The Mantis

Sorry to be an old cynic strathyjags but after a couple of years the novelty will wear off and you'll be left with your bedrock support. I'd hate to see Clach go under but it's happened to other teams in my lifetime. There's only so much people can do to keep the patient alive. I've been watching football since that annus horribilis 1966 and sadly, the overall trend is that Scottish Football is dying. I've been carrying a bit of optimism that ICT can buck that trend - we have a load of young fans who have yet to have kids of their own and bring them along. We're also offering a decent standard (usually), and we're far enough away so that people won't be so bothered travelling away down the A9 to watch the twins of evil, compared to clubs like Motherwell and Killie who are on their doorstep. You know how they say everything across the pond eventually happens here? Well in 1998 I saw my first baseball game in Toronto and I saw that you have ONE tier of Major League clubs franchises with huge salaries, then the next tier down is virtually parks leagues. Sure the players are nearly as good, but they earn next to nothing. Now you can see the same thing happening with the Champions League. A dozen or two clubs which are global brands, then wee diddy clubs like us. When I was at school you only had to worry about kids coming in with Rangers scarves (it was a proddy non-denominational school). Now they support anybody they like off the TV including Barca, Real etc. It's quite common in my area for people to have season tickets to Man U, Liverpool etc. We're all doomed. Private Fraser.

Tend to agree with Johnboy. Mind you, you could see the linesman flagging right away, and they're miked up aren't they? So why the confusion?

Had me going for a bit there Johndo :) ;) :) Aye it's the bottom 6 from last season's div 1. Put it another way, unless we finish in the top 4, we'll be playing in the Cup next November.

Mine is from the Floating Heads exhibition at Kelvingrove, only I photoshopped it a bit. OK, I lied, it's really me.

Somebody auditioning for 'Brokeback Mountain' :) :024:

Us old gits used to always go to the National. Maybe should try the Mallard for a change.....

John Teasdale's Elgin City team.

Somebody that owes me a large malt :)

Aye Georgeios, obviously Ayr picked that up too last week :) :024:

Only 3 posts a day and 2 are about us

It wis the usual Rosscoe right foot punt after we had had some good, promising flowing football into their box. Then it came back to Ross. Well obviously it wasn't his usual, as it stayed in play, but that's another story. You should know Dougie never crosses it anyway.....

Sanchez did score against Dundee (but I'd keep him in the hole anyway). Rooney looked like he was running through sand yesterday and it only got worse after an hour, mind you the pitch was a bit heavy. I'd keep him in this week though.

The brother of that Miles Jupp is at my 'workplace' and looks pretty like him. You can imagine the stick he gets. Or maybe not, since he disappeared several months ago. On the sick or whatever, nobody seems to know.

Lower still I would say. Right amongst the dangleberries.

It was Tokely you blind auld ****

Loads of decent songs today and we even sang 'Ayr Ayr super Ayr' to help out the home support when it was 4-1. Best laugh for me was KingBeastie: "Our home support is wonderful Our home support is wonderful It's got a pipe and a crossword Our home support is wonderful" (or something like that). Even Russeldinho got a chant today when he got subbed late on :005:

LoL that's a different player in the photo if you ask me. He's lost about 5 stone :025:

Sorry Buffs, cannae make it this week. That means nae Yngwie either as he usually mooches a lift. Is the baldy man code for something else?

Fluke then?

To avoid any doubt, what about just calling it 'Right up the Jags' :huh: :lol:

Maybe they'll be signing Rory too.

I think Richie boy milks it a tad with all the histrionics (can I claim the first use of 'histrionics' on CTO?) but he's a footballer for fecks sake. He must have a stiff neck watching those long punts come out of the sky. Keep it on the deck and he'll get his other 18 goals. Quality quote after the Alba semi BTW 'the only team in the Highlands'.

You need more of those tongue in cheek and whistly smileys in yer posts manfer.... it looks as though you're serious.

Of course his ball retention's not that bad manfer. He just moves inside as if he's about to take his man on, then changes his mind and passes it back to Golly..... feckin hopeless. Is Morgan still available BTW?

Feck me, I've been pushing up daisies for 20 years now......