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It will be interesting to hear what was going through their minds during those first 17 days before contact was made. They must have thought that after a few days there was no hope of them being rescued but they seem to have maintained their discipline as a group in consuming what little food and water was available to them. There must be some very strong characters amongst them. Breaking out the Casilero del Diablo sounds most appropriate as they must have thought they were doomed to die in the "devil's cellar".

A spirited performance with more ambition. It only goes to emphasise how wrong the tactics were in Prague. Much better to have taken at least a point off the Czechs and been gubbed by Spain than lose narrowly in both.

It appears from this picture that the secret to the Spanish teams success is team spirit. They obviously get on very well together. I think Levein should be telling his team not to let the Spanish get to close to them.

I don't think we have a key player. We are a team - that's the key to success.

Eagle scored again for Grimsby - and picked up his 5th yellow card of the season.

The most entertaining thing was someone describing the match as Tartan against Czechs. Sounds better than it reads but hey, we're scraping the barrel here.

Opinion seems very divided on this. All I will say is that had it been Zander Diamond making the tackle and young Nick Ross having the brittleness of his legs tested, I don't think there would be the same divergence of opinion.

Yes, but at least the stewards allow the fans to stand, and as a result a lot more join in the singing.

7 "permanent" managers in 10 years means that there is a fair chance that the manager Hibs may want won't want to go to Hibs. It is not clear what the Hibs Board are looking for. They seem to make a habit of selling on their best players just when you think they may have a real chance of breaking the old firm stranglehold of the top two. Unless the Board can give a real committment to consolidating any success a manager acheives then they will be constantly getting managers who either do not deliver what the fans expect or who have the rug pulled from under them and who get blamed for underacheivement. Long may it continue!

Good first post. Yes I am sure folk would be very interested, It is great to hear about excellent performances likes this from the youngsters, as you say, the future's bright. A green dot to you and the lads..

I'll need to lie down in a darkened room after that. Before I do I'll leave you with a very appropriate song for today An Aberdeen quine singing "When tomorrow comes" - Bring it on! http://www.youtube.c...njrzVcY&ob=av2e

Sia http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

I think everyone must be watching "Stricly Come Dancing".

You have my sympathies Highlandee. But it could be a lot worse. Bromsgrove Rovers, the local club I supported when at school has folded this year after a 125 year history. Having been 2nd in the Conference a few years back, new owners bled the club dry taking money out of a profitable social club and the club went into adminstration last year. The owners refused to talk to anyone to save the club and as a result a group of supporters established a new club, Bromsgrove Spoorting, in order to preserve football in the town. As it happened the lease on the ground expired this year and both clubs applied. Rover's application was childlike in its presentation and the owners even spelt the name of the town incorrectly! The Council gave the lease to Sporting which resulted in Rover's owners squatting at the ground and refusing to hand the keys over. Finally they left when it emerged that the ground and property had been extensively vandalised. This included some spiteful petty vandalism such as goal posts being removed and concrete poured in the holes - weed killer being splashed over parts of the pitch - fuses being removed from the floodlights etc. As a result, Sporting have been unable to play any home games yet. From the heady conference days of Rovers, Sporting are starting their life about 6 levels below in the Midland Combination Division 2. However, it is a real community club now and I look forward to watching their progress onwards and upwards in the coming years. Hopefully nothing so dire will happen to Dundee, but if it does, well...there is always another team in the city you could support!

Looks frighteningly like someone I know - in which case ?2 is way too high!

For who?

If there is anything worse than deciding you will not play for your country it is deciding that you will play for B'ham S*ity. Truly Ferguson is the devil's spoor.

Garforth owner Simon Clifford, most famous for his Brazilian Soccer Schools, said: "This is not a publicity stunt."I want him to be an inspiration to someone who might have depression or problems in their lives. He's walked through hell but he has kept on walking." The sad thing here is that Gazza is such an insecure and flawed individual that he is destined to fail. Rather than be an inspiration to others, Gazza will yet again be the subject of public ridicule and this will only reinforce the feelings of inadequacy which others with similar problems will feel. Hell, I sound as though I'm encroaching into IHE's professional domain here. I'd better get to the point. Feckin walk away from it Gazza

Hopefully he has a club card though. Every little helps!

There has been a lot of discussion in the past as to why we seem to perform better away from home. I am not going to be rash enough to express an opinion on this but thought it would be interesting to look at whether this seems to be just an ICT problem or whether others are similarly affected. The fact is that of 36 premier league matches this season, only 12 have been home wins whilst 17 have been away wins. Only Dundee utd and the 2 Saints have better home records than away records - ironically, our two wins coming away against 2 of those teams! The Old Firm have won all their matches home and away but the other 7 teams all have a better away record. Most notable is Motherwell who are 3rd in the league having only secured a single point in 3 home matches. So this does not seem to be an ICT phenomenom but it might well be a Scottish Premier League one. In all the other 3 Scottish Divisions and the top 4 leagues in England, there are substantially more home wins than away wins. The closest to the Scottish Premier League pattern is Scottish division 3 where there have been 17 home wins against 11 away. In all other divisions there are at least 50% more home wins than away wins. It is still early in the season but it does seem that the generally recognised advantage of playing at home is borne out by the pattern of results everywhere except in the SPL. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues and, if it does, if someone can come up with a good explanation.

Lennon usually has a ginger whine after a match.

They too have a Bridge and a Castle

Thank God we weren't playing at home - we might have taken a real beating.

There will be hot competition for the N.Ireland keeper's jersey as McGovern was arguably MOTM for County last night.

That beggars belief! Only if you believe these rags had reporters who actually saw the game.