Alex MacLeod

What twaddle you spout at times Laurence. Scotland is built on peat if thats what you need. Indeed there are still many places where you can aquire it at no cost. As for fertiliser from Cumbria........is it any better than good old fashioned Scottish horseshit from good old fashioned Scottish stables. I think not. Again at little or no cost if your prepared to go get it yersel. Oh! and another brilliant fertiliser thats free to us Scots......good old seaweed. An abundance of which can be found around our 7,500 kilometres approx of coastline.

Partly true Scotty. The fact is that the UK at present, and hopefully Scotland in the future, controls the licencing of North Sea sectors for which the oil majors have to pay. We also control taxation on the oil and gas produced. These are where the countries revenue comes from. As to SMEE's statement, he is getting a little mixed up I think. The only way that Scotland can be in a position to export any electricity in such quantities is to have a mix of natural, fossil fuel and nuclear power. We are, however, in a position to export some. At present we have two nuclear power plants. Hunterston B and Torness. All the rest have ceased producing and are in the process of decommissioning. Those two still active provide half of Scotlands electricity needs. Hydro power provides around 10% of our needs but there is potential to vastly increase this. It is hoped that by 2020 wind power will provide 100% of Scotlands needs. Other renewables are very much still in the development stage so aren't counted in the figures at present. At present the fossil fuel power stations produce around 30%, I believe, but some of the older power stations are set for decommissioning. Plans are afoot to export more electricty south with the recent announcement that a 220 mile undersea cable will be laid between Hunterston and the Wirral to transport some 2200 MW of power to the English grid. As for Laurences silly statement.........Why would Scotland, a country that almost totally opposes nuclear weapons, want to have any.

As Julie say's ICT players do many good things around the community. As for the tops I believe players like to keep some. They give some away for good causes and some go to sponsors at end of season. We are not a club that can afford to keep supplying players with new tops all the time and many do get destroyed in the course of action.

Does Fiji have footballers?

St Johnstone Home v Dunfermline Away v Kilmarnock Away v St Mirren Home v Hearts Away v Us Away v Celtic Home v Us Personally I think they can take at least seven from that list which means we need seventeen from all our fixtures. Even by beating St J twice as well as beating Hibs and Killie I think we'd struggle to get five points from Rangers Aberdeen and DU. I remain to be humbled and proved wrong. I am very much an optimist but also a realist.

I've no doubt we'll be safe this season but top six is looking more and more of a pipe dream considering how we've been playing and the games left. Draws are not going to get us there. To the split Home v Rangers Away v Dundee United Home v Kilmarnock Away v Aberdeen Home v St Johnstone Home v Hibs Away v St Johnstone To cross the line we need seven more points than the current sixth place (DU) and hope that St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen pick up fewer points than us. Dundee United have Away v Hearts Home v Us Home v Rangers Away v Hibs Home v Dunfermline Away v Aberdeen The realist in me thinks its going to be a very hard line to cross. Guessing the results of those fixtures I can see DU take at least seven points which would mean we need fifteen from our remaining games.

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Have rangers raised the bus fare yet?

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Where does 31st March come from. My understanding is that if a club is in admin at close of season they cannot compete.

I can see an opposite to whats been suggested happening. I can see similarities to Motherwell where all the higher earners are made redundant and the younger lower earners thrown in to the mix.

There's a lot of spin in the press and coming from Ibrox. They all emphasis the fact that HMRC have taken action for a £9 million claim for the last financial year. HMRC are not letting go on all the other tax dodging antics. They have to present a winnable case to the courts to force administration and that was the winnable part. Dont anyone be kidded into thinking the rest has been dropped. Whatever monies become available, and whatever deals are struck with the debtors you can be sure that HMRC will get the lions share and all others, including many struggling small business's, will get peanuts if they're lucky. Rangers will then come out of administration, albeit left with no more than a small squad of youngsters. They will have a ticket at least two european games. They will spend two or three seasons in the lower to mid half of the league then they'll stick the fingures up at those who've lost out and start to challenge again, possibly with someone coming in and buying a debt free club.

Dougal, I believe the size of Supporters Trust bus depends on the uptake of seats. Anything from A seventeen seater to a forty eight seat coach. The Supporters Club bus is always a coach. The experience of the travel is what you make it. Not staying in Inverness I generally dont use either, though I have been picked up at Perth on the odd occassion. Oh! and I dont think there's cake served every time on the SC bus.

We do actually have one of the better youth set-ups, run by one of the better groups of youth coaches in the league. It must be very frustrating for our coaches when they have to oversea the release of players because we simply cant afford to keep them all. We cant pay a full U-19 squad so we try and supplement them with younger players who are mere schoolkids. DD had a valid question and Oddquine answered as she sees things. DD's points were also very valid as he see's them. CD chips in with more very valid points. We can all put our tuppenceworth in based on what we know and see and none of us are wrong. I do support the point that if there was more information available regarding how things are with the youth and U-19 setups there would be little need to enter into this type of debate. The bottom line in all this is that if we want to stay in this league in the current economic climate we need to make sacrifices.

There are a lot of good points in what you say CD. I have'nt been an ST holder before due to work but, because I retire this year, I will likely go for one next season and I'd happily suffer the weather to stand in that area. I also think that a noisey north wing could generate a better atmosphere around the rest of the stadium. It may well be that many people who can afford a North stand ST cannot afford to go the bit extra to help fund this, and many others who cant justify a ST against the number of games they can attend, so I'd be inclined to suggest that, if the club agree in principle, we have some fund raising events, perhaps organised through the Supporters Trust and Club. Could we fund and fill two hundred seats in this area? I'd also suggest that, as a trade off for the funds raised, the club give the fans the wall that traverses the area for flags and banners. A red and blue brigade area to rival the evil twins as it were.

Latest News Rangers FC are in talks with Heart of Midlothian FC about a possible merger. Sources have indicated that the new club will have an even longer name than Inverness Caledonian Thistle. This new club will be registered as Heart of Midlothian Rangers Club (HMRC)

A week or two ago I suggested that Rangers would choose there time to go into administration. They are being very clever in this. Clever in the timing and clever in the expected outcome. There will not be a Son of Rangers club simply because Rangers will not die. Rangers held of to see where they would be in the cup competitions, they held of to build a decent lead on those below them. They have decided they probably wont win the league. They now have a few months to get their house in order and their debts reduced. I think Rangers believe that administration will put them in a position to compete in europe next season without having to pay all of their debt. The administrators will negotiate deals to reduce the debt. Players may be sold off as may some assets like Murray park to bring in the additional funds needed to clear that reduced debt. Come next season they will be out of debt and in a position to build again, with euro money to look forward to. Then they will either buy big and get into more debt or they will bring in people who will slowly build a new competitive team. And Whyte will walk away with his pockets filled.

Course he is......he invented the chocolate orange did he not?

Nine times out of ten if the attacker jumped over the leg of the defender he'd likely be in a position to score aka Jimmy Johnstone. As it is the attacker has usually made an erse of himself by losing control of the ball and feels the need to redeem himself by kissing the grass. Many players are extremely good at it but its still cheating and I would re-iterate what others have said in that it would put me of supporting my team. A team that feels they always need penalties to win games shouldn't be playing anyway.

For christ sake dougal dry your eyes. Its not a stadium that makes a team. Its not a stadium that gels players and fans. Its not a stadium that brings success. Its a heart and its a soul. This has to be the first time in all the forums, reports and blogs that I've ever read where a stupid playground debate like this one has come up. A classic case of na na na na my stadiums better than yours.

Grant Munro has gone. There are a number of reasons why. Reasons that all party's would probably like put behind them. The bottom line is Grant and ICT parted company and have both moved forward since then. Thats the way it is and the way it will always be and nothing can be done to change that. Terry Butcher is a professional and I'm quite sure, if it is merited, he will speak very positively about Grant as he would about any good performance. Its time some of the fans of our club stopped dwelling on what has been, could have been, may have been and looked to the future.

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Think we may struggle to make top six but I think we can take 15 before the split. Dunfermline Aberdeen Kilmarnock and Hibs all brought in a few players but there isnt enough time left for them to fully gel so I feel we can be above three of these. Kilmarnock seem to be foundering so maybe we can get above them as well. St Mirren blow hot and cold so hard to predict where they'll be. Dunfermline in my opinion will not move of the bottom.

Magic off!!!!!!!

Was that not sung by a group of school children a few years ago at the stadium