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Congratulations are in order for our 'keeper, who tonight, became a full international - making his debut (as a sub) for Wales against The Netherlands!

In the courier saying he wants to stay when his contract expires.sign him up I say.

It appears that we are VERY close to a return of this competition. That would be a feckin great day out - and we might have enough fit players to actually fill the subs bench as well.

As I have said on this forum before, let's hope this puts to bed the idea that the club made vast amounts of money from last season and have not invested any money to move the club on. Until we can get attendances up we will make some losses unless balanced out by a good cup run so yet again it is up to the public of Inverness to decide if they want to keep a top flight football team. Whether that will happen...............

That is absolutely my take on it as well. The good thing here is that not only is there a surplus of £254K for the year to 31st May which effectively covers the kind of underlying deficit Kingsmills refers to, there is also the Christie transfer which didn't happen until well after the end of the financial year so won't be in these figures. Statements issued by the club today in addition refer to increased season ticket sales for the current season so these are further modest safeguards for the future..... and not a green light to open the cash floodgates. I'm not sure, once the SFA got their cut and remembering that ticket process were quite low, if the cup final would have yielded all that much and I have heard it said that for the year they won the Cup, St Johnstone returned a profit very similar to ICT's here. In terms of expenditure on players, it really does have to be understood that for years the Board have successfully navigated a very narrow channel in between the twin potential disasters of financial trouble through overspending and footballing trouble through having too weak a squad. There really is very little wriggle room although at least some was made for the big gamble back in 2009-10 which led to the return to the SPL.

It is abundantly clear from a decade of accounts as a top tier club that, in the absence of windfalls such as cup runs and transfer fees, we have an inbuilt annual deficit circa £300,000 no matter how prudently the board run the club which they do. Something that those moaning about lack of spending, perhaps including the manager, need to bear in mind.

I'm with Sneckboy on this - even if it doesn't include the Christie transfer fee. The previous year's accounts showed a very modest profit, despite the league cup final appearance. This year's profit is on the back of the Scottish Cup triumph and sale of Billy Mckay. The implication is that, in the absence of any transfers or cup victories, the club will lose substantial amounts of money in any given season. No doubt that fact is as clear as day to KC and the team (Sunshine Band??) and underlies the cautiousness in the transfer market.

Just pure guesswork on my part here, but what if said offer was given to Yogi and his agent and it was rejected and then Kenny Cameron hasn't re-negotiated a newer offer - hence the lack of communication?