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My mate met Imrie and said he was a nice guy.

I can't go as I am going to the rugby thenext day and have peole staying with me. Kilmarnock is an absolute dump of a town. Someone should arrange for it to be napalm'd after we leave.

Rangers could sell their naming rights to Orange. The future's bright, the future's.... Celtic could flog theirs to PaddyPower.com. County could be sponsored by a band, perhaps a hugely successful European folk outfit the Gypsy Kings.

I honestl think he was the best sports commentator this country has ever produced - absolutely brilliant commentary. A complete lack of bias as well. RIP.

what formation aare we playing?

According to today's Screws Filipe Morais was on the night out with Allan McGregor which has lead Rnagers' keeper to be questioned by the police over an allegation of sexual assault. I'll wait for the court case before making any assertion as to whether Morais scored or not.

I think he's been hard done by. This Killie chairman sounds a bit of a nightmare. JJ must've thought that his days of terrible chairmen were gone when he left Bradford.

Celtic away. We would beat them.

A good old fashioned father-son beating will sort him out.

I will be following on the radio or on teletext or whatever you youngsters call it these days.

We played better but didn't create enough chances. If Rooney had a bit more pace he wouldn't have been caught by McGregor on a couple of ccasions. Defence played well - Lionel was good I thought.

Any chance that the game will be off? Snowing in Edinburgh just now, the forecast is for snow on Saturday in Dunfy.

Yes, I've heard that the Green Movement protesters in Iran and the NorthKoreans swimming across frozen rivers to China often console themselves with the thought that while things are bad for them, at least they aren't Caley Thistle fans - sometimes the burgers sell out!

I will be going.

Iain 'Lee Bowyer' Vigurs scored for County Rory McAllister scored for Brechin Steve HIslop scored twice for Arbroath Bryan Gilfillan got booked for Annan Athletic.

Butcher's touchline ban starts next week.

Rooney

If we win our next three games we are right back in the race. People need to man up and stop bleating about blooding youngsters - that's surrender.

---------------------Esson--------------------- ---Proctor----Bulvitis---Munro-----Lionel---- ------------Cox--------Duff-------------------- ------Hayes-----Sanchez-----Imrie---------- -----------------Rooney-----------------------

That would make sense. What I would really like is for us to sign a coupld of defenders. In an ideal, Abramovich-buys-Caley World we'd buy a couple of new full backs and a Pavels style centre half.

Just because it?s rare for clubs to go straight back up doesn?t mean that it can?t be done. However, there are reasons why relegated clubs struggle in the First Division. 1. Upheaval in squad/team. Most clubs who are relegated have to cut costs and this includes freeing players who they would most likely keep. In our case we had to let Filipe Morais, Brian Kerr and Pavels Mihadjuks leave. These three players were all regulars last season and would have been again if we could have kept them. As well as losing good players, the turnover in the squad means that there will be a settling in period for the new players. This will cause inconsistent performances in most cases. 2. Adapting to a new division. Most teams that win the First Division have played in the league for a few years. Falkirk won the league in 2003 and 2005 ? they were relegated in 1996. We won the league in 2004 ? we were promoted in 1999. St Mirren won the league in 2006 ? they were relegated in 2000. Hamilton won the league in 2008 ? they were promoted in 2004. St Johnstone won the league in 2009 ? they were releaged in 2002. This suggests that squads and clubs need time to grow accustomed to the demands of the First Division. In the case of sides who are relegated, it takes time to adapt from grinding out points in a relegation fight to the confidence and arrogance to go out expecting to win every match that is required in a title challenge. Promoted sides need time to gain experience and find their feet at a higher level. The only exception during this time to this rule was Gretna, who effectively bought their way into the league by signing up players with experience. 3. Different tactical requirements. This links with the previous point. When Caley Thistle won the league we played with three up front, we were the leading goalscorers in the league and regularly scored four or five goals in a game. When we were in the SPL we were renowned for our tight defence and ability to grind out results. Clubs the size of Caley Thistle can only really survive in the SPL by adopting a more defensive style of football. After being relegated this needs to change but altering the footballing focus of the team is difficult. Combine this with the first two factors and you can see why many teams struggle.

Only Partick Thistle were relegated after finishing in the bottom two. Livingston were relegated due to entering administration and Gretna went into liquidation and ceased to exist.

The whole issue with signing Marius needs to be properly looked into. There's something not right about the way the transfer was conducted, from Savage allegedly buying shares in the club to fund the wages, to the fact that David Sutherland appeared in the press claiming we couldn't pay his wages to the fact that the board seemed to hawk him around club after club in a desperate attempt to sell him to the fact that we apparently have withheld payments to Marius that he is legally entitled to. The entire affair is a shambles and isn't the way to run a club. To be honest, I feel sorry for Marius in the whole thing - he appears to have been royally messed around. Imagine turning on the news and hearing that your employer has been telling the media that he is unable to pay your wages; it's unacceptable.

Get him signed.

Can we not give Shinnie a chance? Lionel is pish.