I'd like to see Peter Grant realised today by Falkirk 

 

 

 

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by Scotty
original title edited - far too long (was) : Who would you like to see obviously within budget at ICT nxt season

If you had to pick a football cliché to describe our latest recruits it'd probably be 'workmanlike'. Pretty sensible strategy IMO, given what we saw last season. The Championship isn't a league for sand dancers (i.e. the type of players John Hughes and Richie Foran were fond of signing).

Edited June 9, 20187 yr by AlexJones

10 hours ago, AlexJones said:

If you had to pick a football cliché to describe our latest recruits it'd probably be 'workmanlike'. Pretty sensible strategy IMO, given what we saw last season. The Championship isn't a league for sand dancers (i.e. the type of players John Hughes and Richie Foran were fond of signing).

Spot on and certainly experience there with Rooney over 100 appearances and White with over 300 appearances and nearly 100 goals.

White from Barrow in Furness  is an interesting player who has an eye for the goal. Has good balance.

Barrow are doing better at this point in their season. Not the most prepossessing place in the world. Industrial town. Furnaces in the Furness district , like!

He is tall and resilient and is very cool under pressure, usually picking his spot. Does score some cool goals  and has a turn off speed and is difficult to dispossess when running in on goal.

How he fares in the Championship  is still open to question, though, and he may get a bit of a rough ride and closer marking as well.

Aye.

Jordan White will be a decent signing I reckon he will be a good replacement for Connor Bell & will link up well with Nathan Austin George Oakley & Daniel Mckay.  He has more experience then Bell is much taller & stronger then him he has also scored a fair few goals in his career he wears his heart on his sleave & looks like a player that will work hard for us looking forward to seeing how he gets on up in the Highlands maybe a hat-trick against County? 

A friend of mine who is a Stirling supporter said he is probably quite similar to Austin. Although being quite tall he much prefers the ball on the deck, quite direct with decent pace. Quite happy with the signing, hopefully it clicks for him here.

Jamie McCart was signed for us again on a two year deal.  I thought he was decent last time he was here.

That's great news about Jamie.... Brilliant player who gave it all under foran but was probably misled from the off by an inept manager. Under Robbo he will be a big player of that I have no doubt 

Pleased with that news. Looked to have something about him. Yet another young recruit with potential.

One for the pedants this announcement:

 

My mistake, he must've signed for Ipswich Town.  

...and it's Mckay...small 'k' ?‍♂️

3 minutes ago, CaleyD said:

...and it's Mckay...small 'k' ?‍♂️

Why don't you just do a Bannerman and have a wee break.

 

We may have limited resources but the recruitment under John Robertson has been far more promising than under either of his predesdors who had much much bigger budgets.

It does make you wonder how Robbo would have done with the budget that Yogi & Foran had....that's a pointless 'What If?' question, I know...

Good to sign Jamie McCart on a permanent deal...a known quantity & a decent signing with plenty of potential.

It shows one of the reasons Robbo was appointed this time around...he knew the club & took an interest in it, so he was, no doubt, well aware of McCart from his previous loan spell...

3 hours ago, ferben1994 said:

Why don't you just do a Bannerman and have a wee break.

 

More staying power ?

Jamie is a great signing - he trains and performs like a true professional

10 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Jamie is a great signing - he trains and performs like a true professional

You would hope that anyone who is pie to play football full time, no matter what their salary, would train and perform like a true professional.

Really pleased about the signing of McCart.  Building on last season our defence could be the best in the league.

Good signing! Interesting that we have “agreed terms with Celtic” to get him. Hard to imagine that we would pay anything more than a nominal fee. Maybe a sell on clause instead?

6 hours ago, RiG said:

One for the pedants this announcement:

 

See you Inverness Thistle and raise you Inverness Caley...

9 hours ago, Kind of Blue said:

Really pleased about the signing of McCart.  Building on last season our defence could be the best in the league.

on paper our defence options  sounds pretty solid but I'll wait and see how it goes before making comparisons . here's hoping you are right.

Edited June 15, 20187 yr by caleyboy

8 hours ago, CaleyD said:

See you Inverness Thistle and raise you Inverness Caley...

The Thistle vouchers are £20 ?

11 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

You would hope that anyone who is pie to play football full time, no matter what their salary, would train and perform like a true professional.

You would hope that but my point is that he was very focussed and very professional in that season of hell.

30 minutes ago, Downinthedumps said:

The Thistle vouchers are £20 ?

Worth every penny !

I heartily endorse the McCart signing. I thought he was the most impressive (or, more accurately, the least hopeless) of the players Foran used at centre-back. Given he's only 21 this month, there's plenty room for improvement too. At the very least he offers good depth.

 

It does make me wonder about how Robbo's tactics for next season. Whilst we've signed Rooney, he may still be planning to use Brad McKay as a right-back, perhaps in a similar fashion to how Aberdeen use Considine as left-back to offer an attacking threat at the back post rather than for width in possession.

An alternative possibility is that he wants to play three at the back, with McCart, Donaldson and McKay. Donaldson in particular is very comfortable stepping into midfield with the ball...which may compensate for the lack of a deep-lying playmaker. Could this be the solution to life without Vigurs?