Wanderer

When I worked in insurance in the 80s there was a fabulous tale going around that someone had claimed on their home policy that their rear garden had spontaneously combusted...the heat causing a stash of golf balls to fire randomly into the next door garden where an unsuspecting loitering teenager just happened to...

HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Foran 1st Opp: Watt Crowd: 40,112

OK, just for you, this Saturday I've re-arranged the fixture list...we're playing Celtic (you wouldn't believe how difficult that was to arrange at short notice). The tinks match is next Saturday. No excuses now!

HT: 0-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Doran 1st Opp: Higdon Crowd: 3213

HT: 1 - 0 FT: 2 - 0 1st ICT: McKay 1st Opp: Novikovas Crowd: 3789

HT: 1-1 FT: 2-2 1st ICT: McKay 1st Opp: Kelly Crowd: 4626

Will it be posted on ICTFC TV for overseas punters to view? BBC inaccessible.

HT: 0-1 FT: 1-2 1st ICT: A.Shinnie 1st Opp: Shiels Crowd: 31,967

HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: A.Shinnie 1st Opp: Hasselbaink Crowd: 3245

Butcher's man management skills are well known to be crap: 1. Never plays players in their strongest positions 2. Tactics that are embarrassing 3. Has 'lost' the dressing room on numerous occasions 4. Is 'owned' by the main stand sweetie rustlers 5. Takes advice from the 'Chorley Seer' What self-respecting Chairman would pursue this non-entity??

By any standard, £ for £, I think he's doing a good job. Clubs like Ipswich are not looking for 'stellar' or Mourinho would be the only manager on vacant position shortlists.

Superb. Really chuffed. Could've been a banana skin but even minus Foran they got the job done. Congrats to all.

HT: 0-1 FT: 0-2 1st ICT: A.Shinnie 1st Opp: Nish Crowd: 4818

Yep I got that. Just seems to me that Sunday 3pm would've made infinitely more sense than... oh, sorry it's the SPL, forgot...

Mike Teasdale?

National managers always complain about the long periods of inactivity compared to the day-to-day job of club management. I think that's where a lot of the respect players have for the manager dissolves... So why not let a serving club manager (McCall?) do the national job as well? With a couple of decent assistants it wouldn't be that hard to scout out the form players, indeed he'd be working right in the middle of it week in week out and keeping a sharp tactical brain. Of course it'd need a willing Chairman to come onside as well but there's a few out there who can see beyond the end of their ginned-up snouts. Yep, I've decided, I want a serving club manager to take it and do both jobs.

Just out of interest, has there been a satisfactory explanation why this is on Friday and not Sunday 3pm?

Superb photography. Congrats!

There's actually a signed contract for that? Rugby Inc signed a contract for that? "And he's errr...and it's...oh, goodness, mercy me, the ruck's collapsed...the referee, I think, oh no...I think it's a penalty...a penalty...no it's a free kick...now who was that?(repeat for 80 minutes). Say what you like about the BBC Scotland football commentary teams, their rugby colleagues make them sound like Henry V on the eve of St Crispen's Day!

HT: 0-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: A. Shinnie 1st Opp: Munro Crowd: 6912 1st Yellow Card: Tokely

An interesting player. Quite a bit of chat about him at Stenhousemuir. I guess the pedigree of coming from Arsenal is promising and he must be bursting to prove he can hack it at this level. There's a bit of the headless chicken about him which could be put down to over-enthusiasm but he managed more shots on target during extra time midweek than the rest of the team did in the previous 90*. When I see him running at defenders I'm reminded of Steve Hislop, with slightly less tendency to waddle off towards the corner flag. A direct runner and a promising loanee. How long have we got him for? *I obviously don't have any stats to back this up. So don't ask.

To be fair he's followed it up with a fairly withering critique of his compatriots... http://espn.go.com/golf/rydercup12/story/_/id/8438185/medinah-memories-surely-linger

HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Mckay 1st Opp: Daly Crowd: 3624

HT: 0-0 FT: 1-2 1st ICT: Foran 1st Opp: Kean Crowd: 667 **Joker**

TB on BBC: "We need to have a better mind-set at the start of games and make sure we apply ourselves better," he explained. "In the second half when the game opens up more we have more about us. "We can't keep going through 45 minutes conceding goals because we won't come back every time." Pepper impressed on his first SPL start, having also equalised against Hearts as a substitute. "He's got great energy," enthused Butcher. "He's a great lad. It took us a year to get him - he had to go back to Ireland for his studies - and now he's learning quickly at our club. "He's a bit like Forrest Gump. It's just as well the stadium is enclosed otherwise he'd been running along Princes Street!" I liked a lot of what I saw yesterday. As has been said Hibs were full of confidence in the first half but credit to us for not letting the head drop after going 2 down. I think that's one of the best Foran performances I've seen, and it was noticeable the extent to which we tried to play to his feet rather than lumping high hopeful balls. Credit to Esson as well for keeping us in the game in the second half, and to Pepper... Run Conor Run...!