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According to Football Manager, Mckay eligible for Scotland as well. Presume that comes from his parents. He is from Corby after all.

It doesn't surprise me that he didn't accept our contract offer at this time, after all he is in a good window at the moment so why shouldn't he bide his time and see what's what on the world stage. I don't want to lose him though, he is quite unique in his work rate plus opportunism and does a great deal for ICT.

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Saw it in real life the other day. Take it from me it's worse in the flesh. Mint humbug springs to mind!

Our club is no different to other small clubs in Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Thailand, India or Mauritania, that is suffering at the hands of the EPL's propaganda. Theres been lots of talk over the years about Inverness based Old Firm fans but the town will be no different to everywhere else in the world, in that young people are picking a shade of Red or Blue to support from down south. The Old Firm themselves will continue to suffer a loss of new fans to these clubs as the years roll on, even in areas of Northern Ireland where wearing one strip or the other was once considered a school uniform, the kids are all decked out in Liverpool or Man United tops. You see it in Glasgow as much as anywhere, just step into a pub on a Sunday afternoon when theres a 'big' game on and you'll find dozens more people taking in the EPL than whatever Scottish game Sky is taking pity on that day, even if the Old Firm are in action. The facts is that all entertainment is global and easily accessed anywhere, at any time, for virtually free on a phone or at home in any quality of coverage you choose to pay for. You wouldn't expect somebody to only go see Scottish Films, listen to Scottish Music or watch nothing but BBC Scotland, so why should football be any different? Theres no way to compete with the investment Sky and now BT have made, sadly joe public in general has the attention span of a ADHD goldfish and like nothing more than having their entertainment spoon-fed to them. Raising or loweirng ticket prices will have no affect on crowds now or in the future regardless of who the first team coach is, in the short term there will be a section of fans that it might encourage along but over time they will be bred out of existence too. The last throw of the dice for Scottish football IMO is a summer league, where we get 3 months of EPL-less football to make a name for ourselves in. If clubs worry abotu losing the festive revenue then surely something like the League or Scottish Cup games could be re-arranged to be played over Christmas, like pre-season friendlies?

Hearts. Jamie Hammil, twice in one game for starters

Grew up and live in Scotland, so I'll support them. Didn't they? Well, I'm Canadian-born, so come on the Maples! No? Wife's Egyptian, so Pharaos it is! Not them either? Ah well, I'll just have to go a little bit back in family history and cheer on Northern Ireland. Are there any bloody teams in this poxy tournament???

I love looking at stats and was interested to see this STV link, but disappointingly it's littered with errors! The 'where the goals came from' section has some clubs totals out by 4 or 5 goals. Even accounting for own goals the figures literally don't add up! And the right foot/left foot/header goals also doesn't tally for some clubs. But what I do accurately know is that it's now been 91 games since we last scored from a direct free-kick!

Had it not been for the new sponsor then I suspect we'd probably already have had them (or they would be imminent). I don't know this 100%, but I believe that the sponsor is printed along with the shirt design as a single process as opposed to being stuck on afterwards which would mean that shirts could not be done in advance. In regards to being outdone by other clubs....only really a valid argument if we were competing with each other for business, but I don't imagine too many ICT fans have decided to buy a St Mirren or Motherwell top just because they launched before ours. It's understandable that the people are anxious to see/buy the new strip and seeing other clubs release theirs adds to the frustration in regards to "if they can do it, why can't we", but it's been that way for as long as we've been with Errea (15th season coming up?) and you have to imagine that the clubs deal with them means the benefits must outweigh the wait or we'd have changed supplier long time ago. Some previous kit launch dates (as close as I can ascertain) have been as follows....note these are launch dates and not on sale dates, although they may have been the same. 13/14 (Away) - 10th June 12/13 (Home) - 17th July 11/12 (Away) - 24th June 10/11 (Home) - 1st August (first year with Orion) 09/10 (Away) - 14th July 08/09 (Home) - 17th June 07/08 (Away) - 4th July (first year with Flybe) ......we're still in May!

Quite right Laurence, it is ridiculous those Jocks don't think or act how you want them to, especially after all this time you have lived in Jockoland, and given that they forced you to live among them. Poor show by the sweaties.