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According to BBC Zander Sutherland, Stewart Soane and the under 19 keeper have all been given one year contracts, CC says they have shown the desire to succeed and have been rewarded wqith a f/t contract. Good news.

I still have a feeling that Brian Irvine is in with a shout, he's turned Elgin round pretty quick.

A touring coach starts a journey around the west coast full of O.A.P's after about and hour the driver gets a tap on the shoulder, a little old lady gives him a handfull of almonds, 'thankyou' says the driver. This happens every 20 minutes, eventually the driver asks the lady why she gives him the nuts, old lady replies ' we dont like them ourselves' then how are you buying the nuts then?' says the driver, ' oh we only like the chocolate round them ' says the lady.

I dont think Livvy would go bust, but would find it very difficult to get back up..they would surely lose a few top players ala Dundee and rely on youth ala Dundee. But did you see their crowd yesterday 2300 FFS, for an important game that is awful. Anyway i would not shed a tear if they dropped, not even because of Robbo.. dont forget Robbo jumped HMS SNECK at the first sniff of a big job, we owe him zilch.

'CC will most likely field an inexperienced, young squad ' Very very unlikely, CC will go there reminding the players of their own professionalism, imagine if we were in a relegation position and needed say, Dndee utd to go to Pars to beat them for us to stay up, and they sent a weak young team there? ICT players will not be very happy to go and get beat there again.. no way.

Aye aye...you only managed to spell that 'H' word cos' you copied it off the tube...

Was this something you swapped for filing cabinets????

He came into the reserves after some good games for the under 19's, might i add that we sponsored him last season.. this probably had a postitive effect on him..... When i have seen him play he's been pretty good even against some experienced players, sort of like Burke from Rangers. Good future methinks.

Realistically it looks like we are a one play team, our tactics suit when we are the team under attack, abosrbing pressure and scoring on the break. When the roles are reversed, and we are at home the team are confused as to what to do, even against lower league oppostition ala Ayr and Partick. Its about time this was addressed, it could have a negative effect on season ticket sales. I'm feckin sure i'd prefer to see 8 home wins instead of 3 home wins, maybe mantis and the rest would argue, but more wins at home might produce bigger crowds.

He always seems do do quite well against us, maybe he's fishing for a move to a bigger club? And the signing on thing made me think.. although we dont pay a comarative high wage, do we give players a lump sum for signing on? eg Duncan signed on till 2009 would he get a fat packet this week?

I remember the sadist that was Colin Baillie, during school swimming lessons forcing the weaker swimmers to jump off the high board to give them' confidence' in the water, Probably scarred us for life. ... cant.. stop..twitching...

Errr excuse for being ignorant..what is ' a wee feely ' ? if i've had one already sorry.. if its something Tmftj got in exchange for a filing cabinet, i dont want to know.

Which brings me to a thread which oldies and lovers of old ( and much copied ) music can post their fav's. After a trip to and from Livvy last week listening to TMFTJ's rock guitar selections i think we should post our favorite bands/music. Personally, i went through the Black Sabbath type stuff, mellowed a bit and now still listen to Talking Heads, Stones, beatles, and lots of rock stuff too varied to mention.

Nice to be optomistic Alex!! Cant see us averaging 7.5k crowds, with the wages we pay, we cant afford top quality ( for Scotland ) players. Therefore i can see us maintaining a lower middle SPL status, unless of course we can get a multi millionaire to bank roll us.. what happened to the Al Fayed rumour?

Have to say i'd be more worried about losing Dargo than Black, goalscorers who hit the net as much as Dargo are more valuable to us. CC says that he and Parkie have identified 2-3 players they want to bring in during the close season to fill area's they see as needing improvement.

Worth a ****-of-alot more than £50k in my mind, but as with the other players they are all contracted for at least another year, and so will cost money. CC says in the P&J that he is confident of keeping the same squad for next season. Now, if this is what CC thinks fair enough, but how do we progress from this season? do we need better players, does he need to sort out home form? does he need more ftom the players that are there? If his ambition is purely to stay in the SPL, we have the squad to do it, thats all.

Surely Rossco's totally unexpected overhead kick vs Dee Utd deserves the title! Never see that again!

So do we think that Russel Duncan is chuffed at being offered a new contract? Did he wonder if he was in line for a shunt? Every team needs a midfield grafter, but a grafter that can pass is a bonus!

Dougie Macdonald is a feckin waster as well.... not quite up to Calum uselessbassa Murray though. At least Macdonald tries to let the game flow before he makes sh1t decisions.

As long as they put a clause in the contract for extra passing practice every day. Up to the Motherwell / Dons / Livvy games he was much improved, but fell back into his old ways with some woeful passes - in my mind he was at fault for Livvy's equaliser last Saturday. Th P & J had also thought there might be a bit of a squad breakup this summer, we will just have to wait and see.

Hiring a bath.. never did that but the baths were huge not like the wee bowls we have now! Remember once my mate forgot his trunks, had to hire a pair from the office, he appeared out of the cubicles with what looked like a large woolen blanket wrapped round his midriff ! swimming up the pool he was slowly getting lower and lower as the blanket/trunks must have weighed about 20 lbs when it got wet!

Saw a photo the other day of the inside of the old baths. The cubicles with wooden doors made me laugh, but what jogged my memory was the wire baskets for all your gear, which you handed to a guy at a counter, each basket had a number which was completely forgotten of course. To tell the bloke you'd forgotten the number was met with a clip on the ear and a drag round the room to claim your basket.

The Hayloft was a great hang out of mine, downstairs if you like the Stones, Bowie and anything rockin... upstairs for posing and birds. Being sick on the stairs... Forgot it got called the gateway for a while, but it was never the same.

George Adams was on the radio today claiming that they had some 'big' names interested, despite the fact they were broke... aye what he meany was long names... skiateous strapadicktome.!

' Don't get behind the team for 90 minutes then boo them as they come off.' I heard the boo's and assumed that it was directed towards the ref? Mcallister was gash for the reserves the previous tues vs Dons, but as it has been said, he was cold and never got much chance top 'warm' to the pace which was shown by some clumsy touches, he did well with a glancing header which was not far away. Undecided about him.