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There are a lot of changes happening this season with regards to the buses and advertising. Details are just being finalised, working in conjunction with the club. So for the start of the season, we hope to be adverting in a lot more places, especially for people not on social media.

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Great stuff.

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) :)

Has everyone booked their seats on buses for Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline?

Roberts definitely showed flashes of potential. Think his release is probably down to injury concerns, or possibly attitude rather than ability. Players should be judged for their net contribution over an entire season. Sadly Roberts impressive snowing were few and far between. We need value for money.

wear last season's one....

as ive said before, this information really needs to be on the main ICTFC.com website, perhaps a link on the fixtures page or the ticket info page? I think your missing out on a lot of people who either don't use facebook or don't use forums or don't use either.......

To be fair to Willie Miller if you listen to the programme, he actually comes into defend ICT. It was during a discussion about youth academies and he highlighted that financial constraints meant for us, establishing such an establishment is very difficult. Granted he might not have quite correct in what he was saying, but those looking at this as some sort of attack on ICT on his part are incorrect.

Oh I love it when that smug grin is wiped off Ronaldo's face. Well done Iceland! a battling performance and a well earned point.

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.

Interesting article. I read the comments of Tommy Wilson with interest as it pertains to MLS but its really chalk and cheese. There is a requirement for all MLS teams to have an academy and these form part of the 'must have' items when any new team pays its $100m fee to be awarded an MLS franchise. The financial numbers in MLS, with every team backed by big owners, are colossal in comparison to the SPFL but the stated aim is the same - to develop the game in the USA to a point where they are perpetual powerhouses in the Copa America and World Cup. Canada - by default - may benefit from this because Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto also have academies with a focus on developing Canadian talent and both Edmonton and Ottawa have emerged from the lower leagues to be potential MLS candidates in coming years too. Not sure about the youth academies in Montreal and Vancouver but the Toronto one is regarded as being world class and has seen a conveyor belt of players come through into the first team over the last 10 years and recent Canadian squads have had a total of 17 - mostly U23 - players (out of 32 used) who play their football domestically for one of the three Canadian MLS teams. Interesting times ahead in 5-10 years I think. I know from speaking with a few folk around the club on my recent trip that ICT realise how important youth is and I think we will definitely see some movement on this front but its a hard sell to a lot of other folk. We dont have a lot of money, but you do need money to develop youth. youth will not impact the team instantly so in some eyes its not money well spent. The challenge seems to be persuading some folk that a long term 5-10 year strategy is worth it and how to balance that with budgets elsewhere. Its a huge juggling act when you are operating a business that by default makes a loss every year without cup runs and cash windfalls but once its up and running then it has the potential to be a conveyor belt like some other clubs have. It was also interesting to read Willie Miller mention Iceland and Scot Gemmill minimise them saying we beat them recently (and therefore inferring we must be better) as thats puts both sides of the argument in a nutshell for me. I dont think I have ever said this before but I agree with Willie Miller and Scot Gemmill reminds me of the old duffers at Park Gardens in Ernie Walker's day who believed Scotland were a world power who would always be that without effort !!! Iceland is a good example of football on the rise and the scale is comparable to Scotland. In fact, they only have 325,000 inhabitants so what they have achieved in the last few years is nothing short of remarkable and a testament to the plan they set out to achieve. The FIFA rankings also dont lie (much) ... Iceland has climbed from 110 to 33 in the last 5 years and are running out at Euro 2016, whereas Scotland have typically hovered in the 45-55 range and haven't qualified for a major tournament since France 98. Another good article to read is this one: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/30/volcano-iceland-national-football-team . We stopped in Iceland for 5 days on our way back from our recent trip and to say they are fanatical about their football is an understatement. The national stadium holds only 15000 fans (and only 9800 seated) but there are stadia all over the place. We had lunch in a small town called Grindavik (pop 3000) and it has a tidy looking 1700 capacity single stand stadium. There are 4 divisions of 12-12-12-10 and 4 more provincial/regional leagues of 7-7-7-6 clubs for a total of 73 teams !!! They know they have their limitations, but as they do in life, they also set out to overcome those limitations in sport and it seems to have met with an element of success. I am going to be cheering them on later today as they face up to the challenge of Portugal !

Give the boy some respect. I think we should be wishing him well so good luck Liam.

I can't confirm or deny the price RC are charging for disabled as their website doesn't mention this category but I would ask this: Does their price include free entry for carer? I also note they are charging £25 for U-12's whereas ours are free.

Pretty good suggestion but he's scared of our fans

We'd be guaranteed a white xmas in Inverness if o'conner joined us

Well why the hell not, it's only a friendly and you've got more experience than the 7 year old who applied.

shocking to see that ross county fc has a far better disabled season tickets prices than caley thistle do for a county one is £165 and a caley one is £315 due to your age your are disabled all your life what has age got to do with a season ticket will done ross county fc they care about disabled people

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

English not your first language then ?...