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We would be happy to do so for any Caley, Thistle, or ICT related book if we had permissions to do so from the relevant copyright holders. The author did much of the legwork required in obtaining the additional permissions required for us to be able to put Against All Odds online ... not sure of the current copyright status of the others ...... but if someone wants to check, our resources are here to host it

Graham is Kenny again

no real cutoff as such. once the season starts and we commit to our renewal(s) though, then thats it, we close it off.

Its a risk .... but I disagree with one part of CaleyD's logic .... I know you will have figures to back up what your typing and recent experience of organising buses, but lets just assume for a minute they make £150 per bus profit as you noted .... in the end, it doesnt matter how much it is, if its profit, its profit whether its 1 bus @ £150 or 10 buses @ £1500 .... and then you add program sales, food sales, and any other commercial revenue they can generate and it could be a nice little earner for them .... of course it could backfire spectacularly too, but thats the risk .... In my opinion, the flaw is in thinking that the 150/200 or even 300 will turn up without incentive ... They may do and in that case your logic is sound ... but times are tough and they may struggle to get that level... I would think Couny might know how many tickets have been sold so far and are obviously targeting the "additionals" that might be swayed by a free trip for this one in the hope that the 300 becomes 500 or 700, and every "additional" is money coming in that would not have come in before.

its complicated ...... Basically the fee can range from 0% to 7.4% depending on location of payer, payment method, amount and currency. There is also a transaction fee on top of that and a currency conversion fee as my paypal account is in Canadian dollars even though I maintain a balance in both US and UK currencies and it goes straight to one of those balances. On a £11 player sponsorship membership, our net fee received is a few pennies over the £10 required. If you were making a straight payment and bypassing the player sponsor form, I believe there would still be fees involved based on location (ie. cross border), payment method, currency etc. I looked back on some transactions made from UK via paypal or echeque / bank transfer and it seems to range from 0.5% to 1.0% for those ... I dont actually see any payments made into my account where there wasnt a fee ... might be because I have an upgraded account that can take (a higher level and quantity of) credit card payments rather than a standard personal account.

why should I be scared ? We already beat Vancouver with Robson in the side ... and we just signed Hassli to replace the injured Koevermans

took the doc straight from the SPL website ... the regs haven't (officially) changed since 2007 ..... Guess Vlad is perhaps taunting them

From SPL ....... http://www.scotprem.com/content/mediaassets/doc/Playing%20Kit%20Sponsorship%20Regulations%20%28CURRENT%20Approved%20by%20Board%2017.05.07%29.pdf The Shirt A Club may also include a sponsor or advertiser on the front of the shirt. The space available to a sponsor or advertiser is a total area of 200cm2 on the front of the shirt, horizontally across the centre of the chest. Lettering used in this area must not exceed 10cm in height. No manufacturer identification, design or other elements may be incorporated in the lettering used. A Club may also include a second sponsor or advertiser on the back of the shirt. The space to a sponsor or advertiser being a total area of 100cm2 on the back of the shirt, above the player name, horizontally centred between the shoulders. Lettering used must not exceed 5cm in height. No manufacturer identification, design or other elements may be incorporated in the lettering used. A Club may have different sponsors or advertisers on its away shirt from those on its home shirt. The Shorts A Club may include one sponsor or advertiser on the shorts. For the avoidance of doubt this is additional to the Club crest (maximum area 50 cm2) and the manufacturer’s identification (maximum area 20cm2). The space available to a sponsor or advertiser is a total area of 75cm2 on the right hand side, from the perspective of the wearer, at the front. The Socks A Club may include one sponsor or advertiser on the socks. For the avoidance of doubt this is additional to the Club crest (maximum area 50 cm2) and the manufacturer’s identification (maximum area 20cm2). The space available to a sponsor or advertiser is a total area of 25cm2 on each sock. The same sponsor or advertiser must be used on both socks.

Never saw that one coming !!! just wait till he experiences Winter !!!! not quite 'Winterpeg' but damn cold there in a few months time Its a bit below MLS but from having seen them play Toronto FC in the Canadian Championships I would have to say Edmonton are a decent enough team who have ambitions to improve .. rapidly if possible. They were only formed in 2010. Just a few weeeks ago I was telling someone about Barry Robson being the only ex-ICT player in MLS ... now we could end up with Robson at Vancouver, Proctor in Edmonton, and Fetai at Montreal !

The club are considering adding photo prints as part of the merchandise lineup ... Initially the idea is to make some available for purchase that focus on club icons/legends or memorable matches ... and they have asked us to post this request to get some additional ideas from fans as to which players and events/matches really stand out for us ..... and which would be popular enough to sell ..... S0 .... Which games ? Which players ? Which events ? For my own part, I think the Paul Sheerin image (and just about any other) from that Celtic game has to be there. I would also like to see official team photos made available each year. As for icons ... we have had a few ... Rossco, Denzil, Stewarty, Calder, Bobby, Barry ... the managers .... much to choose from ....

seems to be a pattern here ....... we seem to be signing (or trialling) players who have had major or persistent injury issues in the past. Its a bit of a gamble, but perhaps it means we get a player one step up from what we can actually afford in the "fully fit" list of available players?

Thought to have a general MLS topic that myself and any other MLS watchers can post in rather than just a TFC one ! Feel free to join in ...... Will start it with three bits of news for this week with an ICT or Scottish connection ... the first seems certain, the second gave me a chuckle, the third is still at the rumour stage. 1. Kenny Miller looks set to sign for Vancouver Whitecaps and join up with Barry Robson: http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/18847695 http://www.thesun.co...e-MLS-move.html 2. Montreal Impact are taking a certain former ICT player on trial .... Myself and luvgravy have already laughed about this on Twitter, but respected journalist Luke Wileman reports Bajram Fetai currently on trial with Montreal https://twitter.com/LukeWileman 3. Toronto FC rumoured to be trying to get Carlos Bocanegra to steady up the leaky defence. Nothing concrete on this one, and they could face an uphill battle with New England (and some Mexican teams) for his services. New England have first refusal on getting him if he comes back to MLS, Toronto are #2 on the list, and although New England are 'interested' TFC last week traded one of the three DPs on the team to Dallas and many are speculating it is to make way for him and/or Canadian captain Kevin McKenna (formerly of Hearts).

you can see from your user group (Player Sponsor) that it went through. Usergroup changes immediately that its paid. It is just me being slow updating the page manually :)

not a huge amount of razzamatazz in MLS ... the MLS management are developing the league more slowly, a lesson they learned from the failures of the past. They may know how to do PR and such like but thats a bad thing ??? I would agree in principle with that. I think Scarlet is just being overly optimistic. However MLS 2.0 is setup differently to the previous incarnation that included the Cosmos, Beckenbauer, Best etc. Every team coming in must have a youth academy, every team has to spend (the vast majority of) transfer profits on ground improvements or youth, every team has to work within a salary budget, and every rule like this is designed to develop the league from the ground up and unlike the SFA/SFL/SPL to use the lessons learned from past mistakes to make things stronger and better this time around. I think you also mix-up 'best' with 'richest' ... it only takes one of those leagues to have a financial crisis and all the 'best' players will leave very quickly. ... then you are ignorant and have not bothered to back up opinion with fact based on the current league, choosing instead to remember the 70s. Yes there are still a few like that but the number of youth players coming through in Canada/USA and players coming from Latin America or South America with the express intention of reaching the big money of Europe when they get older make it a far different place. Have a gander at this article ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/sports/soccer/mls-seen-as-steppingstone-to-europe-for-promising-young-players.html?_r=1 or consider some of the players who came over to Europe on loan at the end of their MLS season last year: Brek Shea (Arsenal), Teal Bunbury (Bolton), Landon Donovan (Everton), Kyle Beckerman (Kaiserslauten), Bill Hamid (WBA), Sean Johnston (Man Utd), Stefan Frei (Liverpool), Omar Salgado (Fulham) ... and those are pretty much off the top of my head Pele/Best were way before the current MLS and therefore irrelevant. Richard Gough too was barely in the "new" MLS making appearances in 1997 and 1998. 'new' MLS was formed in 1993 but is widely regarded as not starting proper development until around 2002 when interest surged after USA reached the QF of the World Cup. In those 10 years it HAS made huge changes and gone through a lot of development. I have seen Beckham play in person several times - have you? - and although he may no longer play to the same level as he did before, he has still got it ... again, this can be evidenced by the fact that he went back to Milan on loan two seasons in a row at the end of the MLS season !! Mo Johnston not involved in MLS since September 2010 indeed. you do seem to have an inane ability to selectively choose where to comment and how to comment and conveniently ignore the valid points or questions made to you .... like the ones in my earlier post. I am sure you could equally drag up google postings to back up any point

Dougal ... Have you ever been to an MLS game in person ? Have you ever even watched a complete one on TV ? thought not. Another one who bases their opinions on the New York Cosmos of the 70s ! No-one called him a 'top' player. I used the term 'solid' and yes he will be. Have you actually seen him play recently - at Middlesborough I mean, not in this inferior MLS product - or are you basing your assumptions on 2003 or earlier ? quite frankly, for anyone who is watching Scottish Football implode right now to have the stones to slag off the standard of any league as inferior is quite astonishing.

Cost you more than £8 normally though didn't it ?

actually ..... and perhaps surprisingly enough, he did display some maturity and even a calming influence on proceedings. I guess the petulant Barry we have all seen - and who is likely still in there if you wind him up properly - has added those qualities to his game. Best example was when Mattocks got the equaliser in 90 minutes .... The player was taunting the crowd, and behind him, experienced MLSer Jay DeMerit was also giving the 'come-ahead' sign ... but Barry was telling him, "ok, enough, lets go" Based on what I have seen so far, he looks like he is going to be a good and solid MLS player. He wont get the media coverage of other DPs like Beckham or Henry or even Frings, and he perhaps isnt in that bracket, but he will be solid I think. His touches and passes on Wednesday were pretty good and if one or two of his 30 yard efforts connect they will surely get a 'goal of the week' award or two .... I wanted to come out of this game hating him for being an opposition player .... but I couldnt ! He has definitely matured, still has qualities I remember from the TCS, and I felt quite proud of the fact that he used to play for ICT.

This jump you mean ? I was close enough to get a good photo......

it holds 22K and it was half empty at kick-off but I think that had more to do with the 7PM start, people working till 5 or 6, and the sheer volume and congestion of Toronto traffic at rush hour ..... there were people coming in all way through the game and official crowd by the end was 19K .... to me when it was fullest it looked about 17K A few pics from last night ......

possibly ! Like I say, decent enough player and quite a lot of TFC fans are sad to see him go even if we knew it was inevitable ... He played virtually all games under Aron Winter and was doing good this season (compared to previous seasons where I would say he was 'average') ... but Mariner just doesnt rate him for some reason and was looking for any excuse to cut him loose ... the drinking incident, which was blown out of all proportion gave him that excuse and its likely he will be followed out the door by Miguel Aceval a 29 year old centre half who was also arrested in that incident, but trust me, ICT dont want to look at that guy ... total liability ! The other one of the trio - Luis Silva - seems to have escaped unscathed as he has been playing regularly ... and he scored TFC's first goal last night !

Just had to share these photos from the TFC supporters group forum I post on .... Darren Mattocks taunting the crowd after scoring to make it 2-2 right on the 90th minute ..... then Terry Dunfield celebrating a couple of minutes later after scoring the winner 3 minutes into injury time !

Toronto FC just released Nick Soolsma "by mutual consent". He could be worth a punt if the wages were right .... (TFC wage was equivalent to about £1300 p/week but not sure he would be worth quite that amount) The 24 year old winger/forward was having a pretty decent season with TFC but was one of the three players who got arrested in Houston a few weeks ago for "public intoxication" (supposedly a very easy charge to be arrested for in Texas). The fallout from that arrest and the fact that he was a favourite of previous boss Aron Winter but not new boss Paul Mariner all added up to his release yesterday.

Finished 3-2 to Toronto !!! 2-1 up with 1 minute to play then Darren Mattocks scored for the visitors and classlessly taunted the supporters section ..... but step up Terry Dunfield, former Vancouver player, and one of those journeymen you mention with the winning goal 3 minutes into injury time !!! Justice was done and the smile on his face was HUGE when he scored ! Yes, Frings is class, and to be honest, Robson also had a decent game. Almost scored in first few minutes with one of his trademark 30 yard efforts and generally looked pretty good in bossing the midfield ... He did fade in the second half so maybe why you didnt see much from him if you only caught the latter part of the match. Word over here is that TFC might be targetting Bocanegra and they loaned out a player last week and released another today to make about $200,000 salary cap room for someone, just havent confirmed who ........

Big Match tonight and a direct ICT connection !!!! TFC take on Vancouver Whitecaps at BMO Field in Toronto. Although TFC did ok in the Champions League (falling at semi-final stage) and won the Canadian Championship again, they do not have their troubles to seek in the league after a disastrous start to the MLS season that sees them bottom of the Eastern Conference. After 17 games (exactly half-way) its 2 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses with 18 scored and 33 conceded !!!! Looks a bit better if you go with recent results where it is 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses in the last 8 though with 12 scored and 12 conceded ..... Tonight's opponents, Vancouver are 4th in the Western Conference after winning 8, drawing 6 and losing 4. 19 scored, 19 conceded and the ICT connection of course is that Barry Robson is now playing for the Whitecaps. He made his debut against Colorado last Wednesday and lasted about an hour in the altitude and heat, then he played again on Saturday in Los Angeles against Chivas and lasted the full 90 and tonight should be his 3rd appearance for the '****eCaps'. Looking forward to seeing the first former Caley Thistle player to grace Major League Soccer and hope he has a decent couple of years in MLS except when he plays TFC !!!! A good few mentions of ICT in his profile too ! http://www.whitecapsfc.com/players/barry-robson?quicktabs_=about#quicktabs-

Can't argue with that nor I !!!