Bramble 5

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Two of us here. Anything to avoid the car crawl home.

Any information about departure point for the Culloden/Smithton bus? Ta.

Enjoyed the day and the posession football, but we need a main striker for Billy to play off. David Raven and Shinnie were great, but need more up front.

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts 1. Celtic 14 7 4 3 24 13 25 2. Inverness CT 16 6 7 3 31 28 25 3. Hibernian 15 7 3 5 26 21 24 4. Aberdeen 16 6 6 4 22 17 24 5. Motherwell 16 6 6 4 24 20 24 6. St Johnstone 15 6 5 4 19 19 23 7. Dundee Utd 15 5 5 5 19 20 20 8. Kilmarnock 15 5 4 6 23 20 19 9. Hearts 15 4 6 5 14 14 18 10. Ross County 16 3 8 5 17 22 17 11. St Mirren 16 4 4 8 20 28 16 12. Dundee 15 3 2 10 10 27 11

My throat hurts from the shouting, but hardly anyone does. Please make some noise. Shane can be such a good player on his day, but is looking lost to often, and doesnt seem to know whether to be wide, forward, back, and looks frightened to make his own decisions. Find a front role for him and build his confidence. We need him. OTJ was IMHO man of the match up till the head butt. Does he not know you can end up in the Bar L for that up in SPL? We will certainly miss him, and need Foran to to cover his match bans. Ryan Esson is MAGNIFICENT. What a double penalty save. Nick Ross looked the part when he came on, and David Raven could turn into Terry if he gets a head knock every home game. Looked solid. Most of the team in fact were a joy to watch at the start of the game, and if we can cut out the unforced errors when passing by doing the simple stuff and not the world cup pass, then it could be a good season. Should have been ahead early on though.

Can't travel down this weekend, but had been hoping to be there. No trouble the last time we [family] went to Ibrox [iCT won again!], but we did take off our scarves before joining the long subway queue just in case. The best one was after a midweek cup game at Parkhead [iCT narrowly lost] and afterwards 2 Glasgow polis motor cycle cops escorted our supporter buses up to the motorway, clearing the traffic along the way, and then at the last traffic lights, got off their bikes and saluted us as we passed. Soooperb feeling!! [Probably Highland bobbies, but even so.]

We have to start playing either Rooney or Barrowman up front regularly with Foran. I don't rate either of them, but who else is there? Give one of them a run in the team and play Sanchez from midfield. No point in having Duncan in the team if he keeps missing our players with his passes [by a mile!]. Give young Ross a chance for a few weeks. Good to see Tokely and Imrie back but please, to the midfield, just get the basics right first and stop trying those pretendy match winning threaded balls which never come off. You cannot do them, so don't try. In the transfer window, see if Bayne is available!!

Yes! Excellent. Able to talk to Maurice Malpas in the managers' room and ask about the management ideas for players and positions for this year. Much better than trying to find little bits of info in the papers. Well done to all. spo what did he say? Talking about how good Robert Eagle will be when/if he signs, and how Danny Sanchez would add much needed width to the team, but see if he is tough enough for the Scottish game. I was mainly asking about Ross Tokley and where they would play him, and where Proctor would fit into the plans. Seems Tokley [when he is eventually available] is likely to stay in Centre defence with only the occasional right back role depending on injuries/ form of others, and that with the smaller squaud we could see players used in different positions to what has happened in the past. Proctor would be right back, but also likely to be used to cover other positions. Just good to get the opportunity to talk to folk at the club again, especially after the way fans appeared to be treated in the early part of last season, when enquiries were ignored. Look forward to more events like Friday.

Yes! Excellent. Able to talk to Maurice Malpas in the managers' room and ask about the management ideas for players and positions for this year. Much better than trying to find little bits of info in the papers. Well done to all.

[Try Again!] The first time we played his old team, he spent what time should have been used for our warm up, just waving at the opposition players. Only one {Klos] shook his hand. Told you everything from the start.

Bring Barry Wilson back now as manager, with some experience beside him. How about .................. Charlie Christie, with no interference from 'upstairs'.

Brewster will make a good Number Two [well named!] one day, but he has much to learn as a manager. Please, no more at our expense. Fitness...Yes. Man management... No. Tacticts and timing of subs ............Grrrrrr!!

Ta P...I...G!

Also, thanks for the link. Since I will be at the game, could someone who is watching Setanta on Sunday give some kind of short summary of Charlie's thoughts on the game and post them on here. That could be interesting.