Harry Chibber

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defintion: witch hunt, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials. The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe fall into the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1700, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in tens of thousands of executions. Many cultures throughout the world, both ancient and modern, have reacted to allegations of witchcraft either by superstitious fear and awe, and killed any alleged practitioners of witchcraft outright; or, shunned it as quackery, extortion or fraud. Witchhunts still occur in the modern era, in many and various communities where religious values condemn the practice of witchcraft and the occult.

I take it none of the games are being broadcastedon tv or radio?? Broadcasting info :021:

now that is just wrong! :015:

Didn't know that's what your into big boy :004:

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Been doing that one for years :011: your soooo cool :015: :016: Keep drumming behind the goals, if they do make a singing section for next season that is the only place it should be!!

I would ave voted 100 times if it was possible :004:

more pish?? :014: 'am i missing something here. is he actually claiming the celtic result as some sort of success :017:' Yes clacher, yes you are!! He is claiming that quarter final + 88 mins of success in the scottish up + keeping us safe from relegation from the SPL for another year is better than we have ever done before, thus progress has been made. 'beat rangers twice under plg is NOT progress' How many other teams have managed it this season?? :024:

Currently: 47 yes, 11 no Obviously shows that even though there are a couple of posters that talk utter pesh, the majority can see sense!!

Interesting to note Paul Third seriously getting the digs in at ICT here, or is that just me? All seems straight forward enough, what the fcuk is this guys problem. Every question has been answered... what is he complaining about?

No, changing managers every 2 seasons is not going to bring us any success. I hated Brewster, really did not like how negative a manger he was and the lack of substitutes when the game, fans.... even players would be crying out for a change. Christie, although he obviously still has things to learn, is far better IMO. He could have quite easily gone with the same set up as Brewster and played the same rigid formation but he has not been shy to try and make changes, let the team flow and most importantly make subs when/if he has got it wrong.

'what will you say if we do end up finishing close to or below st mirren this season by the time it all wraps up?' It hasn't been the best season but it is Christie's first so let's see what his signings are like and how they wrk out for next season. 'what if our season ticket sales for next season suffer because of it?' we'll get them back if the team starts buiding momentum, it's swings and roundabouts, likewise what if we start pushing further up the table are you going to take back everything you have said about Christie? I doubt it!!! 'will you still be calling for another year for cc?' probably, there are very few examples of successful teams that rotate to a new manager every odd season... good teams are built from stability and if we are ever going to match the big boys we need to show some consistency up top. The longer CC is incharge of the team the greater his reputation s going to be and the better players he is likely to attract.. simple! 'jesus even im getting bored of all this' that's because the more you type it the more ridiculous it must sound...

You don't get it, because we are in the black every season we finish 11th or above the club is generating more money and slowly building, as we should be. If we go for the broke then that is exactly where we will end up, it is not as though the club lack's ambition, we have showed there is plenty of it by climbing 3 divisions in 10 years. Every bullet point I made is correct and relative to this season, although our positive bank balance will be of benefit to us eventually our out goings for this season have been less than any other club and yet we are sitting 3 points off 7th... I am not trying to say that Christie deserves a medal by any means but for people to suggest that he is not good enough after his first season in charge when we have been safe (not mathematically) for weeks now is absurd. It's his first season, give the guy a chance for god sake!! "fans saying they wouldnt mind us getting relegated just to see who stops turning out to watch is a massive kick in the balls to pele, robbo, his title winning squad and all the people behind the scenes at ict/tullochs who worked their nads off to get us to where we are today." I'm sure they would be just as disgraced by how little our fans seem to appreciate it at the moment

started as sarcasm but seems to have become ironic :003:

he never had the support or respect.... this board has been split from day one with people saying he isn't good enough, how can anyone ever expect to succeed when they have people already plotting their downfall? It is as though you (and others) want him to walk so you can be proved right... to be quite honest it is a fcuking disgrace that you find it so easy to name a replacement for him when he is still at the helm. Everyone knew from the start that this job wouldn't be a quick fix, Brew and Robbo had the team when they were at their prime but now Christie is trying to bring us into a new era and bringing players into the fold that are also inexperienced at this level, so even these guys are trying to adapt. There is a very famous saying in football 'a manager is judged on his signings' and so far, for the very small fees CC has had to work with he has unearthed a couple of gems so far, I for one am looking forward to seeing what he can bring out of the bag at the end of the season. Incase you haven't realised by now, I am an optimist... and although, as I have already stated, we have had a very up and down season it has by no means been a bad one... if it was we would be sitting in 11th or 12th especially since: [li]this season our average attendance is the lowest in the SPL[/li] [li]we have spent the least amount of money out of any team in the SPL[/li] [li]we have the most inexperienced manager in the SPL[/li] [li]we, as a club, are almost 100 years younger than every other SPL team[/li] [li]we have had 2 of our first team strikers injured for more than half a season collectively[/li] The stats are against us as it is, but if that is not enough, our fans seem to be content with the team failing just so they can feel vindicated for doubting the man in charge. We could and should be in a far worse position than we are but our fans seem to have trouble realising it, this is not 'small team mentality' but just the real world. I am actually getting to the point where I hope we do go down just so we can get rid of these ungrateful fans and see who is still going to the matches when we pay in the lower leagues... at least the tickets would be a lot cheaper.

Honest hat on This season has been very frustrating, we have had some of our best games since coming into the SPL (not losing 1 point to Rangers, reaching the quarter finals of the scottish cup, pumping Hibs 3-0 etc.) and we have had some of our worst (St Mirren, Dunfemline etc.). Under Brewster we were very consistent but you could expect the same thing in every match, solid back line and long ball. Christie has obviously tried to make us play a better passing game, with a quick counter attack and at times when the midfield is on song we have been superb but we have also failed to get going in a lot of matches. What has really annoyed me about this campaign has been some of our fans attitude from the start of Christie's appointment, since day 1 he has had people casting doubt over his potential as an SPL manager. For that reason I don't blame him for considering stepping down. But he has to remember that there are also fans, like myself, that have supported him all the way and if he does step down I will be extremely disappointed in his lack of determination to make this club a sucess.

After seeing the replay, Black could have quite easily been sent off if he had made contact with his original challenge, I'm not in anyway saying that McManus shouldn't have gone but Black dived in with both feet for that challenge... he is just as much to blame as that fandango!!

Just thought I'd save you all the trouble of starting a new thread :004:

was it on?

Iwelumo is playing for Colchester on Sky Sports 2 if anyone is interested... I'd eaily have him in before Beattie.... I'd have Thompson (ex Rangers/now at Cardiff) ahead of him.... anyone!! ... saying that he'll probably score a hattrick against Georgia

whats that got to do with the price of bacon? I work as a claims assessor at Prudential, for the moment anyway :020: Think this thread has run it's course :012:

is my question not clear enough :017:

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