Northern_jaggie

Players to get rid off in red, players to keep in blue. Name / Rank /10 Aldred, Tom 1 Not featured Doran, Aaron 6 Shows potential, should be retained. Esson, Ryan 7 Essential part of a top 6 team Foran, Richie 7 Although played deep, more effective with good supporting players. Must retain. Gillet, Kenny 6 Shown enough to keep his place, not as good as Greame though. Gnakpa, Claude 3 Journeyman. Get rid, 25 years old and he has been to 10 clubs. Golobart, Roman 5 There are more proven defenders who would outclass this lad. Greig, Andrew 4 Not featured Hayes, Johnny 9 Essential we retain him if we are to reach top six. Hogg, Chris 6 Injury worrys plague him, an unneeded financial burden if he keeps on getting injurys however well worth keeping him if he is fit. Laing, Martin 3 Not featured Mathison, Scott 3 Not featured McKay, Billy 6 If played in a wingers role, effective. Not as a target man. Poor man mangement but retain him next year. Meekings, Josh 3 Get rid. Morrison, Gavin 5 Not featured. Keep to see potential. Piermayr, Thomas 4 Not top 6 material. Polworth, Liam 4 Not featured Proctor, David 3 Get Rid Ross, Nick 7 Could be a potentially great player in my eyes, must retain and has demonstrated in the past his potential. With the right man mangement, he could go far. Shinnie, Andrew 9 Best player at this club. Must retain. Shinnie, Graeme 7 Decent player, potential to be a top 6 player. Smith, Greg 5 Not featured Sutherland, Shane 4 Sorry shane, I think you are a first division player. Tade, Gregory 4 Get rid. Getting goals this season, but I don’t know how. There are more effective strikers, first division at best. Tansey, Greg 3 Never rated him. Looses posession and doesn’t contribute going forward enough. Get rid. Tokely, Ross 3 Sorry ross, times up. There are better defenders. Tudur Jones, Owain 4 Journeyman. Tuffey, Jonny 6 Decent back-up keeper. Williams, Steve 5 Not enough from him. Get rid.. Winnall, Sam 4 Not featured So that leaves us with; Esson Missing Missing Missing G Shinnie Doran Ross Missing Hayes A Shinnie Foran Oh aye. Butcher, get rid.

The club should trial the uncovered "singing section" to the right of the north stand. Put a financial proposal in some form to the fans (increased ticket price in the north stand, donation boxes, sponsorship - im sure we would get there even if it took a season or two!), there cant be any harm in that? Id personally love to stand; Ayr United away thats all im saying.

The price is the same for every supporter, payable once the dealine closes for applications.

The best thing would be to look at historical attendances since they are the most reliable, not hypothetical 'we would have filled the stadium charging that price on the day' scenarios. This is an attenuated-average dependant model which is dependant on supporter uptake. A forecast would always look at the scenario for people who would pay the ?150 and not attend, and the number of season tickets required to cover that discount would be reflected in the price of the season ticket! The only thing that could cause a RELATIVE loss (i.e. your still making a guaranteed profit...you know your matchday costs!) would be for the team to perform extremely well on the park and lots of glory hunters turn up. But thats a risk the club would have to take.

Dear all, I have spoken to an asset manager recently who mentioned a scheme run by Hartlepool FC to maximise season ticket sales. Hartlepool is a team based in a relatively poor area and fans numbers had been dwindling, so to incentify fans to buy a season ticket the club put on the following offer; 1) A season ticket will cost you £200 if the club sells 3000 season tickets. 2) A season ticket will cost you £100 if the club sells 4000 season tickets. A large counter will be placed outside the club shop to inform fans of the progress. NOW...a clever boffin clearly looked at the REALISTIC potential number of season ticket holders which the club would attract. Then a cost analysis was carried out to find out the number of fans who actually attend the big and small games over the season thereby making sure that the offer will always make more money than if each game was charged at £25 for an adult. There are so many incredible benefits of this, some being; 1) Guaranteed cash flow budget for the year, meaning a sustainable financial scenario. Transfer budgets can be predicted. 2) Sponsors will know that AT LEAST that number of people will see their brand EVERY game. This can maximise the sponsorship deal value and potentially larger sponsorship corporations. 3) Enhanced merchandise, catering and parking revenue - obviously there is a direct trend between sales and fans attending games. 4) Enhanced club profile, meaning maximum exposure to potential new fans and younger fans alike leading to potentially larger takings. 5) A much better attendance could lead to a better atmosphere, it’s a debatable point but there will surely be a few singers amongst new sweetie rustlers. Most important of all...the fans get a good deal. I have recently paid £25 for a ticket to the gers game as I can’t afford a season ticket. SOME THING HAS TO CHANGE! The best value day out is still too expensive for many fans so please ICT, please show some initiative. You know it makes sense. Mike See the Hartlepool article. How Its Done

"why do so many people think we have to add to the Teuchter sterotype already attached to us" - if there are So Many people, surely that would be enough to ACTUALLY SING at games. Ace of spades

Assuming everyone in the current squad was fit, who would you play in which formation? id go for: Esson Rossco Munro Hogg Gillet Hayes Ross Duncan Doran Foran Rooney Bring on the Celtic....

Hearts of Olden Glory - Runrig I cant help falling in love with you - Elvis (Its already sung at games so logical choice here)

fantastic draw. I think we are overdue a trip to Hampden! I hope our fans turn out for the next round.

any small ground terracing! I live for the Scottish Cup...

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?spl - just sign this one...we are still against the SPL

im sure if the sesh army popped some encouragement into thier camel packs on from TITP or Rockness, the pitch would be cleared by 11am

we will have to try and score more than them regardless of how many they score into us...pele style!

im in + 2

halloween costumes for the rangers game?

Im in support of this motion!

I played against him several times for Durness...every time we heard he was playing we always knew we would have a hard game!

It's not impossible... Terry Butcher - when they turn in performances like that, then who knows where it may take us EUROPE BABY! (but il take 11th place with no cup run right now)

Fantastic team here DJS, spot on. McCann or Duff is a tough one, i might opt for McCann for his goal against DUFC but apart from that you have to fancy this lineup!

All ICT wins... 1) Ayr 7-0 2) Raith 4-3 3) Celtic 1-0 4) Rangers 1-0 5) St Johnstone 3-1 6) Hearts 3-1 7) Ayr 4-3 8) Clyde 2-1 9) Hearts 3-2 10) Hibs 3-0 Good thread

id say the ?500,000 a year interest for two years could go to the fans to decide on new signings. Invest ?2m in a first class indoor youth academy and id build a new stand on the road side with free entry for any child for ten years (?10 per child, say 20 games a season, 5000 seater stand means a total contribution of 10m over 10 years, stand to cost an additional ?6m). Upgrade the end stands for ?12m. Free transport to away days 1m allowance for any period of time. A PR team cherrypicked from Nike, Macdonalds and the BBC to raise the profile of the club. A highly paid job for players such as Barry Wilson, Steve Paterson etc who have served the club so well. So that leaves me with about ?78m to find something else worthwhile spending on. Id build a flume going from my new house to the new 'Highland Stronghold Stadium' too. And id have a new pie stall with a rolling conveyorbelt going round the ground. Any id pay Jimmy Calder to save penalties. And id have a great big batman like sign over to dingwall way with the score if were winning. Id also invest in allowing standing at grounds too - also Id bribe the fa into a new league structure which the fans would choose. ok thats me done. and broke.

it nice to see a such a positive thread with so many names. In terms of consistantly our best player - foran. Our key player for me has to be esson though. I like to think Nick Ross is a future key player too.

it must be insulting to the players to undermine thier attacking ability so much so that they wont be allowed to show it AT ALL! Far too much respect for a distinctly average side. He watched them several times and once live AND THATS THE BEST HE CAN COME UP WITH? appologies for the caps but im totally raging with that result and more the performance - the worst iv ever seen. I have simply lost all faith in scottish international football, i want to believe in it so much but I just cant. Im off for a sit down in a darkened room.

This thread is a joke ADMIN PLEASE DELETE IT - it does nothing to support the team and is completely inappropriate.

Duff, Proctor, Tokely, Munro, Golabek Hayes, Odihambo, Ross -------Foran ------Rooney