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How long are the Partick Thistle board going to wait, until the team becomes detached from any potential play off slot ?
Archibald has been a loyal servant to the club and had a good spell as manager, but seems to have lost the ability to sign decent players as well as not being able to teach the team how to defend.
Time to go before he tarnishes all the good things he has done in the past, thanks for the memories, please don't sour it by hanging on by your fingernails.


It’s an odd post, given we could go 4th this weekend ? Admittedly, we could go 2nd bottom
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17 hours ago, jagsfan57 said:

 

 


It’s an odd post, given we could go 4th this weekend ? Admittedly, we could go 2nd bottom

 

I would be shocked if we got to the heady heights of 4th in the Championship this weekend, maybe if Dobbie gets lost on the way to Firhill we could scrape a draw.

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Article in The National today regarding the Coulibaly situation

 

Partick Th have been told by the Egyptian FA that their hopes of securing Coulibaly rests with FIFA, but they have been warned that the case is the same as the situation regarding Essam El Hadary when he moved to Switzerland 10 years ago which took 2 years to resolve

Coulibaly (23) was sold by Kilmarnock to Al Ahly for £800,000 in January 17 but left them 4 months later claiming have had been extremely badly treated.

Al Ahly complained to FIFA  and he has been left in limbo despite Thistle signing him last month.

Thistle enlisted the SFA's help in trying to get the Egyptian FA to hand over an international transfer certificate and the Africans had not responded, but now EFA director Magdy Abdel Ghani has said his body will not forward the documentation . He said "With regards to the Scottish FA's complaint, it has nothing to do with us, it is to do with Al Ahly as he is their player. We cannot send it without their approval. I expect the same thing to happen to Coulibaly as what happened with El Hadary. It will go to FIFA and I am sure Al Ahly's rights will be upheld"

The 45 year old keeper walked out and joined Sion in a case that took more than two years to resolve.

 

Sadly really can't see him ever playing a competitive game for us

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21 hours ago, Sting777 said:

Article in The National today regarding the Coulibaly situation

 

Partick Th have been told by the Egyptian FA that their hopes of securing Coulibaly rests with FIFA, but they have been warned that the case is the same as the situation regarding Essam El Hadary when he moved to Switzerland 10 years ago which took 2 years to resolve

Coulibaly (23) was sold by Kilmarnock to Al Ahly for £800,000 in January 17 but left them 4 months later claiming have had been extremely badly treated.

Al Ahly complained to FIFA  and he has been left in limbo despite Thistle signing him last month.

Thistle enlisted the SFA's help in trying to get the Egyptian FA to hand over an international transfer certificate and the Africans had not responded, but now EFA director Magdy Abdel Ghani has said his body will not forward the documentation . He said "With regards to the Scottish FA's complaint, it has nothing to do with us, it is to do with Al Ahly as he is their player. We cannot send it without their approval. I expect the same thing to happen to Coulibaly as what happened with El Hadary. It will go to FIFA and I am sure Al Ahly's rights will be upheld"

The 45 year old keeper walked out and joined Sion in a case that took more than two years to resolve.

 

Sadly really can't see him ever playing a competitive game for us

Two years? No problem. Archie will have delivered us  back into the Championship after a memorable and craftily-planned flirtation with the Lowland League. :rolleyes:

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Archibald in the BBC report:

"In the first game of the season down at Ayr we had three subs. The difference now is we have a full bench and we actually could pick and choose who goes on. Long may that continue. We've waited a long time to get the guys back."

Is it just me, or was the main reason we had three subs to start the season with because AA simply hadn't bought anywhere near enough players over the entire summer?  It wasn't really the result of an injury crisis, so this seems like quite a bizarre thing to highlight in his own defence.  Since then we've got Banzo back - but lost O'Ware long term.  The reason we have more players now is that we did a lot of last-minute panic buying, of which the best example is Ntambwe.

We played well yesterday, other than the two brain-farts for QOS to score from, immediately putting us on the back foot, but boy do we (still!!) need an actual right back.

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1 hour ago, jagsfan57 said:

I think that bringing in Ntambwe is the result of both McCarthy and Gordon getting injured.
The only position we are light in cover now is right back.
Ntambwe certainly doesn’t look like he knows what he is supposed to do when he comes on.
Does he speak English ?

He doesn't even speak Belgian.

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