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I was thinking the same. It certainly appeats that we're due something as in the article on the BBC website it mentions that he moved from Dyce to ICT. I don't know the full ins and outs of the system but I believe every training club is due a solidarity payment spread across 3 years.

I've just realised Chalmers was playing. World Hide and Seek champion in the making.

Should have coasted that. Utterly unforgivable to only draw, seems like we've regressed since the end of last season. Missing Warren's (and to a lesser extent Vigurs) experience on and off the pitch.

Good god. Another missed Penalty, this time Donaldson.

Poor result. Fringe players did themselves no favours against what was pretty much a Pars colt team.

Some level of whataboutery here. You know fine well what the chants were. Criticism of a poor performance is all fine & well and go with the territory of being a professional footballer. However chants of personal nature about a players sister and family are completely unacceptable. If you can't see that then perhaps you need to step away until you grow up a little bit.

0-0. Sounded like no Plan B after we struggled to break them down. Can't understand why Doran was kept on bench for so long? No need for both Chalmers and Trafford in the centre of the park today.

Home tie v Celtic we've missed out on. With TV that could be £50k of much needed ££ that we won't get. Very frustrating, big performance required next week to get the season properly started

He deserves credit for turning things around over the last 6 months but Robbo has to carry the can for that one. We were on an 18 game unbeaten run and the system was changed to something designed primarily not to hammered. We very much got what we deserved with that. This defeat has further reaching consequences than just this 90 minutes. 1) the club has been deprived of much needed revenue from the next round particularly if we got a glamour tie that could have been shown on TV 2) how does this affect the players just a week from the season opener.

Had my concerns when I saw the team and they've been proved right. Neither Trafford or Chalmers are doing anything defensively which means Hearts midfield are waltzing through. White not pacy enough upfront so Hearts defence can stay high and squeeze us. Change of shape needed now before this gets more embarrassing.

Decidedly dodgy start. Can't get a grip of the ball at all. Surprised that Austin has been dropped to bench. Understand why we might put an additional midfielder in but Austin's mobility will be missed.

I see we've just signed Sean Welsh. File that one under odd. I wonder of that means we have reservations over the fitness of Angus Beith.

They generally do for the home kit. It's a full kit with sizes starting from around 12months

I've made no comment on your opinion so I'm not trying to tell you anything.

Fixed that for you. You can just copy and paste it to the rest of your posts, it'll save you time.

Better images here. Must say the away shirt is a belter and the home is far better than I initially thought. Definite grower.

Ah, that makes sense. Need to get that young out of youth kit however.

Could be a potential change of manufacturer? The club has put out an image of Daniel McKay officially signing his contract and I couldn't help notice he was in a Macron polo shirt with the ICT badge on it.

1-0 full time. We've taken it to the last day, can't ask anymore than that.

Still 0-0 though we're getting on top. Should be winning this as Livi have rested most of their usual starters.

Deal for the stands fallen through?Perhaps our old benefactor has pulled another of his tricks to 'save' the club.......

€400k. The club reported it as undisclosed but Dinamo Bucharest actually posted official documents publically onto their website after a dispute with us over releasing his registration.

At the rate we're going it might be his only one never mind his first Not to say I hadn't given it thought though, he's just a little too wee.

Sensible location and date but the kickoff is a little odd. There's no restrictions to showing a 3pm kickoff as its an international weekend so seems slightly random. It may stop myself and others getting to the game. A 3pm kick off would let me fly into Glasgow/Edinburgh, get the train to Perth and then fly home same day. Its probably not possible with that time.

Interesting game, just a couple of things to talk about.... 1st half Odd start to the game. Crusaders played some decent stuff for the opening 10 mins and we looked like a side who hadn't played in weeks. Once we got to that mark we took control though. Crusaders had actually started with a relatively conservative line-up with 1 up top and leaving Whyte & Owens on the bench. Despite this we were able to cut through at will with Polworth in particular finding pockets of space in which to play in Mulraney. I felt we were pretty wasteful at times and should have been 4 or 5 up by the time the half time whistle went. Even though we were dominating it was concerning how much space Crusaders were able to get down the right hand side of our defence. I lost count of the number of times Heatley/Murray found space in that channel. I'd really like to see us move Mckay back inside to partner Donaldson and new right back. 2nd half Not sure what was said at half time but the team came out thinking the game was done. No urgency at all and it bordered on being unprofessional. You can give Crusaders some credit for changing it up but if we play like that against a Championship team we will be on the receiving end of a shoeing. The sending off was a little strange. I'm pretty sure that for his first booking it was Vigurs that committed a foul, it certainly wasn't Mckay. In saying that though the 2nd booking was monumentally stupid. The Crusaders bench unsurprisingly had a part to play in that, Baxter is known for his whinging and theatrics to refs. Player wise: Ridgers was excellent as was Polworth. Donaldson was OK but seemed to spend time worrying about Warren. Bell and Chalmers despite his goal had poor games. Chalmers seems to let the game pass him by a little too much for my liking, never seems to take it by the scruff. Mulraney was dangerous as ever although the final ball swung from outstanding to atrocious with nothing inbetween. Oakley is a strange player, despite his size he can't win a header and struggles with his first touch. However he's a lot quicker that I thought, has decent movement and runs the channels well. I' not sure what type of player he'd be best beside. Glad to the win but we made hard work of it. If we hadn't held on we would be asking questions about the mental capacity of the side.