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She never looked like that when I picked her up on Saturday night

Happened upon this pic whilst browsing around the net and thought for a moment I needed specs!!! What kind of sadistic barstewards produce this kinda thing??? :015:

Here's hoping that never happens :017: :015:

Caff at RB and Rossco in the middle has some merit and could be tested before the end of the season. You also have the ability to swap them back into their "natural" positions if it looks like going plum shaped.

No, that was me in the second post down on this page :001:

Shamelessly stolen idea from another thread :003: What's set to record on your SKY+ Planner? In this house it's......... Eastenders Emmerdale Cornation St Blade (the series) The Unit Any one of a number of kids cartoons/movies depending on whats in fashion at the time.

nightmares

If someone feels strongly enough about an issue then they will post it regardless of what reaction they feel they will get. In any walk of life if you have a view which goes against the consensus then you are going to come up against resistance in many forms. Some will put a structured argument against your case and some will "slate" you for your opinion - It's your decision who you wish to credit with a response and who you wish to ignore. Clacher could have chosen to ignore Harry's jibe and the thread would have quickly dropped into obscurity, but he chose to respond. Others could have chosen to have left them too it, but wanted to throw in their tuppence worth....it's all about choice and nobody is forcing anyone to read or respond to anyone else's remarks or comments. "You can't please all the people all the time" - And we would be pulling our hair out and causing more problems than we would ever solve by trying. The site has changed since it went unofficial and some may not like it, but the facts show that far more people do as viewing and posting figures have been on an upward trend for the last 10 months - so we must be getting something right!!! As with any comment made about the running of the site it will be discussed, but the users have just as much responsibility and power to make the forum what they want it to be as the Admin.....perhaps the next "jibe" that's made would be best ignored by those it is aimed at.....just a thought.

vertigo

Bit like Black with his 3 games. Each suspension gets longer through points accumulation. The straight red will have merited a 1 match ban in it's own right, but another booking will take points to a level to get him 4 matches.

You can't win eh? People want freedom to say what they like, but then want threads removed when people do just that!!!

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I moved it because I couldn't find anything in the press quoting him as saying he was away. All the talk seemed to be around him having options and no decision has been made yet. If you can show me a direct quote which says he is offskee I'll happily move it back.

Robocop

HC, have you got your Hasting and your Rossco mixed up? Rossco's was solid in his defending and positioning but was lacking in his distribution and gave the ball away far too softly on a few occasions, certainly far more than Hastings did. Other than that I would pretty much agree with the rest of the smileyometer

I think we could have a strong case for getting the red card overturned. Also, I don't think you serve the suspension immediately so he may well still be available for next week regardless??? By all accounts Caff has been shakey in the last couple of games but he was solid today and showed very little that concerns me about him becoming an immediate replacement for Dods for the rest of the season. There are equally justifiable arguments for and against and I think we'll just have to leave the decision up to CC on this one.

2.5 - that'll do for me :001:

Just home from the match and what a great day out. Dods Red Card wasn't harsh IMO, it was feckin ludicrous. The ref had made his mind up on what he was going to do before it even happened and had the card out before Boyd even hit the deck. He then allowed the freekick to be taken at least 10 yards closer in than it should have been. That aside, we weren't in the game for the first 15 minutes and even if Dods hadn't been carded it always looked like we were going to be the first to concede a goal. The sending off may have actually done us a favour in some kind of perverse way as it sparked a bit of fight into the remaining players. When it was announced that Markus was coming off to be replaced by Caff my initial reaction was "oh feck, here we go with the defence minded substitutions" and I honestly was of the opinion that we should have played with 3 at the back and just went for it. Thankfully I wasn't making the decisions though and CC's call was spot on - so for that moment of doubt I hold my hands up and apologise. We held on for the remainder of the first 45, but after the break you would never have noticed that ICT were playing with only 10 men. The midfield chased everything and were putting in some crucial crunching tackles. One in particular comes to mind where I'm sure Duncan must have crossed about 75% of the pitch (unnoticed) and ploughed in with an inch perfect tackle on ??? - I forget who. Hart had a stormer of a game today, he ran at the Rangers defence time and again and really was creating problems for them. Very difficult to choose a man of the match when hardly anyone put a foot wrong all day. Duncan a very close second, as already mentioned his tackling was immense and he hit every one inch perfect, which is just as well as he was going in hard most of the time and a slight mis-judgement could have put us down to 9 men. What about young Mikey Fraser......the lad looked like he'd been playing between the posts for ICT for years and this was "just another game". Well composed for the entire duration of the game and had some fantastic saves. Not afraid to come off his line and take the ball from the feet of oncoming strikers or pluck it out of the air either. I had confidence that he was more than capable of filling Browns shoes but he has gone beyond that and I think he is a far more rounded and complete keeper than Brown ever was or ever will be....this lad has a very bright future. It's unfair to single out any player for criticism, but I'm sure others will agree that Rossco wasn't entirely on form today. Although he made some great tackles his distribution was pretty dire and I lost count of the number of times he rescued us at theback only to pass the ball back to Rangers for them to launch another attack. 75 minutes of the game gone and I take a look around Ibrox - I couldn't believe what I was seeing - streams of rangers "fans" are up and leaving!!!! WTF is that all about? The game was far from over and anyone could have scored in the last minutes (and we did). I don't think I would be far wrong if I said that 60% of them had left before the final whistle and many of them were in for a feckin shock when they got back to cars or whatever to find that we had pulled the goal back. Full credit to the fans we did speak to as we left and those we bumped into on our journey home. Every one of them gave credit to ICT for the battling spirit of the team and the "never say die" attitude. Many of them also acknowledged that we should have had a stone wall penalty and that Dods Red Card was harsh in the extreme. When you see performances like today's where just about every player is on form and giving their all it eases the worries for next season. It also sets you to thinking that any problems we may have are/will be with consistency rather than ability.

£300,000 grand (£300,000,000???) - Think your source might have been a little peeshed at the time :015:

What happens on 3rd May???

Nothing more exciting than playing "Down Under" :001:

Subtle as ever :015: :015: :015:

Done

CaleyThistleOnline actually had a raving (not a typo) reporter on hand at the match. Match Report shall be posted on the Front Page soon (I'm in the process of copying it across now)

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