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Some might say such language is all part and parcel of football culture. If so, then it needs to change. The club used to promote a "family club" image and there were announcements before games that foul and abusive language would not be tolerated. Clearly foul and abusive language is not only tolerated, it is part and parcel of the management style of the manager. As you say, abusing your staff in public is bad management. It is also in contravention of the club's own unacceptable conduct policy, although something tells me he will not be hauled over the coals for his foul mouthed behaviour.

After a bright start I thought Lewis's injury affected the players. I'd be surprised if he hasn't done his cruciate ligament - looked very like it to me. I hope I'm wrong - he was playing pretty well, as he did against. Bonnyrig. The team responded well in the 2nd half and had several chances to take the lead, but messed up. I think we have the talent available but there was a lack of composure and silly mistakes all over the park. Great strike from Gilmore and Billy breaking the club's scoring record were at least some consolation on a disappointing night.

The club has never been in the habit of releasing that information, but I don't see any reason why it should be seen as commercially sensitive. Other clubs release this information. County have recently revealed their sales were sitting at around 1700 which, they said, is 23.5% above the figure for last year. If County can release their figures, why can't ICT? I would have thought the benefits of just being open and honest about these things far outweighs any possible element of commercial sensitivity.

They'll be doing this because that is the way they've been told to play. The incentive is that if you don't do what the manager tells you to do then you'll get dropped. Presumably the manager is happy for them to focus on keeping possession rather than take a more positive, but more risky option.

Good to get a win. Results elsewhere show how easy it is for the bigger clubs to slip up against lower league opposition. Two very well taken goals from Doran, and I got from the car to the stadium and back without getting wet. Otherwise, very little to get excited about.

The position is still broadly what I wrote a couple of weeks ago, although we have made good progress and the report is now, to all intents and purposes, completed. The Trust Board will be looking at it in detail over the next two weeks. There will no doubt be a few changes to make one way and another asa result, but I'm still hopeful it will be available to all by the end of July

Missed the fact that Todorov joined Airdrieonians a couple of weeks ago.

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Which is exactly what the Supporters Trust is doing with the Matchday Experience Survey. There will be a lot of comments, questions and ideas heading the Club's way, and all supported by hard data from the survey findings. I'm hopeful the survey report will be out next month but we're not quite at the stage where we can give a target date for releasing the report.

Thanks for your comments. It is important to note that this is purely a survey regarding the matchday experience and therefore the report will not touch on many of the topics you mention. We did, however, ask about communication regarding the matchday and that certainly generated a lot of comment about communication more generally. We also asked for views on a matchday programme. If a matchday programme was re-introduced, then that could be a vehicle for communication about the other topics you raise.

Many thanks for asking. And, no. You haven't missed it! There are two of us working on it. There is no specific date for its release. We are trying to work through it as quickly as possible but it is a lot of work. The Supporters Trust initiated, wrote and ran the Survey and will control the data and the distribution of the survey report. I am no longer on the Supporters Trust Board, but when they are happy with the final content, I would expect them to share the report with the Club first before it is distributed more widely. The hope is that report will lead to some constructive engagement between the Club, the Supporters Trust and other relevant groups and individuals. There has been some brilliant feedback and ideas from supporters in the free text and the report will include several direct (anonymised) quotes from supporters in the text. I appreciate it has been a while since the survey closed, but I hope you will think the time and effort going into the report has been worth it when you finally see it. I would hope the report can be released to all by the end of July, but I can't promise that, I will be sure to update folk on here if a release date is decided or if there is going to be any delay.

The CEO's statement stated that players who had been offered new contracts had been offered better terms. Billy is 34 now so is coming to the end of his career. His record for us has been great but he has not done as well for other clubs. He's got to balance the pros and cons of grabbing the best offer he can get (even if it means being a bench warmer next season), or being where he will be a key part of the starting 11. I think it would be reasonable for him to take his time and see what other offers might come his way - and meanwhile see if he can squeeze a better offer from us. Personally, I would love it if he was to have another couple of seasons with us.

This was the bit that intrigued me. Goodness knows there needs to be work to be done on the stadium if we are to get more folk coming to the games. "Infrastructure improvements at the Stadium have been identified and exciting new commercial contracts have been progressed, some to be announced in the coming days including our technical kit partner and main jersey sponsor/partner and subject to legal agreements in the coming weeks, we hope to have important news about the Stadium and its environs."

Whatever the tactics, we have to play at high intensity whilst avoiding rash tackles. We can't afford to get a player sent off in this one. The weather is set to be pretty warm which will further drain the energy levels. The later kick-off time could just work to our advantage as it may be a bit cooler later in the game. A win for us would undoubtedly make it the greatest day in the club's history, but in the likely event that we don't win, let's just get behind the team and enjoy a great day out. We are playing in the Scottish Cup Final this weekend whilst County are playing in a relegation playoff. I know which I would be rather doing.

PT have been very impressive in the playoffs. If they had displayed this form earlier in the season they would have won the title with several games to spare. They just might regret not having put the tie to bed against County last night. County have been handed a lifeline. Being 2 - 0 down at half time and down to 10 men things were looking pretty grim for them, but Thistle were unable to take advantage of their possession and County avoided going further behind due to some last ditch defending and excellent saves. Thistle will be a bit nervous now whilst County have given themselves a real chance to turn the tie round.

In its ticketing information, the Club is rightly highlighting the following text. IMPORTANT – These tickets are strictly for ICTFC fans and anyone attempting to sell any tickets to outside parties will have ALL of the tickets they bought cancelled and rendered unusable on the day. Similarly, any non-ICTFC fans found in the Caley Thistle section of the Stadium will be removed by stewards immediately. I think it is important that we all support each other in ensuring that any Celtic fans in our section are identified to the stewards and that the stewards promptly do what they have been instructed to do.

No info on ticket sales till Gringo’s NPL is closed to new posts

So, we either equal or better the performance of the 3rd best team in the premiership, or we suffer the biggest ever loss in a Scottish Cup Final! Interestingly, even though Aberdeen may have finished 3rd, they have finished with a goal difference of minus 4. That is 60 goals worse than the side which finished 2nd. Shows what a gulf there is.

What are the odds of us finishing with 11 players on the park?

Catchy caption! But I absolutely agree with what you are saying.

“Terribly sorry Alister, but we’ve got no secretarial vacancies at the moment”.

I collected my ticket yesterday. I passed nobody else on the way in, there was no queue, the girl in the shop was immediately available to serve me. I looked through to the front reception desk and the person there had nobody at the desk and did not appear to be on the phone, but I couldn't be sure of that. I passed nobody on the way out. All in all, it seemed very quiet, so it is a bit concerning that you are experiencing such difficulties. One would assume that staff are being transferred from other tasks or temporary staff have been drafted in to meet the extra demand and ensure that emails and voice messages are responded to as quickly as possible.

The Courier is reporting that the Inverness Common Good Fund has agreed to subside the cost of travel to the cup final for "young people". It say details are still to be finalised. Hopefully some announcement soon.

If you think people with sympathies towards Rangers or Celtic should not be made welcome at the Caledonian Stadium, I would politely suggest you take the issue up with our CEO. I am sure he would be delighted to have a chat with you about it.

Having the vote close a week after the last home game of the regular season is amateurish. It's pretty contemptuous of the players and fans alike. it's little things like this which maybe make players decide not to sign a new contract here.