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Their pitch is a shambles and has now had 3 games postponed this season. Wind isn't the problem, its just holding too much water. Not that we can throw stones about that. Anyway, despite that, Thistle have just said that they plan on having the game on! http://ptfc.co.uk/news/2015-2016/february_2016/pitch_condition_update "Despite a lot of overnight rain the ground staff are working extremely hard today to ensure tonight's game goes ahead as planned. Contrary to inaccurate reports on the BBC website the game has not been postponed and the club will be doing everything it can to ensure the match goes ahead. We will reassess the pitch later this afternoon and a further update will be provided at that time."

£400k might sound tempting to the money men, but with 2.5 years left on his contract, the EPL having mega millions and Scottish Clubs being able to demand million pound plus fees for their players then I’ll be quite disappointed if we get rid of him at this first bid. By all means, open negotiations and push up the price, or reject it and we can look to cash in on him in the summer. We are far from clear of that playoff spot and £400k now is not going to go far if we are relegated and downsizing in the summer.

Missed a sitter today. Not convinced (from when we do see him) he's actually any good. Comes across as a bit of a walloper as well. Hopefully he can improve, but with Skippy and Moult playing well, he's a million miles away from the starting 11. His best shot is showing McGhee he has more to offer than Robinson and Clarkson as backup. If ge cant do that then we are screwed if injuries start affecting our front two

Agree, and for a bit of perspective, we got a new manager at the same point as Dundee United. Since then.... McGhee Played 11, Won 5, drawn 3, lost 3 Mixu Played 13, won 1, drawn 2, lost 10 Pretty clear we could have done much worse than McGhee!

If MJC is an old guy then he was sat behind me. The usual moaner kermit the frog behind me was joined by his mate who apparently sits further up the east stand. The second half was non stop pish, moan after moan after moan. Hard to imagine we were 5-0 up at the time! Right, we get it, you don't like Lionel. Jesus.............

Top end of Hamilton (Torrhead), theres a couple of inches at least here and still snowing. Very localised though, much less down the hill. Nothing at all in giffnock when i was there this morning

I'll be quite dissapointed if he goes. When he's on form, he's a major weapon for us, also a handy sub. If Marvin gets injured and Lionel is offski, we will have lost some major pace from that team. Saying that, i would really like Dom to get more of a shot. This might be his opportunity

They were far from being the better side, but for me i didnt think there was as much between the teams as Chick suggested. We probably shaded it, but we also got some good breaks, keeper made some quality saves and st j shots at goal that got deflections and went wide, could on another day dip into the corner. Im delighted at the win but i think mcghee is correct, we were not up to the standard of the last few games

Dont know about that, but chick young was really singing our praises tonight. For him, it was quite a deviation, but good to hear

If the rain thats hit hamilton for the last 40minutes makes it up the hill to fir park, game will be off. Biblical rain!

Put it this way, aside from recent games, we have been honking this season, and yet..... we are 11clear of them with a game in hand. They are shite! Lets not get carried away though, we are not exactly world beaters ourselves but we are the better team here. Three points would be vital to them to kick their season off but by the same token, 3 points should be enough for us to guarantee we dont finish bottom. Hoping for a big result here, i would argue that winning this could be more valuable than beating accies, even though both games still return three points

We are 11points infront of them, they have something like 5 wins in ALL OF 2015, in what world would they expect to win? They might want to win, and think they could win, but no chance will they be expecting to win

Whilst i dont subscribe to all the must win pish that gets thrown around so early in the season, this game really is massive. Ok, a defeat and the sky is not falling in, but a win puts us 14 points+ a game in hand + a far superior goal difference from automatic relegation. That really would be a lot for United to catch up. United are shite, really shite infact but we all saw what a cash injection did for Ross County last winter. You have to expect the United board will throw money at the problem in January and that could see them improve. Lets put more daylight between us now, we are playing well, confidence is up and the prize of probable saftey (at least from automatic relegation) is big one.

Hall? In todays team. Guessimg he's a youth player? Any informed opinions on him before we decide in the space of 68 minutes that he's either pish or a potential world beater?

Grimshaw. Marvim was great when we were gettimg him running in behind down the left but it wasn't happening enough. Grimshaw was at the races the full game. If he keeps that up, we will be looking to keep him past january

Been a while since i've pitched up at fir park so unoptimistic. Last season was shite but towards the end we showed flashes, start of the season you are wondering if Barra had turned it around over the summer, mcghee starts and you thibk maybe we are heading in the right direction, then we get pumped off ICT and Ross County. :-( Doom and gloom for me today, hopefully im wrong but i'd take a point right now

And his maws a matress....or so the song goes

Watched the united v hearts game a few weeks ago and both teams were poor. Granted, we are also shite, but despite Hearts league position there shouldn't be anything to fear. Saying that..... 1-2 defeat.

Weeyin in pedantic post shocker!

I asked my mate (Rangers season ticket holder) about him yesterday. Says he barely gets off the bench this season.

It might make for some uncomfortable reading for the WS and club in general, but one of the reasons i (and im guessing im not alone) have not joined up yet is that threads like this make it look a complete shambles. There seems to be poor organisation, little effective communication, arbitary moving of the goal posts and this all results in fans being both confused and frustrated with what is going on! Sort it out, establish a clear purpose. Establish effective lines of communication and transparency of decision making and you might just find there are a raft of 'well fans willing to contribute

You dont half talk some amount of pish. We played worse than that 90% of last season. Questionable penalty, and a second chance at it, and two goals from outside the box, 3rd was a belter of a volley. Our belter hit the bar. In fairness there was not much in it between both teams. Plenty of room for improvement but even at 3-0 down i felt we could get back in the game. Something you couldnt say under Barraclough

Thats quite an impressive piece of work Goggles&Flippers. I'm guessing you've built a little revenue operations model which sits behind it and the calculations are not just back of fag packet? My concern is not that with anything which is in your presentation, I don't have the time or inclination to sit and pick it apart or check through. I am however very concerned that you seem to have been dismissed out of hand. Perhaps the club are happy with where they are, and where they are going, which is fine - a shake of the hand for you you and told yes, but this is where we are looking to be Goggles and show you how it differs from your views would be nice. The alternatives are that the club have looked at your figures and disagree with them - again fine although some kind of feedback to you should have been provided with where you are going wrong with any assumptions you have made and how the club does not agree with your recommendations. Or....................... worryingly, the people who have seen your work are not able to follow what is going on. That for me is the biggest concern that perhaps we still do not have the right type of people in place at the club.

Would be nice if the above happened. Right now i would be happy with a solid 1-0

Seriously? The only guy i know who thought he was going anywhere was one of his mates from school. He was decent for a young lad, but never had what it took to make it at Motherwell, never mind a higher level