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I thought someone had let some C*unty buskers in. They also had some kind of cheapo electronic loud hailer or something. All good fun, as annoying as the tamborine was to start with, I soon switched off to it.

He seemed a little green (no reference to Celtic bias) just that he seemed easily duped by people taking a dive etc. As has been said though, he was gettin sod all assistance from the nearside linesman. I counted at least 3 blatant handballs were missed, not to mention the pass back that the keeper picked up. He was a little whistle happy which made a poor game even worse. However, we have had far worse and compared to some of the recent muppets we have had this guy was top drawer. At least he was all round inept and wasn't just blind to the actions of one team or the other.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that a man smashed a bus window and was arrested.

Agreed :thumbsup:

Thats the great think about IHE - after he has turned you int a gibbering psycho with the way he behaves he can then offer sound professional treatment.

Todays was indeed sweet - by the smiles and the chatbetween people as we left the stadium I don't think I was the only one who got some kind of perverse satisfaction in stealing the 3 points in the final seconds like that. In fact - without the 91 minutes of pretty poor football that came before it, I don't think it would have been as sweet.

I thought McBain put in a decent shift tbh. Golly, despite more than his fair share of stray passes, was also giving 100%. He's been out for a while so it will take a couple of games for him to find his feet again.

I don't think Wyness is missing "the touch" at all - his performance today was one brought about through lack of effort - if the ball wasn't played to his feet he wasn't interested.

lol....must have been the wonderful young ladies I met at the stadium who distracted me. Well done to those who won awards - and well done to every other member of the squad, everyone has played their part at some point during the season.

Voted for by fans today? I wasn't given the opportunity to vote.

Chit Game - Great Result

Our attendances this year have already put more than £100k extra in the clubs pocket compared to last season, you'd think with that in mind they would be dropping prices to get as many people along for what aren't exactly exciting final fixtures and to help spur the team onto maintaining 7th and finishing the season on a high for a change. The fair weather fans ain't going to be along to see a match v Dundee United at £20/head. These games are an ideal opportunity to do things such as kids for a quid and the likes and to slash prices in the away end to encourage opposition fans to travel. Perhaps they think the "Brewster" thing is going to encourage people along, but I think that's being over-hyped and most people probably don't give a chit.

The Supporters Trust membership is less than 5% of Season Ticket Holders and probably less than 3% of the overall fan-base, that's hardly recognition of the fans as a whole. Are the fans who choose not to join the Trust any less worthy of a response from the club than those who are members? Are the Trust expected to act as the clubs complaints department? Where were these "supportive links" when people had trouble with stewarding, or with other matters where the club have proved difficult to deal with in regards to the Trust? Am not interested in the club paying lip service to these things as they have done for the last season and a half. There's only so long they can play the "give us time" card before they have to start taking action. For too long I spoke out in defence of the club when promises of action were given which have never materialised. Surely everyone is not so blind that they have failed to see how much the relationship between the club and fans has deteriorated since we got in to the SPL?

Thats why I said that I have no concern over what he IS doing. I also don't see any of the things I mentioned as negatives, or they wouldn't be if they had been dealt with in the same professional manner with which the club deals with the "bigger" issues. Getting established as an SPL club also includes the fans. No point in having an established SPL team, an established SPL stadium and an established SPL set-up if you don't take the time or make the effort to establish an SPL level fanbase. The truth of the matter is that in the last 18 months the club have done more to alientate your average fan than they have done to encourage them. Perhaps my use of the word criticise was wrong, what he does do though is highlight the minority negative element of the fanbase without praising the largely supportive majority. It's al ME ME ME, look what I've done, look at all the great things that are hapenning, and although I agree that the club have achieved a lot, credit also has to be given to the fans who turn out each and every week. I AM a fan of David Sutherland and what he has done and how he has achieved it, but it doesn't mean their is not room for improvement in certain areas, areas which have been highlighted and raised with the club on several occasions but are rarely ever met with a response, never mind any kind of action. When the club needed a voice to support their efforts they were falling over themselves to listen to the fans, and to get the fans onboard with their views - The groundshare issue, the promotion issues, issues arising between Sutherland and Macgillvray. Now a fan can't even get so much as a response to a letter of complaint or query. So in short, although I agree with the content of his article and the successes he has highlighted, there are many other issues which are just as important that are not being addressed. An article such as the one in todays Highland News would have been an ideal opportunity to address these things, if not at the very least acknowledge them. Do you think it is any coincidence that this article was run at a time when the club were facing criticism on several things? And do you think it is a coincidence that it highlights all the positives and fails to address directly the criticisms that have been made of late? As I said before, it's a chest beating exercise, one designed to bring people "back in line" and deflect attention from issues that are not being dealt with for whatever reason. Will I be the next person to find myself banned from the stadium until I learn to tow the part line?

It's hard to get a true gauge of things in such a short period of time. On the old forum we would average around 250 posts per day across all forums - so far on here we are averaging about 320 across all forums. The fact that the FAO board has been replaced by Personal Messaging so we have "lost" posts there has to be taken into consideration as well. It's not really about quantity though, it's about quality (or relevance), which is why we have divided the new forum up in the way we have. People should now be able to quickly identify, view and contribute to threads which are of interest to them without having to search through stuff that's of no interest to them. The feeling of fewer posts is, I guess, an indication that it's all working as planned.

A decent article and nice to get an insight into at least some of the Chairman's thoughts. We all know DS and I think I would be right in saying that the majority of us trust him to deliver when it comes to taking care of the bottom line on the accounts. However, I think that the articles fails to address some of what I see as the "Real" issues which have occurred this season. Not a single mention of developing or strengthening the relationship with the fans which have slowly been eroded in the last 18 months or so. He makes mention and criticises the views of the fans who think the club have failed on the park in any way this season, no mention of the views of the fans who think the club are failing off the park. In particular the actions of certain stewards, the poor management of the turnstiles, lack of information, lack of fan consultation etc. The article seems to be a chest beating exercise - "Look at Me, Look what I am Doing" - that's great Mr Sutherland, but it's not what your doing that concerns me, it's what your not doing.

Brewster continuing to play is bad news for United (good news for everyone else) IMO. As we all witnessed when he is on the pitch the team turn into a one trick pony - long ball to Brewster. He got off with that for a good while with us but other teams were getting wise to it and they will get wise to it even quicker with United now they know what he is like.

Last time I checked ICT weren't an Italian team - not that it really matters, but just because the supplier is Italian doesn't mean we have to use italian wording for our merchandise. Just seems like a total lack of any thought process and mindlessly naming stuff because of what it says on an invoice. Also if your looking for a child item your not going to type bimbo into any search function.

Keep the ideas coming we will get round to organising them first chance we get.

Not denying that money makes it easier to compete, but we have proven that lack of it doesn't make it impossible. We have already achieved what many thought was inachievable for us, who says we have to stop where we are, and who says we can't push on further without more money?

If perfromance and placing was decided on how much money was spent, why bother playing any games? we would be bottom of the league every year at the moment.

Fraser has certainly shown signs of being a very capable keeper, should Brown be unavailable for any reason I would not have any worries about Fraser taking his place.

I always thought that was Bambino?

If anyone wants to put together quiz questions we would be happy to add them.

Does he notplay on the left? Maybe he is am...amb...amb......... plays both sides.