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What a novel concept! Call youself a fan? I don't go to to football to be entertained. I go to support my team and to belong. I go to bleed and suffer with other members of my tribe as we slip to a lacklustre defeat on a wet and bitingly cold December afternoon. I go to share in the sense of communal puzzlement about the team selection. I go to enjoy a strange combination of frustration and moral superiority when none of my team seem to be able to do the most basic things with a football - things which I, of course, could do with my eyes closed. I go to be part of the mob shouting their outrage at the officials for pulling up one of our players for being offside - when they were - and not blowing for offside against the opposition - when they weren't. I go so that I can join the ranks of the oppressed and feel a sense of righteous moral indignation at the conspiracy behind the decisions which led to our defeat. I go to endure the pain of defeat and that feeling that I am deserving of sympathy for my sacrifice and suffering. Of course its not all about the suffering of losing - there is the suffering involved in hanging on for a win when we are totally outplayed and the opposition have wave after wave of attacks and the final 10 minutes seems like an eternity. It is worth it though for the sense of relief and achievement. It's a bit like climbing a munro in a blizzard - you're as miserable as hell doing it but you get a great sense of achievement when you've done it. The nervy win is also good so that you can rub salt in the wounds of opposition supporters - after all, we know how they feel and our bragging rights allow us to play on their sense of grievance and bewilderment. If we were to play the opposition off the park, their supporters might simply acknowledge they were beaten by a better side on the day - and where's the fun in that? I am a fan. I need to suffer to bond with my tribe. I do not go to football to be entertained. But if I am entertained then that's good too, but remember, it is the suffering that's gone before which makes the victories and the success all the sweeter. Ok, so a bit tongue in cheek (but only a bit!) If this strikes any chords with you and you haven't read Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch" then give it a go. It is certainly the best football book I have ever read - even if he is an Arsenal Supporter.

Watch for idiot Rangers fans and their media acolytes blaming this on Rangers being KB'd to Division Three. All of Hearts debt was run up before Rangers imploded and they have been subjec to winding up orders for the last two years.

I see that one of the 2006 Scottish Cup finalists is to be a member of the new Lowland League. The other finalist can count themselves fortunate not to be joining them.

Would you not get a bit brassed off at ICT constantly finishing bottom of the Third Division and, from 2015, liable even to be kicked out of there by the upwardly mobile Highland League champions? Nope. I couldnt care less about what league we are in. I go to football to be entertained. My faveortie ever time for watching football, was back in the Highland league days, when proper footbal was played. Given the choice of SPL footie today...or going back to the Highland league, in the good old days.....i would go back to HL days Jeez, have you been to a run of the mill HL game recently? the standard (and entertainment) is poor, this last SPL season has been IMO brilliant, no way could i get entertained at a Clach vs Rothes game. If you want to go back to the the HL - bye bye

Would you not get a bit brassed off at ICT constantly finishing bottom of the Third Division and, from 2015, liable even to be kicked out of there by the upwardly mobile Highland League champions? Nope. I couldnt care less about what league we are in. I go to football to be entertained. My faveortie ever time for watching football, was back in the Highland league days, when proper footbal was played. Given the choice of SPL footie today...or going back to the Highland league, in the good old days.....i would go back to HL days

No news yet on any dates for activities for the new Youth Group we are looking at, but hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll have something organized for a kick about. In the meantime, if there are any lads (or lassies) keen for an hour-long kick about on a Thursday evening, then why not pop along to Millburn Academy where Davie and John hire out the all-weather pitch. Numbers have dwindled in recent weeks as some of the regulars now play in the Inverness Welfare League, meaning we could do with a few more faces. It's £2 per person and paid on arrival. (Not too sure if Davie has age restrictions mind. I shall ask him to clarify)

He was like Titus Bramble or Gary Caldwell. Very talented but not as much as he thought and could be a real bombscare. Alongside a Terry Butcher, he'd be great but he needs that strong defensive figure next to him.

Nah, best comeback was the Ayr cup game, 3-0 down and a comeback to WIN 4-3 thats a great result!

Well... that's me just bought flights. I just need to work out how to tell the girlfriend I'm going now...

More than a little unfair. ICT have ZERO debt and any loans in recent years have been provided to assist with cash flow, not to fill gaps between income and expenditure. Monies over and above that have been invested and contributors have received shares and/or services in return....much the same as happens in any business. Whilst football doesn't generally offer any return by way of dividend payments, it does offer a higher degree of community "good will" than you would get in just about any other (for profit) industry I can think of and that in itself holds value. Many other clubs would be satisfied with that situation...i.e. they can balance the books at the end of each financial year...however ICT don't appear to have settled for that. Terry Butcher had the playing budget reduced by £300k last season. Based on the PWC figures and our turnover then that would equate to somewhere between 20% & 25% of his previous budget. The sum is also slightly more than the £250k (ish) additional investment that was required annually to balance the books. This would look like a major step towards the clubs desire to replace the £1 Million (or there abouts) we had in the bank prior to being relegated. It's also very prudent when we don't yet know exactly what the situation is in regards league income for the upcoming season. If we can continue to secure investment year on year then that speeds up the process of putting money back in the bank, if not then there should still be enough room for the club to have an excess to allow it to happen anyway and/or to absorb any reduced league income (should that occur) without the need for any further drastic cuts. Not owning the stadium and having sold other assets is unfortunate and not a situation I like/d or a course of action I ever agreed with...but it is what it is. I don't know if we'll ever own our stadium again or not, but I do know that it's far more likely to happen with the club being run as it is now than it ever has been.

When you get these pathetic bigotted morons behaving like that at an U17 match, one dreads to think how they will behave when the first teams next meet. Punt Celtic off to the League of Ireland where they would presumably feel much more at home and The Rangers down to England (Evo-Stick North league should be about their level) and then the rest of us can get on with a proper football league watched by proper football fans.