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Following our recent Board Meeting, we have issued this update to our members today: Update to Members: June 2025 It includes an update on leaving administration, season ticket information, and details of our Prize Draw - win a season ticket for either an adult or child in the North or Main stand! If you are not yet a member of the Trust, joining is easy (and only £5 or £1 for under 16s): https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/join-us

You'll grow out of it, along with other things like having to wear nappies and drink your meals from a bottle.

There is/was a mentality surrounding football that gaining entry to the pro leagues would bring fame and fortune...and spending money to do that would pay dividends. People who'd never been to games in their lives would start flocking to see the local team playing the 'big boys'. As we, and many others, have come to realise, that's not the case. What you're then left with is clubs which are, put simply, financially unsustainable. We've seen various attempts, schemes, promotions, offers etc. over the years that are designed to grow the fanbase. Even a Scottish Cup win and European football hasn't shifted the needle by much...if anything. If our new sustainable business model is dependent on growing crowds, we're screwed. The previous regime knew that, they were just REALLY bad at executing the side hustles needed to supplement income....and equally bad at valuing fans who were providing the income we were getting. Whilst I don't like/agree with everything Alan Savage is doing/done, I do think he's spot on with things like the need for a more affordable stadium. Recent comments may hint at the fact the planned tie-up for a move aren't going to happen soon, so work to reduce costs (and increase income) where we are are entirely sensible... saving £1000/month on energy is probably more realistic, and easier, than trying to put an extra 50 bums on seats every game. With regards to Hamilton, there have been a lot of rumours about some of the business practices taking place at/through there over the years, and there was even a time when the club had a 'feck it, we don't need fan money' and were doing things like charging 20p entry and only had something like 200 season ticket holders. This day was always coming for them, and my only surprise is that it took this long. Scottish Football needs a paradigm shift, and soon, if this trend is to change.

Seeing pre season games listed, wow. Thursday 12/6 is my last game of the 24/25 season. Heading to Aberdeen, Spain park, home of banks o Dee to watch grandson play in Scottish schools plate final Dingwall academy v Duncanrig secondary. man, it’s been a long sport season but it’s better than falling asleep most afternoons as people of my age usually do.

It all depends on how Nessie and Nessa identify themselves - apparently…

i shall be buying a season ticket as well for the first time in years

Yeah, I get that. At my age you've seen plenty of language evolving before your eyes, but that doesn't mean I can't have a moan about it when the evolved version makes no sense Next time Mrs Mantis serves me up a rice pudding, I'll look in it for the proof. A few fairly recent football expressions that fairly rip my knitting: "on the front foot" "hopefully we can kick on" "playing two up top" - it's not a xmas tree ffs "buying a free kick" - what? "in and around" I blame you, Alan Shearer. How can you be in and around a player? "subtitute" and "vunrable" Not to mention non-readers who hear phrases such as "prima-donna" and render them as "pre-Madonna"... maybe Lady Gaga is "post-Madonna". And "we equipped ourselves well" instead of "acquitted". Also a bit disheartening to hear the ACC of Merseyside Police this week talking about "grevious bodily harm". I dodged a bullet by not forking out 40 quid to watch that dross at Hampden last night. Instead I got to suffer BBC Scotland's very own squeaky pet hamster who obviously couldn't be ersed doing his research on how to pronounce the Icelandic players. So even though Thommo seemed to have mastered Thórdarson and Thorsteinsson, his wee pal insisted on calling them Pordarson and Porsteinsson, totally unaware of the Þ character in the Icelandic alphabet. Anyway, apologies for taking the thread off topic. The mods (beaks) will likely impose a ban.

Calm down. No need to act like a bowl in a China shop. Noone is making you the escape goat. Anyway, I thought it was "the proof was in the pudding" from the gecko.