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Used to do that with AOL CDs when I figured I had enough coasters/frisbees ..... it took a year or more but eventually they stopped sending them .... Worse than that ... cold-call telesales from a machine that plays a recording !!! or an obvious telesales call that connects at my end but the sales agent isnt quick enough and you end up saying "hello, ... hello .... hello .... $#@&&^%$# !!!"

I am not going to comment much on this debate other than to agree with the quote above. The BBC also has a pretty decent timeline located here for those that didnt study 20th Century History/Politics : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_ip_timeline/html/1948.stm Much debate here in Canada on both sides of the argument with an opinion poll released today showing 56% of Canadians think Israel had the right to respond in the way they did except in the province of Quebec where 56% disagree. It seems that the Canadian government also cannot agree on their stance with the Prime Minister stating that Israel had responded appropriately but the Foreign Affairs Minister (equiv to Foreign Secretary) stating that Israel should use more 'restraint'. Its a nasty situation whichever viewpoint you hold and there are no winners ... only more and more innocent victims.

Season Ticket holders will not have to buy a ticket - they have already paid. However they are given priority to buy additional tickets ahead of them going on general sale. In the past the club have allowed season ticket holders to purchase an additional one or two tickets in addition to their own ticket. The number of additional tickets depends on the opposition - with Celtic, it will probably only be 1 extra ticket. Centenary Club, Shareholders, Supporters Club and (newly added this year) Supporters Trust members also get priority and not all of these people have season tickets so by joining one of those bodies you can be almost certainly assured of getting a ticket for high profile games. After priority tickets are sold, there will be very few, if any, tickets left.

The club asked me to publicise this on here. It is a request from the SUN newspaper that so many have commented that you love to read :017: :015: We are casting a commercial for the Sun newspapers 'Goal' supplement. The ad will feature supporters from various clubs giving statistics about their clubs. We've cast people from other clubs and are now looking specifically for Caley Thistle fans. The fee is £100 if chosen. I'd greatly appreciate any help. Are you a true football supporter? Do you love talking about your club? Would you like to be in a TV advert and get paid for doing just that?? We’re looking for genuine Caley Thistle supporters who are available for filming on Thursday the 27th of July. If this sounds like you then please call James on the number on the attached file. He'll be in Inverness later tonight and tomorrow morning. [attachment deleted by admin]

Its a shame that the crowd was low, but not everyone can make a friday night game and then go again on the Saturday. Here's hoping that Rossco's testimonial committee can do some other events during the season such as golf days, and maybe another couple of evening events (party/race night etc)....

nope - nothing on official site yet - could try emailing tickets@caleythistleonline.com Try clicking on the CLUB-GUIDE menu on the left and choosing supporters club ... downloadable application forms are available there.

Guess Dargo will be in many people's teams then ... a bargain if he can score as often as last season !!!

Will be Alan Freeland :017:

Just like to clarify that although my posts about the merchandise were somewhat negative, my opinion of the shop staff has always been positive. My beef is with Errea and their sizing/quality not with the staff

a 2-1 defeat is a footballing lesson ??? It doesnt really matter how the score goes. Nothing is going to be taken from this game as we arent exactly fielding our strongest side. It will be interesting to see how we lineup though and to see what places are made available for former ICT players who played alongside Rossco in the last 10 years.

I cant say for certain, but the club shop have allowed this in the past because of this very issue. I can't help feeling the club are losing out on sales, especially online ones because every year there are no guarantees about the size of the tops. We have home/away that are different sizes and now it appears that the new home top is yet another different size (smaller) than the previous home top .... ridiculous. If Errea cannot or will not produce a top that has a standard set of sizes that are consistent throughout their range then it is time to ditch them as they are clearly not up to the task. Would any of their other clubs stand for this ? No ? then why should we ... I am sure that there are plenty other kit makers who would be happy to provide the club not only with quality kit but also quality delivery and consistency of product. Our Le Coq shirts were excellent quality and Adidas, Nike, Reebok and Hummel all seem to produce decent tops - why cant Errea ? I am not the most svelte of supporters but I am by no means the 'chunkiest' ICT fan so there is also the issue that we are excluding a sizeable (no pun intended) section of the support as potential customers and that does not make any business sense. I love the look of the new top, and in any other clothing range (even Errea's own polos, fleeces etc) I would quite happily fit into a XXL or maybe a XXXL ... but when it comes to their replica kits, even XXXXL is a problem so sadly it looks like I wont be purchasing any of the new stuff.

Couldnt agree more. Rossco deserves to have a good testimonial season, kicking off tonight against the Blades. Like IHE, I am sorry I cannot be there to applaud him on and off the park as he has been immense for us for the last 10 years and here's hoping he has got quite a few more still in him

Ya bugger blackieforce - you stole my thunder !! :015: :015: :015: I was going to say that the worst rumour of the summer was that IHE was going to start going to the gym to get fit .... :workout01: :walking03:

Cant find one of those, (thought we had a smilie with tape over its mouth for that but cant see it). However, I couldnt resist adding these new ones :hail: :banana3: :banana99: :shakebooty:

I assume you mean the pictures rather than the technology ? Having said that, considering they got the technology and the implementation of it provided to them for free that part at least represents good value. The new site will have a club shop I believe - hopefully they might get a professional photographer in to take the pictures !!!

You now have the option to sponsor players HOME / AWAY shirts, TRAINING KIT, or BOOTS. If you have a look at this LINK you will see that plenty of opportunities were available last season. Alternatively, if you cant afford to sponsor on your own, you could do the same as I did and get donations to sponsor a player. The Internutters player sponsorship started off this way through the website and luckily has continued under the watchful eye of Guzz as the Innes Bar Supporters Club sponsorship. I havent spoken to CaleyD about this as yet, and realistically we still have too much to do to get the site fully operational for the start of this coming season, but I would have no problem if we looked into organising paypal style donations over the course of the season so that at the start of the next season we could do some form of sponsorship ... there would need to be something worked out for 'shares' so that someone who donated say 100.00 had more chance to win the signed top than someone who donated 5.00 but if people were interested we could certainly look into it.

If Boyd can continue the way he ended last season, Rangers wont have problems scoring goals - hope Celtic do start badly as we play them early :004:

couple of comments Thats all well and good, but it doesnt provide any long-term idea of how much is coming in from one week/month to the next so there is no way to know what your final total would be .... and therefore no way to plan on how much you have to 'pay-a-player' Dont get me wrong, I like the idea of something like PayPal for one-off donations but but perhaps you might be better served in buying some of the unissued shares instead, ordering some merchandise or subscribing to an online commentary service (see next para.). Hopefully the new official site will have subscriptions for things like audio/video coverage like other PTV sites .... I will have absolutely no problem subscribing to a service that gets me coverage over here and it would feel like I am almost paying my admission :003: Pay-a-Player was being discussed around the time that the Trust idea was first mooted - I always envisaged that although I was going to try and get it off the ground that a representative body such as this would have to run it so as to ensure that there could be no allegations of impropriety.

Do you have Ian Broadfoot's book ? If the answer to that is yes, then look up my name and you will see that I proposed a similar scheme called 'pay-a-player' back in the days before David Sutherland took over. Whilst it was both a simple and I think great idea on paper, and people and businesses were very enthusiastic, it took on a whole different perspective when you actually started talking to people about direct debit forms, or yearly invoices ..... There was also the issue in the scheme that I was trying to organise of how you could 'ring-fence' the monies donated so that they went to the manager for players or the wage bill and werent gobbled up elsewhere at the club as it was haemorrhaging money left right and centre at that stage. Fortunately, we had David Sutherland and his solution was easier to organise !!! After going through the agonies of trying to setup that scheme, I would say that if you want to fund a player, the best way to do it is to sponsor them - now that sponsorship of tops (H/A), shorts, socks etc is available there were very few players who had full sponsorship last season so loads of opportunities are available.

I still maintain that we need an experienced (veteran?) striker as cover .... BUT, I also agree that there isnt much out there so we shouldnt just sign someone for the sake of it ... At the end of the day, I am quite happy with how our squad looks on paper other than the need for a striker and have enough faith in both Grassa and Charlie that if the right player becomes available either permanently or as a loan option then they will hopefully take the plunge. If we have to, we may need to sacrifice a midfielder to get a striker.

Think Charlie will have a hard time selecting his strongest team for a lot of games - and that is a good thing as players will need to be focussed on their performances so as not to lose their places. Central midfield is going to be one of those battleground areas with McBain, Hart, Keogh, Black, Rankin, Duncan, and Fox fighting it out for 2 spots in the centre and McBain, Morgan, Wilson, Proctor and possibly Campbell fighting it out for the wide positions on either side - we have less competition in defence or up front but I am reasonably happy with the defence as I am sure Caff wants back in the side at the expense of someone, Proctor wants regular games, Golly wants to get his armband back, and Parratt wants to break into the side .... I can see one or two casualties in that list depending on their form, but I still think we need an experienced striker to act as cover for Denzil or Dargs if either gets injured or goes off the boil. Bayne is a hardworker but not a goalscorer and Rory is not yet ready - this season may see whether he goes down the Wyness/Dargs route or the Bavidge Boulevard !!!!!

I guess so :004: - but I also added my subs :002:

BROWN TOKELY --- DODS --- MUNRO --- HASTINGS WILSON --- BLACK --- RANKIN --- MORGAN WYNESS --- DARGO Subs Fraser McCaffrey Proctor Keogh Duncan Hart Bayne

I can see where Charlie is coming from as technically we have signed (or may sign) 8 players. However only 2 could be classed as "first team ready" - the others are mostly youngsters who hopefully can develop in the same way as we have seen with Black, Proctor and Morgan by playing in the SPL reserve league and as kencar has posted, probably so that we can use some of them to meet the U21 criteria on matchdays. Of all the 'unknowns', Campbell seems to hold the most promise for breaking into the first team but I guess we will see. 'removed from squad at end of 05/06 season' Juanjo (end of contract) Finnegan (released) Brewster (transferred to DUFC) Jackson (released) Wyness (end of loan) 'added to 06/07 squad' Rankin - signed from Ross County Wyness - signed as free agent Smith - signed from youth team Soane - signed from youth team (technically added to 05/06 squad at end of season) Sutherland - signed from youth team (technically added to 05/06 squad at end of season) Kerr - signed from youth team (technically added to 05/06 squad at end of season) Campbell ? Glass ?

Yes, both the IC and the HN sites seem to have had a bit of a revamp. Not sure what system they are using, but it seems similar to the one we use here !!! I check in on both sites regularly and its good to have more news than before. Previously you only got 3 or 4 stories in each category from the most recent issue that had been published and there was no guarantee that each issue would actually be published as sometimes it went weeks without updating. Hope they continue to build on a very promising start :004: