The Mantis

Oh Ya Beauty.

QoS away, Sept and Feb. What's the chances of no midweek visits to Palmy this year?

First two home games clash with County - not good. Seems to settle down after that.

Away at Kelty on the first day, 2nd August.

And the fixtures are out tomorrow…

As long as it’s not D Ross.

One of the very few highlights of 2018-19…

He’s got a 4 year contract at Bournemouth at £2.6m p.a. So just pocket money

Sadly won’t manage up for this. It’s my birthday and a significant one too… maybe just tell the family to carry on without me

I was going to say bivvy bag, but that’s probably unfair to the ‘guy’.

Or, as it’s called on P&B, “Birthday Caird Pish” We finally saw them this year in Glasgow after missing out a few times. It was on Mrs Mantis’ bucket list, being from the Hebrides. A good night, but once will do me. There are a lot of Stornoway in-jokes and it helps if you have a bit of Gaelic. Uilly and Innes are really just experienced wedding musicians but Boydie is something else and a fine guitarist.

That Canadian geezer sounds nothing like Andrew O’Donnell … More like Glen Campbell

When our kids were wee we used the same swimming pool as Donnie Munro and his kids. Probably not allowed to mention that his missus was a real dream in a very classy looking pink swimsuit. Also Calum worked as a PE teacher at our school.

Couldn’t see how to sign in on iPad or phone version (and still can’t ) which is why I wasn’t getting the info. Signed in on desktop and it’s sorted.

Are you saying you renewed online? I can’t see any way of getting my old seat or the advertised prices.

Harsh! A lot more to like… Andrew is the main man - no other vocalists. My wife loves his voice even though she can’t make out the lyrics I’ve seen him compared to Michael Marra but I can’t even imagine what Bruce Guthro sounds like as I lost interest in Runrig decades ago.

I can't even get that far. No sign of how to renew my seat as it's greyed out. Also other seats seem to be showing last year's prices.

At the end of the day, it gets dark.

Yeah, I get that. At my age you've seen plenty of language evolving before your eyes, but that doesn't mean I can't have a moan about it when the evolved version makes no sense Next time Mrs Mantis serves me up a rice pudding, I'll look in it for the proof. A few fairly recent football expressions that fairly rip my knitting: "on the front foot" "hopefully we can kick on" "playing two up top" - it's not a xmas tree ffs "buying a free kick" - what? "in and around" I blame you, Alan Shearer. How can you be in and around a player? "subtitute" and "vunrable" Not to mention non-readers who hear phrases such as "prima-donna" and render them as "pre-Madonna"... maybe Lady Gaga is "post-Madonna". And "we equipped ourselves well" instead of "acquitted". Also a bit disheartening to hear the ACC of Merseyside Police this week talking about "grevious bodily harm". I dodged a bullet by not forking out 40 quid to watch that dross at Hampden last night. Instead I got to suffer BBC Scotland's very own squeaky pet hamster who obviously couldn't be ersed doing his research on how to pronounce the Icelandic players. So even though Thommo seemed to have mastered Thórdarson and Thorsteinsson, his wee pal insisted on calling them Pordarson and Porsteinsson, totally unaware of the Þ character in the Icelandic alphabet. Anyway, apologies for taking the thread off topic. The mods (beaks) will likely impose a ban.

I'm sure AS can find enough in his back pocket to pay off Ryan's 4-year contract at £2.6M a year. Maybe he'll have to pick up the tab for his groin op too, if Bournemouth have done an Aaron Doran on him.

The site’s been a bit quirky for me in the past few days, and my erudite reply to this has just vanished before my eyes

Pedant alert! No it isn’t. The proof of the pudding is in the eating…

Very good prices. A bit weird having the early bird period up until 17th August since the league season starts on August 2 and the League Cup in July. Edit - can only think/hope it’s a typo and it’s really 17th June.

Been meaning to post this for a while. Discovered the band when their music was the background on the BBC series "Roaming in the Wild". They've pretty much been the soundtrack to my life since then. Didn't get tickets for the first ever gig in Aviemore last year as they sold out the 900 tickets in 3 minutes. Have now seen them 4 times including a 1900 sellout at Barrowlands. Mrs Mantis and I were at the Kelvingrove Bandstand last Sunday which was a simply wonderful summer night in Glasgow. If "The Glen" doesn't get you off your erse there's something wrong with you

Reminds me of the famous David Francey quote and the Spanish footballer...