The Mantis

Decent battling first half with little sign of a goal but Aberdeen were very nervous and there for the taking. Started the second half really well and pinned them back for 10 mins but after that we were never in the game. I'm sure we will stay up though, this was an away game at a team who are supposed to be after 3rd place. It's up to TB to get us a bit of creativity in midfield before the new season starts - don't fancy watching that sort of tripe every week. p.s. Give me Duncan over Kerr any day of the week. Kerr's passing is actually no better and Russell gets through twice the work.

Or Caley100 goes to see Haircut 100?

Have to admit I got this one from Jock Watt: A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, 'Ah, I see you've regained consciousness...' 'Now, you probably won't remember, but you were in a pile-up on the highway. You're going to be okay, you'll walk again and everything, but... something happened. I would like to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck, and we were unable to find it.' The man groans, but the doctor goes on: 'You've got $27,000 in insurance compensation coming to you, and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did - better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap. It's $3,000 an inch.' The man perks up at this. 'So,' the doctor says, 'it's for you to decide how many inches you want. But it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine-incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine-inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it's important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision.' The man agrees to talk with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day. 'So,' says the doctor, 'have you spoken with your wife?' 'I have,' says the man. 'And has she helped you in making the decision?' 'She has,' says the man. 'And what is it?' asks the doctor. 'We're getting a new kitchen?

That's sheer claaaaaaass!

The difference between us and the others is, we got rid of the two muppets before it was too late but the others have not changed anything. We're still not a good side but we now have a bit of fight, even if it's poor to watch at times. If people take the long view, instead of expecting us to win every week, we'll edge ahead of the pack gradually. At least the nightmare scenario of P*rt*ck swapping places with us now looks very unlikely. I hope next season Terry and June can get a side on the park with a couple of players that can create as I don't want to watch Brew-type football forever just to stay up.

Have Hamilton run out of steam?

This poster is correct. Fecksake! Start looking forward No1 cares about that old man Steady Sonny Jim, me and Mantis are both just in our early 50s. Speak for yoursel' Gordy, I usually post pictures of my baldy faither and folk think it's me.

Is that the one right opposite the Pittodrie main entrance? Never been there but Donview likes it. I think it was the Caledonian that was getting pelters for the guy shutting the door in our face. Rude wee fecker needs a bunch of fives.. Shockerooney... moderator banned in 'incitement to violence' scandal.

Brew's history. Move on.

About time....

Try the dealers like Peter Rundo.

Fecks sake

I kind of agree, although if you saw us lose at the Midden this season it was Wyness who was pulling the strings. A draw's not a disaster today if Killie and Falkirk both lose. However I'd love to see us stuff the Midden and pull them right into the mire.

So I was right apart from the last two words then :thumb04: :018: ;)

A young family moved into a house next door to an empty plot. One day Joe, Steve and a gang of building workers turned up to start building a house. The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers. She hung around and eventually the builders, all with hearts of gold, more or less adopted the little girl as a sort of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had tea and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. They even gave her very own hard hat and gloves. At the end of the first week they presented her with a pay envelope containing two pounds in 10p coins. The little girl took her 'pay' home to her mother who suggested that they take the money she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When they got to the bank the cashier was tickled pink listening to the little girl telling her about her 'work' on the building site and the fact she had a 'pay packet'. "You must have worked very hard to earn all this", said the bank cashier. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked all last week with the men building a big house." "My goodness gracious," said the cashier, "Will you be working on the house again this week, as well?" The little girl thought for a moment and said... ..................... "I think so. Provided those w*nkers at Jewsons deliver the f*cking bricks."

Taken in 2001:

Just noticed this Yeah we were in The Clarence which was about a mile walk. I think it was to the north of the ground. Fairly civilised, plenty of fans but easy to get served.

And a trip on Rooney in the box which was waved on.

Spot on Manfer. On a good day we can beat Falkirk, on a bad day they can beat us. Not much between the sides.

If you want to make comparisons with Stoke City - we had the bottle in 2004-5 when we first entered the SPL. Everybody was writing us off but we BELIEVED. 4 years later some people seem to be a bit battle-weary

I don't think they're biased either but you have to question the competence of Murray and the far side linesman who seemed to find the game as boring as us and went to sleep. In the lead up to the first goal Lionel was pushed, right in front of sleepy, but on his blind side. Lionel then decided to foul the man back and this time it was given as it was three inches away from sleepy's nose.

Even Pele's team got rogered 6-0 one week at Airdrie and 5-1 at Morton. One week Airdrie came up and did us 5-1, same as some amateur team from the Highlands did once, so I heard, though I don't believe it myself. Anyway the players have 2 weeks to think about this disaster now. As Mary says let's see how they react.

I often went and watched Falkirk a year or two before our merger time and I always liked the club. I think they're in much the same boat as us - very little money to buy creative players. I also think the standard in the SPL is woeful compared to even 10 years ago. Yogi would probably kill for some of the players that Jefferies had, such as Stainrod, McCall, Weir, Cadette.... I think they are now a very physical side who also pass the ball reasonably well (as we can do when we're not in the mindset of panic and punt). Like us they can't score goals (except yesterday obviously). I think that Calum Murray let some bad challenges go yesterday and penalised us a few times at crucial points in the game (e.g. the first goal). But anybody who thinks refs are biased needs to grow up. The day after, I'm trying to be positive about our performance without sounding like Brewster. But we really played no football at all and deserved to lose. On the few occasions we did get it on the carpet, we were as good as Falkirk but the end product was always a high cross mopped up by Bullen or Pressley or whoever. I think there's not much point in criticising Black, Duncan, Foran and Proctor as they must have all had stiff necks from seeing the ball whizz into orbit over their heads. I'm worried that whatever Terry and June brought us has just disappeared down the pan. The second half last week and the whole of yesterday were just dire. We now need a performance against the Midden.

I felt the stewards did very well being civil and polite to us but they obviously had their instructions from some numpty who wasn't having to follow those instructions. They moved us into the third row from the back and we sat there happily for 10 mins till the game started, then they suddenly decided to clear that row too, even though they had put us there. So we refused as we had a good view of the game and didn't want to go away down the front. Also we started off near the young lads - many older guys like us will usually join in the chants if we're nearby. So the place would probably have been rocking. But when they moved all the young guys down the front they effectively divided the support - good tactic if they had been clever enough to do it deliberately.