Rather than talk down a “small” Inverness CT support in Dumfries on a Friday night, talk up every single one of those who are there. Diehard fans who love their club, fair play to them all.
“It’s not the size of dog in the fight, it’s the size of fight in the dog!”
Scotland fans: still on cloud nine?
It's that time again! Our World Cup qualifying group players listed in order of minutes on the pitch.
That's 900 minutes of blood, sweat & cheers.
Before you read further ... Can you guess who is top? Can you name all 30?
Thread!
#Scotland
🔴🟡 75 years and counting of this Welsh family supporting the Jags (started by the generation before us before any jokes get cracked!) - another season starts today, mon the
@PartickThistle
❤️💛
Brian Graham gave the most moving, powerful & personal press conference I've witnessed this week.
All in support of
@_FCUnited
, to help others in similar situations & to encourage us all to talk.
You can read it in today's Herald, Record & Sun, & here:
Can’t put into words how proud I am of my football club, our football department, media team & the fans. Supporters genuinely out of this world last night. More could be said but best left at that. Today is day 1 of the next chapter & an all-out assault on season 24/25. PTFC ❤️💛
T.H.I.S.T.L.E is 10 🥳 – a thread!
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the original song.
Now a Scottish football music cult hyyt!, this is the full story of T.H.I.S.T.L.E
(And a chance to buy a wee piece of its history, for an amazing cause)
Enjoy!
🧵
🗓️ Four years today working for the Jags, forever a privilege, looking forward to seeing what the next 12 months bring … starting tomorrow for one of the best, see you at Firhill ❤️💛
“We never failed to answer when we were called”
Nothing else matters but for all Jags fans to step up to the plate now.
If you can:
Buy a
@PartickThistle
season ticket on Friday - I will.
Join
@Jags_Foundation
- I have (
#259
).
And spread the word.
I’m 100% all in ❤️💛
This great man is 85 years young today. The reason we follow Thistle, love the club & why football is such a big part of our lives.
And we’ll all be together at East End Park this Saturday, Mr & Mrs Welsh leading from the front.
Happy birthday Dad, forever grateful ❤️💛
That’s both my dear parents just had their first dose of the vaccine. One step closer to hugging my maw again! 🤗
Big thanks to my pals
@glasgow_taxis
for the safe transport to & from the docs; the wait & return might be the best £15 the family has ever spent.
Mon the Jags! 💉
My dear and talented Dad tonight with the three loves of his life: Thistle (scarf), music (trombone) and family (wife!).
Playing before and after the 8pm
#clapforNHS
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow a fitting tune in many ways. 🌈
Upbeat encore at the end! 🕺🏻
🎥:
@TomeElliott
👌🏼
Partick Thistle title winning captains you can count on two hands, I’ll always have a lot of love for
@RossDocherty1
@kyleturner628
’s been a joy to watch, Holty was Mr 100%.
All three are good good people & I wish them well for the future.
But we move on & we go again ❤️💛👊🏼
Germany 2006 with my brother and dad, two days and nights at a tournament Scotland didn’t qualify for and we had the time of our lives!
Next summer is going to be unreal!!!!!
Germany … 🎶 🏴
It's a busy weekend of celebrations as we mark the 50th anniversary of our 1971 Scottish League Cup win.
It all starts on Friday night with the premiere showing of our 1971 League Cup celebration documentary.
The Alan Rough Lounge opens at 6:30 for a 7:30 start.
Read More: 👇
Something new. Something old. Something borrowed. Something gold.
Thanks to Dennis Mathieson for sending this pic in to the club ❤️💛
@BenStan47
@aeromuirhead
@lewisneilson9
An incredible service for an incredible woman today, a privilege to represent the club at it & hear about a wonderful life lived to the full until cruelly cut short.
What a contribution to the club you made Susan, & all because you fell for the red & yellow ❤️💛
Always a Jag.
🙌🏼 Performance of the day must go to Jags fan Steven King who cycled 100+ miles from Dundee to Peterhead to take in the game, an absolute machine 💪🏻
Safe home Steven (train from Aberdeen - phew!) & see you at Tannadice - club will shout your ticket as a gesture of thanks 🙏🏼👏👏
#VEDay
75 years ago my great grandfather, James Welsh, was Glasgow Lord Provost.
He made this speech in George Square to tell Glasgow war was over.
The pictures are of his original speech.
Powerful words which resonate today.
Thanks to my Dad for preserving these.
#VEDay75
Final presser of the year done. Read the manager tomorrow & big Brian on Monday.
Annual shout-out to each & every person who contributes to Thistle media & content, some team.
And Happy Hogmanay to all of a jaggy persuasion, here’s to a successful 2023 for the club we love ❤️💛
@DrNancyLombard
@Donaldlaboo1
@Everton
Good morning! If yet to visit Partick Thistle FC @ Firhill 🏟️ pls DM me or drop me an email at brianwelshpr
@gmail
.com & we’ll be delighted to set up a similar experience at our club 🙌🏼
Kudos to Everton 💙 & thanks to
@Donaldlaboo1
RT for bringing this to my attention ❤️💛
✍️The end of an era in the best possible place 🏟️
Congratulations to Daily Record sports writer
@dmccarthyDR
upon filing his final football match report yesterday, 29 years after his first.
One of the good guys, a top writer, with a great family.
Thanks for everything David❤️
This is what it’s all about ❤️💛
Massive thanks to Paolo Zani and PZ Tiling for donating these places to
@SimonCommScot
on Saturday. We loved having you guys there with us, topped off with the win, come back soon.
@briangraham1987
@Fitzpatrick2001
Thanks
@PartickThistle
@JagsForGood
&
@Brian_Welshy
for inviting 2 of the men we are supporting through our Managed Alcohol Programme to hospitality. ♥️
“I’ve still got the passion Thistle, however I’d lost my confidence until now. The day made me feel like my old self.” JRG
Two years ago today I began providing some external, PT professional support for the Jags.
What a two years it has been. I hate this phrase but it’s fitting, you really couldn’t have written it.
Every fan says it about their club but Thistle really is a club like no other ❤️💛
EXCLUSIVE: Director Sam Neave and Academy Award-winning producer Charles B. Wessler commenced production in May on a feature-length doc surrounding the Scottish football club, Partick Thistle
Thistle v Queen’s Park today for the seventh time in 2023!
By the date of our fixture on January 2 we’ll have played them eight times in 366 days (effectively once every 52 days).
The previous eight fixtures between the sides were stretched across almost 22 years!
❤️💛🕷️
🚕 🙌🏼 Huge thanks to Thistle
@glasgow_taxis
driver
@williammclachl7
for helping Jags fans up McParland Way before all home league games this season, what a man ❤️💛
🚕 The Thistle Taxi returns tomorrow for use by any older or less able supporter, free of charge!
It will be making multiple trips from McParland Way to the Jackie Husband Stand Reception, starting at 1:30pm.
📣 By popular demand we can reveal our new 2022/23 home kit 24 hours early! 📣
Inspired by the entertaining Thistle sides of the 1950s and 1960s, our new strip sees a return to thick red and yellow hoops.
🧵 Produced by
@ONeills1918
🛒 Available to purchase
@GreavesSports
Have one of your football pals been quiet of late?
Maybe you should check in with them.
🔴🟡
@PartickThistle
captain and
@ThistleWFC
coach Brian Graham has some vital tactical advice to share if you're worried that someone may be considering suicide.
@spfl
|
@TalkToSaveLives
🏟️ Final football match of season 22/23 was spent watching Scotland win a fourth Euro qualifier on the trot, in the company of my son, nephews & niece. Truly special night, albeit mental.
Never been so proud to support the Jags & Scotia. Here’s to the journey ahead ❤️💛🏴👊🏼🇩🇪
Annual end-of-year shout out to all involved in PTFC - and PTWFC - media for superb work throughout an eventful year, & keeping the cogs turning during the busy festive period
Congrats to all behind the return of the match programme too, great to see it back
Legends one & all!
What a day to be a Jags fan and Scotland devotee.
See you in Kirkcaldy and see you in Munich, and all the rest.
Wouldn’t have it any other way
❤️💛 🏴 🇩🇪
1.
@kierantierney1
Or rather, Kieran f*cking Tierney. It was OT for KT as he completed a sensational 887/900 mins on the pitch, only coming off against the Faroes at home - after providing 3 assists - then again late on Monday.
The ultimate warrior of qualification. Winner.
Fans will love seeing this in person. It’s quite simply beautiful. Took a wee pic myself yesterday, a perfect sight when arriving at the stadium of dreams … ❤️💛
👀 Thistle fans passing Firhill may have noticed the start of a stunning new addition to the South Drive wall.
Work is underway to add club legend Davie McParland, resplendent in full colour including the famous red and yellow, to the South Drive mural.
Another hospitality classic today! Paul’s pep talk, Fitzy’s fam, Bruce’s belting story, Chico’s chat, Tom’s 500th, two great sponsors, four big birthdays, Liverpool guests, Aidan, Harry & Brian post match, 4-0 win, tunes on, happy hour, up the road. Do it all again next week ❤️💛
📷 A moment was captured yesterday …
In hospitality for my dad’s birthday and among the group was a best pal and his son, Nathan. Post game and opportunistic young Nathan legged it to get Banzo’s signature, this snap perfectly timed as they said hello
🤜🏼🤛🏼
Cheers
@Banzo8
❤️💛
Just home after an unbelievably good trip 🇩🇪
Literally 100s of pictures could tell the story of just the best 12 days with friends & family but this one stands out, the unforgettable pre match in Cologne. Thanks
@CWilliamsonpics
👌🏼
What a nation, what a time, what a support 🏴
🏟️ Only certainty for Tuesday is the John Lambie Stand will reach capacity once more ❤️💛
🎟️ If you want to be behind the goal, get your ticket asap:
📸:
@theradavies
Not the result we wanted but we go again next week, 100% effort needed once again from fans and players alike ❤️💛
Another superb day in hospitality with
@AGM60
a dream to interview, huge thanks to Andy and of course
@ThistleMascot
#OTIG
Happy 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣1️⃣ day❤️💛
Hats off to some of the very best Scottish football writers who have done the 50th anniversary justice & then some 🙌🏼
Times, Daily Mail, Record, Herald, Scotsman, Sun are the ones to grab if you are off to
#buyapaper
today👇🏼
Mon the Jags!
#partickthistle
T.H.I.S.T.L.E is 10 🥳 – a thread!
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the original song.
Now a Scottish football music cult hyyt!, this is the full story of T.H.I.S.T.L.E
(And a chance to buy a wee piece of its history, for an amazing cause)
Enjoy!
🧵
Aaaand … Table plan done! All set for tomorrow, 15 tables of Jags fans, inc a few star names. Quick mention to Jill at Sodexo and Kieran at QPFC who have been first class. Looking forward to a cracking day ❤️💛
Just home. Some stating the obvious thoughts:
Czech game killed us
Direction of travel is positive
Right coach and ever improving squad
We resume WC qualifiers in better shape than we left them
McGregor goal = ecstasy
41 shots in 3 games 😭
Still gutted for Gilmour
#sco
❤️
They don’t make them like this anymore. What a photo (thanks
@stuthejag
), what a trio and what a man, Bertie was.
Robert Auld, Panmure Street’s finest, rest in peace 💔💛
“Further, any supporters who wish to give Kris and the team a good luck send-off when they depart Firhill for Dingwall between 1pm and 2pm on Saturday, are welcome to congregate safely on Firhill Road opposite the stadium during that time.”
The Executive Offices will open from Noon until 2pm tomorrow to enable another window of ticket sales for Sunday's trip to Dingwall with in-person sales only.
Almost 2,000 of the Red and Yellow Army have already bought their ticket for the trip north.
What a week for us Scotland fans! 🏴
While we move on from today & prepare for Israel on Wednesday, let’s again bask in our Euro 2020 glory & honour the men who took us there.
6 games. 600 minutes. 31 players.
Listed in order of minutes on the pitch.
🧵
I’m so very sorry to read the news about Jim Cowan this morning 💔
First & foremost thoughts are with Jim’s family & friends. But also thinking of the Munns boys & girls who thought so highly of Jim too.
That last journey to an away game was one of the best ever.
RIP Jim ❤️💛
13. Stephen O'Donnell
Don't start me! The 2020/21 SOD Defiance Tour: Belgrade | London | Vienna | Glasgow. More dates tbc.
Just 4/10 starts but as always rose to occasion. This man lets nobody down. Role model attitude for new generation of RBs. Get behind him.
Invaluable.
T.H.I.S.T.L.E is 10 🥳 – a thread!
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the original song.
Now a Scottish football music cult hyyt!, this is the full story of T.H.I.S.T.L.E
(And a chance to buy a wee piece of its history, for an amazing cause)
Enjoy!
🧵
Thistle will host
@JamTarts
in a friendly this Sunday afternoon as our preparations continue ahead of the season re-start later this month.
The friendly will take place at Firhill with a 1pm kick-off and will be available for fans to watch live on a free stream.
Full info: 👇
🏟️ Much fun at Hampden before and after the game yesterday, full gallery to follow but big thanks to everyone who came along and especially to Kris, Alex, Alan, Cara, Amy, Sir John, Brian and Aaron for chatting before and after. See you Tuesday ❤️💛
📷
@georgiadunn06
🙌