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Agreed OCG. I did think the SC final was marketed pretty well in 2015 and of course it carried the extra gravitas of being the SC final. It's absolutely great that the club has got to this Challenge Cup final but, to be realistic, as an occasion grabbing the public imagination, this can't match not only the SC final but also the LC final, three SC semi finals and a replay and arguably also two LC semi finals. However, I do also believe that this final MAY have the potential to have influence disproportional to the occasion, in that if ICT manage to win it, that achievement could help to kick start the overall momentum of the club after a very difficult period since last May. Yes, I agree that winning the Scottish Cup did nothing to build momentum then, but things are starting from a rather lower level on this occasion.

Nope not really. I think the lead up to the SC final was fab. There was the shop in town, The posters on the high street, the scarves on Inverness statues, open training sessions at the bught and meet the cup sessions. I am proud to have been a part of a lot of events at that time and the few weeks before and the few days after will live in my memory forever.

Well done, good luck Blair hope it all works out well for both you and the Club.

What I am saying is ... if you leave the washer on and just give it time it will eventually all come out in the wash so why not at thjis early stage just give Blair the benefit of the doubt that he is the genuine article and just needs some assistance.

Scotland narrowly failed to qualify for next year's cricket world cup today, when a combination of bad weather and a poor umpiring decision saw them lose to the once mighty West Indies by only 5 runs when heavy rain stopped play. I know the VAR system in football is getting a bad press right now, but its equivalent in cricket, the DRS system, has been used at the top level for years reasonably successfully. Unfortunately it was not being used in the world cup qualification tournament just coming to an end, and one of Scotland's best batsmen was on the rough end of a very poor lbw decision , which, had DRS been in use, would certainly have been overturned in Scotland's favour. On top of that, Scotland lost out when rain stopped play with about 14 overs left, when they needed 74 runs to win at little more than 5 an over, when the infamous Duckworth/Lewis method of deciding rain delayed matches came into force, indicating that Scotland were 5 runs below the 'par' score when rain washed out the match. Everyone knows that in almost all one day matches there is a huge increase in the batting side's scoring rate towards the end of an innings, so how D/W can deduce that with 14 overs left Scotland would not have been able to marginally increase their scoring rate to achieve the required runs is just incomprehensible. So a historic victory over an established international team, and qualification for cricket's world cup, which looked on the cards, for most of the day was denied them. Bad luck Scotland. You really were 'robbed' today.

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I can think of 3 players who have played for both ICT and Tranmere, but none with a Bordeaux connection.

As John Mackenzie ( the founder of this topic ) has not been well lately I would like to take the opportunity to wish him a very speedy recovery. I hope we win the cup to cheer the guy up a wee bit,

We were the same vs Crusaders, first half excellent, three goals and a complete second half collapse! It's although the opposition suss out the way we set up, change their system and Robbo hasn't a clue how to alter his.

Tickets sales seem to be going fairly well so let's hope we get we do get near the 3000 mark - that would be great.

I think if we continue to play like we did in the first half against dundee United then we should be comfortably safe. Top four is a stretch now but still not impossible, if we win our games in hand then you never know.

Quite right Scarlet. There are unfortunately a few posters who take great pleasure from insulting new contributors to these forums. Live and let live, I say!

The club are making a decent attempt at marketing/promoting the final, hats off to them! Anyone else think that they are making a better job of marketing the so-called 'diddy' cup final (not by me, by the way - looking forward to it!) than our scottish cup final in 2015?