CaleyP

Rothes beat fort william 4-3 tonight.

played with paul when we were in the aberdeen youth team together, very skillful player, deserved his break. cant think of any other story coming close to that. you get a few junior players down central belt jumping to 1st division quite often but in comparison not the same as highland league to championship.

If the six months is true then we might have been better off selling him. oh well. we won't get nothing for him now.

No RiG is realistic as to the challenging facing ICT this season and is well aware it is not the walk in the park that some seem to think but is looking forward to it all the same :P I have no way of backing up my point of view so I can am going to resort to insults instead. I agree with you RiG, a lot of the comments made on here about our team could be said about most of the teams in the league, so with that said i think it's going to be very tough for us indeed and that a lot of fans on here might not realise and be in for a big shock. I think we have the same chance as anyone else does in the league, but, we must show respect and not underestimate anyone, if we go into this season with the attitude that we will walk this then the outcome will be probably be the complete opposite. One thing I will say though, with the loss of Black, Vigurs, Morais, Pavel and Cowie and I guess Kerr also, we are definitely not a stronger team this year.

You ain't wrong there buddy, it's very rare indeed.

1. Dundee 2. Partick Thistle 3. Inverness Caledonian Thistle 4. Dunfermline 5. Ross County 6. Queen of the South 7. Greenock Morton 8. Ayr United 9. Raith Rovers 10. Livingston I hope we we finish top but im not entirely convinced yet. Cox looks like he will be our main player this year, we need him to perform for us to have a chance i think, but it's a lot of pressure on the young lad.

well yes we won the game but only because we were playing a part time team, we weren't good enough and we must improve if we want to do well this season nevermind win the league. starting of slack and argueing amongst team mates and management and scraping past on pens was not good enough. reality check...so anyone you disagree with is in need of a reality check...who do you think you are?

not really...highland league teams have been the better when facing sfl teams in pre-season this year, only ourselves and ross county have won their games, peterhead, fofar, brechin, stenny etc have all fallen to highland league teams this pre-season, so lets not make excuses, we just weren't good enough, we must improve.

squad looking very healthy, cant wait for the season to kick off. we should still keep our feet on the ground though, we can't expect to walk this league, but we certainly have a good chance.

that's a easy one...larsson with out a doubt, won the league for celtic several times, man utd and barca, the guy was world class, then bellamy, but still doesn't touch or come close to larsson.

Does your friend read the newspapers by any chance? he probably does read the papers RiG but it was after a conversation with morais that he told me this. there is no chance morais will be with us next season unfortunately.

Im not sure if this correct or not, but i heard from a close friend of morais that he has completely left the club now and will not be signing, he isn't even doing pre season with us anymore.

I went with Esson, I would like to make Rossco captain but I feel it would honestly be a distraction to his game. I wouldn't make foran the captain, he needs to concentate on his own game to get the best out of him.

lets not get ahead of ourselves now, the first division is no easy league to get out of, we must show a little respect to the other teams especially before a ball has even been kicked.

play him where he has played the majority of his career....right back.

i agree, i think people on here don't realise that football is a very short career and for most footballers isn't the best pay, i don't think people should hold it against any player for parting from a club to better their income to support their family and themselves. Brian did what is best for his family, anyone would do the same in their job so why not in football.

Exactly.

would rather of seen someone with more playing exprience at first team level come in but hopefully he can make the grade. lets not hype him up or put him down before he has even kicked a ball.

Interesting comment.... Are you still playing CaleyP? injury put me out the game unfortunately mate, not nice at all. not played for two year's now.

that's why i posted, to say that the rumour you heard was way off. :drinking09:

How did you manage that? what do you mean? He wants to know how you got to play against him i played against him when i played in the sfl. played against him a good few times, not that great, 2nd division player i would say.

It's a nice thought but he doesn't owe us anything really. We are only offering him a 1 year deal. Dundee can offer him more money (Hart and Higgins are rumoured to be on ?1,600 a week) and a longer deal. They also look set to sign one of Particks best players in Hawkins and are tabling bids for Griffiths of Livi. They will be the team to beat next season and I don't see anyone being able to do it. This new chairman of theirs is providing some serious financial backing for Jocky Scott. the 1600 a week is far off what they are getting, even if they get promotion next year they will still be about 600 of that. i heard what they were on from a very reliable source.

well he got money for dougie, money not well spent but yeah got a little i guess. There wasnt really any player standing out at that time was there? Well not what i can remember off anyway to be honest i can't really remember who was available at the time, probably not a lot though.

well he got money for dougie, money not well spent but yeah got a little i guess.

How did you manage that? what do you mean?