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Quite simply, Dodds has to go. I didn't think he was the right man for the job when appointed and said so on this forum. I also said that while I would give him my support, I thought he was poor tactically and have sadly been proved correct. It has been obvious for weeks that our formation, two men playing wide, wasn't working and left the midfield exposed and overrun at times. The formation worked when we had our strongest team on the park, including Gardyne, who saved us in a lot of the early games. We haven't had our strongest team available for a long time due to injuries and the Gardyne situation but the tactics have remained the same despite results showing it wasn't working. There also appears to be a total lack of leadership on the field at times from the experienced players similar to a lack of leadership from Dodds perhaps. The club took the lazy, and probably cheap option, in employing Dodds and our board and CEO are culpable on this. Do we actually still have a board/CEO by the way as they seem totally invisible at the moment. If no visible signs of improvement in the next two games, I have to seriously consider attending any more games this season, and as a season ticket holder for over 20 years, this would be hard. I honestly think our club has become a complete shambles and we need a long term plan on how we change things.

The stadium is barely a quarter full.Could you imagine Hearts or Aberdeen playing to 5000 home fans and the board burying their head in the sand thinking all is ok. For to long the supporters have been taken for granted, ***** catering ,flooded carparks, terrible stewarding, non existent communications, the list is endless. The place is just soul destroying at the moment. Things have to change or more fans will just drift away.

Deaie me - just watched the Dodds post-match interview. What conclusion can we draw from these latest comments other than establishing that the guy is completely delusional and incapable of arresting our ongoing downward spiral. The very least he can do is hold his hands up and be honest with us, instead we get the same meaningless platitudes every week and frankly disingenuous analyis of a performance which was rank rotten for all to see. Meanwhile we have the usual deafening silence from Gardiner and the board. The level of communication and transparency, at a full-time club which has spent significant time in the Premiership, would genuinely embarass most Highland League sides. Grim times.

Congratulations to our curlers for their achievements in Beijing. Watching every end of the two finals over the last day or so took my mind off just how depressing it is to be an ICT supporter at the moment

How amazing were they!! Eve Muirhead showing if you don't give up your dream can be realised too.

Not sure that matters tbh? Only our early points on board is saving us here. At moment results are relegation form.

Well there's no way BD will resign, he doesn't see any reason to. According to him, 'things conspired against us' 'we played some good football' 'it's just the way it's going' 'they all know their jobs' also effectively saying that we should count ourselves lucky that the heads didn't go down to then lose by 3 or 4. I honestly think he must be watching a different game than the one I did from the North Stand.

Has the chairman come out yet to say that he has full confidence in the manager? Well if not Dodds is staying. In a perfect world, we need a whole new coaching team, some new ideas, everything is so stale. It's the way we lose games that's not acceptable, if you go down fighting and giving everything, you can say we were unlucky, but it's the nature of the performance that's disturbing. And as I have said before, the disconnect between the club and supporters is widening by the week.

The way our club communicate and interact with fans the fact is we'll never know. I don't expect weekly updates on what eveyone is doing but emails and questions go unanswered and we literally get nothing from the club. I like Robbo but it reeks of jobs for the boys and it just seems like much of the senior management of the club are a clique and there's no oversight.

How about Ross Tokely ... a wee bit out of left field but ... has management/coaching experience, has the club close to his heart and always talks intelligently and passionately in commentary.

I used to smuggle flares into Kingsmills every second week for at least three seasons in the 70s

tm4tj has a far superior report above!

Nor do I normally call for the manager to be sacked and have quite recently called for him to be given until the end of the season before a review. However, for me, yesterday waa a turning point. Billy Dodds was the convenient and available option at the start of the season once Neil McCann made it clear he wasn't continuing but it is abundantly clear now that he was, and continues to be the wrong option. Charlie Christie is an excellent coach and good motivator who stepped down as manager far too early. I would be happy to see him step in to take the team until at least the end of the season.

I wouldn't want Robertson taking over again. To be honest I've no idea why we need to have Robertson and Scott Gardiner at the club. What do they both do? If they identify signings and neither could see we were in desperate need of defenders in January then I don't have much confidence in them. We must have one of the most unbalanced squads in the league.

CC would never go back to being manager again... Rossco i'm sure will fit sometime in the future, we require someone with experience, now.

Mind and take slip on shoes with you Mantis!!!

Yes there is. Unless there are a lot of cancellations.

It's time for Dodds and the entire backroom staff tae go and bring in an ambitious manager with fresh ideas. However the sad reality is the club can't afford to sack him. Worrying times.

That's unbelievable!!!

I'm a 41 year old guy walking in holding my 8 year old daughter's hand and was asked to do the same. I asked them why as I've never been asked to do this in my life and was told they were looking for flares

Surely the club must be concerned with what's happening? Attendances have fallen dramatically, the football is boring to watch, and results are dire. Feels like we're in freefall! Yesterday on entering the ground I even witnessed one fan being stopped by a steward and asked to open his jacket for a security check. This wasn't a youngster but a senior fan, and in freezing cold weather! Wtf is going on at the club. They'll have no fans left at this rate!

Another example of how well the club communicates with fans…… The club’s report: https://ictfc.com/match-report-ictfc-1-2-ayr-utd-19-02-2022

CTO REPORT

I've been complaining about people's roles, responsibilities and communication since I contacted the club on October the 28th 2020 and still await any kind of acknowledgement or reply.

Think i'll pass on this season. It really is embarrassingly depressing stuff.

This one of those days when you want to wake up and find that Billy Dodds has done the honourable thing and resigned to concentrate on his media work where he can blether away ad infinitum.

Whatever those ways may be we'll watch more in hope than expectation, but it shouldn't preclude forum members pondering the bigger picture. Given the wall of silence we can do precious little else.

Look at our next 4 league games: Away - Hamilton Away - Partick Home - Arbroath Away - Raith If we still have the same management team in place for these games then we're not winning any of them. Can anyone seriously see where are win in all that comes from? Answers on a postcard unless you're Billy Dodds, he'll have us down to win them all.

The most disappointing aspect today was that it was all very predictable...if we can predict what is going to happen surely something is just no right ?? I don't personally have the answers but then again I'm not on the payroll. It is entirely up to everyone who is on the payroll.

When moving Robertson to the SD role Gardiner said something like .. "I just can't see us losing out of the situation" The question now is what if anything have we gained ?

I’m not one for calling for Managers’ heads, but if we are looking for a new Manager at some point in the near future, Tokely supported by Tremarco is worth considering. Whether we keep any of the current back room staff should be the Manager’s decision. Tokely is already with us as a youth coach.

Well my hope was seriously misplaced! Another very disappointing performance and result. Ayr scored with their first attempt when we allowed a free header. Until then we’d had plenty possession and territory, but not troubled Ayr, who themselves looked abject. The game was over when we lost the second and thereafter it was desperate stuff and our formation went out of the window after Carson’s red card. For me, only MacKay, McAlear, Chalmers and Pearson get pass marks of the starting 11. Some of substitutions were strange. We should have gone three at the back with Duffy, Broadfoot and Deas after the red, but we subbed the two players who looked like they could create (Chalmers and Pearson) and at times McAlear seemed to be our only defender! We had some woeful passing, and too often just played a hopeful ball forward, forgetting we don’t have an obvious target man when the ball is in the air. I don’t like being critical of our home grown youngsters, but Harper had his poorest game and I think it highlighted the lack of confidence amongst him and many in the team. Yes we were missing a lot of players (presumably Ridgers and Welsh injured?), but that’s no excuse. That was a very poor Ayr side we were playing, and the Ayr fans summed up the afternoon for me when they were chanting “it’s so fxxxing easy”. Two TV games next. We normally do well in them. If we do, in my opinion it will be due to players trying to show other Managers what they can do in order to get a move, rather than the management team suddenly motivating them and coaching them right. 4 wins since the start of October, no wins in 9. It says it all.

Weren't we nearly crippled before by paying up the contracts of Foran and Hughes, so how would that work with getting rid of Dodds? Does it still take a pay off if he resigns? What about Tremarco? I see him on the County bench during the Premier league games, he must be gaining some good experience. I don't know who we can get, but things need to change.

I'd take a rookie looking to get into management, such as Scott Brown or Stevie Naismith (though it won't be either of these) with an experienced assistant such as Donald Park (is he still involved in the game?). Anyway, our chairman knows our feelings because I've just messaged him on messenger demanding action and answers so hopefully he acts soon.

How are the under 18 lads placed to play our final 10 league fixtures? They would surely at least show more commitment than the current first team squad.

There are ways to salvage something from this season. Changing those structures may or may not help us in the long term but would not improve our utterly dismal form.

It's fair to say not many in Berlin were complaining about the effectiveness of the luftwaffe prior to the Battle of Britain.

Nobody was complaining about structures and roles when we were top of the league. What’s more relevant is what’s gone so horribly wrong in the dressing room and dugout since then.