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23 hours ago, big cherly said:

 

In regards Young team bouncing in the pub pre Montrose match; Yeah they’re the core team, but we have to look at increasing that tenfold in the Snecky pubs at home games.

Can't see that happening ever tbh. For lots of reasons but a big one is that younger folk actually drink less than other generations. We didn't even have that in the glory days. 

4 hours ago, CaleyHedgehog said:

I must be in the minority. I enjoyed the chat in the long, but moving quickly, queue (nothing compared to queues at festivals). We managed to get a pie before they ran out and I thought that the people of Montrose were very friendly. One fan congratulated us on the team's success this season and the stewards calmly dealt with ours fans, despite their pitch suffering a few blue scorch marks. The pub was friendly, the sun shone and the trains ran on time.

All that and a win too..... a great day out. 

I don't go to the football to stand in queues sorry. You expect a bit of a queue but they were plainly unprepared for such a large support. Most clubs in this division have a poor travelling support 

58 minutes ago, The Mantis said:

If you were at Montrose on Saturday you would have been encouraged by the huge number of youngsters we had along. There have often been false dawns it has to be said but since Kell took over the life has certainly been breathed back into the club.

We had a problem queuing to get in and only one turnstile was open (a Montrose official was saying that they were told to expect 200 ICT fans but 400 had turned up - Laura from the ST will dispute this as apparently we told them to expect 350).

League 1 clubs are not prepared for supports of this size ( although heaven knows how they coped with Falkirk for 5 years) and the sooner we get back to the Championship, the better. We will probably be favourites next season so that will bring Kell a different kind of pressure. 

Aye think a lot of us fed up with not getting a pie at 3.10pm at several grounds this season due to being a "big support" lol 

The single turnstile was ridiculous btw. One official and the SLO getting very upset and being moaned at.... No idea why they didn't just jump on the other one given its a qr code not cash being handled? You'd think clubs would be happy at the sizeable income? 

Seemed to be plenty stewards as well so not buying their "your club told us 200 max" crap. 

18 hours ago, Stu160284 said:

Just wondering what we could do to encourage more younger fans, we have a fair amount of older seasoned fans but I'd say we lack younger generations. 

Was on a break in Ayr a few weeks ago and attended Ayr v Falkirk and the place was bouncing due to a huge amount of young fans attending.

I think we have a really sizeable young loyal following. I was really annoyed when the 16-25 ST was withdrawn as this is the age group we need to encourage. A lot of the young ones have Saturday jobs or find football expensive but I think we compare with any other club of our size. 

You obviously were not on pub pre match Sat. Place was bouncing with young team. 

45 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Indeed but I was thinking today, how many of the starting line up will we realistically retain for next season, 3?

I'm hopeful we will have more than that tbh 

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11 hours ago, ICTPaisley said:

I much prefer clawing back 14 (ish) points from December against Dundee to eventually win the league by 12 points. 

That was definitely much more fun lol 

15 hours ago, Charles Bannerman said:

A great day, but in terms of Great Escapes I think we need to look across the bridge to County coming back from the dead v Partick a couple of years ago.

Oranges v apples though? That was one off. This great escape started in October 

49 minutes ago, CaleyCiuin said:

I don’t have any shares, but if I did I’m sure I would hand them back as they are effectively worthless anyway. Others who may have a sentimental attachment to their shares may feel differently. I am a bit confused with the second last paragraph in the BDO statement above. It states all conditions need to be in place before the 22nd of May. Other than the shares issue, I thought they were? Has something changed? Are there still a major shareholders holding out, making it essential that AS needs the small share holders numbers to ensure he gets full control? Also the last paragraph is a bit blunt, no please or thank you for handing shares back, just an expectation to comply. It seems it’s the only way to save the Club, so I hope AS gets enough good will from small share holders. Will be interesting to see what happens if he doesn’t get 100% in!?

Would rather not find out tbh. Whether folk like it or not they need to hand over their shares. For us to have a club. 

3 hours ago, EvilWhiteStripe said:

Dug into the archive for these.

Cannot believe that was 15 years ago

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What a day that was!!! 

1 hour ago, Moogthurso said:

Can savage give the players contracts from his new entity before cva complete....we are going to lose the whole squad.

I'm sure there are informal talks going on tbh 

47 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Dunc will believe that he laid the groundwork for this achievement.

Tbh I think he will be happy for us. In his own way lol 

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9 hours ago, CaleyTennis85 said:

How did Marcus Gill play because I see in the courier that Scott Kellacher seems to suggest he played well especially with his handling and distribution etc ?

I think it's really important that Longstaff is back because he could be crucial in the next few weeks, especially seeing as we are in desperate need for goals so that we can get the required 4 or 6 points needed to avoid that ninth place finish!!

In terms of the Arbroath squad for the game, I'm torn because on one hand it would be good if they play their "weak team" as it's only fair they do in terms of the relegation picture but, on the other hand I'd also like to see us pick up 1 or 3pts against their "first team".

Oh and another quote that may help next week just like it did against QotS a few weeks ago "these players are ANGRY but not disappointed we didn't win". Weren't they "angry" after the aforementioned game then won 0-3 the week after .

Gill played well. Felt for him at the goal as he spilled it. Personally think SK should have subbed in added time to waste a few seconds and take pressure off. 

13 hours ago, bishbashbosh said:

Donnie, let me turn it round.

IF Arbroath fielded their usual starting 11 yesterday and scraped a win, then fielded yesterday’s team against us this Saturday and we beat them 5-1 would we be having this discussion, eg about them fielding a “weakened team”.  I doubt it.

We probably wouldn't be so upset but it still wouldn't be fair Sporting integrity is important 

47 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Very important we come out of Administration tomorrow and sign some top class players who are out of contract and needing critical game time. Must play for peanuts.

I doubt will be tomorrow?? 

52 minutes ago, RiG said:

It liked like Gill palmed / fumbled the cross just in front of him and Gilmour battled with a Stenny player for the loose ball. As both slid in the ball ricocheted off Gilmour and into the net. 

That's how I saw it. 

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4 hours ago, DoofersDad said:

It's not just allowing the members to have their say, it is having an opportunity for the Trust Board to explain to members what they plan to do in relation to their shares and their voting rights and for members to ask questions relating to that.  Since Gardiner has gone and is no longer able to obstruct the Trust in all it tried to do, the Trust has been doing a brilliant job in supporting the club.  I hope that they have been having discussions with AS about how they can be involved in the decision making process going forward.    Now that AS has been confirmed as preferred bidder, it might now be appropriate for the Trust say a little bit more than they would have been able to say earlier and an EGM would be a good place to do it.

Like Don, I am not a fan of what is being done  or how it is being done, but I don't see any viable alternative.  I do believe that Alan Savage has the good of the club at heart, but there remains a little niggle that with total control, he could sell out to the likes of Ketan Makwana who, according to the Courier has now appointed a certain Scot Gardiner as one of his specialist Advisors!

Yeh the courier picked up that info from our fans on X! But is true. 

13 minutes ago, Starscape said:

Yeah, although, we've a threadbare inexperienced squad. With a fuller squad, we were second bottom before the 15 points. Without the penalty, we would be easily in the promotion playoffs. We've been pushing for goals but not managing to score. People have been saying we should be more cautious. They tried but we just don't have enough players to just tinker. Mckay can't score and there is no other strikers. We could try centre backs and wingers. Probably will need to but that's not a real solution. Personally, I feel we should just go back to previous. Yes, we couldn't score but as long as we create chances, we still have a route to 3 points. Playing possession with barely any players is not something ICT can do.

The whole squad, including management, have accumulated more points than we should have expected. Let's stick with what we have been doing. It's part of the game to criticise after a bad show. We've still got a better than evens chance of getting out of this. At the end of the season, let's see get any rightful seething out and then appreciate that finishing one above the play-offs is success after being fined the equivalent of 5 wins.

Totally agree with this especially the last paragraph. When we went into admin would we have taken been where we are today with destiny still in our own hands? Of course we would. For the record that game had 0-0 written all over it if Musa had stayed on. Poor Symion is just not ready and I blame DF for allowing us to start this season (before admin) with one suitable keeper. 

Another issue I need to mention is the negativity and pure self entitlement at end of home games. Players came over at full time yesterday to clap crowd. Dammed if they do and dammed if they don't! Several grown men shouting abuse at players some of whom are still teenagers. I get the frustration but what is this meant to achieve? Can we calming down and get behind the team to get them over the line. Thank goodness we are away next week. Home games seem toxic of late. 

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Just now, Pele_Is_God said:

I have no idea how this all works so basically the Administrators will call a Press Conference to announce they've accepted Savage's offer.

If they don't accept do they just set another deadline for other buyers to come forward?

There is no way deadline can be met imho

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24 minutes ago, Northern_jaggie said:

Does anyone know if BDO intend to run the bidding process as an auction? Ie someone could make a counter bid to AS and then he could reply with a higher offer?

Surely this will be the case. If not, I’d worry that someone else outbids AS and that’s that.

BDO work to get best deal for creditors so yes