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This is the sort of thing I like to see the club doing and shows we're looking to the future. Let's hope we see some of these lads playing for the first team in the SPL in the not-too-distant future!

Wouldn't have a problem with Hastings coming back - he was one of our most consistent and under-rated players.

Much as I hate the thought of Ross County achieving something that we haven't yet, I have to admit that it would be nice if a Highland team won the cup despite the fact we would never hear the last of it. However, if England won the World Cup we'd never hear the last of it cubed. Therefore, for me, England winning the World Cup is the worser of the two.

He'll be here next season - don't worry about that!

Our "unofficial" nickname in the media is "The Highlanders" - that's what they call us and that's what we are and I quite like that. I'm for the Hairy Highlander. (Dolphins suggest a bit of tree-hugging anyway, and real Highlanders don't do that!)

Two mascots this time - a bridge and a castle.

Good evening Scarlet! Never mind broadcasts - get yerself across here for it!! :)

4852 - you heard it here first! :P

Going into administration???

Looks like the invasion's already begun - saw this worrying sight in Greenock this morning!

There was certainly talk of Butcher being sacked - look no further than just about every post on this forum around 4 or 5 months ago if memory serves me correctly! There'll be some words being eaten now though, no doubt.

Some gooduns yesterday but the one that had me in stitches was directed at the lineswoman after another dodgy decision - something about "putting on the dinner" - but I canna remember how it went. Pure gold anyway!

Not the best Highland derby I've seen but entertaining nevertheless. As previously said, County dominated the 1st half, we looked much better after the break, and could have nicked it, but County finished strongly, so it could have gone either way. Can't help feeling that County raise their game a fair bit against us, perhaps to a level they can't sustain against other teams. And we seem to play sh!te against them, this season anyway. I can see Dunfermline joining the fray as the season nears a climax, with Dundee dropping out. Can County keep up with the big boys - who knows? Finally, a big "Thank you" to the old guard (with the exception of Tokely who worried the hell out of me whenever he got the ball) - Duncan especially, who kept us in the game and also Munro and Golly. Esson was mostly superb. Bully was mince - far too lightweight and unimaginative. Rooney tried hard but was marked out of the game. Hayes kept our hopes up, as did Eagle. And there were a few others playing for us, but I didn't really notice them.

Derek Adams would be the perfect replacement, from our point of view!

If County get to the cup final we could very well end up with another diddy team taking one of the Euro slots and ultimately embarrassing the nation even more than usual. Interesting to note a degree of support for County in their replay against Hibs - perhaps a mark of the maturity of the supporters of the Senior Highland team. Can't see that being reciprocated if the roles were reversed though - they've always hated us, despite our generally tolerant attitude to them!

I'm not a weegie and I'm not religious. I don't give my wife a kicking when my team loses. Therefore I have no affinity to either of the old firm.

Thanks CaleyD - I'll be having one then! Then I can bin the old VHS tape, which is much cheaper than buying a new video-tape machine.

CaleyD, is it safe to assume this is a full resolution DVD and not just a recording of a VHS tape? (Don't wish to appear cynical but I've been caught out like this before! ;) )

Yeah . . .

County could be taking measures to target promotion to the SPL in 2011. If they achieve that it could be very bad for us. (Assuming we're still in division 1)

The title of the thread says it all. ICT is currently regrouping having been relegated from the SPL. Old stalwarts have moved on; new players have moved in and are now starting to gel. The team is gradually making progress and is rising up the first division. Who in their wildest dreams seriously believed we would bounce straight back up after all these changes? Yet there is now a glimmer of hope. Top 4 would be quite an achievement - promotion, though unlikely, is now a faint possibility. It's quite amusing reading this forum after a defeat or a draw - all doom and gloom, "Butcher must go", etc., etc., "No chance of promotion now", blah blah blah, yet when we win the forum is noticeably quiet - very few postings on the main board on the Sunday or Monday following a Saturday win. As the title says, "Time for a reality check"

HA! - Spotted the self-destruct option! :P

Oh well - you live and learn. Personally, I quite like Section C. A bit of noise, bit of crack, even a song now and then, and you know it'll still be there next week!

Clearly I haven't quite grasped the concept of Section G. Is this thing portable?

One way of looking at it, is that we are at last witnessing the arrival of the first true ICT fans - ones that have never had any association with either of the 2 original clubs. They are young and raw but they'll grow up soon enough and learn to respect their fellow supporters. To many of them, the original Caley and Thistle supporters are irrelevant dinosaurs and as yet they don't fully realise that we all want to sing from the same song-sheet. But they are the future and we are seeing the evolution of the club's support, and perhaps this website. Many of the 'Old Guard' have moved on and new cliques are being formed. Those who were 'in' before may feel like outsiders now. Hey - melodrama is allowed in this thread - isn't it!? I'd like to think there's a place for us all in this forum and I kinda like Ronnyc's idea of newcomers having to earn posting rights - after all a lot of the grief is caused by young posters who seem to have nothing better to do all day than contribute multitudes of meaningless or abusive posts to this site. Restricted posting rights during a probationary period may well be the solution - that way the mods can initially vet newcomers for mischief. Of course there is the danger of the site becoming sterile, and only 'approved' banter being permitted. They do say that teenagers' humour and banter only appeals to other teenagers - perhaps it's the same with old gits and we don't want to end up alienating any group of site users on the basis of age.