Kingsmills

I'm a little worried that we might be taking Arbroath a little too lightly.

The Olympic Associatio are quite capable of being flexible. Hong Kong, which is not a sovereign nation, competed in the Recent Olympics under their own distict banner.

So Eastbourne Borough would have been a step up for him then !

The damage was done in the home leg.

I see a player by the name of Smart scored for Eastbourne Borough in the Conference on Monday. Would that be Alan Smart by any chance ?

The not unexpected annual loss, approaching half a million pounds makes it all the more essential that a number of the issues reflected in this thread, particularly the lack of communication, are addressed sooner rather than later. We don't want the club ending up in the situation it was a decade or so ago struggling to servive a large burden of debt to the prejudice of the football operation.

dull

Good start but they need to score at least one more to progress.

Broadly whatI expected. One year of such losses, after two successive years of substantial profit, is not a disaster but we cannot afford to let this become a trend. It was a number of successive annual losses of about this magnitude that almost forced the club into administration before as a result of the strain of trying to service a debt aproaching three million pounds before that liability was spirited away into the stadium trust. Our wage bill, Marius apart, is the highest it's ever been. The club need to be maximising all income streams which is all the more reason for more professionalism and greater openess at boardroom level.

saw

Or maybe even later today but until then it remains a rumour even if it is a particularly well founded one.

We still don't have a single experienced forward but, having said that, it's difficult to see who would be available within our budget. We do have two or three young forwards with obvious potential so there may be merit bolstering the defence with Dods or someone similar and seeing how the youngsters up front perform at least until the January window.

No he means the proper cup. You know the Scottish FA Cup that's so popular that it's about to enter it's second season without a sponsor.

Monday could be quite interesting then.

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As far as I understand it the Setanta Deal doesn't pay by the match so ICT will not suffer financially by not featuring.

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Despite the fact that we've been an SPL side now for 5 years, the commercial/PR side of the operation seems often to be still hovering mid way between the Highland League and the Third Division. I had the impression that that side of things were being improved under the Chairmanship of Mr Savage but that his commendable efforts to improve things were being frustrated by those with a different and less positive agenda as demonstrated by the laughable efforts to put some positive spin on the unsavoury nature of his parting from the club. I nothing is done to improve things then I agree with Caley D that it will not simply be a matter of stagnation but that we will begin to go backwards perhaps even more rapidly than we progressed in the first place. We'd all hate to see that so hopefully someone with influence at the club will take notice and begin to take the appropriate action before it's too late.

Dods was an excellent captain in his time but Munro could be at the centre of our defence for another decade and seems, after a few teething troubles, to be growing into the role of skipper. For those reasons, I would prefer that Granty retained the armband even if Dods returned.

needy

Interesting replies. I missed the Hamilton game, thank god, but have seem some encouraging and entertaining football against Aberdeen, Liverpool's fourth string and, at times during the first half, yesterday against Hibs. Nevertheless, I share the underlying dissatisfaction with the style of football we are playing especially at home. The TCS has one of the best and widest playing surfaces in the country crying out to be exploited by expansive creative football but Brewster seems intent, even against opposition like Hamilton, in continuing to deploy negative counter attacking tactics. I suspect that if we were utilising the park like we did in the days of Steve Paterson crowds would be at least 1,000 more on average even at the extortionate prices now being charged. Although cost may remain the biggest factor. I'm relatively comfortably off but still find it difficult to justify to Mrs Kingsmills paying well over ?100 to take my two sons from Aberdeenshire to watch the football when the four of us can go the the cinema, sit in the warm and get some gurantee of entertainment for a fifth of that. The club have to recognise that, more than ever now, they have to provide value for money or this trend will only accelerate. Even as things stand, we will need to embark on the sort of Cup run we've not enjoyed for a number of seasons now if the loss of gate revenue is not going to be reflected in a six figure hole in the profit and loss account.