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From FIFA "Laws of the Game" - Law 12 - http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/footballdevelopment/refereeing/02/36/01/11/27_06_2014_new--lawsofthegameweben_neutral.pdf Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm. The referee must take the following into consideration: • the movement of the hand towards the ball (not the ball towards the hand) • the distance between the opponent and the ball (unexpected ball) • the position of the hand does not necessarily mean that there is an infringement • touching the ball with an object held in the hand (clothing, shinguard, etc.) counts as an infringement • hitting the ball with a thrown object (boot, shinguard, etc.) counts as an infringement Disciplinary sanctions There are circumstances when a caution for unsporting behaviour is required when a player deliberately handles the ball, e.g. when a player: • deliberately handles the ball to prevent an opponent gaining possession • attempts to score a goal by deliberately handling the ball A player is sent off, however, if he prevents a goal or an obvious goalscoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball. This punishment arises not from the act of the player deliberately handling the ball but from the unacceptable and unfair intervention that prevented a goal being scored. Restart of play • Direct free kick from the position where the offence occurred (see Law 13 – Position of free kick) or penalty kick

Keep the high winds coming (from a football perspective) until just before kick-off. It will help dry out the ground and push any rain through the area faster.

Refund info for those who purchased tickets and can't make the rearranged match is now on the club website at http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/1482-scottish-cup-quarter-final-info

Our current schedule could easily be tweaked without going full blown "summer league". No matter which way you go you need to have midweek fixtures, what we need to do is have those fixtures earlier/later in the season and not during the toughest/gloomiest winter months. Start the season with 3 or 4 weeks of midweek fixtures when the nights are a bit brighter and enthusiasm for the new season will help bring a few more along to these games....pitches are also at their best and able to cope with "extra" games. You can also condense the post split fixtures into 2 weeks by doing Sat/Tue/Sat/Tue/Sat. This gets rid of nonsense scenarios like we had this season with 7 games scheduled for January. Keep the New Year fixtures, but perhaps look at no scheduled games either side as a kinda winter break/buffer zone. It's not just weather and pitch conditions that cause issue over the festive period...that's also the time of year when people's finances are most stretched and it's not necessary for us to be cutting our own throat by trying to compete with xmas for people's cash.

As was pointed out to me a few weeks back...summer football is great in theory, but creates just as many issues in practice. The biggest one being pitch recovery. At the moment this takes place during the summer when you get most growth, but if you are playing on it during that time then "recovery" period then becomes winter when you get little/no growth...i.e. it doesn't get chance to recover. Summer football is good for other reasons, but it would also have to be done in conjunction with the use of 4G pitches.

Amazing that football clubs are expected to achieve what mankind hasn't managed to do for thousands of years....predict and successfully beat the weather!! Covers were down and all possible precautions were taken...but we're talking about 10's of thousands of gallons of water falling in a fairly short time on to ground that was already heavily soaked from ongoing wet weather....and a forecast that said it was going to continue. (a forecast that, until yesterday afternoon, had indicated the risk was lowish and chances are it would have missed the city) Clubs, including ICTFC, have been pilloried in the past for not making early decisions in situations were extensive fan travel is involved...and some of our fans have been most vocal about it when we're the ones travelling! (although technically speaking it's the SFA rep doing the inspection that makes the decision). We have one of the most experienced groundsmen in the country who has performed miracles on occasion over the years to get matches on, so let's cut him a bit of slack when he can't pull off the impossible!

Give you a clue....an away game and you can just make out the eye of the goal scorer to the right of Christie's head. Scored more goals than they've had bookings this season...which many may be surprised to hear.

I bought them along with the stadium naming rights for £1 last year. You're all gonna love the Big Don Dome once I win the lottery and can afford to build it.

Give you a clue....an away game and you can just make out the eye of the goal scorer to the right of Christie's head.

*Speechless*

ALL first team players who are due to be out of contract in the summer have offers from the club.

I'm not sure what you mean Rene. First, Tynecastle has no terracing. Maybe you mean the stewards have turned a blind eye to huge numbers of bevvied-up young men standing, same as they do when the twins of evil visit us. But that's not the same as 'standing being allowed in the lower leagues'. Second, I can't recall any club being relegated from the top league and still having terracing in place after having stretched themselves to meet the criteria of 6000/10000 seats. We ourselves were obliged to have only seating even after relegation in 2009. Teams with terracing such as QOS are rare and have never made it to the top division. We actually still have terracing on the West side of the ground, towards the South Stand, it just has boards and stuff up around it. Using it was looked at when we got relegated and league/stadium rules would have permitted it. However, the club were told that authorities would oppose the changes needed to our safety certificate on the grounds of it being a "retrograde move" in terms of ground use.

Only Edward Ofere has signed...and we've just not had time to speak to him (as in club media) ourselves, let alone do a presser with him. He was in for a couple of days for Yogi to run a final rule over him, deal done late on Friday, down to Motherwell for the game then had to fly home to get his stuff....so first chance we'll get is tomorrow.

Whilst it's been a while since I've sat/stood in with the rest of the fans at a game, I do get the impression that stewards aren't getting on people's backs so much and forcing them to sit (home or away). If that's the case and fans aren't being hassled over it, then that's a far more sensible solution than forcing clubs to spend a fortune on rail seating.

I don't believe ICTFC have any debts...in terms of loans...with anyone. So I would say "No", we're not in debt. The last time I checked, Ross County were in similar position to Dundee...although they do/did a lot of operating via 2nd and (and 3rd) companies so debts never showed on the actual club accounts, even though the businesses were connected. It could well be that these debts (both clubs) may be guaranteed by others...but in order for those guarantees to be enforced the clubs would have to be in a position where they couldn't pay...i.e. administration/liquidation...so the guarantee protects the lender, but not the clubs. The most disappointing thing with Dundee is that they had gone through all the pain of wrestling their club away from those who were running it in to the ground time and again. They had fan ownership and a model to allow them to live within their means. They then gave that all up the moment someone waved a few quid at them. If it all goes t1ts up again, then you really can't have any sympathy.

He has...just one that was kept under the radar. Sometimes people are so interested in what's in one hand, they forget to look at what's happening with the other

Ofere has been allocated shirt #7....so he's got a bit to live up to in terms of replacing the previous occupant.

He's not played in Serie A! He has....Lecce were in Serie A when he was with them.

Depends on comms between associations in terms of getting paperwork signed off...but, yes, it is possible that could happen in time for him to be included in the squad for tomorrow.

A wee bit of light relief...

I've gone through the original footage frame by frame and would say that there was no deflection...slight or otherwise...although it is very close.

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Noticed in a couple of places recently that Shinnie, Raven & Tremarco have been re-branded as Defensive Wingers as opposed to Left/Right Fullbacks. Also, are these guys really defensive wingers? I would have thought it more accurate to describe them as attacking fullbacks....or does our setup/tactics lend itself more to them having developed more into defensive wingers...or are they something else? Discuss...