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I know it's a dog eat dog world, but I can't see the club standing in his way for the sake of a transfer fee - may depend on who it is he is looking to sign for but I'd imagine we'd let him go for free given his service to the club over the years.

I wouldn't say he's been unlucky, he just lacks that final touch or his bottle goes. Both things that will hopefully come with experience. However, at this level time is not a luxury we can afford to give too much of and it may be in his best interests to get a season or half season under his belt elsewhere in order for him to get that aspect of his game sorted. He has the potential IMO, he's just struggling to produce it when it matters - would be annoying to see him shipped out permanently only to see him come good and for us to regret the decision.

The concept of 50,000 people getting together to buy a football club is the easy bit and probably relatively likely to happen IMO. Where the difficulty will occur is in the idea that everyone will be able to vote on team selection, transfers etc etc. I can just envisage a stadium where every seat is fitted with one of those multi-choice answer button things. "MyFootballClub" gets a penalty and it comes up on the big screen telling you to type in the number of the player who you think should take it :D

It doesn't have to be another SPL ground. The only requirement is that they have primacy of fixtures at the ground which they wish to share and that it meets the current SPL Stadia requirements. The most practical solution is sharing another SPL ground, but it could just as easily be a Rugby Stadium, Shinty Stadium, the Grass Area in the centre of an Athletics Track etc provided it meets the requirements or is given special dispensation by the SPL Board. Gretna already have the planning permission for a 6000 all-seater stadium - not sure how many seats they have at present but they should be allowed to use those and any temporary seating they wish to install for next season on the understanding that the new stadium is completed for season 2008/09 - In order to ensure compliance for 2008/09 a financial penalty clause can be included in the agreement. It's crazy that a club in a community of 3000 people is expected to have a 6000 Seater Stadium in the first place. It's not like they will need 6000 seats in the near future and other than the Old Filth not many clubs are going to take more than a few hundred supporters to away games.

St Mirren website states "On the matchday normal gate prices will apply." - this seems to be in contradiction to info from ICT (via LG) that it is an All Ticket match???

Whatever time suits you all.

Mrs PB and Buffy, I can pick you all up as I'll have the Bus and your on route for me anyway.

A quick google search for clock and 1683 kinda gives it away

From memory it's normally priced the same as the North Stand

Maybe I was a bit quick to jump on your comment, but I stand by what I said (in a general sense). To listen to some of our fans talking about Gretna being promoted you'd think we were filling our stadium every fortnight and taking thousands to away games. I'd imagine they will take just as many fans to Inverness as we take to Gretna (with the possible exception of our first visit there where it will have a novelty factor). As for record low attendances, I would disagree. Having a totally new face in the SPL will likely encourage a few more people along to games as it won't be one of the same old teams. It happened at other clubs when we were promoted so I can't see why it won't happen again with Gretna. I also have it on good authority that Gretna (i.e. Mileson) will be laying on free transport for their fans to away games so that should help a bit. I guess only time will tell but I don't think it'll be as bad as some predict, certainly not a **** of a lot worse than our travelling numbers.

Get him back playing if they think he is fit and ready. It's all about building for next year from here on in and a couple of goals to end the season will do his confidence the power of good for the start of the next one.

Would that be the same record low attendane accusations that were being thrown around as a reason why ICT weren't wanted/shouldn't be allowed in to the SPL??? Some people have very short memories :018:

If I was a betting man I'd have a few quid on Pars to beat the drop. I'd sell my sould to see Rossco silence the Midden fans by stepping up to slot home a final seconds penalty on the last game of the season to see them dumped to Div 1.

Think it's more of a case of you being grossly misinformed or ill-educated on the subject being discussed.

Their is a huge difference in growing the team and becoming a "contender" and commiting financial suicide by signing up players you can't afford. I believe ICT are about ready to step things up in terms of signings and the wages they pay but it will be a long time (if ever) before the clubs economic situation could justify the kind of spending it would take to sign the players you are on about.

Not exactly Trivia questions there Librero. Trivia would be something relating to the club/support which had a definite answer - a "Facts List" would perhaps be a better description. Your questions, although legitimate, are a seperate thing altogether.

Great idea and a worthwhile addition to the site. We'll be doing a bit of work on the website over the closed season so this could be included as one of the projects, and one which everyone could get involved in by providing stuff for inclusion. My only suggestion is that we call it a Trivia Section as we will be introducing and upgrading the FAQ's for using the site and it would save confusion.

Pardon my french but "feck the club" - This end of season ball malarky is pricing the normal fans out of the game in that regard - once again it seems to be all about the corporates with little regard given to Joe Bloggs who turns up every week and digs deep to get the funds to follow ICT.

DBS, you are sadly right on the ball with your comment. Unfortunately that is the current state of affairs with regards the SPL at the moment and unless you are involved in a battle at the top for a European slot or fighting to avoid relegation then the post split matches mean very little. Not all ICT fans (and same applies to all clubs) are die-hards and given the option of spending at least £60 for a trip to a meaningless game in Dundee or going along to see C*unty relegated/saved from relegation and spending half of that will be a no-brainer. I'm sure the situation was the same for many teams yesterday who's fans didn't bother travelling and instead opted to do something less expensive, be that an alternative, more local match or some other activity. Until such time as the SPL wake up to the fact that the whole system needs a shake up - from a larger more competitive league to the pricing structure at individual clubs - then the situation will only get worse year on year.

My sanity!!!!

Amen :021:

better than seperate beds i spose ill be there plus 3 others How did you and the other 3 get on in Yngwie's bed?

The new museum should go a long way towards providing education to new and future fans as to the history of both ICT and the clubs which were sacrificed to make it possible. I don't for one minute think we should, or indeed need, to forget about Thistle and Caley, but I do think some people need to move on from the merger. The anti-merger campaign failed - regardless of the reasons, the politics and whatever other excuse anyone cares to cast up for that failure what's done is done. Nothing anyone does now will change that or turn the clock back. I was against the merger at the time, but in hindsight you have to wonder where Thistle and Caley would be today if it never happened. You could argue one or other team may have made it into the SFL of their own accord at some future date, but it is just as likely that with the current economic climate in football and the depleting gates which are being witnessed across the whole game (a trend ICT seem to be bucking, slowly but surely) then the reality is that one or other clubs could have gone to the wall and been lost totally. Many of those who resent ICT claim some unfaltering loyalty to one or other pre-merger team. I call in to question that loyalty. ICT may be the ******* child of Thistle and Caley, but it is the child all the same and you do not disown a child simply because you didn't like one or other of the parents. They don't want people to forget about the clubs that passed, yet they fail to realise that the only thing keeping that history alive is ICT and it's continuing existence and success. If ICT was to disappear then everything that come before would disappear along with it, including the history they claim to cherish so much. In short - the truly loyal Thistle and Caley fans of old are those who lend support to ICT today, not only to assist in it's future, but to protect the history of that which came before.

I wouldn't consign the Pars to Div 1 just yet. They are now at the stage where every remaining game is a cup game - one loss and they're out. It seems to be doing the business for them in the cup and it may well be enough to save them from the drop if they can carry it over to the league.

Maybe, but those quotes are from Grassa are they not?