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Ross County - We're 100% behind ICT!

About twenty five years worth, you ?

And now I remember why I don't really bother with this site anymore and haven't been on in months. You are still boring everyone senseless I see. Also explosives ffs. It is smoke bombs that are being set off not atomic bombs.

Perhaps the most incendiary thing about that statement!

Ross County - 'We are the Highlands'? F'ck off.

MOTM-bo!

This is an interesting debate and reasonably relevant even here in Toronto .... For the first 7 or 8 years at TFC we had the odd flare and smoke bomb thrown onto the pitch or across the stands. The problem is NOT the pyro itself it is the UNCONTROLLED nature of the pyro. Because its not legal, even here, you had people bringing industrial grade smoke-bombs or road flares and these DO NOT burn safely, or in the case of the smoke, they are not safe to inhale .... 2 supporters groups ended up getting banned for these episodes. I had a flare go just over my head which was dripping hot residue onto people as it sailed by (and landed on a woman whose clothes got burned), and I was about 3 feet away from one of these smoke bombs that I could still taste in my mouth weeks later despite copious amounts of medicinal Glenfiddich. Last year the club (TFC) worked with the fans to bring CONTROLLED smoke to the games. The club supplies the smoke bombs (sometimes white, other times red) and the fans groups now have people trained in safe usage of them and with safety equipment nearby. The substances are nowhere near as noxious (although still unpleasant if the smoke comes straight at you) and flares are still banned. It was a happy medium. I fear this wont be allowed in Scotland though ....

Admittedly, using pyro is a bit stupid especially if it ends up with an impressionable youth getting a criminal record. But rather than vilify and marginalise the singing section lads, why don't we give them an opportunity to positively express their support? The atmosphere has improved in the past few years to the point where it is actually enjoyable to sit in the north stand. The club could do something forward thinking and make these lads feel like a valued part of the club. Assist them in putting on a display in the big games or give them a say at supporters trust meetings, I'm sure they have plenty of ideas.

Adam MacLeod is back training and should be fit again at Strathspey. Lads promising future has been pitted with injury - only played about 10 games last season before being put out for season by Fort William defender. This season, complications with his injury kept him to 5 games, and then got crunched and did ankle ligaments by same fort William defender on comeback. Bet he will avoid that defender like the plague when they next meet! Sure he will start scoring again when he is fit, hope he gets a proper run injury free

And 1502.

Goal 1501 was a peach !

Fair play to Mutombo, I'm usually the first to slag him off but he's been the brightest for us so far. Long may it continue!

There is yer reckon answer

Us younger posters listen to what you older blokes have to say and you are older but your encouraging youngsters to get banned from their club. We aren't European ultras, we don't go around in gangs picking fights with other fans, we don't burn cars, we don't throw bottles or stab people and if your only excitement is throwing a flare whilst standing at a football match then you haven't achieved much Try using it for its intended purpose, like illuminating a main sail on a boat in a force 7 with a swell, to make yourself more visible to a vessel coming towards you who hasnt picked up your blipper on their radar. Have a good time make loads of noise but don't get banned for throwing something 20 feet whilst standing still on dry land.

The match against Rangers has been postponed (frozen pitch).

These are, apparently, direct quotes from Hughes. It's not like the journalist has taken what he has said and then misinterpreted it as something else.

I just wonder if what is printed is what Hughes actually said or meant. Did he actually have a go at his players or was the conversation along the lines of 'Players get a bit of a knock nowadays and are out for a few games whereas in my day we had balls and worked through the pain' etc etc. Modern journalists seem to be trained in twisting and spinning any quote.

Agreed. For all that honesty is a great virtue, it can also land you in hot water. There is absolutely no need for this to have been put in the public domain. As for the issue itself - decisions about fitness to play are made with medical/physio input. In the end, though, only the player himself knows whether he is willing to risk playing with a niggle - it isn't always the wisest thing to do. Draper playing on at Killie in October probably cost him a few weeks on the treatment table, so this is a double-edged sword Yogi!

It is simply making an ultra statement. The coloured smoke simply adds to the atmosphere and fills the Warriors with the adrenaline to chant and jump up and down for ages. This is evidently a whining thread for older sweetie rustlers who have probably never experienced the buzz of real terrace highs. The sight of pyro fills the skies of Europe every week and is viewed as a competition by many. Officialdom and clubs should be looking at ultra, standing sections to encourage such scenes of jubilation and loyal support.

Proactive- The Pride of the Highlands. Reactive- We are the Highlands. Ross County are forever in the Shadows. New slogan for County - We're not in the Shadows. Together we Believe together we Achieve. New County slogan - We believe as well.

Surely you don't have any sympathy with these idiots who ignore the law, risk sanctions against the club and, most seriously, risk injuring their fellow fans. Sing your head off but leave those dangerous devices far away from any football ground....

Joint statement from Caley Jags Together and the Ross County Supporters Club.

Cringeworthy stuff from the wee team.

Pyro, enemy of the X men and Scottish football. Leave the flares at home kids

Agreed totally. Despite nutty and now discredited legislation, there really is no doubt as to which is the bigger issue requiring the full weight of the law between banter about the cleanliness, ethnicity and legitimacy of the opposition fans or the reckless discharge of explosives in a tightly packed space.

No Pyro No Party

Absolute effn torture if you ask me. Wish I'd stayed at home and saved £15. Bookings and Fisher injury costly too.