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A wee plug for this article for the outstanding Scottish football website The Terrace (written by yours truly) I'm sure it'll bring back a few memories! http://terracepodcast.net/scottish-premiership/2014/5/15/hot-goal-time-machine-inverness-ct

I think he may have being taking the Michael out of another poster by the name of D****l.

The people behind the goal don't seem to appreciate what a great goal they're seeing!!!

Eight players promoted to the U20 squad. http://ictfc.com/news/team-news/1292-eightsome-reel Also confirms that Fraser was right. Conor Pepper, Adam Evans, Jay Cheyne, Nick Draper, Joe Gorman and Matthew Cooper have left the building. No mention of Ben Greenhalgh.

I expect the same this coming season as I have done for every other.... The players to go out, give it their all and perform to the best of their ability while delivering entertaining football. Do that and things like league position and cup progress will take care of itself.

I agree with your post Smee! Too many whingers for my liking. I keep meaning to post the conversation I had with some Aberdeen fans in a Glasgow pub after the LC final! They reminded me that their own team came from a merger with 2 local clubs (albeit not a bitter one) and it took some 40 odd years for them to get to a major final so we should be happy & proud that we did it in 20. I don't even think Aberdeen were in the top division either?? Top 6 and a cup final is a great season for us but I would happily give that away if we managed to increase and maintain a larger fan base. Glory is nothing if you don't have the fans to witness it.

In light of revealing our new sponsor, a couple of kits I wouldn't mind seeing being made our own. Stupidly simple and in distant hope that Subway were to use their logo minus the slogan, I'de be more than happy with either home kit. Based on current season templates though and assuming we're remaining with Errea.

His goal against the manky mob from over the bridge is a contender for the April SPFL Goal of the Month....GET VOTING!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZfU3eT_x-4

I think the squad is good enough to finish top 6, and therefore a similar placed finish next season would be the aim. Can't bank on a cup run but hopefully we can do it again, preferably the Scottish Cup.

Im a traditionalist too Sneckboy

I really want to get back to 'traditional' tops - for all clubs. Fed up with the fancy 'flashes' and nonsensical 'adaptions' on tradition! Even Aberdeen wearing white shorts looks 'wrong' to me - I associate them as being in all red, for example. I understand FIFA have had some say in what colours teams can wear in the forthcoming World Cup - interfering with tradition! Argentina will have to wear white shorts instead of black, and Brazil also white shorts as opposed to blue. Annoying. I hope they change their stance. I suppose the colours you witnessed when you were 'growing up' are always the ones you'll associate with football teams.

A constitutional Guinness in the Don View, Donview?

Ben Greenhalgh being released, if true, is maybe not surprising. I'd have liked to see him get a one-year-deal, to see if he could make the break-through. The poor guy has huge levels of expectation around him - which will follow him to his next club - because of the SKY TV next footballer thing and the Inter Milan link. It's probably a curse! The fans of his next club will be on-line doing their research and also discover that he's a Ronaldo body-double....again, no favours! We did/do have a Ben Greenhalgh thread, started-up when he signed - it's worth a look for the cringe factor. No names mentioned, but some folk were getting really carried away by the hype!!!

Not sure if he's being kept on or released (Calum Ferguson). He went on loan to Montrose towards the end of the season and I had been checking the Montrose line-ups to see if he was getting a game, but don't think he even made the bench. From reports, I'm of the opinion that Ali Sutherland may be the better prospect. Edit - Just read on the 'Contract Situation' thread, reported by caleydawson that Ferguson has been promoted to the first team squad. Ferguson started out being involved in most matches whether starting or on the bench but then he got injured and i think he was still injured or not fully fit when his season finished

Higdon has been put on the transfer list after his club got relegated and they could no longer afford his wages

Greenhalgh is getting released once his loan deal is up at the end of the season apparently. Ferguson signed a one-year deal with first team. Howarth not sure about i thought he was getting released, the other 3 in the U20's still have a year left on their youth deals

We have Brora on Wednesday 16th July at 7:30 at Dudgeon Park

I would hazard a guess that on the County forum, the discussion on what their new kit might be like is a very brief one.

Tansey's goal in semi final Dorans' goal against County 'Away' day at Charlton (really a 'home' game for me)

Roarer...you're the WINNER...but the winner of the book is... (and she brushed her hair for you...) If you have a signed copy already (or live in New Zealand) let me know and I'll get my daughter back to re-draw....

Good point! Were we top all the way to October? The cup semi-final was THE moment for me. It was just incredible, and anyone who was at it (well, apart from the Hearts fans obviously) will have come away from the ground absolutely buzzing with one of the best feelings you'll ever get from a sporting occasion. It's the one game from this season that we will still remember and talk about in 10 years time, and it surely has a place in any ICT fan's top 5 games ever.

Top Six and direct attacking football will keep me happy.

Obviously the Cup semi-final was tops as a one off game. But being the only other team apart from Cellic to have topped the SPFL is worth shouting about!

The draw has quickly been re-done....

Well we defo need a striker or two, maybe three if Billy leaves. We also need cover at right back. Apart from that we are pretty much sorted. I would have said a winger also but forgot about Williams. I do rate the boy and i reckon he could come good with more game time

I entirely consider our current squad top 6 material. Look at the talent and ability we have signed up long(ish) term now! Shinnie is in crazy form and if Doran can lay off the pies he is just deadly. I have faith in Yogi and Russell at this point. Given a good break and an even better pre-season, I suspect to get off to a flying start again.

I'm actually quite optimistic about next season. A few rough edges to sort out but I really don't think we're all that far away from the finished product and the close season should provide plenty of time for him to hone his tools. Perhaps this is Yogi's best chance yet to achieve something big in Scottish football.

sold by Subway

I'll be renewing my shortly. Regardless of my opinions of Hughes I can't imagine being anywhere else on a Saturday afternoon. Or Saturday lunchtime. Or Saturday evening. Or Sunday lunchtime. Or Friday night. Or Tuesday night. Or Wednesday night.

I dont think the "glory days" are gone ..... they were apparently gone when Pele left, then Robbo, then Brew (V1.0) etc ......but ICT is bigger than any one man(ager) and we always seem to find ways to confound even the harshest of critics. Thats a big part of the fun of supporting ICT ! I agree that TB seemed a perfect fit for the club. A place where he could rule the roost and do what he wanted with basically a job for life - within a tight budget of course - but despite his declarations of love for the area and for the club he showed his real thoughts on the day when - still employed by ICT - he chose to socialise with his new employers when he should have been plotting their downfall. At least the players were professional that day ! That was the GTF moment for me and one that smacks of a complete and utter disloyalty to the club, the players he had signed over the last few years, and to the hard working supporters of our club who had backed him all the way through relegation and the 'bouncebackability' season. I thank him for what he did do for our club, I appreciate it and remember it fondly, but I really hope he falls flat on his face in each and every managerial or media job he takes from now on in ... not because he left, but because of how he left. W***** !!!

He should have stayed put then? Actually I think butcher owes a debt to ICT it wasn't always rosey and we stuck by him. I will always be grateful for the good times but the manner of his departure was a disgrace!

In terms of league position our last 2 seasons have been our best 2 seasons ever and we have Terry Butcher to thank for that. On a very limited budget he and his management team did an excellent job in finding latent talent and fashioning them into a team that could compete well in the top half of the SP(F)L. The sad thing both for the club and himself personally is that both seasons could have been better still. Both seasons saw us riding high in the league before Butcher decided he would capitalise on the success and head off to bigger clubs. Last year the aftermath of the Barnsley fiasco resulted in a significant drop in form when the players realised that despite all his praise about the loyalty of the players, the manager had no loyalty at all and was keen to leave. This year Butcher renaged on his commitment to the club and left and his successor has been unable to maintain the early season form. I am convinced that without the Barnsley fiasco we would have captured a European place last year and despite both Aberdeen and Dundee Utd being stronger this year, with the start we had, we could have finished higher and perhaps gone one better in the cups. As SP points out, had Butcher had faith in the team he had fashioned and gone on to win a European placing or a cup with ICT then his own stock would have risen immensley and he could have attracted a bigger salary elsewhere. But we've won nothing and he's won nothing. We are a small club and may never have such a good chance of success at the top level of Scottish football again. The Rangers, Hibs and Hearts will all return stronger in the next few years and it will be harder than ever to make that breakthrough. There is a feeling the Butcher took the team to the brink of that success but then snatched it away from us in order to satisfy his short term financial greed. The success of the last 2 seasons is a bittersweet success because we know that it could and should have been better. In denying us success, he has also denied himself success. The irony is that whilst the club has still enjoyed relative success, his opportunity for success may well morph into abject failure and leave his career in ruins. If so, he only has himself to blame and will get no sympathy from me.

Freezing prices for the 4th (?) season in a row is fantastic. Any rise in prices runs the risk of reducing the number of tickets sold. Hopefully they get the same numbers as this season if not more given the League Cup run and people do as much as they can to encourage others to sign up rather than continue to look for negatives in everything like some people on this forum.

There are more things for a manager to consider when offering a player a new contract, attitude, performance in training, making sure he fits into his game plan, etc etc. Things that we don't have the luxury of seeing

The tin shed and the famous pie shed....