The Mantis

Was at the eDinbrugh city v clachencudan on sat, $5 to get inand %1 for a prog. Met ICTChris and told him to get back to his flat quick as I heard somebody was ****ing his bird.

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

There used to be a joke about that, involving the words 'Ludo' and 'Llandudno" ......

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.

Caves.

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.

2nd round Saturday 27th October. Whitehill Welfare v Golspie Sutherland Buckie Thistle v Nairn County Clachnacuddin or Edinburgh City v East Stirlingshire Cove Rangers v Keith Edinburgh University v Deveronvale Linlithgow Rose v Spartans Montrose v Pollok Forfar Athletic v Dumbarton Inverurie Loco Works v East Fife Selkirk v Dalbeattie Star Albion Rovers v Burntisland Shipyard Culter v Vale of Leithen Girvan v Stranraer Arbroath v Elgin City Threave Rovers v Stenhousemuir Annan Athletic v Fraserburgh or Huntly We've got a 6-pointer away to Gretna so I'll be at Fir Park that day. Clach looks a decent tie though if they can get through. A local derby for Stranraer :015:

Shame it wasn't Prince Philip...

Denzil doesn't appear to work like that :015: He's a confidence player: it seems when he's hot, he scores every week. Then he gets an injury or a transfer(!) and starts from scratch again, not scoring for months :007: He took ages to score when he joined us from the Dons, then Hearts from us, and he's taken a while to settle again back at TCS.

Strange how these things work out. Preston are on 2 points in the Premier after 2 games, a point behind Spartans, with Whitehill top on 6 points at the moment. The accepted wisdom down here IMO is that the East Seniors play better football than the juniors, but at a slower pace and less physical. (This is a bit similar to comparing Caley, County etc pre 1994, with the more physical but less skilful SFL teams who provided the opposition in the Cup.) More often than not I would say the seniors have better pitches than the juniors too. Gala and Vale of Leithen are both in div 1 and looked very poor to me - we'll see what the draw for the next round brings.

Bound to be next Saturday at Meadowbank. I went to Vale of Leithen v Gala Fairydean. Pretty poor standard. Makes you appreciate the SPHell. My usual port of call would have been Whitehill. But this was the only tie in South East Scotland today- a derby in front of about 100- amazing how the draw sent all the local teams to North or South West.

Brora 0-5 Cove Rangers Civil Service Strollers 1-2 Selkirk Clachnacuddin 2-2 Edinburgh City Coldstream 0-4 Dalbeattie Star Culter 7-0 Hawick Royal Albert Fort William 0-6 Spartans (Mountain? What mountain? :001:) Fraserburgh 1-1 Huntly Girvan 2-0 Forres Mechanics Glasgow Univ 0-2 Buckie Thistle Golspie Sutherland 3-1 Preston Ath Lossiemouth 1-3 Whitehill Welfare Newton Stewart 0-6 Linlithgow Rose Rothes 1-4 Nairn County St Cuthbert Wndrs 2-6 Pollok Vale Of Leithen 3-1 Gala Fairydean Wick Academy 0-5 Deveronvale Wigtown & Bladnoch 3-5 Burntisland Shipyard

Aye, sadly Dee, as soon as you hit the woodwork you knew it would soon be time to switch channels......

Just thought I would upset the mod/peeps balance again :023:

Just in case nobody has seen this before- did you hear that there is growing concern that women are at risk when visiting car parks, especially at night? The answer is to have special car parks dedicated to women, with special security arrangements so that men would not be allowed. Plans are here

Mrs Mantis thinks men are far more courteous. In our street we usually have to turn the car round to go anywhere. In the middle of your 3-point turn some woman comes up the street and sails past your bonnet :029: If it's a man, he stops and lets you go.

End of reasoned debate anyway :015: