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Rumours that Burnley are interested in Lomas. So that evens things out with squads being ‘unsettled‘ Edit: Any rumour involving Lomas needs the word ‘alledgedly‘ attached. Dont want lawyers contacting football forums again..... alledgedly.

I'm sure those who know Big Ken will agree that this is a fantastic and welcome addition to the Board. http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/664-new-director-appointed-to-ictfc-board

Terry Butcher video....David Raven to follow....

Butcher is a competent manager but not a great one. He was, however, a great player and. as such, without doubt, an Ipswich legend. In ICT terms, I would say that he is a better and more successful manager than Baltacha and Brewster but less so than Paterson, Robertson and Christie. He is doing a reasonable job and I have no great desire to see him go but in the unlikely event of him landing the Portman Road hotseat I would not be too disappointed to see him go and am sure he could be replaced with another manager of equal calibre and possibly greater potential.

In one respect coming from you, Don, that is questionable praise - but otherwise you are spot on! At an earlier stage in Caley Thistle's history, Ken made some very telling contributions at very critical moments. He wasn't one of the original club directors but midway through the inaugural season 94-95 Ken and Roy MacLennan came on to the board as INE nominees to replace Norman Cordiner and Ken Matheson who really had had enough of the bickering. Immediately he transformed the club's PR at a time when this was sorely needed. A protracted battle with Inverness District Council over stadium funding was on the horizon and Ken was a major player in the essential step of getting that stadium in place. Then in the 1999-2001 period, as Vice Chairman, he was also instrumental in getting Tullochs on board, without which Caley Thistle probably at the very best best would have gone into administration with over £2M of debt and certainly wouldn't have had the wherewithal to win the First Division and enter the SPL by 2004. (And IHE's reference to "selling tractors" isn't actually all that far off the mark because in his professional career as Moray Firth Finance I am sure he has funded quite a few for local farmers!) This is a very sound appointment for Caley Thistle - especially since he will be working in the commercial area and in customer care.

We have a very important game on Saturday and this speculation can only be unsettling for the players. If Terry is not interested in the Ipswich post then he should end the speculation by making a statement to that effect as soon as possible.

Are you perchance a close relative of Dachi Khutsishvili ?

Armstrong has had all his title officially stripped this week. http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar/the-bare-minimum Good article by Robert Millar, great Scottish cyclist from the 1980s and 90s, on the EPO scandal. Worth pointing out that Millar tested positive during his career for steroids but he makes good points. Interesting, and something I didn't know, was that hemacrit levels, the level of red blood cells in the blood, decreases during exercise. SO not only did the UCI give the OK for riders to have abnormally high levels to start with, they didn't penalise them for blood results that are against all known science and could only have come from doping.

Clyde 10.00

Thank feck for that! I‘m assured!

Nice win

I have a feeling Luke won't let him go either. Potential for a restraining order?

Feck it if he goes just give foran the player manager job 2 seasons early. But seriously he won't go. It's not just Rita who won't let him go. Ritchie won't either. And what Ritchie wants he gets.

Personally I don't miss them and I for one won't be degrading myself to attend the bigot fest at Ibrox for the up and coming cup tie Dougal I will be at the match and I don't intend to degrade my self either Capital

Quite amusing that this topic is one of the hottest on CTO AND over the bridge. Those boys are obsessed with us! Tough being in our shadow though.

Think you miss the point mate. If the club are going to invite a band then that band should be allowed to do their bit. I've no complaints about the music but I think its very unwelcoming and downright rude to invite some of our armed forces and then drown them out.

One thing did annoy me about the music. We invited a military pipe band to come play for us. I love pipe bands. Sadly I couldnt hear this one for the stadium music. The stadium announcer introduced the band then cranked up his own music over them. To me that was just plain ignorant. If you realise they are playing and you introduce them then have the decency to let us hear them.