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Top Six Stop talking about the Top Feckin six - start referring to the Top Feckin 10 and that the first priority is to avoid the bottom 2 places.

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Top 6.....seriously Richie forget about the top 6 just now. Lets aim for 10th and take it from there!

Pot - Kettle ?

There are supporters with degrees in journalism who could help. A good opportunity to expand the media team.

Can I get a half time pie instead of an orange?

Oops I see the problem. Could the interview not have been done on Wednesday when all the media staff employees of ICTFC etc were at the stadium rather than doing it right after the game. It would have given Richie a little breathing space and a night to analyse what went wrong. I might be wrong here but If we had won they might have managed

Check the Hamilton thread

From what I can gather these are the players out or struggling for tomorrow Out McNaughton Horner Meekings Doran Struggling Raven King If King misses out that leaves us with one natural wide player in Mulraney. That means a good chance of a chronic lack of width in the team come 3pm a la Hamilton in midweek

Regardless of posting it online, there's plenty of CCTV around and probably a few likely candidates from previous flare ups at matches. I would imagine this is the point where CTO put a ban on talking about it.

I agree with IHE. The target must be tenth place but on what planet were we 'challenging for top six' last week ? That ship sailed well before Christmas.

Richie's last strart was the cup game against Hibs which was if I recall his first game in almost a year then and he was utter mince, I'm sure in the last 9 months with next to no training or game time I hardly think he will be our saviour. If anything he needs to be phoning and talking to any experienced manager or coaching contacts he has to try figure out how to defend and improve the playing style.

They were too busy blocking fan-pages on twitter....

Grassed up.

His team may be three points adrift at the foot of the Premiership but Inverness CT boss Richie Foran says the board has been supportive and he is not in danger of being sacked. "We were challenging for the top six last week, now it's a relegation battle. Two or three wins gets us back challenging for the top six, but they need to come," says the Irishman. (Sun)

Assuming fit is this who we have? Foran Gary Warren Ross Draper Owain Fon Williams Liam Polworth Scott Boden Esson Meekings? Aaron Doran Raven Vigurs Mulraney Tremarco Tansey Horner?? McNaughton? King Sutherland Mackay Fisher Brad Mckay Cole Anier . Esson Raven Mcart Mckay Tremarco Doran Fisher Foran Draper Cole . . Billy Mckay Philosophy is akin to when Scotland ground out results against better teams under Walter Smith. Wingers stay wide. If you insist Foran won't play himself, then Sutherland starts for me instead. Great wee player from what I've seen and not shy at workrate, maybe a bit light but merits a start at least. Possible replacement in Anier.

Frankly, Dougal, considering how low the crowd numbers are these days it's surprising that there is any money left over to pay the players' wages week in and week out at all. Neither the Board, nor Richie for that matter, has (apparently) many arrows left in their respective quivers to allow them to save the day. What it boils down to, it seems, is that the Manager and the Players have a real ding-dong heart -to-heart talk and resolve to get out there and play their hearts out in the next match to save face, souls and the club.

my son and I are first time season ticket holders and do try to sing along with the young team, but it really surprises me that most don't bother, but in fact boo every miss placed pass or tackle, we all need to get behind the lads, hopefully if we can provide some atmosphere on Saturday they might just feed off it!

With the 1960s buildings on Bridge Street in need of a good wrecking ball.

OFW MacKay Warren Meekings Tremarco Draper Polworth Doran Cole King McKay With Billy back, I reckon the best chance to get him scoring is to play the system he was used to last time he was here - fullbacks have to focus on defence and feed the wide-men - who have to stay wide, not all get sucked into the middle. Cole has decent vision, and with Mulraney, King and Doran we have three players who are best when they play wide. Midfield is weak at the moment, but I think Polwarth and Vigurs could both do a job in there alongside Draper if they knuckle down. Hoping for the best, but not super-confident. I don't think we've really adapted to losing Graeme Shinnie - Tremarco has been heroic going forward, but he doesn't have the same eye for a pass.

Losing the early (or at least first goal) is a MASSIVE issue for us. We've conceded the opening goal in a staggering 74% of our matches this season and have been in a losing position at half time in over 60% of our games so far. We're being outscored by a factor of 2:1 in the first half. Unfortunately as soon as something goes wrong the fans are on top of the players and seldom get behind them. Obviously some of the stuff served up recently has been mince but it is a bit disappointing that some seem to be more than willing to be vocal in their criticism but seldom give the same amount level of support to the team.

My point is not that players left when he was in charge - players will always move on - it was his complete inability to bring in comparable players that was the problem.

I was excited as anyone about Billy McKay and he tried, but the team clearly weren't used to him going by all the passes aimed over his head to the marginally taller HAFC player marking him. It was obvious last night the line-up wasn't right. We need to wait until Saturday to see if things have meshed any better and if Foran goes with a saner line-up. And stops going easy on the lazy players.

Remember that Hughes took over when we were flying in 2nd place. He left us 5 places lower. During his tenure Ross, G Shinnie, Watkins, Vincent, Mckay, Devine, Williams and Christie left. Can you name any outfield players he signed who have remained for Foran to work with and who could be regarded as replacements of equal or better quality? (Keeper excepted OFW in, Brill out - much of a muchness). This despite the significantly higher player budget than Butcher had. Don't get me started about the style of play. Last season was the most boring football I have seen anywhere, any time.

ICTChris should be on the right wing.

I haven't voted, results are just as good as a poll. This season I haven't been overly concerned, or should really say worried, regarding the points on the board, until now. The points tally to date is irrelevant if another 6 teams are mediocre then they will never be far away, it's just the other teams are all beating each other and creeping up the table. It really is time for action on Saturday not kamikaze but a well thought well planned gutsy performance. Get the fans on side. I want to see the Richie who scores goals with his face, I want to see the Richie who shouts his mouth of on the pitch, I want to see the Richie who I thought was going to get sent off for grabbing Hayes by the throat for not putting enough effort in against Dunfermline. Its time for that guy to make an appearance. As for the players if we go down the club can't afford your wages next season. Inverness is a horrible place to come. That long slow awful A9. That exposed cold miserable stadium. Worst of all our awful mouthy fans, let's give Dundee as hard a time as we can and let Foran get on with his job of getting stuck into his players. A passionate expressive match will go a long way to calm things down. But we don't want to settle for that, we go again the following week and every week from now on. Just get stuck in.

Richie has clearly tried to be positive and show belief in his players to prevent a spiral of negativity when confidence will naturally be low. Hamilton was the final straw for this approach and he clearly has changed his tact. Some arse kicking is in the post! Let's see how it goes. Our Warren's, tanseys and drapers are letting us down. Let's make them right for their place. All ready this season we have had hartely, McIntyre and canning under pressure. Now it's Richie's turn but he needs a chance to sort it out.

OFW Mckay Warren Meekings Tremarco Draper Doran Polly King Anier Billy Assuming Meekings is back and King otherwise a back four with Raven at RB and Cole instead of KIng. We have Polly who can drop deep to support Draper and Anier who can do the link up between midfield and Billy upfront. We need the wide players to stay wide and run, I cant recall last time I saw a cross from the byline or beyond the 18 yard box - we need balls for Billy to try latch onto, not to try win in the air or fight against the opposition CB's.

Just as well I had a 4 year contract then.

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Because I can't be arsed typing it out again, lazy cut and paste of my post on P&B in response to a still-pessimistic Accies supporter who suggested that we would probably 'have the guts' to get rid of Foran before it's too late: I'm not sure the board will have the guts. They gave him a four-year contract - presumably the cheap option, although it was sold as building for the future - so it would cost them a fair bit to pay him off. The decision they face now is whether it's worth getting shot and hoping we can get someone in who can keep the club up, or accepting that we're going down and starting to budget for a season in the Championship. There's absolutely no way we're staying up under Foran though - the central midfield partnership that won the Scottish Cup and got us to a clear third two seasons ago looked scared of the ball tonight, and he had two more central midfielders allegedly playing wide. We've looked clueless tactically for months now, and if he's lost the dressing room, as it appears, then it's game over. I genuinely can't remember witnessing a worse ICT performance, and that includes a game when we were 5-0 down to Airdrie at half time, when Steve Paterson had presumably had the players in the casino until 7am the night before. Just to add: I'm not sure whether we do have the right balance of players to stay up even under a more experienced manager, but I do know that most of the players on show tonight are capable of playing with far more guile and far more passion than they showed tonight. Also, while Foran slating the players tonight post-match was understandable, I don't think it's likely to produce the positive reaction that we badly need, especially as his tactics have been so clearly at fault too. Don't ask me who a suitable replacement would be, though, because I don't have a clue.

Well that is McCart on from the start. That could be a good pairing with Warren. Mckay and Anier up front. Brad and Tremarco at the back sounds sound. All depends on the midfield choices. STOP feckin talking about the TOP SIX. Notice how he stuttered a wee bit at the challenge question and the tone of his voice lowered. "They are all up for the challenge" Sack question and goes into defence mode. It clearly has been mentioned. No to the experienced "guide" puts him totally on the results chopping block. Too much emphasis on Mckay and Anier. That to me was a false Foran and a totally (but understandably) rigged interview. Good Luck tomorrow Richie

The manager gave a very full, 3 minute plus, interview to Charlie Mann of BBC Scotland after the Hamilton game. This is also quoted on BBC online and in addition he spoke to the written press. Having on very many occasions interviewed football managers just minutes after very painful, damaging and indeed career-threatening defeats, I have to say that, in the vast majority of cases, I only have the greatest of regard and respect for what they come out and do. OK, they are contractually obliged to do much of it but it really must be so hard on many occasions since they are severely hurting not only from a sporting/competitive point of view, but often with respect to their professional futures..

AXE THE ACT!!!!!

P & J running a story that says four folk from Elgin and four from Inverness have been charged after the disturbance in Elgin the other week. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/1159990/eight-charged-elgin-v-inverness-football-violence/

from what i understand there was a Northern Irish man in town drinking it dry

Hey, there are plenty of negative threads and posts just now. Can we maybe keep this one for positive nostalgia

Esson Raven. McCart. B Mackay. Tremarco Tansey Polworth. Cole Draper Mckay. Arnier

still waiting for tuesday afer match report on you tube has Ritchie lost the bottle and not doing one