The Mantis

I was going to say bivvy bag, but that’s probably unfair to the ‘guy’.

Couldn’t see how to sign in on iPad or phone version (and still can’t ) which is why I wasn’t getting the info. Signed in on desktop and it’s sorted.

Are you saying you renewed online? I can’t see any way of getting my old seat or the advertised prices.

I can't even get that far. No sign of how to renew my seat as it's greyed out. Also other seats seem to be showing last year's prices.

At the end of the day, it gets dark.

Yeah, I get that. At my age you've seen plenty of language evolving before your eyes, but that doesn't mean I can't have a moan about it when the evolved version makes no sense 😇 Next time Mrs Mantis serves me up a rice pudding, I'll look in it for the proof. A few fairly recent football expressions that fairly rip my knitting: "on the front foot" "hopefully we can kick on" "playing two up top" - it's not a xmas tree ffs "buying a free kick" - what? "in and around" I blame you, Alan Shearer. How can you be in and around a player? "subtitute" and "vunrable" Not to mention non-readers who hear phrases such as "prima-donna" and render them as "pre-Madonna"... maybe Lady Gaga is "post-Madonna". And "we equipped ourselves well" instead of "acquitted". Also a bit disheartening to hear the ACC of Merseyside Police this week talking about "grevious bodily harm". I dodged a bullet by not forking out 40 quid to watch that dross at Hampden last night. Instead I got to suffer BBC Scotland's very own squeaky pet hamster who obviously couldn't be ersed doing his research on how to pronounce the Icelandic players. So even though Thommo seemed to have mastered Thórdarson and Thorsteinsson, his wee pal insisted on calling them Pordarson and Porsteinsson, totally unaware of the Þ character in the Icelandic alphabet. Anyway, apologies for taking the thread off topic. The mods (beaks) will likely impose a ban.

I'm sure AS can find enough in his back pocket to pay off Ryan's 4-year contract at £2.6M a year. Maybe he'll have to pick up the tab for his groin op too, if Bournemouth have done an Aaron Doran on him.

The site’s been a bit quirky for me in the past few days, and my erudite reply to this has just vanished before my eyes 😢

Pedant alert! No it isn’t. The proof of the pudding is in the eating…

Very good prices. A bit weird having the early bird period up until 17th August since the league season starts on August 2 and the League Cup in July. Edit - can only think/hope it’s a typo and it’s really 17th June.

Reminds me of the famous David Francey quote and the Spanish footballer...

“When I die and they lay me to rest…”

@RiG never fails. Hurry up mun 😄 Edit- it’s being suggested on p&b that it’s SJFC and Elgin at home, and trips to the San Starko and that dire place with all the roundabouts.

The 5 fingers on his right hand.

Since we’re not a prem/champ side any longer, presumably with a reduced squad, these games should take on a new significance and be a real test, as compared to the days when we could afford to divide the squad and play 2 games on the same day. Almost tempted to come up and stay over for these, but… June: nah.

Always hoped Lewis would get over his injuries and get a regular start for us, probably at least as good as Cammy Harper. First set eyes on him when we reached the semi-final of the Scottish Youth Cup and were narrowly beaten by Hearts. He was a stand-out.

He’s a likeable big guy who has done well to follow (follow) a professional career despite having very limited talent. At least it’s the County fans who have to put up with his dad on the forum nowadays. One County fan was telling me he even uses his real name 🤣

As a fellow grandad I was just pulling your pisser… mind you our resident hack tells us (ad nauseam) that the area isn’t big enough for 2 clubs so I commend you for your efforts in underwriting both, though it probably won’t catch on.

Bit of a stretch though as Smith and White never actually started. However we’ll take big Jordan back if you’re finished with him. Never thought I would ever say that 😅

Mixed feelings as Annan has a couple of fantastic pubs between the station and the ground 🍺. New Bayview is in a pretty uninspiring location near the docks - a bit like the Longman then. Seriously though it’s a welcome change and for our many East of Scotland based fans there’s a new direct rail link between Edinburgh Waverley and Leven station which is within walking distance of the ground. We have only played there once as they moved mid-season and it was played on a Sunday in our promotion season in 1999 with an early kickoff as their lights weren’t ready. We lost 3-2 after playing for most of the game without Paul Cherry who was red carded. Like ourselves, Dick will surely have a rebuilding job as many of his squad will not have the legs for the step up to League 1.

Peanut sat amongst us that day…

Oh aye, we've experienced it ourselves in 2022 when we had that marathon against Arbroath then we had to play the final without Devine & Duffy after the sendings off. Even fairer would be a straight 11th v 2nd but that's never going to happen. I think I heard that the SFA or SPFL keeps the bulk of the takings at that level so more games suits them.

Ah right. My apologies, my ageing brain is struggling to cope with teams trying to win to stay in our league and others trying to win to get out. Mind you I’m not too fond of the Excelsiordome or whatever it’s called these days. Apart from losing a cup final there and suffering a record defeat, it’s soulless, out of town and far too big due to the 10000 seats.

Correct choice I think, 3 red cards and 5 goals, played like a proper cup tie. Had the odd glimpse of the Partick game but it seemed like they had burned themselves out against Ayr and Brian Graham going from hero to zero. Better watching wee Dick swearing at the ref. I’ll reserve judgement on Healy as I’ve seen his name come up for a few years but he seems to be used a lot as a sub. The other flair player Laaref didn’t impress me all that much, plenty skill but not a great contribution. Looking forward to the second leg as it’s wide open. The Fifers have a load of experience from players we know well - Trouten, McKenna and Austin, and the two ancient centre backs Munro and Easton. The left back is Reis Peggie who by coincidence spent a year at my local team, Bonnyrigg, but was lured back over the Forth by wee Dick. I still feel Annan will prevail…

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