Jay_7

So not to take the Forum Golfers thread anymore off-topic, I shall start this one. Anything to do with golf. What's in everyones bags? Where does everyone play? Any plans for new clubs shortly? I've had my set for 4 years and consists of: Driver: Adams Tight Lies ST 9deg 3 Wood: Taylor Made Supersteel Burner 5 Wood: As above Irons: 3-SW Mizuno Tzoid Comp CT Wedge: Mizuno Tour Style 60deg Putter: Odyssey White Hot I've got an Adams Tight Lies ST-i wood hybrid kind of thing that I never use. Considering upgrading nearly all of my clubs except my putter. So if anyones interested, all of the above is for sale... With a bit of luck over the next few months my set should be: Driver: Callaway Big Bertha 460 3 Wood: Undecided on this, all I know is I want steel shafts on both fairway woods. Anyone able to recommend a fairway wood? 5 Wood: As above Irons: 3-PW Mizuno MX-25 Sand Wedge: Mizuno MX Series 56/11 Lob Wedge: Mizuno MX Series 60/06

Superb. I was pricing around the area and it seems like the best value for money (for the area anyway). I will have a round on it and see how it goes.

Count me in as well. On the topic of golf, is anyone a member at Castle Heather? I'm considering membership there and wondered if it was any good?

Aparently Celtic want whoever takes him on loan to pay 100% of his wages plus a loan fee. Not likely to happen.

Praise to David Sutherland surely for ridding us of this liability that would leave us in debt :014:

No, red cabbage and apple soup.

Red cabbage and apple soup is a must try at The Kitchen in town.

Are you sure it's not going to be a permanent deal though?

I think Hearts were in the premium category as well. Not sure if they still are though...

What does that prove Yngwie? As far as I can see, you've only proved he's changed his mind over a year... :024:

Apologies, lost track of time. I'm currently moving house so kinda got caught up in it all. 2 weeks holiday from Friday so it'll be the 12th before I make another appearance.

Where are you coming from?

8pm Balloch Primary School

I'll be there tonight.

He's already said he's not looking for any defenders until he's happy with our strike farce force. :023: Barrowman - I hope he proves me wrong but I can't see him worrying defences. Failed with Kilmarnock (albeit while Boyd, Naismith and Nish were there) then he failed with QoS. He appeared to find his level in the 2nd Division. Like I say, I prey he proves me wrong... Very wrong. 4/10 Lionel Djebi-Zadi (or whatever his name is) - Poor signing IMO. I know I said we needed competition for Hastings but I didn't mean a waster from a German diddy league. 2/10 Ryan Esson - Credit where it's due, I am impressed we captured his signature. Keep Ike on his toes and some much needed competition that Zibi could not provide last season. 8/10 Rumoured: Callum Elliott - What's the point in taking him here when we have Rory? 1/10 Graham Dorrans - I'll be very happy if we sign him. Can't see it happening though as there'll be far bigger teams than us looking for him. The rate we're going, we're going to have a bit of a Pele-style season ahead of us and we're going to have to hope that we can score more than we can concede. With that Dods shaped hole in the defence and just about every other team in the league strengthening (we have not strengthened, we have merely increased our wage bill) our defence will take a battering.

I'll see who turns up before I venture up.

Is it going to be on?

Fair enough, I will agree the club as a business has done well since we were established but wouldn't go as far as to say excel. If fans from other teams think that, then that's up to them. Sutherland has already pretty much said that himself. The fact is though, he actively stopped Savage from doing his job as chairman and prevented him from making improvements. Not everything can be done at lightspeed but Sutherland made sure nothing happened at all.

Scotty's pretty much answered for me but here we go: 1) We would probably never see a Hearts-like dictator ship, but Sutherland isn't far off that himself. Savage was chairman, not majority shareholder. 2) How can that possibly be a good thing?... You just said you didn't want a dictatorship... 3) I wasn't blaming Warnock, I was blaming those in charge for letting us believe that he was in the running. 4) OK you've answered the question regarding the team, but what about when the running of the club is such a shambles there is only one way the club can go?... We've seen what effect the boardroom squabbles can have on the team. As Scotty has said, it's not paranoia and it's certainly not sudden. As I have said many times now, I am grateful for what Sutherland has done for ICT, but if he or his puppets can no longer take ICT forward, it's time to look for someone who can.

:023: It'd be interesting if someone from the club could confirm this transfer figure as I see they are still quoting Niculae's wages to be ?4000 per week.

As I have said on numerous occasions on this thread, the complaints are primarily about David Sutherland. He chased away a man that was prepared to invest and make improvements to the club. He wants to run the club, but doesn't want to to be in the limelight... Sutherland was also the man that gave Brewster his job back, did he listen to any of the fans? Did he f**k. What he did do, was he led everyone to believe that Neil Warnock was in contention for the job. I believe he even put Warnocks name into a poll at a meeting with the fans... Harry Chibber has yet to answer this, so Caley100, what would it take for you to decide action was required? I was told to look at Dunfermline, Livi, Gretna and Dundee as examples of why we should be pleased with ICT... They all sat back and let relegation happen.

Clacher addressed that in his opening post: Did the supporters trust ever get anything positive done about the standard of stewarding? IIRC, we got a message from Mike Smith to the tune of "we don't make the rules, the SPL do" The fact is, the only thing that will make the BoD sit up and take notice is a down-turn in attendances.

Jay_7, as far as I'm aware there's not a queue of individuals out there waiting to be chairman of ICT; and more importantly with the ability to invest significantly into the club. Maybe you know of such individuals? We'll never know just how much Alan Savage was prepared to invest if he stayed as chairman, but he would have some catching up to do if he was going to match the investment (including off the field staffing and other resources) made by Tulloch over the last 8 years. If David Sutherland was to ever withdraw his support from this club, then we would be facing a very bleak future indeed. Do you wonder why there isn't a queue of individuals waiting to be chairman? Perhaps it's a similar reason to there not being a queue of managers waiting outside Tynecastle? I have never once suggested that David Sutherland should withdraw his support. I have pointed out that I would like him to sh*t or get off the pot - He either wants the power to run the club or not. If he could remain on the BoD as a majority shareholder and keep his nose out of the chairmans business, then I'd have no qualms with him at all. But that's simply not the case. As for your point above about Sutherland only acting to the benefit of the club, was chasing Savage benefitting the club any? As you say, we'll never know how much more he was prepared to invest, we may even have seen a proper club shop. Sutherland will do very nicely indeed out of a stadium relocation.

OK, that's your opinion. I can accept that. I'm not expecting folk to agree with me, but because you don't agree with me, I'm clutching at straws? The problem with Bennet is not his experience. It's his handling of the media and the way ICT are made to look a shambles when we chase a player for **** near 6 months. It's the way the vast majority of our players come from Ross County. Bennet found his level in the lower leagues. Call it clutching at straws if you like. The way I see it, we have an owner who doesn't want to be in the limelight, but wants to control everything that goes on at the club. He can't have it like that. If he wants that, he should be chairman again. If not, let the new chairman see if he can improve things. Of course, that wont happen now that we got rid of the man that did want to make changes and appointed a puppet in his place.