Kirishima

No progress will be made til the voting is sorted out Votes currently need 10 for to pass, any less, it doesn't pass (i may be wrong on this...) So a 16-team league would be opposed by Dundee Utd, Celtic and Rangers, Hibs, Hearts, and Motherwell. Simply because they would lose money from not playing OF as much. The other teams usually at the relegation end would welcome it for obvious reasons... Probably 80 per cent of fans would support it, however, it is probably unlikely to pass under SPLvoting rules. Thw whole football hierarchy needs changed, especially at SFA level.

Correct.... We've all loved him from the moment he arrived here. No one doubted his ability for one minute. Nope. Not even once...but seriously, he was very well received apart from a month or two, but he was just following the path of Alex F as were ICT fans follwing the path of Man U fans...

Big Tel is a class act, all round good egg, and nothing like the Richard Goughs or Mark Hateleys of old :D Aberdeen may well go down this season. All the teams they'll be playing will fancy their chances, and morale must be zero at Aberdeen where the only decent players are wee lads. I still think St Mirren or Falkirk.

Norwich?

Yes thankyou Andycam for doing this, it's great stuff. Very much appreciated and the quality and sound is par excellence! Thank you very much. If you ever shoot a movie, i'll go and see it...as long as it's clean! And thank you to the club. It's great to see this so thanks..and more please!

Thanks again to all involved. I sometimes wait weeks for a reply to an e-mail from multinationals, yet you guys can get video footage up within 48 hrs, excellent stuff and very much appreciated. Many chances for ICT and some very nice goalkeeping from the QoS keeper, encouraging stuff. Rooney was very careful not to get ruled offside for the 3rd, their defenders seemed dead on their feet, perhaps from being kept busy all aftyernoon. QoS had a fair few chances too though, so a very good result.

I see. As Gretna were at Fir Park, was there anything to do with minimum seating, undersoil heating, etc etc. I have no idea... By the way, congratulations on your win!! :(

Wouldn't ever shout for them, cou;dn't do that, so agree there. But by the same measure, I was happy for them to beat Celtic as they are an underdog, and i like to see the status quo broken, and see an upset. I wish them well, but i am not rooting for them in the final or wanting them to get into europe before ICT do. I just don't hate them in such a way as I wasn't unhappy to see Celtic lose, as the OF win lots and are usually shoe-ins. I do wonder tho if the scenario of RC in Europa league would mean them asking ICT to play their eurpean games at Caledonian? Ah yes, the Roy Bridge contingent only had a couple, with a lot coming from South laggan and Invergarry. That was because Glengarry had no youth team.

He is a tool Young, how I can know that from last season and he doesn't just shows how much of an expert he is. What a joke of a man.

As a fellow Lochaber man, though I've been away from there for a good few years, I know I should understand the question but, maybe the Invergarry dialect is not as well understood by a Speanite. What the feck you mean? Why would TCS host a County game? And what game you referring to? I played for Lochaber shinty, the pride of Spean! Yeah, i didn't clarify that well. What im wanting to know is, if RC won the final, and had europa league qualifying fixtures, Vic Park isn't up to UEFA standards or is it? If it isn't would they play the fixture at Caledonian stadium? That would be interesting....is ICT's stadium readyok for that?

Nah, Falkirk to go down for me. Aberdeen would be better off getting relegated, it needs a complete overhaul. McGhee has players who are so inconsistent, or lazy, or both. Aberdeen seem to be a magnet for them.

me too, me too, it's like crack, but i'll be patient, as if it was me, you could expect them a month next friday! Actually, i'm really amazed how it's done. I mean, home and away, getting main stand centre position, with a big camera, plus editing, etc...how did these guys pull it off?? It's a mammoth achievement in terms of orgainsation and logistics

It's the same old rubbish from Birdog a.k.a the only "real" fan of ICT. Birddog "I wish I had gone over the bridge at the merger. They really do have a more "football fan" like following than the ultra-PC up their own @r$es shyte we seem to have been saddled with." It's like groundhog day with you. You stuck Rev infront of your name after again pushing it with people on this forum but it's the same old nonsense from you. You think the answer to everything is to swear and condascend And, if things don't go your way, personal insults, including on this topic saying i wasn't intelligent enough to have a conversation with. What kind of response is that? I said my hometown was the highlands and you reply with that? I went to school in Fort William, grew up in Invergarry, lived in Inverness, and now Skye. Course i don't think Highlands and Islands is a town, but as usual, that;s your favourite post, isn't it? I'm sorry you have been saddled with fans that are "...ultra-PC up their own @r$es shyte" but last i heard you weren't ICT so you can get off your soap box bleating about how everyone else apart from you is a part-timer. Anyway, you can continue insults as much as you want, but i won't be posting re this again. Right, its Dun Utd! if RC win, would Caledonian stadium host their game??

Yes, it's the board's responsibility to deal with contracts and such like. If ICT have the top performers leaving it wont do much for morale. I reckon TB should be given the resources he needs, in terms of players. However, there will be teams in the SPL looking at Rooney, Foran, Hayes for sure now.

If Clach were in the final we'd all go i think? It's the fact that RC have become the closest ever to being above ICT that is causing an intensity of feeling towards them. Personally, i keep my attitude towards them the same as when ICT were in SPL and they were in Div 2...i.e. pretty nonchalant. County came close to eclipsing ICT this season...promotion and europe. As long as they never get to the SPL, they have no bragging rights. Still a diddy team :P

Basically it is thus. I don't mind RC doing well in the cup, for ICT will be promoted. Joe Di Maggio has some good points though and it is food for thought. Do i choose the Highlands over the central belt? Yes. If that makes me prejudiced so be it. Revbirdog, you prefer the central belt or are completely neutral? You want to prove a point by making me out to be prejudiced because i believe there's too much concentration of assets in the central belt, and that there is a disparity. The very fact that SNH is based in the city shows that i'm not the only one. I can't see where your argument on this lies. Yes, i am prejudiced for the highlands. I have a preference for the highlands. I like the highlands more than the central belt. It is what i feel. There are many who prefer the central belt to the highlands. There are many who like them equally. Let's not get lost in the fact that you despise RC as you have stated over and over, and seem to be fixated on them in an unhealthy way. I cannot foathom out why you have such a venomous hatred towards them, as opposed to the banter that I and most others do. If your response is something to do with my intellectual level, then fine. I'm not above nor below anyone.

I like the analogy, but its too simplistic. Let me explain my leanings and, right or wrong, you'll know my feelings on it" Underdogs I always like a David v Goliath battle, as do many. It's the Susan Boyle, Buster Douglas, etc effect. Central Belt A lot of the power, money, control, focus, spendng, resources, riches are given to central belt teams, for many a reason,some fair, some not. It is good that things don't always go that way, and I enjoy a variety of riches. Highlands I could wax on about this but suffice to say that i love the area, and that includes not begrudging a highlands team victory where it doesn't directly affect ICT (i do however very much like Joe Di Maggio's post and was quite enlightening) Now, that may be taken as whatever by whomever, but that's why i didn't begrudge county their victory.

Ok Jean Brodie, dry your eyes! :D No, i see my hometown as the Highlands and Islands. As such, I'm happy for RC to progress to the final against a Goliath team on 2 counts: they are from my hometown, a natural reaction, one would say...and i love an underdog. There, i've said it. Not off topic at all, very much on topic. You are off topic this is not a topic on the semi final, it is a topic on the up and coming final. So you are saying... The Highlands are a town? I think I shall have to talk to someone else with a higher intelligence level, you really do make no sense at all!!! Ok, well won argument, i'm too thick to talk to you. I make no sense at all. Fair enough. Anyway, if RC were to win the final, they'd have to play where? Hypothetically speaking?

When does it stop being about football and being about something else? B) What does that even mean? Well, it has been suggested to me, that some people enjoy the actual aggression and swearing and abuse giving than the actual football. Now, heaven forbid I would actually say that about anyone here, as that would be completely wrong, of course, but when people see a tirade of abuse and "die" comments, you can see how that person may misconstrue the situation.. That is why I put "in the business sense of the word" in brackets, or are you using selective quotes to make yourself look very PC and whiter than white. You have yet to tel me which Glasweegian team are to play C*unty in the cup final, and as a Scot why is it better to have a "Highland" team who I have viewed as rivals since the inception of the team I support than any other Scottish team who, at best, I feel indifferent about win the cup? Sorry to keep you waiting, hope i didn't ruin your morning hanging on for that. Was referring to the semi-final, as was the topic back then. Is it ok to answer your other question tomorrow...send me a pm if you get impatient I wouldn't be fuused at a RC v Raith game, guess i love an underdog is all. Anyway, can european footie happen at Victoria Park

B) You'd put Demosthenes to shame Smee, or Donald Findlay, im no quite sure.... Anyway, RC will noubt have a huge hangover today, it is possible they will get into europe, now, if they drew, say, atletico madrid to dingwall, wouldn't that be something... edited to add 2nd para

When does it stop being about football and being about something else? B) What does that even mean? Well, it has been suggested to me, that some people enjoy the actual aggression and swearing and abuse giving than the actual football. Now, heaven forbid I would actually say that about anyone here, as that would be completely wrong, of course, but when people see a tirade of abuse and "die" comments, you can see how that person may misconstrue the situation..

When does it stop being about football and being about something else?

Post it on P&B and im sure you'll get a lot of support from the old-school Old Firm fans aswell. A lot of people aren't actually as enamoured with the actual football as much as they are with creating hate figures to excuse their anger outlet, imho. Anyhoo...if Raith were to get through, how many fans would be at hampden? 20,000 at most? Would be a cracking game RC v Raith though. Dundee Utd voted against ICT getting up so...

County's is bigger as it was a semi-final, and they are now in the Scottish Cup Final. I'm happy for them. It wasa goreat result for ICT at their home turf, but ultimately they get at least a runners-up medal and are 90 mins away from Europe...I'll be hoping for a County win.