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Much the same as when Ike was understudy to Mark Brown.

?20m is a reference to a tongue-in-cheek remark by MC Terry after the match on Saturday!

Exactly what CD said - we've got a decent squad, and (as with the 2004 squad) I think they will compete well.

It's taken you about eight years to actually get some photos online :huh: Did you have the assistance of Big Kylie?

Put me down for one please (and I'm not sure if I was down this year, and if so if I actually paid you - will see you tomorrow somewhere hopefully, if not please let me know and I'll get it sorted!!!)

He showed a lot of restraint there

Was quite funny that one of the stewards was determined to stop one guy getting on the pitch - weaving around, grabbed him and shoved him back to the terrace while a hundred other fans were already on the pitch Fantastic game, result, atmosphere - and when was the last time that any team scored seven goals with seven different scorers?

Seconded - didn't honestly expect this after the Challenge Cup Final, completely the opposite!

I thought that was just Dundee's early April Fool joke, no?

Is this Avril Poisson's fault?

That's the slope of the pitch for you

Its as rough as a bears erse though :) I would rather have a bottle of the Belgian beer 'Bush' - 750ml bottle of Bush Amber Triple for around ?3, very nice, and depending on the vintage around 12-14% ABV. Not that I'm encouraging anyone to drink a whole bottle in one go :)

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I know we only had two or three games called off at Caley Stadium in the eight or nine years before the USH was installed - Morton and Raith ring a bell. I'm not sure that both those two were even due to a frozen pitch, I think at least one was due to snow and/or weather on the A9 (having driven up all the way and run into a whiteout at Drumochter I got a call five minutes later to say game off!). And there was the New Year Derby off in 2003, when I got the call around Carrbridge after seven hours driving, but I can't remember if that was in Sneck or Dungwall. I'm pretty certain the ratio of call offs is higher since the USH went in, but that could just be down to more bad weather than before.

:thumb03: Believe it or not, there is actually a newspaper by that name!

Don't think I'll try putting that one to the test! I believe they also fail to capture the necessary pictures if you drive past at a constant 144mph or above - that's another option to try.

I think that's right Don - my memory might be failing me, but ISTR that DFS became "Chairman" of the club sometime in 2000 and DMcG then got a title "Chairman of Football" or similar, presumably something of a non-job and an honorary title. I think Grassa was appointed as "Director of Football" sometime around the Aberdeen Scottish Cup replay, as I'm sure I was wondering where that appointment left DMcG - and that DMcG left the club around that time.

Just so long as we don't do what we did 9(?) years ago, scoring in the last minute only to let Killie score almost immediately on the restart...

You'll get a refund if they can't make the rearranged game. That old rule about no refunds was changed as a result of one of our games being called off years ago - can't remember if it was Celtic or Kilmarnock? Anyway, check clause 28 of the ICTFC Regulations - you have 14 days from when the rearranged match is announced to demand a refund.

And McCall is such a mild-mannered and amiable gentleman that he would never do anything like that *cough* paint pot *cough* Seriously, if the linesman was doing that then McCall should be pleased, it will have saved him a job B)

very true - an unenviable position for him to be in.

But when we were in the First Division the minimum seats that the SPL required was 10,000 - IMO if ICT had attempted to comply with that total, and especially before promotion was assured, the club would have been bankrupted. Despite what they can be criticised for more recently, I think our board were absolutely right in the way they approached the ground expansion of 2004/5. The groundshare at Aberdeen was probably our least worst option - without it there possibly wouldn't have been a club, and no promotion.

No, the temperature should be above freezing by mid-May :030:

No ice, and try and get hold of some 50% ABV Russian Standard for a lower freezing point :-)

Mr Brian Harvey of East17 ran over himself while driving and falling out of his own car a few years ago. He explained that he had eaten too many potatoes.