Scarlet Pimple

Och! Happens occasionally in ice hockey too. It's quick though....."now you see the tooth, now you don't." Then the guy is picking it up from the ice. Have you even wondered whether they can, in some way, put it back n again? They probably take a cast of the tooth and then prepare and insert the resutant plastic tooth directly into the bone. The hockey players are earning so much money that to them it is like half-an hour's work.I was speaking to an ex-Edmonton Oiler's player yesterday who said that in nhis day the p[layers got paid about $180,000 per season bt now the minimum is about $1,000,000 and thta is considered chump change by the players, My wife has had two done and we had to rally the family round to all club in to pay for it. At $3,000 per tooth, that's 2,000 pounds chums,it's a real shock to the system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16305945.stm Here is the link to the article in which the Brighton Manager , Poyet, complains that he is not allowed to criticise referees or any decision by the English Football authorities. Says if he does he will be fined and they are trying to shut his mouth.He says that their system is so undemocratic that they will fine hi=m to death until he vecomes a roboit and not a human being . "All I am doing." He goes on "Is try to make the game and societal conditions fair and humani.e. not put people down for the sake of it. Shades of the experiences that Terry Butcher has had in Scotland...eh?

As usual not allowed to hear any radio feeds here in Canada. But, Phew! What a great 3 points. This game started at 4.30 am in Vancouver so the first thing I did when I got up at 7.30a.m. was to mosey over to the computer to check this result. Hope and pray that we win again on Wednesday. Every time we win, the confidence increases so.... Have a great Christmas, one and all.

Dentistry? You mean he smiled a lot at his mates?

Manfer a green dot for your good post. I think you got two as I sneezed. It's the old story--don't let up just because you get a good spell of pressure going. Keep working.

Well, looks like we've got the players.To have matched the Rangers with all their money backing the team and reports suggesting we were all over them in periods, is phenomenal after the slagging this team has had of late. Results just not going our way and inconsistencies in the past weeks have dogged us. Penalties at Ibrox? --No chance. Rangers or Celtic must always win the league in the eyes of the current crop of football officials--for the good of the league, of course. How can ICT compete in terms of importance with an average gate of just over 3,000 hardy supporters when the crowd at Ibrox today was 43,000? It's truly astonishing isn't it that so many Glasgow fans turned up to see the "lowly" and "unfortunate" current ICT team? We must be doing something right to deserve such recognition.Maybe it's a pity that the Scottish fans are not running the show as opposed to the set-up we currently have in Glasgow. I have always been opposed to penalties on principal anyway. With a foul given inside the box and being so near the goal surely being penalty enough for the defending team, why give a free and unopposed shot? The chances of the attacking team scoring is very high with a penalty but not quite so high,but still very advantageous, with a simple foul. So near and yet so far.....

Unless Vlad the Lad is about to go bankrupt the League /SFA is probably very reluctant to get involved since Hearts are a private business (I assume). I wonder if this is an unheard of situation in Scottish football over the past many years? Pretty digraceful though.

:rotflmao: If you have been a regular viewer on here, Rossco, you should know better than to ask questions like that. It's like saying to a woman who has undergone lip enhancement ..."Why did you do that?" to which she replies ..."Because I wanted to, I could and it stops the ends of lips from fraying".

Shocking injury. Major surgery will work for him with good luck and good fortune. Chris will be back but it will take time and patience and hard work. Heartfelt feelings after reading his blog. Very best of luck to him now. Scarlet

Maybe some of the chickens that were released before the season started are now coming home to roost. e.g. Gutting the team and removing virtually all of the steadying older team members to replace them with individually talented, but very young and inexperienced, ones is not going to succeed and never was likely to. Either that or this is turning out to be our one-season-in-a-decade-nightmare where everything goes wrong and nothing that is done to remedy matters solves the challenges. But if the team makeup was not fragile and backed up by experience would that happen? Unfortunately, it is also true that a good team makes it's own luck, and overcomes adversity more readily, How? By digging deeper.

Yes Lennon was trying to hide his feelings but I think he was down. I also have a suspicion that he thought that it was going to be easier against Caley than it turned out. That goal from Hayes must have sickened him. Not only was it a winner but it was ferocious strike and unstoppable really.And it was then he knew he was in a game . Wow!

Terry calls it lack of desire. When I was looking at the highlights of Hearts game I had the feeling there was a lack of urgency about the individual players and a lack of real spirit and enthusiam. These highlights are only a small slice of the ebb and flow of the game and you really can't judge the whole match on the highlights but, whatever you call it, it boils down to passion for goals and a passion for the club. When Dodds was centre half it was there. So ?

Capital Caley I found your post interesting. Yes, the team may settle down nicely as the younger players come good as the season p[rogresses. However, if the likes of Meekings and Tansey and so on return to England as a result of being spotted for their innate talented showings, what then? Back to dip into the loanee tub is it? That will not build a team for the future.

It's my opinion that if he transfers Tokely the psychological effect will virtually assure the relegation of the team.

Anyway The BBC text says GHerats have had 6 attempts on target and ICT zero. Sigh. C'mon boys.

Whew! So glad it wasn't his fingernails then?

I think that there may be more to this than meets the eye. I think thnat the SFA are a bit ashamed at the crap decisions that ICT have had thrown against them in the recent past and I think that ...maybe.. a wee word in Mr Reilly's ear was made too.I also think that the papers weighing in on the controversy has affected their judgement of this issue. The two crap decisions --the Tokely incident versus Rangers and this one versus Celtic have affected the whole season for our club. From all accounts ICtT were playing so well before the debacles occurred that they conceivably could have won both games. And the effect of that could easily have been that they could have gained such a lift in spirit from the two wins that they might have won all subsequent games too. So,frankly, I have little sympathy for the Beaks OR Mr Reilly. The system is weighted against teams like ICT and the more we shout this from the rooftops the better it will be for all smaller teams us against the big mis-managed money baged teams and you know to whom I am mreferrfing. Finally, thank you IHE for supporting my is done, and the Scottish Football Association finally steps into the modern era, a lot of this crap will solve itself. The sooner the better as far as I am concerned. Why are these chiefs dragging their feet on this issue? Well,it is not hard to suggest that the probable disadvantages to the big money clubs, if this neutral technology is introduced, is obvious. The reduction and or actual elimination of cheating coukld reduce their superiority on the park which must be a daunting prospect for them! Any comments or rebuttals? :annoyed:

You mean the"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" ? :biggrin:

Wanderer . Maybe we should join them. You know what they say.." If you can't beat 'em join 'em".

Renegade...who did you have in mind? My Pater, Daddy Pimpernel, is behind me all the way, by the way. And he's not an-onymous..he's an-gnome.

The pattern has emerged for the SPL.. And it is as clear as crystal. If you are playing either Rangers (remember Tokely's brilliant last ditch stop of the Rangers player, but got nailed by the ref for his legitimate effort)or Celtic, there is little chance that you will ever find a referee who is either strong enough or unbiased enough to judge the match fairly. i.e give the underdog the expectation of a completely unbiased and equal assessment throughout the match. It's a disease where money, influence and power overwhelm the referee's common sense and he has fear of reproach and pressure from powerful forces behind the scenes foremost in his mind. No wonder we are sick of it, especially when we have more then the sneaking suspicion that ICT are the target of MORE than their share of this behaviour. As has been said above, this one judgement could alter the whole season because if we had won today the whole complexion nf our attitude and the team's future progress could have been positively affected. Terry feels that it is a waste of time going down to Glasgow to appeal anything since, clearly, the Beaks have a vested interest in these two teams. A Managers' association should be formed to constantly express the protests against these outrageous decisions and to constantly put their cases in the media, rather than to this Glasgow Council of Complacent Hypcrites. Terry says if he does that then the Beaks will go after him instead of dealing with the issues themselves. So what does that cost him or the club if they do? Is it worth his time to try to do anything at all. Defeatism, like? Currently he has no other option and maybe, if his club backs him on this, then other clubs will follow suit and the trickle of discontent will become a flood? I would much prefer that he and the club use the media to highlight the issue and their plight and point out that the only future outcome of a continuance of this nonsense is the demise of the fans will not attend matches , Celtic and Rangers will go to the wall and the remaining members of the League will form a separate Alliance and pick their own committees of judgememnt. This will inflame the controversy and that is what is needed--to shame them and to shout more boldly than the Beaks and challenge them to come out in the open and answer their critics. And shout long and hard for Video replays of the incidents just like in other sports where controversies like this are immediately defused by this means and fans are both appeased and confident that the decisions made by this means ARE FAIR AND ACCURATE. This situation is a disgrace. No justice and no fairness. The Managers must coalesce into a group who constantly lambasts these Glaswegian idiots in the media and keeps their feet to the fire daily. The fans too must strengthen Terry's and the club's position by starting a campaign of support -- a petition would be good citing their 100% support of his views and attitudes. If you want change you can't sit back and do nothing. But you never know, maybe the fates of these two large Glasgow clubs is already sealed and Rangers will be the first to hit the skids owing ..what is it..49 million pounds, which is absolutely incredible. If correct, it shows that this club is staffed by Beaks who have their head in the sand, who pay huge sums of money to players who are grossly overpaid and to do this they neglect paying their bills timeously and obviously never put money aside on a monthly basis to allow them to meet known, and large, future expenses. This is not sound fiscal policy and is a recipe for disaster. The unbelievable thing here is why such businessmen think that this kind of situation can go on for ever without their having to pay a heavy price by adopting this attitude. They probably expect HM Revenue service to "settle" with them at a future date, allowing them to cut their outstanding debt substantially. Now that is a very dangerous course to follow because the Government is in no financial state to necessarily be that sympathetic and the signs are that their days could, as a result, be numbered at Rangers F.C.--unless more wealthy backers appear out of the mist,.. backers that is who have the same strange fiscal attitudes that prevail at that club. There are not too many Romanovs around and he has already tasted the fuits of disappointment by attemting to buy success. He is lucky he has deep pockets.... Good luck Terry! It seems as if it is going to continue to be an uphill battle. Stick at it.

I have a good feeling about our match against Celtic tomorrow. Tade will prove to be a handful for their defence and our players will be excited and raring to, so there may be a few surprises in this one. The goal difference for the winning team will be one goal. Enjoy! S.P.

Our worries will stop if they hire Alice Cooper (not Alex Cooper) Smile. The guy's face alone would frighten the French. Mind you the crowds may increase just to see him in a pair of white shorts an' all.

If he has done something wrong in his past career perhaps a simple apology to the Beaks would be well received.