Scotty

<style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 { color: #FF0000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } --> </style> <table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#003300"> <tr> <td width="55" scope="col"><div align="left"><img src="http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/ball_icon.png"'>http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/ball_icon.png" alt="ball" longdesc="ball icon"></div></td> <td bgcolor="#003300"><div style="background-color:#003300;" align="center"> <h2><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">THE MATCHDAY THREAD</font></h2> <h5><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Discuss ICT & other games in this thread as they happen </font></h5> </div></td> <td width="55" scope="col"><div align="right"><img src="http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/ball_icon.png"'>http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/ball_icon.png" alt="ball" longdesc="ball icon"></div></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3"><div align="left"><img src="http://community.caleythistleonline.com/public/added_images/club_crests/hearts.png" alt="team logo" width="120" height="120" longdesc="team logo"></div></td> <td><div align="center"> <h2><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hearts -V- Inverness CT</font></h2> </div></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3"><div align="right"><img src="http://community.caleythistleonline.com/public/added_images/club_crests/inverness.png" alt="team logo" width="120" height="120" longdesc="team logo"></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PREVIEW</font></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> 3:00 PM</font></div></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" bgcolor="#99cc99"> <tr> <th width="33%" scope="col"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/twitter-icon.jpg" alt="twitter icon" width="50" height="50" longdesc="twitter icon"> <br> Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/ICTOnline" target="_blank">Twitter</a></div></th> <th scope="col"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/facebook-icon.png" alt="facebook icon" width="50" height="50" longdesc="twitter icon"><br> Follow us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CaleyThistleOnline/122778317770191" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </div></th> <th width="33%" scope="col"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/chat-icon.jpg" alt="chat" width="50" height="50" longdesc="chat"><br> Go to the <a href="http://community.caleythistleonline.com/index.php?app=ipchat" target="_blank">Chatroom</a><br> </div></th> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr bgcolor="#0000CC"> <td width="51" scope="col"><div align="left"><img src="http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/ie8-logo.png" alt="ie" width="50" height="50" longdesc="ie"></div></td> <td width="601" scope="col"><div align="center"> <h2><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Media Coverage</strong></font></h2> </div></td> <td width="51" scope="col"><div align="right"><img src="http://caleythistleonline.com/media/images/misc/firefox-logo.png" alt="ff" width="50" height="50" longdesc="ff"></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F2F2F2"> <td width="51" align="center" valign="top"><div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> AUDIO</strong></font></div></td> <td colspan="2"><ul><li><a href="http://listen.mfr.co.uk/MFR/listenlive.html" target="_blank"> Moray Firth Radio Live</a> Commentary [<font color="#FF0000"><em>UK Only</em></font>] </li> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/7742209.stm" target="_blank">BBC "Open All Mics"</a> Live discussion and Goal flashes [<strong>Worldwide</strong>] <span class="style1">NOT RUNNING TODAY</span></li> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/default.stm" target="_blank">BBC "Live Commentary"</a> (see links on page) [most are <font color="#FF0000"><em>UK only</em></font>] <br> <br> </li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> <td width="51" align="center" valign="top"><div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> TEXT</strong></font></div></td> <td colspan="2"><ul> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/live_scores/default.stm" target="_blank">BBC</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/MatchCommentary.aspx/Inverness" target="_blank">P&J</a></li> <li><a href="http://live.skysports.com/ScoreCentre/live.html" target="_blank">SKY</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.sportbox.tv/football/live/" target="_blank">SportBox</a> <br> <br> </li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#E9E9E9"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> VIDEO</strong></font></div></td> <td colspan="2"><ul> <li><strong>HIGHLIGHTS</strong> <ul> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/default.stm" target="_blank">BBC Match Highlights</a> (Individual Match Highlights) - [<font color="#FF0000"><em>UK only</em></font>]</li> <li><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zrbv" target="_blank">BBC Sportscene </a>(TV programme) [<font color="#FF0000"><em>UK only</em></font>] </li> <li><a href="http://ictfc.com/video" target="_blank">ICT Official Website Highlights</a> [<strong>Worldwide</strong>]<br> <br> </li> </ul> </li> </ul></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" bgcolor="#FEFEEB"> <tr> <td scope="col"><div align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TEAM LINEUPS</font></strong></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"></div></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p></td> </tr> </table>

http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/East-Fife-run-earns-Robertson.6663536.jp Robbo - Manager of the Month in D2 Paul Sheerin - Manager of the Month in D3

ok scotty you will need to point me in the right direction there???? Vagina Dildo

Paraguay International (98-02) .... Chiqui Arce Australian Goalkeeper ... Norman Conquest East German player (80s) ... Ralf Minge Swiss Striker ... Andre Muff (someone sign him and Danny Diver for the same team please) Chilean International ... Waldo Ponce Portuguese Goalie ... Quim Manager of Wolfsburg in the 90s ... Wolfgang Wolf Google also throws up a classic supposedly from Algeria (70s) ..... Ars Bandeet there was also a Scottish referee called ... Charlie Faultless and of course there is David Ginola .... an anagram of his name is probably the rudest and funniest !

Disagree about sharing gates, but do agree about TV or other sponsorship monies .... Not sure if it is still the same but every team used to be guaranteed 4% of the sponsorship money (48% total), the remaining 52% was shared out based on position with 1st place getting 13% and 2nd place getting 11%. As we know who is going to finish in those two positions most year, it is easy to spot that two teams are getting a huge premium over anyone else (32% of total revenue). 3rd place gets 5.5%, 4th gets 4.5% and then each place drops by 0.5% after that with 12th getting 0.5% on top of their guaranteed 4%. In some figures I have seen this meant that 1st place would get a payout approaching ?3,000,000 over the season and 12th place would get around ?750,000 Looking back over some of my files, I also note that the current suggestion for SPL reconstruction is almost identical to one presented to the SPL AGM in 2006 and which was born back at a strategy day in 2003 before we were even in the SPL the first time .... and the financial model has the top two in a 10 team league now taking 35.6% of the total revenue instead of 32% so radical change as it might sound or be spun, its just more of the same !!!

you activate your own account .... you should receive an email with a link in it. click the link and the account is activated. and to answer your question ... if you mean Beattie's dive, then yes it is shown.

[email protected] has now been updated and will forward mail to both the Secretary of the Supporters Club and the Chairperson.

Bonus video --- "The Unbeaten Run" --- also added. AndyCAM has edited together some of the goals from this season's portion of our unbeaten away run in the SPL.

Rangers highlights now available for viewing.

Just received the BBC highlights - hope to have them online on the NEW site in the next hour or two. http://ictfc.com/video

All future highlights will be on the new shop site which also contains the new ICT-TV section. Celtic highlights are already there but I am waiting for the Rangers highlights from the club. Normally I can get the BBC highlights within a day or two as I can download them directly from their FTP site but this game was covered by SKY so waiting to see who I actually get them from !!!

:clapping: totally agree. Here's hoping that he thinks working with Hayes and Foran and with TB/MM mentoring him will benefit him in the long run and that he realises that he can still develop and move on in a year or twos time to perhaps an even bigger club than he might do right now. If he does decide to move on, as you say, we can say thanks for the memories and view him positively whilst keeping an eye on his career and wishing him well. There is no doubt he will go sometime ... I just hope that its later rather than sooner ! I dont think so ... He's been offered a contract and the rest is up to him. He will either sign the contract or he wont. Even if he signs the contract someone may make us an offer in the summer which we find hard to refuse ... there are so many possbilities. I think we all know he will move on eventually, but I guess its a case of whether he thinks staying at ICT will benefit his career by virtue of being a big fish in a small pond, or whether moving to another side where he might be a lesser star but at a "bigger name" club will be of more benefit.

Tickets are now on sale - ?10 adult & ?5 concession. Season ticket holders seats will be held until Wednesday 22nd December when they will be released for general sale. http://www.ictfc.co.uk/articles/20101122/ict-v-elgin-city_2208825_2227304

seek and ye shall find ...... CELTIC: http://stats.caleythistleonline.com/opponent.php?opp=3 RANGERS: http://stats.caleythistleonline.com/opponent.php?opp=6 surprisingly .... no, Celtic have a higher average !!! helped by the 8736 (at pittodrie) and the first game this season being closer to a sellout than the Rangers game.

I believe that this is true. No-one is perfect and we all make mistakes from time to time, but in general our boards (over the years) have steered us through some pretty tricky football and financial turmoils. I just wish that at times it had been done with less spin or at the very least spin that wasnt as shoddily created. Personally, I am not slow to give credit where I feel it is due, and conversely, I will dish out criticism as and where I also feel it is due. Based on the information we had available to us at the time, I dont feel sorry for criticising the club ... I am just happy I was proved wrong !!!! To put a positive finish on this - and it is something I have said before - I have always said that the club should just be honest with us. Give us the good news when it happens, give us the bad news when it happens, but basically give us the news (and truth) regardless of what it is. That way rumours get quoshed and facts come out and we can deal with them and then move on. The club went through a spell of 4 or 5 years where even the slightest bit of news should probably have come to us via WikiLeaks given how closely they wanted to guard it at a management level (despite it pouring out from other sources like a sieve). But fortunately, they now have an operations director who is customer focused, straight talking and more than willing to embrace the concept that fans can handle and process more information than they are used to giving out, and can also bring improvements to the table via fan/club partnerships at all levels .... hopefully that continues

It may not be too long before we all support the Republic of Ireland !!!

I believe the phone would currently be better ... the email address still forwards to Kath who I am sure would forward it ..... Would one of the supporters club contacts who post on here please PM me with a preferred email address (or addresses) where we can forward email to and we can update it ......

seek and ye shall find ...... CELTIC: http://stats.caleythistleonline.com/opponent.php?opp=3 RANGERS: http://stats.caleythistleonline.com/opponent.php?opp=6

Remember both of those. Absolute belters. Mccullochs one probably shades it for me

Great website the new owners have though .... http://www.venkys.com/

very tricky !!! thats why I took the easy option

links: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/13/sam-allardyce-sacked-manager-blackburn-rovers http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=852920&sec=england&cc=5901

Caley Thistle were part-time for quite a few seasons .... as we progressed, that changed and based on the ambition shown by the club we are now rightfully a full time team in the country's top division. There is absolutely nothing to say other teams cannot follow a similar model and by the time they achieve promotion to the top flight be in a similar situation as ourselves ... but they need to have some incentive to actually make that progress. Just like we talk about "youth" being our future in terms of fans, and trying to encourage them to support ICT, we should not overlook the smaller teams within the SFL when trying to look at a solution that will benefit all. Having come from non-league origins to the SPL in 10 years or so, and with our one season dalliance with relegation, ICT fans are well qualified to be able to appreciate that progress could and should bring rewards and just how massive a gulf there is when things go pear shaped. there are plenty of teams in the 3rd who never do anything, and yes there are those in the 2nd and 1st whose sole purpose seems to be to yo-yo between divisions, but we should be fostering re-development of the game over all leagues so those teams who perpetually finish at the bottom of the 3rd might have some consequences, and those teams who are ambitious, either within the current setup, or somewhere in the juniors or non-league setups can have a goal and achieve a reward for reaching that goal..... Thats why I suggested 'group stages' for early rounds ... just like the Champions League did to increase income (and TV revenue/programming) in that competition for teams not expected to make it further. You dont go out in the group stages so you are guaranteed a certain number of games. OK, the Scottish Cup may not rake in the mi££ions that the CL does, but every penny helps for smaller teams and you just need to look at the crowds Caley or Thistle might draw for games in the Scottish Cup when we were in the HFL as an example ... as for going out early - in the knockout stage - thats no different to how it is now !!! I would suggest it would probably be higher end D1 or SPL teams that would be straight into the knockout stages so they would stand/fall on results in the same way as they do now ... except they would have it over two legs not one. I would also suggest the official attendances are somewhat of a 'red herring' given that gates are shared and most people wonder about the authenticity of the figures announced for many games ! So 36 games for the top 6 (13+13+5+5)and 40 for the bottom 8 (13+13+7+7). I can see the logic -- 4 more games for bottom 8 so more home games and more revenue, but still two less games for the top 6 and at least 1 less home game. The whole idea of a split just seems to be over complicating what should be a straightforward process .... but I do agree with you, its the sort of daft idea that might be acceptable to those in control of the accounts !

Revamp the cups .... make earlier rounds a group stage so small teams can make a bit of coin, make later rounds home and away .... there are plenty of ways to get more games if you think about it .... and with regard to games against bigger teams ..... no team is guaranteed these .... Do you think Aberdeen budgeted (or projected) being bottom six this season and losing out on 5 big games to end the season? If they are good enough, then why not !!! All that statement proves is that you want to stagnate Scottish football and prevent smaller teams from having ambition and reap the rewards for achieving that ambition ... its that kind of attitude that kept Highland teams out of the senior setup for decades. I agree about the German 'safe standing areas' idea and it is something Toronto FC fans are also pushing their owners and MLS about. How does your 14 team league work ? Is that play each other 3 times for 39 games or is it some other format with a split? Cant see how it works out with an even split of games other than by using the same SPL model which is to try and obtain a balance of home and away games over the course of TWO seasons.

Every single one of them that takes to the park and wears the badge with pride !!!!! We have some good (even excellent) individuals but none of them would be performing to this level if it wasnt for the team effort of everyone.