The Mantis

Thanks for posting

PM'd you TSNY.

Yes, top bloke, whose clairvoyant gifts saw that following ICT had more potential than following Queen's Park :biggrin:

Yeah he sort of passed it into the net from the edge of the box. I'm wondering if that's the same day Fetai missed a sitter.

There's a free packet of Smarties in every issue.

Standout performance against the tims at darkheid in the league cup when we lost 4-2. Scored the first in a 4-1 humping at Livi when they were going down. A cheeky wee curler at Brechin. Giving the fans his time and posing for photies and signing autographs last year after we won the league.

Been away all weekend. Can't add much to what's been said. I've been a great supporter of Russell even when he was getting stick and was looking forward to him getting a testimonial. I hope TB knows what he's doing - he certainly ****ed it up for half a season by playing Strat and Eagle every week till he realised we already had better players. The test for TB is to keep us up next season. I have to agree that he carries the can so he makes the calls, not us. Gutted for Russeldinho though.

I've got my train booked to Corrour on Friday morning. You know, the place on Trainspotting - "It's shite being Scottish!"

Wednesday night.... bummer!

You sure? There was a hovercraft trial in 2007 but I hadn't heard any more. Anyway it went from Portobello to Burntisland which is about 3 miles away.

Downhill as well I like Starks Bar. Cheap malts and decent measures and buxom barmaids.

I'll be there on my tod by the looks of things. Hunting Lodge again or what?

I suppose there's a joke in there somewhere about somebody stealing the bin as a souvenir. Refuse-nicks. Can somebody point out the 'I'll get my coat' smiley?

Don't like Partick much. All the patronising middle class fans coming on to lecture us in 2004 when we took their SPL place. Also the carp about being different from the OF, while their fans are still able to spit on you and abuse our ground staff while turning up late pished and helping their mates over the wall at TCS for free. Going out the cup to them twice were low points in ICT history. Never had much time for St Midden either. They've never quite got used to the idea that ICT are a big enough club to beat them regularly. Mind you I suppose they bring more to the SPL than Hamilton.

What Mannie said.

ICT Rice Krispie Squares.

OFF TOPIC! Not really a contribution to the argument, just one or two examples of games from my era I was at, or at least just recall: Ayr v Rangers, 1969 - 25500 Rangers v Celtic SCF 1973, 122000 Scotland v England, several times, 134000 Celtic v Leeds, Hampden, 1970, 134000 officially, but supposedly 150000 Rangers v Hibs league match, c1970, 73000 Hibs v Hearts, c1970, 40000 Hibs v Aberdeen, cup 4th round, c1969, 44000 Rangers v Bayern 1972, 80000 and 75000 at Celtic v Inter the same night. Rangers v Celtic, any league match before 1971, 94000 Hearts v Rangers, midweek replay 1968, 44000

I disagree with that. Just for the record, I was part of the 'anti' campaign along with the fanzine guys. The fanzine tended to look down on the occasional Caley fans who didn't attend every game (in fact I only came up the road about 10 times a season anyway but I was excused as it's a long trip). Since coming to watch ICT I have met many more people who were Caley fans than I ever did before the merger. They can describe a lot of games from the past they were at, but they were obviously the kind of people labelled 'gloryhunters' by the fanzine because they didn't bother with Rothes away, etc. Because the fanzine guys were at a certain age they were passionate about Caley and despised people who had other interests in their life. If you ask around the Innes Bar on a big match day it's heaving with guys who followed Caley, not just a handful.

So have you made your mind up then

So a potential 'nobody south of perth' semi final line up then?

It does indeed..... what's obvious though is that Rory's already had a season to make an impact and Wood is new. No doubt you can find me some threads from the season before!

I disagree with that. Everybody's prepared to give a young player a chance at first. When he was breaking into the team he was a cult hero with all the young lads chanting 'Rory, Rory' as he warmed up, with his white boots and so on, even when I hardly knew who he was. He just seemed to start believing his own publicity.

At the risk of banging on and on and on..... ICT got the 10000 seats rule changed. While we're still full voting members of the SPL, ICT should get the USH rule scrapped too. USH has been a disaster for our pitch. Let clubs have USH as an option. Fine them if they lose a game to a frozen pitch. Let ICT take the risk and keep Tommy happy.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: Brilliant.

Not only that - the wee mink was challenging ICT supporters to 'come ahead' when he came out to the team coach.