MacDonald Jardine Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 It's been a shambles from the start. The very start. The SPFL have taken no responsibility for anything. I highly doubt they've inspected any of the stadiums or training grounds. They'll have given the club's checklists and left it there. They only care about games being played. f**k all regard for anybody. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/2716180/aberdeen-boss-mcinnes-calls-for-scottish-covid-compliance-officer/Really?Absolutely nobody else who's watched the shitshow of the last year would have noticed. The only difference is different clubs are affected. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, haufdaft said: And this Doesn’t apply to sports 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukDukGoose Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, MacDonald Jardine said: Really? Absolutely nobody else who's watched the shitshow of the last year would have noticed. The only difference is different clubs are affected. What? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hauzen Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, Rugster said: Doesn’t apply to sports Presume he's flown a scheduled Emirates flight back to the UK, which probably doesn't tie in with elite sport exemption requirements? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Just now, Hauzen said: Presume he's flown a scheduled Emirates flight back to the UK, which probably doesn't tie in with elite sport exemption requirements? Very good point 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Brees Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, Hauzen said: Presume he's flown a scheduled Emirates flight back to the UK, which probably doesn't tie in with elite sport exemption requirements? It def looked like it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Drew Brees said: It def looked like it Wears a mask like a hipster 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 If he’s left the bubble I can’t see how he can possibly be exempt from the ten days thing. It isn’t really a bubble if you can leave it, take a long haul flight, f**k about outside the bubble for a few days then rejoin it within a week with only a negative test or two and no isolation required. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Presume he's flown a scheduled Emirates flight back to the UK, which probably doesn't tie in with elite sport exemption requirements?Is this actually the case? I can't imagine elite individual sportspeople (eg athletes) having to fly back on their own private plane to avoid quarantining. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 STATEMENT KLAXON https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/update-from-the-board-11th-jan-2021/ Partick Thistle wants to put on record its support for any measures the Scottish Government puts in place to stop the spread of Covid-19. In the current pandemic, the priority must be on saving lives and protecting the NHS. But for us as a club, today’s news that all football below the Championship has been shut down is the culmination of a series of circumstances that we, as a board, foretold last April and have fought to avoid ever since. Once demoted, we fought for a restructure of leagues to allow us, as an ambitious full-time club, to continue playing if football was stopped again. If that had happened, we would still be playing today. At the season start, the SPFL made it clear that clubs who were unable to play at any point would be penalised. Yet here we are, prepared to play but unable to do so as we are in a league of predominantly part-time clubs. We saw this coming, we raised it – why didn’t the SPFL listen? We warned last week that the football authorities’ distribution of monies, which penalised Thistle by £350k, could come back to bite us if games were stopped. Less than a week later, here we are without the financial cushion other full-time clubs have been given. We are already looking at furloughing staff and players which is an awful step for a professional club to have to take and could impact our ability to compete when football returns. The SFA President referenced “notable exceptions” by way of acknowledging that today’s decision may suit part-time teams but not the full-time teams in the leagues being shut down. It’s surely not good enough to recognise that unfairness and simply turn away? The final straw is the impact that this may have during the transfer window. This may be a three week break but that takes us to the end of the window. Players want to play and uncertainty is not the basis for a move. Where’s the sporting integrity if, once the game restarts, we haven’t been able to strengthen the team to help achieve our aim of promotion? Partick Thistle’s experience should serve as a lesson to clubs who thought we should take a hit for football with the demotion and suck it up. But it’s now gone way beyond that, enough is enough. All we want is to be given the same opportunity to play as other full-time clubs. But, once again, we are being pushed to the edge and left to wonder whether anyone in any position of authority in Scottish football will do something to help other than simply issue warm but empty words. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: STATEMENT KLAXON https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/update-from-the-board-11th-jan-2021/ They are an absolutely riotous cuddly toy. Edited January 11, 2021 by David W 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: STATEMENT KLAXON https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/update-from-the-board-11th-jan-2021/ That is absolutely brilliant. Reading first few paragraphs Sporting integrity 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loemba90 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Any sympathy I had for Thistle’s plight vanished the minute they got into bed with that old sow Ann Budge and took other clubs to court to try and overturn promotions. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Positive, sometimes. Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) "Partick Thistle wants to put on record its support for any measures the Scottish Government puts in place to stop the spread of Covid-19. In the current pandemic, the priority must be on saving lives and protecting the NHS." When will people realise by putting something like this at a beginning of a statement doesn't make it true. For what it's worth. Simply because your full time doesn't mean you deserve sorry Different treatment from the rest of the league. Level playing field. Edited January 11, 2021 by Mr Positive, sometimes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) Are Partick pretending they took it on the chin rather than squealed like stuck pigs, took fellow clubs to court and then helped their fans make a daft wee flag to GIRU the rest of the league? Enough is enough? What they going to do, resign from the league and join the English Premier? Thistle so keen to play they have kept a frozen pitch the last 2 week's whilst they have a dozen players out. Edited January 11, 2021 by invergowrie arab 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 They're such an ambitious full-time club they bottled putting their undersoil heating on the last two Saturdays. Do they reckon full-time Queen's Park should be launched up two divisions? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Positive, sometimes. Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said: Are Partick pretending they took it on the chin rather than squealed like stuck pigs, took fellow clubs to court and then helped their fans make a daft wee flag to GIRU the rest of the league? Enough is enough? What they going to do, resign from the league and join the English Premier? Probably just release more statements. What is with teams and these statements. It doesn't make them some kind of freedom fighter or martar by constantly sounding like a Rebellious child. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Fully supportive of Partick/Falkirk swapping with Alloa/Arbroath. the virus doesn’t infect full-time footballers. That’s been demonstrated throughout the season... ...oops. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haufdaft Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Doesn’t apply to sports His own club said he left the "bubble".Surely then he is just like any other member of the public 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 That is pathetic from Thistle. To paraphrase....We are a big club, we shouldn't have to play with these part time diddies. If only those big bad other clubs had restructured to save us from having to play with these diddies we would still be able to play this weekend. Not a mention that it was their own pathetic recruitment and performance that lead them to be in that position in the first place.Classic billy big baws stuff by, checks table, 5th placed Partick Thistle behind such mighty big clubs as Montrose and Cove Rangers !!! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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