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I would have liked him to stay although I don't think he would ever have been more that a decent squad player as long as we retain top six status. I understand the desire to develop a career elsewhere but my fear for Nick at Dundee is that he will also be just a squad player there as well. He's a tidy player but rarely offers much drive going forward. He plays the safe ball rather than the risky ball that penetrates. He also seems to lose his composure in front of goal and should have scored more than he has. ICT have had a knack for getting the best out of players but somehow Nick's potential has never been properly realised here. Maybe things will click for him in Dundee - but maybe not. I am sure we will all watch his career with interest.

It's the Americans' use of the word "bathroom" that gets me. They seem to feel it is OK to bomb any oil rich or strategically important poor country whose Government they don't like, but to use the word "toilet" is seen as a bit indelicate. Or is it that at home they don't have toilets and actually use the bath? At least that way (unlike with some of their bombing) they shouldn't miss.

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.

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.

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?

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.

We may not like it but we need to accept it as a fact of life. We are a small town club with a correspondingly small fan base. As long as the club relies on income from gate receipts, merchandising, TV rights, payments related to league position etc then we will only ever be able to pay players wages which are not competitive with those offered by other clubs. Players have to make a living and think about their long term financial position when their short playing careers are over. We really can't blame them for moving on whether it be to our rivals or anybody else. This is why the success this year is so important. A range of circumstances have come together which have led to us winning the cup and securing 3rd place in the league. We won't always be able to put together such a good squad as this season and our opponents will not always be as weak as this year. One thing that could harm our club is unrealistic expectations for the future. For a club with our resources just staying in the top flight is an achievement and anything else is a bonus. So savour what has been achieved this year - the memory of it may need to last a lifetime.

It may not be McCall in charge. It appears that talks have been held with Mark Warbuton who has done a great job at Brentford. Brentford announced back in February that Warbuton would be leaving at the end of the season which is a pretty unusual situation for a manager, particularly when there was a reasonable chance that Warbuton could have taken Brentford to successive promotions and into the Premier League. That smacks of Warbuton having a lucrative contract elsewhere lined up because I would have thought it unlikely that Brentford would be wanting him to go. There are some serious decision to be made by whoever takes on the job at Ibrox and one would expect a decision on that needs to be made pretty quickly.

Adkins is confirmed as the Blades new manager so Yogi is not heading there.