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Seems to be taking us a while to find our feet in games this season - why so many long balls in that wind in the first half? - but a much improved second half performance. Getting the early second half goal was probably crucial, as Arbroath sat in really well in the first half once they had scored, but we used the ball far better after that. Kennedy looks like he'll create a lot for us, Todorov misses chances but gets into the right positions and is starting to put a run together, and Allardice is looking like a great signing already. With so many players still to come back, lots of reasons for optimism, especially if we can start impose ourselves on games a bit earlier.

The camera seemed a bit more consistently focused on the play in the second half, but hopefully the club is still exploring other options; a manned camera and a commentator who knows the team would make a huge difference.

Well done to another makeshift ICT side. At half time I’d have bitten your hand off if you’d offered me a draw.

With the risk of the season being abandoned at any time, it’s good to have moved a few points clear from bottom spot. Can’t trust the football authorities to act fairly and reasonably if that happens, and you certainly can’t trust other clubs.

This is what the camera looks like. Four fixed cameras and what looks like a mike, on top of a pole. The system stitches the images from all four together, so that at all times it has a panoramic view of the entire ground - just like having a big screen in front of you. The AI then controls a virtual camera pointed at the panoramic view, and decides how to "move" it and when to zoom in and out - it decides which part of the big screen we see. Nothing actually moves - except when the wind shakes the whole assembly! This would indeed cause the cameras' images to change slightly - in absolute terms, and also relative to each other - so the line of the join between adjacent images would move. Easy enough for a human to cope with - more difficult for a machine. They claim to have used and tested it on a number of different sports. Though I suspect that most of the testing was done in more benign conditions than 50 feet in the air in autumn in one of the most exposed locations that you could think of! Hope it can cope with extreme cold.

A good result against a team we struggled with last season well done to the team

Full time: 3-1. A decent outcome given the windy conditions. Our best result against them since they got promoted in 2019. 3 goals in 3 games for Toddy too. Just read Robbo’s comment that the game should not have been played given the 50mph winds and how it disrupted us in the first half, with Dick Campbell saying the wind affected their second half performance. As others have said, the result and the second half give us scope for optimism.

Great to see Doran back, even if only for 5 minutes today.

Game of two halves

Toddy! 3-1. What a different half this is.

Camera coverage very poor imagine missing the goal.I thought the idea was that the camera followed the ball.Its all over the place yet again

Yes it certainly was. Improved when the sun went away, and I think the picture and ball tracking were best when it got dark and all the light was from the floodlights.

Not being there, quite likely the wind is having a big impact and favouring the team playing towards the home end. If so, we should make allowances for the first half performance.

Kennedy looks a good wee player

No, been watching Scotland beat Wales.

HT terrible from ICT absolutely rubbish.

Our passing is poor, not two strung together and giving ball away too much. Arbroath better team. I missed the goal as well . Camera was on Dick Cambpell, not got his cap on today, sneaky tactics must have read the papers.

Have you been sleeping

Do our players not get the wind is horrendous and stop kicking it up the bloody park

Nothing wrong with missing the goal. We're just overreacting. The system is great. It was just given you that 'went for a **** and missed the goal' experience.

We are feckin useless..

Regretting buying this absolute ***** show.

No no Robert it's all working very well, it's just you. 😲😲😲

Lets blame Boris

Truly awful...never even seen the goal this is a waste of time.

An update: https://ictfc.com/ictfc-wall-of-fame-tiles-update