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I think this may be why the OP posted this thread .... Didn't the same establishment also put hospitality on for Rangers last year and get into trouble for serving alcohol outside their licensed hours? Have the licensing board 'sentenced' them for that yet? The board messed this up with the complaint effectively time barred. The Police have the opportunity to make a new complaint if they so desire, though I've not seen anything as to whether they can be bothered given the fact that the Highland Council messed up the first time.

Clinical finish from Connor. God our marking in the last third is woeful. Players seem to be able to drft into space at ease.

I see that Celtic have failed to reach their hospitality targets for last season.

I am baffled by the assertion by anyone that this was a definite red card. You can understand why perhaps it was deemed to more serious that a yellow card, however he probably took more of the ball and less of the player than Rosscoe took on his better tackles (ok, maybe I may have made the last bit up)

Seems all too familiar. Lack of cutting edge/composure in finishing and individual errors in defending.

I have to say, for a lad who allegedly cannot play out wide, he managed to pretty much skin the Arbroath left back at will in the first half on Wednesday! If his shots were more accurate or Bullock did not pull off a good save he could have had a hat-trick as well. May have been a different level to SPL, however perhaps explains what CaleyD was referring to with regard to his performance training.

The player who was 'hooked' last night for having the audacity to turn his back on Butcher when being slaughtered for misplacing a pass! Maybe a contract extension will have to wait for a few days??

Should be available on the Arbroath website at some point

An intersting statistic for people. Allegedly Ross County now have more Inverness based Season Ticket Holders than Dingwall based!

I quit a good while ago but I could have done with one yesterday at half time myself! One laced with cyanide perhaps?

Standing = noise?? Someone tell the Celtic fans. They seemed to manage ok in the same seats as the home fans. This old chestnut is getting a bit tiresome. Apparently it was caused by fans not being together. So the club moves people out of their seats to create a 'singing section' and the result is...................no change

Adrian Durham said on the radio the other evening that being a fan means you follow your team through thick and thin because of the emotional connection. After today's embarrasing home crowd, does this mean that we simply lack 'real' fans?

Home fans out in numbers today......not!

I seem to have arranged meetings in Aberdeen and Brechin for that day

I see that Tuffey has managed to find his level since he left us

Whilst Pepper is a live wire with bags of energy, I am not sure that I would look to start him against Celtic. There will be a lot of responsibility on formational side of things and I'm not sure that he has the experience just yet to go a full 70 minutes without having some form of lapse. It will be interesting to see why Celtic have available. They played 3-5-2 intially against County on what is a very tight park (it has actually been made smaller this year at Adams request). Mulgrew was very much the play maker (at left centre half!) though I also thought their defense as a whole was poor (County sat too deep for much of the half to exploit this). Suspect Commons will never play as badly again (though he got 7 in the sundays and of course scored the equaliser).

And also misses Webster's kick out at Billy!

Need some help. Was it a penalty because Ryan did not allow Hearts to score? Absolute clown of a ref!

Valid points, however the feeling of "togetherness" comes also from the actions of fans and not just from the actions of the club. Irrespective of being on the positive or negative side of view regarding the current team, the amount of unconstructive critisism of players and other fans plays to the sense of there being a divide. Neither does some of the attempted justification and reasons for stopping supporting the team reflect the arguement that the club can do any more. The club listened to the fans and unlike Aberdeen fans many of our own have turned their back on the club (and do we really think that any greater level of entertainment is being offered by the Dons?) Whilst I do not always agree with some of the tactical views posted by you and others (nor would I expect you to agree with mine - albeit I am alway right ), I fully endorse the right of any supporter to offer a constructive opinion on tacticss, selection, etc and indeed value this in terms of a forum such as this.

Whilst the effects of playing lower league football will not quite have hit Black yet, it stands to reason that as each week goes it becomes harder to step up to international football. It begs the question then as to why you would pick a player now who may be unlikely to be picked later in the campaign (note Houston saying in the press conference that they were light on midfield players for the game - surely it would make sense to have a look at a player such as Rankin? Of course, the arguement all falls down when you look at Scotland squads and see a number of players who are not exactly consistent choices for their south of the border teams

I understand what you are trying to say, however where is the qualdron of support from the North stand (extending the concept that the main stand is simply for the 'middle class'). For years we have heard about the need for a singing section and the seating policy is the cause behind the lack of atmosphere. If it is indeed the case that the true fans sit in the north stand where is the atmoshphere now that seating has been changed by the club to suit the wishes of the fans? I agree that some of the things heard in the main stand are ridiculous, however much of what comes from the north stand on many occasions is not much better. Perhaps the problem is that we are all pointing the finger at others for not being supportive, instead of everyone actually being supportive towards the team?

With crowds of 3000, what exactly do people expect in terms of players? Aberdeen, yet to score a goal this season, had 14,000 at a game against a "diddy team". I'm afraid I am a bit fed of of people coming on and trying to justify the reason for not supporting "their" team. The only ones who have a justifiable reason are the ones who genuinely cannot afford a ticket or cannot attend games (though I would point out that I know three Celtic Season ticket holders who are lucky to manage to get to two or three games a season due to where they live and work).

Are you suggesting that we should park this thread?

Polworth already has SPL experience (albeit about 2 minutes)

The concept of punishing the new company is in many way a balance against the favourable treatment which the new club is receiving in being allowed to re-enter the SFL without a) having been a club for the prescribed number of years and b) having applied and been considered as part of an open process (i.e. no Highland League club for example could have applied for a vacant position). In this case, the Newco has been admitted on a non-standard basis and to avoid there being a potential benefit to a club in setting aside debts including most importantly (to the SFA, etc) football debts. There are a few other points of detail around the above, however I view this point as being relatively straight forward (although Jim Traynor appears to have an issue with the concept of Newco have actually receiving preferential treatment in their application to the SFL). I have some tendancy towards agreeing with the inconsistency regarding the historical record of the club not being viewed as having transferred also. Setting aside emotion, the Newco have bought the assets of the club including the name and by inference the goodwill which prevails with this. On this basis, it can be reasonably considered that the history is also transferred with the goodwill. Again, there are some technical arguements which counter this view, however on balance it is probably correct to view the Newco Club as retaining the traditions and history of the old Club through the transfer of the intangible element of the assets. However we will set the above aside for the shear entertainment value in accusing Newco fans of having no history