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Ronaldo, Is that our defender or theirs? :003:

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Gosh! And here I was thinking I had watched the whole match! :012:

Being past my bedtime, I settled down to be put to sleep by the ICT team performance, mentioned in all the reports on the match thread. Surprise, surprise, the best show for a long time!! Either you lot were at a different match or we received OF editing! We look good, hungry and should have had many more goals.

I may be looking at this from the wrong angle but at a time when we are trying to increase crowds Setanta kicks us in the teeth. Monday night attending or Monday night viewing? No contest, in my opinion. Lets consider the reason for Setanta paying the money they did to screen this match. They sell adverts! Adverts can only be seen by people watching TV. Crowds at matches must annoy Setanta as they are not playing the game - staying at home watching the match AND THE ADVERTS. A half empty park - and how often do we see that now on televised matches - even international matches, is the way the game will go as more of the current paying public will prefer to sit at home with their can of beer in front of the telly. Once this happens of course it will be £10 to view the match of your choice AND watch the adverts. Someone said the clubs sold their souls to Setanta, well I happen to think that the clubs have sold their future as there will be no local team as we now know it. Only big teams with huge support playing in super leagues will be seen as there will be no small clubs left and we will still sit at home with cans of beer watching the 3 Scottish teams - Celtic, Rangers and Others United! Far fetched? Try balancing the books with a reducing crowd coming through your gate every match!

Sandy, I take your point BUT does it matter if it is **** or Richard- it is still the same player being discussed - and maybe it is refreshing to listen to new fans views without having their views coloured by history. Maybe in this case the views expressed are too close for comfort for some 'fans'!

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the 12th man! Perhaps the crowd can become more vocal and less negative and give the team the lift required for a great result. And that is what it will be - a great result if we get 3 points from this game.

ley nice (that is how we speak, up around the Kingmills Park)

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Subject: Fw: The Meaning of Tragedy..... Prime Minister, Phoney Blair, was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy". So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a "tragedy". One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field & a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a 'tragedy'". " No," said Blair, "that would be an accident." A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be tragedy." "I'm afraid not," explained the Prime Minister "That's what we would call a great loss." The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Phony searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?" Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand...In a quiet voice he said: "If the aeroplane carrying you and Mrs Blair was struck by a "friendly fire" missile & blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy. Fantastic!" exclaimed Phony Blair. "That's right. And can you tell be why that would be a tragedy?" "Well," says the boy "It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be a f ** king accident either."

Well Alex, if it is a crime to call Lennon a numpty, it is time we all gave up supporting football! A large part of the enjoyment of being at a match is cheering the mistakes of the opposition, whither it be missed goals or a missed placed pass. As someone has already stated above, the downward supporting slope is upon us thanks to some ill-advised civil servant. However now for the blind eye(or is it ear) syndrome. I am amazed that Celtic, at Inverness, sang their bigoted songs to annoy the Rangers fans as I am sure, we, up here, do not give a tinkers cuss what 'school' you went to. Last Saturday, at Aberdeen, the same behavior was in evidence. The only way that Celtic can have this song heard by Rangers fans is over the TV transmission mics and the powers that be can't hear it?? Aye, Right!!

See - a 4-1 win can even affect me! :015: :clapping04:

A guy goes to a fancy dress party and knocks on the front door of the house. The door is answered by the host, who looks at the guy who's in nothing but Y fronts. ''This is a fancy dress party'' says the host. ''I know'', says the guy. ''I'm a premature ejaculation.'' The confused host says ''I'm sorry you'll have to explain.'' So the guy says ''Simple really, I've just come in my pants.''

The Snug was playing host to the Thursday night drinkers. A toasting competition was the order of the night and a bottle of Irish for the winner. John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!" That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night! He went home and Mary, his wife, asked him to explain away this bottle of Irish. "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night" he replied with his chest stuck out. She said, "Sure, did ye now. And what was your toast?" John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife." "Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said. The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary." She said, "Sure and was he not telling me himself last night, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come."

A Scotsman, American, and an Irishman are in a bar. They are having a good time and all agree that the bar is a nice place. Then the Scotsman says, "Aye, this is a nice bar, but where I come from, back in Inverness, there's a better one. At MacDougal's, you buy a drink, you buy another drink, and MacDougal himself will buy your third drink!" The others agree that sounds like a good place. Then the American says, "Yeah,that sounds like a nice bar, but where I come from, there's a better one. Over in Brooklyn, there's this place, Vinny's. At Vinny's, you buy a drink, Vinny buys you a drink. You buy another drink, Vinny buys you another drink." Everyone agrees that sounds like a great bar. Then the Irishman says, "You tink that's great? Where I come from in Dublin, dere's this place called Murphy's. At Murphy's, they buy you your first drink, they buy you your second drink, they buy you your third drink, and then, they take you into the back office and you get laid!" "Wow!" say the other two. "That's fantastic! Did that actually happen to you?" "No, not exactly" replies the Irish guy, "sure me missus told me about it!"

Having watched our national team blast the ball up the park for the final few minutes to hold onto their lead and all they achieved was to allow another attack to be formed, how I wished there was a cool head on the park to calm them down and encourage them to hold the ball and waste the time in this way. Perhaps our new signing can instill from his experience, the coolness required, at times, into our team so that we, unlike last night's team, can be more level headed under pressure. Just maybe!

I am just a very appreciative audience, Johnboy and story telling is not one of my strong points. I do wonder however: Who looked at a cow for the first time and said 'I'm going to pull the dangly bits'? or I'm going to eat what comes out of a hens arse? or If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares why do they write a song about it? or Why do people point to their wrist when asking the time but never to their crotch when asking for the bog? or Do illiterate people get alphabet soup at a reduced price? Life is full of puzzles.

On the evidence of the above, the teams support is in good heart!! Thanks!

Can I assume that the lack of funnies on here at the moment is indicitive of the concern felt for the teams performance or is it just a coincidence. If I am correct I hope we have a few good results shortly as I need cheering up!

On the subject of erses - now that's a good link - the photo in the Record of Marshall being pig sick at the ICT celebration of the goal, raises a point about the fans. Can I assume that the chap sitting in front of the happy happy lady is a Celtic fan or is he one of the ICT fans that is so hard to please? ('A goal? Call that a goal? Ginger McKenzie could have put that in the back of the net with his eyes closed'!!) I thought it was only in Aberdeen that the fans sat with their arms folded demanding to be entertained.('Ken, I've paid good siller for 'is!) Can I suggest to all the stay away ICT potential fans - enjoy it when you can , it may not always be available. This last comment is not any slight on ICT as a team but the politics that appear to be prevailing within the Scottish game. How long before they need a guaranteed average crowd of 6000 to allow top flight football at that stadium?

Well Rig, we were both at Saturdays game and I agree with your comments but I can not agree about Wyness. I felt he was lethargic in his approach and did not have a very high work rate. Bayne, when he came on was neither of these things as he is a worker. The main point when we look at the two of them is that Wyness has more ability in his big toe than Bayne! Wyness is a cheat too all the paying customers as he can give us so much entertainment but does not bother whereas Bayne gives 100% of his ability. In my team I would have Bayne and leave Wyness in the reserves until he wakes up and realises that we rescued him from playing in Perth or Brechin or Peterhead and no doubt he would only be using 50% of his ability there as well!!