Morgan Spice

Hey I have a Hearts friend who was asking if I could let everybody know that Dunfermline Hearts are welcoming everybody to their prematch pub in Rosyth. It is easy to get to from the motorway and is a 20-30 minute journey to the ground from there. Might be useful for any buses that haven't already organised a stop off. It's family friendly too. The address is cssc club, castle road, rosyth, ky11 2hu. I have posted a link of the location too and for the CSSC website. If you have any other queries etc I can always ask him and get back to you. Sounds like a decent place. http://www.cssc.co.uk/RegionalSites/ScotlandSite/ScotlandClubs.aspx http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl Hopefully it's okay to post this I apologise if it is breaking any site rules.

It's fair on him though. He's entitled to get the right offer he feels he deserves and take his time with it.

Did the Courier not say yesterday he is set for more talks with Butcher?

In response to caleydawson I honestly believe we can cope without Rangers. As long as ourselves and Ross County stay in the SPL we will have just as many full houses as last season. Who knows if the derbies will be televised or not. There is no guarantee that our games against Rangers would be televised anyway. I'm not saying us or County will always be in the SPL but you know what I mean.

Enough of the County loving! Quit biting to Dougals bait. We have enough to concentrate on with our own team. Couldn't give a monkeys about Ross County's stadium.

It's not really a surprise everyone is leaving. Butcher sold the club to these guys as a platform to move back to England anyway. He also put the short term deals on the table. The blame is solely his. It's clear that the current nature of his signings don't work out up here. I don't think it's unreasonable to think he could find some up and coming players in Scotland or a few players in the last chance saloon like we used to. It never failed us before anyway.

I think if we are all honest and take out of the equation that Tokely has been here so long that he has actually been the best of a poor defence this season. I would not be guaranteeing him football next season unless it was merited. He like the rest of the defence this season was guilty of too many basic mistakes and had just as many poor games as he did average. I do think his loyalty should be rewarded and his experience to the rest of the squad is invaluable and for this I am for him getting a new contract. i am not convinced by him or any of the other defenders we have in the team at this point though!

Am I the only one who thinks the majority of these "higher quality" Championship and Premiership players have either been rubbish or have a rubbish attitude in terms of what this club needs? Hayes, Rooney and Cox isn't a great return from the number of players we have taken from down that way. Yes Davis was good but he chose to leave at Christmas so his loyalties weren't at ICT. And quite rightly he chose to do what his club preferred him to do and what benefits his chances at his club. But it doesnt benefit us and it's a problem.

I'm sure I saw somewhere, can't remember where a quote from Mick McCarthy saying his preference would be to loan him out closer to home or to a Championship club. I think that may have been a bigger factor on his decision to leave (if he had a say in the first place) rather than him simply not wanting to be here.

That's an insult to John Docherty!

They were some fans chanting about the IRA in the town centre when I was going home. One group even asked me if I had heard any sectarian chanting from them today in the manner as if they should be congratulated for some major achievement?!?!

I thought he was okay so far but we need commited players at the club right now. At least he came up and gave it a shot in Inverness so fair play to him. So cheers Mr Aldred and good luck in the future!

How can anybody justify charging these prices for children at a football match? How are kids supposed to be able to afford these prices? And this isn't just at our club I'm talking about all SPL grounds. Also I know there is a family section however this is not always viable for various reasons such as the person taking the child to the game may only wish to sit with his/her mates in the main stand for whatever reason.

I thought he was close to signing a few weeks ago. It was mentioned his agent was dealing with ironing out a few of the finer details. It is really frustrating and I normally would just say to get lost because you clearly don't have the heart to play for this club. However look at how old Duff is. Realistically this is going to be the last big(gest) contract of his career so you can't really blame the guy. Also everythings all messed up this season with the early start to it.

Elgin is as much in the Highlands as they are in the 5th round of the Scottish Cup!

He managed to clear an effort right on the 90th minute I was certain was going to end up in the back of the net. I would take him back without a doubt. Definately has more potential than being a third division defender.

Apparently in the Sunsport pullout we set another record ten years ago this weekend just past in the highest scoring first division game which we won 7-3 against Ayr at home. Wyness got a hat trick. I remember being in the terracing at that game and it was freezing.

No Dutch refs! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9216271.stm

So was there a good turnout for this book signing?

If thats the case Yngwie why has said person not been privately mailed and banned if he doesnt listen? I find it unacceptable in any form for somebody to be ridiculed for asking what seems a sensible question and mod status doesnt exempt you from that whether you are experienced or not. Remember using a computer is different from meeting in person. Behind a keyboard you can be anybody. There could be a number of sensitive issues like mental illness that prevent the op from traversing the archives etc. Maybe they are a pensioner with very little knowledge of the internet. Who knows and quite frankly it's none of our business. I just feel this does little to encourage new and some current users to participate in any discussion.

Yeah but this happens all the time. My point was if everybody thought this guy Dougal was a joke nobody would reply to it. Clearly not everybody does so why is it tolerable for mods to be ridiculing him? Its a general question that shouldnt have to be answered privately I'm sorry it's taken the thread off topic but I can guarantee that any other threads this guy contributes to (if he does again I'm not sure he will after the welcome he has had) will go down the same route of why do you not know this already.

Hmmm my point isn't so much to do with Dougal himself I couldnt care less if he was taking the mickey or not it's the fact the moderators don't have any proof either way. We would get somebody on the moderator team telling me to pack it in if I constantly went on threads belittling a user because I have a dislike towards them but for some reason it is different here.

Why do certain moderators waste their time using virtual bullying tactics on Dougal. If you don't want to answer his questions or think he is taking the mickey just ignore him! Every thread that he has posted on pretty much has certain moderators trying to stir things up and this encourages others to have a go at him. It's this kind of mob mentality that makes me not want to post on here most of the time. If he is genuine he doesnt need some halfwits with thousands of posts under their name and who also hold moderator status belittling him for coming onto a forum where discussion is meant to be encouraged. Just because you have heard it all before and you have time to go rummaging through archive folders that you probably helped create doesnt mean the rest of us do!

Anything works better than getting a Brewster bashing!