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I'm pretty sure that we've had a black youth player, I seem to remember ymip posting about him on here?

Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu has played for a few clubs in his career and is a Congo U21 internationalist.

Delroy Facey just signed for Gillingham.

That Cumbers guy has only played one game for Gillingham.

Generally we have relied on three strikers with one back up for the last few seasons.  Last season it was Bayne, Dargo and Wyness with Rory as back up, season before Wyness, Brewster and Dargo played most games against with McAllister as back up.

Grahem Linton's Sports Comment column in the courier on friday had a few points which were complete and utter crap....

"With McCaffery set to be his chance to impress alongside Grant Munro, the need for a defender is not so paramount - and finding someone with expierence who is prepared to come to the highland capital and initially sit on the bench could prove difficult.

With the rest of the squad intact, however, Christie has the luxury of time on his side - unlike some of his counterparts who are having to rebuild large parts of their team.

You can be sure the likes of new motherwell manager Mark McGhee and Gretna manager davie irons would secretly love to trade places with Christie,who boasts a large, settled squad that does not require many additions."

"the need for a defender is not so paramount"  - we need a defender.no question.

"Christie has the luxury of time on his side" - how??he has to sign at least 2 strikers,a defender and a winger wouldn't go a miss.and there has been hardly an activity.

"who boasts a large" - our squad right now is probably the smallest and weekest in the division(bar gretna).

and then it had fans views from on here.and a guy "us2" said -

"I am hoping for a 6th place finish, or perhaps 7th, but why not hope for top four and some silverware in the trophy cabinet as we deserve a bit of luck in the cups this season."

Think he's being way to over ambitious considering the size of squad and no real targets just now.we'll be lucky if we finish above 9th/10th if we don't sign anyone or just 1 striker.

I don't think he needs to sign at least two strikers, we need one striker.  We don't need a winger either.

I agree with you that we need a defender.  I think we were lucky last season to get through with basically five defenders in the squad.

Derek Young is absolutely shyte.

You don't like any players we are linked to!  :015:

We'd be better signing Angus Young.

Footballers are wimps nowadays.  It used to be that young Scottish laddies would finish work in the pit, cycle to a four hour training session involving nothing but running up and down 5,000 step terraces and playing head tennis with a medicine ball.  If they were spotted by a cloth-capped scout, they'd move to some far off English second division side, for a half crown per week with no complaints whatsoever.

Now they all have streaked dyed hairdo's and if they aren't filming roasting sessions on their new fangled 'mobiles' they are moaning about being away from their mum and dad.  Scotsmen travelled the globe during the halycon days of the Empire, shaping the globe (and killing anyone who didn't want to be shaped) now our young men get to snivelling if they have to spend a couple of weeks in digs in Blackburn.

Derek Young is absolutely shyte.

Andy Kirk?

When will we ever learn? Another example of why we should keep signing targets quiet until they are in the bag! :018:

Personally I think the boy has done the right thing and serve his full-time apprenticeship in the SFL before stepping up (if ever) to the SPL. Let's not forget our own prolific legend Ian Stewart found it very difficult to score goals in SFL2 after blitzing the 3rd Division.

the management team obviously didn't think he was good enough for an immediate bid and wanted a further look.  I'd rather we didn't dive into signing players prematurely.

Oh and Ian Stewart scored 16 goals in 25 starts in our first season in the Second Division and was injured during our second season there.

Tam McManus has a pretty poor scoring record over the last few seasons.  He scored six goals for Dundee in the First Division in 05/06 and scored twice last season in his games for the Pars and Falkirk.  I had always thought of him as, well, ***** but apparently he really did well for Dunfermline when he got a chance.  Perhaps he has realised that he is 26 and needs to try and make something of his career.  When we signed Dargo he hadn't scored many for a fewq seasons.

Jim McIntyre is 35, injury-prone, would cost a tansfer fee and is similar to what we already have.  No thanks!

Hero - Graham Bayne, a fantastic season for him.  His performance against Celtic in the cup was one of the best displays from a lone front man you'll ever see.

Villian - Mike Smith

Could do better - Ian Black.  Hasn't been up to earlier standards this season and is now picking upbookings for dissent and stupid gestures rather than meaty tackles.  Needs to knuckle down to fulfill his potential.

Must do better - Not a criticsm of him, but Stuart McCaffrey will have big boots to step into should he come in for Dods next term - he'll have to be at his best.

Hopefully Rory builds on a few decent performances towards the end of the season and pushes on next season.  He is still a young player and hopefully this experience will do him good.  If Zander Sutherland can regularly play tot he standard he showed against St Mirren, he'll make an impact too.

Well deserved win.

Thought Zander Sutherland was excellent.

I will be there.

He is ******* *****.

He is absolutely *****.

Just watched that, good direct play from Rory for the goal andhe won the free-kick for the equaliser.

Good work from a sub.

The last home game I was at was the Falkirk game before the split and I got warned by a steward for my 'language'.  Stewards are obviously not trained how to speak to people or deal with fans as the high-handed demenour I was spoken to was laughable.  If I'd been more confrontational or pished I could have easily been thrown out.  It doesn't surprise me that this sort of thing has gone on as stewards at our ground seem to be educationally sub-standard drop-outs who have no interest in making things better for fans but rather taking a ridiculously rigid line on what is deemed acceptable.  You have to look as well at the people handing out guidelines to them.  How hard would it be for someone to say to the stewards in a pre-match meeting "there's a singing section on the go, they might stand up on occasions but take it easy and only do anything if there is an actual evident risk to the health and safety or if people stand up the whole match".

If stewards swore at people or threatened them then eventually we're going to get someone giving one of them a smack in the mouth which is a completely unacceptable situation.  We want people to come to our games and enjoy themselves rather than have to deal with some trumped up Captain Manwairing.

Average crowd at Caley Stadium this season - 4878

Total number of fans through the gates - 92,697

percentage of capacity - 64.8%

Hopefully the freeze in ticket prices will see people renew their season books but I still think our prices are too high to encourage walk-ups, especially for kids.

Our average actually fell by about 150 from the previous season, probably as we played Aberdeen on a Monday night which probably cut the crowd by 2,000.

Hopefully all these Romanian super-stars will pull the crowds in  :001:

I am surprised we haven't seen Guy Kerr promoted to the first team squad yet, he has a lot of experience in the reserves and was involved in the Scotand set up a few years back.  Same with Ian Vigurs.

Inverurie is a peculiar place.  After the semi-final replay in 2004 we stopped their for a pint and the pub had one-armed man playing darts.  You had to walk across the flight of the darts to go for a ****.

Boring end of season pish.

What happened to giving the kids a shot in these games?

I should be going.

Do they accept out of date sutdent cards?  :015:

None of our strikers have scored or most likely will score 15 goals this season.

We compete with County for sponsorship and corporate functions.  An SPL match is far more attractive than a Second Division game.

If County stay in the lower leagues and we stay in the SPL youngsters will be far more inclined to pick us as their team to follow.

With regards to loaning players to them, the only players we've ever loaned them are ones who are on the way out - Wayne Addicoat, Daisy, Alan Morgan.

It is also fun to point and laugh at County fans.  To paraphrase hearts fans:

BIG TEAM BIG LEAGUE

WEE TEAM WEE LEAGUE

BIG TEAM BIG LEAGUE

WEE TEAM WEE LEAGUE

We're all going to Ibrox

You're all going to Berwick

nah nah nah nah

nah nah nah nah

We're all going to Parkhead

You're all going to Cowden

nah nah nah nah

nah nah nah nah

As things stand we only have four defenders under contract for next season (Caff, Granty, Richard Hastings and Rosscoe).  We need to bring in some cover.