Yngwie

Blackie's performance was one of the few positives from today. For a while it seemed inevitable that he would see red, but he calmed himself down and got back to football after a word from the bench.

Don't need to for his description of one particular match : Dup? ce am b?tut-o pe Celtic mi-a zis c? am fost "****ing brilliant!" :003: Oh, and he gets a Clio here, not the BMWs and Mercedes of his previous clubs. Edit : tried a few bits in a dodgy online translator, but it made more sense in Romanian. A bit about his contract might to be saying that if all goes well, the club has offered to extend beyond 2009 and build the team around him!

Don't know, but this was in Fife. Probably available in all good bookshops all Sainsbury stores in Scotland, you would think.

I'd never heard of it before, but saw it for sale in Sainsburies today. It is a magazine covering North of Scotland sport. This month's edition includes an interview with Grant Munro. The people behind the magazine have backgrounds in Highland football : Dave McGinlay, Bill McAllister, Duncan Shearer and Neale Cooper. I'm surprised that there was no mention of Charles Bannerman!

A very sensible approach. But when has not knowing the facts ever stopped us having a lively discussion here?! :015:

Agree with all of that. Very unfortunate for us tomorrow that he knows ICT so well, and a new manager always gives a struggling team a lift. But Parkie deserves a good job like this one.

Intriguing.

Is this sad development performance related or cost cutting? I'd guess the latter is at the very least a factor.

Strip out the headline and journalist's padding. What Brew is saying is that we have a good squad performing well and don't need to change much, hence we are "not desperate" to make signings. But make signings we will.

Does a player/manager get additional pay for being a player? In other words, will his retirement free up any money to go towards a replacement striker for the squad?

Nice guy and all that, but I'd be horrified if he was appointed.

Home wins would be better, surely?

Beneath those YouTube highlights someone has commented : "fantastic player Marius Niculaie...Marius you are the dog untill you die!" Am I getting old and just not understanding the youth of today, or is this perhaps a Romanian saying?

It's still special. Stirling was one of the highlights and best supports of last season.

Dennis has scored more than 10% of ICT's all time goals tally, so it would be well deserved if he claimed this milestone.

Kind of like a BOGOF deal then? Bargain!

For many years the geographical isolation of the Highlands was seen by central belters as a reason not to allow a team into the league. 14 years on, what travel difficulties visiting teams have had? Not much, from what I can remember. - Gretna spent 6 hours on the bus due to snow. - Clydebank's bus heater wasn't working, and this apparently had an adverse effect on their performance. (would it have been Ian McCall who came out with that one?) - Celtic or Rangers probably suffered a wee bit of turbulence here and there. - St Mirren supporters' bus went home without the fans. :015: Any others?

Was there not once an agent who came on here making legal threats?

In other words they didn't want him? Not good news for us. The fact that he would have been allowed to leave confirms that he's not in the manager's plans, and Brew might have been relying on that wage being freed up to make another signing this month. I wouldn't be surprised if we try to farm him out before the window shuts.

Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere here, but apparently the former Albion manager Chapman agreed to join ICT as U19 coach, but pulled out when he was offered the Dumbarton job.

What happens if Rory does not impress at Peterhead, and still looks out of his depth against part-time lower league players? I just hope for his sake he's gone there with the right attitude and sees it as an opportunity.

You'll need to explain for those of us who weren't there. Is this something that happened in the gents?

My attachment is not emotional, but instead takes the form of a named brick. For that reason ICT should stay at TCS forever and ever, amen. Or until my brick falls off. (I said Brick!)

I seem to recall that in the early 80s the way for players to celebrate a goal was by kissing their teammates. Did this affectionate celebration get outlawed in any way, or did it just go out of fashion as players realised that it was a bit, err, unnecessary?

What you'll also note from those highlights is that Tokely was involved in most of our attacks. A defender can't be in two places at once, and it's up to the manager to decide how he should play. McGuire is responsible for more crucial mistakes per game played than Tokely, but gets off without criticism and everyone wants to sign him. Funny old game.