So as managers of ICT go, there is little mention of Sergei Baltacha among manager debates. Lots of us rightly talk about Pele or Robbo or CC, CB- but Segei is forgotton about

Im not sure of the whole story of why he left ICT, but i thought it was worth a few collum inches in the forum

So whats our thoughts on our first manager?

would we have faired better if the then Thistle manager Henry M was given the role of CT?

Was Sergei that bad?

BC

I think that time may have blurred just how grim the football was in our first season. In general Sergei response to losing the first goals was to remove a striker and put on another defender!

He had lost the players completely and this was shown during one of the home games late in the season (I think it may have been Cowdenbeath in March?) when the players effectively decided before the game what tactics they were going to use and pretty much ignored everything they were told by the management (I know this due to one of the players working at the time with my father in law).

I suspect the changed performance and this clear statement from the players pretty much sealed his fate in many ways.

I don't think anyone could harbour a grudge against such a pleasant man as SB, but in the end everyone was glad that he moved on.

Apparently Sergie was offered the Hearts job last year.