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Honor Fraser .... came to one match I think !

I have said it for years .... here are some of the things I would like to see .....

3 leagues of 16 .... which means 6 more ambitious new teams can come in - ICT, County, Gretna, Peterhead, and even Elgin havent done that badly when compared to some of the perpetual table proppers in the 3rd !!

Play each other once at home and away meaning 30 games and to offset the 'lost' 3 (or possibly 4 in SPL) home games initiate a divisional cup ... a bit like the Challenge cup but for the repective divisions only ....

Guaranteed 2 up, 2 down each season. If a team does not have a 6000 all seated stadium (for SPL) then they can use the seated part they do have until they build it. Give them a grace period of 1 season where they can use the increased revenues from the higher league to help them meet the required standard.

If the SPL arent prepared to give teams a full season to get stadia up to SPL standard, then get rid of March 31st deadline - teams in lower leagues usually dont know if they will get promoted in March and spending money 'speculatively' could kill a lower league club if they dont win the title after taking the financial gamble. By all means give a team till 31st March to apply for the SPL, but give them until start of season to have the ground ready ! If Tullochs can build 2 stands in 43 days, then any team in that spot can surely give David Sutherland a ring to have their stadium ready for the new season !!!

Get rid of the USH requirement - the costs are too high and it ruins the pitch as we know. Making St Mirren install it for maybe 1 season is also ludicrous. Change the rules to read 'adequate pitch protection' which would allow for 'blankets', air domes etc. If a club has more than 'x' number of games called off when other teams are ok, then they could be fined ..... we all know how few games ICT had called off before we installed the USH and County's problem doesnt seem to be snow or cold weather but 'drainage' and USH only makes that worse !!!

Enable a system to allow ambitious teams from 'non-league' roots to get into the senior setup - including HFL, South/East Scotland leagues and Juniors ... (not sure how that would work, but like the idea !!)

Well done to the younger lads .... but also well done to Charlie for actually giving them a chance. Even with 7th place assured, do you think CB would have rotated the squad for this game ?

Ok - to get us away from Julyan being the first and only 'celebrity' fan .... lets not forget that Inverness lad, and Scottish TV news reporter, (head reporter now i think ? ... sure someone will correct me if wrong) Mike Edwards, who may be better known to those of you in the central belt has been a Caley Thistle fan for donkeys years ..... long before we ever reached the SPL.

not me ... I still have 3 hours to go ;) .... although for the USA, it happened on 5th April .....

I split the Technical issues about the HM4 thread into a new thread in the Tech Support - Website forum

straws and clutching spring to mind ..... if Scotland gets a 2nd Intertoto place that will be good .... not every country takes up their allocation and UEFA divvy it up to other countries !! .... If not, then good luck to Gretna in the UEFA cup ... what a fairytale .....

I am starting to like Gretna just a little bit ... ok they bought their way up the leagues in a similar fashion to Livi, but after hearing a few interviews with the chairman, who seems down to earth, and noting what he did for our very own 'Charlies Angels' that fact doesnt bother me as much as it did when it was Livi ....

yup - looking like it ;)

ICT 2-0 Falkirk so far

Russell Duncan ( 18 )

Craig Dargo ( 30 )

I think I am also correct in saying that this is the FIRST EVER match that Mark Brown has not started since he signed for the club .....

With 7th place assured I wonder if we will go with a more experimental side.Like to see Fraser, Parrat, Caff, Sutherland getting a game - maybe even have Rory & Bayne up front

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A few soirees in the 'Slug and Lettuce' bar in Toronto to get in shape for a late summer trip to Denmark & Sweden with a slight detour to Inverness for 3 or 4 days on the way back .... culminating in a (no doubt) drunken experience at a wedding on the west coast .......

I know the league table shows us in 6th place ... but if you look beyond that for a second and tell the league table page to generate the form table, it makes interesting reading ;)

[you can also click many of the headings on the league table pages to generate different tables - most wins, average goals for/against etc .......]

Can someone let me know what the 'game time' and the 'kick-off' times are showing on your screens in UK timezones ? If i set it to the correct 'offset' time, it shows game as 7:45pm, but current 'game time' as 1 am

I have added the SPL Predictor onto the site as a test ..... This is the same predictor software as was used on SportNetwork. I will run it over the next two games to test that it works the same way as before.... so please join in !!!

Unfortunately, I cant import the scores from the old predictor so its set just to do the final few games of the season - Caley Canary was declared winner of the SportNetwork competition at the SPL Split time.

As I havent had time to tweak the predictor to use existing logins, you will need to 'create' a username and password to enter predictions ..... If it proves popular, I will tweak it during the off-season so it looks a bit better and the colour scheme (and login hopefully) can be integrated.

link on bottom of left menu or go HERE

I have come across a world cup predictor game that I can add to the site ..... it has all games in the World Cup and a bit like the current NPL that Gringo runs gives points for choosing W/L/D as well as points for HT / FT and bonuses for predicting exact result ...

Please vote in the poll if you are interested in getting this up and running as it will take a little code tweaking to make it work and I aint gonna bother if no-one is interested .....

Well Done Bobby !!!

While others may dislike him for off-field encounters they had with him or for comments he made in the press or TV, most of us wouldnt argue he was a very important player for us during his spell here .... he won a few awards here too, including the very first CaleyThistleOnline.com player of the year award .... although when it comes to scooping all a team's official awards, Rossco beat him to it last season by scooping every single end of season award at ICT including those voted for by players and fans alike as well as supporters clubs

I believe its around 60-70k per place. Every team is guaranteed a certain amount regardless of position, and the percentage 'bonus' increases with each higher league placing. Not sure if the exact figures are in the public domain anywhere, but cant see it being less .... maybe the team got a bonus for finishing higher ?

done

knew I forgot to do something yesterday ..... couldnt remember what it was !!!

will get it online later tonight

My understanding is yes, thats how it needs to finish .....

Top two teams in SPL qualify for Champions League (Celtic, Hearts). If one of them also wins the cup (Hearts ?), then because they are already in the CL, the cup runners up (Gretna ?) get one of our two uefa cup places and the team that finished 3rd (Rangers) will get the other. Because Hibs finished ahead of us and also applied for Intertoto they will get the qualifying spot not us.

If Rangers were still to finish 2nd, which now looks unlikely, then Hearts would get UEFA spot as cup winners (if they won it !!) and Hibs would get 2nd spot .... we would then get into Intertoto.

No I'm afraid I can't - sorry!

Not wanting to get in trouble again!

So long as it doesnt appear on these pages, I cant control what files you send to each other 8)

1690?!?! :shock: what the feck did they do for the first two hundred years?

I think you will find Charles was being 'tongue in cheek' and chose a significant date in history rather than the true date of formation.

Gotta be United for me ... with Brewsters latest comments i took more pleasure from their result today than I did from our own !!!!

if thats a recent pic you are looking well Jock !!