Rainbow

Another good thing for ICT is that we have no debt and it is unlikely that we will be forced to sell him just to cover a huge deficit (unlike other teams in the SPFL). So yes, £ 1m could be the region where Tel and the Board say "Ok, let's sell him" because we'll be able to afford the wages of an equal replacement plus two more good players for the money and additionally improve the infrastructure at the club. All this talk of "We won't get half of his real value because we're a wee club" is nothing but nonsense.

Sorry I have to correct you Scarlet, but it was a 6-1

I think he will still be eligible. You need to play in a competitve game at senior level, i.e. World or Continental Cup qualifiers or finals to become ineligible for a switch. Germany had this case on Tuesday, with Sidney Sam coming on at the Faroes he won't be able to play for his father's country of birth (I think Nigeria) now. Before that, he had played in two friendlies but could still have switched.

Just saw the highlights, the opener was the best-played goal I've ever seen from ICT. When Meekings played the long ball for the second I thought "WTF! Back too hoofing days?" only to see in the replay that it was an intentional side-footed pass. So I don't mind that the rest of match was poor, great teams don't need more than 2 or 3 good situations to win their games.

Ritchie and Billy - they score when they want!

The whole of Ross-shire? I always thought it was restricted to Dungwall.

Well the Germans didn't want to win 10-0. Thomas Muller said so. He even prefers a 1-0 to a 5-0 because 5-0 matches soon get boring. Not sure about Garics, but he's definitely better than Piermayr.

Are these only professional games or are amateur / youth games included? 2 weeks ago there were 1300 people at a 6th tier derby in the Bavarian Forest, the two towns villages having a accumulated population of 9000. Kick-off was Saturday 3 p.m., 30 minutes before the Bundesliga.

Couple of amazing results that saved my recreation weeks :clapping:

Stirling?

A: Leverkusen - ManU - Real Sociedad - Donetsk B: Juve - Real - Gala - Copenhagen C: PSG - Benfica - Olympiakos - Anderlecht D: Bayern - City - Plzen - CSKA E: Chelsea - Basel - Schalke - Steaua F: Dortmund - Arsenal - Marseille - Napoli G: Atletico - Porto - Zenit - Austria H: Barca - Milan - Ajax - Celtic

I begin to think that it was a very very clever move to get Brill on loan until January. He has time to prove that he's up to the task in the SPFL, and if he succeeds Tel can try and give him a two and a half year contract. Should he turn out to be crap, which I don't believe now, another one could be taken in.

2 games and no goal conceded. Absolutely illegal. Butcher out for scaring the opponent's strikers!

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Devine on for Raven - injury or tactical?

Correct. Hoffenheim is a village with about 4,000 people. But it is part of the town of Sinsheim which has about 35,000 people and is about half-way (35 miles each) between the 100,000+ towns Heilbronn and Heidelberg who have no professional football at all. So their crowds come from a pretty well-populated area. Of course, the traditional clubs Stuttgart and Karlsruhe are only 60 miles away, but everyone in the Kraichgau area hates those cities and would support Bayern Munich ahead of those teams. The other thing about Germany is that pay-TV is still not very widely accepted while everyone in the UK seems to have a subscription to Sky. Add the fact that at Hoffenheim you pay about £26 for a main stand ticket and £20 for the goal end seats, excluding the various concessions, for most matches (except Bayern Munich, Stuttgart, Dortmund) which I believe is the same as at TCS but a modern arena with lots of comfort and a slightly higher standard of footie and it is no surprise that they have their stadium 90% full on average.

Some facts about the German stadia: Standing is allowed in all national matches. Bundesliga as well as Cup matches. There are standing areas for away support, too. All those areas are so-called safe standing areas which can be turned into seating areas for international matches within a few hours. Beer is alcohol free in the stadium. This rule applies down to the 3rd tier. So this is no real difference to SPFL. The advantage of Germany is that we have so many breweries and beer variations. When I attended Stirling Uni in 1998, there was no alcohol free beer available at all there. FP, 80,000 from 580,00 is close to 14%. 4,000 from 72,000 is just 5.6%. Also, Dortmund has an average of 1% empty places per match, while ICT have close to 45%. Two figures where ICT has still room to improve.

I'd love to be there too...

Like the orcs walked over Forfar?

That's true Rival, but it also means they have no negative experience which may block their heads after two successive defeats. The big exception being Esson of course...

Inverness Courier says attendance was only 3217. Is this correct? If yes, I'm sad as I heard that there were nearly 600 away fans...

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Damn. Billy ruined my prediciton. But I guess I can be happy with that

Now the exotic part ;) 1. Bavaria 2. Bavaria 3. August 1997 during a holiday, I can't remember the result or who the opponent was, but a big young defender was very impressive and got MotM. I think his initials were RT. 4. Just returned to Bavaria for a while but hope to make the switch to Ticino (Switzerland) permanent in October

Brill Raven - Meekings - Warren - Shinnie Draper - Foran Vincent - Doran - Polworth McKay Subs: Esson, Devine, Tremarco, Williams, Ross, Greenhalgh, Adgestein