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The Rise and Rise of Women’s Football – Brian Graham, Demi Falconer, and Craig Walker
*Interviews were conducted on October 27th 2022* In our modern world, attitudes towards women’s football are changing. More people are watching and taking it seriously. Just a couple of months ago, Scotland Women’s National Team had their highest attendance at Hampden with over 10,000. Partick Thistle Women’s Team also had their record high home attendance…
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Football and Me
Quick pretext: I’m going to fire out a few likely very basic looking posts just to get started. Some introductory stuff before I start posting in-the-moment stories and thoughts. As it says in my wonderful “About Me” section, I never really got in to football properly until I was maybe 16. I tried to play…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2022/23
Second season kicks off, and straight away there is a one to watch. New-ish signing Simon Murray scores in nearly every friendly and Premier Sports Cup Group game, including in a rare win at Accies, who fortunately were promoted via winning the 21/22 league title. Once again the league gets off to a lacklustre start…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2026/27
The season starts on a high, unbeaten in friendlies and group games of the Premier Sports Cup. The Summer transfer market sees Niang and Harry Jones sadly depart, but future Player of the Season Rob Atkinson and the versatile JJ Mckiernan join for free, and promising young Cape Verdian midfielder Rui Mendes join for £74k.…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2025/26
At this point, Thistle have an unholy amount of loanees out, and with a squad so big, the finances aren’t great. A very small slice of transfer fees end up in the transfer budget, and talks of a takeover have been around for years, but Jacqui Low persists. Until a few months into the season…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2024/25
For once, Thistle open the season by actually spending money on some players, namely Harry Jones and Joseph Hungbo among others, who all end up to be just middling at best. Lesson learnt, stick to what you know, get those free agents. For example, Jakubiak has returned for free, and by the end of the…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2023/24
This season opens with strange friendlies. A 2-0 loss to Queens Park with a goal from Thistle flop Jake Hastie, and a 2-2 draw with St Johnstone with an own goal from agent Akinola. Thistle bomb out the group stage of the Premier Sports Cup, winning 1 game from 4. 4 of the first 5…
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Football Manager Blog – Connor Steel’s Partick Thistle 2021/22
In the absence of football to write about, let’s write about fake football! Here will lie an account of (virtual) Connor Steel’s time as a manager, in year-by-year increments for now as I’m already quite far in. It is the beginning of the 21/22 cinch Championship seasons, and by some miracle, Partick Thistle have binned…
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Bowing Out 21/22
Yes, I’ve missed a match review or two, because as has come to be expected in the latter half of the season there was not much to write about. Looking back, a strong start to the season then a sharp decline threw our expectations all out of joint. We came up, we aimed for playoffs,…
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Partick Thistle 0-1 Raith Rovers
*elongated sigh of despair* This was my first time back to Firhill since the 0-4 loss to Accies (due to work etc. not just the suffering of that game) and stupidly I went back with hope in my heart. After Accies we lost 4-1 to Dunfermline, televised might I add, then lost at Killie. But…
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Partick Thistle 0 – 4 Hamilton Academical
Absolutely shambolic performance, Among the worst football I have ever laid eyes on, including Sunday 7s at Powerleague and U10s training at Scotstoun. End to end, start to finish, player to player, completely dreadful. It is quite incredible that we could put out this disaster of a line-up to make the fans say “wow, that…