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No. This simply cannot be true anyway as the club would have surely kept us in the loop. Communication is always on point.

I get the doom and gloom, and have been critical of our recent performances. But let’s turn the clock back to 26 September. We were bottom of the league with 1 point from 6 games and had failed miserably in the League Cup and Challenge Cup. Fast forward to 3 January. We’ve climbed to 8th place and have 18 points from 19 games, with Big Dunc having got 17 points from 13 games. There is progress, but not as much as we’d all have liked, but where would we be now if we’d not brought him in? This season is now all about survival in this league and hopefully laying foundations for a successful 2024/25 campaign. A bit of a run in the Scottish Cup would be a welcome bonus. We need to see who we can bring in this month and the impact they have. We may see some players depart and probably a lot will leave in the summer with a large part of the squad out of contract then. We will start to see what the Manager can bring to the club as the squad changes and hopefully we see enough positive signs to give us confidence we are on the right lines, and that we can build a competitive squad during the close season. It is early days but we also need to see improved performances on the pitch, much more intent when attacking, and good results that ease the current relegation worries.

Was told yesterday Liam has resigned from the Board. I must of missed the Press Release! I emailed him around a month ago and never received a reply so I guess that explains it. Mr Gardiner is going to run this club into the ground… mark my words.

Go and pour yourself a little brandy, take it to the airidh…

What's happened to all these bright young prospects we had in our youth set-up?

I enjoyed the old Wolfstone and Runrig learning more about Scottish History reading the sleeve notes about their songs and Duncan Chisholm said the same in Runrig a Celebration on BBC Sounds (link below) worth a listen. I will give Peat and Diesel a miss Runrig: A Celebration - BBC Sounds

Ayr will be getting a few pelters for getting beat 3-0 by Morton. Would imagine they will be well fired up (to use an Ayrshire phrase) for Saturday. So all players at ICT will be required to step up and produce a good performance; more fired up than them. Re the Airdrie game: it’s not a good look trying to keep it tight and play other formations to then lose 2-0 . If you get away with your point or more fair enough but we all probably knew where it was heading as the g@me progressed. As the old saying goes the games come around quick so we have another go Saturday so let’s actually have a GO- fortune favours the brave…

It was striking that in his interview before last nights game, he was talking about having already identified some players he wants to bring in and hoping the club will support him. If specific players have been identified, you would have thought that he would have informed the club of that and that the club would have told him whether or not he had their support. Even if no specific players had been identified, he should know the financial limit he has to work with. It sounds to me as though the players Dunc wants to bring in will cost more than the club have told them is available. It reminds me of the demands Yogi put on the club regarding new players and extended contracts for players he wanted to keep. Blinded by the euphoria of the Scottish Cup win, the club overstretched itself in meeting Yogi's demands. That debacle created a serious black hole in the club's finances from which, years later, we have still not even started to recover. I would like to think that the club have identified some funding which will help in strengthening the team and that the manager is accepting of what he has been told is available. I suspect the reality may be somewhat different.

I said it last week and still think that the saying 'Making a silk purse out of a sows ear' covers our problems.Realistically,we have no stand out stars in our team,we have men who are trying their best most of the time. Other than Spoony who have we got that we can rely on to lead the way? Mackay,Welsh,Devine,Carson maybe but thereafter alas... Shaw is at his best on the wing,running down the channel.Udjur is steady but really our recruitment over the years has come home to roost and we have the problem of playing in the championship 100 miles north of Perth,so who,being half decent wants to come.Somehow we have to make the prospect of playing for ICT more attractive and I thought the prospect of playing for big Dunc was a start.

Actually it was a quite a happy bus home with a lot of laughs! We forgot about the result, had our quizmaster extraordinaire with his footie questions, then a singsong. Home before 10pm so - all ready for Ayr on Saturday - we are nothing if not resilient!

I think you would need more than a little brandy to listen to them