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Badge is definitely not embroidered in those pictures. it's the same wide-bordered stick-on badge that has been on all of the Puma kits. Not a fan to be honest, but the badge aside, the kit itself is nice.

@CaleyHedgehog grabbed the last but one sponsorship so I grabbed the last one and now we have reached our target. Will get a list of players from Liam @ ICT to see who we choose to sponsor. Thank You to all those who contributed.

Time for this to go from the bottom of ICTFC.com then😁

It's quite ironic ... As youngsters we screamed 'give us freedom', 'give us choice', 'the old ways don't work' ... then as we get older, we impose the old ways on the next generation who say 'give us freedom', 'give us choice', 'the old ways don't work'! At TFC it works because there is a fan culture built up over 18 years where the club and fans do talk regularly to discuss challenges as well as successes. We have had that off-and-on at ICT over the years but never consistently. The fan groups have around 2-3000 members combined, which is a small number compared to the average crowd, but the supporter's area is the only area where standing and (latterly) pyro is allowed. The fan groups self-police to keep this privilege and unlike the UK/Scotland, there is nothing in law to specifically ban pyro, just the local equivalents of anti-social behaviour, breach of the peace etc that can be applied to almost any situation if needed. Its not perfect, and someone can and may come along to mess it all up (one group frequently does walk a tightrope) but for now it works ... It will be interesting to see if any new rules get applied for the World Cup next year as we have over the years seen the trickle-down effect where measures in place for one event stay in place for others as the stadium operates as a separate entity to the team.

Thank You to those who added their names over the weekend - we are just 3 shy of reaching our target so pretty confident we will get there. One last push for anyone who has not yet taken it up ... ?

Laws can be changed ... unlikely to happen I know but just highlighting how the same problem was looked at from another angle and the issue pretty much resolved.

There needs to be a change in mindset IMHO. We were all kids once as noted above and all did some silly, stupid or downright dangerous things. Pyro at football is a real thing thanks to images from where it is tolerated or even encouraged, and unlikely to go away. I posted a long time ago about how MLS / Toronto FC handle it and perhaps it is time to look at similar here? At Toronto, we had the same problem, people smuggling in road flares or other articles with either red-hot burning flame or pungent, acrid, and potentially lung damaging smoke. for a few years it was a game of cat and mouse as stewards and police tried to identify, eject and/or arrest the perpetrators. Then one of the supporters' groups addressed the elephant in the room at a supporter meeting with the club. Why not have "approved" pyro? End result is that the club worked with the supporters (and the league) to train up nominated individuals in the use of legal and safe pyro/smoke and now, there is literally no need for anyone to try and bring anything in. The trained people let it off at specific or appropriate times and it encourages the crowd but endangers no-one. If anyone does try to bring anything in (and I have not seen that happen in years), then they are subject to the old rules, but if the safe pyro and smoke is used, the fans can enjoy it. Best of both worlds.

9 to go .... can we get there.

yes, saw that come through on paypal thank you. I have created manual invoice on the back end and marked it paid so that you have a record. Getting there with our second sponsorship ... any more takers?

Pretty much the same in the eyes of the SPFL ... but the official wording is as follows: 4.3 Before the start of the Competition in each Season the Board shall notify the Clubs required to take part in the Competition (being the 30 League Clubs specified in Regulation 4.2.1 and the Clubs required to provide Colt Teams as specified in Regulation 4.2.2 for which the Board has not agreed non-participation by any Premiership Club for the relevant Season) and may invite, through their respective Recognised Leagues and/or directly, such clubs as may be identified in discussion with such Recognised Leagues and/or as shall be considered appropriate by the Board to participate in the Competition during the relevant Season. Source: https://spfl.co.uk/pages/rules-and-regulations

Could not have asked for any more ... oh, but if you want to ask, then let's not forget the two clean sheets either!

yes, saw something come through this morning. many thanks.

I guess .. 'Thistle Do' then ;)

Not a big proponent of naming stadiums, but on the bright side .... its not the "Tony Macaroni" stadium or Arena, it has PSG in the name which some people might confuse us with a small team from Paris (while playing in a Barca strip), and of course, whilst the other reasons are a bit whimsical, most importantly ... it brings money into the club to try and balance the books. The same books which - even when we were running efficiently - still had a significant yearly shortfall especially if we had no cup run that year.

Unfortunately, it did not go through normally, but I do see you paid it manually straight to PayPal. Many thanks. I have 3 other transactions showing pending which means they did not go through for one reason or another. @Moogthurso @The Fly and @MrCaleyjag , let me know how you want to proceed. -

10 ex-ICT players in that review! including two of the managers as ex-players!

Payment for Matthew Strachan sponsorship has now been made. We will continue to collect names for a while to see what else we can sponsor and all names will go into the hat at the end of the season to be drawn for any goodies we receive from the club in return.

Thanks to all so far - we have reached the target for one home sponsorship (Matthew Strachan's shirt) and are part way to another sponsorship of some sort ... Hoping for a bit of a late rush to enable us to do a second shirt, but if not we are only a few away from one of the other items like training kit, boots etc.

Also rejoined after a reminder. Also a reminder here from us, that you can join the Supporters Trust "Club" on here for free .... This is not the Trust itself, but a dedicated sub-section of this site that they manage and moderate themselves. We put it into a club format so that they could not only have their own forum(s) but also have access dedicated download areas, blogs and anything else they might need. The unread topics from the club area still appear listed alongside the normal forums provided you join that area (for free), and it only costs you money if and when you join the actual Supporters Trust organisation through their own website, which, for a fiver a year is pretty good value IMHO.

https://caleythistleonline.com/gallery/ or in another thread outside the footy ones.

I think he did mention something in one of the interviews about becoming chairman in due course but so far he has definitely stayed behind the scenes since we came out of admin (or while we are coming out of admin) or whatever our legal status is. He seems to be letting Charlie, Kells and others get on with running the various bits of the club. That can be great if you have good people but as we saw when our previous chairman did it, it doesn't always end well. I do have a lot more faith in Charlie and Kells though than I ever did in my namesake and Big dunc.

Many thanks folks - we are over the line for Matthew Strachan, and I will leave it open to see if any stragglers want to add something more. Given the slowdown in sponsorship coming in, I think its unlikely we get another home kit sponsorship like we did last year, but we can speak to the club and see what is possible if we reach any other milestones in terms of amount raised.

A few nice goals in there but yes, keeper was suspect on a few of them and made it easier ... but taking a positive, you still have to find the target, and we did!

Yup - seems like a bit of a paperwork exercise. Cannot claim to understand almost any of it - hence why i work in IT not finance - and will defer to those with better knowledge but it looks like its the paperwork surrounding of the clawback of all the shares given up?