Prior to travelling to the Killie game I decided that my report should look on the bright side and focus on the positives. :sillywave:
Was my 400 mile round trip worth it ? - yes it was - it was a feckin experience. :crazy07:
Being a seer I should have seen the negative portents but my positivity blinded me. The blizzard conditions on the Shap and the gale force winds of the Borders should have forewarned me but a bright blue sunny sky greeted me as I drove into Ayrshire.
So I get to the hotel where the jobsworth receptionist tells me that I cant book in till 14.00 - so I adjourn to the bar - buy a drink and in walks a group of neanderthal Huns. :029:
I get to the reception and I gain entrance at 13.58 - "Sorry but your room is on the top floor - and the lift isnt working". :029: And the feckin TV aint feckin working either. :029:
So I grab a taxi and head to the Hunting Lodge - a tavern which has been thronged with ICT supporters and is always good craic. I open the door and - two ICT supporters and two locals. :029: But then I spy Boddingtons Cold on draught - yummy yummy - she pulls back the pump and - Cremola feckin foam _ "its off Im afraid". :029:
I am cheered up a bit at being told that the entrance to the game is a special ?8 for a parent and child - but get to our gate and the offer is fer home supporters only. :029: Inside the ground I sit down with the 2-300 faithful - but none of the "old school" in attendance. I go fer a Killie pie and it is feckin lukewarm. :029:
And to make matters worse the game starts. :029:
I hold my feckin head in my hands as we line up as a 3-1-4-1-1. :029: Proctor on the right, McGuire in the middle and Granty on the left. Russell in the hole - fair enuff. Rosscoe in right midfield :029: Black and Vigurs in midfield (OK) - and McBain on the left. :029: Niculae deep - away from home :029: and Bayne as the lone front runner.
Brew must have been reading this forum to pick Rosscoe in midfield but fair play to giving Vigurs a start - but not in that system - And he drops Cowie (? another Brew personality clash?)and leaves Wyness out altogether. :029: And after Denzil score twice for the reserves and Brew urges him to prove himself. So basically he drops our two main attacking options - and puts Hart on the bench - and takes him on - so basically lets feck aff a legend and a potential legend but play a man who has brought disgrace to the club and is going at the end of the season. :029:
And Niculae - the most disinterested individual I have EVER seen in an ICT strip - to be fair his head was probably in the Bucharest clouds - so why not rest him and play Wyness and Bayne and tell them "Go show me what you two can do without Niculae. :029:
By the end of the game Roscoe has gone back to full back - McBain, Vigurs and Niculae have been hooked - he puts a visibly angered Black into wide right midfield - pisses Cowie off even more by leaving him on the bench and there are debates / arguments going off all over the pitch.
The positives - well we bossed the first 15 minutes. :001: The ploy of flooding the midfield worked and we took Killie by surprise. :001: They kicked off playing 4-3-3 with little width and were there fer the taking. We pass the ball well even if the defence looks unsure and shaky from the off - and deservedly take the lead - made by Tokely and well polished off by Black. :001: We also get three free kicks in scoreable range - but no Cowie - so we pick Duncan and Niculae. :029:
But the Jeffries susses it and reverts to 4-4-2 with width. - So does Brew go back to four at the back - NO - they equalise, does Brew change it - NO. We struggle to half time so does Brew change it - NO - they go ahead, does Brew change it - NO - they score a third - does Brew change it - YES. :029:
So does he put Rosscoe back and bring on Cowie and Imrie - yes but not Cowie - he takes on Hart fer Vigurs - and moves Black - our best player - into wide right midfiled. :029: Duncan and Hart spend the rest of the game debating where they should be playing - Black decides to go roving after five minutes suffering in silence on the left - in no mans land - watching every ball being hoofed up to Bayne - surrounded by four defenders. :029:
So I bear it to the end and head off back to the pub - I decided to release some of my pent up anger and frustration by giving Caley 100 a quick call on my mobile - It is a bad line and he says summat that I didnt hear - I then spend two minutes babbling on until I hear him shout - "Turn the phone off Johndo - I'm in Morrocco". :029:
Still afterwards I head to Brewsters (the bear by the way) and have a gret evening with Ky, Highland Exile and the kids. I reckon that they should employ Brewster Bear and I-Cat as the new management team.
Well oiled I get back to ma room at 23.00 and watch the footie with a bottle of Magners and settle down to sleep - only to be awaken at 02.00 by a feckin fire alarm. :029:
Prior to travelling to the Killie game I decided that my report should look on the bright side and focus on the positives. :sillywave:
Was my 400 mile round trip worth it ? - yes it was - it was a feckin experience. :crazy07:
Being a seer I should have seen the negative portents but my positivity blinded me. The blizzard conditions on the Shap and the gale force winds of the Borders should have forewarned me but a bright blue sunny sky greeted me as I drove into Ayrshire.
So I get to the hotel where the jobsworth receptionist tells me that I cant book in till 14.00 - so I adjourn to the bar - buy a drink and in walks a group of neanderthal Huns. :029:
I get to the reception and I gain entrance at 13.58 - "Sorry but your room is on the top floor - and the lift isnt working". :029: And the feckin TV aint feckin working either. :029:
So I grab a taxi and head to the Hunting Lodge - a tavern which has been thronged with ICT supporters and is always good craic. I open the door and - two ICT supporters and two locals. :029: But then I spy Boddingtons Cold on draught - yummy yummy - she pulls back the pump and - Cremola feckin foam _ "its off Im afraid". :029:
I am cheered up a bit at being told that the entrance to the game is a special ?8 for a parent and child - but get to our gate and the offer is fer home supporters only. :029: Inside the ground I sit down with the 2-300 faithful - but none of the "old school" in attendance. I go fer a Killie pie and it is feckin lukewarm. :029:
And to make matters worse the game starts. :029:
I hold my feckin head in my hands as we line up as a 3-1-4-1-1. :029: Proctor on the right, McGuire in the middle and Granty on the left. Russell in the hole - fair enuff. Rosscoe in right midfield :029: Black and Vigurs in midfield (OK) - and McBain on the left. :029: Niculae deep - away from home :029: and Bayne as the lone front runner.
Brew must have been reading this forum to pick Rosscoe in midfield but fair play to giving Vigurs a start - but not in that system - And he drops Cowie (? another Brew personality clash?)and leaves Wyness out altogether. :029: And after Denzil score twice for the reserves and Brew urges him to prove himself. So basically he drops our two main attacking options - and puts Hart on the bench - and takes him on - so basically lets feck aff a legend and a potential legend but play a man who has brought disgrace to the club and is going at the end of the season. :029:
And Niculae - the most disinterested individual I have EVER seen in an ICT strip - to be fair his head was probably in the Bucharest clouds - so why not rest him and play Wyness and Bayne and tell them "Go show me what you two can do without Niculae. :029:
By the end of the game Roscoe has gone back to full back - McBain, Vigurs and Niculae have been hooked - he puts a visibly angered Black into wide right midfield - pisses Cowie off even more by leaving him on the bench and there are debates / arguments going off all over the pitch.
The positives - well we bossed the first 15 minutes. :001: The ploy of flooding the midfield worked and we took Killie by surprise. :001: They kicked off playing 4-3-3 with little width and were there fer the taking. We pass the ball well even if the defence looks unsure and shaky from the off - and deservedly take the lead - made by Tokely and well polished off by Black. :001: We also get three free kicks in scoreable range - but no Cowie - so we pick Duncan and Niculae. :029:
But the Jeffries susses it and reverts to 4-4-2 with width. - So does Brew go back to four at the back - NO - they equalise, does Brew change it - NO. We struggle to half time so does Brew change it - NO - they go ahead, does Brew change it - NO - they score a third - does Brew change it - YES. :029:
So does he put Rosscoe back and bring on Cowie and Imrie - yes but not Cowie - he takes on Hart fer Vigurs - and moves Black - our best player - into wide right midfiled. :029: Duncan and Hart spend the rest of the game debating where they should be playing - Black decides to go roving after five minutes suffering in silence on the left - in no mans land - watching every ball being hoofed up to Bayne - surrounded by four defenders. :029:
So I bear it to the end and head off back to the pub - I decided to release some of my pent up anger and frustration by giving Caley 100 a quick call on my mobile - It is a bad line and he says summat that I didnt hear - I then spend two minutes babbling on until I hear him shout - "Turn the phone off Johndo - I'm in Morrocco". :029:
Still afterwards I head to Brewsters (the bear by the way) and have a gret evening with Ky, Highland Exile and the kids. I reckon that they should employ Brewster Bear and I-Cat as the new management team.
Well oiled I get back to ma room at 23.00 and watch the footie with a bottle of Magners and settle down to sleep - only to be awaken at 02.00 by a feckin fire alarm. :029:
Still - It was well worth it. :029: