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Really frustrating to come away without anything there. We looked stronger at the back than we have in ages - Meekings was superb and Mckay again showed that he has been an excellent signing - and we pressed the ball really well further up the park; Tansey and Doumbouya deserve particular praise in this regard. Cole also had probably his best game for us to date - nominally starting on the left of a three behind Doumbouya, he actually played a bit of a free role and looked far more willing take players on than he has in previous games. The drawback of the line-up and tactics we adopted was that we were very short of pace up front, and, especially with Doumbouya dropping back to support so much, we lacked anyone overlapping or taking the ball on. The chances we created - and there were more than there have have been for a while - were mostly created through sheer hard graft, forcing Rangers back by degrees. The fact that we weren't able to take any of them points to a fundamental weakness in the current squad that will probably see us struggling all season, even if we can turn in performances as impressive as this on a consistent basis. Then again, six points against Motherwell and County and we could be back in the top six for the start of 2017. Funny league this year. Merry Christmas btw, CTO folks.

He'd need to work on his fitness....

Hardly - likely that more people will be travelling from the Highlands to support the new club than to support ICT. Pelt me with snowballs if you like but though this game is handy for me, I'm not going. I refuse to give any money to the successors of the team that robbed Scottish football and is trying to do so again. Give them money and they'll only waste it.

All the best to ICT and all concerned Roddy

After a couple of shoddy performances it sounds like the boys put in a great shift today. Fingers crossed we transfer this to our next couple of games and pick up 4-6 points. Well done to all of the away fans who travelled to Glasgow. Hop you all got home safe and sound & merry Xmas.

After the reports of a good performance today even the BBC reports said the Rangers were lucky to get a win we might get a few more to come along on Wednesday night.

Streamed live feed to my iPhone in a bar in Cyprus while having a few beers. Definitely matched Rangers and had a couple of chances in both halfs. Our waiter's from Astra and was also at our European away game. Thought it was an omen for an equaliser but alas not the case....anyway, Merry Christmas everyone, onwards and upwards in 2017

Successfully got just about every result wrong this season so hopefully I will be wrong with the score today as well HT - 1-1 FT - 3-1 ICT - Polworth Rangers - Waghorn Crowd - 45,678 Yellows - 5

Graeme Shinnie and Adam Rooney both scored in Aberdeen's 3-1 win at Motherwell tonight (23 Dec). It was Shinnie's first goal in 2016.

That will really confuse jagster

Bah Humbug. I want Gates of Delirium.

Gringo, can you please update our Crowd predictions when working out the points please? I won't let me edit ............... My prediction edit Crowd: 49649 Caleyjags prediction edit Crowd: 47839

Foran's Lang Syne

The budget might be limited to bring in additional cover, we have McNaughton injured for the remainder of the season on probably a salary towards the higher end of our scale and many of the established guys have signed new deals so will probably have had increases over previous deals. Defensively we look ok, although LB cover would be good, however we can play Raven there when fit. If Meekings leaves though someone will have to be brought in. Midfield - we need to decide where we are playing Draper. If he is an offensive option we need solid central midfield ball winner, otherwise if he is going to go back into the defensive role we need a bit of creativity behind the striker. Whether Tansey will leave in this window I think depends on if the Dons keep Maddison on loan. Tansey's not had the best season and although I do think he will sign a PCA with the Dons I cant see them paying out any money - even £50k Forward / Strikers - Both Doumb & Fisher are very similar, we need something different and someone with pace and a record for goals - Loy could be a decent shout. But we need to improve the service which comes back to the midfield creativity issues. Could bring in a prolific goal scorer but based on our play they wont have good enough service.

ACT FOUR – THE FINAL FRONTIER Oddquine had flirted with AndyC and weeman and they had fallen for the trick of opening the lantern door. Oddquine turned into her “angel” persona Maimie and Maimie sped off to alert Richie Pan. Richie was furious. Maimie sprinkled some fairy dust on Scotty, Jock Watt and dougiedanger and all five flew off at high speed to save the others. Meanwhile aboard the Sir C the 3rd the pirates were taunting the Young Team. Northstandfan, een and ildarino were tickling the feet of jagster, Muirtownjaggy and papalazaroo. Then Captain Yogi Hook, roarer and rubberbumper gave Lizi a choice. “Choose the life of a pirate or walk the plank”. Lizi walked towards the plank. The CaleyOne and Ten4 offered to take her place. StandbyDave declined as he wanted to watch the Borough Briggs Scottish Cup tie. “I will walk the plank” cried Lizi. It was akin to the end scene in Braveheart. TotheOtotheM cried openly, Tree barked furiously, Raszak preyed but Lizi tetered on the edge and then ….. fell forwards. WHOOSH – Richie Pan swooped like Billy Urquhart and grabbed Lizi just before she hit the water. Both pirates and the Young Team exploded on board and fighting broke out from the poop deck to the rigging. Ajmack88, CassICT, davie26, ictewd,john h and micaley68 all joined the affray. It was bringing back memories of the Staigo, the Ferry and the Howden End. Even DoresBoy and DJS reappeared. The main battle ensued between Richie Pan and Captain Yogi Hook. It was defence against attack with Yogi Hook moving sideways perpetually like a crab. And then Richie unbalanced him and Yogi hit the water. “Tick tock, tick tock”. Cameron Crocodile opened his jaws as widely as a Heathmount bar bill and swallowed Yogi Hook. The other pirates drew a sigh of belief and immediately lay down arms and vowed to be the new members of the Young Team. Richie Pan would be the new leader forever. And they all lived happily ever after. PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF I HAVE MISSED ANYBODY OUT

ACT THREE – PARTY TIME AND THE ACT OF BETRAYAL. Richie Pan and Lizi flew into the camp of the Local Natives. Chief SuperFanRig was delighted to see the return of the witness and the Young Team and the Natives went into party mode. It was akin to the Bay City Rollers playing the Caley Ballroom at Crimbo. At least that was TH4TJ’s memory. Darkness fell and the Sponge howled out Blue Moon”, Alterrnative Maryhill won the Hang The Man competition and ICTChris wrote a blog whilst Mantis and Peter Paul took the photties. Davie even had time to interview Richie Pan and Lizi. But that only served to anger Oddquine even more. Even more than a debate with Charlie Bannerman about Scottish independence. Oddquine took off to the pirate ship as she had hatched a plan to get rid of Lizi. But as soon as she got to the pirate ship she was grabbed by FoolPhysio and caged in a lantern, purchased that day at the Nicols Hardware Store. The pirates marched on to deck to witness the betrayal. Fraz with his eye patch, EyeSetee with his parrot, Snorbens caleyman with his false leg and cable guy with a cable. Oddquine revealed where Richie Pan and the Young Team were hiding out. The pirates went to land and got in a fleet of vehicles, all named by IBM. There was a RednBlackComeback model and a reare sighting of a LundravaJag and a Moomkin. Off they sped to the hideout. Richie Pan was asleep (allegedly) under a car outside the night club, guarded by broomie boy, clayjags and bdu98196. The pirates however swooped and captured Lizi, her brothers and all the young Team except Scotty, Jock Watt and dougiedanger. That was going to be a big mistake. TO BE CONTINUED

ACT TWO – THE FABLED LAND OF SNECK And so the group flew around the globe in order to get to the Fabled Land of Sneck. They passed over Gabby’s Billabong, Scarlet Pimples’ log cabin, Gringo’s steam engine, Wanderers Himalayan shack and Caley Stan’s Cypriot hideaway. But as they finally arrived in the fabled land of Sneck they soon became aware of the potential dangers as cannon shots were fired from the pirate ship of Captain Yogi Hook, aptly named “Sir C the 3rd”. It was like going away to Hamilton. The cries of “I will get rid of you Richie Pan” resounded from the strange accent of Captain Yogi Hook. Yogi had lost his hand in a previous duel with Richie Pan and it had been swallowed by Cameron Crocodile. The crocodile had also swallowed the watch of a previous pirate, Long John Terry Butcher, and could be heard ticking as he approached. At this stage CaleyD posted some video update clips and Renegade challenged some of the factual details, quoting Sickepedia. Anyway the boys - Icftsince1974 and DownintheDumps – could not have cared less as they entered the domain of the Young Team. Stirling Observer was the first to greet them and they marched around the camp to the swirl of the pipes. They were then entertained by the wit of Yngwie and the tales of yore from Mantis and Donview. (OK hardly the feckin Young Team but this is a feckin Panto). We may as well add CaleyMadinBerks, Doofers Dad and 12th Man to the Young Team list. Lets just hope that they don’t have to chase anybody. The boys were loving it BUT then they were ambushed by a gang of Sneck Natives who had already made a reservation to be part of the Panto. The tribe thought that their Princess – lilmissictbabe had been captured by the Young Team and were after a hostage swop. The tribe was led by Chief Superfan RIG who had amassed a devoted tribe. His head honcho was TopSix and the other tribesmen included ferben1994, HawkeyetheGnu, ICT Roughi and PerfICT. They were also fervent followers of Sneck but it was a bit of Hilton/Ferry situation. It had evidently come to a stand off and the boys fell asleep in the land of Nod (a bushy area with a stolen Xmas hat as cover). Meanwhile RichiePan had been wooing Lizi and was flying around the Island to show her the sights – like the Jolly Drover and the Hay Loft. Then they spied Captain Yogi in a rowing boat, accompanied by his first mate Spliff Latapy. Tied in the bow was lilmissictbabe. They were heading to Dungwall Rock. Richie saw his chance, hoofed himself at the boat from a long distance (a bit like his tactics nowadays). A fight ensued and Captain Yogi tumbled in to the waters. Richie grabbed lilmissictbabe and headed for shore. “Tick, tock, tick,tock” could be heard as Cameron Crocodile headed for Captain Yogi. Latapy took off in the other direction but a back up vessel manned by Gavroche, Hiro and Doch4 recued Yogi and took him back to Sir C the 3rd. “This is the end” cursed Yogi TO BE CONTINUED

Jim George !!! just for the name alone. :003: But all time legend must go to Crazee Frazee Taylor for 'the gesture' to the howden end after scoring for Jags !!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: