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At least they have still not lost their humour.... B) 80 mins: On the plus side, Airdrie and Morton are both losing. Which is about all that can be said...

Ping pong 2-2

Barrowboy ON B)

All gone quiet at Ayr B)

2-1 county

Stokes screamer against Rangers - Hibs 8/1 to win today....

I think my ?40 away win may be safe now B)

3 for Foran 5 for ICT B)

Just watched the Brechin City highlights - 5 mins - excellent picture quality - poor Mann free-kick excluded B)

Peterhead even have match highlights.... B) Blue Toon TV Blue Toon TV

SFL1 Video Links Ayr United official web-site is not too bad - match commentary text, video etc - you would think they were the one's that had been in the SPL.... B)

They do.... Ayr United FC TV

SFL1 HALF-TIME SCORES Ayr 1 ICT 4 Dundee 2 Raith 1 Dunfermline 0 Morton 0 Qos 2 Airdrie 0 Ross County 1 Partick Th 0

13 mins: GOAL AYR!!!!! We're all square after a complete **** up at the back from Inverness. Ryan Esson blunders a clearance straight to Mark Roberts and the Ayr man can't miss from 18 yards. 1-1. Looks like it was a Ryan Esson mistake for the Ayr goal - another simple defensive error but looks like we have got away with it (so far)....

Tonights lottery numbers....

That's it - stop the game now B)

Raith equalize - and a bizzare equalizer in Burnley Wigan game

love it but ma 1-3 scoreline doesn't look safe :(

Strewth ma wife has guessed both first scorers.... :(

yeh - yellow after 2 mins - ominous :(

Let's face it 8, 9, 10 pts irrelevant - the club should be looking to win all games - 12 points should be the target from the next 4 games irrespective of who the league opponents are. In my opinion if we are going to win this league then we need to win the next four games (and maybe then five, six, seven) - simple as that - without consitency (and points) we ain't going anywhere....

I know slightly off topic but following on from the current train of thought.... German football clubs though tend to exist as part of larger sporting clubs (i.e. Hamburger S V) and were originally set up on a community basis to provide a range of sporting opportunities - the same sporting model occurs when you go down the tiers to our equivalent of Highland League clubs (but in those the football element is just another sport). Only in recent years has the football side of the major clubs come to appear to be the main element but in fact the majority are still community clubs. I spent a few years in Frankfurt and the local club Eintracht Frankfurt is one of those where the web-site today still contains information about the Football Club but also the Other Sports on offer (including Badminton, Boxing, Swimming, Tennis, Handball, Ice Hockey etc) Eintracht Frankfurt The set up in Germany is excellent and the sporting club model champions all sports and both club and participants benefit from this. This complete sporting model is (and may always be) foreign to the UK (partly due to our unrelenting focus on profit instead of community enhancement) but a bigger ICT SC may just be one way of increasing community involvement and exposure to the footballing side that many would not normally take any interest in. Maybe ICT if they had any intention in being a community leader instead of just an outlet could start a trend (although local council support is critical) that other smaller clubs throughout Scotland could mirror. Being just a football club that has gone as far is it will ever go is not enough - more radical change is required and if that is to the benefit of the community as a whole (and the football club also moves forward) then that is to be welcomed. Won't happen though....

World Cup play-offs: Republic of Ireland v France Portugal v Bosnia-Hercegovina Greece v Ukraine Russia v Slovenia Tough draw for RoI - hope they get through though.... Does seem a little harsh to employ seeding and if so then it should have been based on the qualification group status - top 4 finishers drawn against the other 4 - qualification rules though should be clear from the start and you can't go changing or creating them to suit half way through....

Ourselves Dunfermline, Ayr, Airdrie and Morton are being cast adrift by the other 5....

At the start of the season if you said 4 pts off Dunfermline for the first two games then I would have been happy BUT with the other results a win today was required....