"Don’t anybody start talking about morals, because we don’t have any in football" - the rolling Scottish football thread, season 2014/15

WTactualF is *that*?

It's awesome, that's what it is.

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twitter reaction is p good
https://twitter.com/ThistleTweet/status/612966534387007488

this is the best

Brilliant, though as someone pointed out on Twitter, what'll become of poor old Jaggy MacBee? Or do Partick have a history of cruelly tossing aside mascots as soon as a new sponsor comes along? What a cupboard of horrors that will become.

As for the Europa draw, the plus side of Saints drawing a team in Armenia with the away leg first is that it safely removes any clash with my sister's wedding the next day - had we got UCD I'd have been tempted to go over and risk getting the first flight back in the morning.

Probably time to move onto a new thread for 15/16 soon? Is Partick's mascot to be our naming inspiration?

@jaggymacbee going it alone

is there anything sadder than a mascot available on a bosman?

"I'm still young, I'm still ambitious and I want to play at as high a level as I possibly can."

Danny Wilson, March 2014.

he's since moved from the premier league to the championship twice

I've warmed to old Kingsley over the course of the day, mostly because of the hilarious twitter reaction of people refusing to take their kids to Firhill because they'll be traumatised for life.

Have you all seen the logo? This is surely not real.

http://ptfc.co.uk/img/2012/spiff/kingsford.jpg

twitter users not alone among the group of people who haven't bothered to look up who david shrigley is and what he's all about, bbc reporters are at it too http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33223578/partick-thistles-kingsley-will-bring-shame-on-the-good-name-of-mascots

I saw that logo earlier, and it is wonderful. I can see why some Partick fans may not be so enamoured, it's easy for me to be into it given I support a different team. I almost wish it was Saints so I could witness the meltdown on We Are Perth.

I think there's a pretty earnest discussion in the Thistle thread on P&B about the blocked out spelling mistake in the logo. Clearly Shrigley is not as well known as some of us may have thought!

on the jags forum i read people seem to be enjoying the madness of it all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would *love* to see the meltdown if Celtic did this. It's bad enough when they remove a hoop from the strip.

Basically, I'm not a fan of Shrigley (if my mate who gave me a David Shrigley book for my last birthday there is lurking here, sorry...), but I like the madness of it all without particularly being a fan of the aesthetic. And now I think I've decided I want the entire thing to be a stunt and for Partick to come out next season with a dull old kit with the Kingsford official corporate logo* on their shirt and a bee hugging the kids and doing stupid dances, having owned the internet for a day, just to confuse everyone further.

* which I can't find. They're not very internetty, from what I can see.

tbf the discounted-from-fopp david shrigley book is the quick-fix gift that every kinda cool kinda young person from in or around glasgow has both purchased and received

Ha, I am neither young nor cool, but I suspect my friend has more than a passing knowledge of the Fopp discount shelves.

Kingsford official logo is dull, two lion heads with a crown above them.

Hotel wifi giving me as much as "wardrobe injury setback for Commons" but not letting me get details. Presumably up there with the decorating incident that cost Dean Sheils an eye.

I see we not only took over St Midden tonight but even replaced the club signage outside the "stadium".

He dropped a wardrobe on his foot.

I'm going to the game against Real Sociedad at the fake Celtic Park in Paisley. Shall Report Back.

We signed a right back. Exactly what we need as we only had Lustig, Matthews, Fisher and Ambrose to cover that position.

How are we for left backs again?
*counts fingers on one finger*

I'm not convinced Kris Commons could lift a wardrobe.

Maybe he was hiding in it from Steven Gerrard.

Correction: it was a wardrobe door, not the full wardrobe.

How's his missus's doing-a-job-for-£300 charity drive coming along? Maybe she could play at left back?

Adam Matthews away to Sunderland, apparently. Which leaves us with with only four right backs.

So long AM! Usually excellent at right back and also memorably good one time at left back. Chipped in with a couple of stunning goals too.
Also well done for mostly staggering your injuries with Lustig so at least one of you was available to keep Efe out of the way of the buses.

That wee run of swapping-a-right-back-for-a-right-back worked well with two half-fit candidates for the role.

Also, should we start a new thread now that Aberdeen and St Johnstone have kicked the season off already?

Indeed, though I'd like a do-over please!

Yeah, not the best of starts, was it? Tried to watch a bit of it, but Armenian telly stream wasn't playing.

Another potentially major injury for Davidson not great either.

Given the heat and how little was known about the opposition (and the likelihood that they were going to be reasonable opposition) i'd not been expecting much - a draw or a narrow win, so it's not the end of the world. Not higely confident we'll turn them over next week, though.

something something Nadir of our scouting strategy

gonnae stick my big challopy neck out and say he won't cut it in Europe any better than whoever he's supposed to replace.

was it well known that van hooijdonk is an agent now? I had no idea

(commiserations on the euro tie michael)

Yeah, what a bummer.

I am almost out of the deep pit of despondency that followed my attendance at the game.

Wasn't much of a game, they were happy to foul and break things down, we toiled. Some bizarre decisions. Couldn't make numerical advantage count. They score from a long overhead ball. Had to field a makeshift midfield through injuries, then lost both central defenders due to injury during the game.

All excuses though. Just wasn't good enough over the two legs.

The blessing is we don't have to go through to the next round missing something like seven starting first team players.

Wow, that was some result from Aberdeen the night.

hey we won a CL tie
vs a terrible team
on a shite pitch
and lost a goal

so much to look forward to!

wtf @ SPFL scheduling SIX Celtic games in 28 days during the fucking CL qualifiers?! Arseholes.

Shall we have a new thread and what shall we call it?

(non-ILF got a bit clusterfucky lately eh?)

I think we should have a new thread. Did anyone say anything silly recently?

Well done us, and well done sheep. Mon the coefficient!

Aye well done Aberdeen (so far, no jinxing!) and nae luck StJ and good luck ICT. Let's get a coefficient that starts future seasons in August!

Surprisingly I don't think anyone's said anything all that stupid lately, or not of the quotable variety.

Ann Budge is no Mad Vlad

Those were second legs - sheep through, ICT are out.

Oops - thought they still had a tie. Four weeks of no football and I'm lost.

Wait. Got it.

I had it in my head we played Tuesday and tonight was Wednesday and the Europa ties were tomorrow.

Did anyone see the Daily Record article the other day where King says Rangers will only be bigger than Celtic again when the fans pile enough money in the tills? Don't get me wrong, I think football clubs should operate within their means, but the article seemed a little bit pleading.

Here we go: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dave-king-rangers-never-big-6118402

The headline may just be mischief.

Great result for Aberdeen tonight. Had a feeling McInnes would have them well prepared.

They have Almaty in the next round, but Aleshkert actually beat them tonight which should give the Dons some confidence. Brutal bit of travelling, though.

I was gonnae moan about travelling till I saw Aberdeen's draw.

lol wtf etc

http://m.stv.tv/sport/football/clubs/st-johnstone/1325286-watch-st-johnstone-striker-graham-cummins-zip-eyelid-to-tracksuit-top/

the url doesn't lie

They'll be zipping their eyelids to their trackies: Scottish Football 2015-16

there's no way im watching that, the very idea is freaking me oot.

Useful away goal for Aberdeen to keep the tie alive. That was apparently the longest journey ever taken for a European tie.