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Please use this thread only for the important matter of the CJT Special General Meeting. The off-topic PC debate has been split out and moved to General Nonsense.

It wasn't so much our awful start that was the frustration. That was entirely predicaible after the chaos of the close season. What really killed off our hopes of an immediate return to the Premiership was our dip in form in December and January after our encouraging run of games without defeat in October and November. That was very disappointing indeed and much of the blame for that must be laid at the feet of the manager with a number of players suddenly seeming disinterested and a truly shocking spell of indiscipline where we seldom seem to finish with eleven men. It is very encouraging to see that we have turned things around again but, despite the enthusiasm of some, it is too late for this season we are too far behind and, even if we keep it up, we will shortly run out of games to catch up. What we can do is build up momentum for next season. St Mirren did the same last year in the last ten games and look where they are now. If we can keep this up and retain our best remaining players we are well capable of gaining promotion next year. We just need to be far more consistent than this.

This was an important thread. Now it's gone totally OT with doolally right wing conspiracy nonsense. FFS.

Crikey, the cranks are fair coming out of the woodwork, KKK ditties and all. The fight against slavery just another case of 'PC gone mad.'

Bankrupt ?

I think if we win all our games, then we are guaranteed a play-off spot? Just do that and we don't have to worry about other team's results. Simples!

Pretty straightforward win for us yesterday. Well taken goals by Austin and Oakley (another Polworth assist - GIUY haters) really killed the game off by the half time. A couple of Dobbie efforts in the second half were about as close as QotS came to getting a goal. We still had good chances from Doran and Mackay to extend our lead. Small but vocal away support. It was a slog getting there from Edinburgh so fair play to those coming down from Inverness.

No, I'm not! I was just 8 under and playing a joker too . I'll let him off though - after all, he needs the points more than I do!

If we win all our remaining games, we will have 59 points. Dunfermline can then only get to 58, Morton to 56 and QoS to 52 (as we have to beat both Dunfermline & Morton to win all our games) and we would finish at least 4th, irrespective of what Dundee Utd do. So it’s entirely in our own hands - not that it will be easy.

It really is the old adage of looking one game at a time. I suspect that we have left things too late. Tell me after the next three results and look at the table and think again. Discipline is an absolute key.

Well not long home. Why oh why couldnt we have found this level of consistency earlier? Good professional performance today. Team totally up for it and everyone played well. I dunno if weve left it too late tbh but having that wee bit hope is keeping our season alive. Special mention to the small but noisy bunch of fellow #caleyawayers who did our bit too!! Enjoyable awayday even if its some trek home...lol

Another win today sees them 6 off top and 3 off second with two games in hand. The two teams above them only have one game to play, and that is against each other next week, so it is looking promising that Highland will at least get second and possibly win their league.

e We could rid ourselves of devolution, and save that money pit drain in Edinburgh. We could send equivalent of the Barnet formula to the local authorities throughout Scotland , and go back to being a proper Union.

I remember Catweasel

The ironic thing is these self-appointed anti-PC avengers are the most thin-skinned characters around, and are first to bleat and clipe when they get a bit of gip.

I would have thought that the notice calling the meeting SHOULD have defined the business of the meeting verbatim from the communication requisitioning it. Caley D's post does seem to suggest that I am by no means the only person questioning practices and procedures relating to the calling and transaction of this meeting.

The following has been sent by email to caleyjagstogether@gmail.com at 10:55am on 5th April 2018 and is presented here as an "open letter" in lieu of us having the means to send it directly to ICT Supporters Society members. FAO the Society Board We note the Special General Meeting notice placed on caleythistleonline.com and make the following observations on behalf of the 37 members who, on the 22nd March 2018, instructed you to call the Special General Meeting. Unless you have made other, earlier, attempts to contact all members with notice of the meeting then you have failed to meet the requirements to provide notice "at least 14 clear days before the date of the meeting" - definition of "clear days" can be found at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/clear+days Unless notices have also been sent to members by one, or more, of the methods laid out in the society's rules, then you have failed to meet the requirements for providing due notice of the meeting. The notice indicates that 3 members have made the request for the meeting. This is a misrepresentation of the instruction you received which was from 37 members in total. As per the letter requesting the SGM, the purpose of the meeting was to be... to vote on the removal of all persons from the Society Board. to hold a fresh election to appoint members to the Society Board in accordance with the society’s rules. Your addition of the words "to resolve" in the notice issued would suggest that the presentation of the matters as delivered to you is somehow up for discussion prior to them being put before the meeting for a vote. This is not the case and the matters are to be presented as delivered in the members request for the meeting. You are entitled to seek discussion of these matters before they are presented to the meeting, but you do not have the authority to make any amendment and/or to place any condition on voting for the matters as detailed in the instruction delivered to you on 22nd March 2018. You lost the right to construct the resolutions for this SGM by refusing to call it of your own accord. Furthermore, the notice does not include any board nomination forms, details on when nominations need to be received, in what form and what procedures will be used to conduct the election; or the Board Membership Policy document, which details what nominees are agreeing to by standing for the board. Nor does it include any proxy information and/or forms. All this information should be laid out in the society's Election Policy document which should be used in conjunction with the society's Standing Orders for General Meetings document. As there is very little time available for you to arrange a new date and to issue the relevant notice and accompanying information, whilst adhering to the timescales of the notice provided on 22nd March 2018, then we would anticipate a speedy reply in resolution to the matters noted above. Regards, David Balfour - John Horne - Donald Johnstone on behalf of the 37 members represented by the notice delivered to you on 22nd March 2018.

Ghosts aren't real.

The SNP could have done a lot more. They froze Council Tax for 10 years. That benefited the better off most and hit the most vulnerable in our society most. The creation of the narrow 19% tax band is simply a political gimmick which creates some practical difficulties. It has a fraction of the impact on the lower paid compared to the steady programme of raising the tax free allowance which the Tories have implemented. Over 400,000 Scots have been taken out of paying income tax altogether, with many more paying significantly less tax. Whilst the modest tax rise at the higher end is welcome, it is simply not enough. It does not look like an SNP Government will have the guts to make any meaningful increase in income tax until we get a different Government in Westminster. As for full fiscal economy. No thank you! According to the latest Scottish Government figures, Scotland currently raises £312 per capita less in taxes than the UK as a whole and spends £1437 more. That's a budget deficit of £1749 for each and every one of us. We are able to maintain our public services because the mutual sharing arrangements within the UK. That would disappear with full fiscal autonomy and we would have to find ways of addressing the shortfall. That would mean a combination of significant cuts in public services, higher taxes and loans which we would be paying back for years to come. However appealing you may find the general concept of devo-max or an Independent Scotland, now is not the time to go down that route.

Let's not get excited. The game on Tuesday will be massively tough.

God Almighty, isn't the internet completely awash with obsessive, Politically Correct snowflakes these days! I blame the demise of Religion myself. It used to be the Wee Frees trying to control your behaviour by condemning you to Eternal Damnation for attending a dance. Now, in this post-religious era, you instead get summoned to the Penitent Stool of Facebook, Twitter and Internet Fora by the New Puritanism of simpering handwringers, desperate to fill the behaviour control vacuum which the demise of religion has left. If you look at some of the things folk get offended by on other people's behalf, they are quite frankly far too often completely absurd. For instance, just the other week I was called to task on here for referring to the bleeding obvious of the spoken English of the growing number of call centre employees from the Indian Subcontinent not being very good. Just as well Caleyboy wasn't around during WW2, otherwise he would have branded the chorus "Hitler has only got one b*ll...." as "disrespectful and offensive to our opponents." It really is high time people gave up this self-righteous cr*p, lightened up a bit... or rather a lot.... and allowed freedom of speech to return to our society. Jock here - I don't consider Charles' comments as trying to be funny - most of what he said I agree with and the so-called "modern" way of thinking is just so much bull-sh*t.

think you'e losing the plot CB. you really should find something else to spend your time on.?️?⛷??????

Jock here - I don't consider Charles' comments as trying to be funny - most of what he said I agree with and the so-called "modern" way of thinking is just so much bull-sh*t. I know this is slightly off topic but I just want to tell Jock PC isn't new. It was used in the Soviet Union and comes from the Frankfurt School (look it up). Basically it is a political tool to shut down resistance, exposes you to being dragged through the courts and possiblly financial and reputation ruin. If you are against excessive immigration you are racist, against Israel's actions you are an anti semite, against same sex marriage you are homophobic and so on. It is the state's attempt to demonise those who have ideas contrary to the government agenda to re-engineer society and change the way you think. Quote by Sir Peter Sutherland recently deceased jesuit and high heidyin in the EU "we must increase the rate of immigration into Europe to dilute the homogeneity of the European races" the obvious question here is why? You might also note that our common law gives no weight whatsoever to hurt feelings, PC is statute law which has no weight in a common law court, the only law which should be recognised in our islands. Don't allow the government to seduce you with promises of a new constitution or a British Bill of rights, we have no need of them, we have all the rights we need under the common law. Government granted rights can be withdrawn any time they like, the common law cannot, which is why the EU wants the ECJ to have jurisdiction over our common law courts. Excuse the rant. "I 'm a good ol rebel that's just what I am, I wont be reconstructed and I don't care a damn" as the old Southern civil war song goes.