Yngwie

We are better than Arbroath, we can win this and set our sights on 8th place.

For context, Dodds averaged 1.50 in his time with us.

Appeal successful!

Interesting. I had actually been wondering if Billy’s contract could be a bit of a millstone around our neck next season, with him presumably being our highest paid player by a long way, but not really providing us with the goals that we would have expected when we gave him that contract.

Had a look to see how Ferguson got on for Forres today but he wasn’t in the squad after getting injured in training yesterday. Where it gets interesting is that it happened when training with ICT despite having signed for Forres and having nothing to do with us officially.

The stats aren’t actually bad for a match away to the side in 3rd place, and with us a man down for half an hour!

A goal down and now Kerr sent off.

Hoping, more than expecting, was the impression I got. Does bar work for income these days.

We are so unpredictable this season, losing when you expect us to win but then getting points when you wouldn’t expect us to. 3-1 to us.

Not unexpected after he went off last week, but very bad news all the same. I guess we’ve seen the last of him.

The press are describing it as a little known technicality (if he had played for a Scottish U21 side it would not have counted towards the 2 senior club limit), but yes it was a waste of everyone’s time having him here if the hope was that he could be part of the squad this season. It might turn out though that next season he is the best striker we can afford.

Ah OK. He can’t sign for a senior club this season because he has already played for 2 senior clubs this season - Forfar and a 10 minute sub appearance for Newcastle U21s who are classed as a senior club under English FA rules.

Cameron Ferguson has signed for Forres, who thanked ICT for making this possible - not exactly sure what we did other than have him on trial for a few weeks.

Yes, but limited liability is a fundamental feature of company law, and the creditors themselves will nearly all be trading through limited companies in order to protect their other assets (house, savings, other business interests etc), so they shouldn’t feel too aggrieved when someone else does the same.

I’m sure they would get an upfront payment, whether it is the full fee or not I don’t know.

I see the liquidator has filed his final report with Companies House. It states that according to the concert company’s records there were 27 creditors owed a total of £428,000. Of those, only 5 lodged claims with the liquidator totalling £33,000. Difference is likely because most creditors didn’t see the point filling in the form when there was little prospect of a dividend. The report also confirms that no dividend is being paid as there are no funds left after paying liquidation expenses. Unfortunately there is nothing in the public domain that lists the creditors and amounts due to each of them. I would have been interested to see how much was owed to the artistes and their management etc (which I suspect would be the largest amounts) and how much impact there was on local businesses. My understanding is that in a CVL the liquidator is supposed to have filed a Statement of Affairs that would have detailed all this and I can’t know why that hasn’t happened other than an oversight on his part? The statement of affairs should also have been sent out to the creditors.

No, income has dropped. Prize money and gate receipts massively down since the Premiership days. Certain running costs have increased with energy being one of them, and Big Dunc won’t be cheap, but look at the current squad and compare it with the one we had even in our relegation season. We are certainly not spending more than we did in the Premiership.

That doesn’t sound right.

Owain Tudur Jones was there commentating for Welsh TV and also appeared at half time on Alba. I suppose it is best that Airdrie won, it would be a bit odd that a tournament that is Scottish with a bit of Welsh and Irish, got won by an English side!

Probably having to fork out £1,000 - £2,000 per day keep us afloat, and then get derision and abuse for doing so. Form an orderly queue…

Ridgers certainly had a better game than the Utd keeper whose error gifted us a goal.

I think most keepers would’ve been caught by that, a tremendous strike that would rarely be attempted let alone hit the target.

Striker stats: Mckay - 1 open play goal (+ 1 pen from 2) in last 12 matches Samuel - no goals in last 7 appearances Brooks - 1 goal in 17 league appearances (most as sub) Pepple - no goals in his 9 appearances (most as sub) We really need one of the above to go on a scoring run. Someone, anyone!

I suppose we can say we are a point further away from automatic relegation. But a relegation playoff is looking increasingly likely.

Mains gas though? And don’t get me started on cars and lorries, mobile bombs laden with explosive fuel! And then we have chemical factories, oil refineries, nuclear power plants and so on, which all obtained planning permission. Risk is everywhere you look.