Tichy_Blacks_Back

Celtic - only two yellow cards

Agree DD makes complete sense - whether we are SPL next season or not it makes sense and is the stability we need to move the club forward into the next chapter. I always see ICT as being a club that has always tried to keep a solid foundation as there are many other areas where we just cannot compete with the supposedly bigger clubs. Where others are losing it I think we are ready to push on to the next level - ooh hah....

They've now got 4 fit strikers again.... Wood, Rooney, King and Zigic. Looks like they started with one up front and had Wood and King on the bench as the back up strikers. See young Wood got another two - he's certainly banging them in....

TICHY BLACK'S BACK HT: 1-0 FT: 3-1 1st ICT: Tade 1st Opp: Steven Thompson Crowd: 3,765 CAL'S THISTLE HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Tansey 1st Opp: Hasselbaink Crowd: 3,714

Elgin Home Win @ 2.75 - ta

TICHY BLACK'S BACK HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st ICT: Tade 1st Opp: Hooper Crowd: 47,978 CAL'S THISTLE HT: 1-1 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Tansey 1st Opp: Hooper Crowd: 48,436

Hamilton @ 2.62 away - ta

TICHY BLACK'S BACK HT: 0-1 FT: 1-2 1st ICT: Foran 1st Opp: Rankin Crowd: 6,528 CAL'S THISTLE HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st ICT: Tade 1st Opp: MacKay-Steven Crowd: 6,414

Elgin Home @ 1.91 - ta

....now 0-2

Elgin 0-1 up at Peterhead

1. Ryan Esson 2. Thomas Piermayr 3. Ross Tokely 10. Andrew Shinnie 16. Roman Golobart 11. Nick Ross 17. Gavin Morrison 19. Graeme Shinnie 25. David Davis 9. Richie Foran 15. Gregory Tade Subs 12. Jonny Tuffey (GK) 8. Greg Tansey 18. Shane Sutherland 21. William McKay 20. Aidan Chippendale 22. Kenny Gillet

TICHY BLACK'S BACK HT: 1-0 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: Tansey 1st Opp: Stevenson Crowd: 4,332 CAL'S THISTLE HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st ICT: Tade 1st Opp: Elliott Crowd: 4,278

Annan away @ 2.20 - ta

Yip - for once we are benefiting from the TD. Ko 11:30 here and it's the weekend....:-) Quite a few from work are heading down - even one optimistic Scotsman who is going to the games from the quarters on.... All the games are being reshown in the evenings at the rugby club here so will be making a few visits. I think Scotland can make the last eight but the Kiwis are just starting to play 'run for fun' rugby at the moment....

PS - pub quiz question - name another football stadium located on a Firth?

Herr Bannerman - well put - but as most of us post-merger dinosaurs have found out why would you continue to support a team that you have no real allegiance to when you have the answer to your real loyalies on your doorstep. Then I suppose this is a question every small conurbation outside of the midland belt still asks themselves today.... I care about my team and I know I am not alone....it is not ICT that is the problem it is the modern game and what it means or really the football perception of the naughties....I never thought I would say this but the HL days seemed a lot simpler but as we know the basic challenges then of just staying solvent were just as big a challenge if not bigger....

He's doing a lot better then I thought - good on him as still a tough league to score in - hope he keeps it up....

How topical - Wellington Phoenix.... :-)

Dani Sanchez has signed a one year contract with NZ A-league side Wellington Phoenix. Good luck to him. He was unlucky with injuries but always felt he could have given us another option especially now with the current injuries....but who could have predicted that....

Wot no Jupie Mitchell - 77 goals in a season - now that'll take some beating - we'll be lucky to get that as a team

Celtic are back in Europe - for now....

A number of players have been released from their contracts in the last 24hrs so there may well be new faces at several clubs before the next SPL round of matches....

You would think if they were going to make up a name they could have thought of a better one than Muirfield Mills - I smell a rat or is it empty apartments....

I'd leave it to Sunday as they are all away on their Eid holidays.... ;-)