Kingsmills

It seems to be pretty dull in Banff on Scottish Cup days.

Nice one but where were all the Pars fans ?

Not such a bad draw. If it's United we can just pretend to be Falkirk.

Happy enough with the home draw although either the Arabs or the Saints will be challenging opponents. Interesting that there will be at least two lower league teams in the quarter finals.

Couldn't blame the boy for moving to Hibs. In all honesty a much bigger higher profile club than ourselves. A move to Falkirk, on the other hand, would be purely to fatten his weekly wage packet.

Not to mention burglary, manslaughter and inquest. Of course such creeping anglasisation is not only fueled by sloppy lazy journalists but also by some of our senior educationalists who appear these days, by and large, to prefer to be referred to as head teacher rather than the long standing scottish term of rector. I agree with Charles that the, non applicable, terms libel and slander are among those most frequntly used even by journalists working for the more august scottish media organs. Surely it's high time we reclaimed our own terminology.

No, but that's fairly common in the lower reaches of the SPL.

Does this mean that we can no longer bank on geting three points from our next visit to Ibrox ?

The annual turnover of Rangers is something like TWENTY times that of ICT.

Fair cooment I say.

I've no interest in Rangers, or Celtic for that matter, but surely appointing Walter Smith would be a backward step for them. I bet PLG found his short stay in Govan hugely lucrative.

Denzil returning to form for 2007 would be an exciting prospect.

Billy Davies seems a good call but surely he would be better advised to stay at Derby with good prospects of being in the Premiership next season.

Rory's not first team material just yet.

So, that will be him away to Tannadice then !

The only other team in Sotland who could affors his wages are Celtic. Now that would be an interesting move !

That would be good news, although no doubt Mark has other options besides Hibs.

Black is coming very close to the point of no return in my opinion. There's little doubt that he has the potential to be a very talented and successful professional footballer playing at a higher level than just now. However, there is serious dount whether he has the attitude and temprement to ver acheive that potential. The excuse that he is young and immatue is begining to wear just a little thin. He now has considerable experience of playing in the first team but his immaturity and infantile petulance seems to be getting worse if anything. I don't know whether he is being properly mentored at the club but ultimatey he is now a grown man and, as such, responsible for his own actions. I believe that the next half seaon will go long way to deciding whether he acheves his potential or not. He is a very fortunate young man to possess the natural skills he so clearly has but he is at great risk of his career sliding backwars rather than progressing to the heights he might otherwise attain unless he grows up and soon.

A potential banana skin. we hardly shone in our four matches against second division oposition in the cup last season. The first goal could be crucial.

Denzil is, more tan most, a confidence player. He's come pretty close to scoring in a number of recent matches.Hopefully his well taken goal against the Saints will send him on his way to a few moe between now and the end of the season.

What on earth has happened o our defence this season ?

I'd rather have a Station Park bridie but not enough to want to drop back into the second division to get one. Maybe I can perssaude a Ross County fan toget a couple for me next season.

Have a good one Johndo !

The sectaria singing seemed to me to be as loud and as prolonged as ever,.The SPL and SFA are merely paying lip service to the issue as is the Scottish Executive, Time for UEFA to force the issue.

Four points from our next two games will go a long way to dispelling any lingering fears of relegation.