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Can't argue with that nor I !!!

I was thinking more Monty Python's Gumby ......

Yes, this is for our player sponsorship effort. You join the player sponsor group, which gives you a nice little "+07: Player Sponsor" designation next to your name on the boards and from that membership money we then sponsor a player on the members' behalf. As per the first post .... The simplest (and preferred) method is PayPal as the account can accept most major credit cards or payment directly from other paypal accounts, it is instant, trackable, and immediately assigns the user to the player sponsor group but we know not everyone likes to make transactions online, and some have had bad experiences with PayPal in the past (we have not, I hasten to add and we literally do all our online stuff with them) so for more traditional payments we rely on a few site users (mods/admin or other well known users) to accept payment in cash and then give it to CaleyD who then deposits it in the PayPal account. LG was also able/permitted to accept payment at the stadium last season on our behalf and although it didnt pass through PayPal it did go straight to the club and the members were manually added to the sponsor group. As the season gets closer to a start, and people start socialising before friendlies or league games again I expect we will be able to confirm who you can give it to and be sure it reaches the right place !!!! Will add you to the list, and hopefully by the time we start reminding those who havent paid, there will be a way for you to do so

To carry on the Picard Pics ....

now he's backtracking .... Press Association article from 10 minutes ago Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster has played down fears of clubs facing immediate threat of insolvency events following their decision to reject the newco Rangers application. Doncaster acknowledged that the short-term commercial impact of their decision was difficult to determine given uncertainty over contracts including broadcasting deals. But when asked about an instant danger to clubs, he said: "I wouldn't have thought so. I'm not privy to the details of all member clubs' financial positions. The whole issue has an awful lot riding on it, there are some big numbers involved. The easy decision would have been to say 'yes' and protect commercial revenues. The clubs have decided to be bold and say 'no'." Full Article http://www.google.co...61341426171482A He still doesnt get it does he ??? The clubs are not being bold (well not as their primary purpose anyway), the clubs are following their supporters and even a large number of supporters of Rangers Oldco in placing sporting integrity before commercial gain. This fool needs to resign now if he thinks the "easy" decision would have been YES ... There was no easy decision for any chairman in terms of finances and keeping their clubs afloat, especially with all the alleged bully-boy (or was that Billy-Boy) and scare tactics coming from his direction ... instead there was just the right decision in saying no and preserving the integrity of the sport, a decision that may hurt now, but that hopefully will ultimately allow Scottish Football to bounce back, perhaps re-organise itself so it is not a duopoly off the park as well as on it, and shed itself of those who seek to further the agenda of just two clubs instead of all 42 .......

If Ian Black is not in an ICT shirt, and not in the shirt of an SPL rival, then he is irrelevant to me .....

I believe 12th Man is more likely to be correct than Proctor. If Kenny Cameron has publicly stated that ICT will (or did) vote NO on the basis of the overwhelming feeling of ICT fans who have contacted him, the Supporters Trust or posted on here, then that is how he will vote. I have known him for a long time and have always found him to be a man of his word .... It is Doncaster who is spinning in the wind here, and the sooner that this buffoon resigns, the better. The statements of the Raith Chairman and the Clyde FC Official statement surely make this man's position untenable, even if this cluster**** of a summer hasnt already done so in everyone's eyes but his own.

Why are they ignoring the second division Chairmen? c'mon, all the others have been pissed off ... time for some equality here !!!

Ironically, if Sevco Rangers are in the SFL after the voting takes place, County would not have been be able to share there as the legitimate SPL side would not have first refusal/control over their own home fixture dates ..... !!!

oh well .... better send me the sarcasm smiley !

I understood your satire Kingsmills

not sure how accurate the Wiki page is but sounds like he has a decent pedigree .... but seems a bit injury prone ..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Raven_%28footballer%29

not going to laugh at County .... money is tight for all clubs and lets face it, if we had to have something like that in place to meet the 6000 seated criteria we would do so in a heartbeat ! Besides ... County being in the SPL really pisses off my new figure of ridicule ... Mr Kenneth Shiels and that, for now is much more fun !

season ticket means you pre-pay for your ticket to all league games, usually at a discount, and also normally gives you first refusal on your defined seat for cup games. for all-ticket league games (Celtic, Rangers [in the past], and maybe one or two others) you also get an earlier chance to purchase extras over and above the seat you already have. see here: http://ictfc.com/matches/tickets/ticket-prices

forgot to add my other comment ..... Wont 4 or 5 other teams also be affected in exactly the same manner ??? and club 12 - whether Dundee or Dunfermline will have to travel further to Kilmarnock than Rangers would !!!! This guy has absolute #s***forbrains !

yup - got it LG

notice you tried the Paypal thing but didnt go all the way to checkout ... still shows pending. If you intend to pay via paypal you can go to the invoice link here to continue it or let me know and I will cancel the pending transaction: http://caleythistleonline.com/index.php?app=nexus&module=clients I also notice one of our new members who registered via Facebook/Twitter/Google also tried to subscribe but didnt get to checkout yet .... so we know who you are, please complete you registration proper as you currently dont have a username

Jonny, thanks for all you did in an ICT shirt .... but watch out for the curse ... it will get you

Bumping his gums now about the Rangers situation ........ http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4394460/Gers-crisis-will-wind-up-costing-this-team-1m.html "Kilmarnock will suffer the most for Rangers not being in the league. We will only have one guaranteed Old Firm gate next season as we were down to play Rangers twice at home...... " “We are different in that we carry debt. Other clubs of a similar size like St Johnstone and St Mirren don’t carry debt, so this will have a bigger impact on us." So it is St Johnstone and St Mirren's fault that you cant manage your own finances ??? Jealousy much ?

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Player we are sponsoring - To be decided It has usually been the same as previous years if the player has not left the club so the aim will be to raise enough to cover both Shane's home top and Gavin's training top unless of course people want to change that. Other sponsorships will depend on the level of "membership" the "Player Sponsor" group reaches. The cost to sponsor a player is as follows: Home Shirt - £375 +vat (£75) = £450 Away Shirt - £275 +vat (£55) = £330 Training Top - £125 +vat (£25) = £150 Boots - £125 +vat (£25) = £150 Gloves - £125 +vat (£25) = £150 To take part in this sponsorship you will need to upgrade your site membership and join the "Player Sponsor" group. We in turn will use the money received from these memberships (minus paypal fees) to purchase player sponsorships from the club. The cost to join this group is £11.00 (this amounts to £10.00 joining fee plus £1 to cover the aforementioned paypal fees). You may if you wish purchase multiple memberships, just amend the total in your shopping cart and add a note when placing the order if it is to cover family members who may not officially be site members !!! To join the group simply go to this page http://caleythistleonline.com/store/ or access the CTO Store from the main menu at the top. All our site membership upgrades are handled securely via Paypal which will accept direct payment from the majority of credit/debit cards so it should be easy enough to upgrade your membership whether you live in Sneck or somewhere thousands of miles from there. As with previous years, we hope to have a couple of options in place for those who may be joining manually at the pub or when speaking to a mod or admin in person ... more details to follow once we work it out !!! If you are joining manually you can ignore the extra £1 fee. Once we know how many members have joined the group, we will make a decision on what gets sponsored. The first item will be the selected player's Home Kit ... but the more members who upgrade to "Player Sponsor" membership, the more we can sponsor. At the end of the season, members of our sponsor group will be selected at random to receive any gifts we may receive from the club ...... If you are interested, please add your name to this thread or go ahead and join the sponsor group. You will be marked as once we confirm payment received via membership upgrade or more traditional means .... IMPORTANT: The way this was originally setup, it created a 'subscription' in Paypal. Our system would automatically re-bill you in a year's time. This was an error on my part as we know the members change from year to year. Those who already paid need do nothing, I will cancel the renewal portion of the transaction from my end (not the actual transaction) so if you see a wee note that subscription is cancelled its nothing to worry about ... just means you wont automatically get dinged for another tenner next year and will have to actively choose to re-subscribe ! If you paid after the date of this edit then it should not show a subscription just a payment.

The more it is suggested, the more the share idea seems a good one ..... To the best of my knowledge, there are plenty of unissued shares available (or is that issued but unsold - sorry not my strong point). If the Trust could organise something like this - and perhaps held the shares on behalf of the fans - it would be an avenue where all fans could help regardless of location, financial means, or other potential pitfalls that emerge whenever a cash raising venture is born. After that, any other fundraising efforts like player sponsorships, buying merchandise, buying a brick, or whatever top notch notions are likely to appear in here would be the icing on what would hopefully be a pretty good cake base !!!!!

I have started a separate topic here: Please stick fund-raising ideas in there and if necessary we will split any that need in-depth discussion into multiple threads or their own sub-forum.

As per the comments in the Dear Mr Cameron thread, lets use this thread to discuss ideas that either we as fans, other fan bodies such as the Supporters Trust or Supporters Club, or ICT themselves could establish to try and lessen the financial sting of the likely NO vote to the Rangers Newco that we and other teams' fans have requested their respective clubs to make. Our normal "player sponsor" group subscription will continue as normal, and we will get that thread up and running shortly. But any other ideas should be noted in here. If necessary, and if there is enough traction then we can also make it a separate sub-forum with multiple threads if we need to discuss individual ideas in depth.

I have been messaged by a couple of folk on here and one suggestion mooted was that some of us who are overseas or otherwise not at the TCS on a regular basis could possibly club together and buy 'some' season tickets (quantity obviously depends on level of interest and how much was pledged). These tickets could then then be used by others (perhaps on payment of a portion of the equivalent match fee directly to ICT (?)) or maybe given out for charity or something like that ..... Like the person who suggested it to me I havent thought through the specifics yet, but we will be happy to try and drive any fundraising ideas, or to publicise and push those ideas towards the Supporters Trust if the management of them is more appropriate that way. If the site members feel it is warranted, perhaps - in this new spirit of unity - we might want a small sub-forum for fundraising ideas and such like ? Definitely a thread of its own though rather than getting lost in here ! Of course, for our own part, CTO will now go ahead and try to get names of site members who want to re-subscribe to or rejoin our player sponsor group so we can also contribute to the club this way and we will likely make our own contribution on top of that. If ever there was a time for all of us to dip into our pockets and help the club that time is now. We can all do our part, no matter how large or small that assistance is.