Alex MacLeod

Straight 4-4-2 for me Esson Piermayr, Tokely, Gillet, G. Shinnie Hayes, Tansey, Foran, Ross Tade, McKay Bench: Tuffey, Proctor, Meekings, Williams, Sutherland, Dorans, Morrison

We are a professional football team. We should be looking to win every game regardless of opponent or competition.

The first thing DAFC should be doing is reducing their squad. Get rid of some of the wages and then maybe they could afford some quality.

Well if I had been in CSC I'd have joined the folk in the lounge and helped myself to the pies. Being as thats the bar they were all in. You dont join in you dont gain.

4 starts and 1 as sub in championship and has scored 3. If that was first 5 games of season we'd be saying thats one hell of a stat. I can see him starting to feature more between now and season end and scoring a few more as well.

I hope we finish above Aberdeen.......there's a tenner at stake.

If we step onto EEP with that attitude we will likely lose. Just in the same way Celtic did in 2000. Remember we didn't take that very much more points from our first 17 games. We may have a gap over them just now but remember the similar gap over teams in 08/09. Nothing is done and dusted in football till the safety zone is reached. Dunfermline will be all out to win this in front of their home support and we'd do well to respect that.

I dont honestly think they can be compared. They are two very different styles of footballer. Both have done, or are doing, their bit for ICT and both will be remembered, in years to come, for their part in our history. Just in the same way we remember all the players who've gone before.

I think people may find, if they were to investigate further, that it was the police who decided to use the west stand and not the club. It would be against SPL rules for the club to sell tickets for standing areas. It may even be that a large number of forgeries etc, and a big crowd trying to get in at once resulted in too many people for seats so to keep control the police chose to shepherd some foke to that area. I'm not saying that is what happened this time but it has happened before and could well have happened again.

Not having been into this thread for a while I found the exchange between CD and marks to be extremely interesting and well conducted. Whatever lawrence was on about I dont know so I'll leave that aside. The first thing I want to point out to anyone who thinks Unions and trusts are the same is this: A union committee is made up of persons elected by the membership who's sole purpose is to protect the terms and conditions of its membership, protect and promote the safety of all workers and to negotiate improvements in terms and conditions. (That is exactly how it was worded at TGWU college Cirencester way back around 81). The Supporters Trust Board is made up of elected members who's purpose is to promote a sustainable spectator sports club based on supporter involvement and community ownership. To me there is a vast difference between the two bodies. I am a member of the Trust (though I think I may have forgotten to pay my fee this year) and I am also a Union member. Way back in 81 I was a shop steward and very much involved in the labour movement at that time. I spent time at Cirencester College and read up as much as I could find (no t'internet then) on workers rights and employment law etc. In 83' a strike was called for more money. The workforce were asking for a five percent rise. The company offered three. After two weeks on strike we returned to work having negotiated the five percent. Yes we got our five percent but had to lose out on other perks (like subsidised meals) We also sold out on our holidays by agreeing a rota that incorporated all our entitlement. So where we could choose when to take our holidays before this strike we were now being told when we could go on holiday. All that was bad enough but what was worse was that I was now heavily in debt. I still had bills and mortgage to pay but had lost two weeks wages. Back then it took me nine months to get out of that debt and back to some sort of stability. Did the Union help me and all the other two thousand guys in the same position? Did they hell. And there ended my desire and involvement in the labour movement of that time.

then went out on strike wi the Janny

From what I was told recently that will never happen so long as Terry is in charge.

Hibs 3-2 now

Hibs 2-1 now

And a big well done to Nick Ross for the assist

It'll be 1, 2, 3 or 4....just flick and find it.

no way thought mine was genious I thought the same till I discovered that nearly everyone on this site could point me out in a crowd

I would re-iterate what Scotty says and also add this. Nobody, no matter how clever you may think you are, can hide behind usernames. If you post things on any forum or twitter or facebook or any other such media that can or may cause offence enough for it to be deemed law breaking you will be caught.

That competitions no fair.......its anti central belter.........discriminating against those who choose to widen their horizons by experiencing the big wide world outside Sneck. Us who dont live there are treated worse than Dingwall folk. Think I need to see my lawer about this. Its centrabeltacist.

Huisdean its not just ICT. I speak to fans of other teams, both Scottish and English, and they all say the same. The financial climate doesn't help either. Example Man City v Liverpool League 3rd Jan...Crowd..47,131. Man City v Liverpool Carling Cup 11th Jan....Crowd 36,017. Both those games were mid week. 10,000 drop in crowd for what is a very big fixture between two teams only some 27 miles apart. people just dont seem to see cup games as being anything important unless their team actually reaches the final.

Excellent points Ross. The only thing I'd say is that I dont think we can afford to put any of our youngsters out on loan We have a very small squad so really need them available for cover, especially when games start to come two a week as is usually the case around feb and march.

Naw.... twenty foot's high enough to stop the dingwall skanks from getting a free look from the bridge

I think tree is right. This game may well sell over 6000 but in general interest in cup games has died all over. I just wonder if this is a sign of things to come if improvements are not made to make the matchday experience worthwhile. Many ST holders of many clubs will not shell out extra to go to cup games because they feel they are giving enough within the ST price. The game is pricing itself out of existance and the fans are saying enough is enough. But will the powers that be do anything?

A twenty foot high hoarding running the length of the pitch on the west side with a full stand mural painted on it would give aa better effect than a new empty stand

Not sure how some folk arrive at the figures they do. First off, is the £83k quoted per team or shared between both? Second, lets assume we can fill 6000 seats. Many of those will be children and concessions. Assume half. Even assuming prices are £10 and £20 then thats a £15 average price x 6000 = £90,000 in gate reciepts. There is unlikely to be any further sponsorship monies. Deduct the costs associated with policing and stewarding, stadium power, staff etc which wont be short of £20k and your left with £70k which the other team get half of. There is a bit of prize monie for getting this far but I would not think we'd even make a profit of much more than £120k for getting this far. Assuming we beat DAFC of course.