The Long Man

People are so unnecessarily and negatively snippy about a new signing. The kid is at Culloden Academy, so in my book he is a local. Support the young lad instead of droning on as if you are all lawyers and are determined to stereotype him as a 'foreigner. What is this, ukip corner?

Fisher was a great signing who Foran refused to play because he fell out with him. A few goals from him might have saved the day.

Thanks for posting this. Fascinating to hear about the Butcher years from the inside, the dressing room chats, Draper's first appearance, Steve Marcella and the Christmas party. Makes me very nostalgic about the glory years and the squad we had then. Two good guys.

Luckily the link to the programme is in the twitter feed. If you go to the official site you will be hard pressed to find it. Maybe a link to it could be provided in Scotty's match day thread from now on?

Agree with PerfICT, it is shaming and makes you wonder how we can hold up our heads when the press and other fans will now think of us as hosting a clique of hostile, abusive fans who apparently hate one of our best players so much they abuse his sister. Just unbelievable, and set to wreck years of building a reputation as a club free from the old, ugly side of neddish behaviour. The only thing we can do is make sure there is a backlash against these clowns by showing our support for Liam and the team - it must upset the other players too, which is doubly damaging. I have a feeling a lot of people will want to make that point, so let's make it clear if he plays tomorrow night - though I think he might be taken out of the firing line to calm the situation down. As far as saturday goes, yes we missed a couple of golden chances to go ahead, but in the second half they built a wall of two banks of four, as we have seen in many games, including the World Cup. You don't have to be brilliant in such a team, but Ayr stuck to their task with real discipline and energy, so they frustrated us successfully. That's football, had it been us in their position we would have been celebrating a famous backs to the wall performance. We can learn from that, but it's crazy to go overboard as if we had got a drubbing. We were the dominant team, and will have better days.

IHE is right. Those first three goals were unstoppable, brilliantly executed. Ridgers didn't have a chance. After that no wonder we struggled. We lost the game in midfield really, we couldn't stop them swamping us there and delivering balls out to the sides with ease. A lesson learned, and even then there were chinks of light in our counter attacks. We have a bit of growing up to do, but the season has't started yet., so I wouldn't draw any long term conclusions from it, other than we are a championship side and they are a SPL side. The difference was obvious. Ikpeazu looks like a star.

So you put off people going to see a game and increasing the gate, and then, when it is too late, tell them they could have come. What way is that to run a club. If that is the case ICT should lodge a complaint against them, if there is a way of doing that.

Seems weird that in these straitened times a club is determined to turn away walk up business. Funny way to run a club. They are not seriously suggesting there is a security issue, are they?

Great stuff. Tom Walsh sounds like he could be a very exciting player for us. Robbo is a canny operator in the transfer market, slowly piecing together a solid side ?

We probably couldn't afford him, but he would be an excellent buy for many clubs, a talented player. Would love to see him back.

Given the amount of times we played Dumbarton, Robbo had plenty of opportunities to see what they could offer. I trust he saw something he could work with. It's also a good opportunity for them, so they will be well motivated.

What a humourless lot.

Well, it will spice things up nicely next season. Will be interesting to see how they manage restructuring, and if they have to rebuild as much as we did. Of course they will have more money, but that didn't help them stay up. I think they were too quick to get rid of McIntyre, who I feel would have been far more likely to keep them up. Coyle was as bad as Foran for them, and as bad a decision. The two novices will have a hard time next season, if they stay there, methinks. I do have some sympathy for people like our old stalwart Draper who have now played for relegated teams twice in a row. A lot of difficult decisions to be made there, glad we have that behind us.

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The quality of the straws we are clutching on to leaves something to be desired. But I will give it a try nonetheless.

Well done everybody for getting this together.

In the fifth minute of added time?? Words fail me.

No added time, please.

This last ten minutes are going to be very long and stressful!

Austin off, Mackay on. Bold - going for another goal, or resting a proven scorer for Tuesday? Who knows? Hope it pays off whatever.

Nailbiter. Ha, just as i was chewing on them, Austin pops up and scores! Keep it going lads, I'll bite my nails, you score the goals.

Well, Saturday's going to be fun! Whatever the result, good to be back in games with high stakes and some real drama about them.

Great to see Austin racking them up. The brief glimpse we had of him after he signed looked promising. Hope he settles and becomes a regular scorer.

Given the sad and sorry state of affairs that has been revealed over the recent history of CJT, I would have though it is more productive to encourage this meeting to take place, perhaps just by moving the date two or three weeks later. By continually harrying and decrying whoever is currently on the board, whatever their competency or lack of, doesn't really progress anything. If they are out of their depth, as they appear to be, then they could probably do with a bit of help and encouragement, so the whole thing can get sorted.

It could go to the wire, I think. Last game against Morton.