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Ian McCall was a good manager for us, on both occasions, in my opionion. In 40 years of watching Jags we have often crashed from one bad manager to another, from one crisis to another, always heading in the wrong direction. Derek Johnstone, Billy Lamont, Sandy Clark, Murdo MacLeod, Tommy Bryce, John McVeigh, Gerry Collins, Gerry Britton and Derek Whyte, Dick Campell, Gary Caldwell. John Lambie reversed the trend twice and is obviously a club legend. I would argue that Ian McCall is the one other person in that time who reversed the trend. Again, twice. He never completed the job like Lambie did, and is unsurprisingly (correctly) not held in the same esteem. But he stabilised the results and definitely set the foundations for the subsequent success of McMamara and Archie. And now we're moaning about sitting third in the table and arguing about whether Doolan has improved the team, just a few years after McCall took us on while desperately trying to stay in this league. It's all nuance though. If you're going to argue about whether someone is great or crap you're never going to come to a decent conclusion.

Well in that case maybe you should just leave it.

Var would probably have sent off Robinson as well. Slow down a tackle like thar and watch it enough times over and over and I reckon theyd have convinced themselves

It had already deflected off the Thistle defender.

You'll never convince me that Var is needed. Certainly not with one blatantly wrong decision. Mistakes happen, but if they take away the ability to celebrate a goal when it is scored, I don't see the point in football.

First offside was close. Even on the still on the telly it was unclear, so you can't blame officials. It might have been correct. Second one was terrible. But if our defence could limit itself to one disaster per game it would be real progress.

We really can't defend

Here was me thinking we needed a keeper who'd come for the ball

I think we'll tranche them. Sorry, trounce

What a signing Brian Graham has been. 71 goals. Only three of these were before Covid lock-down; the rate is hugely impressive. And leading the women's team to consecutive top six finishes and a cup final. I've been watching Thistle for forty years and only Kris Doolan has scored more goals for Thistle in all that time. I'm not sure that we appreciate him as much as we should.

He's doing well but he has a lot to learn. You cant expect someone in the first year of a job to know everything. Fortunately I think he's bright enough to understand that.

I think we can compete with them quite easily. The problem is that we can be a very shaky team when it comes to protecting a lead, and regardless of league form etc they were the team with all the confidence and momentum after they scored a goal.

I just looked it up. Three of their starting outfield players were 6'4" and one was 6'5". I don't think I've ever seen a teams with so many really tall players.

Hate to say it but drums and banging gates are ruining the experience for me.

Mine was in junk mail. Cheeky fekkers

Yes. Same problem for me

When's the last time you saw Red Rum?

Lyle Taylor?

My argument is that if you finish 4th in a league of 10 it should be very difficult to get promoted through playoffs. But not a night for arguing. Well done Thistle!

No question, Brian Graham is a great striker at this level. But in Adeloyw and Diack we have great options

Decent result. Don't see us winning the league but Rovers are shaking and I think second is definitely achievable.

Jeez they must be rolling in it.

Maybe they could afford to have offered 18 months but only offered 6 months because they're signing Harry Maguire in the summer

Yeah. I'd say league level and money are both factors when I say "better offer". And I see what you're saying, it wasn't in our gift to offer the higher league level. Which again is why we lost them and why its very difficult to just go out and replace them like-for-like.

It's pretty simple. There are two reasons why players leave clubs. Either the club wants them gone to replace with better, or the player wants to go because there are better things on offer elsewhere. Replacing the latter is always going to be difficult because, by definition, players of that quality and reputation are receiving better offers elsewhere. So you have to find a gem. Or develop one. And that is never easy. If we were able to offer what Holt, Turner, Tiffoney and Docherty left for, why wouldn't we just have offered it to them?