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  1. I outrank you by a few years having first attended estadio firhill in 1956. I am currently receiving treatment for cancer so I might never manage along again. But supporting thistle over the decades has been one of the great joys of my life. Like The Beatles, a nice Shiraz, playing in the snow with my weans and more recently grandweans. I have loved being a Jag and being surrounded by fellow jags at firhill. We might not have the best team in our history at the present time but, by god, they're MY team and I'm mighty proud of them...
    23 points
  2. I honestly give up with you Jim. There is no point in me engaging with you because you repeatedly ignore or misunderstand the context in which comments are made. You personalise and catastrophise absolutely everything. You’ve already made your mind up about people, some of whom haven’t even been in the door three months. You’ve misrepresented the nature of TJF’s support/opposition and involvement in decisions. You’ve repeatedly said things that have turned out not to be true, or to be a very incomplete account of what actually happened. You’ve swallowed hook line and sinker a bizarre interpretation of “the German Model” which was literally a term of phrase used to describe a new legal protection of the majority shareholding that didn’t exist before. 51% is a floor, not a target, for the fan ownership shareholding. Any dilution will be voted on by the beneficiaries and will not happen if they object. You are, quite simply, lying when you say that “TJF have no questions to ask”. We literally asked a detailed question at the AGM, on the thing you are concerned about. You didn’t like the answer given to that question. We haven’t said anywhere what we think of that answer. You are, as always, jumping the gun and assuming the worst in people. It is infuriating that you cannot see how the situation is different in January 2024 than it was in November 2022. TJF (a) has Club Board representation (and therefore that person has access to confidential financial information including the management accounts of the company (b) is a trustee of an organisation that has the majority shareholding and (will shortly) have a legal agreement in place governing budgetary and spending approvals. Precisely none of this was in place in November 2022. The presentation to shareholders was described by someone sitting next to you at the AGM as like “night and day” compared to what the Club Board offered at the previous one. This was a shareholder who made an excellent point about the lack of due diligence done before the share transfer. That was a fair and balanced account of what happened at the AGM. Yours is not. Frankly it is utterly exhausting and not a good use of my or anyone else’s time trying to engage with you on this, because the kernels of legitimate points on longer-term sustainability are lost in a web of inaccuracies and preconceived notions. TJF funding of the Club is not the full answer (no one has suggested it is) but it is making a substantial material difference and is an entirely legitimate component of sustainably funding a fan owned football club. If you don’t believe this, you’re frankly in the company of Jacqui Low and Peter Shand, who made clear to TJF in the summer of 2022 that the Club neither needed nor wanted fan fundraising to be a part of the budget.
    15 points
  3. Here's what we've been doing this week. A total sod of a job!!
    13 points
  4. Several points here: Club is getting full value for the hospitality places The cost is being met partly from TJF's sale of tickets to members, and partly from TJF's accumulated funds (in much the same way as we've used excess funds to pay for other members draws and events) TJF will have contributed more than £150k to the Club this calendar year In those circumstances, it seemed only right to give something back to members and to acknowledge their efforts The way the hospitality event has been structured is designed to enable funds over and above those in the £10kpm pledge to hit the Club's coffers just before the January window January fixtures are ones the Club traditionally struggles to fill hospitality, so there is often a deadweight loss in empty seats at hospitality This arrangement ensures a fully sold-out Alan Rough Lounge at no risk to the Club This event was possible because TJF has been raising comfortably in excess of its budgeted commitment to the Football Club (and will still do so even with the new Youth Academy pledge) There are also strategic justifications for an event like this, beyond the immediate economic benefit to the Club: Introducing hospitality to a new audience TJF is experimenting with variation to the hospitality itinerary and experience (so it's a commercial learning exercise for the Club) TJF has seen an increase in members and pledges since the event was launched (getting people to pledge more and for longer is critical to what we can promise the Club in future seasons) The Club will maximise its revenue raising longer-term by having genuine options that appeal to lots of different people. If some people want to donate to the Players' Fund but not to TJF, that's completely fine and up to them. Personally, I will be channelling my own resources wherever possible through TJF initiatives, because I think it's important to build the sustainability of the fan fundraising vehicle. The Players Fund helps Kris Doolan in January. Building a mass appeal TJF helps build a sustainable football club for generations. There is wider social value to building up a strong supporters' association, with connections into the wider community. This isn't just an exercise in tipping as much money into the Club as possible. It's about building a set of institutions that makes income streams deliverable, reliable and repeatable. That's what protects the Club's future, and a vibrant supporters' association that regularly does things to value its members is a critical part of that.
    12 points
  5. We are all hurting for sure but I want to put a big shout out there to our young jags support. Watching you this last few weeks backing the team in big numbers and not stopping singing from start to end has been one of the highlights of this season. Ok there were a few bams with flares but just a few years ago if you went to Firhill the average age was def creeping past 40. This is the time for fortitude and bloody mindedness. Its an absolute doddle to support the Old Firm but a real supporter goes thru thick and thin. With you lot on board "Thistle" are definitely back and you can hold your heads high and look forward the best league in Scotland, and it isn't the so called Premier. So keep the faith and see you all next season Mona Theestle!
    12 points
  6. The more I read this read the more I think why anyone would put themselves forward for either TFJ, JT or the board. Pretty thankless task. I'm not sure how many on this forum are actually on one of these entities, but given the number of ideas circulating maybe they should be. I seem to sense a lack of gratitude for all those doing their best in trying circumstances. We should never forget that.
    9 points
  7. https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/gordon-cameron/ So sorry to hear of Gordon’s passing. I worked with him for over 30 years and he was one of the nicest guys you could meet. A true gentleman who never had a bad word to say about anyone and a real Jags diehard. Sincere condolences to his family and friends. RIP Gordon.
    8 points
  8. Thanks to my Dad for giving me the heads up, I just learned of the terrible news of Susan losing her 18 month battle with cancer. Susan was a regular on most of the Thistle forums and back in the day I was fortunate enough to share many a discussion on Thistle tops of yore, with Susan. She was a passionate collector 9f match worm tops and her collection was second to none. I was lucky enough for her to share many pictures of some of the match worn tops she came by. It would leave you speechless! Susan was what you might describe as a Cult Hero among many of Thistle support. I for one will miss her, very much!
    8 points
  9. I hope everybody with any connection to Thistle had a good Christmas, got everything they wanted and most important of all spent it with everyone they wanted to spend it with and if that was not possible, they live on in our memories and our hearts.
    8 points
  10. Some absolutely hysterical nonsense in here. I’m going to guess that not a single poster in this thread knows what amount of money was offered by Thistle and by other Clubs for players like Docherty, Holt and Turner, or how much it differs from what they were on last season. I’m going to guess that the same number of posters knows how different the deals signed by Bannigan, Muirhead and Sneddon are in money terms compared to their previous deals too. Its blatantly obvious that Thistle aren’t going to just sit there with three keepers in the first team squad, having one of them doing absolutely nothing all year. Away and have a lie down and by all means start expressing concerns about the strength and depth of the squad once we actually have even the faintest idea what it looks like.
    8 points
  11. Ah the sweet smell of a scapegoating. 2 years in the football stocks. Give him a break ffs. He's been a more than decent player for us. Do I get frustrated by his tendency to play too many square balls. Yes. But here's the thing...possession football is the name of the game these days....and every team has that type of player. Same as many on here who slagged off docherty, despite the fact that when he played....we rarely lost! Sometimes the lack of knowledge of how modern football is actually played astonishes me. Final point on penalties....many a world superstar has missed one. Its totally understandable...get over it, move on. Its only a game.
    8 points
  12. My 14yo drifted away a few years ago. Because of the atmosphere in the JL, he's back and more engaged than ever before.
    8 points
  13. Beginning at 13:30 in the Social Room in the Jackie Husband Stand, we’ll be holding the inaugural meeting of the Association, all the players will be wearing specially made t-shirts during the warm up advertising the PTDSA.. rumour has it they were handcrafted at a reputable sweat-shop in Possil, I’ve not even got one. So if your disabled in any way whatsoever, or are the the parent, son , daughter, carer or even friend of a disabled Jag or even potential Jag get yourself along tomorrow..The main business will of course be electing office bearers in addition to myself and Charlene O’Hara so that starting at least from the star of next season we will have a fully functioning Association, instead of me just talking to myself, which will hopefully improve and increase the voice of disabled Jags supporters and at the very least make their enjoyment of Firhill on match days, one we can all be proud off. Mark Rowantree, Secretary Partick Thistle Disabled Supporters Association.
    8 points
  14. As a McCall 'lover' I disagree with your comment. I have already commented on last night's performance in glowing terms. Scroll back and you will find my post. I think the point is that all McCall lovers still feel the same about his dismissal and the manner in which it was carried out. However as Jags fans, first and foremost, they have accepted the reality of the situation and are now supporting Kris Doolan and the team. It's time you did the same and moved on from the McCall episode instead of repeatedly having a go at fans who didn't share your opinion. In other words, grow up!
    8 points
  15. MANY thanks everyone. Friends and family know to avoid the score all day then around 2pm on Sunday, I pour myself a generous gin and tonic and watch the Jags 'live' on jagzone. I WILL be back because I do miss the banter. Thanks again for all your good wishes ..
    7 points
  16. 7 points
  17. Please, don't go there...😬😂
    7 points
  18. I should stress that, despite my frustrations on here sometimes, it is a rewarding thing to represent 1650+ fellow Thistle fans. The key challenge is not placing all of the burden on a very small number of people, because otherwise, bluntly, they'll burn out. It's why I was delighted that we were able to bring Derek McLeish on board at the turn of the year after Sandy stepped back, because running a successful members' organisation at the heart of a fan ownership arrangement is difficult even in the most benign of environments. New energy and ideas to relieve the battle-weary is a good thing. TJF has had to deal with some absolutely extraordinary, bizarre, irrational and chaotic behaviour from other people in positions of power in the last 4 years. It has had to try to exert influence first from completely outside the tent and then from (underappreciated) minority positions inside of it. It's incredibly easy for people to criticise, or to insist from the outside that things are somehow "simple" when they almost never are. It would just be nice if those same people volunteered practical solutions to deliver things in ways that would be remotely acceptable to the key stakeholders involved, instead of just declaring that some outcomes would be desirable and providing absolutely nothing by way of a plan to deliver it. There will be some people that TJF, the PTFC Trust and the Club Board can never keep happy. They revel in having a grievance with zero responsibility. The challenge is to ensure that their negative energy doesn't get in the way of achieving positive things. Consistently, I find that the most vocal armchair critics give very limited to no consideration of who fills the void in organisations if the people already there leave. Or put another way, they should be careful what they wish for or they might get it.
    7 points
  19. Why the rush? Could this not wait till Monday? 😃
    7 points
  20. Zander MacKenzie called up for Scotland under 19s and will miss this game. Congratulations to Zander for the call up.
    7 points
  21. £400 transferred over the club via Gus Watson today. Thanks guys. I'll set something up soon for the prizes as I left it late last season.
    7 points
  22. I'm certainly hoping for a win away, a win away, a win away, a win away
    7 points
  23. Obviously I want any new signing to be a success at the Club. None more so than this lad https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23641979.williams-key-partick-thistle-support-partner-battles-cancer/
    7 points
  24. Not certain. I think you'd have to ask the Police.
    7 points
  25. I have not seen Barton”s social media post and I do not want to see it, but would he not have been better raving about Rachel Donaldson’s wonder strike. I suspect that he will not have scored a better goal than that in his rather up and down football career. Back to Ava Easdon. From my excellent vantage point high in the stand, the gap left for the first goal looked obvious. I am sure that it is not so easy on the ground when you realise that your whole defence has abandoned you and there is no option but to come rushing out trying all the time to protect your near post (which Ava managed successfully!). Beyond that I cannot remember any significant mistakes. I do recall a brave save at the feet of a Rangers attacker, as a result of which Ava had to receive treatment. Absolutely no chance with the 2nd and 4th goals. For the 3rd she had the shall I stay or shall I go dilemma when the Rangers forward outpaced the defence and came through centrally one on one. In the end she came and the attacker poked the ball past her. I do not think that staying would have produced any better outcome. After the 4th goal she adopted Gandalf’s “You shall not pass” declaration from the Bridge of Khazad-dum and kept the Rangers Balrog at bay for 40 minutes with some excellent saves, including from a few high net bound efforts. So, taken in the round, a creditable performance on a challenging day, and a cause for praise and encouragement rather than excessive criticism. Ava Easdon, we salute you!
    6 points
  26. All the usual posters reappearing I see. "Thistle are rubbish, the manager's rubbish, the board are rubbish and the team is rubbish and all we need to do is go back to the old ways when life was so much better." The thing is we are where we are. We have no money to sack the manager and bring in someone else. Doolan got the job because he was already on the payroll and was all we could afford. Our signings were done late because we were in the playoffs and couldn't afford to gamble on getting promoted. The board is in a period of transition due to changes enforced by people playing petty power games with our club. We are a fan owned club due to the fact that no-one wanted to invest in the 3rd/4th financially attractive club in Glasgow and the shareholders at the time were desperate to divest themselves of their responsibilty for a football club. For me this season's goal should realistically be staying in this division. Being third, at this stage, is shooting above our level as we need this season to build for promotion next season or the one following. To do that the defence needs sorted out but we're not going to do that by dropping everyone and anyone as we have no-one to replace them. So by all means come on and moan about losing games and offer opinions about the solutions (that's what fans do) but we are in danger of just rehashing old conflicts over whose pals are best to run PTFC.
    6 points
  27. This is well past tedious. Being swept along on the tide of so-called fan ownership doesn't mean an end to financial worries. They will always exist. Clubs at our level will always need investment from whatever source they can find in order to survive. Our club must be the only beneficiary of funding from a multi-millionaire but, in short time, have to rely on a random cup draw to be able to play the wages. Business men have put £500k into the club. From all reports they would like to top that up to £1m yet here we are squabbling about if it should be allowed and why, who said (or didn't say) what, where, when etc. Please find an alternative platform for all this stuff. First and foremost we're a football club and this is a football forum.
    6 points
  28. At least it'll offer some light relief from the tranche warfare over on yon other thread.
    6 points
  29. This will be of interest to the older Jags fans https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czq4dezljv0o
    6 points
  30. Bannigan scores a screamer with his right? Is that not one of those Biblical signs of the apocalypse
    6 points
  31. I think the conflation of TJF and the club board is lazy at best, and disingenuous at worst. On TJF firstly, I think people forget how bleak the outlook was little more than a year ago. The fact that TJF have got us to where we are today is nothing short of miraculous and they deserve a tremendous amount of credit for that. I say that as someone who was extremely skeptical about a group putting themselves up for election as a block, but it probably helped them to hit the ground and, in my view, they have delivered in spades. Regardless of your views on fan ownership, that is what Colin Weir wanted and TJF have brought us from a position where fan ownership was effectively going to be stymied indefinitely to a position where we have an entirely open and democratic structure, effective engagement and a massive income stream for the club. It gets overlooked how quickly they got people to rally behind TJF and the number of members they have managed to accumulate has been incredible in a short space of time (a greater % of home gates than the Foundation of Hearts which has been established a lot longer). I don't think people appreciate how bad the alternative could have been. The Club board are, relatively speaking, pretty fresh in the door, inherited a disaster and appear to have cut our underlying losses from c. £600K in 22/23 season to c. £150K in 23/24 season. I don't know (as I suspect most/all on here also don't) how much they've invested in hospitality facilities versus how much they've invested in "ordinary fan" facilities but I'd be willing to wager a year's TJF subscriptions that more money has gone into the fan facilities than hospitality facilities (even proportionate to their numbers/income per game). The simple fact is that maintaining a ground the size and age of Firhill to a basic standard is a considerable cost even before you look at improvements. It's also somewhat unfair to simultaneously demand that losses are reduced while also demanding that expenses are increased. Any board in Scottish football would love to increase gates by 10% overnight, but the quickest way to that is putting a good team on the park, which the board have done a pretty good job of facilitating given our summer losses. In the absence of informed opinion it's very easy to fill the void with accusations and supposition. Our journey since the previous board were ousted appears to be on a positive trajectory so it seems to me that they deserve the benefit of the doubt in continuing that. I do have concerns about the level of turnover in the boardroom but hopefully that will settle over the next 12 months. One point common to both the TJF board and the club board - generally speaking we appear to have people in these roles eminently qualified to hold them. Ours is a small fanbase and the options available relatively limited. David Beattie and Billy Allan aren't coming back to Firhill to serve on the board of a fan owned club. Be careful what you wish for and where you want to end up.
    6 points
  32. It is important to stress that the Club is not carrying "residual debt". This phrase is apt to mislead people the way it is being used by some on here. Soft-loans were made by directors to ease the cashflow position of the Football Club last year, which is why the cash-in-the-bank was actually significantly higher at year-end 2022-23 than in year-end 2021-22. The key point for cashflow is not where it is at year-end, but where it is at its lowest point in the season. If that goes negative at any point in the season, there's a real risk that bills don't get paid, and you're technically insolvent. This is true even if you are running a break-even budget, or even one that operates at a modest profit. Those loans entered into in the second half of the season in 2022-23 did not appear as operating income in the accounts, and repaying them does not count as operating expenditure. They are irrelevant to the profitability of the football club. That they were needed was a symptom of an erosion of the margin of safety, and that erosion was caused by the Club operating substantial operating deficits across several years. But they are a distraction from the forward-looking picture. As LenzieJag correctly points out, what the loans affected, in the short term, was the margin of safety: whether there is physically enough cash in the bank to meet payroll, trade creditors and other costs of the business at any given point in the year. The primary purpose of the investment is to alleviate cashflow issues in a more stable long-term way than soft-loans, which are repayable on demand. Jim is correct that, if the Club runs sustained losses over several seasons, the benefit of this kind of cash injection would evaporate and you would be back at square one. It is legitimate, in the context of tranche 2 of the investment (which was contemplated at the outset and communicated to fans at the time of tranche 1) to ask how much of that money is actually going to go into strategically useful outputs, rather than just plugging losses. Those are questions that TJF and the Trustees will be asking as and when the detail of any proposal is put to us. If the answers aren't credible, we will say so. And we will say so in advance of a beneficiary vote taking place. It is an entirely reasonable question to ask about whether credible efforts are being made to bring the Club to a sustainable break-even business. But the scale of the task was absolutely massive after last year, because there was no breathing space to restructure the business in a credible and sustainable way. Jordanhill Jag would have you believe that it's possible to turn Partick Thistle into a break-even business while sustaining a competitive team on the park at the drop of a hat, after (by his own admission) it essentially ran a £600k deficit last season absent a favourable cup tie. That isn't, in my view, a credible position. These things take time, and are done incrementally. The Club has taken some steps to ensure both that it gets more income and that more of that income is predictable, repeatable and sustainable. There is obviously the TJF money that is a non-trivial part of that. Season ticket sales are also drastically up, and at a higher price-point (as LenzieJag pointed out). There is some (though not much) income from last season that for reasons of timing will be reflected in this year's accounts. Collectively, this put a substantial dent in the shortfall that would otherwise have arisen this financial year, absent unpredictable sources of footballing income. As I pointed out at the AGM in my question to the Directors, sponsorship revenue fell by 20% between seasons 2021-22 and 2022-23. The Club can close a non-trivial part of the operating losses gap by rebuilding sponsorship to 2021-22 levels and beyond. We've seen some steps towards that already, with the Wyre Stadium naming (for example) that has no equivalent in the 2022-23 accounts. Some of our sponsorship deals are legacy and multi-year. When they expire, there is the opportunity to remarket those at a significantly higher annual price point. The proof of the pudding will be whether this Club Board is able to realise the potential growth in this area. I understand it is an area Donald McClymont is keen to become involved in, as he alluded to in his video with the fans. This financial year, the costs of the management team are expected to be non-trivially lower. This is partly because, in the second half of last season, there was a period of gardening leave for a (three-person-strong) group. Kris Doolan doesn't have two assistant managers; only one. The figures at the AGM support the view that there is a significant saving there. Ultimately I will leave it to others to judge whether the Trustees and TJF are being robust enough with the Club Board. We actively requested that members get in touch with questions ahead of the AGM and only one member actually asked us to ask specific financial questions. Those questions were (essentially) addressed by the presentation provided by the Club, and I then asked as best I could a follow-on question about reliability of forecasts. But I would just also observe that we are in a very different place from late 2022, when even the majority shareholder, let alone the fans more widely had absolutely zero people in the boardroom. Robust public exchanges happen when there is no opportunity to ask those questions in any other forum: when the Club isn't talking to you. TJF's understanding of the underlying finances of the football club was significantly improved when Sandy and Andrew signed NDAs in early 2023. But the fact of having signed those NDAs (for reasons of commercial sensitivity) inevitably meant that they could not ask questions publicly in the same way as when they were a group of outsiders with no inside information. We had to work with the Club to agree a process of financial transparency, which is what you eventually saw in the summer. Similarly, Andrew, and now Stuart C, have had/now have (respectively) legal obligations as directors of the football club, but with that also comes the opportunity to see much more detailed financial information than a protest group outside the tent. The most effective forum to challenge any rogue forecasts, cost control or revenue growing strategies is, for now at least, the Club Boardroom. And when the fan elections take place later this year, there will be directly accountable voices to the fans involved in that scrutiny. And under the CTA there will be more opportunities for the Trustees externally to scrutinise and question the credibility of the 2024-25 budget before it is set (as it requires their approval).
    6 points
  33. Every club, cash rich or not, has a finite resource. Every club has a different set of prioroties when it comes to player recruitment. Every decent manager needs to think of not just the current season but also beyond when deploying whatever resource his club has placed at his disposal. Raith signed O'Reilly as cover for injured players who are, I believe, on the way back to fitness. They clearly rate him, or see value in him still being part of their squad for the current season, hence their wish to extend his short term contract. However, with injured players on the way back it could be that Murray doesn't wish to commit part of his playing budget for the 2024-2025 season in area that he feels is well covered when that resource could be better deployed elsewhere. O'Reilly plays in a position that we needed strengthening in. Kris Doolan clearly thinks it is worthwhile to utilise part of his playing budget for 2024-2025 on him. Different clubs. Different set of priorities. Not simply a case of rich v poor. I appreciate that level of nuance is likely lost on some. Or ignored if it doesn't suit the point they are labouring.
    6 points
  34. It’s instructive to consider the two present Championship sides which finished above us last season as examples. They indeed lost very important players like ourselves. However, we’ve coped considerably better, being comfortably above Ayr, while QP are bottom. Accepting that DU have significantly greater resources, for Doolan to have us ahead of them would mean that he was overachieving (or they were seriously underperforming, which they aren’t). So I can only assume that your conclusion that Doolan is underperforming is because we are behind Raith who may or may not have similar resources. Assuming that we are both similarly resourced, the fact that Doolan, a rookie manager in his first full season, is not doing as well as a more experienced Murray his hardly that damning. Particularly as he’s still doing better than 7 out of 9 of his peers, a number of whom are also managing clubs with similar resources/budgets. I’m not under the illusion he’s massively overachieving or anything. However, I think he’s doing better than you suggest here.
    6 points
  35. What a mess we were left in by the previous board. Good to see we are now on the right road thanks to the hard work now being done by the current board.
    6 points
  36. Bickering about flags is bad enough. Bickering about flags because of a social media rumour is a new low.
    6 points
  37. I'm not going to comment on the substance of the last 24 hours just now, for the obvious legal reasons. But I will say this. The last few weeks have been ******* exhausting. No more so than for the TJF Chair Sandy Fyfe. He has acted with complete integrity throughout on both the boardroom dispute and the, completely unrelated, investment process. Thistle fans will not find a better representative for their interests. At TJF we have always tried to build trust with our fellow fans, and set out to be as transparent with you as is possible. If what we say doesn't give you all the information you want, we'd hope you understand that there will be good reasons that information is not being disclosed. Fan ownership doesn't allow us simply to disregard legal and commercial frameworks within which all football clubs operate. And, unlike anyone else in this process, if you think we, the TJF board, have got it wrong, you can of course remove or replace us as your elected representatives. As a members' organisation, you ultimately hold the power over us.
    6 points
  38. A scrappy 1-0 win will do me perfectly. Doubly so if it stops this thread becoming like the previous game's thread which from page 3 had nothing at all to do with the game in question.. Whatever happens tomorrow, please refrain from hijacking this thread with historical irrelevancies.
    6 points
  39. I can answer the above. The Club weren't previously printing 2,000 copies. That's a crazy total for our home gates. Yesterday's print run was for a figure circa 25% higher than was on sale for the last two seasons it was sold to crowds. It didn't sell out then. Yesterday's programme was a sell out. The last two available copies I'm told went to Zander MacKenzie, who was the subject of our player interview. The programme is here to stay for the season ahead. Advertising has been sold for the season. There is the subscription service available via Curtis Sports which I'm told benefits the Club. I think I can speak for all associated with the programme when I say that we are really pleased with both sales of and response to the programme. It's been really positive all round. First one is notoriously difficult to put together and we were working to a really tight schedule which won't be the case moving forward. Yes there was an element of dipping our toes in the water yesterday. It gives us a really good idea of what works, what doesn't in terms of content etc. and gives us a good yardstick for future print runs. I'll be making a start on the QP programme later today. We go again (I've always wanted to say that!).
    6 points
  40. I decided to do a count tonight without letting you in advance (I am that sort of person) and am glad I did so as by my reckoning we have gone past the 2000 mark - I make it 2003. Hopefully the club will be able to confirm this tomorrow and we can push on towards the 3000 barrier. https://ptfc.co.uk/season-tickets/ Well done
    6 points
  41. We are very confident of the future due to a few key factors - The membership growth - The membership engagement - The diversity in both membership and board - The fact the club now has sensible budgeting finally put in place - Junior membership coming through brings the next generation on the journey from a young age. We aren’t going to rest on our laurels, we still have a lot to do, and being lent the vote of our members puts a burden of responsibility on each of the board members to make this and the club a success for this generation and the next. I would encourage anyone not signed up to do so, it enables us to do more financially for the club, more for the membership and fan base at large and increases the democracy and demographics of the Foundation.
    6 points
  42. Most recent count has been completed and the total is 1682 To put this in context we have gotten to that figure in 14 days whilst last season it took 49 days! Also, of the 6 sections in the John Lambie Stand there are 5 which already have more season tickets sold at this stage than for last season! The other section is only 4 behind so will probably be over in the next few days. After a very fast start a slight slowdown was always on the cards especially as we are at that point of the month when payday still feels a long way off. Hopefully when the players get back for pre season, rumours start and the club put out some communication (PLEASE) we will hit then pass last season's total. Office and phone lines open at 1pm on Friday but online never stops: https://ptfc.co.uk/season-tickets/ Well done again guys!
    6 points
  43. Some of our support needs some pre season training.
    6 points
  44. Thank you, and many thanks to all who stood and everyone who voted
    6 points
  45. What's most encouraging is the number of younger adult supporters regularly attending. I can only think the Kids Go Free initiative has played a major role. Meaning the initiative has proved successful. Not so long ago we had an aging support (very noticeable on away days). Not so now.
    6 points
  46. So much better than the Brechin hedge!
    6 points
  47. Saw my first game 47 years ago - delighted to have been involved as you say for over 30 years and although there have been a few low points - the high’s more than make up for it. Partick Thistle is a truly extraordinary club with amazing people, and long may it enjoy entertaining these fans. I am delighted to have played a very small part in trying to make it as good a place as possible to enjoy your 90 minutes. It’s been very humbling.
    6 points
  48. BLANKETY-BLANK CAMPBELL MAKES HISTORY ● It's 3 direct goal involvements in 3 consecutive games for the sublime Steven Lawless. ● It's 5 direct goal involvements in his last 4 games for Scott Tiffoney. Livewire. ● Kyle Turner nets his first-ever brace as a Jag. ● Kris Doolan's Jags have yet to concede in the opening 45 of any match at Firhill and remain unbeaten in the Maryhill heartlands. ● Thistle blank out Arbroath for the 4th time in the League this season. It's the first complete League goal-blanking since Alan Archibald's Jags did so versus Dundee in 2016-17. ● Incredibly, Thistle register their sixth consecutive clean-sheet versus Arbroath. It's only the second time in history Thistle have done so against any one club, the record run (10) being set versus Montrose in 2021. ● Dick Campbell becomes the first manager in history to go six games without a goal versus Partick Thistle. ● Partick Thistle go into the final League game of the season as top scorers in the Championship (63) but, mathematically, could still finish anywhere from 2nd to 6th. Cinch. ongoing sequences: ● 5 competitive games without defeat, 1st Apr 2023 to date. (Longest run since: 6 games, 18th Feb 2023 to 18th Mar 2023. Joint club-record: 16 games, 15th Nov 1975 to 21st Feb 1976 & 30th Sep 2000 to 13th Jan 2001.) ● 5 competitive home games without defeat; 4th Mar 2023 to date. (Longest run since: 6 games; 26th Nov 2022 to 21st Jan 2023. Club-record: 24 games; 5th May 2001 to 17th Aug 2002.) ● 45 consecutive competitive appearances for Jack McMillan, 9th Jul 2022 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: James Penrice - 51 games, 7th Sep 2019 to 10th Apr 2021. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)
    6 points
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