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To be honest mate, i think its out of order saying he is an embarrassment to the club. He is probably a Caley fan like me and you. Give him a break. End of the day, we come to watch football, not listen to a Fecking PA system. Fair enough, could be better but its not. Lets not moan.

A pretty scary report and any Falkirk fans reading it must be crossing everything and praying to every God that they can 'do a Caley' this season... I'd imagine the majority of SFL clubs don't even dream of reaching the SPL any more as they are struggling to operate at their own level. The only way I can see the professional game surviving in this country is for the SPL to expand to 16 sides. If you add Falkirk, Dundee, Dunfermline and one from Partick, County and Queen of the South to the SPL mix and you probably have all the clubs in Scotland who can realistically survive as full time operations.

I am simply and briefly supplying this for information. One consideration which seems largely to have been missed is that, despite this loss of ?947K, Caley Thistle have managed to remain debt free and have money in the bank. (I quote the Chairman on this.) This has been done through:- * Drawing on reserves. * Management of cash flow * An injection of ?150K from the Directors.

Come on - lets face it - they have more of a support than us in numbers and more "lads" and less sweetie rustlers - but if that had been an ordinary match day there would have been feck all of them left standing cos the stewards would have chucked them. Our home support has been lamented from day one but 150-200 of us, given leash would have least have equalled that - away from home last season the majority of places that we went commented that we were the best away support of the season - at least. LETS FECKIN ENJOY OUR AWAY DAYS THIS YEAR AND THE MORE OF US THAT GO IN TO SING SING MODE THE BETTER - That will never happen in TCS or the North Stand unfortunately.

Thanks lad and thanks to all the Inverness fans who gave us a warm welcome. It's a pity Inverness is so far away otherwise a lot more fans would have made the trip. Watch our friendly in Bristol... Wish you all a great season!

About our home support. It was a friendly. They had been travelling from Belgium and no doubt drinking all the way. There is no way a comparison can be made, trust me. If Antwerp travelled to play every team in Britain, 99% wouldn't sing. It's a friendly.

This just shows that the gulf between the SPL and 1st Division is far to much for any team to cope with unless they bounce straight back up to the SPL after relegation, just look at Dundee who have been stuck there for the last 5 years. It furthermore heightens the need for the SPL to wind their neck in and start working with and speaking with the SFL to drastically change the way the Scottish game is run and funded as it's not all about them. Maybe the kind of funding that is available to relegated English Premiership teams is needed in Scotland but obviously this would be proportional to the finances available. Just look at how the Championship has flourished with the 'parachute' payments and there is no way this couldn't work in the Scottish league. In our case I think we can count ourselves lucky that the board got their act together and appointed TB and MM and manage to keep them, yes we went down for a season and the decision to change things, when in the SPL, was made too late but everyone makes a mistake usually upsetting a few people in the process. It is whether lessons are learned from that mistake and I believe they have been, it was a harsh lesson for those running the club that the SPL should not be taken for granted and hopefully we won't see the same management mistakes flare up again. We have a solid basis now to help us stay in the league and I believe we will but there are other SPL clubs that should be worrying about the drop and the financial pitfalls that it throws up

No chance of that happening, he's hopeless now!

Tuffey is our number one. Anyone who says otherwise after that 1-0 game away to Partick needs to have a word with themselves. Your football knowledge is shining through . :_shocked:

Esson is our No.1 without question . Anyone that says different aint got a scooby .

It was a friendly. Does anyone actually expect a full stadium or any form of atmosphere in a friendly?

Let us not forget - The decision making of what particular group of individuals initially tore the club apart, lost the support of the fans and the players - and put us in a position half way through a season that made the prospect of relegation a present under our feckin Xmas trees - and did they have the humility to apologise - NO but they did attempt to project the blame and fall on the back of appointing the Messiah - a decision which was clearly influenced by the waving of hundreds of highland shoes in the outskirts of Glasgow. They may have improved and learned some lessons but Butcher and the players are the reason that we are where we are - I hope the SPL environment does not serve to highlight the muppetry of ICT again.

Correction - you would be asking questions TO a feckin muppet.

What utter nonsense!! I take it you've never seen Foran and Hayes playing before? These guys are very talented players. They are the types of player who will win matches for their team irrespective of their "match fitness". If TB leaves these two out for the Celtic game, citing lack of match fitness as a reason, then he's a bl0ody idiot. Foran took precisely 60 seconds today to blast the lack of match fitness theory right out the window. Jonny Hayes is also more than capable of doing the exact same thing.

The death penalty is to good for this guy simply beacause you feel no pain. He should be put in a bear enclosure. Lets see if he can kill a bear instead of two young girls

I suspect that Don could be tempted back - say six Dougall and Hastie pies per game ?

------------Tuffey Tokely Innes Munro Gillet Odi McBain Duncan Hayes -------------Foran ----------Rooooney

How do you put a score on to another poster ? - I have a feeling that there may be a gremlin in the system and all the scores are been accrued by IHE - Is there any way that I can ban anyone from scoring me any positives please.

Yesterday, the announcer was an embarrassment to the club. Whilst I can appreciate that some of the names for the Royal Antwerp team were difficult to pronounce, pregnant pauses do not create the right image for the club. Reading out the home team players also presented a problem. To add to this, the announcer has the volume too high and he has the microphone too close. As a result, it is very loud and some sounds are distorted to the extent they cannot be understood. I think we need a professional person to do the announcing. Someone who can sound interesting, has a clear voice and knows how to use a public address system. If the person we had yesterday is the person who is going to do the announcing for the rest of the season, we need a new announcer. One idea would be to give media college students the opportunity to be an announcer. This could involve a relationship between ICT and a university. Being an announcer would give the student a means of gaining practical experience. What are your views?