Scarlet Pimple

Scotty I was impressed with Toronto F.C. the last time I was able to se them on TV. They are not short on determination and effort but I think that ICT would be too much for them in the pace department and slick passing for which they are rightly famous since time began. In short , more professional......IMHO of course :003: I was happy and a little surprised to see the name of Buckett appear out of the blue once again. How are you my man? And have you relocated recently? And ..well.. er...slightly controversial as ever..... :022:

TMFTJ--where exactly is the link to Blackie's goal. Have searched everywhere on the site/ Road map please. THX :004:

I am sure that Brew will appreciate the more positive thoughts expressed on here today. He certainly did not have his worries to seek over the past few weeks and to tell you the truth, maa'm, I feel a wee bit sorry for him and a wee bittie guilty for having passed the odd mild snide comment such as those about his hesitant style on the audio bites. Today's audio effort was much more crisp and self-confident so congrats Mr Brewster. Cheers :002:

Splitting hairs. Reading this thread was like contemplating the action of Marius in shaking the ref's hand.Was it time wasting or was it time wasting? Now Scotty I would like to ask you whether you think that ICT would really show-up Toronto if they came to your city to play your home team or would Toronto hold their own. For example, and to put it another way, would the fitness of ICT,enabling them to run for ninety minutes ,be too much for the MLS teams to cope with? Could David Beckham cope with Caley thistle? Now there's a thought? :001:

And Sophia is about to form a ......Steering Committee ..... to...channel....her considerable energies into ...uncharted....waters in order to get the ....Ratings...... to roar and soar to get Inverness' HMS Sneck all ship shape and Bristol fashion under the admirable and incomparable Admiral IHE, OBE, DFC, and...and.... :004: :sillywave:

OOOOH---- didn't they do well! :022:

Mr Wanderlust, i'faith. I wonder if he has the temperament to be a really stable top team Manager? :027:

And what does a contractual obligation matter when lots of money are involved? Might as well not have signed the piece of toilet paper in the first place. The Scottish F.A got one million pounds in compensation apparently. For a team not doing too well money appears to be no object. I hear that at some parks you have to pay thirty five quid to get in in the English Premier League... :029:

Interesting. :004:

Robbo--you mean John Robertson? If so, would he entertain the thought of taking a post lower than that of Manager? And if he did, and IF Brew did eventually leave , would you be happy with Robbo as a future Manager? Because if so what do you think he may have learned from his forays into other jobs since he left ICT? ; and also if Robbo is hired would this signal that Management has him in mind as an insurancev policy in case Brew has to ultimately be made the Fall Guy? It's sad really that faith, hope and charity appears to be so low in the minds of most fans on here towards the club in general that they immediately discount what Mr Park has said about his reasons for leaving. These reasons must surely be substantially true but one does wonder why, since he has been in Inverness for so long, why he he did not move his family up here long before now--that's the thing that gives a ring of truth to what Caley D says in my view.

I don't think Billy Davies would fit in. He has just resigned due to his basic refusal to toe the party line ..very similar situation to the Ross County one--he favoured dullish defensive football to try to save his team from relegation but the Chairman wanted devil-may-care football to go down "with all guns blazing'. After listening to his interview I fear he may be too strong for Brew to stomach and , forby, his wages would be too high for ICT --I mean an English Premiership team for ICT at SPL wages? Probably not. But he can talk more eloquently than Brew so .......? :023:

And I thought that the originqal set of posts primarily referred to booing Rory in the warmup which is disgraceful imho. If you want to use the money excuse so be it but booing a player after he starts on the pitch is bad manners and counterproductive. And it is very unlikely to galvanise him into playing much better unless he is so resentful and angered by it (unfair booing) that he runs amok. On balance surely you understand that encouragement is much more effective...like the lazy employee that I once had in my business who told me , after I fired him accompanied by a couple of choice words, "you will get more with honey than vinegar, sniff". To which I replied..." there are few bees in this office but this one has just stung you. there's the door, please close it on the way out". :014:

Mr Brewster is trying anyway; and he could make a difference eventually. Right at this point in time though I remain unconvinced that he will make a top-class Manager in the short term. :022:

In one of the matches today one of the teams got a penalty today and the taker blew it yards over the bar! Is it that hard to keep the ball low? Just seems much easier to keep it down and under control...? :014:

PS Essholes! SP. :018:

SP tries to keep a calm sough (Charles--did I spell that richt?) and a twinkle in his periwinkle at most times but booing Rory really gets my goat and it is quite pathetic. I'll bet he always shows up at training on time, works hard and tries his best . And since he is a very tall young man I am sure it is not easy for him to get into a very speedy momentum at the drop of a hat. If this misguided lot of probably young so-called fans want to boo anyone then target the Manager who selects him with emails instead and express your opinion that way but get some sense and let Rory develop at his own pace. What a no-brainer..pshaw! :029:

"Marius put in a power of work today"..well that is nice to hear I must say and a blessed change from some of the sniping that has been directed at his performances of late. If he is working his butt off what more can you expect from a player?--so he hasn't scored a lot but he IS making a significant contribution. You know something, if Marius agreed suddenly out of the blue to reduce his overall pay to that of the other players I think the carpers would shut up overnight. But he is there regardless of all the girny negative chit chat and he is going to stay there so I suggest we accept the siuation & start to say really positive things about him and the team as a whole from now on. If not this season could be a roller coaster and ultimately very depessing. And don't you think that it is about time that we had a bit of luck and ICT got a few breaks for a change? So savour this match, possibly, as just that --a bit of a break with quite a few positives in it. :021:

With fans like that who needs enemies....eh? :33:

Brewster appears to favour what someone referred-to as 'hard craft" presumably meaning a "hard grafter". So does that then mean that Brewster wants to see players running themselves ragged rather than being slick and playing pretty, classy, football.? Ross County have sacked an apparently very experienced , and successful, coach in **** Campbell because his footy was not sufficiently classy for the standards that Management thought was up to that expected of Ross County and Mr C replies by saying that if Ross County think that they are going places at the level they are playing at with the complement of players that they have at present without playing stuffy defensive football, then they are more or less living in dream land. Ergo, so what is CB up to? Our defence is suspect and badly needs shoring up and the talent in midfield and at forward is not doing the business (i.e scoring goals). And if he is selling Rankin to get money back to splash on a better defender then why is he spending money on bringing in his former buddy as fitness coach--I thought he was controlling the fitness regimes of the players himself as formerly? Is that not one of the reasons Management at ICT brought him in, pray? So do we now have one or two too many Indians (midfield) and also maybe too many chiefs? I am mystified ... And now my smileys won't work grrrr! Comment?

Rankin could be short for RankBajin. RankBajin was a Wild West comic strip character with a shaggy hairstyle like a lion.The comic strip appeared either in the Beano, the Dandy, the Boys Own or the local rag and was eagerly sought-after by me in my early teens. In my late teens I played it cool playing down the eager bit, but took many a surreptitious look to ensure that he was still around. His sidekick was Shuggy who was a wizened grizzled veteran of many adventures, smoked a long Indian pipe (I'm embellishing here for effect), carried a Bowie knife in his tatty buckskins and ran a lot after his hoss died of exhaustion and chronic inflammation of his spur scars. Rank also had a wispy moustache and a wrap around beard, a large ragged stetson and a brace of pistols strapped to his withers which he was wont to draw frequently. When the sheriff ordered him to put his hands up he shouted "I won't, I won't" and then either galloped off or shot it out . His horse was wide-eyed and equally scruffy and had feet like an elephant with decimated legs and ran very fast. Tall Cacti and mesas, and lots of sand often featured in the scenario. RankBajin always appeared in black and was, appropriately, evil-looking up to no good all the time and always had an ace up his sleeves when the posse was after him. I hope and pray that some poster on here can confirm my memories of this fella because if not, then I am well and truly over the hill. I am sure that Jock Watt will remember him fondly. But I hope he doesn't shout at me since I am not yet completely deaf and I really do have the need to feel needed and wanted these days. :crazy07: But Rank was never reported to have kicked a ball so maybe he is just a figleaf of my recollection and will simply resemble John in his golden years. :015:

:015: Er--whatever happened to Brian Grant--seems to have been a very good player?

Johnboy--did you know you have a much greater appeal when you are amusing than when you are overly critical and girny? No? Well you do now!! IHE if you get any more amusing we will have to walk down the aisle together arm in arm and when we get to the altar and the ministerial ref asks us what we want we both reply in unison...... Marius please It's O.K. Johnboy maybe that's just a tad too subtle fer yese......eh?

Report as promised :- www.jalipo.com :--- Good video with excellent close-ups. The sound is a bit light but quite adequate. I had four dropped feeds ranging from 30 seconds to 3 minutes each and that irritated me no end since one occurred right when there was an exciting incident in the goalmouth--Fraser had an excellent save but I missed the next few incidents. However, all round , taking into account that this is a Beta programme (I think this means in this case that it is a new service which stilll on trial)I was well pleased with the overall cost to me being about $5 for two hours and I don't think you can beat that. I enjoyed the match but the camera showed a close-up of the Hutton foul at the end of the match just before Italy scored and it was ludicrous to award it to the Italian. Maybe a stot-up would have been fair but NEVER decision in f/o the Italian team. :33:

Reddy aye reddy, Sophia. I think I would make a good Santa without a uniform ....eh? Tell me your age and I will reveal all.. :016:

Agreed--should be dealt with harshly That link leads you to UTube where you will see adjacent to it another (or 7) about the Polish man who was Tasered to death at Vancouver Airport a couple of days ago. He had come to Vancouver to live with his mother, did not speak English, was put in a security area alone as far as we can see for 8-10 hours, became disturbed, excited, fearful, angry,lost it ,threw chairs and the cops came in to get him with a plan already agreed to taser him. They hit him once with 50,000 volts , he writhed screamed and started to fall, hit him again with another 50,000 volts, he fell to the ground as they hit him again and he again writhed on the floor until some nutter cop knelt on his neck. The news today is that maybe that was what killed him. One of the most disgusting police situations I have ever seen. It's the talk of the town, none of it in favour of the police. The furore is all over the Canadian Media, heads will roll and we are all lucky that Mr Pritchard had taken a video which he managed to get back from the police who tried to refuse to return it etec. Sorry ,Scotty, off topic but the link was there and this has to be seen to be believed. Personally speaking my wife and I think it was premeditated manslaughter and no one can believe tyhat Vancouver RCMP could be so utterly inept and stupid. :008: