Charles Bannerman

Do you work for Livingston or something? :D

The best one I've heard so far is OWEN COYLE for Celtic Park. So Coyle takes Burnley into the best and most lucrative league in the world and within a couple of days wants to chuck it all in to go to... CELTIC?! :P No, no, Owen Coyle has just made a huge career leap within the last couple of seasons and has landed in the real big time... completely missing out the kind of level Celtic are at.

The first half of that quote is, quite frankly, embarasingly absurd. But let me more briefly deal with the second part first. What the HELL do you think qualifies you to dismiss the defensive lineup of an ex international defender as "crazy"? Your self perseption when it comes to football expertise (including how the Boardroom should be run) is alarmingly delusional. But to return to the first part. It is simplistic in the extream to blame relegation by a couple of goals on the last on-field misfortune we had in the season. Yesterday's game would not even have mattared had... (among other things) Jamie Duff not let Offiong in.... Foran made a better job of shooting past Mallow.... Rangers only scored 3 rather than 5 if Michael Fraser had had a better game.... Falkirk only scored 2 rather than 4 had the ref seen that the first one was offside, leading to a collpase... Barrowman not missed several sitters.... ther defense properly picked up the cross that led to Motherwell's equaliser.... Lionel not made perhaps just one of several booboos.... etc etc etc. Is it just football that you see in terms of black and white and straight lines? So has IHE allowed this thread to drop?

You're a teacher aren't you, fully refreshed and reinvigorated thanks to study leave. You should be able to hop to the ground? :D :D :D :D

Scotty... I have now checked with Sport in Glasgow and I'm afraid it looks a bit Desperate for the Diasporate. There is no internet coverage outwith the UK and there is no Open All Mics coverage at all. Realistically, with only three games on at 1230, before you even consider that only one of these means anything (unless one other produces a highly unlikely result) it's difficult to see how an Open All Mics would be viable. As far as the lack of commentary outwith the UK is concerned, my understanding is that the BBC's inability to provide it solely relates to a prerogative which Falkirk Football Club has opted to exercise. The upshot would appear to be that, apart from Setanta(?), it is not possible to follow this game live outwith the UK. (Is it legal to have a webcam with an open mic pointed at a TV showing Setanta?)

I haven't looked at the Sunday schedule since, quite frankly, I'm not all that interested. As I've said above, the three frequencies will be used for the three games on Saturday, with no Open All Mics.

Diasporate.... :021: Perhaps this weekend "Desperate" might be a better word to use. By the way, did you know that Channel 4 is introducing a new drama series about middle class Jewish women in suburban New York. They're going to call it "Diasporate Housewives".

There wil lbe live commentary on Caley Thistle v Falkirk on 92-95FM (94.0 in the immediate Inverness area.). 810MW and 103.5-105FM will carry the other two games. As a result there will be no Open All Mics. I don't know what the arrangements for the Diasporate will be on the internet since I don't know what constraints, if any, Falkirk operate outwith the UK.

That would be Ian Lister who is President of Inverness City and does a roaring trade for them selling their Lottery tickets. He's a former player of one or two biggish Scottish clubs, including, I believe, Dunfermline and St. Mirren. I know him because he's (now this is as complicated as the Ladies of the Harum of the Court of King Caractacus) the partner of the mother of my daughter Jenny's boyfriend who is Gary Miller who plays for City. :D

Losing that single point actually makes minimal difference to Caley Thistle. A draw at home to Falkirk remains enough to keep them in the SPL. The only option for survival that is removed by Kevin Kyle's goal is for Caley Thistle next week to lose to Falkirk and for Hamilton to lose to St. Mirren as long as the relative margins of defeat didn't overturn ICT's goal difference advantage over Hamilton. That would have relegated Hamilton if ICT had got a point today.

One mistake the British didn't make in 1940 was to make too big a celebration of Dunkirk.

is that a mathematical certainty is results go that way? havent worked out the permutations..... See my post on "another point in the bag" thread.

John Sutton's goal last night had massive implications for Caley Thistle. Had they held on for 2-1, they would instantly have been safe on the night. However, since they didn't, they are now in the situation for the first time that they know before the game starts that one clear cut result will guarantee safety. Win at Kilmarnock and Inverness retains SPL football. There is also the secondary option that a draw would do if St. Mirren lost to Falkirk. And on the mention of Falkirk, their status in the eyes of ICT fans has certainly been utterly transformed in the last 24 hours, hasn't it? For weeks, Falkirk have been the side ICT have been desperate to see losing. Now they should be desperate for them to win against St. Mirren as an insurance policy should ICT not beat Killie because, as I've just said, that would bring a draw at Killie into the equation. But also, in the worst case scenario, if this does go to the last day of the season, ICT would presumably prefer to meet a Falkirk team which was safe after beating St. Mirren and with the Cup Final in sight rather than one which was still fighting for its life.

Dreadful dirge - out of the same stable as Flower of Scotland.

The question simply doesn't arise because there aren't nearly enough points left to be won for everyone below Motherwell to catch them. There are nine bottom six games left with a maximum total points take of 27. The five teams below Motherwell (who also have a much better goal difference) are as total of 45 points behind them.

That'll be 4.55am for the 1230 ko in the final game of the season then.

Just a minor point but Terry Butcher was appointed on January 27th so that would make yesterday (Wednesday May 7th) his 100th day.

I've just realised you can amend quotes. See what you can do to Kyle's one with a full stop, a comma and two capital letters.

You may be interested to know that the summariser alongside Scott Davie who will be doing commentary this afternoon is CHARLIE CHRISTIE. That's on 92-95FM in the Highlands and Islands (94.0 in the Inverness area) and on the internet for those able to access it. Just to plug the BBC's other coverage of ICT v St. Mirren, you will also have John Robertson on Open All Mics on 103.5-105FM across Scotland (104.9 in the Inverness area) for the whole game and updates and a full time report from me on BBC1 from 4:30. Post match there will be a podcast from Scott and Charlie on the net and a roundup on Sports Report on all Radio Scotland frequencies at 6:30. I will also have a post match interview with Terry Butcher which will eventually find its way on to the net and possibly also on air before 6:30. As they say ... "every kick of the ball".....

Gentlemen... the solution to your problem should be BILLY URQUHART. Calder is too young!

You mean this (incidentally posted on the day of 10 man ICT 3 Celtic 2)? "Brewster deserves a thread of his own - not just for today - but for the dramatic manner in which he has turned ICT fortunes round since his re-appointment. He's managed to get that spirit back into the side again - they all work their socks off supporting each other now in a manner that was totally absent at the start of the season. He's found a way of best utilising Niculae's undoubted skills... Thankfully he's re-introduced Rankin to the side. He has also adopted a much more thoughtful approach to substitutions. Whether you were for or against his re-appointment to ICT you have to surely acknowledge the fact that he has transformed this football team... Long may his reign here continue.... "

Maybe it's because Terry Butcher and Maurice Malpas know a hell of a lot more about running a fotoball team than you do Johndo.

Having spent the best part of the last two decades residing in rural Aberdeenshire, I diina ken fit you're on aboot ! Aye maloon, but ye ken whaur ye went tae the skule tho! Now widdit huv been yon chiel Horne or the loon Ian Thomson that taught ye the Roman mither tongue. Surely no' the quine Jessie Thomson tho' - ye'll be far too young a laddie tae huv been in wan o' hur classes. Ach weel, as the say in Turriff "Labore et Virtute" an' keep chavvin awa' defendin' a' thae bestiality cases. Whit's yur standard line o' defence onywuy? "My Lord, my client understood that 'animal husbandry' was a perfectly legal activity." :thumb04:

Would it not just have been easier to tell me? To be fair to Caley D he has narrated the position in full at least twice before on these fora. Is this just Kingsmills reminding us that his Classical education in the Victorian pile at the top of Stephen's Brae has afforded him familiarity with the nominative case of a plural neuter Latin noun of the first declension?

Would it not just have been easier to tell me?