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It actually happened (kind of) in the 1909 Scottish Cup Final! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52298349

Perhaps someone who knows the game could explain to me why the team with the extra man doesn’t leave one man up the field when defending corners and free-kicks?

I think it was Cowdenbeath we beat in the semi-final?

East Fife have the kind of home record we could reasonably have expected ourselves - 5 wins and 2 draws from 7 games. A win tomorrow night would be a very good result.

Does Clyde's victory today jeopardise the 22 match league programme? They need to play 6 league games, plus presumably another cup tie before the 23rd April I think.

Barney, my recollection was the ref was Jim McGillivray, an Edinburgh taxi driver to trade? My wife and I returned to Waverley station after a weekend in London not long after this game and we let the couple behind us in the queue take his taxi when we saw he was the driver. After the game I remember he said something along the lines of preventing a riot by not sending Paul Gascoigne off for fighting with Tom Smith. No such reluctance to send our boys off though. I think he did the decent thing and retired from reffing shortly afterwards.

Scotland 1976 - the Umbro one with the white diamonds down the sleeve. I think this was one of the first Umbro strips with that sleeve design? Think Kenny Dalglish nutmegging Ray Clemence!

Why would it have to be at the expense of results against our direct competitors? Why can't it be in addition to them?

I have no time for the guy, but I thought the control and cross for their goal by Liam Craig was the best bit of skill in the entire match. Nice of him to even things up later, as I think it was him who needlessly brought Ryan Edwards down for the pen.

I enjoyed his interview in Saturday's Herald where he said that he and Chris Erskine are fans as well as players and don't just go home and forget about poor results. One of the many reasons I love Kris is that I believe he loves Thistle as much as I do.

Please could someone remind me? Did Thistle state at the time why we agreed to switch the original fixture?

Is there another country in the world where you could sit through a match waiting for the next round draw, and the exact same tie gets drawn out again? They're not even in the same division and they'll have played each other twice at the same venue in the opening weeks of the season.

I heard that too m'lady (though I'm also well past the first flush of youth).

Usual high standard of journalism from Chick Young on BBC site's report: "Every time Doolan scored last season, Thistle won, and they did again."

It occurred to me midway through the first half that nowadays I have virtually no expectation of us scoring in front of the North Stand. I think I've seen three (Thistle) goals there all season. Some interesting discussion on here about how we play and why. One thing I would say is, despite this being our most successful team for 30 years, the style won't bring any new punters in the gates and without that, it's hard to see how we kick on from here.