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Thistle took the opportunity to launch yet another new marketing slogan today - coming less than a year, let's not forget, than the Real Scottish Football initiative they pushed over the summer.

Partick Thistle: 100% Football, 100% Passion, it proclaims.

Really? Because today we were playing at barely 50%. And perhaps if the board spent more time finding investment and giving McCall a playing squad deeper than just 17 names, and less thinking up ever-more ridiculously stupid ways to promote the club, we'd not be in the mess we're in.

The January sales continue at Firhill and it's becoming increasingly apparent that everything must go.

Latest to be told he can leave is veteran hitman Mark Roberts.

Now, Marko's never been the most prolific of forwards, but he's been a reliable and faithful servant to the Jags since being signed during the reign of the Great Satan himself a few years back.

He's weighed in with more than a few crucial goals here and there during his spell at Firhill. And god knows what we need at the moment is goals.

Worrying reading at the weekend from the Herald.

In case you missed it, Ian McCall revealed the club's financial position is far more precarious than was previously thought, even by the doomsayers around these parts.

Well, what can I say?

In front of a pathetically small crowd - and one largely populated by the right kind of Jag, too - we succumbed, as we always did, to a side with a lethal edge in front of goal.

Now, given my day job, I don't like to point fingers at other newspaper websites.

But I read this piece on the Times' website today and my blood boiled hot enough to melt permafrost.