While this season will not result in relegation for us I for one cannot wait until it's over. I don't really want the football season to finish but I just can't stand watching our team lurch from losing another 3 points without any semblance of fight, desire, teamspirit, passion or sense of footballing ability to behind the scenes nonsensical power struggles and ego trips to shambolic situations such as the whole Chester City farce (whether this is our own doing or not is irrelevant, its just one more thing to add to a joke of a season).
Before anyone thinks this is just another fan greeting I should add that I do not expect ICT to finish in the top half of the SPL each season and I do regard staying in the SPL as priority and am grateful that we are still in the Scottish football's top league. I also admire the board's ethos of not taking us down a route that will end up putting us in dire financial straits.
However...
Whatever has/is going on at board level that is causing so much unrest, I urge all individual board members to step back a little and consider the club, where it is, where it has come from and what is in the clubs best interests, if this means individuals backing down or eating humble pie for the benefit of ICT then please be an adult have the courage and dignity to do so.
As for the management, well I was never in favour of Mr. Brewster being brought back to the club, this is not a personal matter whatsoever, I do not want to nor enjoy watching the ICT management team prove that they are simply not good enough for the job. A good player and fitness coach Mr. Brewster may be but this does not make him a good manager, many good managers were not very good players, the two do not equate at all. I also am led to believe (from numerous sources) that Mr. Brewster is a slightly arrogant individual with an unrequired ego. I am aware that all managers have a different style but do not think that being arrogant towards players (or anyone you work with) is a good way to conduct yourself. George Burley is an example of a manager who seems very humble and approachable yet has the unconditional respect of the players he is involved with. I am also told that Mr. Brewster asked the players how they would feel if he was to bring back Mr. Thomson as his assistant and that the response from several players was more than negative yet these opinions were ignored and Mr. Thomson was, as we unfortunatly know, given the position.
As for the players ,well as usual, as a fan I am pretty happy overall with the vast majority who I think have tried hard to do thier best within a situation they are likely not overly happy with. I do not want to see Dennis leave the club and think he has been treated appalingly by the management and club, if he leaves I wouldn't blame him but would urge him to stay and win that new contract as I do believe he will. There are several playes who I feel are not good enough and should be thanked for thier services and then politely show the door, unfortunatly the management do not feel the same way about the same players, but I am a fan and as such my opinion is just that. There are also a few players who I do think are good enough but who should be dropped for a little and made to regain thier places. Then there are those who are nothing more than a negative influence and should be binned ASAP before the little team spirit we have left is totally eradicated.
Whether it is Hamilton or Dundee who go up next season both are highly likely to stay up. No team who has gone up from the first division has immediately gone back down (bar of course Gretna which is, for want of a better term, a unique case), it is a teams second season in the top flight which will always be more difficult. The current situation at our club concerns me greatly and I am very concerned about our top flight status for next season as if things carry on the way the have since the start of the year we WILL be relegated.
I haven't really commented on all the other threads discussing many of these matters and apologise that this thread makes for such depressing reading, I don't expect the majority of other supportes to agree with my post, nor do I care, I just wanted to get all my ICT concerns of my chest at once.
Finally may I say resisting the urge to litter this post with profanities took a lot of doing!
While this season will not result in relegation for us I for one cannot wait until it's over. I don't really want the football season to finish but I just can't stand watching our team lurch from losing another 3 points without any semblance of fight, desire, teamspirit, passion or sense of footballing ability to behind the scenes nonsensical power struggles and ego trips to shambolic situations such as the whole Chester City farce (whether this is our own doing or not is irrelevant, its just one more thing to add to a joke of a season).
Before anyone thinks this is just another fan greeting I should add that I do not expect ICT to finish in the top half of the SPL each season and I do regard staying in the SPL as priority and am grateful that we are still in the Scottish football's top league. I also admire the board's ethos of not taking us down a route that will end up putting us in dire financial straits.
However...
Whatever has/is going on at board level that is causing so much unrest, I urge all individual board members to step back a little and consider the club, where it is, where it has come from and what is in the clubs best interests, if this means individuals backing down or eating humble pie for the benefit of ICT then please be an adult have the courage and dignity to do so.
As for the management, well I was never in favour of Mr. Brewster being brought back to the club, this is not a personal matter whatsoever, I do not want to nor enjoy watching the ICT management team prove that they are simply not good enough for the job. A good player and fitness coach Mr. Brewster may be but this does not make him a good manager, many good managers were not very good players, the two do not equate at all. I also am led to believe (from numerous sources) that Mr. Brewster is a slightly arrogant individual with an unrequired ego. I am aware that all managers have a different style but do not think that being arrogant towards players (or anyone you work with) is a good way to conduct yourself. George Burley is an example of a manager who seems very humble and approachable yet has the unconditional respect of the players he is involved with. I am also told that Mr. Brewster asked the players how they would feel if he was to bring back Mr. Thomson as his assistant and that the response from several players was more than negative yet these opinions were ignored and Mr. Thomson was, as we unfortunatly know, given the position.
As for the players ,well as usual, as a fan I am pretty happy overall with the vast majority who I think have tried hard to do thier best within a situation they are likely not overly happy with. I do not want to see Dennis leave the club and think he has been treated appalingly by the management and club, if he leaves I wouldn't blame him but would urge him to stay and win that new contract as I do believe he will. There are several playes who I feel are not good enough and should be thanked for thier services and then politely show the door, unfortunatly the management do not feel the same way about the same players, but I am a fan and as such my opinion is just that. There are also a few players who I do think are good enough but who should be dropped for a little and made to regain thier places. Then there are those who are nothing more than a negative influence and should be binned ASAP before the little team spirit we have left is totally eradicated.
Whether it is Hamilton or Dundee who go up next season both are highly likely to stay up. No team who has gone up from the first division has immediately gone back down (bar of course Gretna which is, for want of a better term, a unique case), it is a teams second season in the top flight which will always be more difficult. The current situation at our club concerns me greatly and I am very concerned about our top flight status for next season as if things carry on the way the have since the start of the year we WILL be relegated.
I haven't really commented on all the other threads discussing many of these matters and apologise that this thread makes for such depressing reading, I don't expect the majority of other supportes to agree with my post, nor do I care, I just wanted to get all my ICT concerns of my chest at once.
Finally may I say resisting the urge to litter this post with profanities took a lot of doing!
Thank you for reading!