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Well that's the season over so we are onto the usual post season items - waiting to hear about new signings and how long it will take for any new kits to be launched. 2014/15 saw the last of the Errea kits and 2015/16 saw the first Carbrini kit. Over the last couple of days a number of the SPFL teams have already launched their new versions and I am not sure about either of the Aberdeen or County creations. http://www.footballkitnews.com/category/scottish-premier-league/ Is there going to be a new ICT kit for 2016/17 or just a sponsor and training kit changes?

Not doing too badly this week at the Players

Not too bothered which of them it is. Would be good to see Falkirk back in the top league but then again with a 20 team league there would be room for all three but that isn't going to happen

I am not sure the majority believe Devine is a poor player but from what I have seen he does appear to be prone to making errors that have been costly - but then to be brutally honest he is not alone in that regard this season. I have no issue with Devine staying at the club as he is still young and can improve. As for Raven hopefully he will get a good send-off today and maybe possibly a last appearance (and who knows a goal ) from the bench as he deserves it. I agree with you though - what we are currently seeing does appear to be a bigger issue than just one or two players and there is a lot of pressure now on Hughes to get these new 'quality' players in quickly who will improve the team. After the last few seasons I thought this type of situation had now gone but it looks like we may be heading back to the days of upheaval and last minute transfers to supplement our squad numbers. Hopefully I am proved wrong as stability within the core of the squad has been our major strength over the last few seasons.

Yeh - the courier article today stated £3,570 per day over a period that starts two weeks before the tournament to the day after the team's last game. A minimum of £89,250. Hoping therefore we get him signed up and Wales make the final

Only a month to go until the first game: GROUP A Friday, June 10: France v Romania (20:00, Stade de France, Paris) Saturday, June 11: Albania v Switzerland (14:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens) Wednesday, June 15: Romania v Switzerland (17:00, Parc des Princes, Paris) Wednesday, June 15: France v Albania (20:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille) Sunday, June 19: Romania v Albania (20:00, Stade de Lyon) Sunday, June 19: Switzerland v France (20:00, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille) GROUP B Saturday, June 11: Wales v Slovakia (17:00, Stade de Bordeaux) Saturday, June 11: England v Russia (20:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille) Wednesday, June 15: Russia v Slovakia (14:00, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille) Thursday, June 16: England v Wales (14:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens) Monday, June 20: Russia v Wales (20:00, Stadium de Toulouse) Monday, June 20: Slovakia v England (20:00, Stade Geoffroy Guichard, St Etienne) GROUP C Sunday, June 12: Poland v Northern Ireland (17:00, Stade de Nice) Sunday, June 12: Germany v Ukraine (20:00, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille) Thursday, June 16: Ukraine v Northern Ireland (17:00, Stade de Lyon) Thursday, June 16: Germany v Poland (20:00, Stade de France, Paris) Tuesday, June 21: Ukraine v Poland (17:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille) Tuesday, June 21: Northern Ireland v Germany (17:00, Parc des Princes, Paris) GROUP D Sunday, June 12: Turkey v Croatia (14:00, Parc des Princes, Paris) Monday, June 13: Spain v Czech Republic (14:00, Stadium de Toulouse) Friday, June 17: Czech Republic v Croatia (17:00, Stade Geoffroy Guichard, St Etienne) Friday, June 17: Spain v Turkey (20:00, Stade de Nice) Tuesday, June 21: Czech Republic v Turkey (20:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens) Tuesday, June 21: Croatia v Spain (20:00, Stade de Bordeaux) GROUP E Monday, June 13: Republic of Ireland v Sweden (17:00, Stade de France, Paris) Monday, June 13: Belgium v Italy (20:00, Stade de Lyon) Friday, June 17: Italy v Sweden (14:00, Stadium de Toulouse) Saturday, June 18: Belgium v Republic of Ireland (14:00, Stade de Bordeaux) Wednesday, June 22: Italy v Republic of Ireland (20:00, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille) Wednesday, June 22: Sweden v Belgium (20:00, Stade de Nice) GROUP F Tuesday, June 14: Austria v Hungary (17:00, Stade de Bordeaux) Tuesday, June 14: Portugal v Iceland (20:00, Stade Geoffroy Guichard, St Etienne) Saturday, June 18: Iceland v Hungary (17:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille) Saturday, June 18: Portugal v Austria (20:00, Parc des Princes, Paris) Wednesday, June 22: Iceland v Austria (17:00, Stade de France) Wednesday, June 22: Hungary v Portugal (17:00, Stade de Lyon) LAST 16 Match 1: Runner-up Group A v Runner-up C (14:00, June 25, St-Etienne) Match 2: Winner D v Third-place B/E/F (20:00, June 25, Lens) Match 3: Winner B v Third-place A/C/D (17:00, June 25, Paris) Match 4: Winner F v Runner-up E (20:00, June 26, Toulouse) Match 5: Winner C v Third-place A/B/F (17:00, June 26, Lille) Match 6: Winner A v Third-place C/D/E (14:00, June 26, Lyon) Match 7: Winner E v Runner-up D (17:00, June 27, St-Denis) Match 8: Runner-up B v Runner-up F (20:00, June 27, Nice) QUARTER-FINALS Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2 (20:00, June 30, Marseille) Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4 (2000, July 1, Lille) Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 6 (20:00, July 2, Bordeaux) Winner Match 7 v Winner Match 8 (2000, July 3, St-Denis) SEMI-FINALS Winner QF1 v Winner QF2 (20:00, July 6, Lyon) Winner QF3 v Winner QF4 (20:00, July 7, Marseille) FINAL Winner SF1 v Winner SF2 (20:00, July 10, St-Denis) Currently France are the 3-1 favourites followed by Germany at 7-2. My money would be on France. I can't believe it is 18 years since WC98 and our last goal scored at a major finals tournament by Craig Burley at Parc Lescure in Bourdeaux. My outside punt would be Austria. Does anybody fancy a team out with the usual suspects?

Even within the football league it appears that cases like this are not fairly clear cut. There have been a number of different scenarios played out over the years down south with respect to the size of the fines, amount of suspended fines and docking of points. The one consistent item they appear to have is the games are not replayed. Therefore it appears that the SPFL have gone for the inconsistent approach which at least makes them consistent with their quasi-quango nature. Got to say the United fine of £30,000 does appear to be way over the top considering the offence. Is somebody at the SPFL possibly taking the opportunity to have one last twist of the knife with Stephen Thompson.

"The disciplinary hearing concluded that replaying the game before the end of the season - with the final round of games scheduled for this weekend - was not practical." Not correct - they could have replayed the game the following midweek if they really wanted it. They have therefore made the decision that we should not have the opportunity to collect the 3 points although they clearly believed that was what should have been the solution. A quite bizarre decision.

In principle a good idea....would like to sign the Polish guy on the right but on past experience we are more likely to get the guy on the left....

Yeh - another reason for the club to get his new offer sorted out I see that the England Euro 2016 squad has 'allegedly' been posted by the FA on-line by error prior to Hodgson's announcement - if true then this is the squad. Personally I think it is a hoax - if not then Hodgson has lost the plot and somebody at the FA can't spell:

I agree the Warren-Meekings partnership does appear to be our best - I have not seen anything else this season to suggest otherwise. We have all been focused on the fact that we need to have more depth (and quality) in our forward positions but I think with our abundance of midfield options we really need to be looking at our defensive options in more detail. I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but do we not appear to currently have a great depth in our defensive positions and I can't say I have been impressed with what I have seen of Devine or Horner this season.

Wales have announced there initial 29 man training squad for their pre-Euro 2016 training camp and OFW is in the group. No Bale as he has been left out to allow him to recover with Real. Danny Ward (ex-Aberdeen) is also included but he has just suffered an injury in training at Liverpool so there is a very good chance OFW will be at the Finals. How does the compensation work when players appear at major finals - do they actually have to play. If I recall we got money when Marius Niculae appeared in Euro 2008. The full Wales squad is: Goalkeepers: Wayne Hennessey, Danny Ward, Owain Fon Williams. Defenders: Ashley Williams, James Chester, Ben Davies, James Collins, Chris Gunter, Adam Matthews, Neil Taylor, Adam Henley, Paul Dummett, Ashley Richards. Midfielders: Joe Ledley, Joe Allen, David Vaughan, Emyr Huws, Jonathan Williams, David Edwards, George Williams, Aaron Ramsey, Andy King. Attackers: David Cotterill, Hal Robson-Kanu, Tom Lawrence, Simon Church, Sam Vokes, Wes Burns, Tom Bradshaw. Also are there are any other players with Inverness Caley Thistle connections going to be appearing at the Euros or even playing or have played in Scotland? Two others in the Wales training squad are Danny Ward (ex-Aberdeen loan from Liverpool) and Simon Church (MK Dons loan to Aberdeen).

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Make that 4

Always nice when they say "they should have had 6 or 7" and we have actually scored three for once. Sounds like a free flowing team who no longer have the threat of relegation hanging over them and are playing like they are capable of.

Totally agree - some of the comments in the press which are assigned to Hughes are mind boggling. Of course they could be taken out of context but as a player or board member I would be pretty disappointed to be reading that type of thing in the press this morning. If this is Raven's last season with us there are better ways of going about it. Potentially looks like we will be back to another pre-season of scrambling around for players to make up the numbers in our squad. Maybe we are just seeing another step in the great unravelling.

Today was only the second game I have been able to attend this season. Watching ICT though can be summed up in one word 'Frustrating'. Tactically we were set up ok but we don't seem to have the players to play the system effectively enough. The passing probing game is all very well but we have a tendency to over play it resulting in a slowing down of the game to a snails pace and we then become so pedestrian that errors are made. The amount of times we gained possession and then allowed Motherwell to recover their shape by dithering on the ball with inefective passing sideways and backwards which then resulted in an attempt at a pass that could have been made far earlier. In order to play this style of football effectively we need to be more direct with it and include more of an injection of pace. On the two or three times we did so we caused Motherwell all sorts of problems but we just didn't do it on enough occasions and more than not we didn't look as if we had the confidence to do it looking instead for ever shorter passes leading to nowhere. Motherwell though were a poor side today and we should have been able to put them away with a goal or two to spare. The last minute goal was a result of a desire to get 3 pts but even then it should have been defended against but we had lost our shape and allowed a run down the middle of the park for a one on one with Williams. Well done though to them for sticking it out and then hitting us on the counter attack in the dying moments of the game - the sort of thing we haven't managed to do this season. Might be able to make the Hearts game on Tuesday but not looking forward to seeing more of that and especially against a better side than Motherwell.

Not only where is the next win going to come from but where is the next goal coming from?!?!

Good win. First glimpse of the team live this season and they bossed that game. Good shifts all around and a good turnout by both home and away fans for a Monday night game live on TV.

We'll meet againDon't know whereDon't know whenBut I know we'll meet again some sunny dayKeep smiling throughJust like you always do'Till the red and blue skies drive the dark clouds far away

0-1 - Reg Tandy

The ugly twin sisters played by Wee Gerry and Big Tim....surely they will make an appearance....

A nice tournament in which to get your first win - he has been playing well for a while now so good to see he has eventually got that one of his back http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2015/tournamentid=2015086/news/newsid=277385.html#tI6FuD12tuDpmCou.97

Will be happy with 3 or 4 at half-time whistle