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Bannigan is out with a long term knee injury. He'd fit in well here!

Agreed, I'm a supporter of Yogi and what he has done at the club including accepting the injuries this season and how we have been unlucky with the signings but given the way the team has been playing the last few months, the constant excuses and the ever more increasing comments both written and from his mouth (which carry much more validity) its all getting a bit tiresome and negative - Bemoaning the Williams/Vincent sage, the comments about Tansey & Ofere in Jan, stories about Polly & Storey etc. The attitude this promotes is not positive, one comment is a dig at the board or can be seen that way, continual comments suggest a man looking or a way out - hopefully not but we know our budget yet there is no point complaining about lack of resources when those that have been used in some cases have been wasted or on sub-standard talent. Agents are obviously part of the game, but not all the blame lies at their door or even the players as they want the best deal, but the club have to do more and that starts with the manager and his tactics, philosophy and atmosphere he creates.

I'm surprised nobody else has commented on this. I agree it is not the greatest survey, but it is an attempt by the SPFL to get the views of supporters on a range of issues. Results will be broken down to club level so it is a good opportunity to show that supporters of ICT care about the future of the game. If supporters across Scotland don't give their views, how are the SPFL supposed to know what we think? If there aren't thousands of replies saying we support safe standing areas, for example, then the SPFL will assume that we are all happy with the way things are. As the OP says, it only takes 10 minutes so it is a great opportunity to give your views on a range of issues facing the game today.

That's bordering on unprofessional. I really don't want to hear things like that from our manager, why would anyone sign for us upon hearing something like that? It's hardly the most attractive thing for a prospective signing to hear. 'Please sign for us but should warn you that we're struggling to sign anyone elselse so you might be the only player we have and we'll probably be crap next season'

All I could find on him was this report for U-13 game http://www.youthfootballscotland.co.uk/southeast/890-south-east-region-club-news/fauldhouse-foxes-fca-news-/2546-foxes-continue-fine-run-with-county-cup-success.html I also thought it 1st April when I read tweet but it was posted yesterday teatime.

I searched him yesterday and the results I found seem to show that he's an ex-Hibs youth.

He is probably just being straight and direct as usual. This is undoubtedly mostly down to agents and the club being unable to compete financially. "We are finding it difficult to get one or two over the line and we are finding it difficult to keep who we want to keep" - Well nothing new there then. Again undoubtedly due to agents looking for that bit more and better "offers" coming in from elsewhere. "We are busy trying to bring someone to the club." - Just trying to emphasise that the club are not just sitting on their erseholes but actively seeking out new players. Caley Thistle lost midfielder Nick Ross to Dundee last summer, while their former strikers, Edward Ofere and Billy McKay, now line up for Dundee United, Ryan Christie was sold to Celtic, full-back Graeme Shinnie moved to Aberdeen, while midfielder Marley Watkins joined Barnsley - I think that we are all mightily cheesed off that we lost all of that lot - but we certainly weren't surprised either. They all left for better deals and better careers and significantly more spondoolachs to boot. "We are going to lose Vincent and Danny Williams and it's our job to replace that," - Obviously a fact but definite hint of frustrated sarcasm. Probably moves for lengthier contracts and probably "promises" of regular first team football. "Our budget will not be right up there, we will be in the bottom two in the league. We have to be very shrewd in the way we spend our money." - Actually totally spot on. "I've never heard anything, but what will happen, just from being in the game a long while, is that Miles Storey will probably move somewhere on the back of the season he has had here," said the Caley Thistle boss. And that will not be his choosing. It will probably be the agent trying to cash in. If Miles Storey wanted to come back here for roughly the same deal then we would jump at it." - Again spot on and a shure sign that Storey is offski. The club have to do more and that starts with the manager and his tactics, philosophy and atmosphere he creates - Yes Yogi has been frustrating with his determination to play a style of football. One which may have paid off if we had the calibre of the players that have left or have been injured. BUT I am afraid that money really does talk these days. When you buy from the bargain basement you are taking a chance. Some times it pays off and sometimes it feckin doesn't. And the other problem is that when those players shine they immediately grab the attention of the vultures from other clubs - not always bigger or better clubs but wealthier clubs. Why wait and see with the guy. Go and get him signed up! - Do you really think that an offer has not been tabled - If Miles Storey wanted to come back here for roughly the same deal then we would jump at it."

Apparently we've signed Aiden McKee on a PC. Not much info on him other than he's from Bathgate and previously played for Fauldhouse Foxes. Believe he's around 18 and a striker and was up on trial recently.

Kind of got that. Couldn't be arsed getting involved. If he doesn't like the French because of the way they behaved in the 60's or because he's got some stereotype frenchman in his head . . . let's just leave him to it.

Ideally, like all important decisions in life, one should spend as much time as possible carefully researching the facts before coming to a view. On the other hand, if you lack the time or inclination for detailed research you could do worse than ponder whether you really ought to be voting on any issue on the same side as Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Pat Cash, John Redwood and Charles Bannerman......

I have given IBM a "like" for the Reliant Dobbin - kushty! I'm also struggling with the locations. Is the first one maybe Queensgate or Union St? I believe that MacDougalls Hotel in Chirch St was also a temperance establishment.

Got you now Jock! I just remember "old" Bridge Street well enough to see where you are coming from, but it has been so long away that I didn't even think about it.

This will be another of Alex' "Facts".... like GTA being worth more than the oil, the oil price rapidly bouncing back to Salmondesque levels and thousands of 20 ton trucks grinding their way across the Minister's flexible truss end link on the Forth Road Bridge. To Alex what he's said is just a "Fact"... another rabbit out of the hat.... with apparently no need to justify it. By way of explaining the "black hole" there, perhaps you could first explain to us where Scotland's share of the cost of defence, foreign affairs budgets, and other non devolved matters appears in your "Fact". Look at the Gers figures Alex.... the ones which are the official product of the SNP run Scottish Government! "Gers".... now that brings me on to the breathtakingly simplistic first quoted statement with its nonsensical "loyal William" reference". Now Alex, I can appreciate that a lot of you SNP chaps will have some difficulty in conceiving of this, but there are actually also rather a lot of people - 55.3% the last time you insisted we had a count in 2014 - who don't really think that this separation lark is a hell of a good idea. Some of them, including myself, do also believe that such a step wold also crash and burn while others don't.... but still want to stay as we are. You were told back in 2014 that most of the people of Scotland want to stay as they are and not turn the clock back to the failed state predicament of pre-1707. You have to understand that history evolves and Scotland - which has never really interested me as an entity - was simply a transitional phase (albeit an unfortunately long and unsuccessful one) between Pictland/ Stratrhclyde/ Dalriada/ Lothian and the United Kingdom which, since 1707, has consistently been one of the most successful countries in the world. The real debate now isn't about turning the clock back to the bad old days but about how much further integration we want with other European states, some of the largest of which are also the products of political unions - except that they don't have equivalents of Whingeing Jocks to distract and embarrass them. So if it's not too much trouble to attempt to cast your nationalist blinkers aside, maybe you could wake up to the simple FACT that there is a majority of Scots out there who, when asked by the SNP in 2014,told them that they are actually quite happy as they are.

Must be the start of the 1913 Snowman Rally!!!

This blame and grievance culture from the Nationalists has to stop. I realise that it won't, because history tells us that Nationalists always win votes / gain power by blaming others. They tell us we need them in order to end austerity. Very similar to another well known but now defunct Nationalist Party who told the people of their country that they need them to end the economic stagnation. Of course, if we need them, then there's ALWAYS a group of people who we really really don't need. In this case, it's the English, to be specific it's middle class English they seem to despise. They really do despise anyone who votes Conservatives. The hatred and venom from Nicola Sturgeon when she uses the word 'Tory' is menacing. Lots of codes are used in order to seem not racist / bigoted. 'English' is replaced with 'Westminster' or 'London'. Not all of us are fooled though.

You are spot on Ed. Excellent post. The cultivation of perceived grievances is standard Nationalist practice wherever you go - whether it's austerity blamed on the English (aka Westminster) and the Tories.... or defeat in World War 1 and the Depression blamed on the Jews and the Communists. There are plenty of other disturbing parallels such as the Sturm Macteilung roaming Scotland's streets and the Cybernats polluting the ether at referendum time, the burning of literature they don't like, the boycotting of businesses they don't like (for Finkelstein read Tunnock), the diktat against believing or stating anything outwith party dogma, attempts to render Party and State indistinguishable, bullies in the Reichstag and the 53.5 members of the Westminster Ajockalypse squad, the conflation of national and party emblems..... and I wonder who will win the race between the Reverend Whinge Over Skintland and The National to become the new Volkischer Beobachter? Oh yes, and the Germans also came to regret bitterly the way they had voted in droves in 1933 - so watch this space. Strangely, though, there's one parallel which defeats me - I just can't think of an equivalent of the gormless public school muppet who is a shoe in to be re-elected by the discerning nationalists of Inverness