Joe DiMaggio

the BBC have an interesting article. http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/17310468 Its going to cost the Gers either way, they go bust and save cash, then reapply to the SPL board to rejoin, its in the boards interest to allow that to happen, in the meantime there are 11 teams in the SPL, a meeting occurs amongst the SPL clubs and vote to give less money to the top 2 clubs. Or the Gers cough up and pay their debts. Motherwell will be playing Champions league football later this year though. As for our players I think we need a few more wins yet to guarantee SPL football next season. Motherwell will be playing in the qualifiers. They will most likely have one game against a team who finished 3rd in Spain, Italy, England etc and get totally pumped!

That was Esson. Tuffey didn't play for us then.

David Proctor?

We are doing ok just now. We won't get relegated so Butcher can be given time to build for next season and take it from there. Some people have unrealstic expectations. I have read people saying on here relegation again would ruin us etc and others say that we won't get relegated again etc. The simple truth though is that we need to build as well as we can to stay in the league and possibly push for top 6 but also look at the possibility of what happens when we do go down. Becasue we will get relegated again in the near future. By near future I mean the next decade, or earlier/later give or take, but relegation I would say is an inevitability again in the current league set up.

Why is the focus on this specific type of safe standing with the individual fold down seats. The SPL are open to the idea and suggestions and since they have looked at Germany where safe standing of other kinds is allowed then surley other types of safe standing can be looked at here. In Germany they have more traditional standing areas so to say: http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/GER/Westfalenstadion8.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_1SQ4PYUuBUk/TQ4dsmEkq9I/AAAAAAAABkU/lCVzg3e5Nzo/DSCF4053.jpg Those would be much cheaper to install so this option should be looked at and pushed forward.

Was in the telegraph today mentioning the clubs that Rangers owe money to for tickets, transfer fees etc. It also mentioned that ICT have already supplied Rangers with tickets for the game this month meaning we will be screwed in actually getting the money from Rangers, given that they owe other clubs money for tickets from games already played. Why did we do this? Other clubs have made Rangers and Hearts pay the money up front for tickets or have sold the away tickets themselves. We just said no bother and stuck them in the post?? If they have the same amount as Celtic that is about 3,500 for south, part of main and west stands. Tickets range from £30 to £20 for away fans for this game meaning that we will have lost out on near £100,000! Is there anything that can be done? Cancel tickets and re sell to away fans directly new tickets of a different colour? Seems a bit impractical. Our own fault it looks like for being naive.

As good a song as it is we dont want to copy a song that is majorly assosiated with Celtic. Would just get the tag as mini this or that. We need something original. Many songs have been mentioned before and we actually do have many songs but the desire to sing them had deminished. We need to get a group going similar to green brigade...etc etc that sing and hav a laugh no matter what. We have more than enough songs that we sing on away games. I was going to list them but i cannne be bothered just now! But we have more than most teams at away games etc

For a start there isn't any chance whatsoever he would ever be offered the job... But if he was he would be gone in a flash. You think Butcher would turn down being manager of England to stay at Caley Thistle

Same little boys who were singing about Bobby Sands and fenians a few years ago and tried to justify it by saying they were getting behind their team. A total brain dead embarrassment to everyone.

You are a cracker...always good or a laugh.

Yes but how do you know you'll get that extra thousand bums? And the more people you have the more the cost to police them. Does it really though? Can we not just stay with the same numbers of police, if we are talking about lower half of the league teams. There have been police free SPL games this season, one involving us I think away to Motherwell? So we don't really need them at all!

If Hayes get a decent offer he will leave. He doesn't need to show any loyalty by staying as he has been here 3 years already now and wouldn't be jumping ship or anything. He would leave if he can get paid a lot more money for doing the same job and play at a higher level. And the staying to develop argument doesn't really apply to Hayes. He isn't 17/18. By the time next season starts he will be 25. So he is past the developing stage and will be in his prime. If he stayed to develop for another year or 2 he would be heading towards 30! This is probably the best age in his career to move and give it a go at a bigger club and earn some serious money. He also wouldn't be thinking of going somewhere to sit on the bench, it happens but he is not a youngster that a club will buy with the intention of playing him in the future. If a club wants to sign him then Hayes will be right in thinking they see something in him and that he can play his way into being a first team regular where ever he goes. Saying that I really hope no one else wants him and he signs a 3 year deal! He will still be playing top flight football!

Anyway...any one have an idea how ticket sales are going for this game?

I used to get into the terracing for £3 as an under 16 in the first division. I don't get your point here? That was 8 years ago. I'm talking about our first division prices 2 seasons ago which I think were about £14-15 for a child of any age to pay into the game on the day. This was the cheapest walk up prices by the way. The same season County offered £3 for a child. And looking at their website now they still offer £3 child tickets for behind the goal. It is still only £4 for an Under 16 for the Stand and £8 for under 18. We charged an under 16 almost 4 times the price for a seat (behind the goal as opposed to the side of the pitch) to watch the same teams and 17 year olds almost double. It's a complete joke 1 game in the first division for ICT would get you 5 for County in the first division.

They fixture backlog hurt them a few seasons ago. But this time the weather isn't as bad (at the moment anyway) and they don't have anywhere near the back log as they did before. A back log can be bad when you are chasing teams but they have a 5 point lead so really anything they pick up in those games is a bonus to their lead. They could even rotate the team to give others a rest.

Our prices hav always been a joke. Even in the first division it would cost a child £14-15 to pay in to the North Stand on the day (£20 in the Main stand?) Over in Dingwall a child can walk up and pay in for £3!

aye, great logic it's entirely his fault that thier in the position thier in is it? They wouldn't have released him if they thought he was a valuable player who could help them avoid relegation. He was obviously unwanted there

If the home fans don't buy the tickets, then they surely can't have an issue if the club want to look at ways of maximising revenue. I'm certain that the club wouldn't even have thought about using the North Stand for away fans, but now that this has been suggested I wouldn't be surprised if they give it some consideration for next season. I can tell you for sure that they are disappointed with the uptake from the North Stand for the cup game, so this might be something to think about. At the end of the day if the stand is full of ICT fans there will be no room for 'away' fans Really? The same game last season in the cup had over 6.000 at it, and that was midweek. I would have expected this to be pushing a sell out!

In addition to that I can remember- Losing to lower league Partick away in the Scottish Cup, live on Sky. Beat Stranraer in Scottish cup in 2nd/3rd divison, and playing Hamilton in the next round at home and losing 3-1. Lost to Motherwell in the League cup 4-1 on pens or something ridiculas like that. Beat Partick at home in League cup in lower leagues Beat 3rd division Montrose on pens in Challenge cup in 2009-10. (I remember this as I stuck £100 on Caley to win, for a potential gain of £20!!) I'm sure there has been more as well.

Being let go by a 3rd teir team in England...sounds great! If he isnt't good for a team flirting with dropping into the 4th teir in England then no thanks!

Darren Mackie Over Rooney, Niculae. I'd even take Rory McAllister back over Mackie

Just looking on official site for the shop and noticed a 'on this day section.' Never seen this before, quite interesting though. On 21st January we have played 3 games ICT 3-0 Hibs Falkirk 1-4 ICT Queens Park 4-1 ICT oft!! How things have changed since then!

We signed up to the tv deal and happily take the money from it. This includes some monday night games. We are lucky that this is our first and prob only monday night game of the season. We are rarley on tv as it is anyway, especially away from home. Is this the only away game this season that has been moved? Not too bad actually.

We get no extra revenue from this game being on tv. Makes no difference how many of our games in the league are shown live we still get the same amount of money.

So priority groups only have today and tomorrow! Not much time since most won't even know about this until the deadline has passed! And why not sell tickets before the Hearts game as well, would make it easier for a lot of people if a stall/s was set up to sell celtic outside the stadium.