The Mantis

That's quality that is.

:021: :lol: :lol: Reminds me of the boss when I had a paper round. We called him the count because that's what he was (almost) :023:

I agree with that Manfer guy. It never really struck me till the other day, wandering up the road at the end of the day, trying to forget how shyte it is having to work for a living. One Saturday in August 94 we're all queuing up at the Caley Park to see Arbroath and thinking how we're going to have to get used to paying four quid at the gate instead of two now we're in the big leagues. A mere five and a half years later we're taking 5000 fans down to stuff the tims at parkheid. Sure, celebrate away. Maybe make this the last time, but who the feck cares.

You have to laugh, ?65000 a week, should have bought Barrowman. From our point of view - I think it's OK. We beat Celtic then looked tired against St Mirren (OK make that hungover). Celtic beat Liverpool then underestimated us in the next game.... so the pattern is... we win on Saturday :D

The cabbagemen are having their best season ever, I bet they're as surprised as anybody :022: But it's coming up to their Feb/Mar traditional collapse time ;) If they've got the baws for it then good luck to them. Mind you they don't get away from ICT that easy: remember 94-5 and again in 96-7 :023:

Delighted. Decided not to make the trip solo after seeing the forecast. What was the ref like? I've seen him twice this year and he seems a bit like a little Hitler trying to impose himself. Against County at their place he was well out of his depth.

I would keep him in. He's one of the few creative players we have. I never usually contribute to this thread because usually you don't change a winning side. We win a game and then you can guarantee some loony's on here on the Monday making 5 changes

I think fences are overrated

Hit the woodwork 3 times or was it 4. Foran had a goal chalked off from a free kick just after the penalty. The foul was for foot-up which is indirect IIRC. Winning 1-0 with a spot kick flatters Airdrie. Very young team who seldom threatened. Might easily have ended 5-0 - the only worry was Airdrie might have got a deflection or an o.g. near the end. Don't think Ryan had a serious save to make. Ross had a very quiet 500th B) Cox got booked first half for a shocker of a challenge. Lionel was being targeted by Airdrie. They tried it down our left every time (which wasn't that often). Lionel's booking was a bit strange. Imrie went to waste time near the corner flag and won a shy. Left it for Lionel who was coming up from halfway and the ref booked him for timewasting. Edit: forgot to mention Rooney's shocker of a miss second half when he rounded the keeper then blazed it over. FWIW one guy on the Airdire forum says we're the best side to visit their place this season (or did he mean this year :004: ).

Big Ross is a legend in my eyes but...... if it wasn't for one rash challenge he'd probably still be playing 'at a higher level' :024: Didn't Rossco get sent off before on his big day, maybe his 300th or something?

LoL that reminds me, did anybody else sign up for the iTunes '12 days of xmas' thing :lol:

26/1/02 If I can steal an idea off the 'Fortress' thread :lol:

It's a real dilemma now - the Killie game or the Ballistics dinner. Stan does that mean old Dick is in Auld Reekie on the night of the 6th? Gordy retiring? The lucky old fecker.

What's the hurry, he'll be playing in the SPL next year onyweys.

Brilliant stuff. Some real memories there.

I was there too, at all those Clyde games. I feckin hated them. A bit like Forfar in div 2 you went there and played well and they never seemed up to much, but they were so hard to beat. They had a handful of fans who were retards, never watched the game, just tried to wind you up. Is that your work then Yngwie? Reading it I thought of the Wanderer.

Good luck to them - can't fault ambition. What about the bridge though? Is that not a bigger obstacle to progress than their homely wee stadium? We of all people know how hard it is to reach the SPL. I can't help feeling that County are punching well above their weight just now. We're only a few points behind yet we're moaning that it's a bad season. All it takes is for Adams to get poached by a bigger club and things could all fall apart for them. I think a 16-team league is the best chance of a Highland team getting into the SPL in the next 5 years.

Aaaaallan!

Hope so too. Not much milder here in the east I have to say. Still white everywhere except the roads.

I work with a guy who used to teach him too. He's more concerned about what a dirty wee b****r he was in the staff-pupils games :) :029:

Any time we played Rangers I thought Ferguson's quality was there for all to see. Funnily enough, one midweek at Parkheid we lost 3-0 and I began to see what it was that Lennon contributed as well. Yet still all the armchair managers keep saying what poor players the OF have. I have very little time for the twins of evil but if their players were all shyte they'd be in the SFL beside us.

A wee bit of action here. It goes back to the old days of dialup so it's very wee and there's no sound either.

I remember a yellow/blue striped top in div 2. Had a look in Broadfoot and it was 97-8 but I can only remember seeing it once when we lost 3-2 away at Stenny. At least nobody mistook us for Rangers that year.

Ryan Esson's penalty save vs Partick thios season is the only one to even come close to Frasers? I still think Broonie's save that kept us in the cup against St Mirren in 2004 was better. But that day was notable for an even more remarkable sight - Darran Thomson scored a goal

That article's by the squirrel so how do you know it's the truth :) I'm quite relaxed about Boyd coming back (if selected) as his grudge was with Burley and I have to agree that Burley is/was a useless t**t. I can understand Boyd sitting on the bench watching Iwelumo missing a sitter and thinking what do I have to do to get a game. However the other two were banned and that's how they should stay....