The Mantis

I agree with Mr Cliche, the donkey jaiket wearer.

Recently I found some footage of him playing against us for Arbroath in div 1. Obviously he was world class in that game and put Denzil & Ritchie in the shade, and Arbroath beat us too, but he never scored :010:

Well if that's the case I'd better get on to the Courier office for some back issues. Do you mean there's quotes by me every week and folk saying 'I agree with Mantis' ? I could be claiming the royalties and getting a taxi up the A9 every week instead of relying on that miserable ******* Naelifts.

OK then, being positive: Graham, you're a world class player. It's lucky for us the SPL gets very little coverage on TV otherwise Juve would be in for you. I was exaggerating after the United game last week when I said you could trap it further than I could pass it. I can pass it further than you can trap it. It's just that Denzil is even better. He's solar system class, or Milky Way class, or Galaxy class, or any kind of chocolate you can name.

I don't get the Courier sent to me any more, and usually I forget to read it online. Do they still print the 'Fan Mail' bit? Otherwise what plagiarism are you talking about Sandy?

Could do with one of them to clear my feckin nose this week.

Aye right, I heard you used an old piece of exhaust pipe every week.

Fecks sake RIG I'm auld enuff to be yer grandfaither and I know what he's on about :015: :015: :015:

Keogh came on as a sub quite recently did he not?

Duck, here's Sandy :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: I don't think our defence has started leaking goals, we just missed Dods on Sat as the back four hasn't been disturbed in yonks. Expect normal service will be resumed next week, but Dods off at season's end. Agree with most of the other stuff though DonkeyJaiket.

Pick yer own feckin team Richard :015: :015: :015:

She's rubbing his nose as it got hit by a flying helmet

Never done one of these before so I bet my team is all squinty Broonie Rossco-Prancer-Bionic Arms-Hasteens Bazza-Duncan-Hart-Rankin Denzil-Dargo If it's not working in midfield put Richie Hart on the right and Barry on the left, Rankin inside. Sub Zander for Baz after 45 or 60 mins. If it's still not working get Bayne on! Denzil back into midfield, somebody else off.

I mind Caley beating them in a replay on the way to playing Rangers about 1984. Albion had already printed the programmes for the Rangers match so they turn up at programme dealers now and again, programmes for a match that was never played......

Ach that's a bit harsh, he was only telling me he agreed with me :015:

Haven't been on P&B for ages. Don't really have time either. Hope you rubbed it in about the travelling our fans have to do, not just up the A9 like all the others do for their bi-annual piss-up and day out. Anyway we had as many there yesterday as Motherwell had at ours last week, probably more. And the United crowd yesterday was pretty desperate was it not? Also what about all the Arabs in the Fox stand yesterday, shouting for a passback when Granty kneed it back to Broonie.

The Steak Pehs

I agree with Hairy Chipper

If we're dragging bottom, how do you define what our feeder club are doing?

I think that's a very loose translation of what I said Chris :015: :015: :015:

Wondered about that myself. The players never seemed to complain though.

That must be the most timid, gutless performance I've ever seen from an Inverness side, whether it's ICT or any of the pre-merger partners. Even at one goal up (and we should have been at least 2 down by that time) the players never showed any belief. It was one of those games you felt could be about 5-1 in the end. I felt CC was happy as long as it stayed 1-1 but there was too much of the game left for that. A few random thoughts (somebody else can do the smileymometers): Dougal was very fussy, even to the extent of giving us a soft penalty near the end. Felt he was a homer in the first 20 mins, but then he seemed to even it out a bit. Caff was OK by div 1 standards we remember him by, but looked a bit nervy, and understandably not match fit, but we've become used to Dods and the other three being rock solid. The defending was sloppy at all three goals. First half we were ripped apart down our left, lost count of the number of crosses from the byeline. Utd had good movement and were all over the park when they got possession, or rather when we gifted it to them. They look a top 6 side without question under Levein. We looked very ponderous and took too many passes to get nowhere. To use a well worn cliche, we had no width. Russell Duncan was missed as much as Dods. That's my opinion. McBain, Rankin and Black can't all play at once. Too lightweight in midfield. I would drop Roy and one of the others, not sure which- Black wins the ball but Rankin can create. I understand Richie Hart was injured today but I would give him a go. Barry- looks knackered these days. Get wee Zander on at half time. Bayne- sorry, but all the effort doesn't make up for lack of talent. If anything, could have played alongside Granty today instead of Caff. He did a lot of defending anyway. Dennis must play. We were a different side when he got his 15 minutes and he looked hungry. He actually replaced Barry though, no number 17 board this week. He won the penalty due to United panicking at his close skills, as opposed to Bayne, who can control it further than I can pass it. He won another free kick 30 yards out, and he had a run down the right wing which was as good as we got all day. I felt sorry for Dargo. He was back foraging for the ball in his own half as he got no service. Can't blame him if he wants another club, he's a mercenary with no ties/obligations to Inverness apart from us resurrecting his career. Also we had a poor support this week (so did Utd, crowd looked very poor). Apart from the usual couple of dozen guys trying to get it going all game (and the usual couple of dozen stewards trying to stop them) we didn't really manage to make much noise and the players never gave us much to warm us up either.

I actually agree with you Sandy (the bit about dragging bottom anyway). I don't know if you were there today but I feckin was and it's hard to take. I still have to step back and say- surely CC has Parkie to guide him, and also how did we gather most of our 20 points before becoming pish? I don't see any time in history when a team has had a bad patch lasting a whole season (unless they were totally pish and just not good enough, like St Mirren a couple of years back). The heads are certainly down at the moment though. I'll start worrying if we lose the next 2, Killie, then more important, Dunfermline.

Maybe I'm a pedantic *******, correction I am a pedantic *******, or maybe we're just speaking two feckin different languages all this time :023:

Aye but if somebody took £4 off you to watch the Jeggies he must have seen you coming. Two quid if I mind right, maybe three just before the merger. Even this was only a fiver