The Fly

He walked out of the ground unaided if that's any help

First game I've been to in six moths. Dross

For bad unlucky signings Mike Newlands must take the prize! A few other names spring to mind - Paul Bradshaw, Kevin Byers, wotsisname who came from Celtic/Aberbeen, ended up at Airdire - although to be fair I haven't seen Barrowman play yet

You might want to change your signature until the weekend's over then! :-D Happy birthday Brew, hope there's something worth celebrating tomorrow.

I was talking to a guy in a pub in South London last night and he knows that the players know that the board has lost confidence in the groundsman and that the Brewster is going to become the new groundsman and that Tommy Cumming is going to replace Gordon Ramsey who's going to become our Joint Manager with Billy Dodds and purple monkey dishwasher

Didn't Duncan Shearer re-register as a player some time after he retired - to cover a shortage of regular first team players for the bench?

And you still owe me for my smokies he ate ;-)

Great post and metaphor! PS I still call them hi-fi systems :-)

ROFL! I won't comment on what's gone before, done and dusted and lesson learnt... But just say don't go throwing confetti on the pitch when Tommy's around - you would get a rather large piece of his mind! :-) Thread closed unless there's anything useful to add

May be a Good Thing that if left us then! One goal in 30 games against a bunch of trainees...

The X Man must have scored for Canada while he was with us, I'm sure. Perhaps even Hastings might have scored for them some time?

Apathy 1. Oh, look it up yerself, I can't be bothered...

The basic problem is that Fir Park's sandpit pitch is awful, has been for ages

If you have it on the pitch don't forget the confetti! ;-) congratulations!

Croatia had more skill, more hunger, more passion. At least England players will get more time to spend with the new Porsche and Bentley models coming out next summer...

1. Gordon 2. McGregor 3. Langfield (as chosen by Alex, 46, from Glasgow) Would Brown have had more chance of a call-up to replace McGregor if he was still with us?

We must be due a win against Aberdeen - 15(?) games against them without. Ironic if we did win, goal scored by Brewster, and they decided to wave goodbye to Tango Man... ;D

Think there's something wrong with your keyboard Mantis - words coming out in the wrong order! I'm sure what you meant to say was "I remember standing there as a goggle-eyed old buffer and getting some teenager to sign my copy" :016: Seriously, Happy Birthday to Against All Odds - one of the main reasons for my support of ICT :drinking08:

I don't know quite how long for, but suspect DU are planning a twinning arrangement with the Forth Bridge :003:

Warnock's CV is pretty good - in particular Notts County and Sheffield Utd taken into the top division, he's also a qualified referee and a chiropodist to boot (no pub intended). Apparantly turned down Chelsea while at Notts County, and given his age and experience I don't think he'd be off at the first 'big club' vacancy. An interesting and controversial character for sure!

Agree with everything said above. Best two Charlie moments to remember: Charlie's MoM at Parkhead on 8 February 2000 and the best result for the club (in the SPL anyway) at Ibrox last October. All the best and thanks :clapping03:

Agreed, he's got the sort of passion, ability and commitment that would benefit any team - it's a shame he's had such major injury problems, otherwise I think he would still be with us. Would be a real loss if he did give up the game, but I can imagine he's thinking more long-term now - I didn't realise just how old he was!

Duncan Shearer got lucky on the gee-gees? :015:

I can tell you're getting old, things that happened less than three years ago already seem like over a decade in the distant past :015: :015: :015:

I understand where David Dowling's coming from, and I think perhaps an individual non-league club might find it more difficult to get a premier tie. Given the way the draw is set up though I still think non-League clubs overall have got a better chance of facing a 'big' side (i.e. top of 1st Div or SPL). Expanding on what Scotty says, Round 2 will consist of 22 non-league and 10 3rd Division clubs. Even in the unlikely event of the (random) balls coming out of the draw so that every 3rd Div club got a tie against a non-league club, and went on to beat them, that would still leave 6 non-league clubs in the draw for Round 3. In all probability some of the 3rd Div clubs will be drawn against other 3rd Div clubs, and some non-league clubs should expect to be able to beat lower 3rd div clubs (East Stirling, Elgin anyone...). Assume that 10 non-league clubs make it through to Round 3, you'd again expect some of the 2nd Div clubs to be drawn against other 2nd Div or against 3rd Div clubs. Hopefully at least a couple of non-league clubs will be able to beat their 2nd or 3rd Div opponents, justifying the expansion of the competition and their automatic inclusion. I'll stick my neck out and say that at least three non-league clubs will make it through to the Round 4 draw including the top 1st Div and SPL clubs, which I think will be an improvement on the previous position and make it a more interesting competition overall. Hopefully TV will be more interested in some of these games, fans should be more interested, and sponsorship monies increase. I've only been to one Scottish Cup game in the last few seasons, partly because of fatigue at seeing us playing the same old sides - now we're in the SPL a draw against of of our bottom six foes at SPL really doesn't get me fired up. Strangely, I would much rather have a good old-style day out on the terracing. I would be happy to see all sides in Round 1, but I don't think it will happen for the various reasons mentioned above. A question though: why did Golspie Sutherland (but none of the other 'non-non-league' sides) compete in the Qualifying Cup North (and presumably will go into the Round 1 draw next season) ???