The Mantis

yes I am a massive football supporter and happy to travel the distance to see decent SPL football  :001:

Come off it, Alex (aka Silver Fox) never said anything about your size  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

I reckon we'll be in the main stand again. Support at Motherwell is never great and they probably think it's a waste of time opening the big stand.

Nae little silver disc for you then Yompa.

Me & Big Dougie will be there.

When Valerie Singleton was on Blue Peter. Christoper Trace too. Then old 'Get Down Shep' himself.

Alex, I hope you actually remembered that answer from about 20 years ago. The alternative is too sad to contemplate  :015: :015: :015: :015:

Easy seeing McSwegan's not from Canada anyway  :015: :015: :015: :015:

Aye, gie him a break, bet he scores at Fir Park this week.

" there was no power in my legs and my brain had switched off."

The lad has to go before he actually becomes Neil Lennon!

In Lennon's case his legs go numb and he falls to the ground. Before it switches off, his brain tells him to clutch his face.

I meant to say, like HE, last time I was there (dec last year, 0-0) the fans were mixed in the back room and it was good banter. When did we ever have enough fans so it was 'stowed out'?

Fortress Longman used to do that to everybody  :015: :015: :015:

Finger oot the dyke time gudge. What's your club again?

Remember Brewster's Millions is on FilmFour tomorrow night  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

Nae bother  :clapping04:

Don't really know what to make of this post. 'Unintentional thoughtlessness'- somebody has a way with words  :017:

I think the reason ICT fans gravitate towards the Diggers is BECAUSE it allows kids. That's been stated in the past.

Last week we got held up and didn't get there till the back of two. The place was so mobbed we couldn't get in the front door, never mind the back room.

BTW since Naelifts had just come off a nightshift he was gagging for a drink, so we went into a newsagents in Gorgie Road and he mooched a pound off me for a coke. While we were in there a jambo with a young daughter went past me and said, presumably to us, 'cheating scum'. Now what was that all about?

Transcript from Aussie Weakest Link.....

CORNELIA (the hostess): "Michael, why Robin?"

MICHAEL: "Well he struggled with a few easy questions and missed

a really simple one."

CORNELIA: "Graham, why Robin?"

GRAHAM: "He's about the dumbest bloke I've ever met."

CORNELIA: "Claire, why Robin?"

CLAIRE: "He's a total goose."

CORNELIA: "Well Robin, you missed three questions in the last round,

and didn't bank a cent.  You really are a complete moron aren't you?

I hope you're proud of yourself. What could you possibly have to

say for yourself........?

Here's what

Tesco and C(o)unty deserve each other  :clapping04: :clapping04: :clapping04: :clapping04: :clapping04:

Jake- Apart from asking how we survive on shite crowds I can't see the point of your post other than to sound smug. I don't know how you can say anything is more entertaining. That's subjective surely- some people think Barry Manilow is entertaining.

I've actually been at a few lower league English games in my time and some were downright dire. A shite game with a good crowd is still a shite game.

Anyway I've got more reasons to live than just fitba. Maybe that's the only thing that makes it bearable for you living down there- that's me being smug  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

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Get out of that Johnboy.....

Mind you, whatever quality it is, I'd rather be at an ICT game once a week (or even a Junior or HL game for that matter) than watch anything on telly. Football on telly is shite no matter how many cameras, replays, interviews etc they cram in.

You certainly never heard me saying the gap between the OF and the rest was closing.

I was just trying to answer what the original poster asked, ie if we were in the Prem we would hardly need a support with the amount of TV money they get.

While it's true the tims probably made an exception for Graveson (Strachan's final part of the jigsaw, let me have Graveson and I'll let you have the league, and all that shite), the fact is the OF are both offloading the big earners such as Balde and Lovenkrands. Maybe £8000 was a bit on the low side but that's the kind of money they offer their native Scots and players from smaller nations. I bet Hutton, Steven Smith, Wallace, Pearson etc, even Maloney, aren't on big money.

Most of Scottish football is fecked, and I've been going to games since that year the English keep going on about, so it's obvious to me.

I think ICT will (slightly) buck the trend of falling attendances due to the unique circumstances at our club. As for us ever filling the stadium for run of the mill games, not a chance.

Aye but he doesnae start!

Anyway he speaks the Queen's Invernessian as well as anybody :015: :015: :015: :015:

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That was quick!

I thought it was an eclipse of the sun.

Same here. I was at the game but I recorded it to see again how we flogged them 4 goals and whether we did create that many chances or was I just imagining it.

No surprises that the pundits did not mention ICT once. Just talked about Hearts the whole time. Hearts started with 6 Scots, big deal- we start with 11 every week. I include **** Hasteens in that BTW  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

What, so you can go and then it gets postponed  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

Falkirk weren't among the seeds so must hav finished 10th. Aberdeen were in the top 8 remember but didnt get thru (  :015: ) so yinited must hav sneaked into the seeds, jammy gits that they are

That's what I mean though- they must have finished above Falkirk then, cannae remember how the table was. So Falkirk was the hardest draw we could get....?

I take it we were seeded 7th from our league position, so on paper that was probably the hardest draw we could get. Falkirk were 9th in the league last year were they not?