tokelyisvictorious

cracking game, one of the best away atmospheres for a long time, and the players appreciated it. just the kind of start we were needing, foran in for rooney (slow, didn't look sharp) and we are sorted. Looks like dougie is going to be out for a while though, but hayes did well when he came on. Surprised a bit at pars quality, they had us pinned back in the 2nd half, the only thing they can't do is break a defence down. all in all, one of, if not the, best away days for a few years. Definitely the best post-match reaction ever.

its just good to be back. sounds like a great away support gathering, hope this doesn't lead to a big let-down again.

surely best to have a not-quite-match-fit spl goalie rather than an outfield player between the sticks.

its just a pity that 54.35% of people don't appear to believe.

section g all the way. had to move to there this season, can't keep getting a kevin bisset section seat. already stated my dislike for the main stand. the players usually recognise the north stand more, and i don't think its any coincidence that the team plays better when shooting towards the north end.

Were you actually watching what was happening, the kids had ten seconds to try and score and to HELP each one they got the announcer to do the countdown, it really annoys me when people slate others for trying to help. Even if the so called supporters didn't like it I'm sure the kids did and appreciated what was being done for them. Like most things in life you only get out of something what your willing to put in! Get a life. I wasn't slating the tannoy man at all, i was slating the crowd. Like i said, and have said before, i like having caleyd on the mic. good choice of music, getting better at mixing tracks and talking over the top of them, all round much better. next time, just read a post, take ten seconds out and reeeeelaxx.

aye the song worked well yesterday, the stadium announcer did a good job as well, although i am sure it is a sript that he is given, and not his own personal choice to count down from 10 to 1 around 25 times when no-one else could be arsed. good to have a local man on the tannoys anyway.

always going to be tokely.

what renegade said. except maybe get shane sutherland in for rooney, he looked promising.

oops :P did i notice bryan gilfillan playing yesterday?

Very enojyable performance, some entertainment as well. Every member of the team played well, the new boys were superb, eagles, bulvitis and cox especially. roscoe was probably my man of the match, butcher surely must now see the light. Our most skillful player (a couple of excellent touches and flicks today, could see the big man was loving it) and looks dangerous every time he is forward. lovely crossing as well. snachez had a good game as well IMO, did well taking a couple of touches and then passing it out wide. Might not be the biggest or strongest, but you don't need to be with a smart football brain and nice movement (rooney take note). dougie certainly had a point to prove today, the man was everywhere and typically ran himself into the ground. where is roscoe23? back in the woodwork?

aye i'll be there, maybe with the old man. with any luck we will score at least 5 or 6. nice wee warm-up for the pars.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha got what they deserve, the czechs were the better side. that result cheered me up. any other team and i would be lamenting that result.

roscoe offers a lot more to the club and the team than any other player in the team, watching even the utd game he was the only player telling bulvitis where to play and when to drop off. when playing on the right he is our best attacking player, pace and strength, he just adds a bit of competitiveness and bite to the team. anyway the starting 11 for annan: gk esson rb roscoe lb lionel cb munro cb bulvitis rm imrie lm eagles cm mcbain cm cox fc foran fc sanchez

ah yeah read the article wrong. typical caley fan, living in the past. from what i saw from bulvitis he has a bit to go yet. sanchez is the perfect signing tbh, exactly the shot in the arm we were looking for. the perfect foil for foran.

strange that bulvitis got a long term deal, perhaps he is on lower wages, would've thought that danni was the most promising of those two.

cracking news

thought the tannoy man was decent enough, forgot hastings name though. i thought it was titch from mfr. Not sure bout that woah song, worked well enough at the utd and montrose game, wait and see, would be nice to have a sort of localish song (without reverting bach to teuchter music).

very promising performace from most of the players today, sign up sanchez as soon as possible after another very good goal and general play. Unsure after games against lower opposition but with him playing utd and doing so well proves his worth. With him, odhiambo and foran up front it would be fantastic. top marks for stratford, roscoe, eagles and cox. all performed up to their standards and with them on form we looked a lot more dangerous going foward. bulvitis was decent bearing in mind he was playing a couple of cracking strikers. much more optomism now, looked more like a team out there tonight.

I think you are very wrong with this comment. How exactly? Having terracing didn't exactly create an electric atmosphere when we were last in SFL1. I just think the terracing would naturally filter the fans into their seperate groups; the ones who wish to sing, the youngsters, the main standers and the execs (or those who think they are execs). Ah well, i hope i am right anyway, i don't want the away games to be as sh!te as the main stand.

I am one of those with a problem with the main stand, as you've probably guessed from other threads. Most are negative, have nothing positive to say when the match is going well, and grumbling or shouting pathetic abuse at our own players when it aint. Not saying the north stand is magnificent but its been getting better over the last two years. All it would take is just a little more effort from the main stand, before the match and during it. The away support for ict is pretty decent, and i believe that 90% of those are either expats or north standers. I don't get the psyche of most main standers, can't figure out what they get out of paying ?20 to sit down, not move and moan for 90 minutes. Terracing would solve all our problems in terms of attendance and atmosphere. Never going to happen but surely for now the main stand can just cheer up.

It's a lot more acceptable than having lost....and the way some people are going on you would think we had. A lot of people seem to be hanging the rest of the season on this one game...I'm not saying it was a fantastic performance, but as in any season we'll have days when things don't go to plan but we still pull off a result and we'll have days where we play outstanding football and take nothing from a match....such is the nature of the game. We have people claiming "we won't do this and we won't do that" on the back of one match, and a match where we were missing a number of (what could be considered) key players. If we were well into the season and injuries etc had forced us to field that team and we got a result then we'd be delighted and we'd be noising up opposition fans with claims that even our reserves were beating them.....that for me is the reality of the situation. What chance do we have if, after one game, the fans are already panicking, spreading doom and gloom and talking about relegation? I'm not saying we should be smothering the players/team with false praise, but I don't think we should be slinging up any nooses and herding them to the gallows. Totally agree Caley D. I have replied to similar threads like this before where some contributors on this site really seem to be from another planet. This was the first competitive game of the season but in reality was still a pre season game. The same goes for Annan next week with the real season starting on 8 August. A 1-1 result against Falkirk would have kept us up last season and if we had got that playing as we did today, some of these so called supporters would still be moaning as it was only a 1-1 draw. Give some of the new guys a chance to settle in before jumping to conclusions about how good they are. If some of the contributors on here want to continue to endlessly moan, then all I can say is find another team to support as I honestly don't know how some can seriously call themselves supporters of ICT. Rant over. thats what i said and i got ripped into. the new boys did well. i remember ian blacks debut (sorry to use him as the benchmark for free transfers again) didn't exactly set the heather on fire. caleyd, i will not let your signature fool me again.

monthemo has it pretty much spot on. It makes me embarrassed sometimes when there are the *rseholes in the main stand who heckle the moment a player makes a minor mistake. I felt sorry for the new boys yesterday for having to play in front of them. I would personally ban them from all of the games, they offer nothing in terms of support and even heckle the manager. Most are the older generation who believe that because they have been following the team fro the last 20 years or whatever that they have the right to get on the back of anyone who doesn't perform upto the standards of billy urquhart or alan hercher. It's ridiculous. The ict away support is ten times better, albeit ten times smaller, but mainly because these people don't make the trip. Makes me glad I am a north stander, don't know what these people get out of going to a football match.

we created plenty of chances, and when we get dougie and eric back we will score those chances. the only worrying aspect was the link between the midfield and attack, and once butcher sorts that out, perhaps with sanchez and eagles, then we will be fine. the best thing about today was the result. we got there in the end and we will need to play in a lot more of those types of games before the end of the season.

shift roscoe to right back, let the others get back to their full fitness and then we will have a cracking team. trust me, this wasn't even a minor blip. did no-one else just enjoy winning a match? no-one else just glad to be sitting at a football match at 3pm on a saturday afternoon?