Scarlet Pimple

Crown Jaggie you ARE talented ....but how do you listen to "no sound"?

What is the email address of the Sportsound site and I will send them a message. Anyone know? Thanks

So there is nothing wrong with my compouter you think? Fer heaven's sake!!!!!

I can't get Open All Mics torun. It opens on the page and I am looking at the arrows going round and round but no sound. Anybody else see the same thing?

I agree that much of the banter of years ago has gone the way of the DODO. But that is all IHE's fault 'cos he built the HMS Sneck to ride the waves vaingloriously and after only one season on the high seas he allowed it to start rotting in dry dock and the valient crew scattered to the four winds whilst (word has it) he lay in the scuppers overcome by the constant fumes of Johnny Walker, Johhny Haig and Johnny Come Lightly. Now the doughty crew members could not be found and most have signed on with very adversarial pirate vessels which are amassing a fortune. When , oh when, will the valiant Captain IHE come back to rescue his ship from the knackers yard to once again delight the cheering supporters and restart the surge of enthuiasm that used to engulf and inspire all Caley Thistle hearts. Meanwhile back at the Canadian Ranch I wish to opine that the suggestion that heads up this thread is a load of wishful baloney and , furthermore, will never come to fruity tition.

A win today against Aberdeen will be massive and set the tone for the rest of the campaign.

IHE -- I just loooove your summaries. I canna see the highlights' until they are posted on the main site 'cos the BBC will not send them out to me 'cos they think I am going to sell them all over North America. Just shows what they know with all their technical expertise....eh? But IHE, sometimes you surprise me with your wizardry of the pen. Brilliant descriptive, flowing, lyrical, splendiferous, precise, domineering, dynamic, detailed, sober and palpitating passages. Fair makes my day , so it does. Keep up the good work, Itchy, and can you PM me and tell me whether I am now back in your good books?

1 point per game is it not? then the team can cut loose with all their firepower and decimate all-comers, home or away.

Crown Jaggie The volume problem IS withnthe link. I went back toopen all mikes and it is fine.

St Mirren 1 Caley Thistle 2. Ulp.

Crown jaggie==yes my commentary volume is low too. I have just been into the Sounds/audio to see if the controls need adjusting. It's better now. Hmmmm

Crown Jaggie. Click on the Open All Mics from the main thread. This will open the actual Open All Mikes commentary player . Look to the right of that and you will see a few links. I spotted thelink for the commentary on this match alone--St Mirren V Invern right there. Hey Presto. Hope this helps. Scarlet

Eric's control when approaching the goal at speed is ...AWESOME.

Listenig to the commentary from St Mirren Park. Hopeful==now they have to step up the pace.

C'mon Mannie--the CIS cup involves professional people, players and so forth.Not playboys. No doubt you would categorise Mr Butcher's decision to play a depleted team as a "professional decision" in the same way as a deliberate take-down, often brutal, in the box, is described by those who know about these things as a "professional foul".Which is another way of saying a cynical, cheating act designed solely to gain an unfair advantage by robbing an opposing player of a fair chance to score; and who cares if he gets injured or not. For me, an old fashioned, aging, footie- watcher since before you were even born I do not like "professional" anything in footie if it means that kind of thing becauseit is rather prevalent nowadays isn't it? It kind of goes along with much of the over -permissivness we see all arond us these days--like the gang rape in my next door village of Pitt Meadows here in Maple Ridge, Canada of a 16-year old girl which has also been splashed all over the Internet to such an extent that you would have to be on hoiday on the moon NOT to have seen or heard about it. Just because you disgagree with my sentiments about pride and such, and seem to think that being in the top league is the greatest thing since sliced bread, there is no requirement upon you to be patronising . Also, does that mean that you don't have too many scruples or very little real pride in the team--for you is it all just about glory? And is the achievement of filling the club's pockets with money the most important thing of all? Frankly, it does not seem to have brought unabounding happiness to this club since they first entered the "big league" . Many fans even say that last season for them was one of the best ever....so, how about you? Did you revel in the Niculae fiasco, the Brewster fiasco and the relegation shattering end to the season before last. I was not aware that either Niculae or Brewster was a bad person and despised as human beings.The reason for the agony that surrounded these two persons was because of their presence at the team which happened to be in the SPL. Had it been elsewhere their impact may very well not have been noticed to nearly the same extent and not cast a long shadow either. Once you start allowing this "professional" crap to enter into the equation then you are allowing precepts of true value to start slipping and that is as dangerous a precedent as sending boys to do a man's job in a situation where they end up getting thrashed to bits. For some of them who were not quite ready for that burning fire perhaps they didn't learn a great deal from it except how to hurt like hell in the sole interests of allowing a n ambitious Manager to pursue his "professional " dictates.

Kirishma is entitled to his opinion but, frankly speaking,it was HILARIOUS! I just hope Lionel is not reading this since we do all seem to have a really soft spot for A Great Guy!

For the Manager to play the strongest team at all times and in all matches to show respect to the opposition and to ensure that the team has the best chance to win all games. For the players in the team to do their best to win fairly. For the team to play the fastest and most attractive football that they possibly can in the process; bearing in mind that this is all about entertainment, not the survival of the club in the SPL. If all of the above is in place then at the end of the season the fan will have received best value for money and should be satisfied with the end result.

Manfer I will never admit to you that I have trembles under my desk. You would insist on asking why! For me it is NOT about the result. If Caley Thistle had put out the strongest team they had, at the final whistle I would have said "All right, they did their best but were soundly beaten by a better team on the day. No regrets, no criticisms.Just another bad day at the office. But this was a brutal thrashing because the fantasy scenario I just described never happened--and we will never know what might have happened otherwise. It's about pride. It is not about winning a league game. And Terry just showed us that money for the club (by being higher than last place at the end of the season and staying up) is more important than pride in the club and it's reputation. And all this stuff about the cup being of no value--that is just hypocrisy. If ICT had beaten Celtic and gone on to a glorious final would the people on here, who are simply in self denial, be singing the same tune. Or, to put it more bluntly, if that is possible, Terry chickened out and acted cynically. I like Terry for many reasons but this I do not like . Lastly, by his action he also is saying that he probably does not have faith in the assembly of players that he already has and fears the worst, despite the fact that there are scads of games still to play. I sense his nervousness. Well, if that is so, then let's all give up now before our hearts are broken again by INEVITABLE relegation. And next time we play Celtic or Rangers let's all shout from the rooftops as the opposition comes out of the tunnel just before kick-off..."After you Claude, allow us to kiss your feet so that you don't give us a real doing today". PRIDE!

Since Terry's "full-y fi" team has yet to gel and have a good run together we can't really say that he needs to panic and have another wholesale transfer-in of new players. However, there is evidence enough that certain players no longer can cut it or just don't have SPL STATUS yet tattooeed on their foreheads so he had better keep a good eye trained on possible prospects because another debacle like this will sour up the punters good style. I remain convinced that this defeat will not have the desired "rebound" effect being a players' resolve to demolish St Mirren. If anything , I think it will be the opposite and the team may well continue to struggle due to indecisiveness and lack of confidence. Of course, we all hope that that is not in fact what will happen. So, what then? Frankly, if no more money is available to bring in rock-solid and experienced defenders then all I can say is "What then?".

Very dangerous to play a weakened team against a top team like Cletic. Upside (supposedly) is that no player of real importance gets injured. But that feeling has to be weighed in the context of the fact that the Cup comes around only once a year whereas there is a long, long way to go in the league with many more games to play. The downside is that a heavy defeat can look bad in the record book. Secondly, the fans who actually made the trip to Parkhead deserved better than this.and, as someone has already pointed out , a full strength team COULD possibly have had a great result. Thirdly, the fans who stayed at home, for whatever reason,and support the club have a right to expect the team to perform as well as the reputation of the club demands. Fourthly, the morale of the club , and the players, might easily take a nosedive which could have the add-on effect of a severe loss of confidence in the players participating in the immediately-succeeding matches . Which is counter to whatever effect the suggested losses from injuries referred to in the "Upside" above could be. The reputation of the club could suffer and the action of fielding a weakened team could be viewed by a team like Celtic as somewhat insulting, and hand them a reason to run up a cricket score.If Celtic, or any other "big" team, realises that they are going to win and they have respect for the opposition then they may be less likely also to ease off and not slaughter ICT. In this case I don'tthink that Neil Lennon cared a whit what happened to ICT which is not good.A high score for them will also add to their confience and make it MORE difficult for teams to compete against themeffectivelyand, like it or not, the SPL needs both Rangers and Celtic. All in all , maybe I don't have a right to express too forcibly an opinion since I never get a chance to get to Tulloch Stadium because I live in Western Canada, but what I can say is that this result today leaves me more than a bit disgruntled ansd sick and I have a bad tyaste in my mouth that it was not a very courageous thing to do not to filed the very strongest team that the club could . Opinions requested though. :annoyed:

Go to the BBC website and "OPEN ALL MIKES" !

Based on all the comments Celtic will be likely to serve out a thrashing then?

I love Terry's spirit and enthusiasm. Truly the kind of positivity the club needs after the Niculae problem etc. I am not yet sure that he has the shrewdest football brain in the SPL but we really have to wait until all the injuries are cleared u and the team rebounds to some sort of normalcy and then we can judge him on his results and so on coming out of a definite settled formation.

Now, in Vancouver, Canada, 3D is about to become all the rage? Go figure!!!!!!