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Just now, ICTChris said:

Ewan Murray plays up to this all the time.  It's an act.  If you speak to him, as a few people on this site have, he'll freely admit it's something he does on Twitter to generate traffic.

Fairly sure he's a bit of an oddball - one of those kids in school who was really, really into football and memorised all the players goalscoring records but never actually played football at lunchtime or for a team.  I get the feeling there's one or two of those on this website actually :lol:

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one of those kids in school who was really, really into football and memorised all the players goalscoring records but never actually played football at lunchtime or for a team

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14 minutes ago, RiG said:

Ewan Murray is a gobshite and your last point is spot on. He was slagging off ICT (no surprise given his history with us) because we were signing a load of English lads when Butcher was in charge. Murray had some how contrived to miss a number of articles published in the days before where Butcher had been quoted that he has to go for these guys because they cost buttons compared to some of the ages that the Scottish guys were chasing when ICT approached them. We were simply cutting our cloth and, in a lot of cases, getting much better players.

 

It was a no brainer, signing better players that what was on offer up here, and they wanted far less money.

6 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

Ewan Murray plays up to this all the time.  It's an act.  If you speak to him, as a few people on this site have, he'll freely admit it's something he does on Twitter to generate traffic.

Fairly sure he's a bit of an oddball - one of those kids in school who was really, really into football and memorised all the players goalscoring records but never actually played football at lunchtime or for a team.  I get the feeling there's one or two of those on this website actually :lol:

I've spoken to him a couple of times, the most recent was just after Christmas last year in the Corriegarth and he was absolutely normal.  Spoke to him for about 20 minutes about Scottish football, mostly ICT and Hearts and then about Rory McIlroy.  This Twitter persona is definitely to get the #numbers.

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33 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

Ewan Murray plays up to this all the time.  It's an act.  If you speak to him, as a few people on this site have, he'll freely admit it's something he does on Twitter to generate traffic.

Fairly sure he's a bit of an oddball - one of those kids in school who was really, really into football and memorised all the players goalscoring records but never actually played football at lunchtime or for a team.  I get the feeling there's one or two of those on this website actually :lol:

Primary 4 playground top scorer, thank you very much.

The fact I was in 3rd year at the time has no relevance.

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21 minutes ago, Rugster said:

What's his history with ICT? He's an absolutely dreadful troll.

He appeared on the ICT site under the username 'Cyril'. He pretended to be an ICT fan and generally joined in the chat but was also prone to bit of trolling and winding folk up. He also posted an odd tale of urinating with Liam Keogh in the toilets of some pub or hotel and admiring his dick and commented on how big it was.

He was eventually rumbled by one of the posters on the site as a Hearts fan and instead of bowing out with good grace or having a laugh he threatened legal action against the site for some reason. A really bizarre person.

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5 minutes ago, RiG said:

He appeared on the ICT site under the username 'Cyril'. He pretended to be an ICT fan and generally joined in the chat but was also prone to bit of trolling and winding folk up. He also posted an odd tale of urinating with Liam Keogh in the toilets of some pub or hotel and admiring his dick and commented on how big it was.

He was eventually rumbled by one of the posters on the site as a Hearts fan and instead of bowing out with good grace or having a laugh he threatened legal action against the site for some reason. A really bizarre person.

What a fucking weirdo.

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39 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:

^^^

one of those kids in school who was really, really into football and memorised all the players goalscoring records but never actually played football at lunchtime or for a team

^^^^ one of those kids in school who wasn't into football in the slightest and didn't bother memorising any of the players' goalscoring records but sometimes played football at lunchtime or for a team.

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6 hours ago, vikingTON said:

The Guardian's rent-a-gobshite Ewan Murray claimed earlier this week that Brendan Rodgers' passing game from the goalkeeper position might flounder on "the dreadful Scottish pitches in winter". Now unless I've missed something, the only genuinely bad pitch in the top flight in recent seasons was Fir Park - back when Gretna were alive and abusing it as ground-sharers. Since then Scottish football pitches - in the top flight and, shock, even at most venues in the lower leagues, have been smooth, flat and entirely conducive to playing football 'the right way' or otherwise.

It's almost as if he's a tragic golfist roped in to pass judgement on a game that he doesn't follow too well. 

 

 

To be fair, our pitch was an absolute travesty for most of last season due to its various issues.  A lot better now though.

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The Guardian's rent-a-gobshite Ewan Murray claimed earlier this week that Brendan Rodgers' passing game from the goalkeeper position might flounder on "the dreadful Scottish pitches in winter". Now unless I've missed something, the only genuinely bad pitch in the top flight in recent seasons was Fir Park - back when Gretna were alive and abusing it as ground-sharers. Since then Scottish football pitches - in the top flight and, shock, even at most venues in the lower leagues, have been smooth, flat and entirely conducive to playing football 'the right way' or otherwise.

It's almost as if he's a tragic golfist roped in to pass judgement on a game that he doesn't follow too well. 

 

 


McDiarmid is like a ploughed field over the winter months tbf...
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1 hour ago, RiG said:

He appeared on the ICT site under the username 'Cyril'. He pretended to be an ICT fan and generally joined in the chat but was also prone to bit of trolling and winding folk up. He also posted an odd tale of urinating with Liam Keogh in the toilets of some pub or hotel and admiring his dick and commented on how big it was.

He was eventually rumbled by one of the posters on the site as a Hearts fan and instead of bowing out with good grace or having a laugh he threatened legal action against the site for some reason. A really bizarre person.

Christ that's going back a bit now.  Was that around our first season in the SPL?  May have even been the season before.

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47 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

Christ that's going back a bit now.  Was that around our first season in the SPL?  May have even been the season before.

For some reason I think 2005 - 2006? Really can't remember for certain but it was on one of the older versions of CTO before they moved to the current site / server.

20 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:

For a Grauniad journalist, that's batshit mental. Are you sure it was him?

 

100%.

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2 hours ago, Tulloch Gorum said:

There are people in this country who love nothing better than wallowing in how shite they think everything Scottish is.  Murray and other like him just feed that market.  It's sad, really.  

It must be something to do with the name Ewan. I remember seeing a video of Ewan McGregor out with his mates in the hills somewhere moaning about how it's shite being Scottish.

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On 9/30/2016 at 11:06, jessmagic said:

Ewan Murray - unfollow and ignore. 

No further actions/discussion required.

Well no - it's a thread discussing terrible journalism in Scottish football; this is his natural home then.

Given that his fail is more often than not spun out into an absolute mess of a piece for The Guardian I'm not buying this cunning, Twitter troll theory. The Inverness CT forum revelations seem to confirm that he's just an utterly tragic loser. 

 

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7 hours ago, Dee Man said:

It must be something to do with the name Ewan. I remember seeing a video of Ewan McGregor out with his mates in the hills somewhere moaning about how it's shite being Scottish.

He's just never got over being refused entry to one of McDiarmid's hospitality suits for not wearing a tie. Time to let it go Ewan.

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