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Caleyboy, your attitude that Directors exist purely to plough their own money in to clubs is a large part of what is wrong with football today. To a certain extent I can understand where this idea comes from...most Football Clubs operate primarily as a business and Fans are seen, and react, in a manner akin to them being no more than a customer. It's not a healthy situation, but until attitudes start to change...and get back to what they were in the days when Clubs really were Clubs...then it will not improve. IMO, the only way we can change, and change for the better, is for fans to get rid of this idea that they should be handed everything on a plate and that others should pay to provide that and for clubs to accept that Fans, when given the opportunity, can do so much more than just had over their hard earned. Yes, the fans spend a small fortune following their teams as it is and it seems a little strange to support a stance which suggests they do more....but doing more doesn't necessarily mean spending more. ICT have a core support somewhere in the region of 3000 people....imagine what could be achieved if they all chose to spend 1 hour less demanding others do something and invested that time in actually doing something to help instead? 1 hour spent convincing someone to come to a game with you, 1 hour spent going out of your way to give someone a lift to a game, 1 hour spent volunteering in some way or other, 1 hour spent posting positive stuff about being an ICT fan on your facebook/twitter page, 1 hour attending an event or function to support the efforts of those who give their time doing more.

I escorted him to the court !! I had been off duty and knew nothing about it but I was asked to do "court escort" which was always a dawdle so I jumped at it. Didnt know what it was about - and neither did the copper with me - both of us handcuffed to Granville - until the judge read out the feckin charges. And the gallery was full of kids on an educational day out to the court. Granville then tried to very politely explain the mitigating reasons for the misunderstanding. But the best bit was at the end. The judge "sentenced" him to a further period of treatment in the locked ward at the Craig - but then Granville, despite me and the copper trying to drag him out of the box - asked for a complaint against the police to be taken by the judge - "Your honour, on the morning after the incident I was sitting in a cell with three other inmates. PC 339 entered the cell and gave my cell mates a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich. He then turned to leave. When I asked him where my breakfast was - he put his hands in his pockets, took out several blades of grass, threw them on the floor and said "If that is good enough for your girlfriend it should be good enuff for you". :lol:

Agreed, its that one step closer to France he's been looking for. Of course it does - nothing to do with him feeling that he has been constantly played out of position, often made a scapegoat, dropped and started again on a regular basis and not played to his strengths.

I can confirm Terry gave me a ring this evening and I'm dusting off my boots.

Alex, I think the reason you have not got many votes to your poll is that the option a majority might choose is not an option you have given. I would continue to attend games but not as I do now. I would not go and watch a Rangers Newco.

After last nights revelations on FC Dignity, if they're not punished appropriatley by the SPL then thats it for Scottish Football. Fans in there thousands will start turning away and Celtic and FC Dignity will be whipping part-time teams every week. The SPL was bordering on farcical anyway with their woefully misjudged distribution of the TV money and the ludicrous rules for entry and voting structure. (making County spending in excess of £1,000,000 pounds in this climate is crazy)..... but FC Dignitys years of cheating and stealing players basically goes without punishment then the league is pointless, the other teams are not being allowed to prosper.

there's only one pathetic post on this thread and it wasnt from the original poster. You sir, appear to be a class 'A' knobend !

Nice and constructive

Is that like an America's version of the North of Scotland Cup?

I dont know how hard this would be to organize, Ive seen it on tv before where random people at a public location start singing and everybody joins in. If we could maybe try and do it at a football match, that would be one for you tube, imagine, its all quiet people are doing their own thing then suddenly someone chants stand up for the caley jags and everybody stands up and starts singing, followed by other songs. We could also inform the BBC and STV that its going to happen, I think it would be good publicity for ICT and may even make the National news. If it would be too difficult to organize at the TCS how about we just settle for the Eastgate centre, train station or High st.

Players are on holiday. Managers are on holiday. Indeed everyone exept the journalists are on holiday. So easy for them to sit on their arses and search the web for players who are out of contract then link them to one team or the other. Christ! Who's going to deny the stories? Everyones on holiday

IHE at the risk of you repeating yourself, I would love to hear the story about you escorting Granville to the Sherriff Court. I might be repeating myself here with this story about Granville, but here goes. Mid seventies on summer break from Uni working as Dump Truck driver at Smithton where they had just commenced building the housing estate. Granville was Timekeeper and also in charge of Payroll !!! Down the road was a field where Noreen Barrie used to keep her horse. I used to go down there at lunch times to see Noreen, hang about with her and have a ride on her horse. One morning Noreen came screaming and crying onto the building site looking for me and looking for help. She had opened the stable that morning to find Granville standing on a crate wearing only a shirt and trying to "mount" her horse from the rear. A group of us ran down to chase Granville off but he had disappeared by the time we got there. He was eventually caught by the Police later in the day. At his court case he was charged with bestiality. His response was that he admitted guilt to the attempt of the act but not to the act itself, as he had been interrupted by Noreen and thus could not complete his attempt. Poor Noreen was traumatized by that experience for a long time after.

It's no too cold today.

Thats our team sorted. Looking forward to it

It'll be a chance for them to see their big team in action.