Yngwie

Now saying it's "pretty much a done a deal." Which is inconclusive but still very positive.

Cool, time for us to start working on the "Tansey Dancey" for next season.

I'm not sure I understand this bit from the Sky article that explains why we could get him for no fee. He has been offered a new contract by Stockport. So does this rule apply because he was not offered the new contract more than 60 days before his current deal ended?

That's a great article, well worth a read.

4 years after we signed Marius, we appear to have the exact same scenario: - ICT need a striker after being unable to keep hold of their out of contract top scorer (Dargo/Rooney) - Marius has faded into the wilderness and needs to relaunch his career (again) - Alan Savage, with Romanian connections through Orion, wants to get involved in running ICT (again) Can you see where this is going? Well, nowhere. We are more likely to sign Nicholas Nickleby than Marius Niculae - unless there's an 'elluva twist to this tale.

Falkirk Herald mentions that Granty had met up with Stephen Pressley who was interested in signing him.

According to Maurice in the Courier, at this moment in time there is no Plymouth game and the trip depends on finding a 3rd opponent. If Plymouth can't be sorted, who else is down there? Exeter? Bournemouth?

When ICT won at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in December, I recall that part of the ruling was that Marius had to pay ICT's costs - which could have amounted to tens of thousands. I suspect that a big part of the agreement now reached will be that ICT do not pursue him for those costs in return for him not pursuing the employment law case at Inverness Sheriff Court. CaleyD might be right that nobody comes out of this looking good, but the facts that will go down in the history books are that Marius claimed he was owed money by ICT, but failed to prove anything, and ICT were completely and utterly vindicated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. All in all, May has been a good month for ICT.

Well done Heilandee, it's not often you see the words "Graham Bayne" and "free scoring" in the same post

Never mind the Plymouth, Bristol, and Linfield fans looking for info - ICT fans wouldn't mind knowing either!

Just to follow up on that, the Linfield and Livingston official websites both state that they are playing us on 9th July. Our official website says nothing. I can't imagine we would be splitting our squad into 2 like we have sometimes done when facing Highland League teams, so it looks like somebody somewhere has got something wrong.

Report here says that we are travelling to Belfast to face Linfield on Sat 9th July. STV However, that is the same date that earlier sources are saying we are due to be playing at Livi, so I wouldn't book the ferry yet until something official is confirmed.

Pretty sure it was the latter. And Bulvitis has never been capped - just how good did you think he was Ren?!

I think we have been through this before at some point in the past, but I was trying to remember which players have received a full international cap whilst an ICT player. Off the top of my head: Richard Hastings Davide Xausa Marius Niculae Jonny Tuffey Then you've got players who were first capped after leaving ICT: Barry Robson Don Cowie Pavels Mihadjuks And then there are quite a few players who were internationals before coming to ICT: Sergei Baltacha Duncan Shearer Nicky Walker Brian Kerr Thierry Gatheussi Gary McSwegan And finally we have 3 managers who were former internationals: Sergei Baltacha John Robertson Terry Butcher There are also loads of nearly men who were maybe called up to squads but didn't play, or played U21 or B international, but I wasn't planning on dropping down to that level unless anyone wants to! I've no doubt I'm missing some names here, so please fill the gaps.

I've moved some posts regarding interest in Tuffey into the topic that somebody started in Rumour Mill, as the story is worthy of a thread of its own.

Hmm, what sort of magazines does he read?

I laugh every time I see this one. Where on earth did you find it?!

Was Dunc not involved with a magazine about Highland sport? Don't know if it is still going, but I remember seeing one of the first editions a few years ago and I'm sure he was named as one of the people behind it.

That's certainly something he should be good at!

How would you make it work Alex? As you wouldnt want to have a seat reserved for someone who is only there half the time. Could a seat ticket be issued in exchange for your match day slip ICT operated a 10 match season book for our first season in the SPL. You swapped a voucher for a match ticket in advance of every game you wanted to attend. Availability of seats wasn't really an issue at Pittodrie though.

Scottish football needs all the money it can get, so these lucrative friendlies/tournaments should be accomodated where possible provided there is no disadvantage to the other SPL teams.

With the departure of Rooney looking more than possible, out tactics will surely need to change. It is vey unlikely that we would be able to pick up a replacement who could be so effective in the lone striker role.

If you really must order bullets off Ebay again, don't get them delivered to your work address

Forgive my slightly off topic interlude here, but something on the news regarding Ireland caught my attention. On hearing that the Queen enjoyed her visit to the Irish National Stud, was anyone else thinking, Ritchie Foran?

We've forced a lost of players out over the years, but at least we reportedly got £110,000 for this one!