Kingsmills

The club's initiative in dropping prices appears to have had little or no impact on the crowd. Not much incentive there to repeat the exercise.

Highlight of the day was Markus coming on after his long lay off. Fraser is now looking the part after a bit of a shakey spell.

I sincerely hope we achieve the milestone next week. Otherwise, as Harry Chibbr suggests, the milestone could quickly become a millstone.

Personally speaking I still love Scottish Cup ties.

I hope that Deano does decide to return and fight for his place.

Ideal for berthing one's yaght thus avoiding the frustration of waiting 20 minutes while the car park clears !

Sorry to see this develop, he ought to have been the sark in our misfield for many seasons to come. I'm not sure that Brewster has handled this situation at all well.

A train in the morning sounds like the perfect solution !

They've got another 20 hour to get to Inverness with a thaw forecast for tomorrow. No problem surely.

One problem that I personally have with the Stadium Trust is that it's workings are opaque to say the least. A bit more openess might go a long way to alleviating concerns although I do agre with Caley D that the trustees are individuals who have demonstrated goodwill to the club in the past. From my own point of view, I have not developed any sort of emotional attachment to the concrete and steel that form our windswept lop sided stadium. The only football venue left in town with any sort of character is Grant Street.

Nevertheless, the stadium occupies valuable land in a prime waterfront location with a nearby trunk road.

As many will recall the asset comprising the long lease of our stadium and surrounding land was transferred from the ownership of the club to a charitable trust a number of years ago. The principal motivation at the time was to relieve the club of the crippling burden of servicing almost three million pounds worth of debt on an annual turnover of about a third of that amount. The majority of those associated with the club regarded the loss of this valuable asset as a necessary evil at the time. If the debt had remained the responsibility of the club then the consequences were going to include reverting to part time football or worse. However, things have moved on since then and, without being complacent about our current SPL status, the club is now in much more robust financial health with an income stream that would now allow us to service such a level of debt without too much stress on the finances especially with interest rates on the way down again. It seems to me that there might now be merit in ownership of the rights under the lease being transferred back to the club so that the club can seek to exploit any development opportunities directly as well as beefing up the balance sheet. What do others think ?

Just how many tens of millions of pounds has the opening up of the waterfront at the Longman been worth to Inverness ? An exceptional return on an investment of ?900,000 methinks.

Have we actually saved a penalty since Calder left ?

It may just be my rose tinted spectacled view of the past but I would bet that Jim Calder saved about 40% of the penalties he faced.

Barry seems to be the man for significant milestones.

Good luck and thanks for your contribution to the cause over many seasons.

Hard call, Motherwell, Falkirk and ourselves have all excelled this month. Even Davie Irons at Gretna must be in with a shout.

Far better, in my opinion, for the remaining games to be played as scheduled with appropriate tribute being paid.

Bringing on and selling promising young players is the one area where County seem to be (much) better than ourselves.

Why not ? but then again, like a number of others, I was sure that we were going to beat them last time of sking.

I hope that the club are rewareded for their initiative by a bumper crowd.

As a supporter of a Second Division team he has very little in common with us these days.

My understanding is that ICT stand to gain absolutely nothing from any move.

This thread is a tribute to the late Phil 0'Donnell. There may be scope for debating the respective merits of a minute's silenmce against a minute's applause but anyone who wishes to do so should open a fresh thread.