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A draw was the minimum required and we succeeded there. We have kept the biggest aid to keeping us in the SPL at arms length. We kept a clean sheet and never had anyone sent off. All the other teams around us apart from Well lost out, and their goal difference is much worse. All in all, a satisfactory day, if not aesthetically pleasing. The proverbial six pointer fizzled out, but we must be happier than the Pars with the result.

Black in booking shock Notice that Liam Buchanan has scored a hat-trick for Cowdenbeath.

We seem to have a number of invisible men playing today, here is a picture of them.

Oh goody, maybe we will get a keeper who might save the odd penalty :017:

Yo Bozo, feck off with yer negativeness and go and watch the huns or the tims, maybe you are just ferkin dumb, but I have now had enmough of your shite.

:015: Remember watching him at Ibrox last year and he was amazing, he kept the ball in the air for the whole of the half time break, ran the length of the pitch keeping the ball up with any part of his body...... unfortunately when he got into the box he volleyed the ball over the bar from about six yards in the p!ssing rain, marvelous stuff. :015: loser

This one made me chortle first time round. During one of our games in our 'Pitoddrie season', decisions were going somewhat against us. Now, I had the misfortune to sit within earshot of one of our more moronic followers and as the game wore on and the ref was making our man more and more exasperated with every blow of the whistle, it suddenly came to a head with yet another dubious call. He exclaimed in perfectly clear Black Isle dialect, "can we have another referee, coz this ones broken". (delivered in one breath and single tone) Genius, and he doesn't even know it. :003: I'm blind I'm deaf I wan't to be a Ref :015: :015: How apprpriate :003:

North tonight news just now :010:

Alex, you have a PM, unfortunately for you, it is only from me.

Oh dear, it's the old.....all fur coat and no knickers gag :010:

Most entetaining game this season Mr Lifts. Everything was good, except the result. First half especially we looked like Barcelona, flooding forward and ripping Killie apart. Unfortunately Killie didn't follow the script and inexplicably went 1-2 ahead, back we came, but slackness and the ref ensured we lost. However, your last thread was questioning the entertainment value. This was it, very entertainment to the end. Stick with it, we showed today that we can play neat football, we just forgot how to defend. But that's entertainment!

Aye, sore one to take. fair play to Killie, they always like to have a go at us up here but we kinda shot ourselves in the foot undoing the brilliant early work we did in this game. Lot has been said about our defence playing poorly, but in all honesty Killie played a big part in the goals and maybe more credit to them for that. Brown was not really at fault for the goals, hard one to take when Nish sclaffed his shot through Broonies legs, chit happens. The first was a decent corner, a good near post knock on, and Naisnith was the only one to react, goal, simple as that. Denzil and Dargo were on fire for the first 45 and could and should have scored a couple more. Great movement, stepovers, dummies, dribbles, we saw it all and Denzil especially almost scored a beauty having done the spadework himself with a couple of scoops and dummies and double shuffles, unfortunately Smith made a good block, life. He also made an outstanding save from Blacks point blank header in the second half, more misery for us. Twenty minutes to get the equaliser but it just didn't happen. Draw would have been fair enough, defeat was hard to take. No complaints performance wise, just the result :019:

I'm still with Broonie, not really his fault today, sclaffed shot going through his legs............life

Can't be ersed reading every word above but,...................we ferkin played like Barca today, especially in the first half, would have put your Chrissie pressies on Denzil notching a brilliant second goal for us. Hey ho, we lost, but we were fantastic for 80% of the game, we did not deserve what we got. More tomorrow once the boo boys have their say. Well done Cromarty for honest views as usual, nothing more than i would expext from a true fan.

awwwwww that's really sweet guys :love03:

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It's always the same guys who come in for the criticism. only forgotten when he scores against Rangers, not for the first time either. Alex is right, get off the players backs, constant nagging week in week out does nothing for them but knock the confidence out of them. seldom do we see Dargo being criticised or Parky, even reserves become better players without playing, but in reality, everyone has off days. Dargs missed a penalty, hey ho, makes him a better person does it? He gets credit for making runs off the ball and flicks that don't work whereas Bayne does the grafting and gets slaughtered because Dargo can't read what Bayne is trying to do........so who's fault is that? make your own mind up, but it's always the same guy who gets slated for it. Well, for all the snipers, I hope CC puts Bayne on as a sub when we are one nil down with fifteen minutes to go and he scores a hat-trick, unwitnessed by the hordes who left early because the long ball was not working and Russeldinho's passing was suspect, Blackie was sent off for a second late lunge, Tokely was out of position cos he was supporting the forwards, Dodsy had given away the penalty that put us behind, Dargoa and Wyness both missed penalties for us and Brown's kicking was awry, Hastings had gone to Canada, Golly made an appearance and the invisible man was nowhere to be seen, Rankin kept Morgan out and displayed all his old first division player of the year skills, oh nearly forgot, Grantie played ok, cos he is local. Aye, the future is bright

Today is yesyedays future........... Tomorrow never comes, cos when it's tomorrow, it's today........... Lets wipe the slate clean and start with a good performance against Killie. Remember, theres always Dunfermline.

strange name :010:

I am annoyed too, he never offered me :023:

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Bozo, it appears that your future is always bleak, glass half empty, Scrooge like.......... You do make some valid discussion points but for me the neverending story for Charlies head on a plate detracts from any theories you have. When ICT entered the SPL, what did you really expect to happen? Did you think we were going to sweep all before us and win the league before Xmas? Did you really think we would be in the top six? Did you really think we would qualify for Europe? Some folk.... Charlie has been criticised fo making realistic comments about the team firstly avoiding relegation, hey, that is real life, that is what we must do every season. He is on a hiding to nothing here, the guy from the lotto job wins Champions League, aye, dream on. It's like all the people championing Caff for weeks, well well, look what happened when he got a game. Don't get me wrong, I think he is a decent player, but it's easy for people to slag off others and say we should have done this.....or that........or put on this sub......or whatever, but how do we know that it would actually have altered events in real life, we have no way of proving if they would be correct until it happens, it's like saying...........we would have won the game if we left Dargo on............prove it! Have your say, but give the manager and his colleague some support, through the good and hard times. The only thing that have made him a bad manager is that we have become too predictable, teams have sussed us out, Charlie himself has not altered his approach so why is he getting all the stick. I am disappointed with the results of the last two weeks, but hey ho, it's a funny old game, although I bet you are not laughing the now. :019: How about it, deal or no deal.

:010: Not the best start then :crazy07:

Quite frankly, we have gone stale. All the other clubs know what to expect from us and how much rope they can give us. We are now predictable without having the flair players to unlock tight defences. Our previously watertight defence has started shipping goals and the strikers purple patch from last season has gone pale. The midfield has no leader, someone to take control, Rankin has not been the Messiah we were searching for. Lots of theories already put forward, a lot of them plausible. We are the same team we were earlier on this season..........same old same old, but the rub of the green has not gone our way since Aberdeen spoiled our night. Still, if we can buy shrewdly in January, then I believe we will finish above relegation. The league has probably sorted itself out by now, top six, and bottom six. All those who thought CC was talking rubbish when he said our main aim is to avoid relegation.............look at us now, the line between success and failure is a very fine one. We should be proud of what our team has achieved in a short time, but the longer we are in the SPL, the harder it will be to maintain our status there. Success for us has already been achieved, for ICT there is probably only one way to go, lets hope we take it gracefully when it comes along.

birthday suits :blush02: