Caley Stan

QOS @ 1.57

I won't argue with that Alex, but if we're in the bottom three in January then we must hold onto our best players to keep us up - even that means losing them for nothing at the end of the season. The 50-100 grand bids that we can expect for Blackie and Cowie are a drop in the ocean compared to the loss of income that relegation would bring.

Jesus Alex - do you really think that in the long-term that would be most financially prudent thing to do? We have to take a financial risk this year and reject any January offers for Blackie or Cowie as they could be the difference between staying up and going down.

It certainly hasn't helped any of the teams that have gone down in recent years. What's the difference in turnover between a bottom 6 SPL team and a top half First Division one?

Did Billy Urquhart ever play in goals for Caley? I have a vague memory of a keeper being sent off at Telford Street and Urquhart taking over. It could just have been a strange dream though.

MyP2P and the links it provides are great. Thank-you to whoever provides this wonderful public service.

Craig Brown as DoF with Robbie Winters as Player/Head Coach assisted by Barry Wilson.

Brewster sounds like a tw@t in the interview as always. While Wednesday night was a "good performance", yesterday we were "going through the motions". Why the sudden change? Have we not been going through the motions at times throughout the season? There's a lack of spirit in the team - and this a team which has a majority of players who have served the club for years or come through the youth system. Brew has to take responisibility for the failure to foster a good spirit among this group of players - many of them have have played under three or four managers at ICT and never failed to give everything for the cause.

No way. We'll bring a good support to Edinburgh and get behind the team as we always do. If we get ripped apart then the fans will turn on Brew at the game. We pay because it's our club and we support it. If that involves telling Brew to **** off on Saturday then i'm sure a good few heads will be there to do it.

Alex Rae? No. Don't like all this Robbo talk either - i'd sonner have Bobby Wilson.

I was sitting on the fence last week and didn't think that today would make much difference but it did and so did the second-half at Falkirk. That's enough. **** off Brew.

Player-Manager?

I tried to vote for only two (Cowie and Blackie) but it wouldn't let me so i gave third to Tokely primarily for his years of service but also because he was only player who won a header in the Rangers half today.

Two words to describe what i saw from ICT today: dispirited and disorganised. Brewster talked after the game about Rangers destroying us. They didn't destroy us - they didn't have to because we destroyed ourselves. Forget about the individual or tactical mistakes, we're used to losing to them - this was a performance without fight or desire.

County @ 2.00 Cheers.

It's an Invernesian thing. Town's full of old moans. You should get more people down from Tain.

That's been happening a lot recently. Managers have sussed that our full-backs are both slow and that Tokely is likely to be miles out of position half the time.

Next Thursday. Two trips to the filthy weedge in a week - i'll probably bring some horrific disease back to the capital. Tokely needs to be sent on a holiday and then put through intensive training on how to defend. Big game player? Trips to Hamilton and Paisley are big, not Ibrox. Big occasion player? Sometimes, but he's just not concentrating properly at the moment and we're losing goals becuase of it.

We played 3 at the back at Rugby Park last season and it made people cry. Gillian is the 5th person on this thread to advocate dropping Rosscoe.

-------------------FRASER--------------- PROCTOR----DUFF-----MUNRO----HASTINGS ------------DUNCAN----MCBAIN---------- COWIE----------- BLACK------------IMRIE -------------------ROONEY----------------

Falkirk were sh1te. We`were worse. It was really cold.

Nice to see Russell Duncan hasn't forgotten our cup tradition. Herald

I left Inverness 8 years ago and it's changed a fair bit even in that time. Every time i come home another soulless estate has appeared on the fields i used to play on. Many Invernesians don't live within walking distance of a shop, pub or school. Community spirit doesn't stand a chance in these areas. I still love the town centre though. I don't find it run down at all, though that's in comparison with the towns of the central belt rather than the Inverness of old. While the shops in the town centre have been hit hard by the ever-expanding supermarkets, retail parks and malls, it still sustains a lot of pubs and cafes. In terms of nightlife, Inverness offers a lot more to young people than it did when i left. Most weekends we have a choice of 5 or 6 live bands, and bars like Hootenanny's and Foxes are packed with people of all ages. I won't try to defend the streetscape as i haven't had to put up the disruption, except to say that the town centre needed to change in order to attract people away from the retail parks. I hope it works out in the long term. I was in Coutts for an organic espresso last week as it happens. They practice 'alternative therapy' upstairs but i gave that a miss.

From the P&J: "We don?t have a particularly great cup tradition and it would be nice to get to the final of the competition". He's not helping himself.

Basically, yeah. As for Labour, public spending, corporation tax etc. it's all pretty irrelevant to the wider state of the nation. Whether it's Labour, Tories or Nats that govern us they are still subordinate to the demands of free market capitalism.