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8 hours ago, milhouse said:
I think you perhaps need to grow up a little and realise Israel/Palestine is a very complex conflict with 2 sides. The Palestinian side is anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying and violent. Few of us in Scotland, myself included, understand the situation well, and I think this particularly applies to some bampot Celtic fans who, lest we forget, have a penchant for another bloodthirsty terrorist organisation.
I've had a drink and IT isn't my strength, but that's an appalling statement. All Palestinians are anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying and violent? And what, you've met all of them! How do you the think the current state of Israel was formed - terrorism against innocent British servicemen had a big part in it. Away to Ibrox ya clown.
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7 minutes ago, Spiderer said:
New Away Kit is terrific and good on the Sun for giving it such good coverage. Hope we play in it v Thistle. Amazing concept and another world first for the Club, still got it
As a Thistle fan I'd like to consider myself something of an expert on bad strips. That's a shocker! It's on the same level as our pink khaki atrocity. Take away the sponsor's logo and you still have the coolest home strip around though.
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10 hours ago, Tutankhamen said:
Maybe felt like three or four games.
Sadly it was only one game at Rugby Park.
Being a saddoe I checked the Thistle Archive site. Feb 9 1983 Rugby Park, third replay, Killie nil Thistle one. We then played three games (well two and bit) against Clyde before losing to Aberdeen. So eight games in the cup and we never even got to Hampden!
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3 hours ago, Raidernation said:
You got a shot at home if you were drawn at home
You got a shot at home if you drew the first game away.
After that it was neutral because neither side should have an advantage.Thistle v Killie in about 1980 went to four games (I think, could be wrong, could have been three) but deffo no neutral ground involved. Mo Johnston scored the winner in about the 400th minute.
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19 hours ago, dave.j said:
Please keep giving us money. Just hand over everything you've got. Look, you can buy a cardboard cutout of a face no one will ever see, because we are in the fucking pits of Scottish football and you need to pay for us to buy our way out it.
So what are your ideas for raising money for Thistle?
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4 minutes ago, Academically Deficient said:
It would be great for the town. Clyde are still seen by a lot of people as Rutherglen's team, though maybe they've away too long now, I'm not sure.
The local paper still reports their games.
Not sure about that. Lived in Ruglen' for a few years about a decade ago and genuinely only saw a handful of Clyde fans in all that time. Sadly methinks Shawfield is no more as a Glasgow football ground. One of my happiest memories was the 'lights out' fighting free-for-all at the Cup game in the 80's. Made the headlines in the Express and everything!! Scotland's Shame.
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3 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:
Two or three years ago we were flirting with a few potential venues including East Kilbride, Shettleston and a return to Rutherglen.
Since a change of ownership we have recomitted ourselves to Broadwood. I've been an "owner" for a couple of years and there has been zero talk about moving again on the owners' forum in that time, that I can remember.
Others who know more than me and/or live a lot closer will correct me if I'm talking bollocks, I'm sure.
I grew up in EK and there was always chat about youse moving to the Kelvin bowl. Would have been a better move than Broadwood as the ground was more central and in effect ready built.
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3 hours ago, Academically Deficient said:
Being quite local myself, was there not some talk in recent years about Clyde ground sharing with Glencairn, maybe when there were issues with Broadwood?
I remember an old neighbour being quite excited about it. Or maybe I've got that mixed up with the opening of a Witherspoons on the Main St?
I asked about this a few months ago. All I wanted to know was what were the plans for the ground redevelopment. I got a right "we're the juniors, who the feck are you!" response. That was me well telt. Shawfield was a superb ground. It made absolutely no sense as a football stadium but I'd take it over Broadwood any day of the week.
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2 hours ago, Academically Deficient said:
Maybe if I made a cocktail of Guinness and sweetheart stout I could get close enough.
Helluva drouth on me now.
It's a few months since I've been in, but The Tollbooth at Glasgow Cross sells Tennents 60 shilling. I agree, it's a great session drink ( think it's about 3% abv). The Tollbooth is alright as Celtic pubs go. I go there to watch the Gaelic football but leave before the singers start. Apart from a pub in EK I think that's the only place I've seen that still sells it. Don't think I've ever seen it in an offies.
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44 minutes ago, Ingo ohne Flamingo said:
Yep my thoughts, would ideally like a base and that would mean having a hotel.
Looking at sorting this out as I could fly to Berlin, have a few days there then fly to Chisinau, night there, night in Tiraspol then home via Berlin again, flights are cheap as f**k.
I'd genuinely give it a miss. The place is beyond weird, and not in a good way. My pal and I stayed overnight a couple of years ago. The first pub we found was in a huge, and totally deserted, housing estate. The pub was also empty, except for the KGB man in the corner and his mate 'hidden' in the back room. Every restaurant and bar we went to you got the feeling of being followed. Despite being a Saturday the whole place seemed deserted, as if everyone had fled at the end of the Cold War. The 'hotel' was in the keeping with the rest of the place. Despite being the only guests it has a suspiciously large amount of staff. On the drive out to the border we were openly followed by the local plod. Delighted and relieved to get out of the place and back to Chisnau, which was brilliant.
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On 17/07/2020 at 08:55, I am Partacus said:
In the spirit of reconciliation - I remember a cup replay at Boghead a few years before that, must have been late 70s? I think you won 1-0 and Ian Wallace was the star of the show. Seem to remember the crowd being about 6000 or so. Boghead was a great ground.
I was 12 and nearly cried - the injustice of losing to a 'diddy' team when the cup was ours to be won!
. Just about that time my Hibs supporting mate got a kicking at Dumbarton East. He claimed it was the Boghead casuals but ah hae ma doots! Unlucky guy, he went to see them at Berwick (George Best era methinks) and was shot in the head with an air rifle! Feck it, that was what football was about back in the day.
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1 hour ago, shawfield shed boy said:
Wrong. Celtic offered us parkhead Games on a Sunday
My phone is jigged, so apologies if this is the third time I've sent this, but why on earth would the notoriously penny-pinching Celtic board of that era think they could make money out of renting Parkhead to a crowd of 500 max?
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18 minutes ago, shawfield shed boy said:1 hour ago, third lanark said:They did eventually get their payment for Morgan which they kindly let us pay over a number of instalments over a period of time. If Forfar had not kindly let us do that then we would really have been in deep deep trouble
bit of a strange thing to bring up now though considering your not a Forfar fan, maybe the equivalent of a Montrose fan asking what would Clyde have done when the were kicked out of shawfield and another team had not let them use their stadium But I do appreciate that was a year ago and fans of the cuddly ship might not remember it
Not strange Q. Buying a player from a fellow relegation troubled club knowing fine well you were in trouble should never be forgotten , Wee bit like lining the pockets of your club with a LOT of money each year and our one of grateful agreements was our club shop to be ran from a turnstyle top end o the hill. How lucky we were indeed
Where do you think you would have ended up if you hadn't agreed to move to Firhill? No idea what you're talking about re the club shop but I'm pretty sure we didn't even have a club shop at that time. If you want to go down the moral route, weren't you fined a few years ago for, illegally, charging Thistle fans more to get in than your lot? Anyways FTOF.
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On 05/07/2020 at 17:37, O'Kelly Isley III said:
That Cup defeat still haunts me, as we had been the better team on the day, but if you don't take your chances.....I can still see Andy Anderson rising to head home from that late corner
There were some epic games between our clubs in the 70's. Happy days.In the spirit of reconciliation - I remember a cup replay at Boghead a few years before that, must have been late 70s? I think you won 1-0 and Ian Wallace was the star of the show. Seem to remember the crowd being about 6000 or so. Boghead was a great ground.
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On 17/03/2020 at 13:12, Disco Duck said:
Shamelessly lifted from Twitter! Of the 42 grounds in Scottish professional football:
1) how many have you visited
2) how many have you seen your team play at
3) what was the first one you visited
4) what was the last one you visited
5) what was your favourite (for whatever reason you like)
6) what was your least favourite?
All bar the new Cove, the new East Fife and Edinburgh City Barring those listed, everywhere including Clydebank and East Stirling (I think it was was the first game Alan Rough played after appearing in the World Cup!
). First ground visited was Douglas Park in 1976 - we won and it was a 'hide your scarf job' on the way out. Last one - Alloa away, plastic pitch, no shared shed with local dafties throwing wine bottles at you! Best was the old Boghead in a Scottish Cup quarter final. We scored at our end with a few minutes to go. Great crowd, great ground. Least favourite is the new Boghead/Bayview/Shawfield.
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1 hour ago, Boo Khaki said:
Perhaps it does, but there are countries all over the planet with populations with ties to other countries. Like @topcat(The most tip top) says, why on earth are (mostly English) TV presenters getting all worked up and treating Ireland like a home nation when Ireland play France? There are far more people in the UK descended from French people (Normans) than there are Irish, yet France don't get the same treatment.
Aye ok. I'm forever hearing people in Scotland going on about their Norman lineage! Maybe, just maybe, it's a TV channel trying to relate to their potential audience and no more than that.
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On 07/06/2020 at 07:12, Boo Khaki said:
UK TV presenters fawning over the Republic of Ireland at international tournaments. Desperate to talk them up and give them the 'home nation' treatment. It's a foreign country, and I couldn't give a single shiny shite about Irish football or Irish footballers. Might as well be Botswana, Turks and Caicos Islands, or any other backwater foreign country you care to name.
There are approximately six million people in the UK with some sort of Irish heritage. Perhaps this has something to do with it?
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38 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:1 hour ago, I am Partacus said:Where do you stand on smoking breaks at work? In our place some people can easily spend an hour a day in the smoking shelter letting others cover for them.
Same place as I did when I was a smoker - no more or less time than non smokers. Any piss taking should be addressed either by management or the time honored boot-pie interface.
'Boot-pie interface', I thought you were meant to be a TU rep? Why should smokers get any privilege over non-smokers? In my work we have Flexi clocks, every time the subject of smokers using their own time to indulge their habit, civil war breaks out.
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10 minutes ago, Gaz FFC said:
2 hours a day is taking the piss
Blame the drink. Though I put the cans in the bin.
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8 hours ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:
Lazy, lazy stereotype-attacking.
Smokers are smelly.*
I have to walk past their smoke to access my drug of choice in the pub**
They chuck their fag-ends all over the pavement.***
They pay a shitload of tax into the treasury every year, more than covering the cost to the NHS of treating smoking-related disorders - then die earlier, removing a burden not only on the NHS but also the care system and State Pension funds.****
* Undeniable, but very variable smoker to smoker. Far from the worst smell you'll encounter in the daily round - much worse found on PT or the average office environment, fo example.
** Alcohol is a far, far bigger danger than smoking - and not just to the user.
*** Save your outrage for those who dump furniture and appliances in our countryside. If it's pavements you're concerned about, let's start by borrowin BFTD's cone and go after the cúnts with chewing gum.
**** Actually agree with this.
Full disclosure - I smoked for thirty plus years before stopping six years ago. The demonisation of smokers is still something which pisses me off big style (even though I really can't stand the smell of people having smoked in an area, they're taxpayers and otherwise decent people). Perhaps reserve one's ire for those who discriminate on grounds of race, faith, gender or orientation? Far bigger impact on the victims' lives than catching a whiff of GV as you got for a pint of Tennents, imho.
Where do you stand on smoking breaks at work? In our place some people can easily spend an hour a day in the smoking shelter letting others cover for them.
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8 hours ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:
Lazy, lazy stereotype-attacking.
Smokers are smelly.*
I have to walk past their smoke to access my drug of choice in the pub**
They chuck their fag-ends all over the pavement.***
They pay a shitload of tax into the treasury every year, more than covering the cost to the NHS of treating smoking-related disorders - then die earlier, removing a burden not only on the NHS but also the care system and State Pension funds.****
* Undeniable, but very variable smoker to smoker. Far from the worst smell you'll encounter in the daily round - much worse found on PT or the average office environment, fo example.
** Alcohol is a far, far bigger danger than smoking - and not just to the user.
*** Save your outrage for those who dump furniture and appliances in our countryside. If it's pavements you're concerned about, let's start by borrowin BFTD's cone and go after the cúnts with chewing gum.
**** Actually agree with this.
Full disclosure - I smoked for thirty plus years before stopping six years ago. The demonisation of smokers is still something which pisses me off big style (even though I really can't stand the smell of people having smoked in an area, they're taxpayers and otherwise decent people). Perhaps reserve one's ire for those who discriminate on grounds of race, faith, gender or orientation? Far bigger impact on the victims' lives than catching a whiff of GV as you got for a pint of Tennents, imho.
Where do you stand on smoking breaks at work? In our place some people can easily spend an hour a day in the smoking shelter letting others cover for them.
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6 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Absolutely love Williams Brothers stuff. Definitely my favourite Scottish brewery.
Where did you get said beer?
Aldi. £1.29 a can. On that theme they have an Orange version (not my thang - too Orangey). Also an Elderberry and Lime IPA which was acceptable but tasted of nothing like Elderberry and Lime! Aldi seems to have a much better range than Lidl.
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3 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Have never been to that one so I'll take your word for it.
Any of the one's been to have been fine. The one at Edinburgh airport sells cans that you can put in to your carry on luggage!
I'm impressed! The one in Finnieston on is like a Clyde fans wet dream of a Thistle pub - goatees, unicyclists, Scrabble playing compulsory, yada yada. Back on topic - Williams Bros Rubus Grapefruit IPA. Excellente.
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4 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
I don't care about their advertising. I've liked all of their bars I've been in (except the prices!) and I like most of their beers. I didn't even know about them until me and a friend went to one of their bars in Dundee in 2014.
Don't get the hate they get on here. Much of it is made up stuff (most notably that their bars are full of snobs who mock anyone who doesn't like Brewdog products).
But then it doesn't affect me. I'll continue to drink their beers and, when I can, will have the odd pint in one of their bars (as I said, it's pricey, although their prices haven't changed much in years and 'regular' pubs seem to be fast catching up in that regard).
I don't 'hate' them, in fact I'm happy that a Scottish company is making an impact abroad and creating revenue for our country. I just see their marketing as, just well that, no different from a multinational brewer. Their pub in West End Glasgow is beyond dreadful though.
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The Partick Thistle thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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You said that the Palestinian "side" were 'anti-Semitic, violent and Holocaust-denying' (obviously, because every single one of them voted for Hamas). If you can't see that as completely racist then you have a problem.