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Dempster away.

Tangible feeling of elation and joy post-match. You sit for weeks/months and question what the f**k you’re doing and a spirited performance and three points hooks you back and makes you feel like you’ve just won the Champions League. Don’t care how shite Dunfermline were and how many injuries they had. It was about us tonight. C’mon the fuckin Queen’s.

Whatever combination of what ever you do here won’t matter. It’ll be effective enough. Just clip it down the side, either cut it back and slot it in, or loft it onto the head of an attacker who will score from a stationary position.

We were absolutely shite that day, so I wouldn’t say worse but I also wouldn’t say better.

Just completely exhausted by it all now tbh. 1-3.

My understanding is that someone else is informally, for the time being, involved in that side of things. Wouldn’t like to name any names or drop any hints.

It looks likely that we’ll see a reasonable amount of change at the club within the next week or so, but let’s keep in mind that that all of this is the result of complete mismanagement and any attempts at painting this as a brave new dawn should be loudly scoffed at. There has been no accountability for any of the numerous shambles that have occurred since we turned pro. If we go with business as usual, we cannot expect different outcomes. I have reservations about the structure of the club, but that’s one for the longer term. The structure is the structure and that’s what we currently have to work with. With that in mind, we obviously need fresh blood and fresh ideas when it comes to decision making. I’ll be backing Lynne and David for the committee and would urge every other member who is feeling disillusioned to do the same. If you can’t make it to the AGM, make your vote count with a proxy. The result may or may not be successful, but it’s important that a strength of feeling is shown. We can either do something or do nothing. The latter is only going to see the same things continuing to happen. It’s notable that two of the sitting members didn’t submit statements in support of their candidacies and I’m also told that there have been deals offered and rejected to one or more of the new candidates. It really is very grubby stuff and says an awful lot about how certain factions within the club view their own positions and, indeed, the voice of the membership.

An unmitigated disaster, driven by people who are all “project” and no football, forgetting that the latter is the most important part in terms of delivering on the former. With our resources, we should be having a solid season, maybe not troubling the top four, but certainly not being at risk of going down. Big over performance on the park last season, the opposite this season. A complete clusterfuck off it and everyone involved in the decision making should be embarrassed.

Unforeseen circumstances mean that I’m no longer attending. Hopeful that I miss something ridiculous happening, but just can’t see it.

There is an obvious opportunity for grovelling and begging here. He had guys who were toiling in League One flying in the Championship and gave us some unbelievable highs. We must to ask the question, even if it’s only to be laughed at.

Airdrie game killed his chances of getting the gig and it looks like he knows it. A win off the back of the United game might have put him in the frame.

Doubt it. You’ve got our number. Clip it down the sides, cut it back, score.

The stadium shambles and the silence and eventual lies about it has been the main driver. Nobody at the club willing to front up. The only visible presence you see engaging with punters on a Saturday is Kieran Koszary. Dempster and the committee are nowhere. We’re so bound by the antiquated membership guff, that it’s a complex operation to untie the knots. Don’t know where we go, but there’s no way the status quo can hold over the medium to long term. Completely unfit for purpose.

- Make sure their mates are re-elected. - Avoid or deflect legitimate questions and criticisms. - Go immediately back into hiding.

At least two of the three.

Will be our lowest ever Firhill support. Be lucky if we take 200. Will only be the habituals, the lunatics and the people who hate life. See you in the Star and Garter.

Any Haughey questions will be deftly danced around. All difficult questions are. Transparency is a huge issue and it’s the structure of the club that allows it to be this way. The honest truth is that the status quo suits the hierarchy. We can pretend that “anyone can become a member” as if it’s as simple as that. Needing existing members to propose and second people is an instant “nah, yer awrite” for most people inhabiting this planet in 2023. People want a say in their football club, not to join the masons or Whitecraigs Golf Club. We can pretend it’s open, but it’s not the perception.

They’ve been asked questions before. It doesn’t matter. The structure of the club is utterly absurd in 2023. The only reason to retain the status quo seems to be “it’s the way we’ve always done it.” I’ll be voting for a couple of new faces, but ultimately we’re kidding ourselves if we think we can continue to run the club like this and expect anything to change. We have lurched between disaster and shambles off the pitch for the past few years. Haughey’s money has acted as a sticking plaster for some utterly spectacular mismanagement.

Innovative. Ambition. Bullshit.

Until we have a serious conversation about the structure of the football club, we’re going nowhere. So many folk with non-jobs at the club, enjoying perks and contributing the sum total of nothing. There is no accountability for anything. There will be elections to the committee in the coming weeks and there will be folk who I’m backing, but regardless of what happens, anyone who thinks the wider support has any confidence in the current hierarchy is kidding themselves. Not that they actually care about that sort of thing. We don’t actually know if our manager is our manager and we don’t know what stadium we’re playing at next season. We’re also bottom of the league through a mixture of complete arrogance and utter delusion. We deserve it tbh. Club needs gutted from top to bottom.

Got what we deserved. Might as well just copy and paste from any number of other match threads.

Genuinely didn’t even realise that. Just assumed it had it, despite being in relatively regularly. Usually rolling off a bus pished, right enough. In terms of the game, I’m liking Nuijten’s chat more than Veldman and Beuker’s. Less waffle about philosophy and more about the desire to win games and what’s required to do it. Refreshing, but ultimately the talking needs to be done on the park.

Closest ones that I can think of without a tele are Ryan’s, The Bell Jar, Rum Shack and the Rose Reilly. All a touch hipsterish on the clientele front, but probably your best bet if you’re looking to avoid the game. 15/20 minute walk or you can nick onto the 1441 at Queen’s Park, which is less than five minutes to Mount Florida. Often the cheat route I take for a Scotland game in order to secure an extra pre-match pint.

We haven’t scored a goal. Set up very well against United and deserves great credit for that. Morton was absolutely honking and his subs were insane. Win on Saturday and it tips into decent territory.

We looked so much better as a unit against United, but this will be an entirely different type of game. Would expect this one to be more open, which doesn’t necessarily suit us. We really need a win, but a point wouldn’t kill morale. A defeat would. My worry is who exactly is conducting our transfer business? We need bodies in in January and normal functioning football clubs will already be working on this. We don’t actually even know how long Nuijten is in charge for.