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I have a feeling that early on when VAR looked like it was coming in, a few posters pointed out that the media backing for it was pretty much driven by exactly whats unfolded. They don't have to do boring things like talk about how a team pressed intelligently or actually analyse games in any sort of meaningful way (some of them are incapable, but even for the smarter ones that can pick up on little details on how a team is playing during a match, it just isn't sexy/controversial enough) - they can just describe the events as they happen on the pitch almost literally (the Alan Shearer "well he gets the ball, runs forward a bit and then scores a fantastic goal, keeper had no chance" method), knowing that there'll be at least one call that VAR either makes or doesn't make which they can fixate over post-match. This will rumble on for a few days and boom, high quality broadcasting/print journalism that deals with slow news days in their cycle. Get it to f**k.

You pretty much always have to caveat whoever you're picking tbf; anyone that legit shone out for us almost certainly wasn't here for long or if they did have a few seasons at the club, wasn't able to sustain it consistently or they would have gotten a bigger/more lucrative move somewhere else. Makes Doolan's career all the more special, come to think of it, tbf. Plus there's guys like Erskine, Lawless and Archibald who left but came back. Also just remembered Lawless goal against Aberdeen, would be my pick for goal of the century. Typically I'm sure we still lost that game, but the Scott Brown goal last night jogged my memory a bit, wasn't a volley but a similar gorgeous dipping action on the shot. Wooft. edit: actually no. Erskine against Airdrie.

Im with O2, and every so often get a text (that is legit) about resetting a pin/password. Then a phone call from all over the shop, claiming to be able to get a 40% discount if I confirm my pin with them. First time I got one I was a bit confused (because the text looked legit but the call clearly wasnt) - read the text down to the end and it said O2 will never call you for this pin. Called the scammer a p***k and hung up & blocked him, but every few weeks some con artist chances it again. Edit: actually i think o2 send 2/3 different texts for whatever the scammers are trying, took a skim before i clocked the warning. Im not even sure what they can do if you fall for it, but i suppose phone numbers are really important now with e.g. authentication texts and calls so thats their angle somewhere. Change the number on your o2 account and try to access other sensitive/lucrative accounts?

I'm really annoyed at myself for not using The Blurred Line instead of The Albarn Line. Also adds an excuse to fling up digital billboards of a scantily clad, writhing Emily Ratjowski - much like the Blade Runner 2049 "You look lonely. I can fix that." Joi adverts to really complete that contemporary, dystopian effect.

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Quite like doing this as a wee memory exercise if nothing else! Not pinning down a formation, just throwing out names. Feels weird not mentioning Archibald, partner him in as an old head beside Liam Lindsay. GK - Cerny is the clear standout. Infamously good at shithousing and some MOTM displays - sure he got POTY at least once with us, too. Edit: single handedly made at least 3 genuinely unbelievable stops in one match against Dundee Utd when we were in a relegation battle and all. Scott Fox was decent but unspectacular. A few stinkers we've had e.g. Bryn Halliwell, that Stuckmann guy, Scully was generally poor despite being good at Dunfermline. RB: Stephen O'Donnell. Dumbuya in his first season was incredible, really gutted he went into decline. CB: Liam Lindsay pretty much nailed on as a centre back of the century (got to be our highest ever goalscoring defender in a single season in the top flight post war, surely + he got into the SPFL team of the year I'm sure) LB: ATS was excellent at bombing down the left. Paddy Boyle, of all people, was a POTY one season I'm sure. Funny how football can work out. Marc Twaddle was good, but not as much of a standout as ATS. CM: A good few, can't really pick one but just some nominations: Stuart Bannigan (pre-injury) David Rowson (just for the odd 30-35 yarder, not many but they were worth the entry fee) Paul Cairney (legit excellent with us and won a move to Hibs on the back of it, but afaik he was a bit of a bam. Like Boyle, career nosedived after us.) Gary Fraser: booting 30 yarders in against Hearts, Fifer heads and the ball at Celtic fans. What a man. LM: Weird due to currently having Fitzpatrick on the left & Lawless on the right. Erskine, kinda, maybe. Fitzpatrick looks like he'd be fine in the top flight, if Michael O'Halloran can have a solid top flight career by being fast, direct and scoring the odd goal, so can Fitzpatrick. AM: Erskine again, ha. Failing that, Gary Harkins. RM: Lawless, mainly on current form. Unplayable for most of the playoff run last season. Did have a fair few good games there in the top flight too. ST: Liam Buchanan, Lyle Taylor, Brian Graham and Kris Doolan. Mark Roberts was indeed great. Wish we'd had Scott McDonald for at least a couple of seasons prior to when he did join us, could well have had a huge impact for us. JACK OF ALL TRADES: Christie Elliot. Absolute banger against Celtic, legit a good guy afaik. Brilliant cross for a Doolan header against Rangers. Let us never speak of what happened after that cross again.

Beaten this point to death and past a certain point it'll lose its merits, but we lost multiple key players after the playoffs so as backed up by the above, I'd still maintain that Doolan is doing well. Legit was expecting to be closer to the relegation playoff than where we are now & we pumped County out the cup to help give Derek Adams a firm GIRUY. Also think he's managing some of the younger players well, clearly trusts Stanway as a regular & he's not afraid to give minutes to a few others. There's the odd question mark over things like not getting the best out of Dowds, signing Wes McDonald (possibly Luke McBeth but that's presumably a low-risk punt) and his use of subs tbf, but especially in comparison to, say, a Caldwellesque jobber or McCall losing the dressing room he's shown enough thus far to keep the faith. Edit: this game remains one of the weirdest to me under McCall, and I'm convinced there was something up behind the scenes - don't think Doolan is abrasive enough for something like this to happen. https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-fixture/partick-thistle-v-hamilton-academical-28th-january-2023/ No senior players on the subs bench then lost the next game 1-0 to cove with Graham, Muirhead, Tiffoney and Brownlie all on the bench...

I sort of like this but imagine there'd be a way to ease up on the subjectivity in a less convoluted way - the simpler things can be kept, the easier it is for fans, players and referees to follow and avoid nonsense like the Graham Poll x3 yellow card debacle. Think there is definitely a legitimate gripe that if you watch a full season of football you'll see inconsistencies for what draws a yellow and what doesn't, but thats not always the referees fault. Each match and incident on its own merits etc. A yellow card on the face of it is a reasonably strong punishment as it is - you know as a player if you get one more, you're aff + the more you get as a player, you'll end up getting hit with suspensions. Reds are strong too given they can result in chunky suspensions, although there's a quirk that the less time is on the clock in a match the less effective a punishment they become. Giving referees the option of something slightly weaker than a yellow card might be better than giving them some kind of orange/blue card, perhaps? No sin bin nonsense for me, Clive. Uno Reverse Card/Grey Card/Get Out Of Jail Free Card/Deathrite Shaman Card - a precursor to a yellow. Two of these are equivalent to one yellow card. Yellow card - same as it ever was, two of these and you get a red Red card - same as it is now More flexibility *should* mean that different offences on the pitch can be weighted a bit better than they are now (so things that intuitively look like harsh yellows at present can still be tracked by the ref more consistently - think things like persistent fouling are, by their nature, quite hard for referees to consistently punish. Might also embolden referees for things like encroachment, timewasting, dissent etc. which they're otherwise reluctant to dish out yellows for)

Nope, had it in my head we were already champions by the Airdrie game. Do remember that 3-3 though, that was cracking tbf. Going to go and read up on our last few games that season as a palatte cleanser. Edit: ahh, the Airdrie game was the one right after James Craigen Day, thats why. Felt like the league was won after that but aye, wasnt sealed til we beat Falkirk and iirc Morton fell apart completely for their last few games after we beat them.

Maybe one for the Thistle Archive & idk if its too hard to pull, plus it was a cup game - how often have we gone at least a goal up in a game over the last decade and not seen it out to draw/lose vs. how often have we gone at least a goal down and turned it around to draw/win? Feels like the former happens an awfy lot more than the latter. County playoffs, yesterday, the two 90+5 debacles against Rangers in the same season that i thought i was over but no, still got footballing PTSD from it, losing 2-1 to Dundee/Hamilton back to back, losing 4-3 away to Motherwell from 3-2 up... Conversely the most memorable comeback coming to mind is the Christie Elliot Airdrie game after we'd already (edit; more or less) won the league. Edit: 4-3 Raith game this season we lost, too. Had a wee google and seen this, think i mind the game, another previous shitshow against County. https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/17456066.steven-anderson-accuses-partick-thistle-showing-soft-touch/

Tbf, Nouble didnt just take his goal really well but he was extremely diligent getting back against Lawless who had a mixed game at best as a result, which made it a lot harder for him to cut inside and do anything other than either give the ball away or at best find an unthreatening sideways pass.

Did just remember that we pumped Derek Adams at least, but not being able to exorcise the play-off loss to Livi in the same season...

Yep, the subs we made killed us off in the game and left us completely and utterly disjointed. Livi deserved it but f**k me, i'd like a Thistle team just once in my lifetime to not be as soft as my first ever shite.

Yeah, no clue where Diack is meant to be playing. Penalties maybe, but the playoffs...

Not only has it hit a Livi player before going out I think its off his arm Ref having a complete shitshow, total lottery what he's giving.

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me, burned out on FM, trying to work out what adjusting the multitude of sliders/instructions/settings actually fucking does:

Hi all - posting as a general query if anyone can help. Ive got time off work to cover the group stages, was hoping some overtime would be on offer at my work over the next few weeks but doesnt look like thats happening. Does anyone have a back of a fag packet idea how much in £ per day would cover, say, 11 days in Germany? Ive got some savings i can dip into but im leaving it last minute, basically waiting to build up as much as I can out of my next four wages then look at wherever is cheapest. Not too fussed where i end up, pal of mine is debating hiring a car and just driving through and all. Im fairly frugal and too old for getting shitfaced every night im out there, ha - but aye, enough for a few pints, accomodation, flights and food and im happy. Maybe chip in with my pal for car hire and fuel which would save on flights, although thinking on it he may have meant hiring a car while already out in Germany. I quite fancied a ferry across to Amsterdam or something personally

I have no imagination, so I had a wee look at a couple of former loanees (one got cancelled due to Covid though) - Declan Glass is still at Dundee Utd and just went out to Cove Rangers on loan, so thats a no go. Last loan with us was cut short due to injury iirc. Declan McDaid is over in Ireland and played with Doolan, no clue if we'd be sniffing about him/if he'd be interested/what his current contract situation is, but we did try to get him on loan a few seasons back. Might've played against Wasiri Williams and all for another tenuous connection. Thanks for reading my baseless speculation, feel free to add your own posts pining for big handsome Gabriel Piccolo.

I was confused and looking for child support payments in there tbf

edit: genuinely scares me that there are people out there willing to talk to you straight faced about how God wanted him to buy a nice new conservatory with your money, and also that he had a discussion with Him about liquidity where the Lord sayeth "trust me bro lmao". I mean leaving aside shitting on crypto the fact that there are utter psychopaths like this out there that you're going to have to deal with in life is worrying. The damage these people do to society is immense.

I know its not in isolation a hallmark of being a beast, but it also tracks with the more innocent stuff thats came out about him being such a power/control freak that he flies into a rage whenever he sneezes. I think (having dived in two footed to the thread), theres an interpretation that it started off being consensual - with an asterix given their employer/employee relationship and if her parents had indeed recently passed away) and maybe even a bit of a Fifty Shades of Grey vibe to it, but i) it escalates into more and more depravity for McMahon to get his thrills and ii) as it escalates she feels increasingly uncomfortable about being pimped out. Also if she needed surgery, dont think it states whether its plastic surgery or she's ended up injured in the course of the abuse. Also going by the texts McMahon made thinly veiled reputational threats that going public would ruin not just him but her too.