The Partick Thistle thread

[jagfox]

59 minutes ago, third lanark said:

Will never happen unfortunately but if they are looking for a supporter to be chairman don't think you would get more unified fans backing than for James Cairney 

What credentials has he got for the role?

[Pie Of The Month]

Glad we're soon going to be back to the thread where shouts like James Cairney for club chair or signing Eddie Malone are the only things we have to worry about.

[Ivo den Bieman]

Remarkable statement. If it were a P&B thread the replies would be full of ^^^^ Verge of Tears and gifs of Mourinho celebrating.

Fair play to the Thistle fans who stuck to their task.

[Trogdor]

Well done Thistle fans. You've managed to drive out those utter charlatans. Hopefully you get your club back.

Fan owned and fan controlled are one and the same.

[jagfox]

1 hour ago, G_&_T said:

Can anyone explain what's happening?

I watched some of the YouTube show, and they're claiming Colin Weir didn't want fan ownership:

From 5:30

 

 

Did Colin Weir not want fan ownership? That wouldn't make sense to me, but then I have no idea.

The suggestion is apparently collusion between the Foundation and the Trust to achieve that. Again, I don't have a scoobie and am just being nosy. 

 

 

Having watched it the point Rough makes is that Colin Weir's wishes weren't fan ownership and a club run by the fans which wasn't on the table anyway.

There will be fan representation on the club's BoD (probably more than anticipated by any party) but the football board will be separate from whatever fan board rises from the ashes. 

[Lyle Lanley]

What an utterly dreadful statement that is. 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Lyle Lanley

[chattyman]

Happy fucking days they are gone! That resignation statement truly befitting of that lot and never expected anything less. And Roughie on PLZ soccer, mans a total goon!

[Thistle_do_nicely]

I'd imagine TJF can finally get involved in some good faith discussions now about how to proceed, but its fucking baffling that the board didnt see this coming from a mile away/months ago.

[Thistle_do_nicely]

4 hours ago, Fuctifano said:

That was the worry I was alluding to earlier, the good thing I guess is that they've moved on relatively* quickly and there isn't enough time for them to cause more damage.

*Since the share transfer, this should have been sorted months if not years ago.

 

Hopeful its just that their planned structure for trust beneficiaries ended up unworkable due to GDPR (going purely off that recent tjf statement about it) and theyve called it quits, today was some kind of deadline for opt in/out/all about i think?

Edit: checked, aye deadline was today

Edited December 7, 2022 by Thistle_do_nicely

[Airija]

My thoughts when I saw Keredine's tweet since reinforced by that video are the trust has moved and the board have walked rather than see the foundation involved again. I thought the trust's last(ish) statement sounded like the right words with nothing to back it up but maybe not.

 

Seems to me the trust have responded to the pressure and protest, are moving on some of the red lines and its a jump before you're pushed situation for the board.

 

If that's the case I'd at least be willing to say the trustees have listened and should be heard out for now.

 

My guess is some form of joint statement and plan is in the works. Especially since our resident TJF board member hasn't appeared.

[Uncle Psychosis]

22 minutes ago, Airija said:

My thoughts when I saw Keredine's tweet since reinforced by that video are the trust has moved and the board have walked rather than see the foundation involved again. I thought the trust's last(ish) statement sounded like the right words with nothing to back it up but maybe not.

 

Seems to me the trust have responded to the pressure and protest, are moving on some of the red lines and its a jump before you're pushed situation for the board.

 

If that's the case I'd at least be willing to say the trustees have listened and should be heard out for now.

 

My guess is some form of joint statement and plan is in the works. Especially since our resident TJF board member hasn't appeared.

Maybe I'm hopelessly naive but this was my take when I saw the news. Here's hoping. 

[Ad Lib]

The appropriate comment and statements will come over the next few days, on several important matters. It wouldn’t be right for me to give a running commentary on the events of recent days, and those comments and statements will come out through the right channels.

All I will say is this: the Thistle support aren’t daft, and include a lot of very good people. People with their heads and their hearts in the right places.

We are going to need them. And I am confident they will step up.

[baba douche]

First act of new board:

 

Get a 14 year-old to run your marketing and promotion - they would be 100000 x better than the garbage put out by the previous board.

[I Clavdivs]

Whoever the new Chairman is can we should expect ,as a minimum ,transparency and regular updates on matters the fans want to hear .The last few years have been woeful on both fronts .

[Bell™]

since Low is out, i guess i can finally lift my boycott and return to subjecting myself to Thistle's on-field antics at Firhill.

Of course, there's a week and a bit before the next home game, which is plenty of time for it all to come crashing down again. I expect the p***ks left the heating on in the boardroom when they left and the club will be bankrupt by the 17th.

[jagfox]

[thistledo]

There's still a right bunch of weirdo Jacqui sycophants in our fanbase, now coming out to say the same type of stuff they say when a manager gets sacked "who do we get to replace them now!?" it's literally just happened, settle the f**k down. 

Some of the comments have given me a right laugh though. People talking about "6 directors walking out with 6 mobile phones and all their contacts" tbh, the further away these c***s and whatever contacts they might have are, the better off we'll be. 

[Fuctifano]

Honestly think some of these people believe fan ownership is Manpreet and his pals sitting in the boardroom with a cargo trying to sign players.

I'm not 100% sure but I'm going to stick my neck out and say the folk who left weren't the only Thistle fans (in some cases not Thistle fans at all) who had any business contacts.

Edited December 8, 2022 by Fuctifano

[VictorOnopko]

11 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:

Honestly think some of these people believe fan ownership is Manpreet and his pals sitting in the boardroom with a cargo trying to sign players.

I'm not 100% sure but I'm going to stick my neck out and say the folk who left weren't the only Thistle fans (in some cases not Thistle fans at all) who had any business contacts.

Agreed - the idea that the now-departed board were somehow all business and networking geniuses is questionable to say the least.

We've definitely lost our only disingenous, contempt-filled, fan-baiting, Dunfermline-supporting, PR disaster-mongering, failed Tory MSP candidate from the club though.

[D.Armour Appreciation Society]

How often do we read, " But, the Directors ARE fans of [ the Club ] "

.........................book ended by, " How are Fans going to run [ the Club ] !! "

For Fan Ownership, read Community Ownership.  Directors should run organisations within the clauses of the 'Constitution' or whatever Rules are adopted.  Current Limited Models can be hidden behind, Community Ownership Models CAN ( and should ) provide a degree of Transparency.

Put the 'journalists' on the back foot.

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by D.Armour Appreciation Society