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I think girls are in more need of; 'Getting ready in 30 minutes' skills.

Load of bollocks I fear. My brother and friends were easily able to buy their seats in the main stand.

I am rather suprised that this hasn't been picked up on, or if it has, I cannot see it anywhere. Anyway, according to BBC, this weekend is Bazza's 300th appearence for the club at age 35. Here is the link. I think that for a club with as short a history as ours, to have two players hit 300 is remarkable. I personally feel that Bazza is having one of, if not the, best seasons he has ever had for us, and although he went to Livi for 3 years, I am wiling to forgive him for that, seeing as though they had been promoted. Here's to you Bazza, all the best. I wish I could be there at Tynecastle on Saturday cheering you on and celebrating with you, but unfortunatly my presnece has to be felt on the freezing banks of Loch Lomond looking at land formations.

I see the cup and the league as two different entities. We can't win the league, but we can win the cup. If we beat Celtic then the press would still have a field day I reckon, especially when we hump them.

Yes, the ticket prices are high, but it isn't the first time we have seen this. Scotland vs Georgia, the prices go up when the demand gets higher and that game looks like it is going to be a sell out. With this game, I will be there. Apart from not yet taking in a Celtic game at the TCS, it is going to be magical. It is the quarter final of the Scottish Cup, we have a real chance of doing well in it, we know that when teams come to the TCS that they are not garunteed anything. And then you look at what happened in the past. Those two famous cup games that made our name all over Britain, the game that gave The Sun so many awards because of one headline, that one game changed ICT for ever. And here we are again. This could be the highest profile game that we have had ever, outweighing both the Semi-Final trips, beating Rangers both away and at home. This is a game where tickets are going to be like gold-dust, and the club(s) have priced them accordingly. What would you rather? 1. Fans have to pay a little extra to get tickets, which in turn will help the club. 2. Fans get cheap tickets, which they then sell on ebay for over inflated prices, with the club losing out on money. 3. As has been said before, if an ICT fan doesn't buy a ticket, then a Celtic fan will. I don't want to pay £27 for a ticket, but I am going to have to if I want to be there.

When was the last time we had a game that wasn't 'the most important game of the season' or 'the biggest game of our history'? Seriously, every week it seems to be the case.

Taken from the rumour section on BBC.

That is nasty. Same as the tickets I have paid for the Scotland match. Will be going and sitting in the main stand, my brother is refusing to go to cup games this season due to the price, and so I can get his seat (he is a season ticket holder). I am looking forward to turning over the Celtic.

And games would last longer then American Football matches. If you ever watch Sky coverage of EPL games then they tell you how long the ball was in play. Highest I have seen in a few years in 25 minutes.

Strachan has just asked Chick Young if we won yesterday.....

I think that is a safe bet. Looking at the draw, my picks for the semi-finals would be; ICT, Hibs, St J and Partick. We then get St J in the Semi, and Partick in the final.

Beat ya by 10 seconds :P I don't know how to feel about this one.

Matches due to be played on the weekend of 24-02-07 Inverness CT v Celtic Queen of the South v Hibernian Motherwell v St Johnstone Dunfermline v Partick Thistle

Quite strange hearing John Hughes commentate....

How do you join the Supporters Trust?

Neither for me; I'm going to Queens Park vs East Fife. £2 entry.

Did Charlie not say that he was wanting to get a striker in as cover by the end of the window? Plus, with Jono Smith gone to Clach, does that mean that Ridgers is staying? There was nothing about a loan deal.

I heard that even if he had been named in the squad he would have had to have pulled out due to a nasty case of piles.

Surely if he was really that good though he would have been picked up by at least a 3rd division club? And regardless of how good he may appear in the Highland League, going from HL to SPL is a massive step, and I don't think he can do it.

Am I the only one who sees this as a bad idea? We are an SPL side, and we pick up a goalkeeper who couldn't do it for us, and was playing for Clach, a Highland League side. If MF got injured between now and Sunday, or even got injured in the game on Sunday, we would be going 4 or 5 down with Ridgers in goal. It is quite frankly a joke.

That, is quite possibly the most fantastic chant ever.

Golly to Peterhead has definatly fallen through. Didn't know about him to Livi though.

Did it not take out all of one team?

A win is still a win. Remember how many games we had to play over the Christmas period and how we came out of that very well.

I could lecture for hours on what words literal definition are, but they have a different meaning when used in different settings. Words such as ******* and ***** spring to mind. The term Loyal though has been connected with Rangers fans, and with Northern Ireland for a long time. The chant, Loyal Army, was used by Unionists and Loyalists in Northern Ireland, and that is when Rangers fans picked up on it. The chant Caley Army has been used before, and should be used in the future. All though it may mean something different when the chant 'Loyal Army' is used, other people will not take it that way. As Harry says, all it needs is a group of people to pick up on this, and we are up the keichter. As for your other point, people on here are not moaning that noise was made, I would have been joining in with most of the chants at the Stirling game had I been in better health, and I have joined in in the past, and will in the future. Two of my greatest memories are at the Ayr cup match doing the Conga, and at the Partick replay where we never stopped singing for 120 minutes. During that time, we did not sing the 'Loyal Army' or 'One Man Went To Beat The **** Out Of Some Folk From Dingwall' songs. Noise is something that we should encourage, and listening on the radio today, I remarked that it was good to actually hear some noise from the home crowd, I just think that there are some songs that should not be sung, and we should move away from. As someone said, and it was probably Harry, we have a group of fans like to call themselves the Caley Casuals. No matter what their intentions are, when one hears the term Caley Casual, they get the wrong impression.