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What, through the revolving door, you mean?

I'm in Englandshire. Mind you, they can probably hear my snorts of derision from here.

Oh I'll do that too, CaleyD. When there's nothing better to do mercilessly mocking idiots is quite good fun :evil02:

What a fricking idiot. How does he think Highland clubs cope with having to travel down south every other week? Oh wait, he doesn't think about it at all - he's incapable of seeing past his own narrow viewpoint

A-freaking-men. A lot of already disillusioned people will be very angry if this happens, and it will only end up further damaging the already frail health of the Scottish game.

I've been wondering where the goals are going to come from this reason. I'm beginning to get a bit concerned, as a long losing run at this stage would leave us with a lot of catching up to do. Hopefully we'll start picking up points soon, otherwise we could find ourselves in an uncomfortable situation.

What a very civilised discussion this is! (Although I did like Caley D's suggestion of a Media Death Match :evil02: ) Now I'm south of the border I've no option but to tune in via the internet. Whether I finally decide on MFR or the BBC remains to be seen...

Nice to see Dougal is still all full of sweetness and light. I've been away from the board for a while, but it's good to see that some things haven't changed in my absence

Russell Duncan anyone? Yes, quite...

Yes, better safe than sorry IMO.

Very sorry to hear this. My thoughts and best wishes are definitely with Iain and the family at this sad time.

Your colleagues at Radio Scotland, via Chic Young's phone in programme are still pedalling the line that the ICT pitch was inspected by a local ref at 9.00am this morning, who was reluctant to make a decision, and chose to leave it up to the match ref to inspect the pitch on his arrival. Are you still prepared to contradict that assertion? YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW mr bannerman never admits when hes wrong,he was spouting rubbish on p+b about strathspey getting cash from somewhere when it was rubbish,he never came back to backup his "lies" and wont do with this one either Huh?

He was a white elephant and we were incredibly stupid to give him such a lucrative contract.

You would wonder, wouldn't you? Also, the manner of the sacking was cowardly, in my opinion. If they had concerns would it have been that difficult for them to sit and have a proper meeting with Don? If they had actually been willing to talk about their concerns directly wit him then both sides may have been able to reach a compromise that didn't involve sacking anyone. But as we know, trying to engage in any sort of dialogue with the people who run the club is like trying to get blood from a turnip.

I'm now quite curious about what it is that you know about the club, it sounds troubling, whatever it is. As for the club "becoming a shambles", I remember worrying about this almost a decade ago, when I wasn't much older than you are now. Unfortunately, things have got worse in the last ten years and instead of growing and becoming more organised and developed it has very obviously got more disorganised. "Becoming a shambles"? It already is a shambles, and has been for a long time.

Ouch. I don't see what right they had to do that if it was an arrangement you made directly with SRU. I'd be as mad as hell if it were me.

Mantis, you are a man after my own heart. I agree with almost every word and I believe we will be in the SFL for a good long time now, and part of the problem is that we have lost whatever it was that made us a special club and it will take us a long time to get that back, if indeed we ever do. Wilson, what are you drinking, because I would LOVE some right now. Yup. David Sutherland may have kept our club afloat, but his control over us is increasingly becoming a stranglehold rather than a support. The board have also shown a singular lack of ambition and have allowed our club to go backwards, which has been happening basically since Ken Mackie left. This is what I find particularly galling.

*Shrug* I didn't say that we don't. My point is that our problems are not just at management level, they're also at organisational level and the people who are supposedly running the club should at the very least take a long hard look at themselves.

It concerns me that we seem to be unable to string two decent halves together, let alone two decent games. It seems to me to be a combination of poor managerial decisions and the players just bottling it for no good reason. However, the malaise at the club goes deeper than just the players and management. If we're going to look at replacing the management team (again), we also need to look at replacing those running the club, as they're the ones who've allowed the debacle of the past 18 months to happen.

Think you have a good point, Clacher. A well-prepared team would be ready to face up to whatever the other side might throw at it. That was not a well-prepared team in the second half and they bottled it, in spite of the good first half that they'd had.

I didn't vote either. As I am unable to see into the future I have no idea whether he'll still be with us or not. If I absolutely had to make a choice, I'd probably tend more towards "no".

Alcohol and copious amounts of denial. That's how I do it, anyway. Am absolutely raging that we threw it away after having such a great first half and a two goal lead at half time. Why can we not string two decent halves together? Pathetic.

This venue is not very neutral...

I agree, this kind of thing is unacceptable, unpleasant and just downright rude. And even if people aren't outright abusing each other there's still a depressing amount of posters bitching and taking pot shots at other fans. I mean, for Pete's sake, we're all supposed to be on the same side, aren't we?? I think Ronnyc's idea about having to earn posting privileges is a good one. It might help people to learn to actually think before posting nonsense. I would also favour stricter moderation, maybe restricting the troublemakers to a "quarantine" area for a while, or having a "three strikes and you're out" policy. I miss the community atmosphere we used to have and I'd be happy to get it back, even if it meant a tightening of the rules.

"one of the most economically deprived areas in Scotland" I presume they are referring to Merkinch rather than Inverness. But even so, is it a valid claim? I haven't lived in Inverness since the 80's, but my perception of that area is that it's deprived and a bit rough, but there are dozens of worse areas. They're exaggerating all right. Merkinch is not the best of areas, as we know, but it's nowhere near the same league as Sighthill and Easterhouse, both of which have really depressing levels of urban poverty.