Gringo

I don't think I was ever confident that we could get past Hamilton. An early goal for us would have, possibly, set the scene but when we gave the ball away after 12 seconds....from our k.o....what little confidence I had drained away. An awful day in ICT history. As someone quoted somewhere..from Europe to Annan in 9 years. We never built on that success and the blame for that has to lie at the top. League 1 football next season it is then and all on plastic pitches I believe. A clear out is needed but the biggest fear in my heart is...will we survive as a club?

NPL Review for Game 48 I can’t really put in to words how I feel right now. Anyway...last NPL game of the season...who won? No maximums in any sections for this game. Joonya got the only Correct score [FT] robbo1985 got the Crowd section bonus – 24 over. There were no bonus points awarded for ICT first scorer or the Yellow Card Gringo is your 2023/24 Champion and retains the title and bragging right. Total Entries 20 Predicted Match results H – 15 D – 1 A – 4 The Results HT: 1-3 FT: 2-3 1st ICT: Kerr 1st Opp: O’Hara Crowd: 2873 [SPLF web site] Yellow Cards: Tumilty [43], Williamson [51] and Martin [82] Correct Predictions HT: 0 FT: 1 1st ICT: 0 1st Opp: 15 Crowd 5 pts: 4 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights Doofer 9 old caley girl 9 robbo1985 9 Jokers Played CaleyCanary +3 Your Points Doofer 9 old caley girl 9 robbo1985 9 Ictross 7 CaleyCanary 6 Joonya 6 DoofersDad 4 Lmclmm 4 Mrs Gringo 4 noho 4 Robert 4 Scotty 4 caleycalum 3 Gringo 3 Jodie Carnie 3 MrCaleyjag 2 Caley Braveheart 1 Caleyjag 1 CaleyTennis 1 SOS 1 CDN Girl 0 TABLE - 48 FINAL 01 - 292 - Gringo 02 - 279 - old caley girl 03 - 275 - Robert 04 - 272 - DoofersDad 05 - 271 - Scotty 06 - 269 - MrCaleyjag 07 - 266 - caleycalum 08 - 253 - Mrs Gringo 09 - 252 - Joonya 10 - 250 - CaleyCanary 11 - 248 - Ictross 12 - 247 - Jodie Carnie 13 - 242 - robbo1985 14 - 236 - Caleyjag 15 - 222 - Doofer 16 - 211 - SOS 17 - 207 - CDN Girl 18 - 202 - noho 19 - 178 - Lmclmm 20 - 141 - Caley Braveheart 21 - 71 - bughtmaster 22 - 47 - CaleyTennis 23 - 34 - crownjaggie 24 - 29 - Agent N 25 - 27 - Jock Watt 26 - 12 - Andrew Fraser 27 - 8 - big cherly 28 - 0 - IHE

Mrs Gringo HT: 1-1 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: Pepple 1st Ham: O'Hara Crowd: 2189 Yellow Card: McGowan Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Ham: O'Hara Crowd: 2133 Yellow Card: Duffy

Hey Manny....best preview of the season. Love that. Nice one. You must have suffered a fair bit of Brain Damage over the season. I applaud you

NPL Review for Game 47 Flipping heck Caley, you’re not doing my BP any good whatsoever. That was a tough watch. All to play for on Saturday – at least we have a chance. No maximums in any section for this game. Jodie Carnie [FT] and Joonya [HT] were the only correct scores. Scotty got the Crowd Section bonus – 13 over. Gringo tops the table going in to the final game. No Bonus points awarded. Total Entries 19 Predicted Match results H – 5 D – 7 A – 7 The Results HT: 2-0 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: Pepple 1st Opp: O’Hara Crowd: 1389 Bookings: O’Hara (43) and Brooks (84) Correct Predictions HT: 1 FT: 1 1st ICT: 0 1st Opp: 13 Crowd 5 pts: 9 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights Joonya 14 Jokers Played Lmclmm +0 Your Points Joonya 14 Scotty 11 MrCaleyjag 10 noho 9 Robert 9 CaleyCanary 8 CaleyTennis 7 Doofer 7 Jodie Carnie 7 SOS 6 DoofersDad 5 Ictross 4 caleycalum 3 Caleyjag 3 Gringo 3 old caley girl 3 Mrs Gringo 2 CDN Girl 1 Lmclmm 0 TABLE - 47 01 - 289 - Gringo 02 - 271 - Robert 03 - 270 - old caley girl 04 - 268 - DoofersDad 05 - 267 - MrCaleyjag 05 - 267 - Scotty 07 - 263 - caleycalum 08 - 249 - Mrs Gringo 09 - 246 - Joonya 10 - 244 - CaleyCanary 10 - 244 - Jodie Carnie 12 - 241 - Ictross 13 - 235 - Caleyjag 14 - 233 - robbo1985 15 - 213 - Doofer 16 - 210 - SOS 17 - 207 - CDN Girl 18 - 198 - noho 19 - 174 - Lmclmm 20 - 140 - Caley Braveheart 21 - 71 - bughtmaster 22 - 46 - CaleyTennis 23 - 34 - crownjaggie 24 - 29 - Agent N 25 - 27 - Jock Watt 26 - 12 - Andrew Fraser 27 - 8 - big cherly 28 - 0 - IHE

Mrs Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Alex Samuel 1st Ham: Longridge Crowd: 1099 Yellow Card: Devine Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 1-2 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Ham: O'Hara Crowd: 1111 Yellow Card: Duffy

That was my first game of the season and my first chance to see with my own eyes how gash ICT have become. That was one awful unentertaining game and by far the worst I've seen from the team I support. No passion, no urgency, no desire, no creativity...nothing. Square balls across the back line time after time. Can't keep possession. Can't shoot. Two game against a part time outfit and we can only bag one goal. There needs to be drastic improvement against Hamilton and I fully believe Dunc is incapable of doing that with this bunch of players. Hamilton will be a tough hurdle to overcome and I fear the worse.

After watching the Monty 2nd leg I don't think it matters who starts. Are you confident Big Dunc would get the tactics right even with those top players (except Grealish).

Your predictions please for Game 48 Bonus points available on this game. ICT first Scorer - Double points Yellow Card - Name a player to recieve a yellow card. Points awarded according to number of bookings. Min 2 points. HT: FT: 1st ICT: 1st Ham: Crowd: Yellow Card: Update expected by 2200 on Sat 18 May

JOKER Update going in to the last two games. All have ONE remaining CaleyCanary MrCaleyjag bughtmaster crownjaggie Jock Watt Lmclmm CaleyTennis

NPL Review for Game 46 To say we scrapped through that is an understatement. That was the worst performance I’ve seen from an ICT side in all my years of supporting them. Plain awful. Can it get any worse? CaleyTennis, CDN Girl, Ictross and MrCaleyjag got max points in the Correct Score section. DooferDad got the Crowd Section bonus – just 5 under. Gringo heads the table by 19 points going into the last two games. Can he hold on to retain the title? Total Entries 21 Predicted Match results H – 20 D – 1 A – 0 The Results HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Opp: -- Crowd: 2089 [SPFL web site] Correct Predictions HT: 11 FT: 5 1st ICT: 5 1st Opp: -- Crowd 5 pts: 7 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights CaleyTennis 15 Jokers Played Caleyjag +6 Your Points CaleyTennis 15 Caleyjag 12 CDN Girl 12 Ictross 12 noho 12 robbo1985 11 MrCaleyjag 10 Robert 10 DoofersDad 9 Gringo 8 Scotty 8 caleycalum 7 Jodie Carnie 7 old caley girl 7 CaleyCanary 6 Mrs Gringo 6 Caley Braveheart 4 Doofer 3 Joonya 2 Lmclmm 2 SOS 2 TABLE - 46 01 - 286 - Gringo 02 - 267 - old caley girl 03 - 263 - DoofersDad 04 - 262 - Robert 05 - 260 - caleycalum 06 - 257 - MrCaleyjag 07 - 256 - Scotty 08 - 247 - Mrs Gringo 09 - 237 - Ictross 09 - 237 - Jodie Carnie 11 - 236 - CaleyCanary 12 - 233 - robbo1985 13 - 232 - Caleyjag 13 - 232 - Joonya 15 - 206 - CDN Girl 15 - 206 - Doofer 17 - 204 - SOS 18 - 189 - noho 19 - 174 - Lmclmm 20 - 140 - Caley Braveheart 21 - 71 - bughtmaster 22 - 39 - CaleyTennis 23 - 34 - crownjaggie 24 - 29 - Agent N 25 - 27 - Jock Watt 26 - 12 - Andrew Fraser 27 - 8 - big cherly 28 - 0 - IHE

Sorry for late update for this game. NPL Review for Game 45 How awful was that? Managed to hold on against the part timers. Just. No maximums in any section for this game. robbo1985 got the Crowd Section bonus – 40 under. Gringo still tops the table. Total Entries 20 Predicted Match results H – 0 D – 2 A – 18 The Results HT: 0-0 FT: 0-0 1st ICT: -- 1st Opp: -- Crowd: 1043 [SPFL web site] Correct Predictions HT: 9 FT: 0 1st ICT: -- 1st Opp: -- Crowd 5 pts: 5 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights Caleyjag 12 Jokers Played Caleyjag +6 Your Points Caleyjag 12 CaleyTennis 10 Gringo 10 DoofersDad 7 robbo1985 7 caleycalum 6 CDN Girl 6 Ictross 6 Jodie Carnie 6 old caley girl 6 CaleyCanary 5 MrCaleyjag 5 Doofer 2 Mrs Gringo 2 Caley Braveheart 1 Joonya 1 Lmclmm 1 Robert 1 Scotty 1 SOS 1 TABLE - 45 01 - 278 - Gringo 02 - 260 - old caley girl 03 - 254 - DoofersDad 04 - 253 - caleycalum 05 - 252 - Robert 06 - 248 - Scotty 07 - 247 - MrCaleyjag 08 - 241 - Mrs Gringo 09 - 230 - CaleyCanary 09 - 230 - Jodie Carnie 09 - 230 - Joonya 12 - 225 - Ictross 13 - 222 - robbo1985 14 - 220 - Caleyjag 15 - 203 - Doofer 16 - 202 - SOS 17 - 194 - CDN Girl 18 - 177 - noho 19 - 172 - Lmclmm 20 - 136 - Caley Braveheart 21 - 71 - bughtmaster 22 - 34 - crownjaggie 23 - 29 - Agent N 24 - 27 - Jock Watt 25 - 24 - CaleyTennis 26 - 12 - Andrew Fraser 27 - 8 - big cherly 28 - 0 - IHE

Your predictions please for Game 47. Bonus points available on this game. ICT first Scorer - Double points Yellow Card - Name a player to recieve a yellow card. Points awarded according to number of bookings. Min 2 points. HT: FT: 1st ICT: 1st Ham: Crowd: Yellow Card: Update expected by 2200 on Thu 16 May

Mrs Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 2-1 ICT: Alex Samuel Mon: Gardyne Crowd: 2388 Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 2-1 ICT: Billy Mckay Mon: Hester Crowd: 2335

Mrs Gringo HT: 1-1 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Alex Samuel 1st Scorer Mon: Gardyne Crowd: 928 Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 1-2 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Mon: Hester Crowd: 1111

Congratulations to CDNGirl in winning the NAPS Bragging Rights title. Thanks also to you, @MrCaleyjag, for keeping this going. Looking forward to going again next season.

You beat me to it ...been a few off the pitch too.

Indeed, massive congratulations to you on retaining the CTO PL Bragging Rights title. I don't keep a record of winners but, I can't remember anyone retaining the title before. You could be the first but I'll stand corrected. A poor show from me this season and never looked like hitting the top spot all season. The CTO PL will return next season and hopefully without adding teams we've never seen in this league before. It's just a shame we can't attract more players to the contest. Well done.

Your predictions please for Game 46 HT: FT: 1st Scorer ICT: 1st Scorer Mon: Crowd: Update expected to be completed by 2200 Tue 14 May

Your predictions please for Game 45 HT: FT: 1st Scorer ICT: 1st Scorer Mon: Crowd: Update expected to be completed by 2200 Wed 08 May

NPL Review for Game 44 Supercaleygo....oh...wait....no we don’t. Oh how I hate Airdrie right now. But it’s not entirely their fault is it? And so ends a poor campaign and we now head for the play offs at the wrong end of the table. No maximums in any section for this game. Caley Braveheart got the only correct FT score. Robbo1985 got the only points in the First Scorer section. Doofer got the Crowd Section bonus – a mere 464 under! Gringo heads the table going into (hopefully) the last four game. Total Entries 19 Predicted Match results H – 12 D – 3 A – 4 The Results HT: 1-1 FT: 3-1 1st ICT: Boyes 1st Opp: Broadfoot Crowd: 2914 [SPFL web site] Correct Predictions HT: 5 FT: 1 1st ICT: 1 1st Opp: 0 Crowd 5 pts: 0 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights Caley Braveheart 12 Mrs Gringo 12 Jokers Played Caley Braveheart +6 Gringo +3 old caley girl +2 Ictross +2 caleycalum +2 Mrs Gringo +6 Your Points Caley Braveheart 12 Mrs Gringo 12 DoofersDad 7 Lmclmm 7 SOS 7 Gringo 6 Joonya 5 caleycalum 4 Doofer 4 Ictross 4 old caley girl 4 noho 3 Robert 3 Caleyjag 2 CDN Girl 2 robbo1985 2 Scotty 2 Jodie Carnie 1 MrCaleyjag 1 TABLE - 44 01 - 268 - Gringo 02 - 254 - old caley girl 03 - 251 - Robert 04 - 247 - caleycalum 04 - 247 - DoofersDad 04 - 247 - Scotty 07 - 242 - MrCaleyjag 08 - 239 - Mrs Gringo 09 - 229 - Joonya 10 - 225 - CaleyCanary 11 - 224 - Jodie Carnie 12 - 219 - Ictross 13 - 215 - robbo1985 14 - 208 - Caleyjag 15 - 201 - Doofer 15 - 201 - SOS 17 - 188 - CDN Girl 18 - 177 - noho 19 - 171 - Lmclmm 20 - 135 - Caley Braveheart 21 - 71 - bughtmaster 22 - 34 - crownjaggie 23 - 29 - Agent N 24 - 27 - Jock Watt 25 - 14 - CaleyTennis 26 - 12 - Andrew Fraser 27 - 8 - big cherly 28 - 0 - IHE

Mrs Gringo Cove v Edinburgh draw @4.33 Gringo Bonnyrigg v Forfar draw @2.75

Mrs Gringo HT: 1-1 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer GM: Oakley Crowd: 2291 *JOKER* Gringo HT: 0-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer GM: Oakley Crowd: 2333 *JOKER*

I wish I was as confident as you that we could beat Montrose over two legs.

This will be fun. Going for the 'tap in' with the Arabs last week could have been my downfall. Now, do I go tactical in the final round (didn't work last time out) or go for it? Whatever happens I never expected to be fighting for the NAPS Bragging rights title a few months ago. It's been fun and I thank you again for keeping this competition going. I know it's been a struggle for you. Well done.