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As, in another post, why is there not a "boooo" option for some posters. They dearly need to be booed off the Forum at times. What negativity. How twitter and bisted can a so-called fan be (and I mean twitter and bisted!)(work it out!). Even Victor Meldrew was funny at times - not Theeagle.

With 19 games gone it is time for a half term report: 1) Sitting 4th in the SPFL 2) 8 pts advantage and a game in hand for the top 6 places 3) Have the top scorer in the SPFL 4) 16 pts more than County 5) Nearly double the points amassed by County 6) League Cup Semi-Final place 7) A number of good young players coming through the U20 set up (and some local) 8) A good number of the squad signed up to more than 12 month deals 9) A current squad of players that provide a sound foundation to build upon going forward 10) The club is operating on a solid financial basis Overall rating: B Challenges: Repeating the same level of performance over the second half of the season. All in all though it is maybe not as bad as many of us currently feel it is and with a solid foundation to work on there is still every chance of this being a very good season :-) All the best to all for 2014

Sugar daddy Mcgregor financing as usual, Cownty could not afford these players... living beyond their means -again. Just check last years figures.

The fact that Danny Williams' contract is two years, I would assume Carl Tremarco is the same. I find it really refreshing that we are offering longer deals to players than just a standard year like before.

I agree, Hearts will be dangerous opposition, by the time this tie comes round it will be all they have to play for.

Ive already reported it! Awaiting a reply.......

I feel sorry fer Mrs Raven as it would appear that she has been in labour fer almost two months. Otherwise I would go with fraser except that I would be tempted to put Christie up front in a 4-4-2 and keep Ross on the bench as he gives lots of options from there if necessitated.

This is poor, poor stuff and should really stop now. Trolling or not, Post 152 is a really poor attempt at banter at a club where inclusion is central to everything that we do and where women make up a fair proportion of our core support. Mods, is it possible to do something here as it's overstepped the mark.

Yes. Yes it does. We have been riding 2nd place for months - it was not all that long ago that we seldom dreamed of getting there and even then we would be expecting it as an inevitability that we would be bumped off it PDQ. What the team has achieved so far has been exhilarating and we are well placed to entrench our place in the Top 6. What is important is that we return to winning form and more importantly, take points off our close neighbours (both in terms of the table AND geographically) so we can peg them back as we move forward up the placings again. Looking forward to an exciting 2014!

This will be at least a two-parter, given the character restrictions on posts in place on here and my verbosity! Charles seems bereft of reasons to vote NO.......bar all those which will benefit the UK more than Scotland.....as in........... Big is Better/Economies of Scale....which simply means we share the costs of funding, among other things, a large pretty undemocratic House of Commons, and an even larger completely undemocratic, unelected House of Jobs for the Boys in Ermine; plough our taxes into helping pay for Olympics, London Sewage systems, HS2, the Channel Tunnel, covering England in Motorways (compared to Scotland); pay our share for Foreign Embassies and the running of Government Departments, like HMRC ......but if Scotland wants to actually use the facilities we already contribute towards, we have to pay more on top of what we already pay out. Big is Better/Economies of Scale means we, who entered the Union with no national debt, but from day one, acquired a share of that already produced by England's war making machine, now share in a ginormous debt total, solely down to the lack of economic nous (and propensity to make war) by Westminster Governments. Perhaps Charles could tell us how much of the current UK debt total was incurred solely by, or on behalf of Scotland (without going the Scottish Banks disintegration route..because Westminster made that possible...if not pretty inevitable). Big is Better/Economies of Scale means we help fund the salaries and pensions of 448,835 UK Civil Servants as at March 2013. Of those, about 29,000 working in reserved departments(which will be included),are Scottish based...and, depending if the UK total includes those employed by devolved administrations in the total, another 16,400 are employed in devolved areas including support within Holyrood. Been browsing the most up to date Scotland Office report I can find (that for 2011-2012), and after wading through pages of "we worked with the Scottish government to" and " The Scottish Office chaired meetings to" we find that the pretty pointless Scottish Office transmitted to the Scottish Government, in 2011-2012, £26,179,500,000 in hard cash.......to undertake all devolved items. (at least I THINK that is what it says). I find it interesting that no Senior Civil Servants in the pretty pointless Scottish Office is getting less than £60,000 annually and one of them gets between £90 and £95 thousand.and that was in 2011-2012. I shudder to think what they are going to get pension-wise, eventually! I do really have to admire (as a one time Apprentice Chartered Accountant) the ability of Government agencies/accountants to surround everything they say in so much verbiage that it is really hard to abstract any figure from that verbiage and actually understand to what part of where the figures should be allocated. .I did note that, over the piece, the UK MP punters who man the Scottish Office get golden parachute payments when they are dunted (wish everybody who is dunted from their jobs did....I'd be quids in!) But regarding the Economies of Scale, thingie I'm inclined to think that it doesn't exist, and am more inclined to think that the UK Government has "Bottomless Pocket Syndrome" just as so many of the now privatised Nationalised Industries did, but the Government likes it more when they reap the subsidy benefits, and aren't so keen on joe punter getting as much benefit as they do from taxpayer input. Looks as if we have paid, since 2010 and the change in Government, a share of Golden Parachute payments for a dunted Advocate General, who got £24,000 in severance pay, a Secretary of State for Scotland, who got about £19000, a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Scotland Office who got about £7000 and the UK also paid about £36,000 to the Lord Wallace of Tankerness because, as Advocate General, he was more important than an elected MP who was Secretary of State for Scotland, and was entitled to also claim his House of Lords Office Holders Allowance on top of the £90 odd thousand he got for being Advocate General. I have to say I can fully understand why Scottish Unionist MPs and Lords are so dead set on stopping Scotland getting independence..because their gravy train will hit the buffers and at least grind to a halt, even if it doesn't crash! Big is Better/gives more security and safety.......well it certainly does for everywhere South of the Border as long as Trident is in Scotland, but given that in WWII the priority for Westminster was the defence of England, and losing Scotland to invasion was acceptable to ensure all available forces (including those from Scotland) could fight to prevent England being invaded, not a lot has changed in that attitude over the time from then to now regarding the importance of Scotland to the union.....which appears to be something expendable to make sure England will always go on being. That was likely the reason the experimental fast-breeder reactor went to Dounreay.......less and more unimportant collateral damage if it all went wrong.........just as they consider the area around Faslane and Coulport to be expendable http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-mod-says-trident-nuclear-weapons-not-safe-enough-to-be-stored-at-english-base-1-2721194 .And it certainly doesn't imply more security and safety when you consider the lack of Maritime defences, which entailed a destroyer (or something) chuntering up from Plymouth when the Russians turned up 30 miles from the Moray Coast. If this link is correct http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533846/Battle-stations-Navy-scrambles-destroyer-challenge-Russian-warship-British-coast-takes-24-hours-make-600-mile-journey-Portsmouth-base-Putin-testing-response-time.html it's the third time(I think) in the last few years that the Russians have been in a position to invade if they had wanted to do so! More secure and safer? Really? Big is Better/We have importance in the world as part of the UK.......but that is a downright lie, because we don't have any such thing. The odd individual Scot may well be warming a seat in the UN, the EU, NATO, etc....but they are sitting there on behalf of the UK, not Scotland.....so the nation of Scotland has no voice, anywhere in the world...which isn't being used to bum up the UK, bar in the EU Parliament, and those few Scottish focused voices are drowned out by the cacophony of UK oriented ones. However....with Trident parked in Scotland, the UK certainly has importance in the world, though likely not as much as the Westminster Government has in their own minds. Big is Better/Currency.....now there I am inclined to agree...although, personally, I'd be more than happy to go short term with an informal arrangement that the rUK couldn't stop anyway, while we got ourselves set up with our own Central Bank and currency. Having the ability to rejig our own fiscal policies to ameliorate rUK brainfarts in the short term is not that much different to what we do now in our limited way using the Block Grant, after all. but full control of all fiscal policy will make it easier. But if there is no currency agreement, I rather think that a UK which has a pretty big trade deficit at the moment will have a much bigger one if, as rUk, they remove, just because they do cutting off nose to spite face, the input from Scotland to the rUK Trade figures. What gets me is that Scotland, via the Scottish Government, is trying to be fair to both Scotland and the rUK in their proposals, and build a kinda co-operation of neighbours.......but Westminster is doing pouting, huffing and foot-stamping, much as any toddler having a tantrum does.......and the way they are behaving now is not so different to their reaction in 1979 at the time of that referendum. Being an old bugger, I can remember stuff in the Unionist media then like "How much of Scotland's economy will be left intact if a Scottish Assembly gets the go-ahead on March 1? Will our coal mines go gaily on? Will Ravenscraig or Linwood thrive? Will Bathgate flourish and Dounreay prosper?” And I distinctly remember the promise that Douglas-Hume made that, if Scotland voted NO, a future Conservative government would offer Scotland "something better". And when we voted NO, under the special new 40% rule imposed, (despite actually voting YES, as I did myself)....what happened? Our Coal mines did not go gaily on, Ravenscraig and Linwood didn't thrive, Bathgate didn't flourish..and Dounreay didn't prosper. And the Conservative "something better" turned out to be Margaret Thatcher and an 18 year hiatus before any form of devolution.....which didn't come from the Tories, who were too busy closing Scottish manufacturing industries/coal mines, selling off the UK family silver and introducing the poll tax, to remember the promise made on their behalf. Which just goes to illustrate how much store Scotland can set by any promises made by UK Parties,ever , when you remember that it took Labour 100+ years to get round to setting up the dependent baby brother of the Home Rule which had been in their manifesto from 1888 (ie Devolution) and the Lib-Dems are still chuntering on about federalism but given the chance to try pushing it, they went for getting PR...and didn't even manage to succeed with that! I look forward to Charles.or others explaining to me where I have gone completely wrong in my interpretation of the attitude and actions of Westminster with regard to Scotland. I'm off to bed now, but will be back later today, hopefully, if I have enough time before a YES Moray Coast meeting, to give my take on what staying in the Union will mean for us, given we already know much of what is going to happen until 2015 and are currently getting told pretty much what the various UK Parties have in store for us beyond then.

It's not a "boooo" you are needing for him lizi, it's a boot....size 9!

I wish people would stop talking about the final before we're in it. This usually comes back to bite us on the erse.

Yeah you want something fairly simple and easy to chant that bigs the team up. Imagine our support trying to get round the exact stadium capacity in song. It's a struggle enough with just "Caley". Lets just get that family ness tune and adapt that slightly. "You may see a Ayr Utd, a Hibs, County too, but you'll never see a Nessie in the zoo" "You may go parkhead, govan, down to dens park too, and it's caley thistle followed through and though." Fun cheerful easy, catchy. Some sort the verses.... tweak that chorus - sorted! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARKlo-GBgQ Thats the ending theme but there is also the starting them that could easily be mixed with it for the verse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFR0brxrxjI It even mentions a secret "thistle" whislte. Easily changed to a caley thistle whistle. Give me a break I have a broken leg and lots of free time...