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its a fair hike from the wetherspoons pub to the park by the cemetry, but its probably the only decent pub in Week. rest are hotel pubs i think. Might have a small chance of making it to the game, depends if i can arrange my work in that direction. Wick will be a challenge to the young lads, so would expect fringe players to maybe be the team backbone, with maybe Tuffey in goal, Golly in CD, Gav morrison and Shane Sutherland up front. Shane would know most of the week players anyways.

Lost 2-0 but were down to ten men in the middle of the first half. Hand ball on the line, although ball to hand was more likely. St J then missed the penalty, but scored from a powerful header two minutes later. They then held their own until 10 minutes from time roughly when Saints scored with an outstanding shot from outside the box. Once the dust settles and they look back, Saints were certainly a bigger stonger side. So they have done well to hold on for over a hour. Noticed that two midfielders were playing as full backs today, and only two subs. Look a bit short of choice at the moment, especially if suspensions kick in, even for single games. Good to see some of the first team squad up to watch them, Richie, Gavin, Shane, Nick were there

Now matter what ideas crop up it will be guided by the television money. They will want the 4 old firm games for the biggest commercial audience, as its our most sellable product. So adding other ideas, increasing the league too much means that after one season two " weaker " teams will come into the equation. this season that could potentialy be Cowdenbeath and Stirling? nothing against them but if they deserve their place by good play they deserve their place. Suggestion of 14 splitting into 6/8 seems to be the best option for tv money, but why not the other way 8/6? SKY and ESPN will be the driving decision, but it will change.

We have a very young squad of players, mainly 17s, a few 16 year olds and one 15 year old ( Liam Polworth ). Would expect them to be playing against slightly older more developed players - and one year can make a big difference to these boys with full time training and physical strength. So would expect ICT to look for positives throughout the season, with Scott Kellacher challenging them to match those with better resourses. St Johnstone finished about 9th or 10th last season and will be expecting to improve on that, so anything out of tomorrows game would be extremely positive.

Tm4tj - point I was making was in that first half hour did Celtic even get as far as our penalty box. Once Johnnys adrenalin faded, so did our control on the game, or our foothold as you would see it. Rooney volley did go less than 10 yards wide, about 5 yards but that was only a couple of degrees angle on his foot getting wrapped round the ball! small margins

Didnt quite understand the Argentina / German flag at the time. Thought they had signed an Argintinian and another German! Simple fact of life, Celtic are the most loyal and best fans in the world. WHERE WERE THEY LAST SEASON WHEN THINGS WERENT GOING WELL. That was not showing their loyalty to the team. What season ticket sales do they have this year, bet its down again. And not just Celtic, look at Rangers attendance to unfurl the flag 45,000 - 5000 missing loyal fans. We broke our attendance record to unfurl our championship flag. The bigger the support, the more likely their are to be morons, just so happens Celtic AND Rangers seem to attract more than there fair share of idiots

What did Craig Levein say about us folks? regarding highlights, we dominated attacking play with a toothless celtic, until Malony hit the post. It then went 50/50 for the rest of the half, although celtic slowely came more dangerous as we gradually lost belief. Seemed to be Jonnys adrenalin was over come by a hurting rib cage after 30 minutes and thats about how long it took Mulgrew to win a challenge against him. Once that happened our outlet seemed to waiver and feel the pace of very little match time with injury on top. Cant explain the second half, but were we not doing that at the beginning of last season, playing really well for 45 minutes and not so well the other 45. Wonder what would have happened if Hayes got the free kick / penalty he deserved in the first 20 seconds. Goal might have changed the entire complection of the game, celtic heads down and ours buzzing. Saw 5 or 6 good chances for us, Hayes run and hooverbelts sneaky foul, Rooneys volley, Erics header, Rooneys turn shot and Ross's back post header. How many did auntie beeb show of that 5, as the rest was just promising attacking. Also wondered why Mulgrew didnt get booked for continually trying to take Johnny down by any means in the first half hour, especially his side step shoulder block on a flying Hayes. that would have put Mulgrew under pressure to stand off him after, but was that just ref preference towards celtic. If Rossco or Grant had done that to Malony they would have gone in the book me finks

saying all that it could be an inspiational move by Tel come Sunday night. Although he wouldnt be expected to jink past the full back and cross every time, could see him cutting in from the left onto a fairly hard strike at goal, and good support from attack minded formation.

Grant Street Park, tonight 7-30 pm kick off. North of Scotland Cup 2nd round. Expect this to be mainly the younger players, but wonder of Foran or Hayes might get a bit of a run out. 19s have just had a couple of pre season games for them, so would think it will be most of the young guns, with Shane, Gavin and maybe Nick. Think it could be a closer game given Clachs start to the season

Tichy I was also at that final in Elgin, 5-0 humping of Buckie. Everytime we scored the Buckie fans went on the rampage, bythe end of the game id never seen so many Police at a north game. remember a few years later it was Elgin in the final at Forres, was in the Thistle bar when the windows were smashed with bricks and game was nearly abandoned due to the rowdy crowd. Liverpool finals have a tendancy to be more epic than some other clubs, Alaves, AC Milan, Roma game not so exciting but to win final on their ground infront of their fans was cool. never forget the last 5 minutes of the Arsenal 3 Man U 2 final, and was it Motherwell 4 Dundee UTD 3.

its the cup teams think they have the best chance in! but it does favour the bigger teams because of the seeding, and if all goes to plan they will be more spl clashes later in the rounds. As a smaller team like Elgin suppose the beleif is there for them to get a plum tie, but would prefer the twisted sisters getting each other as early as possible so at least one 'smaller club' can get to a final. but then seeding does give us a chance of an easier progress to the quarters atc Dundee at home for me

understand that Richie could start the Celtic game, but it was an injury from the Ayr game away, so nowt to do with pre season or friendlies. Think Hayes injury is a hangover from opponents constant hacking at him towards the end of last season. Dont know how close he is to playing

spoke to the piemakers in the market a week ago and can confirm they will be at ict all season, and clach and county. Several thousand will be made for our home games, hundreds for clach whereas county are still reheating theirs each week!!

same sorry story every year now. our so called top teams just seem to get whippped by teams youve never heard of before. One thing is clear they dont like very early season games, so is that just poor preperation. Hmmm unless we are playing Icelandic, Faroese, Scandanavian or Russian teams this must be the case. The listed countries play summer footie so you would not be suprised by there sharpness etc. But the likes of Braga and Maribor are weeks away from there season starting, so in theory we should be sharper than them. So why we failing - are we diluding ourselves that there are not enough young players in Scotland, and any Tomasi, Darius or Henrick should be better than our homebrew. Past climate shows we wont learn the lessons, until one largely home grown team makes it with exciting fearless football again. Will we ever see the likes of the Dons and Arabs tear teams to shreds again. Ido think that Terry found the right formula last season ( 4-2-3-1) but can we take it further, if we do I think they would need another couple of years together, but given our standing in the poor state of the scottish game, anyone showing real form this season may be easily skimmed of for a wad of cash. hope the teams atmosphere in the dressing room blends well, as that can be the thing that keeps the good guys, as our budget wont do it alone. So much for the media slagging off the lesser teams that have represented Scotland recently - Gretna, Queens, Livi, etc County might have done better than Celtic and Hibs, but alas we will never know. This year is the top teams in order representing us, lets just see how far we go. Well done Craig Brown's Motherwell by the way, 1-1 to a decent Norwegian team in the middle of their season, but can see them burning up towards the end of the season, but hey maybe we will be their to take their place.

If the base of the SPL is generally thought of as good or poor as the mid to top of the SFL1, then Johnny will do just fine against that quality of defender. We know that Richie Foran will outwit many a SPL team, and Rooney will score - its just how many! Crux of the quality for me is how creative the mid field are going to be, and probably just as valid, how much protection will the holding mids give our defence. our fatefull day against Falkirk had 3 weak links in my opinion, and non are at the club now. Believe we are stronger throughout now, but time will tell.

Ross, Shane Sutherland and Shinnie all have enough promise, and have done well enough so far. Nick Ross impressed a lot early last season, Shane did fine at a very poor Elgin on loan, and Shinnie shone at Forres and has been solid enough so far. Confident each will prove good squad members this season.

3-2 on penalties. Tuffey saved 3 pens. think Morrison, McBain and Shinnie scored, sub Adam MacLeod had his saved, and Proc missed the target. Calum Dingwall opened the score in the second half, but Golspie equalised 10 minutes later.

doesnt do our co-efficient ratings in europe any good. Just shows how poor our teams are early on in season. If celts go out, is that them out of europe for the season completely? if so, can see them joining rangers on the floor financially, as did the board not say they had to take their time appointing Lennon to make sure they got tings right this time. Cant afford another Mowbray!

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No number for Innes yet it seems!

might be going, but depends when i manage to finish work!

1. rangers 2. Hearts 3. celtic 4. Dundee United 5. St Johnstone 6 Caley Thistle 7 motherwell 8 Hibs 9 Hamilton 10 Aberdeen 11 St Mirren 12 Killie Scots cup Celtic League cup R angers Challenge cup Queen of the South furthest in europe Celtic embarrasment in europe Rangers

Tis what we do next weekend that counts, or at least thats when it all starts. Remember its just a warm up kick about for us, but it was the opening if a new stadium or stand for them. ment more to them basically

The two guys still on trial but with slight knocks look to me as if Tel wants them, as otherwise they would have been offski by now. MacKay Stevens is a very very talented guy, who has had a few injuries at the wrong time. Believe he would still be at Liverpool but for his time out. This can be his way back into top flight, closer to home, more settled, and a Terry said this guy could challenge Johnny Hayes for his spot. I know he has impressed the other players a lot in training aswell.. The defender from Newcastle might be the 22 year old back up we need, to learn his trade and push the centre backs for compitition. Other than that I think Terry will then only go for a loanee or someone who is too good to turn down. Remember we also have a lot of very promising under 19s, two of which are internationals, two of which have also players the early friendlies. I can see Liam Polworth, Kyle White, Jack Sutherland, Tom Smith, Adam MacLeod and Martin Laing pushing for bench places with the others no far behind. Liam Polworth has graced each level he has played at, and I wouldnt be suprised if he breaks the youngest player record for the first team - as he is still 15 i think til sometime before Xmas. Of those 19s named thats 2 defenders, 2 midfielders a winger and an out and out striker, who has been described as the most naturally talented striker to have come through the youth system so far. I would not be worried at any of those guys been in the team with the established guys around them. Tom Smith is a very able and calm left back, Jack centre half, Martin the red haired lad in centre mid who has played a good few friendlies, Liam is a younger build that looks like his dad, Kyle and Adam can both play as strikers, with Kyle more used in Forans place on the left wing - and he is quick by the way.

Guide dogs for the blind? Seriously it might go into a fund for ICT Pplayers who get injuries that may prevent them from playing again. You would hope it never matures but what help do players get if they have to give up at a young age.