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Who's asking Celtic to take a reduce share? Any cost involved in making it more affordable/beneficial for OUR fans to attend can be taken out of our share of the gate.

Mike :004:

Ticket Prices aside as I don't think too many would argue they are steep, regardless of the justification. What the club should be doing, IMO, is encouraging loyalty and that can be done without necessarily reducing the "at the gate price". They do that to a certain extent with the Season Ticket Prices, but they include no benefit/discount other than priority for (expensive) tickets. Season Ticket Holders in the Family Section should have the opportunity of purchasing tickets at proportional prices, the accept seats in one of the least desireable viewing areas in return for these lower season ticket/league ticket prices, why then should they be expected to pay full whack just because it's a cup game? Supply and demand - blah blah blah - I think some people forget that football clubs are more than just a business, they are organisations which have huge dedicated communities that develop around them, and every now and then you have to take a step back and accept a slight hit in the pocket on the basis of giving something back to that community - these are the actions that people will remember and it will pay dividends in the long term. "we'll sell out anyway" - that maybe the case, but we hear CC, Players and Club Officials constantly go on about how they would like to see more bums on seats every other week at home. By denying those locals who may have come along to see a cup match as it was something a little special on the basis of cost only serves to keep "future fans" away. The club should be investing a little time and energy into making sure the tickets (over and above those that go to Season Ticket Holders) for these matches are not only reasonably priced, but that they end up in the hands of people they have a chance of converting to regular fans (not an easy thing I know). They have 1/2 season tickets available, why not offer some kind of combined package for a cup ticket and a 1/2 season ticket? Give these sales priority before general release. Again, I think the club are lacking a bit when it comes to thinking outside the box and I repeat - If You Can't Reduce The Price of The Product, Then Increase The Benefits For Purchasing It The club need to be investing now for the future, not only financially but in terms of initiatives to get bums on seats more regularly. Our finances are in good shape and now is the time to be doing these things, not when something goes wrong and debts start to mount and they are then begging people to come along and support the club or drop a couple of quid into a bucket.

Standing in terracing, IMO, creates no huge risk to safety provided theyaren't overcrowded, but standing in seated areas increases the risk significantly, especially when people start jumping around etc. If the authorities aren't going to do something to prevent everyone from standing then they should go back to terracing for the sake of safety. It also gives people a choice. They do have the power to do something about it, they just don't have the balls to make the decisions and follow them through with action. If we are to believe standing is the huge safety concern that has been hammered in to us over the years then they are negligent in not enforcing it properly.

It really is amazing how powerful the lenses are on these modern day cameras.

You can't compare prices in other countries, at least not on a like for like basis as the economics and financial structures etc are totally different.

I think that may be the most (only) sensible football related post you have ever made :016:

I'm fairly certain I have ours correct - in fact I may have even asked Tommy himself at the time.

I'm not arguing over whether he has a point or not, I'd just like him to say something different during an interview for a change :015:

Comfortable with the ball at his feet, favours punching the ball away :024: If Mike starts taking off halfway up the park, then I'll be asking for a paternity test to see if he is the son of Calder

Fine job so far and if he continues to improve things can only get better. Only comment is his use of the "for a clubour size" line - he talks about fining players for this and that, I think the players should be fining him every time he comes out with that line. :001:

Well thats what the thread was about :014:

If used correctly, I think he could prove to be a real asset for the remainder of the season. And although clever runs/moves are one thing - they count for feck all if the rest of the team can't read your game, so hopefully they are working on integrating him into the team during training.

As has ben said on about 6 other threads - ICT wanted to reduce the prices for this match but Dundee Utd refused to do anything other than a small reduction on concessions.

New Keeper, not totally tested at this level and young to boot - any team who didn't go out to put extra pressure on them would have been crazy and I would have expected us to be doing the same had it been the other way round. I have no problem with keepers punching the ball away so long as they can do it well.

When you stand strachan next to it, it has the effect of making it look Feckin Hugeeeeeeeeee

I believe our pitch is something like 115 x 80, which is the largest in the SPL, closelyfollowed by Ibrox at 115 x 78 (although I believe they may different dimensions registered for European fixtures) The figures I have are a couple of seasons old, but here they are for each club Aberdeen - 110 x 72 Celtic - 105 x 68 (again they may be diff for Euro fixtures as I think it needs to be min 110 length) Dundee Utd - 110 x 72 Dunfermline - 115 x 71 Falkirk - 110 x 72 Hearts - 107 x 74 (lack of length caused all the probs with them holding Euro fixtures) Hibs - 112 x 74 ICT - 115 x 80 Killie - 115 x 74 Motherwell - 110 x 75 Rangers - 115 x 78 St Mirren - 110 x 70

Would have prefered anyone else, but their is something magic for us about getting Celtic in the Cup which kinda makes you want that draw. Bring it on :022:

1-0 Livi :015:

Shall be listening with interest to see what kind of performance Golly produces. Wonder if their is a clause stopping him playing against us should they beat Celtic and we get Livi in the cup?

Fraser seemed to be getting a little too much attention in this pic from yesterday Clicky Clicky

Two Pic Galleries added from yesterdays match 2006/07 Photo Gallery

BT Advert is in the new gallery - Clicky Clicky

With all due respect David, that is BS. I raised the issue, it was shot down from the floor by yourself and Les based things like "Other Trust work like ours currently does" and meetings/fans forums could not be open events because of logistics. It was also stated that the Trust had to offer "Member only perks", and when I countered that this was not the aims of the Trust and that it's constitution charged it with working for the community. I got no answer to this and things were quickly shifted along. I offered solutions/counter arguments and when Les was forced to agree and could offer no argument it was opened to the floor for their comments and only one person made any comment - which was basically that they wanted something exclusive in return for their membership fee. It was then brought up that Dee4Life had one of themost successful Trust in the country and when I pointed out that this was in part due to the fact that they had a Trust which charged nothing for membership the conversation was then re-directed on to arguments about "dead members andmembers who did nothing" etc. At this point I was verbally attacked from the floor, asked if I grudged paying my £10 and was told that I should "put something in to the club". The same person then suggested that I be given my £10 back and sent packing. The meeting was then swiftly brought to an end without the matter being resolved and without my being allowed to counter the accusations laid against me. Here I was arguing that we should not be looking for any kind of exclusivity as members and someone who had just said they were looking for this was accusing me of grudging my £10. So please David, don't insult my intelligence by coming out with comments that I was alone in my thinking. I know for a fact that their are members of the Trust Board and in general who agree with my points, but they prefer to play some kind of game of politics surrounding the whole thing. For me, I can be bothered with the politics, all that will do is get in the way of what should be getting done so I call it as I see it. As I have said in the past, I will continue with my stance until such time as the Trust is of a sufficient size and structure to allow it to 'hand on heart' stand up and say it is representative of the fans. If at that time the majority disagree with my views then I will accept that, but until then I will continue to do what I can to fight for a Supporters Trust that is free, open to everyone and is fulfilling the charges as laid out in it's constitution.

Hissy was doing ok for us when he was playing regular games and was settled - I think he would do ok again if he could just get that chance at another club and was given a bit of time to get up to speed - unfortunately those kinds of luxuries don't come along too often in the modern game where it's dog eat dog and players have to produce the goods quickly or face being moved on/dropped.