Fitbafollower Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I wouldn’t mind watching some of your promotion winning team that was a good team with some impressive players and performances some good goals and results 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Ian McCall last wrote to you on the day you would have expected to be reading his pre-match programme notes; today is the same, so he writes to you again. Saturday afternoon at 3pm; as a boy growing up in Dumfries I could plan my whole week around this sacred time, knowing with some certainty what I would be doing. I would be at Palmerston Park (in those days one of the best grass pitches in Scotland) with my dad watching Alan Ball, Peter Dickson, Jim Donald et al playing for my home town team, Queen of the South. Before I state the obvious about how times have changed, I must refer to my favourite game in this early period of my football life; let’s be honest, we all have a few of these!!! Strangely enough, or perhaps not due to the strange nature of Scottish football, it was against Ayr United, the club that I owe a great deal to. The score … 5-4 to Queens at a windy, sodden Palmerston and a Peter Dickson hat-trick. What a game!! Although TV has at times changed our Saturday routine, it is doubtful whether we will ever have a moan about this again as the current disruption is of a far, far more serious nature. The pandemic we are all facing is a truly gruesome, silent foe and before I get to an update on football matters; please take care, of yourselves, of the people you love, and of all your neighbours. The players all have their fitness schedules to follow. We have split them into five groups to make monitoring their work a little bit easier and to a man (it seems!!), they are following their programmes to maintain a good base level of fitness. They are all currently fit and well. When they can get back to work is a little more difficult to predict but perhaps not of the utmost importance at this time. The players and I are making phone calls to supporters, to keep in touch, in recognition of the fact that we are all in this together. On this note I must apologise to Mr Lawson Spiers, who I phoned on Thursday; I was expecting to speak to a 12-year-old but he informed me that he was a little bit older, born in the fifties!! Lastly, our CEO (the King of Spain) has told me of the incredible effort of our fans, who if we are being brutally honest have had a turgid two or three years, in terms of getting in touch to see how they could help the club they love. It is quite humbling to hear. Please take care. IMc. Ps in the next instalment, I may tell you why I love the Jags, what my favourite Jags game is and anything else you want to know!!!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamJags Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Just had a call from Robert Reid asking if I was keeping well. As glad as I was that 1) he is still kicking about and 2) it wasn't one of our shitebag players calling, it felt a bit like role reversal. The guy is about 105 and struggles to walk, but he's the one asking if I'm coping okay.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurph Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Watching The English Game (vomit) on Netflix. Even the c***s on this call us 'Partick' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold Layne Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Smurph said: Watching The English Game (vomit) on Netflix. Even the c***s on this call us 'Partick' Because the club they are referring to is Partick FC, not Partick Thistle FC. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Watching The English Game (vomit) on Netflix. Even the c***s on this call us 'Partick'Unpopular opinions thread for this pish, but I'm not sure Thistle fans as a collective can get angry at others calling us Partick when some among us refer to The Staggies as "Ross". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weetoonlad Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Because the club they are referring to is Partick FC, not Partick Thistle FC.Same pish Sent from my Samsung gold 10 -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottyG Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Interesting blog on Maryhill Burgh Hall's website. https://gordon-barr.squarespace.com/blog/2020/3/30/partick-thistle-moves-to-maryhill?fbclid=IwAR1odHFRj1S2XdlBj9ni69mnKMoHO7MM8lhNiaaqW1iVnnXlr9YYk7ST-bk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Koop Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 That rings awfy like Ian Archer's book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner-to-Saint Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I believe Thistle have a crowdfunding page, though I cannot seem to find the link despite the club thanking people for their donations on Twitter! If somebody could post it in the following thread, I'd be grateful: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner-to-Saint Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Found it: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-jags 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cilitbang Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Got the full article @jagfox99? No quotes in the article (cba subscribing) so just file it under speculative BS? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 59 minutes ago, cilitbang said: Got the full article @jagfox99? No quotes in the article (cba subscribing) so just file it under speculative BS? I couldn't get it either. I'll see if anyone has a copy of it Forsyth is quite respected so likely to be true, imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nizzy Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I skim read it, but it doesn't appear to make any reference to promotion and relegation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Saturday 4th April, 2020 at 1:59pm The latest message from the manager arrives for you today, on the date of another scheduled home game, against Arbroath, which is now postponed. Enjoy! Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock; so why is the red and yellow so dear to me? Firstly, let’s get an undeniable fact out of the way. Perhaps a little bit different to my first stint in charge of this awesome club, I need to win games to remain here. By that I mean that I completely realise that being a Jags man does not make me exempt from the laws of being a football manager. I freely admit that the job is a bit more difficult than I realised (more on that another time!) but these laws are kind of set in stone and apply to every full-time gaffer. Back to why Thistle … and there are two strange coincidences that happened before I fell in love with our club. It may have been around 1987/88 that I attended a reserve game at Firhill; the opposition was either Dunfermline or Hamilton. I was there to watch a pal of mine (Stevie ‘Snowy’ Morrison). I sat in the main stand and got chatting to an older gentleman who was there to watch his son play for Thistle. He was called John Elliot and his son was called Thomas. I met Tommy about a month later, we became great pals and, many years later, he was the best man at my wedding. Already Thistle was starting to seep into me! Secondly, and at another reserve game at Firhill, I saw a striker play, a striker that I would sign a few years later; his name was Stephen Dobbie. He scored five, six, maybe seven goals that night and I went away with his name written in my wee book in capitals! I’ve managed a few international players but in terms of natural talent, most were a good bit behind him. Incidentally he still tells me he owes me a season! Why the Jags? Having lived locally for many (many!) years, my base of friends were, almost to a man, Thistle fans. None were working in the football industry … which in some ways explains my mediocre playing career! But they all loved going to Firhill and when I could I would join them. We always stood in the old terracing behind the goal. It was kind of beginning to start then. I started to realise that the team in Glasgow that most suited my personality was Thistle and I think that’s important. I couldn’t get my head round wanting to watch any team that was going to win almost every week; how can the taste of victory be so incredibly sweet when it is almost guaranteed? Another reason why I evolved to the red and yellow. There are other reasons but I will leave you with one that rightly or wrongly, I believe. There are maybe another 10-12 clubs of our size in Scotland but we are the only club of our size that can claim to be iconic. Please be safe and please be healthy. IMc PS. I have also managed a player with the same levels of natural ability as Dobbie at Thistle! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weetoonlad Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Unpopular opinions thread for this pish, but I'm not sure Thistle fans as a collective can get angry at others calling us Partick when some among us refer to The Staggies as "Ross".Enjoy the seaside league guys lol lol Sent from my Stolen Samsung s20 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, jagfox99 said: I started to realise that the team in Glasgow that most suited my personality was Thistle and I think that’s important. I couldn’t get my head round wanting to watch any team that was going to win almost every week; how can the taste of victory be so incredibly sweet when it is almost guaranteed? Another reason why I evolved to the red and yellow. There are other reasons but I will leave you with one that rightly or wrongly, I believe. There are maybe another 10-12 clubs of our size in Scotland but we are the only club of our size that can claim to be iconic. Looks like Jakey McCall's on a second bottle of Scottish Leader. Edited April 4, 2020 by vikingTON 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 5 hours ago, jagfox99 said: PS. I have also managed a player with the same levels of natural ability as Dobbie at Thistle! Harkins? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 17 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: Harkins? Mitch Austin... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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