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Accounts are employed for the reason that they are a statutory requirement for a limited company. Failure to produce accounts on time can lead to sanctions up to and including the strike off of a company from the register of limited companies. In addition, failure to produce timely accounts could lead to sanctions from the footballing authorities, and would lead to the witholding of a uefa licence. Clubs employ accountants to minimise the amount of tax they have to pay, and private limited companies tend to produce accounts containing the least information legally required. To give more than that would be commercially naive. I was originally going to say there were three reasons for employing accountants with the third being to comply with legal and statutory requirements. But then it occurred to me that many companies (not ICT, of course) employ accountants to conceal the fact that there are some legal and statutory requirements that they are not complying with. Such companies usually engage the services of expensive lawyers as well. I'd better stop now or I might need one myself.

Tripadvisor only has one entry under "things to do in Giurgiu" and that is to go to the "Bridge of Friendship" which takes you across the Danube and out of the country. It sounds like a smaller version of Hull.

I would have thought the best plan of action was to wait and see what the specialist travel agents which the club is consulting come up with.

Accounts will be published, but remember that organisations employ accounts for 2 main reasons. To ensure the company pays as little tax as possible To ensure that as little meaningful information as possible is provided to people who are not directly involved in the running of the company.

and come out the victors. boom boom! Of corsa

The fact that we don't need to wait for the outcome of a previous match and that we are at home first means there is maximum time to make arrange for getting to Romania. Astra may have given Celtic a hard time last year - but they lost. We gave Celtic a hard time and won so there is no reason to think we can't win this. What you need to beat an Astra is a Cavalier approach.

The top 4 teams in England have got to be in the Champions league. No question about that Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United , Manchester City, Could give any team in the world a good game. Of course there should be a question. If they don't progress as well as teams from nations who have less places, why on earth should they continue to have four places? Teams should be there on merit. The real scandal to me is the way that failure in the Champions League system get a 2nd bite of the cherry in the Europa League.

It was announced today that the Parliament buildings are in need of very major refurbishment. If they abolished the House of Lords then they could sort that end of the building and then the House of Commons could move in there whilst the other end was sorted. I agree that the House of Lords as currently constituted is totally unfit for purpose. But we do actually need some kind of second chamber to scrutinise things. The danger of an entirely elected 2nd house is that if both houses are of the same persuasion there is not enough scrutiny whilst if they are different, things get blocked. Most MPs know precious little about most of the things they are debating so maybe what is needed is greater input from people with a detailed professional knowledge of the issues under discussion. But no system is perfect - if it was, we'd all be doing it.

They are playing silly b*ggers around full fiscal autonomy as well. Now that Cameron has said it would be a bad idea they have decided that they want it again. Interviewed on Radio Scotland, Swinney was asked that if it was refused by the Tory Government, would this be seen as the kind of major change in circumstances which would lead to the SNP seeking a 2nd independence referendum. He answered by saying this was all about "respect". He said that the Government had to respect the mandate given to the SNP by 50% of the electorate for full fiscal autonomy. Without actually answering the question, the implication was crystal clear. But of, course, the SNP have no such mandate. As others have said before on here, at a parliamentary election people vote for a party whose overall manifesto most appeals for whatever reason. It is fanciful to say that all who voted SNP in the recent election are in favour of full fiscal autonomy. In other words, a 2nd referendum is threatened on the basis of the Government refusing to give to Scotland something the majority of Scots don't want in any case! And Swinney talks about respect! He might also like to have some respect for the clear majority of Scots electors who voted for Scotland to remain in the Union. And he might show some respect for the democratic process and agree that after 40 years and huge change within the EU, it is reasonable to ask the British people if they still want to stay in the EU. Swinney has also had to reveal that the Scottish Government has underspent its budget by £200 million last year. Whilst it is good they have not overspent, it does rather put into context their regular bleating about how the Tories' austerity agenda is starving the Scottish Government of money.

I agree with PerfICT. If he is with us next season then it will be Yogi's job to get the best out of him. Kink's performances will be just one of the things which will give a measure of just how good Yogi is as a manager. Boyce had a bit of an attitude at County but McIntyre seems to have been a big influence on him and that has made a huge difference to his performances. We need Yogi to do the same with Kink.

Actually they did vote against a referendum. I appreciate that they would like 16 and 17 year olds to vote as well and I agree that they should, but the Bill has a long way to go. The vote earlier this week was simply about whether in principle there should be a referendum. The Bill now passes to the Committee stage where there will be plenty of opportunity for our elected representatives to argue for the amendments they feel are appropriate. Had other opposition parties and a handful of pro-European Tories voted with the SNP then the Bill would have been dead in the water and there would have been no referendum. No doubt there is lots in the Bill as it stands that other MPs don't like, but fortunately MPs of other parties take democracy seriously and the Bill can now be refined with a final decision being taken in due course. If the final Bill does not include all of the SNP's wish list I don't think that even the SNP will be as pathetic as to vote against it again then. Make no mistake, their tabling of a completely unnecessary amendment and then voting against the Bill this week was not a principled vote against about the shortcomings of the Bill as it stands, it was simply about being disruptive.

Oh b****r!

He looks very uncomfortable wearing that kit.

I see Ciftci has decided not to renew his contract at Dundee Utd. Maybe we could sign him? At least Gary Warren would be able keep him in front of him if he was on our side.

As it is the season ends in May and starts in July so we already have summer football. In any case, don't the guys who do the business on the park deserve a summer holiday too?

​It's even worse than that. In opposing the bill, Salmond argued that no one believed Cameron wanted to take the UK out of Europe and therefore agreeing to the referendum was simply to appease Tory back benchers. He said that major constitutional referendums should be held on a proposition, honestly held. What complete and utter hypocrisy! By the same token you could argue that Cameron should never have agreed to the independence referendum because he does not want to take Scotland out of the UK. I don't recall Salmond opposing that one! Salmond is all too keen to let the people have their say when he thinks there's a chance he might get what he wants, but not when he thinks there is a chance he might get something he doesn't want. At least Cameron had the guts to allow the people of Scotland to have their say on Independence and has the guts to allow people to vote again on Europe after 40 years despite the fact he did not want change on either issue. It is called democracy. But as I have pointed out before, the SNP are not interested in democracy, they are just interested in getting their way. Like most people in Scotland I will vote for the UK to remain in the EU and I welcome the opportunity to affirm that at the ballot box. By trying to deny the people of Scotland the opportunity to exercise their democratic right to vote on this issue the SNP rabble at Westminster are clearly not speaking for the people of Scotland. I have no doubt that the people of Scotland will continue to be as poorly represented by Salmond's clones as they were today.

Well with respect to the Independence referendum, that's 3 SNP supporters talking about it for a start! Seriously though, the reason some of us keep talking about a 2nd referendum is that the one person in Scotland who matters most in Scotland in this regard refuses to rule it out. Saying a 2nd referendum is not in the current SNP plans is not good enough because it could easily be in the plans tomorrow, We really do need a clear statement that the earlier "once in a generation" sentiment will be honoured or else there is going to be ongoing uncertainty which will be bad for Scotland. I certainly accept that if there is a continued high level of support for independence there should be another referendum at some point. The once in a generation timescale seems appropriate to me. The reason for this is that major constitutional change is completely different for parliamentary elections, In parliamentary elections if you no longer like what you voted for last time, you have the opportunity to change things in another 5 years or so. If we vote for independence in a referendum then there is no going back - we're stuck with it even if a large majority change their mind. In our democratic history it is only in the last few years that there has been a significant support for independence. It is too early to say whether this support will be maintained or even grow further in the next few years, or steadily dwindle like a similar level of support for the Tories in the 50s has done. Because a vote for independence is such an irrevocable step, it really is important from a democratic perspective that we don't make that step until it is clear the people have been in favour of independence consistently for a prolonged period of time. Support for the SNP at the moment seems to me a bit like the latest social media craze and we really don't know what people's views will be in a few years time. If people still support independence in 20 years time then fine, have another referendum. But in the meantime can we please have a bit of leadership from our leader so that we can get on with the business of running the country in an environment of political stability using the new powers which are being devolved (and on which,incidentally, we have not had the opportunity to vote).

I would have thought with our recently elevated profile and our reputation for getting the best out of players who were wallowing in obscurity, there would be large number of agents promoting the merits of an even larger number of players who would like to come here. There is no point taking players who don't want to come this far North. Better taking players who are proactive about wanting to be here rather than ones who will come only because they can't find a decent offer elsewhere.

Vaduz, the team from Liechtenstein were the team who beat Falkirk when Falkirk were in the Europa Cup in 2009. They also played Livingston in 2002 but went out on away goals.

I don't know if it is just the BBC but anyhow, it was on the BBC website that I noted that in the fixtures for the FIFA Women's World Cup they are appending the word "Women" after the country names. For instance, tonight we have Sweden Women v Nigeria Women. Given that the competition name explicitly has the word "Women" in it, it seems totally unnecessary to add this into the team name. Is this just the BBC being overtly sexist in how they are reporting the competition? It's a shame really because the women's game deserves to be taken seriously on it's own merits without people reporting it in a sexist way or making cheap sexist jokes about it. I have watched some of the early highlights and there is some really pretty good stuff on display. The football's been OK too.

By results, does this mean results in European matches only and if so, is this simply a measure of what stage a team progresses to or do they take account of the coefficient of the team they played? It all seems unnecessarily complicated and unnecessarily flawed. Surely what matters is how good a team is now rather than how good they were 4 or 5 years ago. St Johnstone have a higher coefficient than we do despite the fact that we won the cup and finished above them in the league. The same nonsense applied to golf would probably have Woods ranked as in the top 10 and Spieth a long way back. It would also seem better to seed according to the performance of teams from that country as the strength of a league will be more consistent than that of an individual club within the league. Inverness are in the competition this year because in the last domestic season we did better than teams who qualified for Europe in previous years and therefore should have a coefficient which reflects that. Of course, none of this would make any difference on whether we were seeded this year but it could have a bearing on our Champions League campaign next year.

The report actually quotes Brittain saying "my old Caley and County days". Sometimes when you wish so much that something happened you actually believe it to be true. Playing at TCS against us must have affected him very deeply indeed! Or was he actually here as a junior or an unsuccessful triallist?

Nick Ross has a cup winner's medal with his hometown team: surely that will be the pinnacle of his career. He's a good squad player for us but if he wants regular first team football and new challenges he will need to move. I don't know what he is looking for or expects in terms of contract offers, but to be honest, I think his style of play is more suited to ICT than many other clubs and it would not surprise me if the prospect of regular first team football would only be offered elsewhere at a wage he would not want to accept. Lack of offers may result in him staying put and trying to make the most of the opportunities he will undoubtedly still get here.

I think he's about 30. When he decided against the move to St Johnstone 3 years ago he stated he was putting his family ahead of his career and I guess that's what he's doing here. Good luck to him, I say.

Must be a different player. The one who left us to go Wigan had a small k.