Gringo

Is this another example of how the powers that be are helping to promote Scottish football? Oh!..hang on a minute...its not the OF is it?

Shocking money for a job most (all) of them can't do. Do they have to pay their travelling costs out of that or is that on expenses?

It is true that no player can stay in the team forever and ever amen, they will move on, even those that have served the club well over many accumulated years. What gets my back up is the way these legends have been treated. I don't know what goes on behind closed doors with the players but from what I read it becomes clear to me that our club don't seem to care about these guys. A case of 'you've served your purpose now you can piss off'. All this comes across to me as a club that has lost its family feeling, its respect and (probably) its support. Good luck Rossco in whatever you choose to do or in which team you play for (ICT 'B' Team in Dingwall maybe). We, the supporters, appreciate what you have done / achieved for ICT over the years even if the club doesn't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/18288466 Freedom to pish everybody else about. :irritated: "The SPL Board is mindful of the benefit to Scottish football as a whole...." Like hell they are.

There really are some evil people out there.

I think its a step too far for Brendan, Liverpool are a club desperate for success in the EPL and Europe. They will not have the patience to wait (eg Hodgson and Kenny) for him to produce. Id wager that if Liverpool dont qualify for the Champions League at the end of next season he'll be sacked too. As for Lambert, I sincerly hope he continues to carry on with the good work that Agent McLeish was doing . Again, another impatient club with a govener not prepared to invest in new talent. As for the Swans and Canaries it really depends who comes in the replace the other managers but I'd suspect they'll struggle along next season but will survive.

I don't think its the games itself Chris, more the hype, media overkill and expense surrounding it all. Its especially worse down and it never out of the news.

Have just watched the above programme on the Beeb and am truly shocked at the goings on on the Polish and Ukrainian football terraces. Racist abuse at its most grotesque and this is where the Euro championships are to be held. These countries don't deserve the champions and seem oblivious to problems they have. A group of supporters where giving the Nazi salute and a club official said they were just pointing to opposition..WTF? UEFA seem powerless to stop this and even its president, Platini, refused an interview. I believe that the respective countries football associations should withdraw from the tournament now and really show united front against violence and racism. Catch the programme on the iPlayer if you didn't see it.

It is without doubt a great sporting occasion but in today's financial market it doesn't make an ounce of sense. Yes, many will benifit from it like hoteliers an tacky souvenier shops etc but I really think the money could have been spent on more important issues. I do like to watch some events but not all and find the hype surrounding the event unbearable. I'm affrain the media will spoil it for me and am getting peed off with the Olympics already and it hasn't even started yet. Anyway, the weather will spoil it anyway!

I really believe that being a successful club in reaching the SPL was a step too far. There is no way that our club will ever compete for the title in this league or attract the crowds that will sustain a decent wage for the players. We will forever be in the shadows of the bigger clubs who will offer our better players a better wage. Its a fact that we will have to live with. Alex is also correct in stating Ross County will also suffer sooner rather than later. We have found it difficult to attract players to Inverness so I feel County will find it harder as Dingwall doesn't really offer the same off the field entertainments as Inverness does. We'll see. We will continue to find it difficult to make ends meet and it will need a strong board to make sure that we do just that...survive.

Lee Hughes is a convicted DD and caused a death and he is back playing football. Its a tough call to say whether its right or wrong to have these people back into football. Yes, they've served their time and all that but they knew at the time that their actions were wrong and should not have opened the car door. They took that choice to do that and, in my view, should choose to leave football alone and find another occupation.

They may have been punished in footballing terms but I doubt the British taxpayer would see it that way..

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Whilst its great that my team are in Scottish footballs top league, I've not really enjoyed going to any games. The SPL is a nothing league dominated by the twins of evil and probably always will be. I'd wager that the hierarchy of the SPL don't give a stuff about the 'also rans'. Its their beloved OF they rely on to secure the TV prize money and they'll do every they can to secure that even if it means bending the rules to allow a corrupt side to remain in situ. I love ICT but hate the SPL. As always with SPL games I will select my games with care and will avoid any OF game...home or away.

I would say the clubs finances would dictate where the pre-season 'tour' would go. Kind of makes sense that we stay in Scotland and cut costs. At the end of the day the pre-season games are all about match fitness and not tougher opposition.

Unrelated to ICT, what would be your best and worst moments of the SPL season. No doubt the Rangers affair will be top of the list in both catagorys.. This is for The Scotsman newspapers end of season Fan Zone article being published next week.

Cheers guys. It still goes to show us why the bookies make loads of money. Why is it so difficult to predict the outcome of just one solitary game? The NAPS is so frustrating at times but I'm sure we'll all be back for another dose next season.

NPL Stats – 2011-2012 Total individual entries: 2103 Total correct HT: 456 Total correct FT: 149 Total correct 1st Scorer ICT: 203 Total correct 1st Scorer Opp: 278 Crowd 5pts: 292 Crowd 10pts: 2 Highest individual points tally: 24 – Tug (Game 11 St Mirren h) Most correct HT: 17 – Caley Canary Most correct FT: 8 - Dalneighcaley Most correct 1st Scorer ICT: 9 – Gringo Most correct 1st Scorer Opp: 11 – MrCaleyjag Most Crowd 5 pts: 9 – Dmacca Most Crowd 10pts: 1 – tm4tj and bughtmaster The 100% club (entered all 42 games):- Andrew Fraser BigTFan Caley Mad in Berks Cal's Thistle Eye Settee Gringo Gringo Jnr Mrs Gringo old caley girl Tichy Black's Back Wanderer But there's only one stat' that really matters.... NPL Champion 2011/2012: GRINGO FINAL TABLE 01 - 232 - GRINGO 02 - 223 - Gabby 03 - 215 - old caley girl 04 - 213 - Andrew Fraser 05 - 211 - Agent N 06 - 197 - Themidgetmaestro 07 - 193 - Wanderer 08 - 186 - Dewsburydude 08 - 186 - Tug 10 - 184 - BigTFan 11 - 183 - Caley Canary 12 - 178 - MrCaleyjag 13 - 170 - Mrs Gringo 14 - 168 - Eye Settee 15 - 167 - caleydawson 16 - 165 - caleycalum 16 - 165 - The Sponge 18 - 163 - Dmacca 19 - 160 - Cal's Thistle 20 - 159 - CDN Girl 21 - 158 - CapitalCaley 22 - 157 - Scotty 23 - 156 - Gringo Jnr 24 - 154 - Downinthedumps 25 - 153 - ICTRoughi 26 - 151 - Tichy Black's Back 27 - 149 - PengulCT12 27 - 149 - tm4tj 29 - 146 - RedCard 29 - 146 - Renegade 31 - 142 - Caley Braveheart 32 - 137 - Libero 33 - 136 - Beer Monster 33 - 136 - Caley Mad in Berks 35 - 135 - Crownjaggie 35 - 135 - Dalneighcaley 35 - 135 - Uncle Albert 38 - 133 - jagster 39 - 132 - TinRoofMan 40 - 131 - BA 41 - 125 - absent friend 41 - 125 - Guzz 43 - 123 - Wyness101 44 - 119 - MrsJnr 45 - 118 - bughtmaster 46 - 115 - Ekjules 47 - 104 - ICTPAISLEY 48 - 102 - northstandfan 49 - 101 - lukemackay 50 - 83 - Jan Logan 51 - 82 - Baby Bronson 52 - 81 - Breeze 53 - 79 - Bronson 54 - 77 - Caleyballboy 55 - 66 - luvgravy 56 - 60 - Pmacict 57 - 59 - Weez 58 - 58 - bauhaus 59 - 42 - Kingsmills 60 - 41 - kencar 61 - 36 - Alex MacLeod 62 - 32 - The Wife 63 - 28 - Andrew Winchester 63 - 28 - ictrmd 65 - 26 - Alanmaceach 66 - 23 - Georgeios 67 - 18 - ubern 68 - 17 - caleyfan4ever 68 - 17 - Jock Watt 70 - 16 - caleyrule 71 - 15 - caleyjag10 71 - 15 - thecaleyteenager 73 - 12 - danielboni 74 - 11 - jodec98 75 - 9 - Smee 76 - 8 - martinskye 76 - 8 - Oz647 78 - 4 - Top Six Next Year 79 - 2 - ajsict92 79 - 2 - quizzer 79 - 2 - YNE55 82 - 1 - bdu98196 83 - 0 - L_G 83 - 0 - Zoid

I've only been to five games this season and there weren't many (none) highlights to shout about to be honest. If I had to pick a moment it would be Greg Tansey's free-kick in the final game of ther season against Hibs. We were sat behind the goal and challenging each other to head the ball when he blazed it over the bar...but he scored. From the arm chair it would be listening to the 3-6 Killie game on the web and watching the game on Alba later.

Congratulations to Scotty on winning the 2011/12 Prediction League.

Oh yeh.....errrrm.....ooops.

Unbelievable - a NAPS and NPL double.

Week 36 (FINAL) Gringo 227.20 Stevo 226.10 Dalneighcaley 212.50 Mrs Gringo 204.70 Tichy Black's Back 198.80 MrCaleyjag 190.60 Caley Canary 169.60 Crownjaggie 155.40 Beer Monster 153.90 Scotty 148.50 Dewsburydude 134 Dmacca 110.50 BA 105.5 Wyness101 103.90 Caley Braveheart 83.90 Caleyrule 59.40 Gringo_Jnr 00.00 ICT Away 00.00

NPL Review for the Final Game Trust ICT to put a winning run together as the season ends..pah! Still, a win is a win and it gives us hope for next season (if we have any players!!) So, the NPL comes to an end for another season. I thank you all for taking part in this over elaborate competition. As usual I will put together a stats list for this NPL season sometime in the near future so check back here for this. Thanks again. ICTRoughi and Agent N get the final max’s in the Correct Scores section. Gringo wins the title after holding off the brave efforts of the challengers. Class told in the end. Total Entries 39 Jokers Played RedCard +6 caleycalum +5 bauhaus +7 Renegade +3 Predicted Match results H: 32 D: 6 A: 1 The Results HT: 0-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Tansey 1st Opp: -- Crowd: 4457 Correct Predictions HT: 13 FT: 7 1st ICT: 1 1st Opp: -- Crowd 5 pts: 1 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 – bauhaus was the nearest – 13 under. Bragging Rights 16 - bauhaus Your Points bauhaus 16 RedCard 12 Agent N 10 caleycalum 10 ICTRoughi 10 Caley Mad in Berks 8 Andrew Fraser 7 Caley Canary 7 CDN Girl 7 Gabby 7 Gringo 7 Mrs Gringo 7 Old Caley Girl 7 Downinthedumps 6 PengulCT12 6 Renegade 6 Uncle Albert 6 Wanderer 6 BigTFan 5 caleydawson 5 Beer Monster 3 Caley Braveheart 3 crownjaggie 3 Dewsburydude 3 lukemackay 3 Scotty 3 Themidgetmaestro 3 tm4tj 3 Tug 3 bughtmaster 2 Cal's Thistle 2 Dmacca 2 Eye Settee 2 Gringo Jnr 2 Guzz 2 The Sponge 2 The Wife 2 Tichy Black's Back 2 Wyness101 2 FINAL TABLE 01 - 232 - GRINGO 02 - 223 - Gabby 03 - 215 - old caley girl 04 - 213 - Andrew Fraser 05 - 211 - Agent N 06 - 197 - Themidgetmaestro 07 - 193 - Wanderer 08 - 186 - Dewsburydude 08 - 186 - Tug 10 - 184 - BigTFan 11 - 183 - Caley Canary 12 - 178 - MrCaleyjag 13 - 170 - Mrs Gringo 14 - 168 - Eye Settee 15 - 167 - caleydawson 16 - 165 - caleycalum 16 - 165 - The Sponge 18 - 163 - Dmacca 19 - 160 - Cal's Thistle 20 - 159 - CDN Girl 21 - 158 - CapitalCaley 22 - 157 - Scotty 23 - 156 - Gringo Jnr 24 - 154 - Downinthedumps 25 - 153 - ICTRoughi 26 - 151 - Tichy Black's Back 27 - 149 - PengulCT12 27 - 149 - tm4tj 29 - 146 - RedCard 29 - 146 - Renegade 31 - 142 - Caley Braveheart 32 - 137 - Libero 33 - 136 - Beer Monster 33 - 136 - Caley Mad in Berks 35 - 135 - Crownjaggie 35 - 135 - Dalneighcaley 35 - 135 - Uncle Albert 38 - 133 - jagster 39 - 132 - TinRoofMan 40 - 131 - BA 41 - 125 - absent friend 41 - 125 - Guzz 43 - 123 - Wyness101 44 - 119 - MrsJnr 45 - 118 - bughtmaster 46 - 115 - Ekjules 47 - 104 - ICTPAISLEY 48 - 102 - northstandfan 49 - 101 - lukemackay 50 - 83 - Jan Logan 51 - 82 - Baby Bronson 52 - 81 - Breeze 53 - 79 - Bronson 54 - 77 - Caleyballboy 55 - 66 - luvgravy 56 - 60 - Pmacict 57 - 59 - Weez 58 - 58 - bauhaus 59 - 42 - Kingsmills 60 - 41 - kencar 61 - 36 - Alex MacLeod 62 - 32 - The Wife 63 - 28 - Andrew Winchester 63 - 28 - ictrmd 65 - 26 - Alanmaceach 66 - 23 - Georgeios 67 - 18 - ubern 68 - 17 - caleyfan4ever 68 - 17 - Jock Watt 70 - 16 - caleyrule 71 - 15 - caleyjag10 71 - 15 - thecaleyteenager 73 - 12 - danielboni 74 - 11 - jodec98 75 - 9 - Smee 76 - 8 - martinskye 76 - 8 - Oz647 78 - 4 - Top Six Next Year 79 - 2 - ajsict92 79 - 2 - quizzer 79 - 2 - YNE55 82 - 1 - bdu98196 83 - 0 - L_G 83 - 0 - Zoid

NPL Review for Game 41 A fine victory resulted from a dire game. Three points in the bag at last to end a winless run. Downinthedumps, Tichy Black's Back and Gabby hit maximums in the Correct Score section. Gringo stills leads the way going into the last game. Total Entries 39 Jokers Played lukemackay +2 Wyness101 +6 Themidgetmaestro +1 Caley Braveheart +4 PengulCT12 +7 Gringo +6 Gringo Jnr +7 crownjaggie +7 Scotty +2 CDN Girl +8 Predicted Match results H: 8 D: 8 A: 23 The Results HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st ICT: Foran 1st Opp: -- Crowd: 3540 Correct Predictions HT: 18 FT: 3 1st ICT: 2 1st Opp: -- Crowd 5 pts: 8 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 – caleydawson was nearest – 8 under. Bragging Rights 16 – CDN Girl Your Points CDN Girl 16 Tichy Black's Back 15 crownjaggie 14 Gringo Jnr 14 PengulCT12 14 caleydawson 13 Gringo 12 Wyness101 12 Downinthedumps 10 Gabby 10 Caley Braveheart 8 BigTFan 7 Cal's Thistle 7 Agent N 6 Andrew Fraser 6 bauhaus 6 bughtmaster 6 Caley Canary 6 caleycalum 6 MrCaleyjag 6 Mrs Gringo 6 Old Caley Girl 6 The Wife 6 Dmacca 5 The Sponge 5 lukemackay 4 Scotty 4 Beer Monster 2 Caley Mad in Berks 2 CapitalCaley 2 Dewsburydude 2 Eye Settee 2 ICTRoughi 2 RedCard 2 Renegade 2 Themidgetmaestro 2 Tug 2 jagster 1 Wanderer 1 TABLE - 41 01 - 225 - Gringo 02 - 216 - Gabby 03 - 208 - old caley girl 04 - 206 - Andrew Fraser 05 - 201 - Agent N 06 - 194 - Themidgetmaestro 07 - 187 - Wanderer 08 - 183 - Dewsburydude 08 - 183 - Tug 10 - 179 - BigTFan 11 - 178 - MrCaleyjag 12 - 176 - Caley Canary 13 - 166 - Eye Settee 14 - 163 - Mrs Gringo 14 - 163 - The Sponge 16 - 162 - caleydawson 17 - 161 - Dmacca 18 - 158 - Cal's Thistle 18 - 158 - CapitalCaley 20 - 155 - caleycalum 21 - 154 - Gringo Jnr 21 - 154 - Scotty 23 - 152 - CDN Girl 24 - 149 - Tichy Black's Back 25 - 148 - Downinthedumps 26 - 146 - tm4tj 27 - 143 - ICTRoughi 27 - 143 - PengulCT12 29 - 140 - Renegade 30 - 139 - Caley Braveheart 31 - 137 - Libero 32 - 135 - Dalneighcaley 33 - 134 - RedCard 34 - 133 - Beer Monster 34 - 133 - jagster 36 - 132 - Crownjaggie 36 - 132 - TinRoofMan 38 - 131 - BA 39 - 129 - Uncle Albert 40 - 128 - Caley Mad in Berks 41 - 125 - absent friend 42 - 123 - Guzz 43 - 121 - Wyness101 44 - 119 - MrsJnr 45 - 116 - bughtmaster 46 - 115 - Ekjules 47 - 104 - ICTPAISLEY 48 - 102 - northstandfan 49 - 98 - lukemackay 50 - 83 - Jan Logan 51 - 82 - Baby Bronson 52 - 81 - Breeze 53 - 79 - Bronson 54 - 77 - Caleyballboy 55 - 66 - luvgravy 56 - 60 - Pmacict 57 - 59 - Weez 58 - 42 - bauhaus 58 - 42 - Kingsmills 60 - 41 - kencar 61 - 36 - Alex MacLeod 62 - 30 - The Wife 63 - 28 - Andrew Winchester 63 - 28 - ictrmd 65 - 26 - Alanmaceach 66 - 23 - Georgeios 67 - 18 - ubern 68 - 17 - caleyfan4ever 68 - 17 - Jock Watt 70 - 16 - caleyrule 71 - 15 - caleyjag10 71 - 15 - thecaleyteenager 73 - 12 - danielboni 74 - 11 - jodec98 75 - 9 - Smee 76 - 8 - martinskye 76 - 8 - Oz647 78 - 4 - Top Six Next Year 79 - 2 - ajsict92 79 - 2 - quizzer 79 - 2 - YNE55 82 - 1 - bdu98196 83 - 0 - L_G 83 - 0 - Zoid