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The club have been adapting their disability pricing over a number of seasons now and this has been done following ongoing discussions with a few organisations. In short, it was highlighted that the clubs original policy from a few years ago of not charging disabled fans was considered "positive" or "reverse" discrimination. From there the club introduced a voluntary payment option (which many signed up for), moved on to a reduced fixed price including charging for the carer and finally onto the setup that has been introduced this season whereby the charge is the same for everyone and those requiring a carer get free access for them. As it was explained to me.....it's not the job of a football club to financially compensate or reward a person for being disabled, they merely have a responsibility to (where possible and in line with the law) ensure that those with additional needs are not disadvantaged. The law sets out the requirements in terms of access and facilities and the club more than meet what is asked of them in that regard. In relation to someone attending attending a football match who requires a carer, then the availability of free access for the carer ensures the person is not disadvantaged. Anything beyond that is, as mentioned earlier, "positive" or "reverse" discrimination. Another positive that came about as a result of the change is that ambulant disabled are no longer restricted to a specific section of the stadium where the discounted tickets had previously been offered. They can take up a seat anywhere they like and, if required, get a free carer seat alongside them. Having spoken to a good number of disabled fans over the years (at ICTFC and elsewhere), the vast majority want to pay their way. Some had even expressed disappointment that (until now) they have not been able to pay the same as others and feel like they are making the same contribution to their club as everyone else....often choosing to increase their spend at the club in other areas to make up for it.

Unfortunately I never got the win! The Dr stopped the fight between the first and second round due to some heavy damage I took in the closing seconds that left me with a bleeding nose that wouldn't stop. My opponent was the better man, but I did shake him early on. Very proud of myself despite getting beaten up as thanks to people like you guys I have raised an incredible amount of money for a charity that supports families like ours who have gone through hell. Thank you so much to those of you who have donated. For anyone else who may still wish to contribute, the page remains live for a month after the event. I'm off to tend to my two black eyes and broken nose (not joking) :)

Danny MacDonald is the "Strategic Development Executive" and now has overall responsibility for progressing Community, Youth & Football Development Departments. The heads of each of those departments under Danny's remit are Craig Masterton, Charlie Christie & Duncan Shearer. This was covered off in the brochure sent to Season Ticket holders with renewals and can be viewed online at https://indd.adobe.com/view/5c1d6b2c-4ed6-4785-8ba0-4e6296dba9fc Pages 8 & 9 give a brief overview of Youth Dept. Pages 10 & 11 cover Community.

No problem with you Pimple. It just gets to me when people constantly criticise a man who brought the most success to our club. I also fully believe that there are two sides to every story so I just cannot believe that Hughes turned on our Chairman/Board without good reason. I do not however agree with how he went about trying to sort it - but maybe, just maybe he had tried to do this internally without any success. Who knows, I just think we should put this to bed and get on with giving our full support to Foran.

Well done Simon. Not many people would take a sore face to raise loads of money. Tremendous effort and we are all proud of you.

Och well might as well put the cat amongst the pigeons. Home shirt in Blue with two red stripes, White shorts and red socks. Away shirt in White, Black shorts and Red socks. Simples.

I believe Forres may have had, or are due to have, some work done on their pitch which meant it wasn't going to be ready in time for us to fit a friendly in with them.

Caleyboy, maybe that remark directed at the auld Pimple might have been fairly accurate but go easy on the Kingsmills loon. His heart is deffo in the right place and he is a staunch ICT supporter. Yes ! Er ....you are awful but I do hope you like me, though.

But Bronson - after the fight - spoke like he typed in his 4am posts

It looks like the Scottish Burned Children's Club won by a country mile.

DOH - So why did we give Yogi an extended contract ?

cant hurt - we'll fire it up on our twitter feed and our FB page. feel free to share the URL of the sponsorship pages on your own feed using the share buttons at the bottom of the topic.

Whilst he didn't impress whilst here, to be fair to the lad, I don't think he was ever given the opportunity to impress. He was badged as a midfielder but was usually pushed up front as a sub because of his height, then, when he did get on the park he didn't see a lot of the ball because he was playing under a manager who was far more concerned about playing to a system rather than adapting systems to play to the players' strengths. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he does a decent job for Barrow.

had a pm back from ross county and that price is with a free carer ticket as well

Absolute load of garbage. If Rankin is on trial then he only has the goal posts and groundsman to play against. Every other player is on holiday till end of month.

Why? While he had a decent season in a poor DUtd team, he's an aging player that we don not need, in a position we have plenty cover and will probably command too high a precentage of the wage budget IMO which could be better used in areas of the park we are weaker in or on younger talent we can try develop - its not like we have a very young inexperienced side where we need his leadership. Sometimes I'd like to see fans on here looking forwards to new blood at the club instead of the constant calls just to bring aging players back on sentiment.

Yeah Denis Alibec came off the bench to play for Romania tonight against France, I thought the name sounded familiar but then I realised that's because I signed him for ICT in football manager 2008

It was a damned disgrace the way he was treated by that man. But justice prevailed and we have our right back right back where he belongs.

English not your first language then ?...

Believing something from Forest Echo News!

Equally, why on earth should you equate a disability with any impairment of intellect. Hugely condescending in my view.

Apart from me, you must be the most boring old windbag on this site.