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Draper only got 1 year deal, he needs to be signed up imo, this team has made me look forward to games again, not like last season!

Nobody is doubting times are hard for people, but if you are citing ICT not having a large support due to that issue then its irrelevant whether its Hampden, Easter Road or as you suggest Perth since the costs traveling to any of these venues is going to be approximately the same give or take a few quid. Oh and as for the media and Chick Young etc, I don't personally care what they think and I'm sure most of the other ICT fans don't as well. Unless its a central belt team they see it as just an inconvenience for travel and think of us as living in a back-water - for that reason we need to get behind the team and 'shove two fingers up at them all' by getting to a final!!!

Its great that some National managers notice how ICT players are doing.

bishbashbosh - you highlighted the word ‘change‘. They didn‘t ‘change‘ the venue. They already contacted Hibs before the draw. They had also contacted St Johnstone. We would have been in Perth if we had Midden. Hampden if we had Celtic. Due to size of Hearts support, ER was booked if they got us (and i‘d guess if they got Midden also). I cant remember who tweeted this info but it was a well known journalist. Hampden is very expensive. The rent would be too much for less than half empty stadium. Perth is too small a stadium for Hearts in a semi final. Go and support yer team!

Heard that Billy McKay has been called up for Northern Ireland. Congrats to the man! Been in great form this season and well deserved.

Jeeez. MacDairmid and Dens. TOO SMALL. 10,000 seats. Hearts will sell 10,000 anyway. People would miss out on tickets. Tannadump. 14,000 tickets. Possibility but might still be a bit tight. Pittodrie- holds enough but a crap venue. Hampden. Too big. The cost of rent means we‘d make no money. Easter Road. Perfect! 18,000 seats. Not too big. not too small Fantastic stadium which can generate great atmosphere. Friendly pubs around ER. Hearts will out number us where ever we go anyway!!! Good decision. Some of our fans are sounding like Kenny Shiels ;)

I think that the management are finally happy with what they have put together and that we'll see more offers in the run up to january.

Well done, of course a hat trick tomorrow and you might be in the starting 11

Could the Mod's please move this post to the Other Football section of the site. The information provided by KingBeastie is FACT and Not a rumour, therefore it's been posted in the wrong forum.

The game is confirmed as a 3pm kick off on the Saturday.

I see that they are looking to raise £2m to get to the end of the season. But then what? Even if they reduce their wage bill at the end of the season, they are still almost £50m in debt to UBIG. There is a real danger that the fans are simply throwing money away to address a short term cash flow problem whilst leaving the root cause festering away in the background.

Oh aye. I have an account(s). But it‘s very much in the shadow

It is where it is. We just have to get on and accept it, have the largest number of traveling supporters we can so as to minimise the level of out-numbering. TB has to get the players in the mindset that this is the semi and if we want to play at Hampden we need to win. Stop the negative talk about venue and begin the process of positive preparations - its a huge game for the club and we need to be 100% behind the team & TB and not be distracted by minor issues such as which side of the central belt we have to travel to!!!

I'm not too fussed that it is played at Easter Road it is a nice stadium and it is the right size for a game like this I much prefer this than a half empty Hamden. Also what is the difference us playing Hearts at Easter Road than playing Celtic at Hamden? Another thing this cup is run by the SFL not the SFA so for once the SFA are not to blame in this situation. We have drawn 2-2 this season against Hearts at Tynecastle despite being 2-0 down and down to 10 men I see absolutely no reason why we can't go and beat them this time at Easter Road. Anyway, really looking forward to it. If the club can get details of the ticket prices and bus prices, an idea for the club could be to market some of the tickets as a Christmas present - sell it as a bundle of a match ticket, a seat on a supporters bus down to the game and maybe throw in an extra or two such as a special edition semi-final programme/scarf/poster etc. Not sure of the cost involved with this though but a possible avenue to look at.

Am I alone in feeling that Easter Road is the best option. The crowd and the atmosphere at Hampden would be crapp. Hearts were always be going to take the bigger support and there will a far bigger crowd and atmosphere at Easter Road. I suspect that we will be allocated the "away end" and seats in the adjoining stand. Hope that we can get a wee singing section booked though. Perth is too small and Dundee grounds are not really that atmospheric. Pittodrie may be equidistant but it will not attract many to the seashore at that time of years. Then add the fact that we can enjoy a pint in the Hibee bars in Leith and we could get some crack cocaine and even a prostitute with relative ease.

Do we really care that much about where we play it, surely the fact that we are in it should be enough for all. No matter where it was held the SFA were on a hiding to nothing - Edinburgh and some moan about travel which by the way is the same distance if not slightly closer than Glasgow and Hampden, Perth or Dundee and there won't be enough tickets available and some would miss out. From Inverness the trip south at that time of year is still going to be bad!! Let's focus on being in the semi-final rather than picking negatives with where it is being played Oh by the way Caleyjag and I will be there to answer the original question.

STOP F**KIN MOANING.

F**k it, we'll play wherever. And we will win. That my whining fellow fans is all.

Equally shirt sponsors shouldn't be betting companies as that encourages gambling, drink manufacturers as that encourages drinking etc but football is a business and if they don't take the money for advertising these companies will still advertise somewhere else. There is a thing called individual responsibility and people need to get back to accepting that its down to individuals and not the state to police everything. Just because a product or service is advertised nobody is forced to use it.

but this is going to be a sell out, everyone will be spread out, this is the time where the club should be making a section reserved for those who want to STAND together and who do create an atmosphere.

Well-spoken lad. He's only 18 and we should give him a chance to develop and mature. At 18 the Pimple was a shrinking violet, shy, introspecive and afraid to speak his mind. I blame Sheena who tried to seduce me at age 12. We nearly made it but it was the fumbling that undid us. She said that we fumbled the ball too much and ran out of steam. Had she succeeded, Scarlet would have been a more mentally and emotionally, robust ,outgoing, self-confident 18 year old about to take on the world and brimming with self-confidence. As it wa, he tried to make up for it by going ape as he developed into a handsome, debonair daredevil passng 50. Everybody was telling him that he was a late bloomer to which he would never agree since the memories of an earlier bloomer sucked the confidence right out of him again. Has anybody got any comments that can help Old Scarlet make further progress? Oh, as I said, go easy on the boy .18 is only 6 years on from age 12 .