The Mantis

Or ?ivi or Lavvy (they hate that). I'm sure we've got a great record there although we did get humped 4-1 once and lost 3-0 in our first ever SPL game.

Where he could meet a few of his namesakes.

Is this a good time to roll out the old Helmut Schoen joke? I haven't had an opperchancity to use it for weeks now..... .... the joke obviously.

Without bothering to look at the link, I'm pretty sure that paedophilia (insert all American/non-classically trained spelling variations here) is the abuse of pre-pubescent children. I'm not trying to defend Thomson in the least when I say that these girls would be post-puberty and sexually aware. It's alleged that more girls were involved and Thomson was prosecuted only on the basis of abusing the two girls. Obviously these images would have been circulated fairly freely and some of the girls would have seen it as a bit of a laugh. It's likely that many boys would have seen the images too. A quick scan of Facebook will reveal, if anybody was unaware, just how sexualised modern teenagers are. But however sophisticated these modern teenagers think they are, that's what the law is for: to protect minors against the likes of Thomson. In my line of work, teenagers passing explicit images, by phone or otherwise, are deemed to be at risk, and I would be obliged to report any instances of this.

This is all local to us down here. He went to our school and some of our girls were involved or knew the ones who were. Jefferies was furious with him when it broke last year and he sent the player down to England to take the heat off. I suspect Jefferies didn't want him back and as somebody mentioned, his principles will come into play sooner or later.

Best of luck to the big man in what will be a tough shift in the Championship.

Cheers Psycho, I remember our Lothian & Borders crew being overtaken by your black Beemer a few times on the A9. Fond memories of every game you played for ICT, apart from that time at Gayfield of course

The Midden have been living on borrowed time. Make or break time for Danny Lennon, if his latest crop of signings improve the team then he'll feel he's arrived as a manager. Hope they bomb. I think we'll struggle to maintain the same performance as last time, but enough experience in the squad to stay up. Obviously I hope this turns out to be unkind comment on Terry & Mo's judgement.

Hair? Wot's that then? Happy birthday old git.

I would say world football is a massive business and there's no shortage of nations wanting to qualify for World Cups. There are various political motives for combining nations such as ours, unlike in rugby where the six nations is pretty much on a par with the World Cup, and the World Cup needs nations like Scotland to make it interesting/competitive. Fifa doesn't need us, we're a minnow. They don't want us either, in case it gives other people/regions ideas. Maybe if rugby ever attained the status of football as a world game then our rugby team would be threatened in the same way. I'm against it, just in case you didn't notice.

"Throughout his career he was renowned for his robust style of play"

So I just switch from nips to pints then. Sorted.

D'oh!

For some daft reason we've got Hearts at home twice, same as last year. Obviously good for the coffers as we only get the Dons once this season, but bad for the Tynie awaydays - Nov 26 will be eagerly awaited. Also Hibs at home twice so only one trip to Easter Road on Dec 28 which is a Wednesday. Unless we finish in the top six of course.

Just to add to the confusion, Neil Macdonald's dad Rasper was another Nessman or Niseach.

Russeldinho

I think Herchie had a fair bit of skill but was about 3 stone overweight - did you ever see him play before the SFL?

Mmmmm.....nice

Mmmm..... nice.

Is that 'celtic cousins' with a hard c?

We went to the wrong place when arriving home from Hamilton. Imagine if we'd gone to Lava and Ignite, we'd have been able to get coked up with Blackie! Allegedly. Aye but who knows what youse got up to after Daddy Mantis left youse in that gay bar?

Seconded. HUUUUUUGE gonads.

Vaults was fine. Great boozer in fact, though typical West of Scotland gantry with a great lack of malts made young Caley Stan a bit grumpy.

Went down the front to try to get Russell's jersey, he took it off to reveal a t-shirt with 'thank you' . Unfortunately for me he was too busy using the shirt to wipe his eyes.

Back in August, when the tims were chanting 'Argentina' at TB and the home end responded with 'Thierry Henry'