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Possibly yeah, it's been quite a gruelling season for everyone though so I think the playoffs will be a slog no matter who ends up in them. My biggest concern if I'm Raith, Thistle, or Morton is one of the three falling down to 5th and being replaced by someone in the chasing pack coming into them on good form given how important momentum can be.

Surprised to read a few Thistle fans in this thread say they'd like Raith to win the league. Surely if you're being pragmatic, United finishing second (assuming nobody gets promoted through the playoffs) is a bad thing if you've any ambition of kicking on and challenging for the title next season? I would imagine most teams would rather see the back of them, and hope nobody else with that sort of squad and budget gets relegated.

This is exactly why I was so disappointed when they gave us such a bland away top, they're usually class. The home one was fine, it just came after Admiral's near perfect effort and we were all adjusting to not having Irn-Bru as a sponsor anymore.

I would hope any extension to Savoury's contract will be multiple years, to avoid him coming back and being picked up by someone else for free at the end of next season if he returns to the level he's capable of playing at.

It was about time as well. We'd probably be at least 10 points better off playing like this from the start of the season, and that's before the actual improvement in the playing squad that Davidson's signings have made. August to January were absolutely maddening but totally self inflicted; if we stay up though we have the core of a strong Championship squad signed up for next season, which will hopefully only get even better.

Fair, but they're already a bit closer than Darvel ever got. And Clyde going down will just be funny anyway.

EK are going to come up one way or another in the next couple of years, might as well relegate Clyde in the process for a laugh.

The penalty looked like one of the few decisions he might have got right, it was everything else he made an arse of.

Yep, we'd all be delighted with it, but the post I quoted seemed to be suggesting 8th should be avoided. I'm assuming they meant 9th!

That 8th spot would do me just fine.

Airdrie have scored the fewest goals in the league (joint with Arbroath) and we've had 4 clean sheets in our last 5 games. Hopefully we can stifle them well enough and hit back a couple of times on the counter. I actually think a draw would be a bad result here. We have a tough run of fixtures coming up, and need to be taking as many points as we can from the teams outside the top 4 unless we want to be in the mix for the relegation playoffs right up until the last day of the season.

There have been at least 15 teams better than Greenock Morton in Scotland 27 out in the past 30 years if my quick Google search is right, so regularly bucking that trend seems like a reasonable objective to me.

All four of these teams are well and truly in the mix.

If that's the case then I obviously hope he's doing better now; like anyone else who plays for us I still hope he does well and proves me wrong, but I've not seen anywhere near enough from him to believe he has what it takes to compete at this level.

I think his main issue is ability rather than attitude, but I do find it unusual that a young guy who must've had offers on the table and was obviously waiting for others didn't keep himself fit over the summer unless he was considering retiring at the ripe old age of 20.

I've heard a few comments along the same lines suggesting that whoever finishes 9th will likely stay up, but I think it's far too early to be confident of that. Having seen us get promoted through them a couple of years ago despite being relatively poor for most of the season, I believe it's all about momentum at the right time. If Airdrie, for example, were to slide down the table and find themselves in a playoff tie against an on form Alloa I certainly wouldn't be putting any money on them staying up. Arbroath on the other hand have struggled massively this season, but if they somehow claw their way out of the bottom spot they'll be feeling good about themselves and I'd give them a real shot of staying up. It's all about how you find yourself in 9th come the end of the season (and the form of the League One playoff sides).

Fingers crossed.

Surely nobody still thinks McKinstry should get a game after that today? He floats about the pitch and the game just passes right by him. A very poor player.

Yeah I casually follow the Maryland Terrapins who have started the season fairly well! Found this very funny from the Padres Dodgers game tonight:

I believe the age limit is only for Celtic and Rangers as it's their B teams that enter the the tournament, whereas for us, Thistle, and Clyde it's officially our first team despite however many youths we play in it. If I'm not mistaken we're expected to play a certain number of recognised first team players.

What's the deal with Ross Docherty, is he injured again? I don't necessarily expect us to get a result here, but I definitely think it's a possibility.

If we are signing Sheridan until the end of the season it's purely to bulk up the squad and give us another option off the bench. Nothing to get excited about but hardly the end of the world either.

Tommy Robson as well, although I think his days at the club are probably numbered, he's definitely struggled for a fair while now.

And he still made the Championship team of the season. It's almost as if one daft performance doesn't define a goalkeeper.

I do actually. His saves were fantastic, the shots he kept out would have beaten the vast majority of goalkeepers. Hope that helps!