McKennan

Yeah, but apart from that small detail?

I wish it were that simple. We'll have a summer and early autumn of brave words about boycotts. Some of us will do it and some of us won't. Given the shite we've seen from Thistle over the past three years, I suspect that if the Jags get back to living up to our highest hopes on the pitch, then boycotts won't matter at all.

That problem is a stinking pile of dooh-dooh that should be trucked to Hampden before the day is out.

Bang on.

Not enough fans for what? Too many teams is really a bit of a straw man. The trouble (certainly for clubs like Thistle) lies in the way resources are divided.

You missed the point of my post, Jaggo. You say there's a 'fundamental truth' that there are too many football teams in Scotland. Why are there too many?

Name them please.

I often wonder why it is that when league reconstruction comes around, the team that's had a turd of a season and came in dead fecking last is thrown a lifeline over a team in the league below that has put in a challenge at the top. With Hearts, I guess there are ... considerations beyond sport.

Hmm, surely there's no way a potential SPFL benefactor with Hearts connections who is offering a £5 lifeline to the leagues could have persuaded Scottish football's Machiavellian prince to try again? Or is that 'at all'? Nah. Clickitty

Job with the Tayside Administration Regulars. Glass houses and stones come to mind

Part of me would not be surprised if the chancers who run the game thought they could cut League 1 and League 2 teams adrift. There would be a hell of a stushie, but I think these characters would stop at nothing to 'unburden' themselves from diluting the piss-poor prize pot they'll be crowing about when football 're-starts'.

On what calculation is this based, Javeajag?

It's funny, when the 'too many teams' klaxon goes off the spotlight falls on the smallest and the poorest teams as the problem when the elephant in the room might be the top flight. Just sayin'.

The club tried that in 2006 - and it backfired.

With red and yellow sheep to match?

The club has a half interest in propco. If I recall, there are more people sitting on Thistle's board with shares in propco than there are people with Thistle shares sitting on Thistle's board. Thistle shareholders were treated to the spectacle of their directors throwing tantrums about questions over that relationship last year. I'm quite sure the club and propco could 'talk to each other' about improving the bing, Ian. Hopefully, they'll also improve the catering and foul toilets in time for next season, too.

Said the good people of Auvers-sur-Oise.

Sounds like a job for Onethistle. Prettying the bing is a nice idea, but the land has been industrial for a long time. The idea of an allotment would be quirky and Thistle, but I'm not sure I'd like my spuds with added metals. Flooers would also be nice, just make sure they're hardier than the scubland shrubs that already grow their. Perhaps the simplest solution is to paint the big with a sponsor's logo.

There are. Sadly, just a few.

I needs renovated, but for facilities to get people to the games and for aftermatch it's a shoo-in. If Showpark can accommodate It's A Knockout I'm sure it'll accommodate Clyde.

I wonder what the odds are on our first game of next season being against Dundee United - those odds being Thistle odds, not bookies' odds.

Why not two points each for a draw? The no points for no goals scenario means teams have to work harder. (In theory.) I can't argue with your point that there have been excellent no-score draws, but I've watched Thistle play stellar football and lose. Points for goals.

Yip! No goals, no reward.

Another good point - fanbase building. EK is, to the best of my experience, almost full of Old Firm sheep.

Jeez, really? Nothing other than Showpark makes any sort of sense. To me. The Calderglen site for 'East Kilbride FC' is in what was - and probably still is - the back of beyond in my childhood. I have no idea where they'd build around Peel Park or Jackton for public transport.