jaggyben Posted November 18, 2019 Report Share Posted November 18, 2019 I was looking back at the footage of our winning the championship and was thinking who I would like to still be with us came to the conclusion Stevie  Lawless or Lawleff as some thought  what a right good player he was and I always thought if Stevie was playing well the team played well It used to frustrate me when he was on the bench or warming up at the side of the park and Archie would give somebody else the shout and you could see Steve’s frustration at not getting on what a waste of talent left on the bench I think that not fighting to keep Lawless was the start of our decline don’t think Archie saw his benefit to the team and when I see him doing well with Livingston it shows we lost a great player far to early would walk into any championship team and quite a few premier teams would love to see him back someday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted November 18, 2019 Report Share Posted November 18, 2019 30 minutes ago, jaggyben said: I was looking back at the footage of our winning the championship and was thinking who I would like to still be with us came to the conclusion Stevie  Lawless or Lawleff as some thought  what a right good player he was and I always thought if Stevie was playing well the team played well It used to frustrate me when he was on the bench or warming up at the side of the park and Archie would give somebody else the shout and you could see Steve’s frustration at not getting on what a waste of talent left on the bench I think that not fighting to keep Lawless was the start of our decline don’t think Archie saw his benefit to the team and when I see him doing well with Livingston it shows we lost a great player far to early would walk into any championship team and quite a few premier teams would love to see him back someday Our decline started with him at Thistle. When we got relegated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledjag Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) Afraid I couldn't make up my mind about Lawless. A skillful and creative player but he never seemed very effective to me. He seemed to flirt in and out of games rarely making an impact for 90 minutes - similar to Ross Forbes who also tended to be in and out of a game. I don't know perhaps it was the playing system we used and not the player. Just felt we should have got a lot more from him. Edited November 21, 2019 by exiledjag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 When I see clips of the Championship-winning team waves of nostalgia are inevitable. Doolan, Erskine, Lawless,... but for me both O'Donnell and Taylor-Sinclair were the two with most flair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledjag Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 8 hours ago, Jaggernaut said: When I see clips of the Championship-winning team waves of nostalgia are inevitable. Doolan, Erskine, Lawless,... but for me both O'Donnell and Taylor-Sinclair were the two with most flair. Agree with first 3 names above though thought Doolin and Erskine were exceptional. I know many will disagree but I thought Balatoni was a stalwart as well. He just wasn't a central defender. Showing my age but in the days of half-backs he would have been my right half. Good technique, tackler, first touch and passer of the ball. Not tall enough for a central defender in the modern game. Taylor-Sinclair, like Lawless, Forbes and Muirhead never really did it for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashman Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Erskine, without a second thought. Check out his goals that season and some of them were crucial goals, from about 8:08 onwards for the Championship season. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Erskine but also O’Donnell. It was an exciting team that really kicked on after beating the Pars 5-1 at Firhill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 I agree with flashman about Erskine, who I believe was undoubtedly a cut above the rest. SOD & ATS were great to watch but it was only when Archie came in and checked their cavalier ventures upfield somewhat (especially away from home) that we became solid enough to win the league. I think tho' the whole was greater than the sum of the parts making it almost impossible to agree on any individual player. Take two memorable games under McNamara, when any defensive frailties were secondary. The 7-0 humping of Airdrie and the 5-1 rout against the Pars. These matches were back to back home league games only three weeks apart. On both occasions the goals were spread throughout the team with six different scorers v Airdrie and four v Dunfermline. Over both games goals were scored by eight different players. On a slightly different subject, my favourite unsung player from that season was Sean Welsh. Evidently we never lost a league game when he started but I thought he played to a consistently high standard in any case. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow & Redneck Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 As hopeless as he was on the field, I could not help but like Shuggie Murray. I think his influence was best felt off the field through his attitude and mentality, as opposed to on the field as shown through the medium of reckless two-footed tackles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARu-Strathbungo Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 9 hours ago, flashman said: Erskine, without a second thought. Check out his goals that season and some of them were crucial goals, from about 8:08 onwards for the Championship season. Â Thanks for sharing. The goal against QP [about 9.00 minutes in] is simply a joy to watch, and the last goal of the collection against Falkirk must be one Chris remembers to this day!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jago1953 Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Watching these goals shows what a gifted player he is. Skill, positional awareness, a team player with individual creativeness.Thanks Chris for the wonderful memories. A Thistle legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Doolan, Erskine, Craig and Lawless were all great for us and probably stand out because of the goals they scored. I am not sitting on the fence, but i feel it was a real team effort. Jackie McNamara and of course Alan Archibald had a big part to play as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Stuart Bannigan and Chris Erskine. Erskine shaded it but I loved Bannigan. Everything went around him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 6 hours ago, allyo said: Stuart Bannigan and Chris Erskine. Erskine shaded it but I loved Bannigan. Everything went around him. Back in the days when Bannigan chipped in with a few goals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyben Posted November 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 Ah balatoni still one of my favourite chants doo doo doo Conrad Balatoni scored some great goals with his head great loan and a great signing for us 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle88 Posted November 23, 2019 Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 Erskine was absolutely outstanding that season .. Paul Paton as much as hes a bit of a hate figure these days was an absolute Rock in the middle of the park also and done all the covering when ATS and SOD roamed forward. I think his importance that year will be overlooked because hes a *****Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camallain Posted November 23, 2019 Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 9 hours ago, jaggyben said: Ah balatoni still one of my favourite chants doo doo doo Conrad Balatoni scored some great goals with his head great loan and a great signing for us Like this one.... Â https://studio.youtube.com/video/mMPX-u0hrmY/edit?utm_campaign=upgrade&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=%2Fmy_videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 10 hours ago, Camallain said: Like this one.... Â https://studio.youtube.com/video/mMPX-u0hrmY/edit?utm_campaign=upgrade&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=%2Fmy_videos "Oops, something went wrong." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 If adding one to the squad in January definitely Stevie Lawless. He had a grest season too which went a bit under the radar. Finished top scorer I think? Great team overall and hard to pick out any weak links at Championship level. A few struggled stepping up but the whole team never got the chance to play at Premiership level which was a wee bit disappointing at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camallain Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 5 hours ago, Jaggernaut said: "Oops, something went wrong." Hopefully this time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 Stevie Lawless is one very underrated football player. He's a footballer's footballer - does a lot of dirty work that goes unnoticed by many, but never those who are playing beside him. I know this won't be a popular opinion, but he has been a much more important cog to the Thistle machine 2012 - 2017 than Stuart Bannigan. It is significant that when Callum Booth was injured in 2017-18 and Archie shunted Stevie to LWB to compensate, that Barton and Edwards - good players both - were frankly ineffectual in an area that had been crucial to our performances up to then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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