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Si Murray is the fucking boy, eh lads? Cheers for letting us have Scotty Allan too. What a relationship this is. HiDees 4 ever x

That one or two individuals on our side want to keep this going over specifics is a bit daft. Regardless of ins and outs Jack Ross is staying for now and thats all the matters. Fans of every other club in this league wished him away as they appreciate the fantastic job he is doing and how talented he is. They understandably wanted him gone in the hope it would weaken us and it should be taken as a compliment that for once we're seen as a threat.

End of the day I couldn’t give a f**k if jack was offered the Barnsley gig or not. He’s staying - that’s all that matters to me

Si kissing the badge when he scored. Magic. Girls don’t like boys, girls like Simon Murray.

Happy Gregory Tade day folks.

My wife tweeted me saying "3 girls in the office got Valentine's bouquets - they're absolutely gorgeous." I replied " That's probably why they got bouquets I've to get my own tea tonight.

And no sign of Happy ***. I hope they get fucking smashed tomorrow and I don’t care who they are playing.

50 years ago today, Elgin City beat Arbroath 2-0 to become the first and still only Highland League club to reach the Scottish cup QF.

Was out with a lady friend last night, first time I met her so was in the pub for a couple of swift ones before she arrived to settle the nerves. I text her asking what she wanted to drink so I could get them in. She said whatever I was drinking. Multiple pints of the glorious amber nectar were imbibed by us both and a good time was had by all.

McCann's opportunity to assemble a new team is massively over stated. He's had to work with a lot of guys who are tied up on long term deals and it's meant that having 9 or so signings and getting 7 of them to be great success stories hasn't been enough. Yordi, Low, Williams, Hateley, Julen, Gadz, Vincent and Haber are all still straining the budget and haven't played much or have left (likely still receiving contributions from the club). Past that, I really don't think O'Dea, Faissal and Holt are players he'd particularly like to sign but he's just had to go with it and work them in. I genuinely think that even if we had one extra effective player from the start of the season who could finish, we'd be much better off. Recruitment has been really good but Hartley was given free reign for long term deals that were really irresponsible. The first round of games have been the big issue with our season IMO. Took a while to come together and threw away so many points with good performances. I don't think it's a total surprise that we've hit another rough patch, especially with the change in January. We've still generally been playing quite well so that as well gives grounds for optimism (although maybe misplaced). Ross County is probably the only game of recent times where you could say we've been atrocious all round.

Some chronic shite about The Big Four. Celtic Killie Motherwell and Aberdeen .

Can I be the first to smell shite?

They might have waited till the guy in the background had finished his pish.

I prefer this picture. You can see the pure hatred in the killie lads eyes....

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand Live 9 Feb 1964

The late collapses happen far too frequently for them to be dismissed as just bad luck. This has been a horrible season and I just hope we have enough to limp over the line to safety. Even if we do stay up, serious questions have to be asked of Archibald and the direction we’re going under him. The warning signs have been there since the League Cup group stages, even before our ridiculous injury list began to take hold. Archie has clearly struggled to manage the largest, strongest squad we’ve had since he took over. Constantly chopping and changing formations, inconsistent team sections and persistently playing players out of position, most notably Barton in midfield and Sammon out on the wing.

It's clearly all about the league. Cups are so 2016.

A pony? It certainly appears their biggest fan talks horseshit

The state of that. It really is magic those c***s died, eh?

"I'm bored with colts now; I paid £6 to see a football match. How much do you diddies pay to watch football? I reckon you should all slash your prices and do family tickets and shit. Bet that's never been tried before, or discussed repeatedly on your diddy forums ad nauseum. You're welcome."

Nothing to do with any Cult of McCann IMO. I reckon he’s still getting support because: 1. He saved us from certain relegation last season. 2. He has already shown he can attract quality players (Hendry, Caulker, Kamara being the obvious three). 3. The board have shown they are willing to stand by their appointments as long as possible. 4. If, and it’s a massive if, we had a half decent striker we’d probably be comfortably mid table, having played some nice football. but Ravabelli is spot on when he says McCann is stubborn just like Hartley. McCann needs to learn quickly that there is a thin line between being determined and being stubborn. Placing so much trust in Moussa and O’Dea might just cost him his job.

The Killers- This River Is Wild

Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll

Peter McCloy the Rangers goalkeeper in this image with Andy Roxburgh of Clydebank challenging him.

What if the King Of England walks in and starts shoving you around?

Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

Maybe people were working or had prior arrangements? I'm sure I speak for a few on here though you are an arsehole and I'm not ashamed to say it.

Tbf, you came on here quite recently chatting shite about not wanting to associate with the people who go to the 200 club. You also rather embarrassingly thanked your alter ego for a pint.

As you may have heard; the winter Olympics are on. The Light of my Life is currently watching the downhill skiing. I'm not. They just flashed up a graphic saying the skier was doing 67.1 mph. LomL: 67 miles per hour. Is that miles or kilometres? Me: You just said it was miles. LomL: Right, but isn't it kilometres? Me: I didn't see it but if it said miles, then it's miles. LomL: But don't they use kilometres in Korea? I'm going to get myself a drink. Anybody want anything?

A travesty of justice. If only he could come back to partner Murray.

Fiver on Trouten fgs @ 7/1 and a tenner on DGW at 11/4. That's all folks...

We’re the bollocks. I’m drunk.

So lads, where does today rank among previous gutless capitulation's from Thistle over the last few years? i) A phenomenal individual performance from Higgy rendered pointless in the end ii) The Conrad Balatoni Show iii) + iv) no fucking comment v) A draw against an absolutely shite Inverness side vi) Seaborne has a header cleared off the line by Tierney a few minutes prior to 10 men Celtic scoring via a ridiculously jammy goal when a Commons shot deflected into the path of Griffiths. vii) Today's shitshow Honourable mention to the game against County where we lost to avoid out on finishing in the top 6. From this season there's also 84+ min goals for Aberdeen and County. There's something wrong, either mentally, physically or tactically with the way we prepare for games and how we set up when in winning positions. Probably a combination of all three. Happens too often to be coincidence.

BTTS Crawley - Lincoln Elgin - Montrose Forfar - Stranraer Morecambe - Forest Green Cambridge - Grismby 15/1 Stranraer goal at 5-0 down and Grimsby with a 90th minute Pen to help it win.

I know you are but what am I

I was taking a group of Albion Rovers supporters round the museum at Hampden yesterday and when we got to the invalid car one of them told me that a relative of his never passed his driving test but had a motorbike licence and was able to drive a "car" similar to this due to the engine being small. He said the guy drove up from England to Coatbridge for family occasions in it - must have taken an absolute age without passengers let alone his wife and their luggage!

This is a pretty good interview with Jack explaining how he turned things around at St Mirren.

That's a post that I just can't agree with Harry. I like your thinking, so I'll attempt to form a rebuttal (Although how successful this will be, I don't know). Firstly, having the ability to bring in 15 players that will contribute to the squad is an insane turnaround in the squad. It shows that he's been backed massively. If we take into account the players that you say are straining the budget, then it's hard not to think that he's been the best backed manager since the Bonetti era in terms of budget. Let's look at each of these signings one by one: Sofien Moussa Randy Wolters Jeremie Malherbe Steven Caulker Elliott Parish Lewis Spence Roarie Deacon Jack Hendry Scott Allan AJ Leitch-Smith Simon Murray Genseric Kusunga Josh Meekings Jon Aurtenexte Glen Kamara Out of those signings, I think Kamara, Jon, Meekings and Hendry are the only definite successes. Obviously it's too early to judge the likes of Kusunga and Caulker. A lot of money will have been spent on this selection of players. It certainly isn't a budget that has had McCann's arms tied behind his back due to the previous manager. I think there's a lot of assumptions in your post. You assume that we will still be paying the likes of Low and Yordi high amounts when Low has been getting paid by Derry for almost the full season now and Yordi was the one that instigated the ripping up of his contract. We have no idea of the rest of the players and how much was spent getting them off the books, so it is futile using those as a defence or indeed an attack on McCann's reign. As far as recruitment goes, in comparison to Hartley's first season, I think McCann is well off, but Hartley did have more room to move admittedly. I'd like to point out Gadzhalov as being a special waste of the budget. McCann tied him down, then proceeded to sign 4 CH's ahead of him throughout the season and values Julen, Waddell and O'Dea ahead of him as well, so to say that Gadzhalov is a 'drain' is more McCann's fault than anyone else. Furthermore, you assume that O'Dea, Holt and Faissal aren't players he'd like to sign. Well, he handed O'Dea the captaincy, dropped Jon for an extended period for Holt and raved about Faissal whilst at Dunfermline and has played him for most of the season, so again, I think you're stretching here, but regardless - even if it were the case, this is something that any competent manager at this level would need to deal with. Just look at Steve Clarke for example. You say if we had one extra effective attacking player we'd be better. Who wouldn't? This is a league that has every team crying out for a Hemmings/Sara/Other great goalscorer. Our refusal to address the striking position in the January window, only acting when Scott Allan came to him and said he wanted to leave is downright criminal. Finally, people say we've been playing well. I see it all the time, and it's draining to be honest. We've maybe played well in periods of games, but we've never really played well. 3-2 Kilmarnock - Killie down to 10 men, 1-2 down, to go on to lose that 3-2 is not playing well. 1-4 County - You've already addressed. Drawing 1-1 with ICT - Not good enough. Going way back to the LC group stages - Scoring in the last minute to save our blushes against league one Raith, then drawing at home to United weren't good performances. Dundee 1-2 RC - Terrible performance. Hamilton 3-0 Dundee - Lauded as a great performance that'd normally see us win. To lose 3-0 to Hamilton can never, ever be considered a good performance though. Dundee 1-1 Hibs - Again, backs to the wall for 90 minutes and Scott Bain's decision to turn up for a game were the only reason we secured a point. I'd argue that we've only had 4-5, really good performances this season: Dundee 2-1 Rangers, Dundee 3-0 Partick, the two St Johnstone games and the second Derby. Don't get me wrong, I want to be positive, for people that have been on P&B for a good while like yourself, you'd know it's not in my nature to bash the manager and I'm usually one of the happy clappers, but I've not seen anything to give me a glimmer of positivity. I hope we smash Partick Thistle today, but at this moment in time it's a do or die battle. We are 5 points worse off than we were this time last season when fans were baying for blood. McCann has been backed, of that their can be no doubts and what have we got to show for it? A decent play style that is costing us more than it is benefiting us with players that can barely play the formation. Like last season, we are down to a team with no width, a stubborn manager, but also now one that doesn't have previous success stories behind him. A win today is massive, for if we lose, I'm genuinely concerned we'll be going down.

Deposit down. 63 plate. Wasn't convinced about the colour but love it in person.

Never wanted a medal anyway, all that polishing .... too much like hard work imo

75% of the stadium was constructed over 40 yrs after he died. It’s a shithole.

Not a single person in that photo knows where the ball is. It's like a renaissance painting with God at the top.

De-fucking-licious. Edit - and defying the laws of gravity, apparently.

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