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St Johnstone. The car park was frozen.

Chill pill. I said somewhere I wasn't an English teacher - I'm not a biology teacher either but DD is just talking common sense. I think 'gene pool' just about covers it. We can expect to beat the likes of England on the park if we get our best 11 fit. If they have 6 injuries they can pull in another 6 of equal quality - we can't. And there's a fair chance that the 6 will be an inch taller and a few pounds heavier than what we've got. Crops of decent players only come around periodically. Look at the current Welsh team. Best Wales side in my lifetime I would say. Now that the world is a considerably smaller place, small nations like ours are only punching our own weight, not above it as we always didbefore. In fact, thanks to people like Levein and Vogts, we are punching below it at the moment. BTW England have plenty problems of their own at International level, IMO. But our problems have emerged more quickly because of our size. I'm a Nat too but I don't really think sport is very important (too much like Hitler in 1936). If we were comfortable with ourselves as a nation we would be happy with just the taking part. If everyone was just comfortable taking part, life would be mundane and I'd still be following football from the sports section because ICT and this site wouldn't exist. Hitler? Really? WTF did that come from?

Not according to BBC website, weather looks dry for a few days and not sustained sub zero either.

You've been so far up yourself for so long, you've only got a nodding aquantance with daylight. Your turn.

Ditch the EU then. Like I said it's off topic, so I'll leave it at that unless you want to start a new thread?

Maybe I'm picking this up wrong, but are you suggesting that HFL teams can't compete with SFL teams? No i'm saying he's a player that can play at a better level than HL!

Industrial? Have they got that far yet?

I don't think you meant that? If you did, feck off. Scotland is big enough to do whatever the people of Scotland want, that there is such a disparity in television money between countries in the UK leads the better players to move where the money is and they end up playing in an anonymous set up where they are easily overlooked. This is a discussion for another thread but I'll make a statement here. *Nat hat on* An independent Scotland would be in a position to demand money from broadcasters to transmit foreign competitions in Scotland. If that money was then invested into the Scottish game we could retain our best players for longer and give them a chance to develop their full potential. *Nat hat off*

I trust Butcher on this one, he knows what's available and at what price. It would be a shame to see him go but as with all players there comes a time when they move on. Maybe he'll get a new improved contract offer when he starts banging the goals in again and we finish top of the league? I dare say CL money would come in handy.

Steady on there, not many youth players manage to make it to the top of the game and that's where we're at now. We do have a few which for a club of our size in a sparcely populated area in not too bad. Our coaching staff do a fantastic job with the resources available to them. If you're expecting to have a steady stream of talent coming out of the Highlands you're setting yourself up for a fall. I don't know why but your posts seem to be painfully negative at a time when we are at the league position we've ever had in January with games in both cup competitions to look forward to. Try smiling before you post and see if that helps.

That would be fantastic.

At least Brora Rangers have a longer history than thon "the Glasgow the lot" and haven't.

So predictable. You have a cheek calling anyone narcissistic.

Maybe I'm picking this up wrong, but are you suggesting that HFL teams can't compete with SFL teams?

Hey there?

Who needs a wiki when we've got you guys? Thanks for that.

This is where an ICT wiki would help.

Make that 9 I think ..... Russell Duncan, Dale Gillespie, Stuart Golabek, Andrew Greig, Richie Hart, Richard Hastings, David Hind, Ally Ridgers, Zander Sutherland Did Dale or David ever feature in the first team? Can't say I remember them. Anyway 9 from 20, ICT wannabees!

Make that 7 from a squad of 20, signed Zander as well now. http://www.brorarangers.co.uk/default.asp

Heard a rumour about Tokely and Munro getting signed up by Brora with regular jobs too. There are six of the current squad of nineteen that have previously been on our books. Is this Brora preparing for a push into the SFL post reconstruction? http://www.brorarangers.co.uk/playersponsors.asp

O'Conner looks good, what was the deal with the ballboy and the towel?

No feud at all. Here's the unpleasant email I sent. It was a response to outlandish comments you were making on Scottish Independence. lockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> Sent 18 April 2012 - 06:16 AM Hi Laurence, if you're going to try to be a WUM (wind up merchant) try doing at least a modicum of research. The points you make are ficticious and typical of the nonsence we are subjected to on a daily basis through the English based media. BTW you could also try using the spell checker so you don't come across as an old thick fecker. My point stands. You are asad person with a real chip on your shoulder. Lawrence, spell checker.....please! My eyes are bleeding at your posts as much as my heart is at England's loss.

Agreed, WC 2014 is a lost cause altough his target is to avoid finishing bottom of the group but 2016 gives him a few years to mould a team that can hopefully not embarass us. Maybe even qualify?

Looking forward to press conferences.

Is the title out of reach now? I must have missed that.