Scarlet Pimple

WELL, TERRY IS CERTAINLY SHOWING HIS EXPERIENCE AND INSTILLING THE TEAM WITH HIS PASSION. AUGURS WELL FOR THIS SEASON'S FUTURE.

OnspeeD??????? What is that? pmf--yES! i AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HIGHLIGHTS AGAIN. wHAT A VIDEO PRESENTATION FOR US , EH?

How is Gillet playing?

Probably not broadcast to overseas though.

Rampant! Good start to my Sunday! RAMPANT.

Smee--the same as last season...chat room like a morgue. Strange Some of the patter in former chat rooms have been fast and furious.

On BBC Open All Mikes and getting it loud and clear. I did try all the links online for MFR but noth g wouldopen so ...back to the BEEB. Thanks for all your help,everybody, What a great site this is and great people. Scar

Just noticed your link Scotty. I am on it!

Old Caley Girl Can you give me the url for MFR--I typed in www.murrayfirthradio.co.uk and got a message saying thet did not exisyt. Oh my!! Thanks. Scarlet

I am listening to nothing here in Western Canada at 7.10 a.m. on Sunday. I cannot see any way to access any radio or video so am stumped. I did expect to find some links on this topic to something (didn't that userd to be called "thread"--why change it?)so I guess I will try the BBC Sports. Problem there is they don't allow access from foreign legion bases to their jealously-guarded external broadcasting airwaves. Hmmmmm-what if I try my old crystal wireless from 1940--do you think I will be able to pick up something on short wave? By the by, Hilversum is not in Holland but close to New York. Amazing what you learn every day with an ear to the ground and getting the vibes from the tom-toms of the local Indian Band, the Squamish Nation.

:tongue:Ach, youse is only a wee whippersnapper onyhoo!

Davie--Please don't forget to give me a positive reputation + the next time. I hear Scotty is thinking about sending out a fiver per point. You are a perspicacious lad aren't you.Pleasantly-speaking, that is .

To those of us who don't know what "pejorative" means could you explain it to me please? And, no, I am not prejudiced, perverted or pencil-thin; just a predatorial pensioner who has a peccadillo for purposeful people, parturient young mothers and posting parquinade-type lampoons on here. Paradoxically,after reading some posts in this column I enter a state of paresis quite often and at times like that I always resort to my old favorite relaxant, pareira, to placate my HBP and parasympathetic parts. Thus avoiding the need to posture to attract attention especially when there is a paucity of fans on here. Got to go--pp calls!

Good post Dead Ball Specialist--not for the first time I may say.

If Jonny keeps it up fer 90 minutes do you think he will be o Vinegaragra?

Can someone please tell us overseas guys how many fans were at the match? :_talktalktalk: I have looked everywhere for this without result.

IS THAT YOU IHE? GOODNBESS GRACIOUS! WHAT A SIGHTfor sore eyes. :_shady:

Could he take a leaf out of Craig Brewster's fitness approach I wonder? There is no doubt that he DID seem to get them fit enough to still have plenty of running in them after 90 minutes. Were Celtic THAT much fitter than Caley Thistle or was it just that they had more overall classy players?

Somewhaytoverrated I feel. The transfer fee sets the bar so high now that even mediocre players will now think thatthey are bright stars worth much more than they really are. Lennon is scarting around looking for a replacement? If he thinks McGeady is the height of the Bees' Knees, wait till you see his face looking at Jonny on Saturday as he tears the Celtic defence apart. :_sleep:

Strained or pulled knee ligaments are notorious for giving future problems. My injury to my left knee , skiing 28 years ago, still occasionally gives me "Gip" , especially if I put too much pressure on it on the bike. I just rest it a bit, massage it with my fingers and get right back on the bike but I take it easy.Usually, in a day or so, it's back to as normal as I will ever have it. I did have arthroscopic surgery but all that did was suck out the torn ligament debris but it was very effective at reducing the inflammation and pain and within a week of that minor limping for 2 years. Ligaments do not have their own blood supply so they get their nourishment from absorbing nutrients by a process of osmosis from surrounding tissue. And that is another reason why healing can be so slow. But with all the assistance that he will have at the club no doubt he will be back again shortly.M aybe the minor surgery referred to was arthroscopic.

So there you are RIG--remember the overseas fans. Ta buckets.

DMacca--yes the world runs on money, but not exclusively, and at ICT this is not necessarily entirely true either. No matter how selfless and spiritual you may be about the club the blunt facts are that you can't run it or survive in any meaningful way money. Money , anyway, is merely a way of exchanging energy isn't it. Terry signed on for the duration of the SFL and beyond and stayed the course. Forget whatever other self-interest reasons he may have had do this because he has imbued the club/ players with spirit and has set a passionate example of dedication and commitment to all associated twith him and Maurice (as a team). Buit he and Maurice have been a potent force since they came and deserve priase on all levels of emotion and directgion. IHE You use the word "muppetry " so often and in such a negative way towards management that it seems to have lost all meaning. Maybe you feel it means puppetry but, if so, who is pulling the strings and does it matter? What is more important is the spirit within the club and the progress it has made and will continue to make as we all go forward, fans included. Even if they did make mistakes, nobody is perfect and one learns more from mistakes than one does from listening to other people's advice (or criticism) because generally one is rarely ever willing to take it and so one learns the hard way, anyway. So why live so entrenched in the past? Change is taking place every day and in all ways and, if the club is to move forward in a positive way, the management has to be given their place and due for keeping the club afloat.Remember the old saying .."there but for the grace of God go I." To be able to make a financial plan work that involved difficult cuts in staff and expenses to achieve a million pound reduction takes skill and courage, not only mental but emotional, and frankly I think it is an exceptional achievement and I will bet that several of the upper management team lost more than a few hours sleep over it before it came to fruition.. In short, the management has worked closely with the football team Manager and the players and wrestled with the financial challenges to bring the club out of darkness into light. Long may it continue to be so good. The Scottish Football authorities certainly have a major responsibility to address this relegation financial morass and their talk about instituting SPL 2 should be backed and implemented without further delay , provided, IMHO that money should be equally distributed to every team in both tiers to level the playing field. Parachute payments are a great idea also and maybe a similar type of payment should be made to the team who is promoted to assist them to spend the money that needs to be found to cover the higher costs involved --again to ensure that the transition from one league to another is as financially seamless as possible and to fair . The new S.F.A. appointee from the Yorkshire Cricket Association, hired to make necessary changes within the structure of Scottish Footbal, and who can talk up a good storm, may be part of the solution. Clearly it can't come quick enough.

"A" for effort, Libero.Excellent. :_thumbup: I am getting the impression that our defence is shaping up into quite a potent solid unit. Is this correct? With a solid defence the front players can start getting forward to create chances. So I am more confident now about our prospects. Looks like the spirit is there, thank goodness. VITAL to success. Terry says there is vitality in the team this season when there was not last season. I think he means "at the beginning of last season", does he not?

He was the captain of that great war vessel..HMS Sneck.Still in dry dock from the doughty fights that it had engaged in a few seasons ago. Probably will re-appear soon..I hope. Never laughed so much in my life at the time it was brought onto the scene. So we can overlook some of his faults in the interests of solidarity. He's an irreverend handful, so he is. :_doh:

Wanderer You have just added fule to the fire..... :_shocked2: