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I wouldn't take the cut in pay personally :015: Harry, they only play 8 months of the year £128,000,000 / 5 = £25,600,000/33 = £775,757 A Week 5 Day Week & 8 Hours a Day? £19,393 an Hour :015:

Call yourself a real fan :014:

Which is probably why we manage to land him (Dargo). Comes a time when you have to cut your losses, I don't want to see him moving on, but in the grand scheme of things it's probably a sensible move for the Club. And who knows, if he does ok on his loan spell, remains injury free and finds old form, then we may offer him a position back here again.

8 Games last season due to injury and only 10 this season - As much as I like the guy and think he has what it takes to play at SPL level, we simply can't afford to have players with recurring injury problems on the books long term.

I don't think people are blaming CC - just stating that the fans shouldn't be his first/only port of call when it comes to pointing the finger. Yes, the fans can do their bit, they can "Big Up" the product etc. The problem is, it doesn't matter how good you tell someone something is, if it's out of their reach financially, then they ain't going to buy it and they certainly ain't going to buy lots of it.

I think this may be, in part, down to the fact that he now has Morgan chasing him for his place. Prroof Positive that competition for places on all areas of the pitch is needed

The same works in reverse - whats the point in increasing prices if you reduce crowds to such an extent that it negates the extra money taken from tickets. We are (currently) 5% down on average attendance compared to last season - when you add on any lost revenue from "other" sales, such as programmes, merchandise etc - then it is unlikely that income will have increased in this area.

And Wyness/The Club had admitted that Wyness had talked to Hearts at the time.

Surely that last sentence kinda confirms it. Remember the Press Release that said Pele had signed a 5 year contract??? All articles I have read so far give conflicting information about the stage of contract signings, so we'll just wait and see something a little more concrete :016:

And it's all just speculation with Mark Brown at the moment - what's the difference?

Taken from www.cowdenbeathfc.com Also, according to soccerbase he has 11 goals to his credit this season

I didn't think it was possible - how they made the Angry German Kid video EVEN FUNNIER!!!! Clicky Clicky

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We can discuss the good and bad ideas round in circles all day (and we have done on these forums ever since we got into the SPL). It's the fact that the club have done NOTHING to try an entice more people through the gates that gets me. If they had tried out some stuff and it hadn't worked, then fair enough, at least you could say they were trying, but they aren't. I don't think our price increases for this season and the 5% drop in average home gate (to date) are just coincidental. In fact, I would wager that if you did the maths taking into account money lost from those "missing" fans from programme, half time draw tickets, club merchandise sales etc then the price increase will have actually reduced income instead of increasing it - no point increasing prices by 2 or 3% if it's going to cost you 5% of your customers. Even if you take the Main Stand out of the equation (as I believe it is all but sold out with Season Tickets) - The North Stand prices are still ludicrous, and so is the effort people have to make in order to benefit from the cheapest possible prices - the club should be making it as easy as possible for people to get the best possible deals, not vice-versa. And with not having a City Centre ticket outlet, then it's not exactly convenient for people to nip in and buy tickets in advance to get best prices. CC and players say that they want bigger crowds to be cheering the players on at home and this would possibly help improve performance - I say that they should be looking just as hard to the club to encourage that as they do to the fans.

I covered that point in my post - it all depends how serious his request to be relieved really was. IF - and I know it's a big IF - he doesn't really want to go to Ibrox, then the handling of it all so far (in the public eye) gives Smith and the SFA a win win situation. Smith gets to stay in the Scotland job without losing face at Ibrox for turning them down flat and the SFA get to look like they aren't the pushover everyone thought they would be.

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Time and again we hear the "If more fans came to games we could afford to spend more" line coming out of the stadium, and there's no doubt that is the case. However, the blame for this cannot be placed squarely at the feet of the fans or the general population of Inverness. The club need to be doing more to encourage people along instead of constantly having a pop in the press, lets see some initiatives that will put bums on seats instead of the same old 'no-brainer' statements.

If he had become a bit complacent in training it was likely down to the fact that he wasn't getting a sniff at the First Team - a bit of a catch 22 for CC. For any player - a message to buck up or be shipped is probably the only real option in these circumstances. If a player has a real desire to stay and earn his place then he will respond, if he doesn't then he's probably not worth any further effort and your aswell to get him off the wage bill. Fortunately it seems Morgan has responded well and I fully expect him to go on and secure a more permanent place in the starting 11. Unfortunately if thats the case then it could spell the end for McBain. Whatever happens I wouldn't be suprised to see one of them moved on during the summer.

Does Smith really want the Rangers job? Can't say that I've read any direct quotes from him saying he wants to leave and it all seems to be speculation over his desire to manage Rangers ahaead of Scotland. Perhaps Smith doesn't want to turn around and give Rangers a straight no incase things do go t1ts up at some point with the Scotland job and their is a chance of him getting back into Ibrox in the future. Perhaps he went to the SFA half hearted and said, "I'm going to ask to leave, but I would prefer you rejected my request." I'm not convinced one way or the other yet, and I think it's wrong to be jumping on Smith when all we have at the moment is a handful of vague quotes from everyone except the man himself on which the press have spun out, what they would have you believe, a minute by minute analysis of everything that has gone on and will go on.

It's been "Caley Army" for as long as I can remember it and I don't recall ever hearing anyone sing "Loyal Army" Agree with the point RiG is trying to make, but it goes back to the discussion we had about a group of fans refering to themselves as "Casuals" - You may have no intention of attaching yourself to a certain sector of people, but rightly or wrongly, certain phrases, chants, names, flags, symbols etc have been hijacked by extremist groups over the years and the majority of people will automatically associated you has having some kind of allegiance if you use them. It's not right, but thats the way it is. I believe the "Mini Rangers" tag comes from the pre-merger days whem Caley were considered the "Huns of The North"

It was time for Fr. John's Saturday night bath, and young nun, Sister Magdalene had prepared the bath water and towels just the way the old nun had instructed. Sister Magdalene was also instructed not to look at Fr. John's nakedness if she could help it, do whatever he told her to do, and pray. The next morning the old nun asked Sister Magdalene how the Saturday night bath had gone. "Oh, sister," said the young nun dreamily. "I've been saved." "Saved? And how did that fine thing come about?" asked the old nun. "Well, when Fr. John was soaking in the tub, he asked me to wash him, and while I was washing him he guided my hand down between his legs where he said the Lord keeps the Key to Heaven." "Did he now?" said the old nun evenly. Sister Magdalene continued, "And Fr. John said that if the Key to Heaven fit my lock, the portals of Heaven would be opened to me and I would be assured of salvation and eternal peace. And then Fr. John guided his Key to Heaven into my lock." "Is that a fact?" said the old nun even more evenly. "At first it hurt terribly, but Fr. John said the pathway to salvation was often painful and that the glory of God would soon swell my heart with ecstasy. And it did, it felt so good being saved." "That wicked old Devil!" said the old nun. "He told me it was Gabriel's Horn, and I've been blowing it for 40 years!"

Aye very good, but it's a bit early for April Fools. To quote the great man himself...."Feck Off" :015: