Jay_7

Not sure if there is already a topic on this but just wondered if there was anyone else that plays it? So far I've managed to do quite well with ICT. Sold Alan Morgan to Burnley for £500K after he had 3 games in a row rated 10. Managed to get in Liam Craig from Falkirk along with Alan Gow. Then sold a youth - Chris Rennie, must be a random spawn, for around £900k to Man Utd and got Vyacheslav Hleb from Shaktar Donetsk for £300k. Best buy so far has been Peter Ramage from Newcastle Utd for £425K - regularly MOM and appears in Team of the Week. Line up is: --------------Brown--------------- Tokely Ramage Dods Golabek ---------------Black---------------- Paatelainen----------------Craig --------------Rankin--------------- --------Hleb--------Gow---------- Seems to do the trick two top 6 finishes so far and the League Cup :021: How's everyone else getting on in it?

Would you believe me if it was my rugged good looks? :017:

I'll be building myself a new computer between the end of summer and xmas sometime - As you said the p5 range is probably the best around at the moment in terms of what it offers between cost and performance. I've noticed that the Quad-cores available at the moment are based on socket 775, with any luck that'll be a sign of things to come for future Quad-cores and all that'll be needed is a quick upgrade of the Bios in order to run one. Might be tempted to keep my P4 Prescott until I can afford to get a super-duper new processor :005:

That is a very good guide, the only thing I'd disagree with it about is When I'm designing a PC for myself or for someone else I always start with the motherboard, that way everything is narrowed down for you, type of processor, type and size of memory, graphics cards and expansion cards. All the names they mention I tend to use, as it is the best of quality e.g. Asus Motherboards, Lite-on DVD drives, Seagate* Hard drives, Creative sound cards etc. *Seagate now own Maxtor and as a result, have replaced the entire Maxtor range with Barracuda's so you can pick up what is essentially a Seagate hard drive at a Maxtor price.

Dell are notorious for pre-installed software, most of the stuff they include, you don't even need e.g. 3 different dvd viewing programmes. Something else to be aware of is the fact that they no longer provide a copy of the operating system, instead you have to rely on the pre-installed OS, and hope the boot sector on the hard disk dosn't go bad. If you can order the computer by phone rather than over the internet and insist on the XP or Vista disk to be included in the package.

Depends on your budget and what your motherboard supports. If your tight for cash, and there really is no alternative You can pick up a Celeron D for around £30. As Scotty said though, Core 2 Duo is where the vast majority of the market is going. If you're looking for cutting edge performance though, hold off for a couple of months as Quad Core processors are hitting the market just now - they are costly at the moment, around £600 but give it until middle to end of the summer I reckon Quad Cores will cost about £200. Final thoughts on purchasing, don't go for an OEM processor unless you really know what you're doing. Go for a retail boxed one, they usually come with a better warranty and with a heatsink/correct fan combination. In any case if it were me, I'd go with an Intel. In my experience, Intel produce reliable processors, and AMD produce performance processors at the cost of reliablilty.

:006: Aye, totally... Like it says on that page from The Scotsman, going to the football is a good way to let off steam. If I think the referee is being an erse bandit then I for one, will not refrain in making my feelings known. Fight the power! :021:

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Ah yes, I vaguely remember being subjected to it on various car journeys as a young lad :017: My favourite has to be Flower O' Scotland if anything, just for the sheer potential of experiencing a noisy TCS home crowd.

Which one is Caledonia?

Ok done a wee bit of digging, didn't really take long but there's a song called Scots Wha Hae thats chantable and would sound decent if there was a few of us: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots, wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victory! Now's the day an' now's the hour See the front of battle lour See approach proud Edward's pow'r Chains and slavery! Wha would be a traitor knave? Wha would fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king an' law Freedom's sword would strongly draw Freeman stand and freeman fa' Let him on wi' me! By oppression's woes and pains By your sons in servile chains We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free. Lay the proud userpers low! Tyrants fall in ev'ry foe Liberty's in every blow Let us do or dee! Or whats to stop us just using Flower O' Scotland as our anthem? The fact that Liverpool sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" didn't stop Celtic from adopting it... There's plenty advantages to using Flower O' Scotland, everyone knows it, its not the sort of song you'd take lightly, I know when I sing it, I belt it out. Also it has the potential to make the most noise TCS has ever had from its home fans!

Agreed, I tried belting out carefree at the game against Celtic and noone joined in. In fact I think some kid started singing the "Lord of the Dance" that we used to be forced to sing at school :015: My parents used to listen to pish like Tommy Scott, I'm sure there must be something along those lines that relates to the Highlands that we could make an ICT anthem!

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I was at the St Mirren game on the 1st of January in the hospitality bit and noone said a word to me about wearing my ICT shirt and a pair of jeans. We were turfed out at half past 5 after the game.

Should that not be "Amended" :015: So much for a university education! I thought he went to learn how to count squirrels! :015:

The question is what though? There must be someone on here that has a product from "Scotdisk" that contains something easily chantable that relates to the highlands?

Along the lines of an anthem being adopted, I recall a while back, the full version of Highland Cathedral being adopted, but its a bit slow and useless without a full pipe band behind those singing. Liverpools "Liiiiiiiv-er-poooool, Liiiiiiv-er-poooool" was sung a lot at last nights CL game against Barca, easily adaptable into "Innnnnn-ver-neeeeess, Innnnn-ver-neeeeess"

Singing section is a good idea, I'd definately be interested. Is this actually going to materialise for next season though?

Better than CC purely based on my CV on football manager :021:

I'd be a 3

Brown never looked convincing when a cross came into the area, Fraser thankfully looks not only more confident at coming off his line, but is more willing to catch a high ball rather than punch it away.

:003: I'd go as far as to say that Fraser is a better keeper than Brown. Unfortunately, I can envisage teams making offers for him if he has a good next season :007:

I take it you've never dislocated anything then?

The "snooker day" as you put it was not a training exercise, it was a method of getting the teams minds off a gutting defeat in the cup. Or would you have preferred no "snooker day" and for Wilson to be on poor form for the entire game and not score a winner?

:015: That's all fair and well at the game on the touchline, but the goalkeeping coach rarely gets a post-match interview. It's scandalous that even though there are 6 year old children that could referee a game better than some of our officials, the SFA refuse to accept this and instead make examples of those who dare speak out against them.