Renegade

If the Yes Campaign can continue to have a shop in town six months after the referendum (which then moved into bigger premises), I'd like to think that ICT could at least maintain some sort of presence.

Don't go on the General Election thread then whatever you do!

I have to agree with the earlier post about playing Cameron Mackay on Saturday. Now I've seen him in the U20s and he looks steady enough, but I'd have thought a first team game would be a different matter. I mean, say in the final it's 0-0 after twenty minutes with Falkirk creating loads of chances and then Esson goes off injured. Do you really want a teenage goalkeeper, with no first team experience coming in for such a crucial game? I'm sure I won't be the only one to admit that it'd make me a bit nervous. We've got nothing to lose on Saturday really, so I think it's best for everyone if we let him have this one and give him some game time.

That was the point I was going to make. Clach for example had Puma recently (maybe still do), but they've simply bought a bulk of white kits off them. They haven't negotiated a bigger deal than what we have. Also, Errea aren't some wee company. Norwich use them, as do quite few teams in Serie A (Genoa being one I think). The biggest gripe in my experience, is not the quality or the designs, it's the fact that they always seem to be pretty late announcing/delivering stuff.

HT - Dundee 0-0 ICT FT - Dundee 1-1 ICT Dundee 1st scorer - Stewart ICT 1st scorer - Watkins Time of 1st Goal - 54

Someone on Twitter is saying that after two days of sales, Falkirk have already sold 7,000 tickets.

Doran in The Den?

Actually Larry, people in Inverness and the rest of the Highlands aren't not voting for the two big parties just for a laugh. This traditionally always been a Liberal/LibDem stronghold and has been for decades. We've only elected one MP from what is now part of the two main parties since 1959.

Yes I know what you mean Renegade. However a lot of the reporting and film has been sourced from the U.K. with many of the pieces being presented and commentated upon by people with Scottish accents. Some of the material is from Australia. If my memory serves me right Scottish television was always pretty appalling as well. Has it improved that much in your estimation? Reports are now coming through that individuals are being suspended from the SNP for their violent behaviour. Is this happening on another Planet or in Scotland? I have lived in six different countries in my life time and Scottish Television has to rate amongst the worst I have experienced. As I've never been to New Zealand I don't have experience of it first hand, but I have been led to believe in the past that it is pretty awful and those who have been tell me that New Zealand is even worse than Australian television. Now I do have experience of the latter. Is Scottish television better than Australian? Absolutely. Does that make it likely better still than New Zealand TV? Most likely. As Oddquine says, I've also heard no reports of violence. The last time I checked, no one had ever been injured by heckling. And taking up arms and all the rest of it? Rubbish.

So the thinking here seems to be that since the SNP couldn't possibly be wrong, the fault must lie instead with another country's entire broadcasting infrastructure. 80 years on in time, this appears to reflect the sentiment "if it's not in the Volkischer Beobachter, it's all lies!" I don't know how acceptable the Inverness Courier is to nationalist orthodoxy, but today's edition offers a couple of interesting insights. On the news pages (and I have to be careful about terminology since charges have been made) it's reported that a man, it's claimed wearing an SNP badge, has been charged with assaulting the son of the Conservative candidate for Inverness as various parties campaigned in the city centre on Saturday. Then in the letters page a correspondent recounts how, in 1942 when Scottish regiments were fighting Fascism across the world, the SNP held a "rowdy" (sic!) debate before deciding to oppose the war against Hitler which, they concluded, was being fought for the benefit of the "English rich". Not much change in rhetoric there then. I am also quite intrigued about what might happen within the SNP now that its ranks have been massively swollen following promises over benefits, welfare and squeezing the rich. This is going to produce a membership quite different from the "ideologically pure" (my inverted commas) SNP of previous years and would seem ripe for some sort of internal bloodletting. The parallel here, of course, is the Night of the Long Knives of June 1934 where the streetfighting wing of the NSDAP was purged by those who considered themselves of rather greater ideological purity than the ruffian Johnny Come Lately Sturmabteilung. The purpose wasn't to reduce streetfighting but to eliminate the infuence of Ernst Rohm after which they carried on as before. Meanwhile in the wider contemporary world, and not just in New Zealand, I detect a rapidly increasing awareness of the repetition of history. I'd previously been keeping my posts on this thread to a minimum. Thanks for reminding me why that was a good idea...

I suspect that Watkins would be better suited to the role. I do recollect Danny Williams having a decent game at left-back last season so that's another option.

HT - ICT 0-0 DUFC FT - ICT 2-1 DUFC ICT 1st scorer - Draper DUFC 1st scorer - Erskine Time of 1st Goal - 54

I felt the 4-4-2 formation we used against Celtic worked that day, but for it to work again we need to have Draper in the middle (or Foran if he ever comes back). As good as Danny Williams is, he isn't the midfield enforcer that we need in the set-up to make it work.

I know New Zealand television is renowned for being appalling but it seems in this case that their news reporting isn't just out of touch, but on a completely different planet.

Had you been at the game today you'd have seen that we lacked an attacking, direct threat big time. Draper should also get his place back. Time to go back to two out and out wingers and bring Christie back in I reckon. Esson Shinnie Warren Meekings Tremarco Draper Tansey-----Christie Doran-----------------------Watkins Ofere Subs - Mackay, Devine, Williams, Ross, Vincent, Polworth, Kink

HT - SJFC 1-0 ICT FT - SJFC 2-2 ICT SJFC 1st scorer - Graham ICT 1st scorer - Tansey Time of 1st Goal - 32

https://www.facebook.com/urbankitz Cracking Facebook page by the way. 46 people like it and Celtic kits for only £19.99? Bargain! And what about this snazzy logo by the way? Looks like someone created it on Mircrosoft Paint!

How's that ICT/Crystal Palace (of which there's absolutely no connection between the clubs) 'Friendship' thing coming along?

OFFICIAL Butcher is boss of Newport.

I think one of the reasons for shipping goals and fairly regular gubbings is the fact that every week seem to put out something resembling an U17 squad......and Lewis Horner. The fact that you're now allowed five overage players, with other teams presumably using it, probably won't help either. Since the return of the U20/reserve/Development League you could go to a match and in wasn't inconceivable to see Esson in goal, Devine and Tremarco in the defence and Nick Ross, Ryan Christie and Liam Polworth in the midfield. Even then, there'd be U20 players who'd been at fairly prominent previously; Matthew Cooper at Aberdeen, Joe Gorman at Crewe and Adam Evans at Burnley for example. Now surely getting gubbed every week can't be good for youth development or confidence.

I think it's fair to say, due to unbelievable demand, that we better get buying soon before the website crashes!

More than four times anyway.

"Ken". Wasn't aware Thurso was on the east coast.

Ali Crawford did indeed sign a new deal. Presume Accies would be looking for £75,000 for him at least. Also, I see Michael Gardyne is to be released by Dundee United. I'd take him. Expect him to re-sign properly with County though.

Pleased Raven's signed a one year extension. Would've liked it to be slightly longer though to be honest.