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I really don't see the harm in taking him in on a months loan, if he does well great and maybe we will try to extend the loan, if not he will go back.

While I agree Errea's service is appalling to say the least, however with our volume would anyone be grateful of our custom, perhaps the club went to Errea as they gave us the best option due to our low volume.

I really don't see the problem with it a match involving a Celtic b side would probably attract more fans to it than most 1st Division matches and considering the way crowds are dwindling throughout Scottish football I think it would be a good thing.

Any Chairman that even considers employing Butcher considering his managerial record deserves to fail for falling into the employ a big name trap.

Bit of a slap in the face for those like Doc who has himself been a great servant to the club is it not?

Did we not reduce Doc's hours as they felt we couldn't afford the coaches we had at the club?

Indeed Scotty, well done to Darren and his team its great to have somebody not only listen to requests but actually try to implement them.

Just plain I am realistic enough to understand that asking for anything more would be ridiculous :(

Any chance they could rustle up a wee Lamb Bhuna, Rice and a Nan bread if orders are in at least 10 mins before half time. Seriously credit to the club for addressing what has long been a problem area

Does this mean the team will not benefit from his inspirational half time team talks :014:

I am a bit mixed about this one, while I like Barry and think he did great things for the club but there has to be a time when we start to look forward not backwards. I think that going backwards for Golly has been a mistake and he has been very poor for us. We have enough players like Tokley, Grant etc that should be able to pass on their experience to the the younger players, this team needs totally rebuilt and while I would not be disappointed to see Barry come back I feel the wages might be better spent on a player with a future ahead of him.

Petrescu will be interviewed next month according to the BBC, if he gets it he will take in a Scottish Asst Manager Stevie Clarke as Asst Manager you heard it hear first :D

Not quite, but he did tell the ref he was a cheating B******, he didn't like it, but then he has never been good with words, says it as it is, often landing himself in a mess, do I prefer this to someone saying nothing? Yes Good to see his passion is still there :D

:D la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la Is this case really about the money or is it a personality thing with a major shareholder? Can't help feeling this should have never been an issue in the first place. Sorry really don't understand what you are getting at with personality thing with a major shareholder

I don't have the figures to hand but the 242,500.00 Euros would have been a heck of a lot less than ?211,918.81 if paid at the time of his transfer

There are 2 actions at present, The one that FIFA have ruled in Marius's favour for 142,500 Euros and there will be a hearing in Feb next year in the Civil courts for a further 100k Euros. Not a bad bonus for a years work. Don't forget the club received almost 500k Euros for him from Dinamo and almost 50k Euros for him taking part in the Euro's also not a bad years work

There are 2 actions at present, The one that FIFA have ruled in Marius's favour for 142,500 Euros and there will be a hearing in Feb next year in the Civil courts for a further 100k Euros.

As Alex stated the contract is not the issue, it is a standard SPL contract and the club never lost the case because the contract was wrong. FIFA judged against them as in this contract it stated that Marius was entitled to a % of the transfer fee, the club didn't want to pay this so stated that Marius insitgated the transfer to Dinamo, FIFA decided that this wasn't the case so ruled in Marius favour.

Your question - Who cocked up the Marius contract? I assume from the highlighted area that you accept that maybe, just maybe, the Board did employ a legal advisor and he may have made a mistake as opposed to the ICT office girl sending Marius a one line email to confirm the signing. If this be the case, are you asking for the name of the legal firm involved or the actual solicitor acting, within the legal firm? Did we lose out financially on the Marius deal i.e. did we as a club pay out more for his service than we received over the period?? If the deal was concluded at time of transfer the club would have made a tidy little profit, now I have no idea but by the time legal fees, the difference between Euro's and Pounds, interest that will have to be paid to Marius etc I would guess the club is now very close to losing on the whole thing. And bear in mind it is not over by a long way.

Many happy returns, hope you have a great day.

However, in the whole Marius saga my own untrained opinion is that we did indeed lose out in several ways. We may not have made a financial loss over his overall contract but we certainly didnt maximise any profit and we also took a massive PR hit. [ That to me is one of the biggest dissapointments of the whole saga, a player who had been out of the International reckoning came to a club like ours and played in one of the biggest football tournaments in the world when he was our player. If there was something that could be used to counter the "we can't attract players this far North" this was it, instead as Scotty has pointed out we have managed to turn this into a negative.

Whatever Grassa was referring to the club have paid neither the remainder of the signing fee or the percentage of the transfer fee, so whatever Grassa was refering to he appears to have changed his mind later. The remainder of the signing on fee will be heard in a civil court at the start of next year.

I was actually referring to Duncans only natural ability in being able to talk himself into the referee's book. It seems this time he didn't talk himself into the book, he only squared up to Lilley. The weirdest thing just happened, the names Alex MacLeod and Russell Duncan just appeared in my misted up mirror. Make of that, what you will. Pick up a home matchday programme and you me even see both names close together on one of the pages. If I dont stick up for him nobody else will. Trouble with many ICT fans is they never seem to see the good in any player. Only the mistakes. Its not their mirrors that get misted over, its their eyes. :hale: And, like Mantis say's, nobody is referring to Foran as being a dikedd. Is that because Foran probably has more yellow's than Duncan? I don't think Duncan is nearly as bad as some people make out, yes he is not the best passer of the ball but is the type of player that does a thankless job in the team and is missed when he is not there. Would be interested to hear from those that were at the game today how the defence played as have thought that Tokley and Golly have been poor recently and wondering if it looked better without them

You are still behind Chelsea are you not