Kingsmills

I firmly believe we can get close to 7,000 home fans for this. Wouldn't it be great if, having ended last season playing in front of the highest number of ICT fans ever to congregate together we started this season in front of the largest number of our own fans ever to attend a home match....

Or it could just be sloppy journalism....

From Bucharest in your pocket Romania’s currency is the leu (plural lei), divided into 100 bani. Leu notes come in denominations of 500, 200, 100, 50, 10, 5 and 1. There are also 50, 10, 5 and 1bani coins. €1 is cur - rently worth 4.44 lei. The best place to get your hands on lei is at an ATM. If you have to change cash, do it inside a bank. Credit and debit cards (MasterCard and Visa) are accepted almost everywhere. American Express cards are less widely accepted, but can usually be used in Bancpost ATMs. In most places I would use lei. roughly 5 lei = £1. Beer = 5-10 lei. A meal + drinks 50-100 lei If you take cash for exchanging it needs to be good quality English notes (no folds, pen marks etc) or euros. You will also need to show your passport and count it when you get it. NEVER change with someone who approaches you in the street, it'a a scam. If you have to change at the airport just get enough to get you to the town, the rate is rubbish. ****Look after your money etc. Romania is very safe for violent crime but there are a lot of expert pick pockets**** If you take a rucksack keep it to the front on buses etc as they will take a blade to it. Don't leave your phone on the table when out, you will be distracted and it will get lifted. A bit like Dingwall then.....

I understand that the club are reintroducing full match programmes this season for each home match. Whilst I understood the financial reasons behind the monthly magazine with just the wee one page insert for individual matches it was never, in my view, quite the same as having a proper programme. Well done to those concerned. A small step towards improving the match day experience.

He wouldn't fit in with Swansea's style of play......

I can't imagine he's being paid significantly more so I suspect he is forgoing European football for the better chance of game time which, in my view, does show ambition on Nick's part. Personally, I think this is a bigger loss than Marley.

I think Nick will do very well and probably demonstrate that we ought to have yielded to his ambition for more first team starts.

If the point you are trying but struggling, through ignorance and arrogance, to make is that ICT are playing at much higher level and with a much higher profile that either Thistle or Caley were or could reasonably aspire to then few will disagree with you. A little more humility and a lot less high handed arrogance when helpfully corrected by those that clearly know their subject more than you do would not go amiss.

Did they not account for Motherwell in the Europa League last season ?

Actually, in football terms, being paid, whether highly or not does indeed define status. Footballers who are paid are professionals, those you are not are amateurs. In back tracking from your position that the Highland League was 'pub football' you then go on to state that ' it is and always has been amateur' wrong on both counts to the point of crass ignorance.

As an ICT fan, I don't care who they draw...

Surreal, surely must be a dream....it just seems like yesterday I was standing in the rain at Kingsmills hoping for a late winner against Rothes and now I am waiting to hear what team we are going to draw in Europe. Simply magnificent

If the standard of the Highland League 35 years ago is 'quite irrelevant' to you then again I suggest that you don't refer to the 150 years of Highland League history as you did in a previous post making the glaring error of describing it as amateur. Many many Highland League players were better rewarded than some of their Scottish League counterparts.

Perhaps when a number of experienced and knowledgeable people point out your historical errors it might be time to take that on board. The Highland League was largely, and Caley and Thistle were professional not amateur. The teams were, and still largely are part time professionals in precisely the same way as the majority of clubs in the SPFL. Your credibility diminishes with each post. Before you post rubbish as a matter of fact it might be prudent to do a little research on the basic facts

So,just who do you think would foot the bill ?

An opportunity next season to hit the ground running.....

The Champions League is much more about making even more money for the wealthiest clubs and much less about fairness and sporting merit. The European Cup,where the league champions of each of the European nations competed against one another on merit and on an equal footing was an inspired post war idea and served the continent well until the accountants started running the game. The view that ' Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City could give any team in the world a good game' is an utter irrelevance.

Whilst I largely agree, the Highland League was a great deal better and much more significant than that as evinced by the hundreds of victories over league teams in the Scottish Cup over the decades....

Not, in my view,ahead of the legend that is Jimmy Calder.....who, apart from anything else, unlike Mark Brown,was brilliant at saving penalties and who could build you a conservatory into the bargain......

Dundee United have frequently done the same in the past.

Yes. He was on loan the season we prevented Dundee from 'skooshing' the First Division.

It's a one year deal and the club have a further one year option. Which is not legally enforceable if the player decides he doesn't want to stay another year. I don't know exactly how these are set up or worded within the paperwork, but I believe it's possibly more accurate to say that it is a 2 year contract in which the club have an option to terminate early without penalty. In which case, perfectly enforceable.

Whilst still not enthused, I agree with what you say although I do think that Ofere is a loss but he was never going to resign if his agent got a better offer elsewhere and clearly he sniffs a better offer somewhere. A loss maybe but we have lost much better and certainly more influential players before and replaced them with better. I think that our fortunes next season will turn, to a very large extent, on which experienced forward(s) we bring in. It would be unreasonable and unfair on the player to rely on young Callum Ferguson.

It's a one year deal and the club have a further one year option. Which is not legally enforceable if the player decides he doesn't want to stay another year.

Signing a player who was not even a regular for Cowdenbeath is truly underwhelming.