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It's called "keeping your feet on the ground" - as fans it is our job to be the ones getting carried away every week, wether it's due to a good or a bad result. It's CC's job to steer a steady ship and getting carried away or going to the extremes in his actions or comments is not going to achieve that. Personally I enjoy listening to CC's interviews, they are more often than not a true reflection of how things have gone/are going - if anything, he is guilty of being the opposite of the accusations presented in the opening post on this thread as (overall) we are doing pretty darn well this season and the players (and cc) deserve all the praise they get - and more!!!

Pics from the party courtesy of Johnboy can be viewed/rated and commented on now in the gallery. Clicky Clicky Thing If anyone else has pics from the night out and they want them added e.mail them to me at [email protected] and I'll get them included - don't worry about resizing or anything as the album takes care of all that automatically when I upload them anyway. Apologise for not making the party, I had to be up for work early this morning (probably around the time most of you were getting to bed) - This golf outing idea sounds intriguing though!!!

Can't see the club allowing him to go on loan TBH, he just has to bide his time (and bring his ego in to check) and he will get his chance again this season. He also needs to spend a little less time talking to the press and bigging himself up and touting himself to other clubs as he obviously seems to be doing (again) here. The guy has obvious talent, just needs to become more of a team player IMO.

I was sorely tempted to close the thread when I saw it, but I believe most of our site users are responsible enough to "self moderate" with regards to these things. I also think it is sometimes better to leave these things so as we, the fans, can make our opinion known regarding the levels certain types of journalist will stoop too in order to fill a few column inches.

Totally disagree with the point regarding subs. I think CC makes intelligent use of substitutes and if you look back at the timings you will see that they varely largely, which IMO, shows he is making changes with a purpose and not just because the game is coming to an end and he is panicing or making changes for the sake of it (Games we are winning aside where changes are often made to eat up the clock). From having a quick glance at the stats I would say about 40% of our substitutions have been made before the 75 minute mark.

A lot of feckin use they would be if you left them at home!!!!!

Must have been a slow news day and if you read the quotes and ignore the journalists attempts to sensationalise the whole thing you can see it looks to be no more than a heated argument. Discussion of players and their personal lives has always been discouraged on here, but since this (non) story has made the national press then I am happy to leave it open for discussion (for now). However, should discussion stray from the facts and degenerate into people simply using it to have a go at one or other party then I will not hesitate to close and/or remove the thread. Hopefully forum users will (as they often do) recognise this as nothing more than 'gutter press' and not give the journalist responsible the reaction he is obviously looking for.

Don't think we should be reading too much into the situation or conjuring up conspiracy theories. It could just as easily be CC playing with different options in the midfield, for which we have an abundance of players all worthy of wearing the shirt and getting a starting place.

I believe changes will come with time. I also believe CC is doing things right (on the whole) so far. He inherited a decent outfit which is performing well enough, to have come in and started making any kind of wholesale changes would have been very risky and stunk of arrogance. Not only is he taking time to find his feet, he is also taking the time to allow his own confidence to grow. He has shown that he is capable of making the right substitutions at the right time in games, and the more he continues to do that the more comfortable he will become with making changes, then from that will come changes to the starting line-up. I don't disagree that we could perhaps do with shaking things up a little, but I don't think it should be something which is forced. We are doing OK - the league table doesn't lie - but we are certainly not safe enough to start experimenting wholesale. Slowly, Slowly, Catchy, Monkey and all that

Story Link If they can't even count the number of digits in a number what the feck chance have they got of making the books balance!!! :015:

I think your being a little naive RiG, the act of waving the flag itself may be ok, but we all know that a large portion of those waving the tricolor do it with the intent of stirring up some kind of controversy, just as those Rangers fans who choose to wave the Union Flag and the St George's Cross do. Unfortunately these flags have been hijacked by and have become symbols for extremist elements, the same cannot be said for the T&T flag, and the two scenarios are a world apart. I do agree that their is little that can be done about someone waving a flag though, and if society chose to ignore/deny the significance that has been attached to them and concentrated on dealing with the issues that can be clearly set apart as sectarian (songs and chants etc) then we may start to make inroads into the problems.

I try not to think - it hurts too much.

If the Courier/HN had printed a full back page on it we would be on here arguing things from the opposite angle...would be a boring world if we all thought the same wouldn't it!!!

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The thing is, many people think Romanov is getting his come-uppence when in fact he is getting exactly everything he wants and has been aiming for since day 1. They guy may be a little on the crazy side but I don't believe he is as stupid as everyone thinks. All he is/was interested in was the real estate that came with taking over Hearts and at this rate he is goig tbe have flats built on it by 2010 with the excuse that the situation at the club become unworkable for him as his excuse for just brushing aside everything.

I thought we saw the best of Hastings when Morgan was playing in front of him on the left a couple of times last season, the two of them worked the left as well as Rossco and Wilson worked the right so it may be McBain that is the issue on that one. Also in the match v the Dons I thought Hastings did tremendously well going forward on a couple of occasions and I would even be tempted to try him out on the left if we had a better option at left back.

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The gas pipe is the main reason that anything more than a shorter/shallower version of the end stands would have to generate income to give the funds to faciliate the extra cost involved in shoring up the ground above it or relocating it. For the sake of "completeness" then a fourth stand would be good, but from a practical standpoint I think it makes more sense to have corner pods as the next priority as these can contain office/corproate facilites and would be far cheaper. I know a lot of people will probably disagree but I think their is something rather appealing about the stadium being open to the road so that all who pass over the bridge and see it can look right in to the ground, if the stadium was located elsewhere then this would seem totally wrong, but something about the current setup just feels right from a passer-bys perspective. It's likes it open and inviting people in somehow.

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Disagree with your point about Dargo being "one player who'll keep running all game long" - that may have been the case last season, but from I have seen and heard this season he isn't chasing a fraction of what he was. And IF he was chasing everything all game long then surely fresh legs is the answer, therefor justifying the substitution???

No teacup needed :004: Clicky Clicky

RiG, you constantly moan about the poor atmosphere at games, then when people get a little excited about the prospect of a good finish in the SPL and the possibility of bigger things your on their backs for getting carried away!!!! It's the fans place to get excited about these things and use that energy to fuel thier support for the team on matchdays, it's the job of CC and the rest of the management team aswell as the players to keep their feet on the ground (as well as the ball..pleaseee) in order to keep grinding out the results and fueling the excitement for the fans.

Yes, but only from the entirely selfish point of view that I struggle to make Saturdays just now with work. Saturday 4pm should be football time at the end of the day though and everything else should revolve around it....including my shifts :001:

Never trust an ancient philosopher with a stutter!!! Although I do find it hard to believe that they can - once again - fail to give ICT the credit they deserve with regards to news coverage it does not suprise me in the slightest. I'm sure thier is some benefit of remaining out of the spotlight though, keeps the pressure off the team a bit.