The Mantis

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

I know you're only joshing old chap, either that or you've never been to Cowdenbeath :006: Or even the Recs or Cliftonhill. Ibrox to me is a far better stadium than Parkheid which is built on the cheap. But both are full of the great unwashed. Tynecastle is a better place to be in on a matchday. Easter Road's no bad either.

Nae wonder the Jaggies had feck all fans. Even Caley Thistle only charged £4 in div 3 :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

Aye, not as welcoming as the team though.... :020:

I'll feckin jump on you the next time I see you

Here's a photo from the game, good quality pics from the guy. Stand looks pretty full clicky

Aye great wee report.... Find it hard to believe the crowd though. Top of the table an' all, they usually have a hardcore of a few hundred. Maybe the mistake was syndicated.

You know how these things get exaggerated though. All it needs is the reporter coming up to him in the bar and saying 'were you disappointed to be subbed', Craig to say, 'Aye I was a bit pissed off, thought he should have left me on and taken Bayners off' and bingo, there's your story. I suppose the best thing is a 'no comment' but you can understand his frustration, I was gobsmacked myself when they held up the board on Saturday.

If you think we've got problems, try this

There was an incident just before that, can't remember what (maybe it was Skippy diving, my ageing braincells are letting me down). Seemed like that got Rossco steamed up. I shuddered when I saw it, I think he was lucky it was a home game or the ref would have pandered to the fans and sent him off. I think the tackle on Chris Kerr at St Midden was less serious than that.

Upper tier definitely, even though the stewards are actually barstewards and every pound is grudged. Also we are invited again to the Andy Penman suite at Dens Park. Shame Brew has gone but bring it on!

And there's more...... It looks like we're about to achieve 4 consecutive years in the SPL. The club is 12 years old FFS. We're arguably the wee-est club ever to play in the SPL. Yet we try to compete with the likes of Celtic, who get as many through the gate in one game as we get in a season. We've never been thumped 6-1 like Well last week, or 5-1 like the Pars yesterday. Teams who have failed to outlast our stay in the SPL in recent years include P*rt*ck, Falkirk, St Johnstone and St Mirren. Also relegated recently were Livi and Dundee, and both Dunfermline and DUFC have flirted with relegation for the last 3 seasons. Most, possibly all, of these 8 can justifiably claim to be 'bigger' clubs than ICT. Some people need a reality check. When we played Hibs the other week, only Brown and Dargo would be likely to get in the Hibs squad (I'd probably include Granty but maybe I'm biased). Yet we've consistently beaten them home and away. For a young club with such a small fan base 7th is a feckin miracle for us. As Charlie says, by all means if we get to March and we're in a strong position then we can push for top six. Bear in mind, most years five places will already be filled by Hearts, Hibs, Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, all clubs with 5-figure attendances, leaving us to scrap with the others such as Killie for that last place. I realise to hold opinions like these is like a red rag to some feckers like the Mr Angrys of the forum but tough sheit/shecht/sharn/keech :015: :015: :015: :015:

Well summed up Wyness and CaleyD. I think also that Bonzo makes a lot of good points, but they're made in such a patronising manner at times that I sometimes think it's Cyril the Squirrel in disguise :010: :010: :010: :010: He'd also rival a Tim for paranoia. We all disagree from time to time but he thinks he alone gets shot down. Now I had a 350 mile round trip yesterday in wind, rain, dark etc to watch what turned out to be a load of shecht, and at 9am yesterday I was seriously wondering whether to set off, but that's life. Charlie's been about 9 months in the job. He's learning. He's a better boss than Brewster IMO (Brew's value to us was as a player), and we're in no real danger of going down. Maybe Bonzo would elaborate on when we're due to go down the pan- is it this season, or next, or when? And does he ever watch the team away? Motherwell fans were just as animated when we went and did to them what they did to us yesterday (but to the tune of 4-1). Many people have said that away teams is what the SPL is all about these days. Keep the home fans quiet, then get them on the team's back, then nick the points.

Feck me Johnboy, forgot all about it, next week at Tannadice or the next again v Killie, that was my first trip up since Dunfermline game.

Just a wee innocent query Bonzo- have you been watching away games, or just home? However after the end of the 8 game unbeaten run I remember thinking we had been riding our luck a while and hadn't been playing that well. Today I have to agree with Charlie that hardly anybody performed at all, whatever you thought of the tactics, he's not to blame for giving the ball away as often as we did. But I was a bit disappointed to see Dargo/Bayne starting after Wyness got a shot last week. I'm like a lot of others, I think we get nowt out of Dargo with Bayne as partner. I felt sorry for the wee man being subbed when Dargo/Rory or Dargo/Wyness might have worked. I take it Hart for Duncan was a gamble to take the 3 points, as we all expected Barry to go off, even if Russell's passing was gash. And I was never a big Rankin fan but I thought we missed him- whatever creativity we've had recently was often down to him. I wanted Roy dropped since about a month ago to accommodate Rankin, but to be fair Roy was OK today. We really need another Barry Wilson, pronto. I'm still in the camp that says we have the fewest resources, mostly first division players, etc etc, and the guys have been punching above their weight. We're as good as Motherwell but they got a break this week. These guys will be hurting and desperate to get on with it next week at Tannadeechay. So am I.

Never saw you in the Innes today Pie, where did you have the pre-match swally? I thought 'penalty' straight away when I saw it, but then I was in the North Stand, about 6 rows up, blind as a bat and mann4thejob had pulled my jaiket up over my heid claiming it was an anorak :010:

Somebody had a DVD recently with highlights of that game. Fecked if I can remember who it was :015: :015: :015: :015:

Feck me, what a fuss ower a joke... Here's one that was doing the rounds about 1990 or so... They have a photo of a well-known Rangers player as a baby. "OK, for 5 points, can you guess who it is?" Wee Shuggie: "Is it John Greig?" "No. We'll age him a bit for 3 points" Wee Shuggie: "Is it Ally McCoist?" "No. We'll age him a bit more for 2 points" Wee Shuggie: "Is it Davie Cooper?" "No, sorry! For ONE point, here he is as he looks today" Wee Shuggie: "Aw feck me, it's Mark Walters!"

D'oh!

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: