Kingsmills

If not the Inertoto then the club should think about a "mini tour" of part of England fitting in a couple of matches at least against clubs playing in the Championship or better. The annual pre season training camp followed by the usual low calibre friendlies id patently failing to get the players up to speed for the begining of the season.

Right now, the near certainty of relegation is the least of their worries.

I suppose that Iron's move to Morton might be seen in a more noble light. Any compensation payable might just be enough to pay the players and other staff for a week or two. The players may well be able to survive for awhile without income givenwhat they are purportedly being paid but there will be office and other staff who will be relying on their pay to pay their rent or mortgage and to put food on their table.

Administration might not help Gretna in their particular situation. It offers protection, or at least restbite, from creditors, but wont help the fact that there might be little or no income or resourses to pay day to day expenses.

My thought exactly. I bet his salary at Morton will be substantially less but at least he's likely to be paid it.

That's if they continue to exist at all.

I doubt if this is the end of this story but it may very well be the end for Gretna. It may be just a blip if Mileson recovers. If he doesn't and his son decides not to carry on with his father's pet project then I doubt if the club have resourses of their own to carry on until next month far less the end of the season.

They don't seem to get involved in many nil-nil draws. High scoring matches, even at a fairly high level seem to be a feature of womans' football generally.

I see from today's paper that Inverness have a team in the first division of the Scottish Womeans' League. I seem to recall that ICT ladies were disbanded a few seasons ago. Does the current Womans' team have any association with ICT ?

Typically of Tony Mowbry's teams, the Baggies seem to be blowing hot and cold just now. If Bristol Rovers catch them on a day they're blowing cold they could well be on their way to Wembley. On the other hand if W.B.A. are blowing hot on the day; well just look at what happened to Coventry !

Time for Niculae to drop to the bench. He hasn't had a decent performance away from home since Brewster's first game back in charge away to Hibs at Easter Road and even then he contrived to miss a penalty.

Yes, It's a pity that comments were made earlier in the season which caused Rankin to become unsettled in Inverness.

Pity Barry's not ten years younger.

They would if our joint sponsors made it worth their while. I'd still prefer , if possible, to have a crack at the Intertoto Cup.

I would certainly attend the home leg and, depending on location and date, might arrange a short break to coincide with the away.

Did you not arrive in time to see the first half ?

Maybe we should have signed Elton instead of Marius !

Yes, well done Bristol Rovers. Hard luck on Preston going down to an injury time winner after having a penalty saved. Still 5 teams from outwith the top division going into the draw for the quarter finals. Assuming they avoid either of the big two then Wembley beckons. When was the last time, if ever, as many " lower division" teams featured in the draw at this stage ?

It's that time of year again when ICT will shortly have to decide whether to enter UEFA's diddy competition. It seems that Hibs and Falkirk have expressed an interest so far so the first task would be finishing higher up the SPL than either of these rivals. I seem to remember that the last time Brewster was in charge we did express an intention to enter but were pipped by Hibs who finished that season well ahead of ourselves. My own view is that the training camps in Italy while very professional don't seemed to have cured our age old fault of being notoriously slow starters, this season being a particular case in point. I would far rather us try at least for a this competition which would give the players at least two guaranteed competitive matches before the season proper gets under way and the bonus of giving the fans at least a taste of European football. As far as I'm aware we don't have the barrier of any ageing rock stars standing in our way this year !

Four ponts from these fixtures would set us up nicely for a battle with Hibs, Falkirk and Hearts and Aberdeen for what look like two remaining spots in the top six.

The most positive aspect, for me, was Imrie, he's not the finished article but he's committed and seems to have great potential. Could be ?50,000 very well spent.

Hibs beating Aberdeen now. If that's that end result we drop to 7th which I suppose is better than a draw which would see both tems overtake us reducing us to 8th place, Just goes to show how tight it is in the mddle of the table just now.

There won't be another footballing day like it unless and until we win the Scottish Cup ! Although, beating St Johnstone to win the First Division was a close second but the edge was taken of that just a little as nobody then knew whether we were going to apply to take our place in the SPL still less whether we would be allowed to.

If we beat Dundee United we will be back in the top six. Hibs and Aberdeen can't both take tree points.

A stamina sapping 30 minutes of extra time wouldn't have gone amiss either.