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  1. "The Dons'll come good this year..." © since 1990...
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  2. None of it is important. He's a footballer. What is important is how good he is at football. How well he spells is as irrelevant as how good the editor of "The Times" is at football.
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  3. I see while Sutherland hasn't actually signed for Brora yet, Gavin Morrison has. I know he didn't get much of a chance here, but surely he could get a Division 1/upper Division 2 team? Money talks though I suppose.
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  4. Its not only that, you also need some other club consistently beating everyone else. Just cant see it. Aberdeen have a proven manager who is well respected internationally and off the back of a successful domestic run. They have signed solid players in central midfield, a returning captain and some bright talent on the wings. They will be Celtics main challengers. Oops! That was last year!
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  5. Well the basic reason behind this extended thread was to attempt to express the frustration of an INDIVIDUAL Howden Ender (and hopefully many others) in regard to the pre-merger process. I aimed this at the yoof of ICT and the followers who came post-merger, This is like ICT nowadays thinking about merging with Hellgin or the Gypos. Just feckin think about that when ya think that some of the oldies are feckin whingeing about the past. As far as I am concerned I am Caley till I die and I respect anybody who states that they are a Jeggie till they die. We are now Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC and we are blue and white and red and black and united – as some of us have tattoos to prove it! CALEDONIAN THISTLE TILL I DIE – Caley Jags - O2FECKINB – BUT THE HOWDEN END WILL NEVER DIE So let us look to further success in 2013-2014, stick together, multiply and put Sneck SLAP back on the feckin Map!! DID WE HAVE AND WILL WE HAVE A FECKIN GOOD TIME OR FECKIN WOT ??!!
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  6. And he expects us to spell his name right...?!
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  7. Not sure if there will be any real surprises, but see Hearts staying up with Midden (not Thistle) going down, only other will be the rise of the Dons & D Utd with Well dropping down into the bottom half after being 2nd for the last 2 seasons. On a hopefully optomistic level I'd like us to be the surprise package with a cup double (beating Celtic on route to both titles) and 4th spot in the League
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  8. Our new keeper! I see already some of the nervous doubters among us are writing off the poor guy before he even gets between the posts. I had high expectations as well considering all the mystery surrounding the search for a mystery experienced keeper but why put a downer on the guy, who knows he could yet turn out to be the right competition for Ryan, he could yet turn out to be a star. S M is a goalkeeping coach as well as Scout so I am damn sure he hasn't brought him here just for the fun of it or to fill a gap. Welcome Brill, don't get sidetracked by the doubting dark glasses brigade that use this forum, their knees start knocking for the slightest reason. ICT supporters will cheer you on, give your best and the supporters will too, good luck, I'm sure you will be brill.
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  9. I would much rather us sign younger players with potential who have no SPL experience than has beens from bottom six SPL teams just because they have SPL experience We have retained about 95% of our team from last year and we can all agree that last year was a very successful campaign ergo 95% of our team have SPL experience. Do we need more? I'm more than happy to supplement that with players from down south with no SPL experience.
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  10. Modern parenting......................Wrap in cotton wool. Dont allow out of sight. Dont allow out of doors unless accompanied by trusted adult. Stick in bedroom with video games and dvd's to keep from under feet.
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  11. Aye DD you have got it in a nutshell. Respect, fairness and honesty all now, sadly, lacking in the game! Whoever coined the phrase money is the root of all evil deserves reverence 'cause that is where it all stems from. Transfer listed at Tens of millions of pounds, multi million pound wages are they worth it ? No none of them are,, not in my opinion anyway! Diving, shirt pulling, elbowing, deliberate fouling with intent to injure, faking injury, appealing to the Ref to send players off ! all part of a list of blatant dishonesty that goes on and accepted by the powers that be as the norm. Why do I watch football then if that's what I think? because I love the game I grew up with and just occasionally I am treated to almost ninety minutes of sheer joy when the game is played as it should be. Don't get me wrong I like to see strong tackling, the odd shoulder charge and real competitiveness, just cut out the cheating the namby pamby stuff, the disrespect and get back to real football.
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  12. Fully support Bughtmaster's post above. One of the things that stops talent emerging is the fact that young kids just don't spend anything like the hours we used to kicking a ball about in the street, the local park or the school playground. Any chance you got, lads were out kicking a ball around. Formal training was a rarity but the sheer number of hours playing developed skills whilst the number of lads playing ensured that those with the real talent emerged and got noticed - although sadly not in my case. Then there was the competitiveness. Life was competetive. You played in leagues for everything and school was competetive - in primary school we had a weekly test which gave you your place in the class and determined where you sat. Now that seems to be frowned upon because it makes those who do not do so well feel inferior (apparently). Absolute nonesense of course. You don't need to play sport competetively or have tests in school to know that other folk are better than you at certain things. What is important is that children have the opportunity to experience different activities be it sporting, academic, creative or technical etc. Given the chance, kids will find things they like and are good at and those skills can be nurtured. Competition encourages kids to do better and crucially, motivates the best to stay at the top with the result that the best get better. Let's face it, life is still competetive. If you are in business you have to compete in order to make a living and far from stifling competetiveness, schools should be encouraging it. Together with that comes a respect for the rules and authority. We would play hard but fair and never, ever question a referee's decision. There are still parents and teachers who instil these virtues in the children but they are becoming fewer and further between. As a result the number of players who can cut the mustard at the top level are also getting fewer. Frankly, I don't see that changing
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  13. Good points IHE!, my theory why we don't have the Quality in the 'yoof' nowadays is lifestyle is as follows: Unfortunately it is very much a sign of the times. How often nowadays do you see the youngsters out kicking a ball in the fields, jackets down for goal posts, a big mix of ages in equally balanced sides. That was where the learning came from in the times before TV and computers. Goals and byes, three and in were common place depending on numbers and as others arrived sides were picked and a full scale game would ensue, lasting well over the ninety minutes. The youngest learned the hard way playing against the big lads and if and when they were knocked over they would get up quickly to prove they could take it and weren't Sissies. There was schools football, boys brigade football Sunday school football Street football and any other football they could invent. That was where the trade was learned before being found by junior clubs then welfare clubs those who shone eventually made the Highland league. Now it would appear that monied parents can buy their kids into coaching schools and training facilities regardless of abilities, whilst the less well of, many of them who have keen talented offspring don't really get a look in or cant get places because of lack of funds. Another factor imo is this attitude of competitiveness being discouraged and the mamby pamby 'its not the winning that counts it's the taking part.' pish! Its taking part and wanting to win that matters. Teachers, youth leaders etc should all be encouraging sport and winning. People gave up their time to help them along in life without payment so why shouldn't they do the same for this generation. Getting off my high horse now to give it a drink !! or rather share the one I'm going to have
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