The Mantis

What a strange fellow...

Pink strip now 😎

And in 2004 we won the League and the Challenge Cup and took the Pars to a replay in the Semi of the Scottish.

Boy from Bonnyrigg committee seems to know their game v Hibs is at home if that helps. Obvs Kelty is a novelty for us but Livi... 💩 ...Albion Rovers would have been better.

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It's OK, I had already paid for the day pass. I already had Now TV on my iPad so it probably applied to new registrations. Signed up with the Mrs email address but never saw any £5.99 offer. No biggie.

"a couple of years" 😂😂😂 Got the covid atm so watching it this way. No sign of any £5.99 offer though 😜

I’ve had the occasional senior moment but wasn’t this at the end of the 90? So we would have won.

Wish now I’d recorded that, what a night. Just out of ma scratcher and emotionally drained. Never seen Gayfield like that, cars parked all the way to the harbour and beyond. Apart from a short spell when Devine went off I never felt we were losing this. Arbroath offered very little and ICT defended as if their lives depended on it. Like @IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER I thought we’d start playing if we got to half time level but the pitch must have been worse than it looked. The wind dropped too. Shout out to @alternative maryhill if you caught the train but missed the drama! Might have been different if wee Joe had finished his miracle run at the death… Just a question of whether to eat the smokies now or keep them for later.

So as I reported in the UK Football forum, the “beach balls are burst” ( © Deek Adams 2013) . It also means C(o)unty maintain their proud record of never having beaten Rangers , ever.

The offer sounded a bit fishy to me anyway.

Despite Jordan White scoring at Ibrox against his big team (whaaat?), DUFCs point v Celtic tonight, and Motherwell’s win against Hearts, means that, to paraphrase Derek Adams, “The Beach Balls are Burst”. So the wee team OTB will finish the season in 6th spot, having taken 1 solitary point in the top six so far, and won’t be following ICT’s feat of 2015 when we finished 3rd and had a nice jolly abroad. Shame…

Never tried those, but will need to be in Arbroath by 5.30 to get smokies for Mrs Mantis' Saturday lunch.

Same here. MoM. Then probably Sean Welsh. I know he's injury prone but he takes some hammering in midfield. Hats off to Dick ****** Campbell, although it was fairly obvious what he would do. Press hard, get right in our faces and see if we could deal with it (how will you deal with it Doddsy?). Run around for an hour, just like at Killie, see if they could get a lead to take back to Gayfield and then run out of steam and pray that was enough to see them through the last half hour. We don't have a Xavi or a Messi so our players constantly had one eye on the opponent who was arriving to hit them hard and their touch let them down. Never seen so many misplaced passes in one ICT game. We should have taken at least one of those chances though. Arbroath are not pretty but they're good at what they do and we were drawn into that. Expect more of the same on Friday. How long is Walsh out?

And Elgin and Brora. But Morrison also went to Grindavik. What do you mean “might” 🤣

Sorry guys, brain fart , I meant Dale Gillespie 😂

Willie Young spoke alongside Dick and was very funny without swearing much. At another do I heard another Glaswegian who was a "comedian" and just embarrassed the two women at the front table, I'll need to ask around as I've forgotten his name.

I see quite a lot of "lazy b*****d" quotes on P&B from both sets of fans and Motherwell too, although he did well there initially. Maybe just his running style. I'd certainly have him back.

I saw Gavin Morrison playing for Brora just the other week, but was surprised to see him in a Cowden shirt at Bonnyrigg on Saturday. Not sure how this came about, whether it was job related, was living down here, whatever.

East Fife to LG2 under Stevie Crawford. Cowden almost certainly down to LL under Maurice Ross. Dark days in the Kingdom.

I see Dick ****** Campbell is being discussed elsewhere. I heard him speak at a dinner once. He did apologise in advance to the one or two females present... Maybe Ange as the manager of the year instead of Dick was just diplomatic 😉 Archie Macpherson lies to pensioners so you can't expect high standards from him. Do we know who the speakers were?

Belated congratulations on another fine podcast 👋

No, I'm retired too 😜

I’m sure there are a few on this forum who think ‘beside yourself’ is the best place for you…