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England on their way to losing yet another penatly shoot out - Woody Harrleson - LEGEND!

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Not the cat! What has a cat got to do with the club, Inverness or the surrounding area? At least Nessie was relevant. An eagle, a dolphin, Nessie, the Highlander...anything appropriate. But the cat is just a character with no attachment to Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The cat was a design from schoolkids. ICaT I know, but it's still a nothing character. Couldn't it be more relevant? And a Panda is relevant to Paisley how? For one I'm pretty sure they don't share the animals inability to breed down that way. Caley Cat kind of works in the alliteration sense but I see Nessie as more relevant. One of the most well known mythological beasts in the world to boot. An Eagle or Dolphin would be good representations of the area and it helps with an eagle being in the club badge. Hamish the Highlander would be great if they got the right person in the suit. I reckon we should just have a big team of them.

I was going to come to that. It is a bit cheeky moaning about the fact that other teams don't have huge away supports when 20000 of his own teams fans are no where to be seen most of the season. But hey, what do we care. Dont affect us. Perhaps if he reduces the ticket prices a touch you never know.

It's an extremely sad story. We can perhaps take comfort in the fact, as his family is, in that he achieved one of his life goals in reaching the highest point on Earth. To the above point, mountains such as Everest are notoriously difficult to attempt any sort of rescue. It has to be remembered that this is the Himilayas - hundreds of miles away from any civilisation. There are no helicopters and it is near impossible to stretcher or carry someone down. Once someone becomes immobilised they have, sadly, little chance of survival. The death point, where they as it states in the article, is so called because quite simply that is the main area which claims so many lives, many on the decent like in this case. I find it rash to criticise his fellow climbers and the local Sherpas as they would have had little choice but to leave him or become stuck and probably die themselves. I can imagine it would have been done very reluctantly as most climbers are very loyal and would only do so if there was no other choice. Also where it is not stated in this article, but in others (metro paper), of his fellow climbers many returned to camp suffering from frostbite and hypothermia. It's tragic and someone very frank but had they stayed they too would have likely perished, which I very much doubt, even, i stress, without knowing him, he would want. This Scotsman report gives a little more information on the conditions he and his team would have endured. R.I.P

Yes you are in similar position but have had to release half your squad which affects unity and will need recruitments to shore up the gaps that Harkins and Griffiths can't fill. We had much a similar problem in losing a fair few players bukept a good nucleus. Even so it took a while for the reshaping to kick in (about November) You'll have to either hope it doesn't take that long or you get the extended run we had with a collapse of any front runner. Dundee are in no way dead certs for anything. Challengers, probable favourites as you state, but from a group of about 4 teams all wanting up. Also alot of the mistakes were carried on by the new management team anyway. Any money your benefactor has plowed in is technically debt. And why give Livi and Gretna as your only 2 examples of buying success. Im pretty sure another team has done that, which you may have, erm, missed out. Had players like Kinkladze, Khisnishvili, Caballero, Ravanelli, Caniggia, Sara, Julian Speroni, Adamczuk...... doesn't bode well eh

Maybe he had a smaller budget than us and just couldn't take it in. News that tanning sessions could no longer be put down as company expenses clearly did not go down well!

No he isn't. Not when he mentions 17-20 supporters. Everyone knows we have one of the smaller away supports and obviously it will dip if we have nothing to play for at the end of the season, but it is lying, disrespectful, disingenuous bullsh*t to claim that it will ever be as low as that. Our way support was in three figures for almost every away game last season and the season before that, and I suspect was one of the best in the division for the final quarter of the season. It's fair enough to say that Dundee being promoted would have been far more advantageous to Utd, but why lie like that to make your point? My point was that it's obvious a local derby would be more beneficial to DUTD as opposed to a tricky journey up the road or against a team with a fairly small away support. But it's the same as a local derby would be good for anyone. Im sure Killie would love Ayr to come up (although we all know that'd never happen ) just as we would love to have County to beat in the same league. He's not really lying either. It's much more of a rash speculation to exaggerate on his point. And the reporter has latched on to that for a better story. It's not big news to be honest. I don't really care for what he has to say but hey it's his point of view and he's entitled to think that... whether he's right is another matter entirely. And thats the point I was making there. Of course we'd rather have County over say Hamilton for example but thats not the case and anything else is purely Ifs and Buts and therefore pretty irrelevant.

He's pretty much stating the obvious. It's so blatant it hurts as bad as my hangover. Clearly a team on the same street who are your big rivals and your local derby are going to bring much more of a support than a team a 100 miles up the road and from a smaller city. Im actually hoping that Ross County get promoted if we stay up instead of Dundee because it will be better for us. Local rivals and will bring out more home and away fans. It would be bad for everyone else but I don't care because it would be good for us financially and football wise.

Esson would definitely be my number 1 choice. He's got the experience and is coming into what is normally prime for a keeper. He was exceptional for us this season and had he not been dropped for Fraser come the end of last season we might never have went down. If Esson were not to stay then Tuffey would certainly be a exceptional replacement with his whole career in front of him. I very much doubt we'd ever get both. Neither would accept being understudy.

As long as the new rules state No grounds for appeal and that rules are rules and that everyone knows them before entering the competition then I think it's a step forward in the clarification stakes. People moan that "if it happened to the bigger teams" Well the thing is it hardly ever seems to be the bigger teams that are at fault. More often than not it's the lower league teams. I don't want to stick up for the bigger teams but thats just how it seems to me.

So 2 down (tied up on new deals that is), 3 (Tokely, Esson and Proctor) to go. Hopefully all will get sorted out. I'd like to think that if Essons issue is not getting the extra year on his deal it wouldn't be too difficult to sort that out surely. And I thought Proctor was keen for a new deal?

Well it's his money and he's got plenty of it to squander. I'd be slightly worried about crazy debt like that if I was a chelsea fan though.

Do you think we've somehow stirred the pot a little by taking the league from them?

Yeah I'd take Cregg. Would give added impetous in the middle I reckon. Benji would want too much and has an attitude and the less said about the Calamity the better.

from BBC, Dire warning over Dundee future

People thought the same when we signed Dargo and Dods. Not saying they're fantastic players, and we've had them before but sometimes the lesser expected of players turn out to be alot better than 1st thought.

He still managed to get half a dozen goals in his 1st season in the league as a bit part part player. As a regular, with quality players to support him, it seems logical to assume he'll get more.

I think Parker would be a decent shout if he fancies coming back north. Think he used to have a little rep as a big time charlie before but surely years at the likes of Oldham and Blackpool will have brought him down a peg(if Im correct in the assumption)

Michael Gardyne was reviewing his team mates and his discription of vigurs was "has the ability to go anywhere in the game but he's so laid back he's almost horizontal." which I found quite amusing and may be the reason TB never took to him.

Said on other thread but quite frankly they let themselves down, their fans down. They let the WHOLE of the highlands down! HA HA HA! Who will be the first on the County site to tell them this. IHE i challenge thee!

Oh dear... this weary old myth surfaces again!! B) I personally know plenty people who chose to move on and support Ross County after the merger than went on to support ICT. I was walking into Victoria Park at the last C*unty v ICT game....and bumped into a dozen or so EX Caley fans, with county scarfes, and that was just going along behind main stand! Also...my facebook is littered with similar minded Inverness folk. So Charles...you call it a myth...I know its a fact! But how many is "plenty"? It goes to show how any decent investment can propel a club forward. But it's not really all that big an achievement really I mean anyone can beat Hibs and Celtic! As it happens Ross County, barring Keddie in the 1st half, failed to turn up today. Quite frankly they let themselves down. They let their fans down In fact they let the whole of the Highlands down. Shame on them!

Yeah I'd mirror that. Doubt we could afford their wages unless they take a sufficient drop in wages.

Saint Johnstone have announced that eight players are to leave the Scottish Premier League club. Alan Main, Gary Irvine, Paul Sheerin, Euan McLean, Gavin Swankie and Josh Falkingham have been released by Saints manager Derek McInnes. I think that Alan Main would superb backup but not sure he'd like that role at his age. Gary Irvine was only released to free up money for transfers but was their player of the year last season in Promotion and would complement our squad nicely IMHO. He is 25 and plays both at right back or on the right wing. Gavin Swankie is another I think could do well for us He's coming up for 27 so again best years to come. Plays left side which I think could maybe allow Foran to play in a more central free role. Paul Sheerin is probably past it, Euan Mclean again a decent back up keeper perhaps outwith others and Josh Falkingham is probably a no.