| Aiden McGinlay |
 Aiden McGinlay was born on Monday, 5th March 2007, in Glasgow. The midfielder was introduced to Kris Doolan's Thistle in September, 2023, whilst a Partick Thistle U-18 player. Aged 16, he made his debut appearance on Sunday, 17th September, 2023, in a 4-2 defeat at home to a 12-13 Champions Select for Stuart Bannigan's testimonial. We look forward to seeing Aiden score his first goal for the club. His club-list includes only Partick Thistle - good man! |
 This left-footed, left-sided midfielder impressed in the Thistle youth ranks during 2022-23, so much so that the likes of West Ham, Fulham and Crystal Palace had scouts keeping close tabs on his progress. He earned 4 caps for Scotland U-16s that term, and followed that up with a cap for the U-17s national team in August 2023. He got his first experience of the Partick Thistle first-team at Stuart Bannigan's testimonial, replacing Zander MacKenzie for the final half an hour in front of around 1,300 at Firhill. Aiden has been a Thistle Weir Academy player throughout his high school years, earning player-of-the-year awards along the way. Like Zak Rudden & Billy Gilmour before him, he enrolled as an SFA performance school student (where football is practiced everyday within an educational environment) to aid his development as a potential footballing professional. The vision of the school is to "produce players with excellent technique who can pass with precision, control with comfort, run with purpose and play with joy." |
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