The Mantis

Result. As long as they don't recruit Tyldesley as his replacement :015: :015: :015:

Maybe you should have read my post before replying to it :blah01: I'm not moaning about Barrowman. I'm sure he'll do a fine job in a different team that actually makes chances. I just said I was puzzled and trying to work out what Brewster was up to. If I'm moaning about anything it's Brewster, and I think I've had plenty of time to see what he can/cannot do.

What puzzles me is, it seems to be common knowledge that Barrowman's a bit lazy, a poor man's Kris Boyd. By the same token Brew's a poor man's Wattie Smith and doesn't want any flair in the team, just grafters, and he's done his best to remove any flair from the team and rely on the long punt. So why is he signing Barrowman if he's not a big strong player who'll work his bollox off?

Aye. Could trap a ball further than I could pass it, but a hundred percenter and all round good guy. Awrabest Bayners :021:

Built like a twig? Must have lost a lot of weight since I took this photo :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: Maybe explains his lack of pace..... [img width=500 height=745]

Canyon, Wad, Chunky, Juglugs......... I reckon it wasn't Caley as they were playing Aberdeen the night before. Anals indeed......

What would be most embarrassing to have draped around your neck on a Saturday night - Elton John or a C(o)unty scarf :015:

Aye, fair comment, and Liverpool probably see us the way we see Keith. Also they can send whoever they like now the tickets are all more or less sold. However I've got a programme from a game at Anfield last month, showing a first team squad of 32, so I'd be expecting to see 3 or 4 players I'd actually heard of. But as Mannie and L-G say, it's Barry's night anyway.

Forgot about Dave Stewart. He's been in my car so that in itself makes him famous. As for Dylan, obviously 'Blowin' in the Wind' was inspired after a visit to East Longman. And what about 'Girl From The North Country'? And 'Only a Hobo' must have been having a poke at the tinks. Mind you I reckon he had been mixing with the jeggies in the tin shed when he wrote 'Desolation Row'.

Nothing like looking on the bright side eh TCF? If it's Hamilton the day before then it'll be a chance to give more of the squad a game. When ICT played Keith and Inverurie on two consecutive days last summer they simply fielded teams with half regulars and half youngsters. Kept everybody happy. Some of us even got to see a couple of rare Dean McDonald goals :015: :015: :015:

Naelifts is famous. He pulls drowning men out of rivers every day. Duncan Chisholm is the world's most famous fiddler :023: and he supports ICT. Brian Taylor is an Arabs fan BTW but he must have been working in Ayr that day he saw the mighty ICT come back for a battling 3-3 draw at Somerset :021:

I saw him turn out for Hibs - he helped turn a 1-0 deficit against Rangers into a 2-1 win at Easter Road one freezing day before Xmas. That was in 79-80. I think if he played for 'Well I would have remembered it.....

I see big Rossco has managed to smuggle himself in after changing his name to Magnin......

I've never been a big Bayne fan but if he goes, do we just play without strikers next year? Maybe we could try 4-6-0 or 5-5-0.

Aye, that looks like the one RiG. Just my senility kicking in. I wonder if I'm the only one who sometimes replies to a post without realising there's another page of replies :015: :015: :015:

Where's your post gone RiG? I was answering it - I never had 2 in a row :015: :015:

Mind you, I remember before ICT and RCFC got in, if a HL side played a EOSL side in the cup, they always won. If they played a SSL team, they hammered them. That has all changed now. The HL used to be very strong and clubs like Caley and Elgin could offer good wages to keep players from going to minor clubs like Montrose etc. It was a kind of artificial situation, because communications were poorer than now and there was very little movement of players from the north. The SFL was not truly 'Scottish' back then. The HL is much weaker now and this season's results showed that (imagine Clach losing to Edinburgh City or Whitehill winning away at Lossie). Everything has evened out and when that happens the places with the population start to take over.

I was at Annan a few years back (so was Bobby Wilson - see other thread :015:) A mate of mine tells me they have upgraded their ground a lot since then. Reckon it's Spartans though...

It was the reserves wasn't it? And it's def. Richie Hart. Didn't we have it on the site to download? I've def. got it here on video but maybe it's on the hard drive somewhere...

Bobby has a League Cup winner's medal from 1973/4 when Dundee defeated celtic 1-0 with a Gordon Wallace strike, in the days of power cuts and 3 day week etc. If I remember the game was played with the Hampden lights on half power and it was a gloomy, wet day. Note to Heilandee - I had to check when you said 72 as I was sure it was 73, and it was 73, the 15th December to be exact.

I remember earlier in the season at Viccy Park, he did the very same, against Hutchison - we were all behind the goals screaming at him to lob him - and he did :015:

Well by watching Tokely I know that Julian Clary has more pace...... Jeez, Gav, you're like a dug that's got hold of a rabbit: I surrender to your superior anorakishness. I'm sure every scout in the realm is mistaken and your 27 year old will go on to be the next Henrik Larsson, even beyond his peak. You're right, of course: I should have left Thompson out of it (and nearly did). Right, I'm off, up at 6 tomorrow :010:

I kind of share James' reservations and wonder why the guy reaches 27 and suddenly wakes up and becomes ambitious. The trouble with people like Garry Thompson and Dougie Imrie, is not that they can't get a game for us (they obviously can), but that they're only good enough to play against the likes of the Midden and Falkirk. When I saw Imrie against the Hearts and Hibs I thought he was well out of his depth. And don't even get me started on Dean McDonald........ anybody who disagrees needs to get the rosy tinted glasses off and come and see us in away games. Teams like Motherwell have torn us a new ersehole this season.

I think CMIB is not far off, but I think people miss the point by talking about how good a TEAM is, rather than how big a CLUB is. In that sense Rancid and Ceptic are probably about top 6 in the EPL. Rangers may be a crap team at the moment, but they're a feckin massive club and they're rebuilding. They only lost the league by a bawhair to Ceptic and weren't expecting much after how poor they were last year under Le Guen. For the same reason I would put Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen in the Championship, and then it's a toss of a coin who's in League 1 (say DUFC, Well, Killie) and League 2 (Us, Falkirk, Midden maybe, plus clubs like Partick, Dundee, St Johnstone etc). However it's distorted because: Rantic and Celgers are currently playing in a poorer league than they should be, and teams like us are playing in a higher standard than most League 2 teams as we get to meet the OF several times a season, instead of shitey wee clubs like Rochdale and Bury, which, let's face it, are about our size of club.

They must have decided that reaching the playoff final was a higher feat than finishing bottom of the league!