Yngwie

I was upstairs in the bedroom, with a melon.

There's not much competition in that area!

Good for him. And if he gets a game he could earn us a transfer fee this summer........which would be the best outcome for all concerned. And the one that was planned all along, I suspect. I'm sure IHE will be along soon to clarify :015:

Just one promotion in his 7 seasons with us! But I know what you mean.

In the last 10 years, 3 clubs made a rapid ascent up the leagues to the SPL. 2 of them spent ridiculous amounts on player wages before going into administration. One of them makes a profit every season these days and is considered by many in the game to be a model well run club, living within its means. And yet we still seem to criticise every decision!

They'll just have to go back to supporting Rangers.

It's a bit of an SPL tradition that when the football season ends, we are kept interested and entertained by legal disputes and appeals through the summer!

No, he has the word "Arsenal" on his CV, and has been living off that for years.

Duncan certainly has abilities that make him an asset to the team.......but that ain't them!

Surely they could sell the copyright to "Living the Dream" :016:

You know how you always see Newcastle fans bare chested in the stands no matter how cold it is? Its not because they're hard, its because they're embarrassed to be seen in Newcastle shirts!

Just home from the game, it was fantastic towards the end and when the whistle went. And to cap it all off, in Harry's Bar after the game a bunch of English merchant bankers (!) finished their bottle of expensive wine and left the bar.........one of them dropping a ?20 note as they walked past. I picked it up and ran after them to hand it back, but had one of those moments where your legs just feel like lead, and sadly they got away. :003:

One of them was interviewed on the radio and said he had brought a change of clothes for the trip..............the away top!

Reported on BBC that Gretna are holding what sound like crisis talks tomorrow, to see if and how they can can make it through to the end of the season without Mileson ploughing more money in to cover the spiralling losees. It appears that Mileson Jnr is in charge of the family purse strings at the moment and he has not been particularly willing to pour his inheritance down the drain.

I agree, Dundee Utd should be sent back to the First Division.

He's no Paul Ritchie! If he doesn't break through and consistently demonstrate abilities that we have only seen at first team level in a couple of the 50 or so opportunities he's had, then it would be in his and the club's interest for him to be released from his contract this summer. He could then go out and find his level, wherever that might be. And ICT could then give a promising youngster like Wood the chance to step up.

I think it is fair to say that if Rory doesn't break through between now and the end of the season, when there is nothing to play for, and at a time when other players are underperforming, then he never will.

Barry said in the local paper here that his days at ICT might be numbered, but he still has another season in him as a player before hopefully moving in to coaching.

What surprises me from that article is the statement that Rowan Alexander's compensation claim is for ?750,000, which being 5 years notice suggests they were paying him ?150,000 a year.

Sad to hear today that Canadian (Toronto) blues guitarist Jeff Healey has died, just 41. He's by no means a household name, and his music sounded very unoriginal IMO. He does however have a remarkable story. After losing both of his eyes to cancer aged one, he took pleasure in music and first played guitar aged 3. Not having ever seen how it should be played, he just did what seemed easiest for someone with small hands to get a note out of it, and thus developed a very strange looking technique : rather than hold the guitar in conventional fashion with its neck resting in the left palm, he sits it on his lap, face up, and puts his fingertips on it as if he was playing piano. It's a really awkward, impossible looking technique, but the blues solos he produces are incredible. I just watched some on YouTube and still don't understand how he did it.

Alex, I agree that we had a transfer window that we will regret for the rest of the season. But what puzzles me is that at that time we were the form team in the league and on a great run of results that took us from relegation to top 6, achieved : - with Brewster as manager - with Niculae - with McGuire - without Dods - with Duncan - without Wilson playing regularly - without Hart playing at all Yes we lost Rankin, but we have lost far better players than him in the past and just kept getting better. The only thing that has really changed is the rise to prominence of discontent in the dressing room from some key players. With contracts and earnings being at the heart of the problem, what could the manager do about that at 2pm on Saturday, or again this coming Saturday?

I believe that Brewster did his best on Saturday. Can the same be said for all of the players? Yes the manager has to take responsibility for the poor performance, but the reality is that there's only so much he can do.

Until yesterday Hearts fans would have begged us to swap Nade for Niculae.

He came on and played the 2nd half against Dundee today - the day in which both ICTs and St J's seasons ended.

I had thought about travelling up to this one. So glad I didn't, but my thoughts are with those who did make a long journey, or any sort of journey for that matter, to see a performance like that.