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YAASSSS MCCANN! 1-0

Just makes today even harder with Rossco being out.

What worries me more is the bench.

I don't see anyone on that bench that can make an impact and change a game.

Pig-ignorant arsh-holes, eh?

But to put it into perspective, how many of us would know which teams were promoted from the Welsh Second tier to the first this season?

Am I right in thinking that this isn't the first time that Mr. Bannerman has referred to the whacking of IHE's considerable arsh on these forums?

Worrying!

The Welsh league is hardly comparable with the SPL .

Your right its not, and to us it could seem quite shocking that people don't know who was promoted from the 2nd tier in Scotland but i'm sure theres people out there who wouldn't be able to name Newcastle West Brom and Blackpool as the three teams that were promoted from the Championship. I don't know who won League 1 and i'll never care either.

I think we need to change Mccann for Proc at right back and push Cox further forward. Mcbain and Duncan have a great understanding and are both suited to the holding roll. Eric can play out wide and swap with Hayes during the game as Terry is partial to doing anyway.

Heres my team;

Esson

Proc Tokely Munro Gillet

Mcbain Duncan

Hayes Cox Eric

Rooney

Thats actually not a bad idea, especially when playing away from home. I'd play that on saturday.

I missed the highlights but i can understand if it was all Celtic. We did over run Celtic in the first half for about 25 minutes but we didn't have that many great chances either. Even when we were dominating play it still looked like Celtic may take us on the break as their early chances were still more clear cut than ours.

I think the real problem these days is that more people are eating all the pies, meaning bigger queues.

HT: ICT 0-1 Celtic

FT: ICT 1-2 Celtic

1st ICT: Rooney

1st Celtic: Samaras

Crowd: 7311

NOTE: Changed 1st Celtic scorer from Hooper to Samaras as Hooper is injured.

Its not even hard to pronounce. Read it as you see it and your not far off.

A semi final place and a trip to Hampden should be the aim.

I agree, if we can reach the Semi of the Scottish Cup twice while in the first division i don't see why we can't do it again in the SPL. A nice easy run to the Quarter finals and then i would like a re match with Falkirk to secure a visit to Hampden.

The only cup we'll be lifting this season is the North of Scotland

Isn't that a diddy cup though?

Sincerely hope Hayes and Foran will soon be injury free, and match fit before August 14th.

Hayes is looking to be fit for the Celtic game....not too sure on Foran though.

If you were going to single out two players who got us back into the SPL it would be Hayes and Foran.

I only meant Foran probably won't be fit in time for the Celtic game.

Cheers for the picture, first time i've seen the back of the top and i like it.

Sincerely hope Hayes and Foran will soon be injury free, and match fit before August 14th.

Hayes is looking to be fit for the Celtic game....not too sure on Foran though.

This is all pie in the sky until we actually taste and rate the fare.

Who's confident about todays game then? Some people reckon it'll be easy as pie.

SPL

St Johnstone have signed Marcus Haber (on loan till end of season)

1st Division

Morton have signed Stuart McCaffrey

Dundee have signed Jamie Adams (on loan from St Johnstone)

Quite surprised Caff has dropped down so far. He had problems last year through injury but still thought he was a good player.

Will the matchday pies be any better this season and will the prices be hiked up again for the SPL?

Last season pies were of a dubious quality!

neksor

My only home game last season was against Dundee on the last day but being too excited i forgot to buy anything, I'm looking forward to testing the catering to see what all the fuss is with queues and quality.

At the end of our relegation season the staff numbers doing all the behind the scenes stuff were cut drastically. They have not been replaced. The person doing the shop, I believe, also does ticketing and other things. She is a very sweet lady who tries to please everyone but doesn't have enough hours in the day for the workload she has to handle at this point in the year. If you try phoning and cant get through to someone you can always e-mail : [email protected]

Fans should either, go in person to the stadium, or, if phoning, have a bit of sympathy and patience.

I dont know what the problem is with the club shop online, unless the site is being updated with new stock.

I don't think anyone is blaming who ever is running the distribution of merchandise but WHY has no one else been employeed to help deal with the increase of demand that was invevitable once we won the league. Are we going to have to wait a couple years like last time before they realise we are an SPL club again?

The only place I can find who are happy to print your tops with SPL lettering is the Celtic shop in Eastgate. They have them in stock and charge ?6 per name and ?6 per number (even if it's a double number eg 14)

Unfortunately we do not have the facilities to do this in house at the moment.

Hope this helps

I wouldn't want to give them my cash!!

go to rangers shop , tell them its for first game of the season , they might do it free

Is there even a rangers shop in inverness now?

I don't think so, and even when we did it just kept on moving.

Barnet were very lucky not to be relegared to Non League status last season . If you think thats the level we're at then fair play to you but personally I think although we're favourites for relegation this time round we're a bit better than Englands Non League , just my opinion of course . what has attendances got to with it ?

Who would you say Barnet were on par with then? I think attendances do have a part in how good a team can become. More supporters going to matches gives the team more funds to compete for signings. If Barnet are pulling in as many fans as us surely that suggests they are able to pull in players of a certain calibre that we are after.

People completely over rate the lower leagues in England, I've seen some games at that level and the standard is shocking! Given that they were almost relegated to the non-leagues then I wouldn't expect them to be much better than lower Division 1 in Scotland

You may be right but i'd have thought with ticket prices and attendances roughly equal to ours they'd be between us and Ross County. These things are hard to compare though. Stockport are League Two and we only managed to beat them 1-0, They only managed 5 wins all season in League One before being relegated. I know it was only a friendly though so this doesn't prove anything. Fleetwood also beat us and they are non league, our team wasn't weakened that much either.

Problem solved!

Thanks for the help

Barnet were very lucky not to be relegared to Non League status last season . If you think thats the level we're at then fair play to you but personally I think although we're favourites for relegation this time round we're a bit better than Englands Non League , just my opinion of course . what has attendances got to with it ?

Who would you say Barnet were on par with then? I think attendances do have a part in how good a team can become. More supporters going to matches gives the team more funds to compete for signings. If Barnet are pulling in as many fans as us surely that suggests they are able to pull in players of a certain calibre that we are after.

I used to work in a grossly under staffed place, but I always managed to perform various different tasks to keep customers satisfied.

Yes but brothels are a bit different.

After a relatively leisurely year in Div 1 and a quiet summer, the club have to quickly adapt again to the extra demands and volumes, and it sounds like they aren't quite there, yet.

Why the quiet summer though? They knew we would have the extra demand for shirts and other merchandise come end of July start of August so they should have been ready to answer the phone.

Lampard being dropped and replaced by Japanese cartoon star Hello Kitty.

The Sun

Who would want to buy that? Even if it was ICT themed i still wouldn't pay ?600 for a 64GB Ipod. I can't see them shifting that many changing it to Hello Kitty either.

Oo, and back on topic, my local JJB in Southampton do shirt printing, they have different styles of numbers and letters. They should print my ICT shirt for me. They did the Sunderland shirt I got my dad for his 50th last year because it was cheaper than the Sunderland website.

Will they have official SPL numbering though?

They used to do EPL numbers but not SPL.

Some quotes about "Kenny G" on the Barnet website by some fans

"Anyway, can't help think he's better suited to League 1 than the SPL. Good luck Kenny! The best Kenny to play for us since Kenny Lowe. Edit - taken from above link: "He left this summer after a contract dispute" Really? I just thought he wanted to better himself at a higher level, and as a free agent turned down a new contract... Hardly a dispute! "

"Good luck to Kenny ... although I imagine that he'll find the standard of football in the Scottish Premier League is far lower than in the English League 2."

Now this i've got to disagree with. Barnet may be lower SPL or Division 1 but playing against Hereford is not the same as playing against Rangers or Celtic.