Sir C the 3rd

What was the point in denying it weeks ago. Just makes him seem a silly wee boy now.

I'll be back if Rangers are in SFL division 3. I dont want to lose my club, but as I keep saying there is no point to league football in Scotland if they are in the SPL. Doesn't look like they will be in the SPL so i'll be down the stadium in the next couple of weeks.

If Rangers are out of the SPL, that means they have no voting rights in the SPL. SO if sky do want to renegotiate the deal and say offer half of the £80m, then Celtic have no leverage without there horrible twin. Therefore then money could theoretically be split completely equally making every club bar Celtic much much better off! At the moment of the £80m TV deals bring in, the old firm get 85% of that, which is £68m over 4 years between the 2 clubs. Meaning the other 10 clubs get £12m over 4 years between them, which is £300,000 per season. Absolutley outrageous..... £40 million split evenly over 12 clubs over 4 years equates to just over £800,000 per club per season. Now obviously this is just theoretical, but its possible the clubs could be much better off by getting Rangers out of the league and voting fairly and not completely in the interest of the Old Firm. By having that financial fairness it would make a much more competitive league and more importantly a league with improved quality. When that happens the TV money goes up and we could seriously entertain the idea of a good quality 16 team league. Crowds would be improved, lots of derbies, the national team should improve. Its win win for me but the clubs have to have the foresight and most importantly the balls to say NO, Enoughs enough, and get Rangers out. The funny thing is that when Rangers eventually get back to the SPL all those changes would benefit them, they'll still have huge crowds bringing in more money but at the same time actually getting pushed by teams week in week out which will in turn help them progress in Europe, rather than the mindless procession to the title each season along with Celtic. This has to happen for the sake of the game in this country.

This is the one and only chance for Scottish Football to be saved from armaggeddon. If they vote to get rid of them, the clubs can vote for much fairer distribution of the tv money as the old firm will no longer be in charge of all voting concerning the league and therefore the clubs could save themselves from financial meltdown. Also we could possibly get the 16 team league all the fans want. There is so much to gain by doing this, I just hope the clubs can see a positive, fairer, more competetive future ahead of them by doing the right thing. One thing that sticks in the throat about Rangers and has not helped the public feeling towards them, is there utterly undignified and completely classless reaction to any criticism or comment about how the club has been run. Issuing a CVA proposal, then at the same time negotiating with Rino Gattuso is just a massive 2 fingers to everyone. They've disgraced the game in Scotland, devalued an already extremely poor league and gone against the 'ethos' of the game of fair play. They have to and must be punished. Sorry ICT but i have no interest in SPL football if Rangers are in it next season

Garbage, because he threw it to the crowd and i caught it!!

Inverness is 'a really hard place to come and get anything'........ i think our record over the past 2 years suggests otherwise!

I'm sure it will be empty after some time, but as you know moving to a new ground generally does boost the crowds for a while. They are a club that are at least trying to look like they're going somewhere.

Not renewed mine either due to the Rangers/SPL debacle..... will renew it if they get huge deduction of points/tv money fairness/ a new voting structure or demotion. If not no SPL for me either. Near a £1000 gone in 4 posts!

I think we all know he's going, does it really matter to what club at the end of the day? If he wanted to stay, as with Adam Rooney and countless others the contract would already be signed months ago, let alone before he went on holiday. Not surprised if it does turn out to be Aberdeen either, off the pitch a bigger club than us and moving to a new 20 odd thousand stadium in a couple of years time. I can see why he'd be tempted, even if on the pitch their pretty much on par with us just now.

"institution"

I would imagine the real reason Butcher wants to get rid of Tokely is that he's being paid too much. We have a tiny budget and Tokely has been here for what seems like forever and is probably one of the highest wage earners at the club. With Tokely approaching (sadly) the end of his career I presume he wants to put Tokelys wages elsewhere, maybe to Jonny Hayes or some other new signings. He's the manager and has to take tough descisions wether we think they are right, wrong or yet another ludicrous conspiracy theory. Make no mistake Tokely is an absolute legend and always will be, but we have to let him go sometime soon unfortunatly and probably cant justify the wages he's probably been used too ......... on the conspiracy angle, if he wanted rid of him so much, then why has he offered him new contracts before and another one this time? Seems a bit silly to me that he would be desprately plotting this elaborate sequence of events to get rid of him.

I'm not renewing my season ticket if Rangers are in the league with no sanctions. Thats near 20 years i've had one, but like I say theres no point to SPL football if they're allowed in. Its a league where cheating goes unpunished, what Rangers have done I would consider chucking them out of football alltogether, its completely against the ethos of football!!! But not in Scotland, back into the SPL with a token 10 points off. Absolutley disgraceful. Clach might be seeing my money till ICT are back in the lower leagues....... at least the SFA have shown some balls by sticking to their origional punishment for them, thats a good start

After last nights revelations on FC Dignity, if they're not punished appropriatley by the SPL then thats it for Scottish Football. Fans in there thousands will start turning away and Celtic and FC Dignity will be whipping part-time teams every week. The SPL was bordering on farcical anyway with their woefully misjudged distribution of the TV money and the ludicrous rules for entry and voting structure. (making County spending in excess of £1,000,000 pounds in this climate is crazy)..... but FC Dignitys years of cheating and stealing players basically goes without punishment then the league is pointless, the other teams are not being allowed to prosper.

totatlly agree with the above post. I've been paying full price season tickets for 16 years and not once had a discount. Was basically kicked out of my seat last season to accommodate the singing.... sorry i mean kids standing section and went over to the main stand and paid more without complaining. I'm not asking much, the discount above would be a nice touch!

Does anyone have a link to the 5-2 game v arbroath or any other games from the 1st season in the 3rd division. I remember we were on tv quite a bit that 1st year but haven't seen the games for years.

esson Meekings Williams Golobart Gillet Proctor Tudor Jones Foran G.Shinnie Sutherland Tade Keep it tight at the back and hope to get something on the break with the 2 big boys up front. Ditch the 4 2 3 1 as half the players dont seem to be involved...... Tansey, has he touched the ball this season?

Always some sort of major conspiracy going on in the backround for some posters.

Another terrible performance but whats new. I can't remember the last time i've looked forward to/enjoyed going to a game. There is little to no quality on the field (from either side), the atmosphere is beyond bad and the price to get in is a mind boggling £25 or £27 or whatever it is. Its the same at most SPL clubs, no wonder fans from every team are turning away in their thousands. The product does not justify the cost and its only going to get worse and worse. The game is dying in Scotland

Terry Butcher???? More chance of JOHN Terry getting the job !!!! Also 'Sorted', one of the funniest replies i've read on the site, agree completely!

It gives me no pleasure to say but I would be amazed if Hayes stays. Even if they did lump in £50k extra into what they were going to pay him, i'm sure he'll still get a better deal elsewhere. The only reason he'll stay is if Butcher convinces him that he could still develop further here. I can't see that happening either. To be fair to Jonny though, I think he deserves to go onto better things and i'm sure we'll find someone to replace him.

I'm sure he can make the 'step' up, even if the Bradford fans think he's a bit of a mullet!

hypothetically a potential new stand could be payed for if it was small and it was actually working for the club. In that i mean like with other clubs the stand for football isnt the main part of it. On a Saturday 20 times a year yes, but basically an office block or student accomodation or gym etc with seats and a roof built onto part of it. Now obviously that is never going to happen because 1. the club have no vision for it 2. we would have no money to build it in the first place, regardless of the potential monies returned and 3. this gas pipe line (which somehow no-one considered when building the thing in the first place) When built in 1997 there won't have been many that weren't impressed with the stadium, but now times have changed. Kind of what like what has happened with Inverness as a town, the look of the stadium has been sacrificed for capacity, which is a shame as there is no atmosphere whatsoever, both down to the same man...... but a move to a new ground would be good but i just cant see how that is going to happen any time soon either, so looks like we'll be down the longman with no 3rd stand for the forseeable. As with being left behind by County...... don't be silly, they will always be the 2nd team in the Highlands!!

I didn't even think Gillet fouled their striker. I thought he just got his body inbetween him and the ball and if anything he was fouled. Only seen it in real time though, the replay will clear it up. But once again the players looked astounded that he'd been sent off

I think its going to be unlikely that Jones is going to return any time soon.

For once i agree totally with IHE and have a green dot as well sir!