Alex MacLeod

Only lose money if bus is booked and paid for

17 hours ago, Renegade said:

Again, I have no issue with the Gellions running a bus, Dows running a bus....or even the health food shop on Baron Taylor Street running a bus!  They're free to do that and we'll see if there's the demand across the support for it (which I'm not sure there is but we'll see).  We all know how hard CJT find it to fill a bus at times, so surely if you're on the board of CJT, your job should be to fill it's bus.  Attempting to run a bus for somewhere else would that would potentially harm the amount travelling on the CJT bus (and not to mention the missing out on revenue) so would undoubtedly be a conflict of interests.  If you're on the CJT board, you're attention should be with the CJT bus.  I don't think that's too much to ask.

It actually costs CJT to run buses so I cant see how they are missing out on revenue

16 hours ago, HawkeyeTheGnu said:

I assume that if we draw with Hibs, then either the St J or Hearts games will be bumped?

 

More likely to be fitted in between 19th March and 2nd April. Semi's not till 16th and 17th April. International week from 23rd March so good chance to fit in replay

On 2/22/2016 at 1:21 PM, Caley Mad In Berks said:

12 minutes ago, Caley Mad In Berks said:

Yes, good result for Morton.   Hope they can do the same against Celtic in the Q/F.  I noticed our ex player, Connor Pepper, went off injured after an hour.  He seemed to be playing right back.  Was he not up front when he played for us?

Normally midfielder but can also play right back

Fact is every pub in the city should be encouraged to get their locals involved in forming a pub fans club and running buses, be they full size or mini, to every game. Its nothing to do with rivalry but more to do with fans getting to games at reasonable cost. Communications between all the parties could also be set up whereby if one group is oversubscribed one week and another has seats available they can put each other in touch.

Rearranged fixtures have now been announced so ammended list is as follows

Sat 27th Feb Away Dundee

Tues 1st March Away Hearts

Sun 6th March Away Hibs SC

Wed 9th March Away St Johnston

Sat 12th March Home Hamilton

Tuesday 15th Home Hearts

Sat 19th Away Ross County

Thats 7 games in 21 days. Going to be a hard set of fixtures especially with so much travel.

Full time 1-0

Inverness CT U20s: Hoban, C. Brown, Howarth, J.Brown, Stark, MacLennan, Rennie, Gilchrist, Ferguson, MacRae, Sutherland

Inverness CT U20s subs: MacKay, Blackett, Hull, MacArthur

Do SPFL still have the 'three under 21's' rule?

What is the point of trying to have a serious discussion on anything when Charles Bannerman uses every opportunity to highjack topic with his unnaturally obsessive anti SNP drivel.

Do you notice Charles nobody else wants to comment. Probably all sick of your p!sh

5 hours ago, HawkeyeTheGnu said:

The one good thing is that we are nearer the top of this pile than the bottom, and with there being so many teams involved they can't all win every week. 

Having said that, we simply have to start doing better against the teams below us if we don't wish to get dragged back. 

With nine games till split six are actually against teams above us

Record against Hibs in all comps is won 15 drawn 6 lost 9. As Sneckboy says only one cup gamewhich was fourth round 2008 Hibs won 3-0 They had Filipe Morais sent off and we had Phil McGuire sent off. No mention in match report of Niculae missed penalty though.

7 minutes ago, CaleyD said:

On the contrary, I would say that anyone else partaking was lucky as opposed to this person being unlucky.

The attitude that one person should not be pulled up when others are also involved is very bizarre....in fact, it's the very thing that many here complain about time and again when it involves other clubs.

Do we know he was the only one arrested? He may just be the first one to appear in court or it may be his previous resulted in the court actions and others got police warnings or the like.

No reason why Stokes wouldn't be playing

12 minutes ago, Diddy said:

Can't remember ever reading a more clueless forum of fans.

We're miles up the table because Hayes and McGinn 80% of the time tear teams apart. Hayes went off early and McGinn is having his usual 3 game lull.

Draper should have been off the pitch by the time he rugby tackled Taylor in the box, which I can't fathom some people here think 'happens all the time'. 

And the big streak of pish's dive (again) killed the game and any half time talk and tactics. 

Someone has said the difference was you were going to do something from the incident  quite possibly but it wasn't a foul in the first place ya halfwit. 

And that Shinnie's wasn't a penalty too. 

Draper 'bossed' the game because he got away with it from an incompetent referee.

3 goals and a man sent off worth of wrong decisions is going to kill any team's motivation and prevent them getting into the game.

Awaiting your big timmy manager rolling over to his beloved side on Saturday.

Cant remember ever reading a more clueless post. Aberdeen had no answer for Draper and Tansy. Aberdeen persisted in punting the ball forward with a hit and hope attitude. Aberdeen had no game plan and no desire to show they deserve to be where they are. Basically Aberdeen were out played.

Today 13.30 k.o v St Mirren at Highland Football Academy

58 minutes ago, Renegade said:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/inverness-record-fc-aberdeen-seem-7344457#ph7yW676cE0adS12.97

Article here giving more of an ICT perspective.  Writer should paraded at half time in front of the fans IMO.

Writer can often be found in front of and behind the ICT fans being as that he's an Invernessian and ICT supporter

Can you really imagine the modern day casual. Cant punch with right hand cos its holding phone. Can see target to punch anyway cos eyes glued to said phone. Indeed cant even straighten up body cos years of looking down at said phone have resulted in permanent spinal curvature. Oh and, even if they could fight, would need to get out of bed an hour earlier on match day.

I recently worked alongside a Norwegian, who now chooses to live in Brazil, and he was pointing out that a lot of the goods we take for granted in UK, like alcohol, luxury foodstuffs etc are really expensive in Norway because they, not being EU members have to pay import and export levies to trade with EU member states. That is one area where we could find ourselves punished by Brexit. We are a nation dependant on imported goods, just like Norway, and those goods could cost us a lot more.

Yes the SNP view is independance within EU and they are unlikely to change that but it will only ever happen with the will of the majority of the electorate and not just SNP supporters. This referendum debate is about here and now. Its happening in a few short months and is happening without giving us all time to make an educated decision. Personally I believe EU is good for the country but we could find ourselves out because of lies and deceit being spouted by the very right wing anti immigrant people currently running our country

1 hour ago, 12th Man said:

Do you remember when Mark Wright apparently got attacked by the ICT cake baking casuals in Glasgow train station and couldn't make it up to Inverness for a guest appearance at a nightclub.

Aye, the hooligans attacked him and his dad on Inverness train. Broke his dads wrist with a tossed bottle. Took dad to Glasgow Royal for treatment and still managed to get to his nightclub in Essex before midnight.

Funniest thing in all this was that the newspapers ran the story without doing the maths. Time to get out of Parkhead and back to station to catch train which I think was leaving around seven. Time to realise extemt of injury and get from Q St to infirmary. Time in waiting room and time for treatment then get to Glasgow airport for flight that there's no booking for. Flight to London then journey to Essex to get to nightclub before midnight. The guy was and still is a d!ckhead

I'd imagine that even if it is a Monday night Aberdeen will bring more than would fill section G. Is monday and tuesday not mid term school hols?

If it wasn't for free higher education in Scotland I would not have been able to put my three kids through university. Ones now a banker. Ones a laboratory chemist. The third graduated last year in physics but is going on to do doctorate.

With it looking very likely that we will be subjected to a referendum on Brexit in June. Up till now I've never really taken much interest in EU politics and budgets etc. Indeed I'd never  really thought much about what they do with there budget.

Doing a little googling I found that UK pays between £7 billion and £11 billion each year. Amount varies depending on state of economy and GDP I believe. CBI claim here http://news.cbi.org.uk/campaigns/our-global-future/factsheets/factsheet-2-benefits-of-eu-membership-outweigh-costs/ that between £62 billion and £78 billion of benefits are accrued by UK membership of EU. It would also appear that some 42% of UK exports and over 60% of imports are with EU countries.

I know that UK has also had funding from EU budget to help with many major projects across the whole UK but I dont know how much.

Immigration seems to be the big issue for Brexit supporters yet from what I can research there are possibly more British citizens living in EU countries than are EU citizens in UK. I believe there are some 2 million Brits in Spain and 700,000 in France. Haven't looked at other countries.

What annoys me is that EU went from European Economic Union, which is what I voted for way back when, to this very big law making conglomerate that is the present day. Don't get me wrong, many of the laws such as employment, environmental, quality standards and human rights were necessary and should be supported but others are pretty stupid. Remember a debate a few years ago about setting standards for how straight a banana should be.

So what is the thinking of the CTO community.

Charles, please do not spoil this thread with nat bashing. It's a UK referendum thread about an EU issue and my views on this subject are not influenced by party politics but by whats best for UK

On 2/12/2016 at 10:34 PM, Charles Bannerman said:

My feelings exactly. The Scottish football establishment allows Celtic and Rangers to do what they like. And I don't just mean Rangers owing millions, going totally bust and a new club of that name, playing in a ground which any decent society would have insisted was sold to honour these debts, being parachuted straight into the Third Division without as much as a selection process.

I also agree strongly with what DD said. We are already in a situation where TV requirements are calling the shots to a greater and greater extent and there is no reason why this shouldn't happen more and more. Even in the case of ICT does anyone happen to know how many of the 16/17 pre split home games are 3pm Saturday kick offs?

I read a claim the other day that almost a tenth of the world's population claim to be ManU "supporters". The game is going to focus more and more on the very biggest teams and there is going to be an increasing disconnect between the haves, who will be watched in full stadia and also by huge TV audiences as well as followed on social media.... and the have nots who will be watched by smaller and smaller crowds with even those who claim to be their true fans relying more and more on tablets and smart phones to follow progress and watch highlights rather than pay to watch at the ground.

Renegade has also just commented on the increasing number of local people becoming fans of ManU, Chelsea etc. Yes, there has possibly been a bit of a recent retreat from Celtic and especially Rangers but rather than redirect towards ICT I fear that many are going the way Renegade suggests.

As things stand we've played 12 home league games this season and 9 have been 3 pm saturday

University education is free to residents of Scotland. I believe those resident outside Scotland pay  something like £8000 a year. It is not free in England and I believe the cost to be around £9000 a year. Studentsin UK can apply for loans to help with costs. These can be repaid when person is earning over £23,000 a year I think.

1 minute ago, Charles Bannerman said:

 I'm actually a Chemist (you know what I mean.... if it moves, it's Biology, if it smells it's Chemistry and if it doesn't work - it's Physics!) which is probably worse but also a confirmed technophobe who had thought that the second click would just cancel out the first one

I knew that. Was TiC