Scarlet Pimple

Option 3 --only positive posts. This excludes those who for some reason or another have a compulsive desire to put down other peoples' thoughts. Forces, as a replacement, that they type their thoughts up front and allows the other online posters to decide to answer or not. i.e then we have a real debate in full view and not hidden nastiness like red dotting everything that you dislike, or maybe just to hurt the other guy in an ANONYMOUS way, which will continue to happen if red dotting is allowed to continue. Removes negativity from the site and replaces it by forcing people to think positive and upbeat or just fade away. If I like (or dislike) another poster's thinking then I can still post my thoughts but give a green dot too to show others who don't have the time to read everything that people care about that particular posting a lot.

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Now gentlemen, I have just been told-off for allegedly going off topic so youse yins will have to very careful 'cos you are just relative sprogs on here and don't have the time in like IHE and Old Scarlet. In your reply please be nice to your senior citizens, it's a memory thing don't you know?

Wholeheartedly agree--abolish them red dots altogether. and keep this site for the positive and upbeat fans that support ICT. Especially for old fogies that have already posted on here.

Sniff! So what do you think of the over 70's IHE.? I was looking at my neck under my chin in the shaving mirror yesterday and froze--wrinkling up like an old cockerel so it was. Reminds me of grandpa McFlannel of the BBC Home service days. Only those and such as those have the maturity to remember the McFlannels radio show. In them thar days we didn't even have a telephone or a T.V. let alone a cell phone. When are you going to bring back HMS Sneck Itchy?

I agree, Scotty. Tme to stop horsing around and take the bit between our teeth re discussion of ICT.

Richie is known as a never-say-die very hard working player so I think he will have impressed quite a few interesting people in England over the past few years and, yes, he is smart enough and has enough humility to have been able to get along with people and make the right contacts in his past career. Certainly not backward at coming forward and people will trust him as far as his honesty of purpose goes. And he also offers, in return, good training , hard work and valuable experience for the good young prospects too. Engaging in the rough and tumble of Scottish fitba will offer a new dimension to them about getting stuck in and working hard in order to progress.

Haven't heard from Jockey Watt for a while. Probably he's down at Ladbrokes in Aberdeen trying to place a bet claiming that ICT will win against the Dons in a canter and demanding better odds (just trying to spur them on, like) whilst they are wondering what to do? Otherwise they know a good customer like him might bridle and whip up a storm of protest if they try to fore-stall him.

Well, you can't knock that performance last Saturday . We knew about the possible dangers of hiring on board a new manager without managerial experience so if we don't back him to the hilt ,come what may, we are nuts. What with talk of more transfers, to Aberdeen etc .,I think that Richie needs all the help and support we can muster so the only thing I can say now is;;;; Itttttttttt's Buckett......Back at last.

Walter or Stool? Pigeon..

The above heading comes from the very popular Johnny Carson show that ran for years and years on U.S T.V.but went off the air a good whiley ago. But here is an article I have just come across in my trolling of the SPL site concerning an interview with our last Manager, John Hughes.http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37216822 Very interesting stuff, Not sure I like his comments about Richie though. Not overly critical but a tad condescending.Judge for yourself . Seems like he may just be regretting parting ways with ICT......good luck, laddie I say.

IHE : I have eloquence. Ummmmm. .... De temps en temps.

Yes. As someone remarked on another tread even a win could, theoretically, catapult us up to top four provided the other teams did poorly. Strange old game isn't it? Like a good horse race where the top horse is a poor starter but warms up and shows why the Jockey doesn't use a whip. Class in action. Went to Hastings Park racetrack in Vancouver just once in my past life, put down $100 in bets all told and won a $100,. Totally satisfying day out watching great, sleek looking horses going by at speed in the sun. But the big heart usually wins it--courageous rides don't need to be whipped, only urged on. It's a professional game and the participants know what is expected of them. Soooo ....Richie will do well if he inspires them and encourages them .

If with ICT, who are they and what will their salaries be? Also where will the money come from? Will the club let go of some players as well?

What do you think about these offerings? 1. Richie needs to show the fire and determination that he showed on the park. That is, maybe he needs to go at the players verbally now. They are not children after all and a stiff pat on the bottie can often wake a player up to see that more work, drive and effort is a must in this division. 2. Are the main players mentioned, like Vigurs, etc., a bit afraid to get stuck in and play harder to get the ball? Frantic if necessary.Last season players in his position might have felt more secure with a more experienced team beside him to pick up on his mistakes and help each other out . If so (and I am grasping at straws really I admit) then Richie has to take them aside and warn them that he has no other resources and they have to work harder and contribute more. i.e "this is desperation time, you guys and so I expect a much higher standard of effort and encouragement throughout the team..... stop being lazy and hanging back etc. etc. Whether these remarks are earned or disliked ,or not ,what options does he have to motivate the experienced players? Not been there and just asking.

I think IHE means " Whoa There ,Fella." ...

Overseas, but still thinking: Price?..at the rate of exchange for Canadian Dollars of about $1.7 per pound , 25 pounds would mean I could only go occasionally since a pensioner's income must be doled out carefully in dollops. With a bad back to boot that probably means that I would have to go for the 30 quid ($51) which means maybe every 6 months for a special game. My wife came home a few weeks ago with a $150 grocery bill for that week and I nearly fainted. The $50 is about half a modest grocery bill for two people and our lovely black feline whose sense of smell is acute, so, if she doesn't like the smell of the tinned meat then it all has to go south. Fattish and fussy, like. Richie - stoic on the sidelines? So what? If that's his style, and he is respectable , who is to say that there is anything wrong with it? Maybe he is fuming inside but wishes to show composure and control on the outside. At the Vancouver Whitecaps games the Manager always has worn a spiffing suit but it has been so hot recently that he has changed into a tieless shirt and looks cool with a nice pair of slacks to match. He doesn't engage in histrionics but always still seems to be in control. Prior to the season opening I had an uneasy feeling that inexperience and youth might affect outcomes. So we surely had better be patient and continue to show support to the Manager who is bound to need time to make desirable changes and achieve better outcomes without unnecessarily antagonising and demoralising the team. I note Dougal has re-appeared from some kind of darkness and is bent on making unnecessarily negative remarks. His references to Caley D are completely unacceptable since the latter is just as entitled as any other poster to say what he thinks about the crowd and the match, etc, without someone sneering at him. If this poster had done only a fraction of the work Caley D has put in, and still does in spades, for this club for donkey's years then he might be in a position to criticise Even then there is such a thing as diplomacy. It's called "you'll get more with honey than with vinegar." At least so people tell me.

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I remember Andre the onion man all right. Good at smiling a lot--bridged the communication gap and loosened up the change in me pocket that ma handed me for some really nice onions. Regular as clockwork, every year, he was. And, yes, it was the "fifties" rite enuff. For me , about aged 16 or 17, in 1954 or 1955. Brings a tear back to my eyes, so it does.....just like the onions did so long ago. Did Andre ever get up the Leachkin to your place IHE?

Or even "Bughties".. smile.

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Not much fun in that though, IHE--far too easy. Nothing like roughing it in the outdoors to get the blood running . I once did that but a long time ago. Five or six of us went directly up the side of a sheer cliff rising out of the Pacific Ocean in a float plane which finally flew over the top of this cliff and trees and set down on a lovely little lake in a depression surrounded by more trees. It taxied to a stop on a tiny jetty at the edge of the lake and we walked to an old hut and met up with several other members of the same outdoor club we were in who had hiked up the trail through the forest instead of flying in. Was I scared as the small seaplane flew vertically higher and higher, with the cliff face on the right side and the abyss on the other?- well, my heart was thumping because, if the engine(s) had stalled for any reason (e.g. gasoline leak?) ,there was no sandy shoreline at water's edge and we were in remote territory so we would have been gonners for sure. But wasn't that why we used this method of access? Then the fun started after we had eaten a meal cooked on a wood fire inside the hut by the girls. As a thank you to the lasses, S.P. started massaging a girl's back as she sat astride one of the long benches and before long about 14 of us were doing the same thing on the same bench, one to the other, amidst screams of laughter and pleasure. Gloaming fell and we retired to our sleeping bags (in what was a smoke-free environment) and there is no need to tell you anymore, IHE, although I am sure your psychologist's assessment of the situation could be? ............ Suffice it to say we all got up early the next day, had another fair breakfast, cooked this time by the boys, and descended the mountain on foot through the trees to where the cars were waiting for us, since we could not afford the cost of a seaplane both ways. Good job we had arrived in hiking boots and carried a backpack, eh? None of our outings, whether it be skiing downhill (or cross-country which I did not like) or backpacking,camping,snow-shoeing, canoeing, white-water rafting etc., were easy on the body but were tremendous fun with good, fit companions and ideal for a single man or woman at weekends who did not have a close companion. And we were all equal, no matter what the daily status at work (university Professor, doctor, candlestick-maker, whatever?) and all on first name terms. We all looked after each other and watched out for the less-fit hikers who were unable to keep up. This was ideal for Scarlet since he has a very low heartbeat (at that time about 48 upon waking) and took about ten minutes to warm up and get going --so I usually started at the very back and watched the newbies in front of me until the slow pace got to me and I started to belt up the trail knowing that the stopping point was not far away and no one was going to be lost at this point. It was a work-out too, IHE, so no glamping, shmamping can replace that feeling of well-being amidst a certain sense of achievement. Cheers m'lad and back tae yer beer ah suppose.?

winners.