The Mantis

A quick exit for C(o)unty too :015: :015: :015:

Thought the final pass was McGuire...

Record SPL win for us. Stroll in the park. Could have been 6 or 7. Oh well that's us safe for another season. Gretna fans were good crack in the social club. Bets on Gretna finishing with points in double figures?

Yeah but they would still have needed to get one on target Worse than County.

Don't really bother with them now but I'll try to drop you a line in case you've got a few I want from around 96-99.

Presumably that would go on for a while till somebody missed. Would have to delay the second half.

What a depressing run down the A9 that was. Trying to look for positives- the turning point was that we never did what everybody's supposed to do- consolidate after the equaliser. If we had booted it anywhere for 5 mins or so then we wouldn't be having this discussion as we would have got at least a point and more likely would have won. There is a big leadership problem to be sorted out in the defence, but the midfield is strong, no lack of confidence that I can see and we're pinging the passes around far better than during most of Charlie's time. I don't believe the Niculae playing every week thing, I'm sure Brew is his own man and will drop him if he wants. I don't reckon he was desperate enough to return as a puppet manager. Anyway let's get tore into Gretna and bring on the cup game. We have to beat this lot some time.

You'll have to fill me in on that one in the car sometime :023:

The basis is feckin obvious to me or anybody with a pair of eyes. Unless he was hit by a sniper's bullet he was feigning injury.

No it wasn't. That's why Juanjo's card got rescinded. As it happens I was about 10 yards away and he never touched him. And no doubt you missed him challenging some of our fans to a fight outside the stadium as well.

All that disclosure stuff was way before my time

Thought you'd be along sooner or later. Been meaning to work out the same myself but haven't been ersed so far.

I was at the Clach game in Edinburgh (and met ICTChris). Clach had all the possession in the first half but no idea where the goals were. City scored with a breakaway just before the break. Second half was more open with Clach still having the bulk of the possession but fairly toothless. No doubt the standard in the HL is way down since 1994. Caley or half a dozen others would have gone there and walked it with goals to spare.

He'd be more than depressed after I drove a steamroller over him and reversed it back over the bits I missed the first time :023:

And presumably the irony of your own username is lost on you?

I see Richie's family are out in force tonight :023: Sorry, but I'm also in a job where I would expect the sack if my name ever made the papers for the same reason. Class A drugs + professional sport = Bye Bye Richie.

(Puts on 'old fuddy-duddy' hat ) I agree with CaleyD - both first and second posts. As a professional sportsman you accept this from the word go. No point in any sentiment about Richie being a nice guy etc. Also what Smee says about the crows is spot on. It's bye bye Richie as far as I'm concerned. Is it the case that the younger posters have a more relaxed attitude to this than old farts like me? Probably. Not been on Pie & Bovril but I'll wager there's less sympathy there for Richie and that's amongst people who can take a more objective view. Apart from the St Midden fans obviously.

I take it no 5 is the Southern Fried one? What about 6- fancy white feet, always preening his feathers, fancies himself as a bit of a pullet.

Jeffries: C'est un lapin, un lapin de bois. Midfielder: Qua? Three players' heads appear around the end of the dressing room door and disappear again. Midfielder: Un Cadeau! 2nd Midfielder: What? Midfielder: A present! 2nd Midfielder: Ah, un Cadeau! Midfielder: Allons-y, allons-y! 2nd Midfielder: What? Midfielder: Let's go! 2nd Midfielder: Ah! The two Midfielders and Jeffries creep out and wheel the rabbit into the dressing room, closing the door behind them. Meanwhile...Behind the knoll: Brewster: (to Park) What happens now? Park: Well, now, uh, Tokely, Wilson and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the Ayrshire scum, uh, by suprise. Not only by suprise, but totally unarmed! Brewster: WHO leaps out? Park: (pointing to each player as he names him) Uh... Tokely, Wilson and I.... uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and, uh.... Brewster: (groans) Park: (pause) Oh... um, look, if we built this large wooden Badger.... Brewster knocks him on the head. Just then, the rabbit comes soaring out of the dressing room. The team disbands amid great shouts of "Run away, run away!", but the rabbit lands on yet another helpless substitute. Cries of distress. On second thoughts let's scrap the Trojan Rabbit idea! And he's got the cheek to say my jokes are merde :023:

We get this half hour on a Wednesday now where it seems to be divided up almost evenly, but I get your drift.

Surely "Fizzy Tepid Pish" would be more suitable for a Rangers top...

Aye right! Never stopped them in the past. What a load of pish!

I'm not a big fan of Scotsport (who is? :015: :015: :015: :015:) but they showed a lot more highlights than on that BBC clip.

We were singing that at Ibrox last season when Dargs equalised with 8 mins left :015: :015: :015:

You been at the Irvine Welsh books again? Aye, they must be pretty confident of winning div 2 if old Fester's got the chop. There's not many know more about that league than him.