The Mantis

So what you mean is- I was right :015: :015: :015: :015: To take a simple case, imagine the club makes 100% mark-up on goods. So it buys the tops at ?50 and makes ?50 profit on each one. So if it gives a ?10 rebate it only makes ?40. However if it gives us ?10 to spend in the shop, it has only paid ?5 for those goods. Total profit = ?45. And for a typical voucher scheme like that I would estimate 20-30% non-return, so the club loses nothing at all in those cases. That's why high street shops are eager to offer vouchers rather than refunds. I thank you :wave03:

Apparently he owns a huge drilling rig.

Surely a ?10 voucher costs the club less than a 10% rebate? Anyway, maybe they screwed some money off Errea for the late delivery.

I suppose we haven't had this debate for a few months..... My tuppence worth- you can only blame the OF up to a point. Clubs such as Kilmarnock, St Mirren, Motherwell and DUFC are nearer to Glasgow but have significantly larger core supports. I put this down to 3 things: First, ICT is a young club and we have to look for the first generation of ICT fans to produce more ICT fans. There should probably be a 'humping' smiley to insert here but this one will do :pram: Second, Inverness strikes me as a very prosperous place with a large middle class demographic. This leads into discussions of the famous 'Highland Reserve' (which is not something out of a bottle). The four mentioned above are post-industrial places with loads of schemies whose football club is one of the few things to get excited about. The ones who stayed away because of the merger may have numbered only a few dozen but they're the ones who would not have been embarrassed starting a bit of chanting at the TCS. Third, location of TCS.

"20 mins from Easter Road" my erse! I would say 45 mins on a good day, and about 11 hours at the moment with the festival on :015:

I remember heaping sarcasm on a Clyde (I think) fan on P&B a few years back when we introduced paying for parking. He thought it was unfair to pay for parking after travelling so far...... Same for those who complain if we only have a couple of hundred at away games whereas they justify having 200 themselves because it's 'too far'.

On the other hand, you have five fingers :015:

I thought they were deid :016: No, I didn't Alex.

Once upon a time there were two brothers...... their names were Rudolf and Adolf Dassler, or Rudi and Adi Dassler :023:

Daft git. You could have just used tippex.

I can't help observing that you didn't mention the line just before "If they go to Dublin we will follow on"! Assuming you yourself know the words of course :004: I must say I agree with a lot of what has been said recently about the 'add-ons' and knowing a few huns myself I know they take a perverse pleasure in squeezing in pope/vatican references to the most innocent of songs. Even the song 'Follow, Follow' only gained the 'Dublin' reference in the 60s as far as I can remember.

Aye the end of season documentary is going to be very interesting :011:

Agreed. It gave us something to get animated about as there was very little on the park to cheer at. Maybe it was the same group I was howling at, 3 rows back in section G?

Are you sure? It looked about 2 feet inside the post to me. EDITED Aye, fair do's, just seen it again, Mikey had no chance.

I have to add that when Rory scored at Motherwell it was the 4th goal and they were already beaten. I would say loan though. The poor fecker must have zero confidence right now. As for Wyness, he's just getting over a serious injury. What about the spell around the new year when he was on fire? Granted, he was playing with Dargo at the time. He needs an intelligent strike partner.

Don't forget Mikey had a couple of fumbles early on. Maybe I'm expecting too much but I'm sure Marky Brown would have saved the first one. I feel we need somebody with experience (like Bullock) as backup for Mikey. He's an excellent prospect but he's still a laddie and he's been chucked in at the deep end.

Duncan has to play in Roy's place, he was missed badly today. Possibly rest Barry as sub and play either Richie or Zander on the right. Not been impressed by Cowie yet. So usual back 4 then: Hart Duncan Black Rankin Bayne Wyness Wilson, Sutherland, McDonald, Cowie, Kerr, McBain, Ridgers

Good to see that quite a few of the huns got turfed out at the first goal anyway. We're not asking for miracles- just for the club to show that they take our complaints seriously. It's unavoidable that some of them will get tickets for our end, just don't let them take the piss. I was in section G, North Stand in the first half and about 6 of them in row C got kicked out after Ferguson's first strike. Gave us something to cheer about anyway. Also DJS said the same happened in section A in the main stand.

I had to agree with almost every word of CCs post match interview. However at the end of the day it's CC who picks and motivates the team. I told him last night on this very forum to pick Russeldinho for a game like this but he never listened :007: I didn't think today was a day for playing Royston in centre mid and I disagree with some of the smileymometers that he earned a pass mark. The midfield as a whole were guilty of hiding so the defence had no option but to punt it, except Hastings, who punts it anyway :017: Even if we were stretched for strikers I would never have started with Rory, possibly Barry up alongside Denzil and Zander could have done with a run out too. It's possible that Rory has had his chips for the season anyway, if Bayne is back and Deano is fit. Also agree with the shaky back 4 and Ross being exposed by us playing a high line. Pleased that CC says he will make changes next week, especially in midfield, whatever happens next week we can't see another gutless performance like that, totally lacking in any passion. Nobody wanted to take any risks, just to get rid of the ball soon as. Not to take too much away from Rangers- they were pretty solid, especially at the back. Just looking along their back 4, they were all about 6'4" it seemed, regular as a freshly cut hedge :015: :015: Big curly Cuellar could have nodded our punts away all day and night.

What Scotty said. I could see Roy moving on at some point a la Golly, except Roy's not old/bad enough to play for C(o)unty yet. Morgan - a 6 month contract is the next best thing to a free transfer and I don't think ICT would be hard to deal with if a club showed interest. Even that's unlikely as nobody's seen him play, and even div 1 clubs are not going to be throwing offers at him following his mediocre stint OTB. As for Russeldinho, it's a joke to mention him. I'm sure he's central to Charlie's plans. I'm also sure he was badly missed against County last week and I expect him to start against Rangers.

:015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: You're a feckin genius.

Aye, remember him swinging from the bar against the Dons :015:

Is it Rangers this week? Oh all right then. With C(o)unty playing Ayr, it's a tough choice though.

If they had held on to Peter McCloy they would never have got into this state.

SOHB. Roll on fresher's week :023: