DoofersDad

Hark! Is that a fat lady I hear singing?

The wheels fell off? :004:

Coincidentally, I heard that that the Ross County team bus broke down briefly on the way back from Dumfries last night

We are will be the only team ever to get relegated from the SPL and then win the 1st Division the next season.

Hibs got relegated from the SPL's predecessor then bounced back up. Did Dunfermline go back up as Div 1 runners up?

The orchestra may be playing the intro and the fat lady may have taken a big deep breath - but she aint started singing yet!

Whilst Rooney has improved, I don't think he has improved by leaps and bounds because IMHO he was a terrific player at the end of last season. It is a complete mystery to me why Butcher was reluctant to play him at the end of last season and the start of this season.

Others like Hayes, Eagle and Cox have also improved but for me it is not about individuals improving, it is the team as a whole. It took a while for the team to gel but they are playing well as a unit now and that makes a difference.

In particular I think the back four (or five) as a group would jointly get my vote. Although they are very experienced, I thought both Tokely and Munro looked very jaded at the start of the season and when he came into the side I thought Golabek had lost a yard of pace and was probably past his sell by date but all three have improved considerably as the season has progressed and with solid contributions from Proctor and the improving Bulvitis we have now developed a very solid back line again. This has been the key to the good run because we have been scoring goals all season, but in the first half of the season we were shipping far too many at the back as well.

Is this at the start of the game or at the end of the game?

Which is ironic if you know the initiation ceremony for newcomers to the Jail End.

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You're on form tonight!

The Ross County cheerleader displays the club's cups

The answer has to be "no". If your answer to the question is "yes" then the obvious follow on from that you will want to see us relegated next season so that we can experience the high of a promotion again.

Don't know if it partly because of your photo, but you are one of my fave posters, sir.

That's very kind of you to say so! But just for the record, my avatar is not my photo - it's a pic of the late, great comedian Marty Feldman who was far better looking than me, I'm afraid.

It's done it again!! it is "Wilson on our wing" and not Johnboy who gets my vote! That's really wierd.

Can anyone explain how the following happened? In typing my post above I typed in "Johnboy" rather than "WOOW" as posted, but when I clicked on the "preview post" button the text "Johnboy" had defaulted to "Johnboy"!!!

JB, have you hacked into my website with a desparate plan to gain the polular vote?

Doofer'sDad talks a lot of sense.

I agree, but Doofer probably doesn't!

Oh he probably does if he wants his name to stay in the will.

For my part IHE's posts are always entertaining and I find Renegade's views thought provoking and admire the way he justifies his point of view when others are having a go at him - and I actually agree with him more often than not! You've had some pretty good posts yourself, Yngwie, but I think my vote has to go to WOOW for his "I believe" thread. It's a thread which sums up the massive change of mood over a few short months and demonstrates his faith in the team when most of the rest of us were resigned to mid table medioctity. Well done! Mind you I'll take it all back if, by some series of disasters, Dundee pip us to the title on May 1st, and say "told you so!"

The answer has to be "no". If your answer to the question is "yes" then the obvious follow on from that you will want to see us relegated next season so that we can experience the high of a promotion again.

This thread's gone awful quiet!

The championship is not going to be Dundee's but they are welcome to the title. In honour of how long Dundee have been in it, I suggest the SFL 1st division be given a new name of "The Dundee Division".

Just hold on. Dundee could still win the league and then you'll have to eat a second helping. I will wait till the fat lady sings before devouring my slice of humble pie.

"Up where we belong" - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

Back in November hardly anyone believed we could bounce up and yet, barring a miracle, it has been achieved with 2 games to spare. That is an absolutely fantasitc achievement from the players. I appreciate the management team will need to look quickly in deciding who to offer contracts to in order to be able to secure as strong a squad as possible for next season, but can we as fans just leave it for a while? Lets celebrate the success and say "well done" to the team rather than give them a message which basically says "job done, now f*** off - we want someone better than you"

Foran

Rooney

McBain

I thought after a bit of a nervey first half everyone did well with lots of contenders for my one point. Eric set up Forans goal beautifully and generally played well. Good to see him getting a good few votes.

Tomorrow's Sunday. Let's hope the results go our way today!

I think Pele is saying County's win is the biggest only in the sense that it has got them further in the competition. Nobody can argue with that. Whilst giving generous praise for their performance, I don't get the sense that he thinks it was a better performance or bigger shock than ours in 2000.

I agree with Bauhaus that the 1-0 in Inverness was the best avievement. That Celtic team was by far the best of the 3 Celtic sides and they came to Inverness keen to avenge the earlier humiliation. Whilst it didn't have the novelty shock impact of the 1-3, it was an absolutely brilliant performance. So really, all 3 matches are each the biggest result in their different ways.

If I felt the Lib Dems had a real chance I might vote for them because I feel they would deliver on some level of electoral reform.

If everyone who says that votes for the Lib Dem, they would get into power.

OK then. Lib Dems it is!

The players you list performing in the EPL are very average journeymen in real terms (Gordon the possible exception). Going back, not too far in time, the spine of the great Liverpool team (Hansen, Souness and Dalglish), Man Utd (Jordan, MacQueen, Albiston, Buchan), Leeds (Harvey, Eddie Gray, Frank Gray, Bremner, Lorimer and Jordan), Notts Forest (McGovern, Burns and Robertson) and no doubt many others in many teams. We are now delighted to talk about players in "The Championship" which is (no matter how you flower it up or rebrand it) the old English Division Two.

Bottom line is that Scottish activity in English Division One (proper name) is limited at best. Three guys at an over performing Birmingham City and the rest in teams in the bottom six/eight.

This bares absolutely no comparison with the huge Scottish contingents that dominated the top English teams of the 70s and 80s. We even had Stevie Archibald at Barca, idolised in a fashion his replacement Gary Lineker could only dream of. Add to that Jordan's spell at the San Siro, John Collins in Monaco, Eric Black at Metz, Mark McGee at Hamburg, Mo Johnston at Nates even Brewster at Ionikos. Where is our prescence how? Second Division of the Finnish league or Cyprus?

I think we have a huge problem and don't know what the solution is.

Ban computer games!

You make a fair put and mention some great players there. But another relevant point is that the English top flight is now dominated by the best players from around the world. That was not the case in the 70s and 80s and therefore the best Scottish players were able to compete for places in the top English teams. The likes of Dalgleish and Bremner would have held their own against anybody but many of the others you mention would have struggled in today's Premier Division.

Without looking it up, anyone name the Greens leader?

After a couple of frivolous posts I suppose I should take this thread seriously. However sceptical people may be of the motivation of some of the politicians, the fact remains that these folk make the laws that shape our lives. It matters that we use our vote and it matters that we do so to vote for someone or some party that is genuinely wanting to make the world a better place rather than voting for short term personal gain.

For that reason I will be voting for the Greens whose leader is Caroline Lucas. Those who watch Question Time may have seen Ms Lucas on a few occasions and she has always been most impressive. She consistently gets more applause from the audience than other panelists for her commonsense approach on all issues.

The Greens have consistently got a high vote in elections where there is proportional representation and it is really nothing short of criminal that when they get in the region of 10% of votes in some elections (and have been considerably higher), they get no seats in a UK parliament of over 630 members. If I felt the Lib Dems had a real chance I might vote for them because I feel they would deliver on some level of electoral reform.

Where did Lionel come?

He won the award for best penalty kick in the first round of the Alba cup.

And what are the different economic policies between Labour and Tory? You couldn't fit a cigarette paper in the gap.

My understanding this time round was that we were to vote on which leader's wife we fancied...or have I been reading the papers wrong?

I thought so too. This was reinforced with the rumour that John Terry has said he is going to stick his X into every box he can.