Yngwie

Nae chance. I suspect we'll be lowest on account of our low crowds, but I wonder if the new sponsor has had the foresight to anticipate the potential reduction in exposure from relegation of any of the clubs (I have Utd in mind there!)

Has Russell Latapy had any employment since, ahem, leaving ICT to become a manager in his own right? I can't find any record of him doing anything. One recent development is that, after many years of legal wrangling, he is finally starting to receive payment of a $1m out of court settlement in respect of unpaid earnings and wrongful dismissal from his time managing T&T.

McEwan Fraser Legal, for the next 2 seasons. They are also sponsoring both Dundee clubs. http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/Caley-Thistle-to-have-new-sponsors-for-2016-17-season-08122015.htm

About a year ago my mate got us a pair of tickets to see the Manic Street Preachers - as it turned out, it was on Cup final day and the celebrations meant I never actually made it to the gig. 12 months later, they've just announced another gig in Scotland, and would you believe it, it's on Cup final day again. So I'm getting another ticket and very much hoping not to be there!

From BBC. For many teams this will largely replace pre-season friendlies. Thoughts? Scottish football will next season launch a revamped League Cup with a group stage and bonus-point system. The Scottish Professional Football League will also reintroduce a two-week winter break in January. The group stage will involve all 38 teams not involved in European competition, plus the winners of the Highland League and Lowland League. "The new format marks an exciting new chapter for the competition," said SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster. "It sees Scottish football leading the way with a number of innovations." There will be eight groups of five teams playing each other once in a round-robin format, to take place across five July dates (16, 20, 23, 27 and 30) and will use the traditional three points for a win and one point for a draw model. However, in what the SPFL believes will be a first in world football, all drawn matches will go straight to a penalty shoot-out, with the winner awarded a bonus point. Eight group winners and the four best runners-up progress to the second round, when they are joined by the four clubs competing in Europe, and then revert to a traditional knockout format.

You could be onto something with the chorus there, I can see that being used. Maybe end it with "Caley Jags go marching on, on, on!"

On a day like today you could also have added "The Rain Song" or even "When The Levee Breaks"!

The radio announcement I heard (and BBC website) say it was due to high winds. Not that it really matters!

It's important that the club maintains an elfy balance sheet.

I see we'll be up against one time Scotland hero Craig Beattie - but blimey, those horizontal stripes are not flattering. WTF!

Aye that was a cracking away day which included a delightful goal from Dargo that even some of the opposition fans were applauding.

Actor Channing Tatum and Josh Meekings?

Note that there is to be a pitch inspection on Sunday morning (according to BBC)

Who'd have thought it possible that, first of all, Scotland could unveil a bright pink away strip, and second, that it would actually be preferable to the new home strip? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34896013

Defunding (noun) - the process by which a team whose manager is seeking a larger budget slides down the league table.

We didn't terminate Hart's contract at all! He was still playing for us more than 6 months after his cocaine conviction in November 2007 and only left when his contract expired at the end of the season. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7079735.stm

It would be ridiculous and unfair to terminate a player's contract for a first offence of this nature. The fact that he's a fringe player should make no difference at all to the process or the punishment (if guilty). If it was our star player, say Billy Mckay in his prime, would fans be saying he should never play for the club again? No of course not, we would all be saying he deserves a second chance.

It takes something like this for us to get the back page headline?!

On the Development Squad thread you'll see a suggestion/allegation of spitting at an opponent.

Hopefully it's not his last cap, for many reasons not least because it doesn't seem right that he has a stat of conceding a goal every 16 minutes, which is more typical of various small islands in the Pacific!

So who would you put in ICT's starting XI, sorry VI? I actually reckon Lopez would be really good at this.

It's on my Santa list already!

£712k transfer budget?

Updates on this today on BBC Gossip: Youth director Stevie Campbell last night quit Dundee United just days before a club hearing over allegations of bullying and racism. (Daily Record) And Campbell, who was suspended from his duties earlier this season, intends to take the Tannadice club to an employment tribunal. (Daily Mail)

What Sneckboy says. You don't count goals that are cancelled because of an infringement, therefore you don't count misses that are cancelled because of an infringement.