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yeah, that would be a good positive way to celebrate our own 20th anniversary! We have our fair share of negative posters, but my own opinion is that it is balanced out by "happy clappers" and a fair number of 'balanced' posters. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you are going to base your support of a club entirely on forum postings (or for that matter facebook or twitter which is where our 'orphans' would end up if we took your ludicrous suggestion seriously) then perhaps supporting a football team - any team - is not a wise choice for that potential supporter. As for the press .... forums, facebook, twitter etc just make things easy for them ... if they didnt have that then they would just make it up anyway! Players and management do read this (in varying degrees) but very few take it seriously (especially the negative posts)

So here we are again. Coming off the back of a ground-breaking season(which included the most exciting match of all time, at Easter Road), we once again find ourselves facing the challenges of a new season. What are our expectations? Well.....unrealistic if you ask me. We KNOW how far this club can go given the circumstances. The list of opponents makes for wearisome reading. The doom mongers are peddling their wares already. All I ever want is to be entertained ( win, lose or draw). Lets give Yogi and the boys a chance for God's sake. It strikes me there IS only one answer to our perennial pre season gloom.............relegation................and another glorious season in the best division in Scottish football. Is that what you all want?

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Very much agree with this. If are setting up with Doran playing of the left and potentially vincent and christie also with vincent on the right largely they all drift more central creating the space for the two fullbacks to get forward and deliver crosses. Shinnie is ideal to peform this exact role and David Raven is reasonably equipped to do so also on the right hand side.. Tremarco on the other hand is certainly not. I'd very much like to see us start with the below: Brill Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Draper Tansey Doran Christie Watkins or Ross Mckay I feel Doran is of more use to us down the right hand side to allow him to deliver crosses into the area sooner rather than slowing the pace cutting inside from the left all the time. Watkins and Ross would be ahead in the picking order for me over Vincent. I'd prefer to see Nick Ross play and would anticipate that he would have played more under Hughes due to his ball retention ability over a guy like vincent but strangely isn't the case. Suspect we will see vincent/christie/Doran but would rather the above.

What irritates me are these self-righteous types who seem to think that if you make any criticisms or have any opinions that are not from the "everything is great" handbook, you're not a real supporter. Airing your worries and criticisms is perfectly healthy and to be encouraged. I think as well, when a realist/negative nancy does say something positive it carries a bit more weight and is praise that is deserved. When a happy clapper gives it yet again in a kaleidoscope of colours, smiles and sunshine - it means nothing.

There is nothing but depressing, negative stories on the news. Ban it. Let's have more happy, smiley, inane babble from that perennial grinning, prozaced up wench Lorraine Kelly instead. Or the f****** One Show. Happy, happy, happy. Joy, joy, joy.

The SPFL are allowing games where the travelling is beyond a certain distance (230 miles return) to be played at an earlier time....which means most of ours will probably be 2pm. The specific nature of the distance seems a little suspicious as it forces us to play games against Aberdeen & St Johnstone in the evening...but C*unty are just (by 2 miles) outside the need to play any in the evening.

Argh. Not Shinnie in midfield, for the love of god. At left back, he is an excellent defender and is able to get into dangerous areas, where he can threaten with a dangerous final ball. In midfield, his energy allows to him to burst forward quickly...into exactly the same tiny area in the middle of the pitch where all our forwards are running into. Meanwhile, if Shinnie plays in midfield, we end up with Tremarco, a hatchet man who is too slow to track wingers, too poor in the air to defend against big wide players and whose crossing is right out of the Richard Hastings school. In the last few months of last season, opponents set up so that we had to pass the ball to Tremarco, safe in the knowledge that he wasn't dangerous in the slightest. Is a wee bit of width too much to ask for?!

Always the fault of the supporters never the club !

The comparison with other club fora is very valid. It is true that there are a number of posters, perhaps even a majority, expressing frustration and concern over the tactics and results since Yogi took over the team but there are very few indeed calling for the manager's head most wiling to give him further opportunity to turn round what cannot, no matter how 'supportive' of the club you are, be viewed as anything other than a sharp decline in fortunes since his appointment. From brief visits to other club fora, almost every other forum in the land would have a substantial body of fans calling for the manager to be sacked in similar circumstances. In my view, the majority of users on this site are considered and restrained with the views offered whilst being critical also generally measured and proportionate. If the tenor of the forum upsets you so much just now why, rather than closing the site for six months, don't you take a break from it for six months ? Anyway, without this site, Caley D would have to resort to Twitter to make sarcastic comments about any posts remotely critical of the club or the team....

Show-business moguls say ..."there is no such thing as bad publicity, whether it's good or bad, it's all keeping the spotlight on us." Without the black to contrast it, you can't see the white ! Fair people use their own judgment and try to find the balance. If you obliterated this website for 6 month then all overseas members would wither and die on the vine. How dare you make such a suggestion . Even old fogies and emigrants need their footie to avoid losing touch with reality in a world basically about to implode....

Real played a similar type of passing game against the Dons and absolutely tore them apart. Again, similarly to us , shots were blasted high and wide until such time as they settled and took their chances to polish the Dons off. Admittedly Real's defence stood mostly firm but there was the odd slip up. It is nearly impossible not to have the odd slip up We are still learning this passing game, where we lack the skill is drawing the defence and making the gaps for the players to run into to score. Our finishing does improve as the game goes on but still has to be improved on. When the lads gain the confidence to run and pass instead of the standing passes we will create more opportunities to score. We will also have a team that will be the envy of all the other teams' supporters, a winning team at that. Patience is a virtue.......................but it can be learned......just like the passing game. Come on ICT..............

Mate coming from someone who has experience in digging holes and lots of them stop now before things get worse.

While I can't really argue with what has been posted, a few positives I took from Saturday were that Birmingham City are a much bigger team than us playing against superior opposition each week than we do and we were not totally outclassed, in fact for a large part of the second half I did feel that we were the better team and anyone who didn't know the teams playing would have said we were the team with the bigger budget. Also the were parts in the second half where Ryan Christie was brilliant, this season could really be a big one for him. If he shines we will struggle to keep hold of him. And despite the fans feelings on the tactics being used and the general apathy that seems prevalent, the players still seem to have the camaraderie that has been without a doubt our biggest asset over the past few seasons. Anyway, those are the positives that I took from it but I also agree with most of the worries, concerns and frustrations that have been voiced. Also thanks to good people of Brum who were all very nice to us, particularly the pub near the ground we were in. Some of the kids were looking at us like we were from another planet! A great day was had.

I'm in the same boat. Apparently there will be wifi covering the festival so we should be able to keep track of the game!

Lesson number one - don't give Imrie space to shoot early on!!

Brill Raven Warren Meekings Tremarco Tansey Shinnie Doran Christie Watkins Mckay Subs - Esson, Devine, Vincent, Ross, Williams, Polworth, Ferguson

Do you take it all off?