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Not as entertaining as BarraJag vs NDD for anyone on P&B I thought you were BarraJag on P&B?

Yogi touches briefly on the matter in today's interview...

If you check further back on the clubs Twitter feed you'll find it was announced sooner...that was only the tweet put up when the article went on the website. If you want to get picky then technically speaking Hamilton were the first to announce it with the team lines (A delay in the paperwork on Friday meant it wasn't a done deal till after business hours. People travelling to the game and other things prevented the club making the full announcement properly on Saturday. Sunday.....feck it, we all deserve at least one day off!!!).

That's correct....as I pointed out elsewhere, there will be commentary on the "Home" Bauer station for the Away team.....so ICTFC v Dundee should be on Radio Tay (although obviously will be more Dundee bias).

Not likely. The cost of running it far outstripped the subscriptions received.

Excuse my ignorance on contractual matters but how does that work , the club can insist on a second year even it the player doesn't want it ? I have no idea what the specific terms are, but that's pretty much how I understand it....although the "option" is generally on enhanced terms for the player. I guess it's a compromise from both sides. The player may not have got the terms he wanted now and the club may not have wanted to commit longer than they have. With this kinda deal, the player gets a chance to prove themselves and earn the enhanced terms and if it doesn't work out then the club can let them go at the end of the initial contract. Again, I don't know, but there's also the chance the player might get some kind of lump sum in regards of "back pay" if the option is activated. When the player has the "option" it generally involves meeting certain triggers which then allow them to activate it....that might be playing X number of games, or for a striker, scoring x number of goals for the club. Probably a whole host of other things that could be in there that I haven't thought of.

It's a one year deal, but the club have an "option" on a second year.

Russell took press a few times last season and will do so again this season....who knows, we may even have others give the "coaches" view pre/post match. It has nothing to do with anyone not wanting to speak. It simply shares the load and sometimes it's good to read/listen to someone else. Here's what Russell had to say to Iain Auld after the game....yeah....Yogi didn't speak to us either!!!

Thanks for the suggestions and I will try them out. I don't necessarily agree with your point that users would be intolerant of the activity on matchdays though - after all, they support the team so getting goal updates shouldn't bother them. Hibs manage it quite well: https://www.facebook.com/HibernianFootballClubOfficial?fref=ts I was maybe reading a bit much into what you were wanting/expecting. If it's purely goal flashes/updates then that's easily within the realms of doable.

Auldy is pretty experienced...and fast heading towards being a codger!!!

I do have the clubs twitter feed connected to/available through Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ICTFC/app_116943498446376 You can also follow the Twitter feed (without having a twitter account/app) via your mobile browser at the following link : https://mobile.twitter.com/ICTFC Hopefully one of the above two solutions works for you. Facebook timeline doesn't lend itself to being used to stream updates in the way that Twitter does....and nor are it's users tolerant of such activity, meaning we'd likely have more people tuning out than tuning in if we tried it. There's no way to have tweets feed in reply to a single post automagically on Facebook either (that I am aware of), which would allow it all to be kept tidy.

Bite Me

I don't buy the "league is weaker" argument. Surely the whole point of a league system is that the weakest team/s are removed each season....even more so last season where one of the teams going down failed to prove they were better than those who replaced them in the play-off.

Lewis Horner can play right back (did at Birmingham), so you can tick that box.

Going to have to disagree with this snap poll... http://caleythistleonline.com/members/?sort_key=members_display_name&sort_order=asc&max_results=20&sort_key=posts&sort_order=desc IHE only comes a close 2nd -

....that is all.

Billy Mckay to start the season with a hat-trick tomorrow.

Plan B is effectively the status quo as we're already using a currency "controlled" by another country!!

Acceptable for me is seeing the lads going out and giving 100% every week.....and it's been a long time since we failed in that regard. Do that and, other than the odd dodgy decision by the ref, we'll get our just rewards. Can't ask for more than that, IMO.

Game has been re-instated to the Saturday with 12:30pm kick-off.

I had someone say to me last weekend "you used to be one of us*". On further thought/discussion, it transpired that the assertion seems to be that because I had become more directly involved in volunteering and doing stuff at the club, then I should no longer be considered a fan with the right to a valid opinion on CTO (or elsewhere). There's even people who are going around suggesting that as a club employee (which I am not) then they should gag me and prevent me from posting on here. It's not the first time I've seen this view, when I was an active admin/moderator on the forums I often had the validity of my personal opinion called into question (as others have and still are). Am I less critical of the club on here these days? Yes, absolutely. Firstly because I think there's a lot less to be critical of, and secondly because I make good use of the fact that the Chairman is open to talking to anyone about their concerns or issues...something anyone can do if they take the time to get in touch. I decide what I post or don't post on here. The club have no "hold" over me (and anyone who thinks I would work like that should read THIS), but I appreciate that in order to do what I do (primarily for the benefit of the fans and club) then I need to have a professional, honest and trustful relationship with the chairman, manager, players, staff etc. That works both ways and I got involved with eyes wide open to the potential pitfalls. It's the reason I stepped back from front-line operations on CTO as I didn't want the sites impartiality to be called into question...and also because I felt I could achieve more by putting my time from here into other things. * I don't believe for one second that the comment was made with any malice or intent, but it wasn't a pleasant accusation.

Interesting claim about the selection of the audience for the debate.... http://bravemany.com/?p=191

You missed the bit where he says "That's playing down our chances, we'll let everyone else tell everyone what they're going to do."

What if Mckay gets injured? What if we ever need to chase the game and get another man up-front? What about having a two man attack Plan B? Or are we just going to carry on playing one way regardless of whether it works or not? Of the existing first team squad; Christie, Vincent, Doran, Foran (hopefully not out much longer) & Watkins are all...IMO...capable of doing a job at the front should the need arise. With the possible exception of Vincent, I think the rest have all been deployed as a forward at some point under both Butcher and Yogi. You also have young Fergie chapping at the door. I'm not saying it's the ideal scenario, but if people are talking about Mckay being worth 6 or 7 figures, then you have to appreciate that finding experienced/comparable cover would cost something up to that amount....and then there's the wage to pay on top of that. We quite simply don't have that kind of cash laying around. If people aren't content with the cover we have at present, then I don't see them being content with anything additional we could afford to bring in.

I believe it's MFR2 which is 1107am and online...UK only. I haven't seen the details of the rights/agreement yet, but don't imagine they would have shelled out for worldwide rights. Bauer (who owns MFR) are doing "away" coverage for all games on their local stations...i.e. Northsound will do Aberdeen away games, Tay FM will do Dundee clubs away games etc. This means that fans should be able to pick up our home games online from the local Bauer station of whoever we are playing. The only drawback is, they are likely to be biased towards the target (away) audience.