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Is this what you had in mind? Click Here Because the original images were obviously tiny I've had to rework them a little when blowing them up but I don't think I've lost the feel and they are immediately obvious as being of the same ilk to the forum ones.

Sticky at top of forum with Away Ticket Prices - Clicky Clicky

The Highland Marchers ate at the Beancross at the end of last season (the day they set off for the walk back up the road) and whilst the food was very good and fairly reasonably priced the service was slowwwww, and we were one of only 3 or 4 tables who were eating. I think we were in there about 1.30 and only made it to the match a few minutes before kick-off.

To be honest there's very little (if any) profit in this (at the moment - see below) as my intention is more about providing a service that many have requested in the past. What little profit might be made will be re-invested in improving the service, selection of items available etc. I have made the offer to the club a few times in the past to provide a t-shirt design/production service (along with other ideas) but they have never taken me up on. I could rant on about it, but if the club/trust/youth development want to get in contact to discuss offering a service through the official shop or whatever then I'd be more than happy to sit down with them to go over it. As I said above, this is only the start of the shop and where I do hope to get some reward for my efforts, and to subsidise the service for fans, is from things like bulk orders for Stag/Hen nights and designs not related to Caley Thistle.

Livingston Away as I need an excuse to go down and check my house is still there

What's the situation with regards to Barrowman serving a suspension for his red card last night? I can never remember how it works and if cup matches effect league matches etc. If Barrowman is available then I'd put him in instead of Rooney.

Away from home we have to go with 4-5-1 Until we get a bit more news on injuries then it's hard to say who we'll have available, but assuming none of the ones out at present are back then....... Fraser Tokely McGuire Duff Hastings Wilson Cowie Black McBain Imrie Rooney

If he's a good player, as Brewster says, then surely it's worth the paperwork to bring him to the club? Why waste a couple of grand on flights, accommodation etc to find out he's a good player and then send him away when we obviously weren't prepared to go through the "red tape". It's not as if we wouldn't have been expecting permit issues because it was all over the papers about what had happened with the Ugandan guy that signed for Hearts.

Probably means we'll sign him last thing on Monday then

I wasn't saying that we should have hammered Arbroath or even won comfortably. What I am saying is that we can't afford to be underestimating the opposition and/or fielding anything other than our strongest 11. We probably took more "big scalps" in our first 10 years than any other team has done in such a time frame and, as a club, we should be only too aware that some of these were down to the opposition underestimating us, or not showing us due respect. It's got nothing to do with "not supporting the players" and I'm as happy as the next guy that we made it through to the next round. What I'm getting at is that lessons are not being learned or even remembered from the past. Yes, some of the younger lads may well be called upon during the season to play due to injury or suspension, but there's a vast difference between having to field a couple of fringe players for those reasons and making wholesale changes for no obvious reason. Yeah, you might want to give the odd one a start to give them experience, but as I have said from day one, that should be done when you can surround them with guys who are a little more experienced and who can guide and assist the less experienced lads through the mental pressures of the game. Cup matches bring the need for a higher level of mental preparation, something which we excelled at during the early years under Pele and was one of the largest factors in our early successes IMO. This preparation was carried on by the players even after Pele had gone, but as we've lost players in the last few years we've lost that mental edge and it's obvious that nothing is being done to prepare players in that fashion these days. Their seems to be this attitude that if your fit and can run around for 90 minutes then that's all that is needed.

Yeah, as I said, I'm just getting going with the T-Shirts and can/will do anything when ideas come to me. Once it takes off then I can invest in upgrading the shop software which will allow me to have "shops within shops" which makes sorting and finding stuff easier.

I don't see how you think that he was underestimating them by putting out the team he did. That team should have been more than capable of winning. All the players in the starting 11 are part of the first team squad and almost all have played in the SPL this season. Because put plain and simply....we did not start the match with the strongest team available.

WTF....Imrie picks up a yellow for Dissent after scoring his penalty?

Well, we made it, but no way it should have gone to Penalties and I hope Brewster has his excuses ready for underestimating Arbroath because he's going to need them I think.

ESSON SAVES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Airdrie knock Hearts out.

COME ON - Tosh Misses

Penalties now at Gayfield.

Barrowman gets a second Yellow and is off.....3 other yellow cards resulting from the rammy, and the guy who was "most" at fault walks away scott free.

1st September for the draw.

Fight at Gayfield

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Nipped to the loo and came back to hear "second yellow and down to 10 men" and immediately thought that it was Djebi-Zadi that had taken a walk, but it was Airdrie that went down to 10 men.

2-2 after conceding a penalty. Djebi-Zadi already on a yellow, but no mention of him being sent off?

Vigurs opens the scoring for us. Side stepped a couple of players before slamming the ball past the keeper....WOOT WOOT Tosh scores equaliser from a deflection....Doh

Fraser, Rooney, Imrie, Barrowman and Hastings on the Bench