Sneckboy

This game finished 2-1 to Keith, but I've no further details.

Spanish 3rd tier club, Cultural Leonesa have had a novelty kit for pre-season. A tuxedo themed top - it's been so well received that the club are going to use it as their change strip! Totally quirky and completely unique. It would be like playing against waiters!

Sorry, Renegade. I meant, basically, we need to decide - stripes or not! Other clubs tend not to vary from their historical pattern. Can't we make our minds up!

Trying to find a blend between two strikingly different kits is always going to be difficult, particularly when the two clubs played in blue/white and red/black. Mucking about with different designs every few years leaves us 'wide open' to accusations of not knowing our own identity and being an artificial club. We need to have a consistent , recognisable identity - and this should have been addressed at the outset. Obviously, the debate had more to do with the feasibility of such a club, rather than what colours it would be wearing. But, rightly so - a time-scale had to be met. However, this constant changing of kit is pathetic. Ask a football fan in the street to name the colours of Scotland's clubs: Celtic - green/white hoops Ross County - navy blue Aberdeen - red St Mirren - black/white stripes Hibs - green/white arms Dundee Utd - tangerine Hearts - maroon The Rangers - blue Kilmarnock - blu/white stripes Motherwell - amber Dundee - navy blue St Johnstone - blue Elgin - black?white stripes etc. ICT - Nobody knows. And we wonder why we're still considered a joke club?! Yes, it may take 60 years or more until the last Thistle or Caley fan 'passes on', leaving the debate behind, but surely, in the present, can't we find an identity, a unity, a consistent set of colours that we're recognised by?

Teasing us with words rather than pictures this year, CaleyD I'm assuming Sunday will be the reveal.... Unless the Courier run a picture of the new kit, either tomorrow or Friday, with (probably) Richie Foran modelling it! There will surely be stripes, surely! - if not, I fear there's an insidious effort to phase them out - in which case my mouse will be pointing in the direction of the Merger Talk thread!!!

Sorry. I was going to post it in articles, but they are all results and comments with a couple of reports thrown in so sod it, I posted it in the reports section. Some of them are tweets, but that's all we have to go on. Just trying to keep everything in order before the season starts. I know you were - I was just being pedantic!

Other score today : Rothes 2-3 Inverness CT U20's

That's hardly a report! It's a compiled version of Twitter posts!

I've a pal at the game who told me he'd text updates - so far - one text! Half time 0-0.

I'm not sure of the exact criteria but I'm sure there's some stipulation they must be missing at Cove. I know it's a very tight ground with no seating provision for fans - although they do have sponsors seats! Banks O' Dee have a small stand. Banks O' Dee probably should have been admitted to the Highland League the last time there were vacancies. I seem to recall they had what appeared to be a better case than certainly, Strathspey and likely Turriff and Formartine. However, I think 'self interest' saw them miss out! Picture courtesy of 'Non League Scotland'.

I heard Stevie was away? Bummer for St Cuthberts. I'm sure they got drawn away to Talbot last year. Didn't realise, I was going to take in a Bo'ness game this year if they ended up playing in the West as well just to get a final look. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/local-football/steven-hislop-quits-bo-ness-after-manager-row-1-3441551 Seemingly fell out with the manager - but he's looking for another club!

He's only training with us - I doubt he's a signing target. Well, I hope not! Another one in the mould of Garry O' Connor or Derek Riordan - lauded as wonder kids due to a stellar youth career. Dow's been a journeyman for years now. He probably knows Hughes through a Falkirk connection and he's made training 'facilities' available. He's been a bit-part player in League Two in England - a league that Sam Winnall found 'easy' to score in! I'd rather him back - who knows, I was stunned when Tansey returned! A Sam Winnall-Billy McKay partnership could be lethal. As much as I thought Butcher's reign here was utterly outstanding, I feel he didn't give that player enough opportunity to show his worth.

Nor Peter Griffin!

By the looks of things, there'll be plenty Gruffalo's on display in Dingwall!

If there is occasion for Partick to wear it, don't be surprised if SKY intervene and arrange coverage to coincide with a charity moon-light 'MoonWalk' - obviously with a midnight kick-off!

CaleyD pouring himself a whisky as we speak - (or in this case, whiskey)!

Talking of 'half-and-half', it was often 50-50 whether I'd go back for the 2nd half! Don't have that option these days.

I'm in the 'just a striker' camp as well. The rest of the squad looks fine. Might be a little stretched this weekend with a double-header against Rothes and Raith Rovers but big Duncan Shearer can pull his boots on in Rothes if we're stuck!

Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale v Burntisland Shipyard Amateur Auchinleck Talbot v St. Cuthbert Wanderers Glasgow University v Cove Rangers Vale of Leithen v Gala Fairydean Rovers Hurlford United v Edinburgh University Edinburgh City v Fort William Newton Stewart v Hawick Royal Albert Wigtown & Bladnoch v Civil Service Strollers Byes: Coldstream, Culter, Dalbeattie Star, Golspie Sutherland, Girvan, Bo’ness United

The new season must be getting closer! The draw for the preliminary round of the Scottish Cup will be made this morning. Obviously our entry is still 4 rounds away, but it's always interesting to see how clubs from different leagues fare against each other. There are an amazing 90 clubs entered this season - surely a record!? Strathspey Thistle are in for the first time. Also, Linlithgow Rose, Banks O'Dee and Gretna 2008 are involved due to having achieved the required SFA licensing. Cove Rangers and Fort William, however, have not got the licence - their grounds aren't 'up to scratch' - but are still allowed to compete (for this season, certainly) but both find themselves in the preliminary round as a result! Format and dates for the whole competition:http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/ScottishCup/2014-15/Scottish%20Cup%20Format%20&%20Composition%202014-15.pdf

It was Thistle's Jock MacDonald.

Thanks for all that info, Mantis. I hope Whitehill can challenge Spartans and Stirling Uni for the title in the coming season.

God, I miss that vehicle for drinking and a scrap! I wonder if I can still order it? I'll try 272727. Engaged!! All the refusniks, obviously! Joking aside, it's an interesting post from Renegade. As for the lack of opposition to the merger at the time - likely apathy. Evident in all votes including the UK parliament, these days. A party gets 30% of the vote and is the biggest party at Westminster, yet only 60% turned out to vote. So the 'winning' party, in reality only got 18% of the available votes. Surely not a mandate to govern?! But that's democracy! Yes, some folk can't do enough for the club in terms of innovation, with speculative attempts at increasing the support through school visits and various community projects etc., and all are very commendable, But blood runs thicker than water - one does tend to be influenced by parents. We all see the kids being ferried about in pushchairs wearing bloody Rangers tops! Believe me, that kid didn't request that on his Birthday-present list! Okay, the number of refusniks is obviously unknown. But, with the club now 20 years old, there could, theoretically, soon be grandchildren of refusniks! Even if there were only a few hundred dissenters at the outset; extrapolating that number, over a few generations (assuming 2.4 children per refusnik), reveals a mind-bobbling loss of potential fans! It's not the initial loss of, even say, a conservative estimate of 300-400 fans, but the knock-on effect which is so over-looked by many!

If you look anything like your avatar, there'll no be a shirt to fit you! Eat Fresh? Eat something!!!

Ah! I didn't realise that. Makes more sense now!