gordyfromsneck

I would hope that Foran and Kerr stay, and think they might. Of the others, I would see Morais, Pavels and possibly Odiambo going, or at least being in demand. All three will be losses. Of the others, I cant see any going that I wold despair about.

He is certainly more than capable of articulating his words into a form that footballers can understand and relate to. It's a gift not all managers possess unfortunately... hehehe on about Brew again eh. Very brave words from Yogi, and yes he seems to be one to whom stress comes naturally. I wonder how he copes now. He used to have a bar in Easter Road iirc. Best of luck to them in the cup.

At TCS yesterday. Seems a bit daft him going all the way down South to play against us. Do you think he will be making a welcome return now that we are back at his level?

This was the topic of some conversation yesterday. When we were down against Hamilton a few weeks ago before the split, we were running the game with 10 men, and scored. Yet, yesterday, we waited until Falkirk pulled ahead, before we chose to mount a concerted attacking formation - 4 up front for the last 10 mins - and got more on target than we had in the rest of the game. Yes, the Bairns may have dropped back, but they still needed another goal t be safe. Attacking football is all about confidence, something that has been in short supply this season. Good strikers are expensive, hence there relative absence in the lower half of the SPL. Brewster's biggest error was the wholesale clearout of strikers in his early days, leaving us with Rory McAllister and Barrowload. Hopefully next season will allow Rooney, Wood, Imrie and especially Morais, if he's still here to play their own games and shine. Runaway leaders...

There has been guff about "The relegated team never comes straight back up". ICT have shown before that theyhave broken the mould, that they have done the unprecedented, and we will be the first for many years to do that. Another benefit! No Billy Dodds marking our card every week.

Another positive...we will be underdogs, so should start picking up a few SPL scalps on our cup runs. Certainly we have nothing to fear from this year's bottom 6. Europe beckons!

Cycling is by far the best way of getting to and from the park. You can fly past the crowds after the game and be sitting with your pint before the car park has even cleared. Also drink driving laws are a bit hazy for cycling ...*cue barroom lawyer* As for the bus, I suspect that it will leave about 11.45. Not much beer time then.

And doubled his weight. hahaha He was a regular in the Lemon Tree. Didn't he go to The Dons under Paterson. I hoped he would return here but it was not to be. Just learned that he was a schoolboy at Celtic, how he must have relished scoring that penalty, mind you he never missed them. Fave moment was against Killie in a cup game when we were in Div 1. Two defender came bearing down on him as he dwelt on the ball. He flicked it up, and followed it, just as the two arrived from opposite sides at the same time. They clashed heads and had to both recieve medical attention. How we laughed at the circumstances of their injury, (though not of course at the injury itself.)

A lot of good points on this thread. If the OF went, it would certainly tip the apples out of the cart in many ways. I also think the league would benefit. The OF bring money into the OF primarily, any distributed income is purely by accident as we have seen with the 5% ticket fee nonsense. I think local crowd would increase, with the chance of their team actually winning something. Wages would stabilise, and players ambitions would beceome more realistic. The national team would see very little difference, except maybe less drinking As for Glasgow, I predict that Particks support and status would swell enormously. The SPL would become more democratic and, hopefully accountable and take the SFA with it. Who knows refereeing standards might even improve! This is pure conjecture of course as it will never happen. Rangers fans blotted the copybook for both sides with the Manchester debacle. This disgusted Joe English who has not seen that kind of behaviour from football fans on British soil for a long time. As a PS isn't it great how "the OF" is seen as a monolith in business terms. They will never make a business decision independently, showing to these eyes at least, how interdependent they are, and how this talk of rivalry only goes as far as the football field. Bigotry is good for business, (another reason they are alien to the English layman), and no amount of Saturday stabbings will change that.

I did an English talk about John Rankin. I got a 2 :018: ... Your teacher was a Jambo. End of.

Great post, Kingso, but my poor old heart will be quite happy if we are well out of any relegation tussle. I will be quite thrilled if Falkirk's status depends on the game though. If it was between them and Hamilton, I would be quite happy for them to beat us.

OK, I'll make the usual comments.

I love it when the time wasting goes wrong! Doing it too early is fatal, as they found out. They will be glad of the point though. I think they will get found out in the run in, not least with their injuries and cards picked up, eventually. The most cynical team in the division, bar none.

Fair comment then. Many of the longer balls were wasted, but a few were bang on the nickel not least from Lionel, who has an eye for these things. For all we were slagging Hamilton, and rightly so, they did a damn thorough job of clearing up crap long balls and crosses. No wonder as there were about 9 of them back towards the end.

I see what you're saying Dalneigh but Hamilton have already beaten us twice this season & theyre gonna be right up for it Our team are so up & down at the mo , we could be the end of their bad run I hope i'm wrong ! ICT Hamilton Killie Smirren Falkirk They have too much to make up now!

I think we will be 8th. Why doesn't renegade start a poll?

hehehe Give him the benefit of the doubt, I would say that he tried to hit his chest but the player leaned forward a bit. Deliberate, yes, but I doubt he tried to kill him.

Problem is who will pay him the same wages that we are, will probably see out his contract Oh dear. Killie oerleap us, but I hope smirren dont. No ground gained for Falkirk must be the biggest boon to be gathered from today.

if barrowboy score the winner i take back everything i said about him!! Sounds like a rerun of last week, but without the lead. We recall how windy that was!

Injury, I'll wager. Time for a Russeldinho breakaway goal.

kick la bloody pilko for kiel malmola kiel vi povi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

The problem with the "Munro Hoof", is that quite often they will miss their intended target. This is, lets not forget, a trick he learned of his first role model, Bobby Mann. Bobby could direct them upfiled, totally changing the run of play, quite often putting them right on the toe of Barry Robson, who was the best trapper ever at ICT. Maybe the problem with the Munro Hoof is at the other end...

Yes. He drifts about, quite frequently in a dreamlike state. Watch him. He will start of in one direction, then turn, sometimes as much as 90 degrees, and run the other way, FOR NO APPARENT REASON. He is not being marked, the play is at the other end, he is not going into space... It is like he is playing his natural Div2 game and a couple of seconds later, remembers something that big English chap in the dressing room said. He has not improved and I doubt he will. Prove me wrong why dontcha.

Yes, a cracker. All volleys, worthy of Brazil at their best. The second had a hint of the Wyness how he managed to find a gap by bending it round two defenders and into a letterbox in the corner of the goal. Morais must start!

That'll be me then. I will mend my wicked ways.