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Macho! Dreadful sexist remark Should guarantee some clean sheets though!

He's signed for Cluj but c*unty have registered him as a player...

Don't you think Rainbow's suggestion of a top class lady goalie has some intriguing possibilities? Imagine her emulating Mr Calder 's antics on the bar. IHE would be sure to wake up to that eh? The crowd might be on fire too and we could always send for Laurence in his fire engine to add to the fun. It would certainly draw more attention to the club, raising our profile even more from incredible to astoundingly ambitious, multi-coloured even. After all don't we have a lady physio or something already. She might have to wear tender-place- protectors though like Boudica or, as CB might recount in a moment of high -flown academic accuracy reflection, Boadicea; the bird in the Battle Wagon who fought the Romans a loooong time ago. The crowds might triple for heaven's sake.

If he does well out there, he'll soon have his own fang club......

Feckin hell, never saw Andrew Shinnie getting 'stuck' in very much, and were we glad to have him last season. You dont have to get stuck in (which he actially did), he scored tons So you are dismissing my opinion. I have been watching football for nearly 60 years , I have run junior teams and been a ref. I think I know a good player when I see one This guy lacks a lot of what it takes I pretty much dismiss your opinion on everything. This whole "I'm older and therefore must be right and must be respected" attitude that you have is about as condescending and arrogant as it gets. You're not one of these old boys that sits behind the home dugout foaming at the mouth all season are you? If not, you should go over and introduce yourself because these guys think they know more about football than everyone else as well, you'd fit right in. I'm actually surprised that with 60 years of watching football, coaching and refereeing that we've never heard about you before....does the footballing world know what they've missed out on by letting you slip through the net? Maybe it's not too late and we could replace Butcher with your good self before the start of the season...if only you had made yourself and your experience known to us sooner!!!

What amazes me about this topic is that people are slating him and saying they're glad to see the back of him... Well, if you were that bothered about what he DIDNT contribute to the team/club and how USELESS he was, then why are you bothered about talking about him? He's gone. No longer at the club. Wont be back for pre-season. Wont wear an ICT jersey again. In my personal opinion I thought he contributed as much as he could to the side. He came to the club as a striker and was constantly played in midfield. Is it any wonder he didnt get stuck in as much as one might hope? Lets not forget what he DID do whilst here... Set up 2 and scored 1 in the 4-0 win over Utd. - Our first win of the last campaign. He scored the equaliser in the 3-3 derby day draw in the Scottish Cup. He scored the decisive penalty against Stenny in last years league cup. Not to mention he set up a few goals in other important matches, not least the 1-0 win at parkhead.

Introduction to the Families of Sneck: THE "MERKINCHERS" had ruled the Ferry and Carse areas for many years and were a rather insular clique. Their realm comprised mainly of council slums houses, inhabited by tribes of Dyces, Stewarts, Burnsides, Corbetts and Rodgers They rarely strayed from the homely atmosphere of establishments such as the Thornbush, the Locheil or the Albion (famed for having Pomagne, Scotsmac and Four Crown on the optics) or their dilapidated meeting place in Grant Street. They rarely fraternised with the Jeggies but were known to join the Howden Enders on forays into Ross-Shire and Morayshire plus "socialising" at the likes of the Strath, the Keppoch, the Ballerina and the Red Shoes, kitted out in the latest fashions sold in the Nicols Emporium in Grant Street They shunned the concept of family Unity and they had already ploughed significant amounts of stolen borrowed well earned spondoolachs in to the survival of their race and keenly wished to maintain their name, history and heritage. Their general presentation anyway was not viewed as the proper advertisement for Family Unity in Sneck by the Sneck Council, the INE and its known associates. THE JEGGIES were mainly a middle class collection populating the more distinguished properties in the Crown, Lochardil and Culduthel. Their family presentation was far more what the Sneck Council, the INE and their known associates were looking for. They tended to congregate mainly in the Lounge Bars of the Heathmount, Craigmonie and Corriegarth whilst their main meeting place was peculiarly a dilapidated, falling down area of grass and mud called Kingsmills Park. They did also have a quaint little studio apartment in Baron Taylors Street. They were a very polite and politically correct bunch and preferred to rustle sweeting papers, doff their caps or engage in polite clapping and applause than to sing and tended to prefer picnics, garden parties, watching cricket in Fraser Park or a game of gowf at Culcabock. They were never many in numbers and it was often said that the only time a merry throng was seen in their area was when the Howden Enders stormed loudly up Stephens Brae or the Raining Stairs for family competitions. However the family had some very influential members of the Sneck Community with a load of spondoolachs hidden away for a rainy day. In truth they were "perfect" in the eyes of the Sneck Council, the INE and its known associates and it was decreed at an early juncture that they had to be included in the Family Unit application, by any means, fair or foul. THE HOWDEN ENDERS were the vibrant, colourful, gregarious, extroverted, arrogant and oft controversial faction of Sneck. They were simply regarded as the top dogs, "The Rangers of the North". They had considerably more numbers to call on, more financially solid and owned a palatial, historical and revered Meeting Place on Telford Street. They would mass in groups throughout the Kingdom of Sneck, from the Jolly Drover to the Muirtown, from the Fluke to the Crit and the Gellions to the Royal Ordnance. They simply loved life to the full. Their name and reputation was known far and wide. They did not have the family presentation pull that was being sought by the Sneck Council, the INE and its known associates but they did have the numbers, the pulling power, the structure, the history and the finances. They also had the added bonus of a temple of worship on Greig Street (not Diggers but across the road). The Howden Enders had attempted to gain entry to the Scottish Premier League of Family Unit by themselves.They had been willing to sell off their Meeting Place to El Fahid and the Harrods Group and had approached the Sneck Council for a lease and/or financial support. The plan was to build a better Meeting place in the aptly named Northern Meeting Park. But little were they aware at the time that the Sneck Council, the INE and its known associates had already been plotting their visions and the Council voting processes around that application were the start of voting scenarios thereafter. Lets just say "Frigging in the Rigging" . Unfortunately several of the elders of the Howden Ender clan had already been singled out for special attention by the powers to be, known to those in the know as "The Longshanks Project. TO BE CONTINUED

As for Tade, St J have been grumbling that he had verbally agreed to stay for another year and was supposed to come in last week to sign. Come off it Saints, look at his history and you'll see that his only loyalty is to his bank account. He made his way through 6 Scottish clubs in 6 years. With ICT he was popular and succesful player in whom the manager showed a huge amount of faith, to firstly give him a crack at SPL football, and then sticking by him during some awful spells of form. He then buggered off at the first opportunity, to a rival team no bigger than us, after saying he wanted to return to France. The lure of 90 minutes against a foreign team was the next convenient excuse for taking the extra couple of hundred quid a week, and now he's done a U-turn there to be closer to his family, to be in the Europa League qualifiers, for a new challenge. The challenge of how to spend the extra cash, presumably. Not that I'm really blaming him for maximising his earnings, I'm just pointing out to St J that if you manage to seduce the local whore then you shouldn't be surprised to find your bed empty when you wake up.

The Granville, Toich and William Bell Corporation (Publishing Division) proudly presents: GTWB would wish to emphasise that all characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely intentional coincidental.

Looking for a bright side, it'll be Norway, where the alcohol is far too expensive.

Are these the people who moaned about losing so many ''good'' players at the start of last season making judgement on young Roberts? If so, I hope we sign him on a three year contract

Well, Germany's women's team goalie Nadine Angerer is looking for a new challenge. She certainly has the level to play SPL, is a double World Champion, triple European Champion and didn't concede a single goal when Germany won the title in 2007, saving a penalty in the final against Brazil. You can laugh now, but there's some precedence: Forward Birgit Prinz had a serious offer to play for a Serie A team in the late 1990s, and I know at least two female goalies in higher to top level men's ice hockey.

And to think my taxes are spent on GCHQ monitoring this stuff...

With fans folk like us, he will be better off elsewhere..........