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Can I have the card that has either the F at the beginning of the slogan or the G at the start of the last word please. How did you know I was planning "Foran is God" in massive letters?

Sell out the North Stand ahead of our home derby match at New Year and I'll organise a card display (subject to agreement by club, but don't envisage an issue there).

We got a bit carried away and had 5 cameras covering the game on Tuesday night....here's the goal highlights...

Should have been a yellow for the foul and then a straight red for kicking out....so he got off light. A wee reminder of the Lennon/Juanjo incident

Fixtures have a habit of changing at fairly short notice. Best to keep an eye out on http://spfl.co.uk/reserve-and-youth/

When we were accepted into the SFL, it was on the basis of "a club yet to be formed" so we didn't actually exist (in current guise) at that time. Inverness Thistle & Caledonian Football Club Ltd was incorporated on the 17th February 1994 and officially started trading on 1st June 1994. As we technically came into existence on the 17th February and replaced the "club yet to be formed", I imagine that will be the date used to mark any anniversary.

There's the "Ask The Club" feature which allows you to put questions directly to the Board - http://caleythistleonline.com/forum/132-ask-the-club/

Changes for TV can be made at any point up to 6 weeks before the match.

Totally agree and it seems strange the SFA can use TV evidence to charge a player for an offence the referee has missed (witness the Dundee UTd player offered a 3 match ban for allegedly kicking a Celtic player) but cannot or will not use the TV evidence to rescind a decison that is so obviously wrong. Surely the SFA do not operate double standards!!. I believe the red card was overturned by the Ref (having reviewed the footage himself) prior to the appeal having to be heard, so Hearts technically didn't risk a penny...although they would have if need be. If a club pays the fee and is successful in it's appeal then the fee is refunded. This makes perfect sense as it stops clubs just appealing everything in the hope a decision might go their way. The SFA will only look at missed offences which are directly raised with them and the reason no fee is sought from the complainant is because the source of the complaint is kept anonymous...which is understandable as it could lead to a situation where fans of one team create trouble with the opposition because their club "grassed" on them.

Charles Bannerman will be all over this...a multi-million pound profit making company exploiting football fan volunteers in this way when they could easily afford to pay them...shameful!!!

Terry Butcher spent a fair bit of time watching ICT whilst part of the Scotland coaching staff.

Charles, I get where you're coming from in regards to the organisers of the event...however you could have made your point without insulting the intelligence of the CJT board and those choosing to assist them. The bottom line is that CJT will finish the day better off (financially) than they started it....and a few fans will have got together, maybe met some new faces, made some new friends and had a bit of fun in the process.

I'll take a tenner at those odds....better than the £50 I've got on with the bookie at 200/1

No, it's the strip of metalling right beside the firth, parallel to the road. Actually I'm not totally convinced that the club ever did fulfil the planning requirement about the cycle racks but I'd better not say any more since there may be some Council Jobsworth reading this! And I do take your point about the "parking malarky", given that the police have pledged to get tough on people parking harmlessly on the verge beside the road. In complete contrast, anyone attending Ness Bank Church on a Sunday morning can seemingly park anywhere they like actually ON the road and irrespective of the traffic chaos this causes along the Haugh and Castle Road. The path all the way from the bridge, right round past the stadium and as far as the junction at Century House is designated cycle path...from there in to the roundabout at Friars Bridge it's "on-road". There's definitely cycle racks, although I've never counted how many bikes they could cater for.

Yes, I've seen it first hand that ticket discounting does not offer sufficient increase in crowds to break even, let alone increase income. It's something where, as part of the CJT Board, I was involved in lots of discussions with the club where every discounting option you could imagine had been discussed and figures were looked at. It always came back to the same conclusion....discounting might increase the numbers by a few, but it comes at too great a financial cost. People harp on about "investing"....but you need to have surplus funds to invest in the first place. We don't have thousands, let alone 10's or 100's of thousands sitting in the bank to allow us to take a hit on ticketing income. Since NONE of the evidence shows that discounting works (financially) then it would be folly to even consider it. What the club are doing is the most sensible approach and one I do hope they stick with. Making it more affordable for the younger generation and families. As for the "risking life and limb" idea....give me a break. Take a look around Scottish Football (and beyond) and see what's happening to all the clubs who have approached things with that attitude.

The easiest way to reduce the number of empty seats would be for us to just remove some and cut the stadium capacity.

That was funny....ended up costing them money in the end

That is all....!

If I was an advertiser and looking to spend the kind of money that would be asked for a large advertising board like that then I wouldn't want it on that side of the ground where it's not going to be picked up by the TV cameras.

The buses that allowed passengers to exit on to the dual carriageway are in breach of several road regulations and a number of health and safety ones as well.

Never understood the need to stop traffic turning left....let it flow and just have traffic exiting the roundabout do so into the right lane. Do that at all 4 entry/exit points on the roundabout and you don't need any lights at all, IMO.

That's one of my ideas....a bespoke "media zone" utilising the space where the gantry is at the moment. Ground floor would be a small and simple theatre/studio type room for post match press conference etc. First floor would be a press area for reporters, radio broadcasters etc and on top a camera gantry. However, I appreciate this is a bit of a pipe dream a even a simple structure like that has a cost in the 10's of thousands and wouldn't do anything to recoup the outlay. The two level structure could be continued on either side with the ground floor being utilised for office space (or whatever) and first floor could have a couple of boxes and/or a young families zone....for parents with really young kids who want to attend games without the worry of having to keep them seated and crying etc upsetting others around them....something akin to a creche I suppose where kids could be allowed to have toys and things whilst parents could watch the game. Again though, it falls into the category of "nice to have" and whilst there's scope to recoup at least some of the outlay...you need the money to outlay in the first place and there's a whole list of other things that need spending on before we get anywhere near investing in the nice to haves.

Yeah....6pm

Another of those things that falls under the heading of "Scottish Football Logic"....!

A gas pipe does exist over behind the ground which restricts the size of footprint for any development, but it's not the reason a fourth stand hasn't been built...the reason, as already given, is that it's not needed.