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East Fife with Dick Campbell as manager. Always interesting to hear his balanced take on how ICT has done against his team 😊

Thanks guys. My task was made much easier when IBM and our good friend and former work colleague EWD ict came onboard to lighten my load by doing all the background stats. Sadly Eric is no longer with us and Iain now does that side of it on his own. It's a considerable contribution which allows me to be more 'creative' or a pain in the erse, depending on your sense of humour. The late Johndo contributed many reports and previews & Smileymometers and we used to have a conveyor belt of reporters who occasionally contributed if I badgered them enough. (Liam, OCG, Granty, Davie, Maryhill etc etc...)However, with the advent of other great media outlets like the fabulous Wyness Shuffle, X (twitter) the popularity of the written word takes a hit in favour of more 'hip' options. (see what I mean about antiquated terminology) In an ideal world, I would like a young fresh reporter or two to come onboard and bring a new creativity and dimension to the CTO articles. So the offer of fresh ideas new blood is always on the table. Let your creative juices run free, mine are drying up. Might be an idea for anyone looking to get into writing/journalism/sports... Get in touch if you fancy penning a few articles, As IBM said, we are no getting any younger...

Elgin will be gutted - the derby next season is looking unlikely. 2-4 down to Annan at home at half time. Meanwhile Stenny 0-2 Airdrie so more visits to the Station Hotel in Larbert looking very likely.

Well done to the Supporters Travel Club for another season under the belt. Keep up the good work 👏

tm4tj has finally had a well earned day off with our league finished for the season. I remember when he worked a four day week, I bet he would like to do that again It will seem a bit strange with play offs and other football still going on tomorrow we will be thankfully looking from outside waiting to see what the setup will be for next season. With the weather we have had recently it brings a thought for summer football but it's not likely to happen in my lifetime. I will be busy in the garden and check the results later and no PotY or stats to do tomorrow Hope you all have a good day.

Thank you manfer, your efforts are always appreciated here in Australia. We always look forward to your excellent previews.

He sure does a fantastic job which is appreciated throughout CTO. For years he has been asking for assistance with the match day previews and reports but there's been nobody coming forward. Well done @tm4tj for keeping going.

I don’t think anyone at ICT is really in a position to make “Uncle Roy” observations, given the extent to which ICT has also burned through other people’s money over the years. Fair enough, Roy MacGregor has put vast amounts into County and in recent seasons that’s typically been over a million a year. But Caley Thistle, from the very start, hasn’t exactly been paying its own way either and since the club was founded, I’d estimate that it’s gone through a ballpark £15 million of money it hasn’t earned in order to get where it is just now - ie broke for the second time in its history and playing third tier football. Once you add the £5 million Tullochs put in during the early 2000s to £3.3M of non- Tulloch share capital, the £4M of debt that’s about to be written off and the roughly £2M AS will have put in (£800K purchase price plus admin costs plus coverage of current losses) and add other significant odds and ends chipped in as a matter of goodwill by various wellwishers, then you are pretty well at £15M. And that doesn’t include sources of public money such as £900K from the CGF and other substantial six figure contributions from the likes of the EU and the Football Trust. However there are two main differences, apart from Roy having very likely put in a fair bit more even than what’s gone into Inverness. Firstly, County’s external subsidy is overwhelmingly from a single, known and (for as long as it lasts) reliable source while, especially latterly, Caley Thistle have had to engage in a constant scramble round various sympathetic wealthy individuals, never knowing what the outcome might be. And secondly “Uncle Roy” will doubtless be running a very well managed ship over there, whereas between around 2018 and last August when AS appeared, Caley Thistle was an ever deepening administrative shambles with expenditure totally out of control. And therein lies what I believe will be Alan Savage’s greatest challenge - creating a business entity that can be sustainable in the long term, but in a sport where it’s accepted and normal practice for players to be consistently paid above their market value. As a result, clubs sail perilously close to the financial wind… so close in fact that it just needs an episode of incompetence such as ICT has just endured to bring the entire house of cards crashing down around everyone’s ears.

They could half the cost of attending matches (not just us) and it would still be one of the most expensive forms of entertainment out there. What's needed is additional value in whatever way that can be provided.

As someone living on a miserable state pension I sincerely hope the discounted season ticket price for senior citizens is maintained as every little saving ne!ps.

How I wish the camera operators would learn to use the zoom facility! We had a great day out, a really great turn out even old players appeared, Liam Keo and missus stood beside us.