The Mantis

Nope, me too. What I was trying to ask, but DC seems to think it's perfectly natural: Why do they need to sing political songs AT ALL? Can they no just sing, eh, football songs?

You've truly surpassed yourself there Charles...... I've just made a bonfire out the back with my anorak. Looking again at the Elgin picture there's hardly any advertising, just the wire mesh Caley used to have. So the other shots must have been taken after the merger when CT sold a lot more ads.

Johnboy's thinking about a different kind of stuffeen

That's OK then, if somebody told you! I think people overuse the word 'sectarian' when really they mean 'political'. Why do your team (the green huns) and the other lot (the blue tims) have to sing political songs at all? BTW 'Boys of the Old Brigade' - if I'm not mistaken, that's the one where this jolly chap asks his pal where he's off to, and he says he's away to join the IRA, n'est-ce pas?

I haven't seen Mike Troughton for a couple of years or I could ask him. I would guess that those photos were all taken on the day we beat Elgin in 1993. Mike and his other half Jess had a habit of being first in the ground so he probably took them on his way to the main stand.

Oh well that was quick. Here's some more old grounds. I suppose I should get around to updating that page, I see it's been 8 years

Free the flag you fish-sh*gg*n-b*st*rds PS There's only one Scotty Davies

Never bothered trying to get pehs yesterday from bitter experience at big games. However if you went out the A9 side of the North stand at time up you could get a peh without queueing. Only Scotch pehs mind, but plenty left. Got a pish nae bother though at the west side during the game.

Posting in the heat of the moment methinks- better to sit doon, chill oot and hae a dram. Oh- you're at work, sorry The A9 was full o tims yesterday (check out every layby with minibuses of unwashed pishing in it) and it's the middle o the inglish holidays. Give it a few weeks. I'd rather do the A9 every week than the run to Hull I did recently, which is about the same length.

A good one from section G today though. When the Tims were chanting 'Argentina' and I was wondering what a good reply would be, all the jolly young chappies started giving it 'Thierry Henry'. Which was nice

Eventful, yes, but a very poor game. I would have to say, when I was young and daft, 1973, Scottish Cup, Celtic 2 Rangers 3. Dalglish 1-0, Parlane 1-1, Conn 1-2, Connelly pen 2-2, Forsyth 2-3. 122000 crowd as well.

Never rated him at all. A winger who won't run at his man, but turns inside then passes back every time? Nice lad, never really settled, but no confidence, no pace,no thanks.

Feck me, I read that at school, must have been 1972, 'All the Young Dudes' made a bigger impression on me that year. Is it not just a straightforward satire?

Aye pretty decent...

Nah, they never had cameras in div 2......

Maybe you could translate that into phlegmish for our visitors.

Don't do that, you'll only encourage him.

I'm not doing that drive again 2 days later, looks like you two ugly cnuts will have to make up your own songs.

What Johndo said, basically. Mrs Mantis had visitors arriving so I had to get my erse back up the road. Shame I missed the post mortems in Jim's Bar. Not for me to question what T&J were trying to get out of this game but for us travelling punters it would have made for a less depressing drive home if we had put out a stronger side and won the game. As it was we had to wait 70 mins for Roonaldo to make an appearance before scoring the goal of the game with possibly his first touch, clipping it home from a Nick Ross driven cross. No Esson, Duncan, Hayes or Foran, plus only 20 mins of Rooney. Oh well it's only a friendly but it's more ammo for those who say the SPL is pish. I think Fleetwood expected to beat us. They'd already had games against Blackburn and Rochdale and a foreign trip, while we had played, em, Forres and so on. Tuffey- just what the Partick fans say- a great shot stopper but he cost us the game by dropping the ball for the second goal, plus one or two other fumbles. I can't remember what happened at the first goal but I know it was a shambles. McCann- worrying, bring back Bambi, or even Rossco at RB. Eric- why? Golly- been a great servant but we need a LB, even if we use Roy in the short term. Innes- probably the new Machine. Sutherland-very promising but I don't think TB will give him much game time in the SPL. Likewise Shinnie and Ross. Blumenhell- too early to say, a bit of a sand-dancer, hope he's better than Berkovic was when we stuffed the Tic. Roy's sitter just after they scored was a shocker. Had about 3 feet of room to place it inside the post, or blast it, but he placed it to the keeper's diving feet. Shinnie rattled the bar before half time. I actually found it really enjoyable for a friendly, the teams created about the same number of chances each, but Fleetwood Mac always tried to play it while we had too much punting it long (are you listening Ross). If we stuck to passing the ball I thought we were the better side. If you look at Fleetwood's site they averaged about 1000 fans last year, the ground holds about 3700 (but they're building a new stand). So a much smaller club than us. But they leave us standing with that sports bar (and that's separate from their social club) plus the tv interviews and scoreboard and all that stuff (mind you I've never really seen the point of spending money on a big screen apart from telling everybody you have a big screen). I never usually bother with programmes but I got one this time. ?1.50 for 16 pages and they don't have anything about us, apart from the team lineups, and their statto says he was in Sneck once on holiday.....

Just back half an hour ago so need fed- will post some comments tomorrow.

Jaffa Cakes :_thumbup:

Probably be there but looks now as if it has to be a car job and home the same night.

I've been with them for years. Partly because I've heard horror stories about some of the cheaper ones, partly because there's hardly anything else available where I live. Sometimes I ask for a migration code which prompts them to offer me a ?5 monthly discount for the next year. Getting the discount to appear on my bill is another story though. My experience of their telephone support is really shyte. I try to argue with them by email. When I refer them to these emails over the phone (like when they have offered me a discount in writing) they don't have a scooby. Anyway, to answer your question: for a year or so I've been getting intermittent warnings from my web browser saying 'you are not connected to the internet' and this lasts a few seconds then I refresh the page. I've meant to investigate it further as I wasn't convinced that BT was dropping the connection- my email browser seemed unaffected. However if the computer was left unattended for a bit, the email would go offline.

Holidays really bring out the pedant in me too...... these cable-knit jumpers are not from Scotland but from the Aran Isles off Donegal. I had the misfortune to win one 30 years ago while doing teaching practice in a Catholic school. Even though they made me, as a 'guest', draw the winning ticket myself :) BTW somebody recently showed me a programme from a school prizegiving here in darkest Midlothian about 1962 IIRC. 'Jerusalem' was sung and the lyrics were printed in the programme. By those standards, 10 years previously we would all happily be singing the verse about crushing the rebellious Scots in the national anthem.