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My wife would confirm the scurrilous and completely inaccurate nature of that statement :004: ...... and besides, I am not the one with the preponderance for bearing my erse in public :014:

:010: :010: caught in the swear filter again IHE :004:

Blackieforce has a good point ..... and it reminds me of a match back in the early days when Alex Caldwell was screaming at the players and let loose with a particularly colourful set of phrases only to realise that the main stand was absolutely silent (no change there then). He turned round, realised everyone had heard this latest outburst and went a particularly fetching shade of crimson ..... :015: :015: :015: (having said that, his comments were what you might call "socially acceptable" swears as opposed to racist, religious or lifestyle comments).

Nothing wrong with swearing at a game ...... within reason. Despite the best efforts of many to price the game out of the market for all but the privileged few, football is still the game of the masses, a place where the working man (or woman) should be able to enjoy themselves, relieve some of their own stresses and generally have a good time even if the odd swearie word creeps out. I can understand parents not wanting young kids to be subjected to some of the verbage at a game, especially if it is offensive. However, little 'Johnny' has probably heard and used worse than that at school on a daily basis - as suggested by the later shout from the kid's own lips !!! If you are at a home game, you can make an effort to remove yourself from foul language by opting to go to somewhere like a family stand where swearing could and should be frowned upon but you will never get away from it completely. However, I can appreciate that this is more difficult at an away game. Although, if the commentators got it right about this game, there were plenty of alternative locations in the away area that someone could have moved to if certain chants offended them. Onto the chant itself - Maybe I am being to "PC" but personally I would have found the 'Homo' chant to be as offensive as using a racial or religious slur as it has nothing to do with football .... call the player a b*****d if you want, but dont add a potentially inflammatory adjective to the front .....

got to agree with those who said he had to be hooked ..... by some fluke, I managed to get audio of the second half and the commentators were saying that his next tackle would get a red. Whilst his reputation goes before him - and it might be unfair that he gets a card more easily than others because of this - it will take some time and good behaviour to reverse. Charlie did the best he could in replacing him and Barry with Richie Hart and Zander - Most have said Zander was fine, and it sounded from the radio like RH got stuck in too .....

Short answer - right now Intel Core2 Duo has the edge and Intel are blowing away AMD. With AMD having bought ATi, future systems may also be geared to a narrow choice of ATi graphic cards

send myself and Don some examples of pages you like and details of what you like about them and we will look at it ......

Given the way our games with Killie go, nothing would surprise me .... 3-1 HT ..... 3-4 FT !!!!

having to listen to the Arabs V Well game because of the ridiculous blocking of the Killie V ICT game to the rest of the world and keeper Smith just made a complete erse of an easy catch allowing Robb to score for the Arabs.

QOS 2-0 up :015: :015: :015: :015:

[li]Discuss the game in HERE[/li] [li]Get to the chatroom HERE[/li] [li]See the subs / bookings / report HERE[/li] [li] At the game ??? - Dont forget to vote in the POLL after the game has ended. LINEUPS Kilmarnock [attach=1] ICT [attach=2]

agree Yup - a draw would be best result ... can see the Buddies shading it 2-1 though :panda01: :panda02:

Tug QUESTION1 Before you click on the link I am adding here, bear in mind that it is from LAST SEASON when this was the official site, so some prices and packages may no longer exist, may be priced differently, or have slightly different features. For a definitive answer, speak to Angela Wilson on 01463 227454 or email at angela.wilson@ictfc.co.uk The price you have been quoted suggests the hospitality bods are assuming we will not finish in the top six and that the quote was for a standard hospitality table at a category 'c' game (ie. not Celtic, Rangers, Hearts or Aberdeen) ... This is shown as 'executive dining' in the link below. Match, Man of the Match and other sponsorship packages are a fair bit more expensive. http://www.caleythistleonline.com/xx_OLDCONTENT/0506_matchdaysponsorship.htm QUESTION2 I guess you would call it 'business casual' - dress trousers and shirt is appropriate or you can go the whole hog and wear your savile row suit :004: Jeans and a t-shirt is frowned upon !! QUESTION3 Unless it has changed, its about 1/2 an hour although you dont go up to the bar, the drinks are brought (slowly) to your table. QUESTION4 If MotM package is available and you buy that, you and your group get to pick the MotM, get a picture taken with him at the end, get to present the award and receive a small gift from the club.

feel free to create a poll then :004: - instead of 'start new topic' on the relevant forum frontpage/topiclist, click 'new poll'

Brian a rebel ??? ..... just a tad !!! However, fair play to Kavs, I remember him from the Muirtown days (and the Portland - for Pool rather than football after the Muirtown closed !!). He has never wavered in his anti-merger feelings but I think he does at least give grudging respect to those who chose to follow ICT from the start. His comments to me were something like "his team had died and he could not bring himself to follow the b@stard creation that sprung up in its place". He knew I was an ICT supporter from day one of the club and although he is a consumate wind-up artist and wasted no opportunity to deride ICT, he once (and only once) told me that he could at least respect my choice and the fact that I stuck with it. I think this was more the fact that I dumped my 'big' team (Celtic) the same day I started supporting ICT in the senior leagues.

Whether it is on the Internet or in the stadium, people are entitled to their opinions and so is Charlie. Most of our opinions (valid or otherwise) dont matter to anyone but ourselves but Charlie is in the unfortunate position that every opinion he espouses can be reproduced, republished, used both in or out of context, and generally mangled in ways he perhaps didnt intend. He is also somewhat of a novice at dealing with the press so unless under the wing of the likes of Messrs Bannerman or McAllister he may say something he didnt intend to or in a manner he didnt mean. He is not the first manager or player to have expressed frustration at certain parts of the crowd and I am sure he will not be the last. I may not have had as much press coverage as CC, but I did have to literally watch every word I published and sanitise any comments I made on the message boards when the site was official as I was quoted and misquoted frequently by (some of) the press and taken to task by both supporters and club officials if i seemed to favour one opinion over another. Thankfully, I can now say whatever the **** I like and let my true opinions flow out because no-one cares about comments on an unofficial site ......... When I was in the fortunate position of being able to attend games every week, there were always a fair few 'constant whingers' in amongst those of us who tried to encourage the team. I think my frustration with the whingers when we were playing well was about the same as my frustration with the team when we were not playing well. The only times I ever recall booing the team off the park was a certain game against Ross County (nuff said !!), and a cup game in Ayr. We got gubbed in both and just didnt look interested in the slightest. Most of the time, myself, Stewartie, Calum and the others around the tunnel would stay to the very end (sometimes the bitter end) and stand and applaud the team as they went down the tunnel .... not because they won or lost (although doing it when we won was easier), but because we knew they had given 100% ... In the meantime, the whingers would slope off to put the rest of the world to rights over a 'hauf and a hauf' in the legion or Caley Club ... As I said in a thread a month or two back, we seem to have a 5 point scale that both stadium and Internet fans seem to fall into .... 1. Nothing is ever right. Criticism is the only option and anyone who doesnt criticise has their head in the sand 2. Not much is right but we will occasionally give praise as a last resort. 3. Praise and criticism in equal measure - credit where its due, criticism when appropriate. 4. Not much is wrong but we will occasionally criticise as a last resort. 5. Nothing is ever wrong. Praise is the only option and anyone who doesnt agree is anti-ICT or a bad supporter People are entitled to their opinions but if you see yourself as a '1' or a '5' I will probably disagree with you a fair amount of the time. I like to think I am a '3' but will admit to being a 2 or a 4 depending on my own mood on any given day. In the stadium it is easy to point out the constant whingers or take them to task face-to-face, and I did that a few times over the years when the likes of Paul Ritchie (for example) couldnt do right for doing wrong in some fans eyes, but on the Internet, those who choose to remain anonymous can do so (on the surface at least), and it has been mentioned to me literally hundreds of times by Grassa, Charlie, Steve Paterson, Tommy and quite a few of the players that they never pay much heed to those who make comments or moan and groan while hiding behind a pseudonym. However, all criticism hurts and I dont believe they ignore it completely, just like they are happy not to ignore the praise when it comes. Many of the posters on here post under names that dont hide who they are, or have been happy over time to introduce themselves to others by their Internet name - I can always respect those posters whether or not I agree with them or not. I have difficulty however in paying any attention to those who do their damndest to remain totally anonymous while slagging off the club whether they deserve it or not, or on the other end of the scale, slagging off those who have the audacity to criticise the club or the team when they do deserve it. For my own sins - here is my opinion (if it matters). Charlie Christie is still 'learning' to be a manager (not that any of us ever stop learning as the end of learning usually co-incides with the end of breathing !!). He has done plenty of things right, and he has also done things wrong. Thats called life. His selections/substitutions have earned us points in some games and have cost us points in others. Overall I think he is doing a good job and I am still confident that he is the right man for the job. I hope when he does make mistakes that he learns from them and tries not to make the same mistake again and has the balls to admit to them rather than look for excuses (or exc-useless-es as someone I know calls them). I like most of his honesty in the media but sometimes think the mindset is wrong when he makes comments like 'club of our size' ... a comment that was made about 4 weeks in a row. It may be true in some respects but to me it smacks somewhat of the 'small team mentality' that has been talked about elsewhere and makes me cringe almost as much as Bill McAllister's puns in the 'Highland League Roundup' later on in sportsound. I cant remember where the comment was made but someone mentioned something about Celtic last week that made me note two things - firstly, Celtic came up to Inverness two days before the game - not something an opponent who is taking you lightly would do, and secondly, when asked whether he had any sympathy for CC after the late goals, Strachan said 'NO' - again showing the rest of the nation that he considered ICT as a team he had to beat and not some small team he could have sympathy with after humping them. I want the manager of my favourite football team to be as confident that ICT have 'arrived' as the manager of Celtic is ...... On the other side of the coin, I think we as fans also have to be realistic. We are a 'developing' club who have made an incredible journey to the top over the last 12 years. In terms of resources, finances, fanbase and many other things we are definitely a small club in comparision to the rest of the SPL but perhaps not when compared to (most) lower league teams but if we are to progress we have to develop those resources both on and off the park. I would like to think we are 'holding our own' in the SPL. I dont think we are punching above our weight (although that may very well have been true in our first season) but it is unlikely we will ever regularly finish in the top 6 unless and until we develop further. As fans we have tasted the sweet ambrosia of success over these last 12 years and have never known the bitterness, fear or heart-wrenching disappointment of relegation ... over the years we have had a habit of being promoted to a new division, having a half decent season in the first one and then looking like promotion contenders each season after that until we did go up. What we are experiencing now is the realisation that there are some clubs above us who have been there for donkeys years and who have the resources, finances and fanbase to pay far more than us to sign players that we cant. Because of this we are going to have a few more dodgy results than we ever did when we were the gung-ho conquerors of the lower divisions, but if we can hover somewhere between 7th - 10th for the next few seasons, then there should be no reason why we cant continue to make further progress and be a club that regularly finishes somewhere in the top 6 ........... anyway, this is now a book instead of a posting so I will stop and let someone else have a turn .......

When picking up the award for February's 'Manager of the Month', Motherwell manager Maurice Malpas said "It's an old cliche that the manager doesn't do anything apart from pick the team to go on the park. It's the players that do everything on the pitch so it is really their award. As opposed to it being manager of the month, I would prefer it was team of the month" What do you think ....... ? [Article Link] Personally, I think its the manager that carries the can if they do badly, so maybe he deserves the plaudits when they do well

On Saturday it sounded like he had a couple of lapses but overall was very good. Other than that, it sounds like he has performed pretty well. Glad he got his chance, and glad he seems to be making the #1 jersey his own. Well done to the lad (if you can still call him a lad :015:)

:015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: Penny dainties .... remember them, used to get them from Campbell's van every once in a while ........ :003:

Looks like Scarlet may get to go along and support Scotland in this competition .... Group F with Japan, Nigeria and Costa Rica ... playing on west coast The groups: Group A (Toronto, Edmonton): Canada Chile Congo Austria Group B (Burnaby, Victoria): Spain Uruguay Jordan Zambia Group C (Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton): Portugal New Zealand Gambia Mexico Group D (Montreal, Ottawa): Poland Brazil Korea Republic USA Group E (Ottawa, Montreal): Argentina Czech Republic Korea DPR Panama Group F (Victoria, Burnaby): Japan Scotland Nigeria Costa Rica Scotland Games 01 July 07 Victoria JPN - SCO 04 July 07 Victoria SCO - NGA 07 July 07 Burnaby SCO - CRC

as others have said ... Lee Wilkie and I think the commentators yesterday mentioned he was 6' 7" .... about an inch taller than Big Stewartie for those trying to compare size to a 'real person' :015: :015:

Aye usually about 20 feet below the ball as it crosses the goal line :001: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: ... Thanks Mee, you made me laugh out loud when i read this I would go with this 4-1-4-1 (4-5-1) formation which can easily be adapted to 442 by pushing Barry up front (or into a free role) and adjusting the roles of Rankin, Duncan, Paatelainen ..... Hart, McBain and McSwegan on the bench along with Ridgers, Soane, Sutherland and Morgan. no place for Rory as he just isnt doing it. Paatelainen on the other hand has looked interesting when he has come on in recent games so might be worthy of a start. Fraser Tokely Caff Dods Hastings Duncan Wilson Black Rankin Paatelainen Bayne

Win and top 6 is a possibility, lose and we can forget it. given our historical results over Killie that probably means it will be a 3-3 draw !!!!!!!

radio commentators agreed with that .....

considering he is playing for a Russian team and it just might be bl00dy cold, then i think he could be let off !!!!!