JACKIE McNAMARA hopes the wrangle over his departure from Partick Thistle will soon be cleared up.

SOME people were never going to believe them, but Partick Thistle are going up.

THE value of an honest day's work is not lost on Chris Erskine.

THERE is nothing remarkable about the cherrypicking of a talented first division title-winning team by one of the so-called big guns of the Scottish Premier League, but Partick Thistle fans would probably find it easier to swallow if theirs was actually permitted to win the title first.

FIRHILL has been the place for thrills for most of the season, but the excitement levels will surely go off the scale this evening.

PARTICK Thistle have waited nine years for a return to the Scottish Premier League.

IN a season of firsts for Allan Johnston, the Queen of the South manager now has another achievement to tick off.

IF the managers for today's Ramsdens Cup final between Partick Thistle and Queen of the South seem impossibly young and optimistic, that must be because they have yet to be beaten into submission by Scottish football.

THERE was no respite for Partick Thistle's players yesterday as they trained just hours after their Irn-Bru First Division match at Raith Rovers.

IT was a momentous year, 1971.

ANOTHER one down, seven more to go.

AND then there was one.

ALAN Archibald is making this management lark look pretty easy.

THE weather continues to play havoc with Partick Thistle's promotion push.