Yngwie

Shocking effort on the whole! Who was baring their sole behind Hartley? And whatever happened to Nigel Quashie?

One of them was really an own goal, not Wood's. He badly sclaffed at a cross, it was going to trundle about 20 yards wide until the backtracking defender got in the way and diverted it in. Although thats a bit like arguing that in Arbroath's 36-0 win, the 27th was actually offside.

Agreed.

Let me just remind myself how this property game works. You go round building houses and making money. Meanwhile you observe that another participant has the best bit of property there is, called Mayfarebadlyoutofthis. And they've built a hotel stand on it. However, they've ran up big debts and need cash, so you see the opportunity to get your hands on this site at a good price, helped by some funds from the Community Chest and perhaps a fair bit of Chance. Once that deal goes through, you can build more stands and can then charge a high rent to your tenants. The thing is with this game, when people are not watching the board, there's always the risk that the other players can use sleight of hand to increase their assets.

That's a good result for Scotland. France had won all 15 of the previous games at this level.

Cantona's kung fu kick on an opposition fan. Jim McLean laying into BBC's John Barnes during an interview. If only it had been Jim Traynor.

Which completely invalidates my point ;)

The only way I can see that happening is if the Supporters Trust was able to to substantially increase the number of shares it controls. Why? One of our previous chairmen has (or had) a personal holding of only 250 shares (the minimum). I a sure - especially in these times of stony silence - that there would be significant support from a lot of small shareholders for a fan representative. What I was meaning here is that I just don't see the board voluntarily inviting a fans rep to the table. It is common business practice though that a significant shareholder (and I'm probably talking about a 20%+ stake) is granted a place on the board. There's no actual requirement for that to happen, but in any normal company its accepted that the largest shareholders need to be involved rather than excluded from operational decision making, otherwise they can become uncooperative and make life difficult for the board.

And if you enjoy women? My wife disagrees with the equivalent stance. It's often said though that in his life, a man can love many women but only one football team.

The only way I can see that happening is if the Supporters Trust was able to to substantially increase the number of shares it controls. Linking that point back to the Killie hotel and any other similar gestures, rather than gifting money to cover bills, is there any reason why the Trust can't provide the club with the same amount of money in return for shares to the same value? The club still gets the relevant costs met, but the Trust gets something tangible in return which reflects its funding of the club, and over time builds the stake in the right direction.

That was a good summary Mr Mills. Is it possible that the stadium was initially transferred to the trust, which subsequently sold or transferred it to the commercial entity?

Scotty for Chairman! YES WE CAN! (which seems to be the complete opposite of the club's current mantra)

Get him signed! Seriously though, with an impressive record like that its only a matter of time before a team in our league makes a move for him. Edit - in fact, with Brewster's penchant for his former ICT players, what are the odds on a "dreamticket" Barrowman/McAllister strike force?!

Best memory of him is that long range freekick at Tynecastle, one of the most spectacular goals ICT have ever scored.

Or as one confused radio reporter said at the time, back to Tonga.

Celtic are following the script here. Republic of Ireland captain R Keane signs for Celtic, after years of being linked with a move to the team he has supported all his life. Massive salary. The fans hail the saviour, and expectations are high. Makes his debut in a game that should be a comfortable win. and they suffer an embarrasing defeat. Keane turns out to be a bit of an expensive dud and people wonder what all the fuss was about. He then leaves the club, and Celtic search for their next saviour. At least it wasn't Clyde this time.

I think he was a real asset to the team, even though he blows hot and cold. Who doesn't? On a good day his determination and energy are better than anyone else can offer. However, it was probably the right thing for us to to cash in.

No, the club lost its ability to do that when it sold the stadium to [insert name of whoever actually owns it now] many years ago. You can only sell the family silver once, it's your get out of jail card and we've played ours. On the face of it there was nothing at all wrong in principle with doing a "sale and leaseback" of the stadium. Would you rather have (say) ?2m in cash or have a ?2m stadium? The answer to that gets a lot easier if you add in that the bank requires you to repay ?2m of debt or you go out of business.

You never said you had already had a warning over the issue. Read post #98.

Transfer news now there. it's obviously taken them 12 hours to write such a comprehensive explanation of the transfer activity. http://www.ictfc.co.uk/articles/20100202/t...2208825_1952805

Its Derek Adams who is saying that we paid Barrowman off.

I thought he'd be holding out for Rangers.

The bulldozer drivers will have to have their opinions vetted before they can move in.

As an aside, John Barnes was declared bankrupt 3 months ago. I think it was more of a non-payment of tax thing rather than him not having any money. But if he ever has to resort to begging on the streets, he'd do pretty well in Inverness. In fact, there's a slap up meal waiting for him at the Drumossie this Saturday.

I think so, if you look through the thread back you'll see that D was given an ultimatum 3 weeks ago.