IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

Is there anybody there - if there is - then I fear that they have sussed Lionel :thumb04: But what a feckin saving headed clearance by ZADI !! Yon **** is more schizophrenic than I am. Vigurs fer Foran - spot on Terry.

We are really wasting good dead ball situations today. Game beginning to be a bit end to end which may not suit us. What a feckin clearance off the line - BY ZADI Cellic are still going down the left constantly. Rooney fer Barrowman - TB evidently got my txt - but he replied that he was thinking about gambling with Eric. OOPs - Robson just put Zadi on his erse twice !!

Rooney and Vigurs fer Barrowman and Foran please.

Cellic are still persevering down the left - thank feck. Zadi has had one touch so far. But all their gifted players are left footed - good job Brew isnt their manager as they would all be playing on the rite !! :thumb04: Imrie breaks free but has a rush of blood and skies it. Hopefully Rooney fer Barrowman soon. The defence is holding a really good, tight line. Blackie gets a yellow card but is he up fer it or what - or to up fer it - dilemna Mr TB. This game is going away from us a bit 70/30 % possession fer Cellic - Foran down with cramp and has faded out - must be Vigurs shurely ?

Yip - Cellic go fer the throat and actually try the same ploy down the left as the Huns did !! And it was almost Black who made a bit of space but shanked it. Then Imrie and Barrowman combine well. Thats five minutes gone and hooray - we took it to them. What a refreshing change !!

I hate to say this - but hope somebody has warned Butch about the five minute period following half time !! But this game is still there fer the taking - I really hope that we protect our left in this half as it will be a miracle if it isnt targetted - but with Cellic having to toil in mid week - this game is still there fer the taking - lets hope that we can maintain the momentum, keep the game tight and compacted and - most importantly - keep our concentration and dont gift anything. Time to go back to the Prayer mat - which is looking a bit threadbare but the gods are smiling so far - February was always a good month anyway. COME ON CALEY THISTLE.

Cue - Specsaver advert - who is our other candidate/s ? - Proctor / Black / Tokely - Proctor isnt protecting Rosscoe - Black is anonymous - Tokely is toiling.

The wee nip baloons it over the crossbar as Cellic persist on targetting our rite. Thank feck Strachan evidently doent know about Zadi !! Ginger **** Robson gets booked :thumb04: We are certainly missing Cowie fer the dead balls. But defensively we look a lot tighter - Munro and Pavel are begiining to look like a fine partnership and Tokely is evidently on a leash. Imrie is MOM by a mile but please hook Zadi. :018:

10 minutes to go - Still giving us good as we get and Pavel almost sneaked in at the back post - fer once Boruc blocked well. Apart from the Samaras miss we have looked the better team. Fraid our rite flank looks brittle as Foran is clearly not match fit - suspect he will not last long in the second half - but almost scored as I type from yet another fine Imrie foray. We are beginning to drop deeper and Imrie has no support going forward.

To be fair Imrie is the best player on the park at the moment and is really running the line well and is gelling with Bannerman - who looks a different player.

Tide is beginning to swing - Zadi looks very, very dodgy - Imrie sums up his season - great challenge, powers forward, beats three defenders and then - an abysmal pass. Proctor and Rosscoe are double teaming McGeady well and Barrowman is really running the line well. But so far we are compressing everything into midfield and there is no tempo to the game - which is what we want.

Great first five - full of energy - Foran offside was very, very close - with Boruc flapping fer the second time.

Isnt that a very depressing fact - Come on Caley

Oh dear - just saw the Cellic line up - Samaras and McDonald up front with Robson and McGeady down the flanks Lets hope Boruc is on fire !! I would be really targetting Zadi !!

Butcher has just been on Setanta - laffing and joking but clearly cheesed off - may be his honesty but says that the starting line up is a big gamble, Cowies' move made for a last minute switch, inferring that too many players had injuries or werent match fit, pointed out that the team didnt really know each other. What the feck - Another TOTAL feckin indictment on our Board of Muppets. They must have had a hand in this. Taking in players who arent match fit - as was clear to us - and playing them before this game - But Zadi at full back !!!! Proctor in rite midfield !!! Foran wide left and Imrie up front !! I can see a bit of the logic in Proctor but he hasnt played there fer yonks and is drained of confidence. What about Vigurs ? And what about Barry Wilson - sitting in the Setanta studio and clearly inferring that he didnt want to go and wishes he was back !! FECK THE BOARD. Lets hope Butcher can fire up this Mottley crew cos if I was Strachan I would be rubbing my hands, going at us from the start, playing down the flanks and going to kill us off early doors. Time to all feckin pray.

Well at the moment we just don't know where "speaking out" is going to get us. Hopefully up the league, but it is a bit premature to assume that now Brewster has gone and Butcher is in place everything will be rosy. Granted but just having Butcher here is a bonus - even if it is to show our muppets how to communicate properly with the fans - in an open and honest manner - and to promote a togetherness - that in itself has been sadly missing fer a long time both on and off the park.

What the feck !!

As a connisseur of physiological effects I have some fears in regard to the sudden surge of adrenaline hitting the TCS. My concern is that in order to be utilised to its best effects adrenaline has to be harnessed and controlled. My main concerns reach out to the likes of Imrie, Duncan, Black and Tokely. Passion, drive and effort are necessary ingredients in our quest fer survival but so are restraint, patience and concentration. Hope Butch puts a modicum of control into his dressing room address or they may be one or two back in it quicker than we would have wanted.

Share the sentiments and will follow the cause - but passion and effort is simply not enuff - if we go down I want to go down playing football. Butcher has already probably ensured the first ingredients - he has so little time to put in his own system and philosophy. But good luck to him - the best of luck - I believe but only just.

Am I alone in thinking that our Supporters Trust may actually have had a distinct influence on the events of the past week. Fired on by many of the posters on this forum the Trust took a big step by challenging the management of this club and really almost forced them into formal communication. The Trust and DJS in particular (and many fans) were belittled and chastised by the management who practically derided the concerns voiced, appeared to be stating that things would stay as they were and pointed out that there were no plans to alter anything. The Supporters Trust brought this clearly into the public domain and the media. They have endured their fair share of abuse on this forum as well but should they not be congratulated on taking on the muppets and winning. Many of the things that have happened this week - both on and off the pitch - is what twenty of us have been advocating fer months. Take a bow - the members of the ICT Supporters Trust - ;) :thumb04: :018: and before yas all have a pop - read the signature. POWER TO THE PEEPLE

One wonders if Butcher had arrived a touch earlier that all the PCA's may not have been a concern ?

I reckon you could have been rasher than you were and talked a load of tripe - but make no bones about it - Brew rightly got the chop but the off cuts left Butcher in a rite stew.

Love the pun That is not funny - there is a lot at steak here.

Lest you not forget - This was not all about Craig Brewster - he was backed and supported to the hilt. Do you think that Butcher may have got results at Midden, Motherwell and Hamilton ? Plus Butcher still has the legacy of a Brewster squad to deal with.

Feck me - ya look as fat a Bee as Bob Booker and Dave Webb - hope yer not as hard though. :thumb04: Get yerself a feckin kilt and I'll take you to a game - I need somebody standing beside me to make me look thin. :018: