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Tonight has put the final nail in the coffin.
I have said this several times. We are a full-time football team playing in a league of full-time workers. & now find ourselves fighting for a 3rd / 4th place playoff spot.
The blame falls on McCall, backroom staff and board.
Under the current regime, we have been relegated to league one; before that, we sat firmly rooted at the bottom of the championship with no shifting chance.
We have won a total of 5 games from 14, a whopping 35% win record. Even under Caldwell, we were much better; we looked fitter and looked like we wanted to play. I would take Caldwell cluster** over this.
Our players are not fit. There is no excuse. East Fife ran over the top of us for most of the game. The week before, Forfar did the same. (I'll take their fitness training over ours).
Our team is unorganised; I think that many players looked out of their depth considering they are full time playing against part-timers. But I generally believe it's not the players. It's the message that is being delivered to the players. How many players have left us under Archie & McCall and performing well. Been hall is a few games from winning the league and promotion (that's one example).
Our staff aren't good; we have a washed-up assistance manager who couldn't get a gig in Scottish football as a manager until his mate brought him back as an assistant.
Scally doesn't fill me with confidence either. I'm not sure what purpose he provides. Is it training, opposition analysis, or is he there to pick up a wage because he is good mates with McCall
McCall isn't a good manager. Let's all be honest here. He is living on the reputation of a good ayr united team, who when he left was on a downwards spiral. I must also point out that McCall had to get them relegated to get them promotion on the last day of the season. Again he had a squad of full-timers and scraped the league on the last day of the season.
I still can't believe fans on the PTFC fans forum have suggested McCall as footballing director. (steaming).
The board is nothing to jump and short about either. Our downfall and collapse can be pinpointed to two specific situations—the hiring of Gerry. And the chaos that kicked of our relegation to league 1. Which was our summer takeover (it didn't happen).On that, Can anyone answer me? How can a football club expect to prosper when they pull 250000 from a mangers budget halfway into a transfer window and preseason. Then put obstacles in front of that manager to block success. Sack the same manger after four games. Hire another manager, go through another rebuilding job, and take the club in a different direction. That direction was league 1.The answer. No club can.Our scouting system is non-existent? McCall has signed journeymen, people he knows or previous fan favourites for some popularity.
Can anyone see a pattern here?
We are a shambles of a club top to bottom.
Get every one of them out of the club before we end up in the lowland league.
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1 hour ago, South Lanarkshire Jag said:
Just to correct you on this Ian McCall has been at every training session since we started back in August.
This is categorically wrong. I'm not going to defend or excuse the style of play, but if you think that AA just decides everything the squad do at training, you are completely wrong. I might have picked you up wrong though.
Glad we all now know that McCall and co are to blame then.
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McCall needs punted, p45 at the ready please.
Im sick to the back teeth with excuses and the COVID-19 situation that the McCall faithful continue to bring up.
the guy has assembled a very poor full time squad, that unfortunately are just competing in league 1.
it was the wrong appointment from day one. if anyone wants to defend this diabolical performance. Ask yourself the question.
what club would want McCall as their manager? Zero in the PL, zero in the championship & maybe 1 in league 1.
Lastly, For a team that has made 6 changes, and therefore should be relatively fresh. Forfar actually looked more up for the game, looked quicker and fitter. There starting 11 only had 2/3 changes, a reserve goaly and the players all probably were working yesterday and today.
get McCall, Archie, Scall & the rest to F***.
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On 08/01/2021 at 22:37, JagsCG said:
We’d have been relegated the previous season if he wasn’t good mates with Scott McDonald. All hypothetical anyway, Caldwell was rightly let go, I was one of the last to back him, but it was definitely the correct decision, in my opinion.
It’s irrelevant being good mates with McDonald. Caldwell kept us up under a very difficult situation & having to rebuild a dud squad. I actually don’t think McCall could have done that. On your theory he wouldn’t have because he isn’t mates with McDonald
But I do also kinda agree, the right decision was to move Caldwell on. Should have been done after the last day of the season and we should have recruited a more fitting manage than McCall.
Let’s be honest here. McCall has been nothing but brutal for us. It’s an unpopular opinion among us jags. But he has been dreadful. & in all honesty there is no excuse for him. It’s his squad of full time players that he signed. (not having covid as an excuse either, same constraint for every other manager).
Imo If he doesn’t win the league (looks very unrealistic at the moment), or promotion through play offs (if we get that far). Then his performance as a manager is worse than Caldwell’s
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On 08/01/2021 at 17:20, Jacky1990 said:
No.
Every team in the league plays on the exact same pitches.
If it was the pitches, every team would be in the same boat.
Couple of possible reasons:
1. We have been unlucky.
2. Our way of training is causing injuries. In which case, someone needs punted.
3. Our physios arent very good at their jobs.
4. We have a punch of players who refuse to play through any niggles.
I said the same thing last year, before the start of the season and only a few weeks ago.
1/ every club in Scotland has had injuries but our list is a shambles.2/ Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out the combination of McCall & Archie training methods is a cocktail for disaster. Look at our historical injury record under Archie & McCall’s at Ayr. Is frightening. Plus we have an inexperienced sports science guy from the academy working with the player that’s probably a disaster to
3/ As someone being punted, I think the old physio got the early taxi home. Heard she’s was absolutely hopeless at her job. Prob cost us in the long run. Good news, mew guy from rangers is our new physio.
4/ our players are soft as
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51 minutes ago, banditjag said:
From all of the home games, I've not bought any away streams, we are playing like we did under Archibald when he was manager. Makes me wonder what input and day to day involvement McCall has with this team. Low and this football management team are slowly killing this club.
Probably it his golf clubs out chipping the ball from one side of the pitch to the other. (And btw that did happen at a previous club)
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The bus stops with McCall, Archie, Beattie, Gerry & CO. jobs for the boys and bringing your pals back has been nothing but a disaster.
Full new management team brought in, for what I imagine was the aim for the playoffs & promotion. Managed to get relegated of the back.
Now in league 1 with exceptions of winning the league, may not even get into the play-offs at this rate.
Results v Part timers only paper over the cracks. The reality is that we are a god awful team, with a dreadful manager.
Our squad of full times players and management team with probably biggest budget in the league can’t beat a few part time clubs, who’s players are out grafting during the. Same S**** last year, same S**** this year.
Common dominator mentioned above, along with the players.
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I noticed we are recruitment for another physio. Has the old one left/taxied home. Or are we needing another one with the amount of injuries we have had?
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3 hours ago, Pie Of The Month said:
Good luck to anyone buying the stream tomorrow.
Our top Class medical team doing a bang up job as usual. Taxi please.
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Have these injuries been confirmed by the club? I can’t see anything online?
worrying time if they are.
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15 hours ago, JagsCG said:
No my logic isn’t miles off at all, you made a comment about the medical staff, and I’m saying that it’s got nothing to do with the medical staff that Blair Lyons match fitness isn’t up to what it either should be, or will be in the next few weeks. A player can be incredibly fit, I’m sure he is quite fit, and not be match fit, that’s the point. To get match fit, you need to play matches, he’s not played many. If you want to blame McCall’s training then, fair enough, I’d suggest it’s far more likely, he’s still finding match fitness because he hasn’t played as many matches as he needs, to fully get up to speed after 6/7 months out of action, why hasn’t he played as many matches as need be? Your guess is as good as mine, to blame Medical Staff is insane and wildly inaccurate.
Point taken. But with medical team I was also talking about the academy fitness coach we have had in on a full time basis.
But let’s not get drawn in by McCall’s comments about fitness. He is a manger of a football team, with 2 assistants Sport science the lot. & after 10+ training & friendly games, for him to come out and say a player isn’t fit. For me that just screens incompetent. It’s the exact same for all other teams in our league & players.
Hate to keep in saying this but we are a full time team with full time training methods, and full time athletes. So I’m not buying players are not fit. If they aren’t fit then there is serious concerns moving forward.
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11 hours ago, Sting777 said:
Agreed. The management team appear blind to the fact that both O’Ware and Bannigan have been awful for 3 seasons yet keep getting rewarded with contract extensions. . If fit, they are shoe ins for a place in the team. We had Scally pre match going on about how big a player O’Ware is for the team. He must be seeing things that no other jags fans have seen since he (O’Ware) joined the club.
Maybe Caldwell was into something last year, when he was trying to punt them.
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1 hour ago, JagsCG said:
The medical team have nothing to do with him needing/getting match fitness and sharpness, which quite clearly is what he’s lacking. There was no mention of an injury in pre-season.
He has had the best part of 10 weeks to get fit then. So is McCall to blame with his training methods?
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32 minutes ago, Sting777 said:
Just watched McCalls interview on JZ. Looks like a sniper had a pop at him during the interview. Sounded like a gun going off!! Says Clyde deserved it and we weren’t good enough in the final 3rd. Said he was pleased with Lyons but he is still searching for fitness!!! FFS it’s October. Why is he not fit. Have never heard anything about him being injured during the whole of pre season
How can he not be be fit.... if that’s true the medical team need punted.
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1 hour ago, Jacky1990 said:
Archie getting groomed as the next manager so that McCall can move into a Director of Football type role. Only reason I can see to bring him back.
That’s grim if true. How can McCall be a director of football?
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Zero league wins in 2020!
Team not prepared, don't look fit, no pace. Injuries galore.
McCall out!
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On 26/08/2020 at 22:59, JustDom said:
A quick google suggests he spent three years out injured with a hip injury, then struggled with niggles on his return.
Am I the only one tired of us signing players who are injury prone/injured upon arrival?
Fit or unfit, the physio passes their medicals anyway. If last years Mitch Australia Austin has anything to go by. I’m extremely worried.
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29 minutes ago, Jollyjag said:
Bet Fred cup section what the expectations..?
Fully expect to qualify out the group. We done it last year. Personally I think our squad is just as good as any championship squad. So no excuses. IMO
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2 hours ago, Jacky1990 said:
Anyone associated with that banner or still supports Low is a bigger part of the problem at the club than Archie or Caldwell could ever be.
We need gutted from top to bottom.
2/3 seasons Iv been saying this for.
Low, Gerry and co. Please do one.
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Literally have had more relegations this year than wins. How has this happened. Sack the board.
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Gerry has to walk after today’s result. The guy is a lawyer. He should have been advising board members and all involved. Surly he should have had an idea would could have happened during all this. Now a potential fine!
The guy is absolutely hopeless - his wage could be going into the playing staff.
like I said before. Can’t help think his decisions are based on popularity rather than solution focused.
This result also opens the bandwidth for error on McCall’s head. Imo he should still be winning the league with our squad he has assembled. If not it’s a failure. smaller part time clubs will have had their budget cut more than ours.
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11 hours ago, bad chad said:
Why? If we are barred from our national structure, but have the capacity to play, we'd be allowed to apply to other organisations.
It would more likely be the Irish set-up if it had to happen, but even so, the possibility would be there.
I'm not talking about getting into the bloody Premier league here... not next season anyway.
We wouldn’t even get into the non league down there. Come on, take the red and yellow tinted glasses off. I understand we are the mighty thistle and all that. But in all honesty, what football associations would want to be associated with us, following an expulsion from another FA. Thats before we even get into all the embargo and statements.
Think about it logically - what would the Scottish FA or the fans of Scottish football think. If a club, say Stevenage attempted to play in Scottish football.
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On 15/07/2020 at 19:53, bad chad said:
As I said to someone yesterday, we should get expelled from the SPFL, apply to UEFA/FIFA, and be given permission to apply to another national league.
Beat both the ugly sisters to a spot in the English pyramid!
Haaaaaaaa this is sarcasm!! Can you imagine the English FA looking at the mighty thistle and thinking. Yessss. That is a club we want in our leagues.
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32 minutes ago, Nightmare said:
It’s no surprise we’ve ended up in this mess with the clown show running the club right now.
Of course we should have stayed out of it. I feel that we’re probably within our rights to be seeking some form of compensation, but going straight to court was obviously the wrong way to go about it, and we can’t really have many complaints about being cited (although I guess you could argue the timing of this SFA charge is sketchy).
Low jumped into bed with Budge on this without thinking and has yet again made an arse of things. Everything Budge has done throughout the whole process has been a total failure, and unfortunately Thistle are now included in that because the club is run by imbeciles.
I’ll say it again.
The people running the club are disgraceful. The incompetence of Gerry and Co is almost on par with the current UK government during COVID-19 pandemic.
You would think Gerry with all his legal knowledge would have had an input and guided the decision making to best serve the needs of the club.
the blind are certainly leading the blind.
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The Partick Thistle thread
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We have kicking on. Brilliant.
Still not convinced by the management team. Neither am I by the Falkirk staff.
Cove probably the team we are competing with