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I'm sure there is a topic with ICT videos on here somewhere but I can't find it. If someone can find it feel free to merge. Anyway, I happened to be browsing on You Tube and came across this golden oldie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLbKuqiHh-c

Not denying it as such, just trying to make light of it................no smoke without fire.

We get players on loan as they are here to prove themselves with regular football so should be 'hungry' to get experience and make a point to their parent clubs. Plus the fact a young player on loan may only cost wages or part wages is better than signing players who require fees and are tied to contracts long term. Sadly we have to cut our cloth to suit the finances so if we did get relegated any season we can trim the wage bill easily - which is done by the end of loan contracts rather than a big squad of longterm contracts and wages we cant sustain so how can we critisise the club for trying to manage finances in this manner while trying to remain competitive? As for players being Scottish, dont see that being relevent unless they are local boys who support and love the club then whats it matter where they are from - Foran plays and gives ful effort every game, as do others - nationality isnt an issue, its player attitude. As fans we can all see the positives this season (Ross, Sutherland, Shinnie - young players coming through) but equally can see the failings in defence (perhaps he will think letting Grant leave was a mistake now) and scoring - now we need to give TB time to address this for next season and judge based on that progress. He got us straight up from D1 to SPL and now after 1 season back he will see where he has 'understimated' areas of the squad. Perhaps as fans we need to be realistic - SPL survival, 1 or 2 good cup runs and a possible top 6 finish some seasons - is anything more is achievable?

I do think Dunfermline will win on Saturday but don't see them challenging to come of the foot of the table, a team will always get a boost from a new manager coming in, it's only natural that they'd want to make an impression and try that little bit harder however they just don't have the spine of a team that they require to drag them up. If you look at all the teams in the bottom six too many of them are going through bad runs and I just don't see any of them going on a prolonged run of wins to drag them up from the positions they are in. Even if after the split we are in the same position I just don't see both Hibs and Dunfermline putting together enough wins together to bring them up the league, if anything we'll all take points from each other and the positions won't alter that much. There's more chance of St Mirren being dragged down below us than Dunfermline making it above us in my opinion.

This isn't the season we went down though, and we have been grafting. As Alex said, we could and should be scoring more, that's all. Don't mean to be picky, but since when were we in "the shadow of our neighbours"? We are a league above them, staying there and can only improve next year. They, I shouldn't need to remind any ICT fan, have never been there. Fill yer cup up a bit man!

We promised him a good send off and I'm sure he would have loved it. Thank you for all your kind thoughs and wishes and to all those who made it to the funeral - means a lot and helped us all x

The club needs to start looking at SFL players rather than just taking on English based frees and loanees. Craig Reid of QOS had a great game in defence in their cup tie at Aberdeen a few weeks ago and is out of contract this summer. Worth a look.