistically, we all know the likely ceiling for our club in a given year, there’s no harm in saying that your goal is to win each trophy you’re in for. If you don’t think you have any chance at all of winning, why are you taking part in it? Now, the odds might be millions to one, but to paraphrase Dumb and Dumber “there’s a chance!”
Leicester City are the obvious example.
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1 minute ago, Zanetti said:
Surprised to read a few Thistle fans in this thread say they'd like Raith to win the league. Surely if you're being pragmatic, United finishing second (assuming nobody gets promoted through the playoffs) is a bad thing if you've any ambition of kicking on and challenging for the title next season? I would imagine most teams would rather see the back of them, and hope nobody else with that sort of squad and budget gets relegated.
I’m an optimist who assumes we’ll go up alongside Raith.
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1 minute ago, chris1883 said:
That was a pretty brutal game to watch, but there were positives. Firstly, we won. We also defended well (just too deep). Most importantly though - it was a clean sheet... or two league clean sheets in a row. I might be wrong, but is that the first this season?
On a side note, tell me any team who would take that pitch over ours? Voting to ban synthetic surfaces seems absolutely mad when that is a possible alternative.
Looked like a rugby pitch. Maybe that’s what McBeth was thinking too….
Who else is playing on it at the minute? They don’t play rugby on it any more, do they?
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Honestly, while it might sound like heresy to say this, as long as I could be assured that we’ll still make the playoffs, I’d be ok with losing this game. After all I don’t think we can make automatic promotion at this point, and it plainly has more meaning for Raith.
Especially as I’d rather Rovers were promoted than United. I like United well enough (one of my best friends growing up was a United fan) but Raith have been away from the PL for longer.
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1 minute ago, Charles Stiles said:
When he's not involved in the chat, Kenny Miller's standing looking like he's thinking about whether to get a curry or a Chinese on the way home.
Could do both, after all. Got the money I assume.
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13 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:
We've not had too many games this season where we could play all day and not score but that was one of them, Raith defended well but to lose that game one nil on the balance of chances is harsh.
I'm hoping we're saving our good form for the last 5 or 6 games but our calamitous defence and keeper isn't giving much hope.
Ageee with all this. Graham our likeliest looking as usual, but we weren’t at our best today. Player normally quality looked like the ball wasn’t breaking their way. Fitzpatrick a case in point.
Bad form comes and goes, and when it all clicks again we’ll be good. Just hope it’s in enough time that we don’t risk falling out of playoff places.
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23 minutes ago, 0neTeamInGlasgow said:
Sorry sweet cheeks did i upset you?
Blocked.
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1 minute ago, 0neTeamInGlasgow said:
Cool story bro, guess you had to be there...
Don’t be a d***.
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2 minutes ago, Highlandmagar said:
And a new manager.
Hilarious.
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HUGE MILESTONE FOR BANNIGAN
The Partick Thistle thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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I profess I have virtually no idea what anything you’ve said means, but best of luck to you and your team anyway, Mr Dowds.