Jives Miguel Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 A thread to discuss the ensuing financial MELTDOWN happening to Partick football club. They are HAEMORRHAGING more cash than their defence did goals in Dingwall. Needing a 300k HANDOUT from Big Daddy Rangers to settle wagebills. Several instances of almost DEFAULTING on their wagebill throughout the season. All of their best players out of contract in the summer, with NO SELLABLE ASSETS. The situation appears untenable at Firhill and one would have to assume that liquidation can only be A MATTER OF TIME. Yes, we are experiencing a situation that could only be described as a GRIM STATE OF AFFAIRS for all Partick fans. Spoiler How much longer will professional football survive in Maryhill? Does anyone want to play a sweepstake on which date Partick will kick the bucket? Are there any players you would like your club pick off from the decaying corpse of Partick? Does anyone know where I can get tap dancing shoes in size 10? -13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirJimmyofNic Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Colin Weir must be birling in his grave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 (edited) at a guess we'll end up doing similar when we had to pay HMRC a few years back and sold off Twaddle and Harkins to raise circa £200k. Fitzpatrick, McMillan, Milne could fetch reasonable 5 figure fees imo. Will be a bit shite, but hopefully we'll rally round and rebuild. It Can Be Done! Fantasy scenario is Doolan turns out to be a miracle worker and scrambles together an island of misfit toys good enough to give us a couple of solid cup runs + still sneaks us into fourth. Reality is more likely a season like Hamilton just had. Edited June 7, 2023 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Embarrassing levels of trying too hard by this Jeeves character. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Thistle will be absolutely fine. Only difference between them and a lot of clubs is they have been open and honest about how close they have come to financial disaster. Most teams just keep it quiet and pretend everything is fine. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted June 7, 2023 Author Share Posted June 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, Nightmare said: Embarrassing levels of trying too hard by this Jeeves character. Its Jives. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 1 minute ago, Jives Miguel said: Its Jives. Thank you. You're an absolute dork. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted June 7, 2023 Author Share Posted June 7, 2023 7 minutes ago, Poet of the Macabre said: You're an absolute dork. "dork" lol You know we have plenty of words here in this country. you can say with the same meaning? You're one of these peoples that says dude IRL, calls trainers sneakers and watches NFL, I can tell. And thank you for the feedback dude xxox 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passionate Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 I think the words 'Long ' and 'Hard' will be used a lot more than normal by The luvvies this season.. MAGA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somerset 2010 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) Despite having an "issue" with Thistle after the McCall scenario and our encounters over the play offs ( Muirhead, you can just piss right off) I am sure they will get through this and hope they will. I don't want the fan base to suffer for a few dick players either. The fans have avoided the other options in Glasgow. Keep that in mind. ( One team in Glasgow) I prefer a trip to Firhill to many away days. There are many teams I dislike more. Edited June 8, 2023 by Somerset 2010 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 3 hours ago, Somerset 2010 said: Despite having an "issue" with Thistle after the McCall scenario and our encounters over the play offs ( Muirhead, you can just piss right off) I am sure they will get through this and hope they will. I don't want the fan base to suffer for a few dick players either. The fans have avoided the other options in Glasgow. Keep that in mind. ( One team in Glasgow) I prefer a trip to Firhill to many away days. There are many teams I dislike more. This. There's naturally been a bit of animosity on the end of the 19/20 season but they've nothing but my support. f**k Jacqui Low and all her shitty attempts to subvert the fans. I seen a Rangers fan lead media account on twitter and their support are giving it "they'll get the same support we did in 2012". It'll be funny as f**k if the Jags fans can get their club through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 Sending love and hugs xxxxx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 It is the kind of second half performance that could set that club back years. Just don't concede three goals in 45 minutes and you are a Premiership team and everything that comes with it. Bottle it, and now you will have Dundee Utd and Dunfermline in the league next year and promotion looks further away than ever. Thistle more likely to exit to League 1 than the Premiership now IMHO. Shame. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFC 1910 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 We can definitely help out as far as players are concerned, just call it rallying round. #binourshit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 38 minutes ago, Lex said: It is the kind of second half performance that could set that club back years. Just don't concede three goals in 45 20 minutes and you are a Premiership team and everything that comes with it. Bottle it, and now you will have Dundee Utd and Dunfermline in the league next year and promotion looks further away than ever. Thistle more likely to exit to League 1 than the Premiership now IMHO. Shame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) I read the statement that The Jags Foundation put out. Couldn't help but notice how close to home some of it was; the bit about drawing Rangers in the cup preventing an astronomical loss being one of them. Bad owners, whether by design or just incompetence, can so easily be fatal at this level. Edited June 8, 2023 by Michael W 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Lex said: It is the kind of second half performance that could set that club back years. Just don't concede three goals in 45 minutes and you are a Premiership team and everything that comes with it. Bottle it, and now you will have Dundee Utd and Dunfermline in the league next year and promotion looks further away than ever. Thistle more likely to exit to League 1 than the Premiership now IMHO. Shame. There is definitely a sense that if you don't quite reach the summit of the mountain your liable to take the quick route to the base again. Part of that is finding sustainability to mount any kind of a challenge in terms of sheer costs. You either gamble on making it, on the basis that speculation is accumulation or try other off field ventures to try and build the kind of fanbase that would let you sustain multiple challenges. Then you have the issue of keeping a group of good players together long enough to have a second go at it, once other, higher placed clubs take notice. Within our play off system I suspect you get a hangover from the fact that you end up playing 3 to 4 weeks extra of a season, some championship clubs will have had a 6 week lay off, others more likely half of that. All of that alongside the morale hangover from getting close and making a c**t of it. Off the top of my head, Raith (pre play offs) in 2011/12, Morton in (13/14), Arbroath in 20/21 all had bad hangover seasons after challenging the previous season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 7 hours ago, Passionate said: I think the words 'Long ' and 'Hard' will be used a lot more than normal by The luvvies this season.. MAGA Coming from a Clydebank supporter! Lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagsfan57 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 1 hour ago, renton said: There is definitely a sense that if you don't quite reach the summit of the mountain your liable to take the quick route to the base again. Part of that is finding sustainability to mount any kind of a challenge in terms of sheer costs. You either gamble on making it, on the basis that speculation is accumulation or try other off field ventures to try and build the kind of fanbase that would let you sustain multiple challenges. Then you have the issue of keeping a group of good players together long enough to have a second go at it, once other, higher placed clubs take notice. Within our play off system I suspect you get a hangover from the fact that you end up playing 3 to 4 weeks extra of a season, some championship clubs will have had a 6 week lay off, others more likely half of that. All of that alongside the morale hangover from getting close and making a c**t of it. Off the top of my head, Raith (pre play offs) in 2011/12, Morton in (13/14), Arbroath in 20/21 all had bad hangover seasons after challenging the previous season. Wouldn’t be surprised if ourselves, QP and Ayr all struggle next season after last game failures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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