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Aww, that's all very uncharitable to our "northern" cousins. Good luck to C*unty on the day - a wonderful achievement just to be there. And while you are busy preparing for what will be the greatest day of your careers, we will quietly get on with the job of winning the league and being promoted back to the SPL . . . where we belong! :(

And I'm also confident we will win the league!

I'm a 10.

B) Brilliant! B)

And the view is getting better . . . .

And we will because we can, and not because others couldn't. Our goal difference speaks for itself.

Aye, if you're buying! :( Here's to keeping the faith . . .

17 games unbeaten and 5 straight wins in a row - GO CALEY JAGS! :(

I personally feel that the highlights are presented in exactly the format what I need to view - I have no sound on my work laptop (some sort of failure) but the visuals are great and I agree with the comment regarding steadiness of the camera work, it is excellent. In fact I feel that 3 minutes is just about right, enough to whet the appetite. As the IT kill-joys at work find more and more things to ban access to, and streaming video was first to go, I was surprised I was able to access these highlights when I cannot even get news clips off the BBC, so I am delighted that whichever way these are being presented means I am able to access whenever it is convenient for me and not just when I am at home (where I spend almost no time on the computer now). I couldn't originally access the flash file but could the wmv, but I see I can get both now. Good job chaps - keep it up!

Wasn't it Jock Stein that said "Doesn't matter how many they score as long as you score one more"! C'mon the lads!

Yup, me too. Wonderfull sight isn't it :004:

We haven't won it . . . yet. There are enough games where the results can go against us, but as has been pointed out, if we keep up our excellent run then it doesn't matter what the others do as we will have done it for ourselves. Interestingly, I had Radio 4 on in the car this morning (Radio Scotland had some tripe on about the history of fortified wine) and there was an interview with the heid yin of Newcastle United's fans trust or whatever, and the reporter had already noted that NU had been top of the Championship almost from the begininning and all they needed was a draw with Sheffield United tonight to be assured of promotion. At the start of the interview though, the supporters rep said he wasn't counting any chickens but the reporter said I'm fairly sure your chickens are safe. Contrast that with what is being posted of late on our own Forum and you can see the difference! Confidence is one thing, arrogance another. We haven't won it, and are not near to claiming to either, but we are FULLY CAPABLE of doing so. Continue to get behind the team as you have been doing and make the 12th man count!!!!

Aye, but this time yesterday we didn't, and now we do! Considering the amount of effort and the commitment needed not just to launch it, but to keep it going, I give the people concerned a 10 out of 10 for doing this especially considering that next season we will be back on the network broadcast system for our league games as well as cup runs. :004:

Hear hear

Excellent job Scotty, and well done to all those involved in setting this up. Couldn't have started with a better game to launch it with either! :004:

So is it less a case of what was said and more about the manner in which it was said? I'm with those who think that sticks and stones are (relatively) harmless, it is all to do with intention. In most cases it is due to a general ignorance and so no amount of complaining will change it. Some of it is gentle ribbing and banter as long as those giving it out are willing to take it back. And some is deliberately set out to insult. So by not getting insulted makes you a better person than they are. Mind you, calling a player a useless t055er is OK (and in some cases warranted), but there is no need to point out their skin colour since that makes no difference to how talented or capabable they are. Neither is their nationality.

Do we publish our accounts for general public or do you need to get them from Comapnies House?

Sorted, like your style man! :D

Fairy nuff . . . so there are 6 games left, and we are "only" 4 points ahead, and others have had much bigger points advatnages and watched them melt away (snigger) but c'mon . . . have we not shown that we are capable? Are we not changing from canter to gallop at just the right time, when the objective is in sight and we KNOW we can do it?? Yes, it will be sackcloth and ashes should we fail but but not only are ahead AND on current form the strongest contender. This isn't mis-placed optimism. I BELIEVE!

I had big doubts about Terry and June, based mainly on past record coupled with the distraction of the Scotland job and I agree, since that has been taken away it is no coincidence that our fortunes have changed. I also agree that it is personal for Butcher - like (or perhaps even more than) the players, there is always one eye on what else is out there and where next to progress a career, and football like many other industries is one where you are only as good as your last job. Butcher will be looking to add promotion to the SPL on first attempt as a major qualification on his CV. Question is, will he stay with us once we move up or will the next Rangers / Celtic (nae likely but . . .) / Aberdeen / Hearts etc etc vacancy tempt him away - or even move to the English leagues?

I BELIEVE!

Quite right - cautious optimism is all very well, but we ARE an SPL team. We've proven it before, and we will prove it again. We just have to make sure that when we get there next time we stay there!!!

Lets look at ICT as the model for what RC can achieve - a place in the top flight and the boost in income that it can provide. In order to get there ICT had to look and act more as a professional club, in order to be taken seriously by the SPL and SFA as contenders and not just as relegation fodder doing the perpetual yo-yo in promotion / relegation / promotion ad nauseum. But were we ever likely to make a significant increase in our fan base to go along with it? Answer, no, not really. So income may have increased a bit due to our ability to not only enter but stay in the SPL for an extended period, but we also needed to be conscious of the fact that we could get relegated as in fact did happen. The mettle of both the club and the fans has been tested by the determination to go straight back up to where we "rightfully" belong, and I feel we are all doing our part to achieve it. The point here is that the Club had to factor in that the core support is the principle source of income, but it is not just what we bring in to the club but our share of much larger fan bases which we gained from the SPL. As pointed out in other threads, our spend had to be tempered not in what we are earning now, but what we may be earning next year and beyond - exactly what any sensible business should do, along with provision for continegencies by putting surplus aside and not splurging it all. But football is no different from any other business. There are those who plan ahead and are able to thrive, those who plan but become victims of circumstance, those who plan but get tempted by short-termist thinking and those whose whole basis is short-termism and want it all now, not later. And we can all name clubs who fit into all of those profiles, just as we can name business in just about any industry who are similar. And there are businesses that we think of as customer focused and those we think are simply wanting to take what they can get - question is, is the former more successful than the latter? Dross C*unty could learn quite a bit from us, if they chose to do so, in how we have managed to move from two moderately successful Highland league teams into being consdiered as SPL regulars - we must have been doing something right, even if there were mistakes being made by the Club in underestimating the effect that certain actions and decisions would cause dissatisfaction if not disaffection. Fact is, while the regular attenders and stalwarts felt they were being treated less as friends and more as consumers, ICT profile overall was being boosted and I know from speaking to other clubs fans that there is a genuine soft-spot towards us, and that comes mainly from the interactions they have with our fans. How much of that is the Highland sensibility and how much is the lack of generational animosity that other more established clubs have built up against each other I don't know, but we are what makes this club great and I think that they (the Club) are now realising that. But to maintain reasonable income we need to be in the SPL and the longer we were out of it, the harder it would be to get back and the less likely we could stay in even when we did. We ARE an SPL team currently taking a one season trip in the First Division - if C*unty wants to be like us, they'll need to get into that same way of thinking!

Thanks for that mate. Gave it a try though and there doesn't seem to be a way to narrow it down to location. I'll give it another try, but if anyone wants to reply to this thread just to say hi that would be excellent! :D

Just a thought but . . . are there any other ICT fans over here in Furry Boot Town doing the missionary work amongst the heathens? Because my kids are still a bit wee and I have them over weekends I cannot really manage to those games but if there are fans travelling to mid-week games setting off from here or here-abouts we might be able to arrange a car-share or something? Even just knowing some fans in the area who have regular-ish meetings would be nice - never know, there might even be an Aberdeen equivalent to the Innes!