The Mantis

Finally got time to listen to the latest pod and a big thanks again to the team for another pod with tremendous variety. Songs: Wise Men Say is good. So is Respect. Or Bring it on Home or This is our Time. For us veterans of Bucharest, Spirit in the Sky hits the spot. For Highland songs: Mott the Hoople used to come on to 'Jupiter' from The Planets, then blast your ears off. So something gentle like that or the Intermezzo from Mascagni, segueing into something by Wolfstone (Battle / Heart and Soul / Double Rise Set / Holy Ground / Psycho Woman). Hector the Hero could be as magical for us as Sunshine on Leith is for the Hibees, or Going Home for Newcastle, but sadly it's a bit too Dingwallish. Runrig - don't really like them but I suppose they have some decent songs like Rocket to the Moon. Skipinnish - Walking on the Waves / Alive. Mike Scott/Waterboys - Love Anyway / Medicine Bow / Whole of the Moon Gerry Rafferty - Shipyard Town (album version with intro on the pipes/chanter). This is the tune that used to feature on Sportscene's Road to Hampden.

Probably just refer to Stockport as C(o)unty is a bit of a dirty word around here 😂

Great stuff. Decent game but Arbroath showed Killie are no world beaters.

Firhill.

Aye, that’s it. There’s a stand named after him. Died young in a tragic accident.

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Another great pod and congrats to @RedCard for lasting the 80 minutes.

Cheers Mannie, that’s a handy feature. I got them off the Futbology app as it just tells me games I actually saw. It turns out I was also at the Stenny 2-3 game but I had the date wrong 😜

18 years ago today: Ross County 1 ICT 1 (promotion season) 13 years ago today: Falkirk 1 ICT 2 (relegation season)

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An oyster has more chance of hitting the spot.

Caley Stadium or Dingwall would be a decent crowd-puller I reckon. I've seen them at a few venues but Kirkcaldy was the furthest north.

Yesterday was at New Bayview, another astro. Nearly went but it's a bit of a trek. Dunfermline away is a possibility. I see the SWNT will be using Hampden for the next campaign. Not really keen on that as a fan but I suppose it's a good move for them.

I found that too. I suppose you could take up their offer to message them 😉

Anybody’s guess. The map on the official SWF site appears to put them at Millburn

Not disagreeing with you, but Vale are the equivalent of Fort and the manager left during the week. They would already be gone if not for COVID. Also Celtic have lost at Bonnyrigg and drawn at home to East Kilbride. The other cheek beat Gretna 9-1 today but the Gretna keeper was sent off early on. They look more likely than Celtic atm but they have lost a game too, at home to Civil Service Strollers, whom I remember being sent packing by your very own Jaggies back in the day.

The Futbology app is telling me we beat Arbroath on the 13th August 1994, so that’s probably true 😉 Any other Futbology users out there? I know Jack uses it. I’m ICT #3 behind (a long way behind!) Alan Mair and James Rendall.

33 year old Garry Wood scores two in Brechin’s 4-1 win at Deveronvale.

Aye that’s what I meant. I heard we had scored but nobody had posted on here even after about 5 mins.

MacGregor???

Sounds like they have outsourced the Dundee stewards 😉

Missed this due to family stuff. Delighted to get 3 points on opening day, with 3 other 'contenders' dropping points.

It was shown on another forum that the travel issue was negligible. It may even have been slightly in favour of the HL, I can’t remember. Their main complaint was that most of their players come from south of Brechin, not the distance to matches. Edit - here’s some details Mileage chart Now the HL Gentleman’s Club has been dragged into the 21st century, it won’t take long for this travelling to decrease. Say Fort or Lossie are relegated and replaced by Banks o’Dee or Lochee Utd. Or both, or Vale replaced by Forfar WE. In any case, I don’t believe the clubs voted on this at all. There’s a line across the centre of the Tay Bridge which marks the HL/LL boundary and afaik it’s the SFA that set this. There’s a strong argument that the line should be even further south as the HL area has the same number of clubs at tier 5 as the rest of the country although it only has about 15% of the population. The colts decision stinks though and we can hope it is abandoned after a season, as we were continually assured… Edited to add - apologies @Robert , there was a vote, but it was to Brechin’s proposal bribe their way into the LL. Not sure whether the SFA would have sanctioned such a move? Apparently the SPFL put pressure on the LL chairman, hinting of withdrawal of Challenge Cup places etc. Nobody comes out of this with much credit.

Might be worth starting a “ICT players score” thread.