The Mantis

What happened to the Lynx- is this a franchise-type thingy?

I thought stuffing the Jambos 3-1 in the cup was actually better than the Celtic game. We never rode our luck, we never got nervous when we were ahead, the goals were crackers, the support was great and we got to singalonga Travis in the rain at the end.

Well Alan, that fecker themannwithefeckindonkeyjaiket will slag me off for this, the jeggie barsteward, but Caley (Caledonian) played the Saintees in 92 but it was a Saturday, hissin doon wi rain but no that baltic. Came back from 2-0 to 2-2 and lost the replay in midweek at Perth 3-0. Caley's last ever Scottish Cup tie  :019:

That Ayr 4-3 game was certainly right up there, we went right back down the A9 afterwards, needed an operation to get the grins off oor pusses.

Then there was a 2-2 at Livi midweek when that cheatin barsteward Harvey got Jimmy Calder sent off and Thommo went in goals, Bazza scored the equaliser with about 5 mins left.

Also thumping those Tinks 3-0 after all their talking, and Boner got 2 red cards  :015: :015: :015: :015:

ThemannwitheDONkeyjaiket  :moon03::moon03::moon03::moon03:

The word is Ceefax. A Ceefax has a good memory. An Anorak makes a profession of it  :moon05::moon05::moon05::moon05::moon05:

Anyway they tell me ure a musical anorak  :016: :016: :016: :016: :016:

Harry

I got one of your links to open. All you can come up with is an opinion from an Oxford based Tim off a web forum? Barrel...... scrape.........

Now away and look up 'evidence' in a dictionary.....

Harry

What you mean mannie is you werenae there  :moon01:

And by the way it's

Aye, Charlie never appeared in that first ever East Stirling game in 94. The silky no 10 with the streaks in his hair was..... Grassa Bennett.

And the scorer of CT's first ever Scottish Cup goal was ... Mark McAllister.

I suppose Mad Dog McAllister is your LB then. Apparently he made 61 appearances according to Broadfoot.

OK, OK strike Denmark off the list FFS  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

Seriously though, you have to put taxes into perspective with the standard of living. The Norwegians, apparently, can afford to buy beer at £7 a pint, so it doesn't bother them, just puts off the tourists. Presumably the Danes can afford the taxes, whether or not they have the mindset you mention. I bet they don't all emigrate and have a falling population as we do- another thing I put squarely at the door of Westminster.

If they can't preside over a nation with a thriving economy and population after 300 years, it's time to move over.

They've had no problem getting the SE of England full to bursting with people, with interest rates etc now designed to cool down their economy, that actually harm us in Scotland.

OK Harry, point taken about your next post- I actually followed on from Alex at the bottom of P2 without noticing there was a page 3  :007:

But you're not getting off that easy. Your original point was:

Hearts & Hibs might not make it as visible as Celtic and Rangers but trust me they are just as sectarian

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As Joni used to say 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'.

This is a golden age for fitba in the heelands, enjoy it. If ICT get relegated it may be a long time coming back.....

Ach, I don't need a car anyway, I just cadge a lift off Naelifts  :014:

You forgot the amber nectar Scotty, which is the UK's biggest export apparently.

But really- what do you mean "is it workable?"

This is what happens after 300 years of negative propaganda. Nobody has any doubts but ourselves (which I suppose is quite healthy in a perverse sort of way...

What have Denmark, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, New Zealand, Belgium, etc, etc, etc got that we haven't?

The fact is, whatever you think of the SNP (and I don't have much of a regard for the party and its people, compared to the 70s), Labour have got into a knot and are losing the intellectual argument against independence, or 'divorce' or 'separation' as they call it. When Blair was forced into devolution by the will of the Scottish people (and even then tried a referendum which it was hoped would fail), Scottish Labour were forced to spout about how the SNP would try to 'wreck the parliament'.

What a dim idea that was. If the parliament was seen to work, obviously Scots would want more of it.

So George Robertson's perception of devolution as something to 'kill nationalism stone dead' was completely wrong.

The only reason Labour want to hold on to Scotland is, they'll never win an election in England without us. The only reason the British establishment want to hang on to Scotland is a strategic one, ie the Americans would have nowhere to keep their missiles and control the North Atlantic (and don't forget all the Scots who have been happy to sign up for the British forces, out of proportion to their population). So if independence comes closer, look for the CIA getting involved and bumping off a few of our top people.

Whatever happened to Willie Macrae I wonder?

Hey this is contagious! Harry doesn't use whole sentences either!

"Although there are some sectarian reasons behind the support for both sides (Hibs were initially founded as a charity side to raise money for the city's mainly Catholic Irish immigrants located around the Cowgate area of the city), they are nowhere near to the extent of those between Rangers and Celtic football clubs "

He's just going through the menopause.

Maybe if Baltacha had stayed on it would have been Spineless Norman MacMillan.

Feckin part timer.

I suppose the theory is pretty sound, if not the practice. Pretty ironic you mention Hillsborough though, as it's pretty widespread opinion that Hillsborough would never have happened if it wasn't for the police.

So how does this:

He came out and said that although he was disappointed ....... against  Aberdeen.

Suddenly morph into this:

we should be happy with a point against Motherwell, D. Utd, Pars etc

Feck me, where do I start  :017: :017: :017: :017: :017:

The lack of smilies etc suggests you are actually serious.....

I heard a certain Mr Mackenzie flying the flag for ICT on Radio Scotland 10 mins ago  :021:

Hearts & Hibs might not make it as visible as Celtic and Rangers but trust me they are just as sectarian

Well I'm not trusting you for a start  :001:

I've lived in both East and West of Scotland and been watching football since that black year 1966  :019:

Why don't you put some facts in to back up that statement?

Charles Reep I think.

Mind you your own study is less than statistically valid  :015: :015: :015: :015:

A sample size of only two games, one against the worst Rangers side in decades, the other against a team who, it appears, haven't lost for decades, don't give up the day job yet  :004: