Hiro

I see that Kevin Fraser scored twice for Buckie in their win against Brechin last night.  Just another reminder of that farcical situation.  

7 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

Having seen most of our new players over the last few games, I just wonder what JR saw in them. Were they scouted, recommended or did they pull out all the stops in a trial match? At the present moment you can really see why they didn't make it at their other clubs. I fear for us this season, but really hope that JR can shape this bunch into some sort of passable team.

Almost all of our signings have come from the same 2 agencies.  It's something that bothers me greatly as to why we're signing so many players on the day so of people who have a vested interest. Its a bit of a shady business to be honest.

Aghast at the number of posters that seem to want to defend the club come what may.  The fact is the last 6 weeks (and longer) have been utterly shambolic from start to finish.

I actually think we'll do OK this seaon. I'm not in the doomsayers camp re: successive relegations etc however there needs to be a massive improvement at board level.  At the moment i'll give them the benefit of the doubt and put it down to inexperience of the new members rather than  incompetency or deceitfulness.  At some point there does need to be some form of realisation of what supporters expect of them- to work for the best interests of the club, community and supporters.  Unfortunately, at the moment it sounds like too many of them are there for ego driven reasons. Nothing like shaking hands in a boardroom for furthering personal business interests eh?

For 'undisclosed 6 figure sum' please read £125k.

On 06/08/2017 at 9:40 AM, Hiro said:

Worst fears re Draper about to be confirmed by the sounds of it.  £100k enough to get the deal done.  

Meh.  I doubt Robbo will see any of it either.

1 hour ago, forresjags said:

Absolute p*ss take talking about £100 000. Draper is as influential to us as Boyce was to them. so that has to be reflected in his market value. Fecking scoundrels trying to unsettle our player.      

By all accounts Draper is pretty content and been training well so I don't think he's unsettled. The issue we have and alluded to on one of the other threads is that there have been some 'soft loans' made. As much as we all know that Draper is worth more than £100k we may not be in a position to turn down any 6 figure sum regardless of previous statements.

That's Oman Biyik's Badboys back for another go.

Worst fears re Draper about to be confirmed by the sounds of it.  £100k enough to get the deal done.  

1 hour ago, Hiro said:

Panicky defending, stupid penalty given away, 1-0.   

For 2017/18 please see 2016/17.

As you are.

Panicky defending, stupid penalty given away, 1-0.   

For 2017/18 please see 2016/17.

11 minutes ago, ictchris said:

We couldn't agree a fee with Buckie for Kevin Fraser after his trial so he is staying with them and has signed a new contract. 

What a farce of a situation.

Indeed. I can't work out why we wouldn't have agreed/broadly outlined the terms of a deal prior to taking him on trial.

Unless Buckie changed the goalposts.....

Thats Connor Bell signed on a one year deal. Seemed to make a big impression on those who were at Clach on Tuesday night.

Storm in a D-Cup? 

If there hadn't been a statement I'm sure we would have forgotten about it in a day or two.  The minter of a statement just draws the attention of those who missed it.

5 minutes ago, KennySim93 said:

Yes, but from 2 corners and a free kick.  Not from open play.

Yep, that's what I was alluding to.

0 goals from open play in competitive games. That has to be a concern going into the season.   I'm sure we can trot out the usual excuses  e.g. the league cup group stage is a bit of a glorified friendly, the team is gelling etc. but we need to see more improvement asap it it's going to be a long hard season.

Would be slightly surprised if it's Zscusschen that's unveiled today considering he is currently in the US playing for Curacao in the Gold Cup.

4:30pm the club put out on social media that tonight's match was cancelled. Unbelievable, nothing changes.

Bit bizarre considering it was only announced at the weekend.  Still nothing on the club social media feeds that game is postponed. 

Tyrone Smith tweeting that Ridgers and Oakley are now confirmed as having officially signed. 

Wouldn't be too surprised to hear confirmation of OFW's departure in next couple of days.

1 hour ago, RiG said:

If Boden has even been back in the door since the end of the season...

This, and unless something drastic changes he won't ever be back.

3 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

No doubt that OFW will be one of our highest paid players. No doubt that, with our reduced status, we would be keen to save or free up that money but there is nobody at the TCS on what could be described as a huge salary and OFW's salary for last season would have been covered by what we received from UEFA for his participation in the Euros.

It's a huge salary relative to our current position/the average person. Other than a handful of his teammates & some Dundee Utd players it will also be among the highest in the division. There's no Euro money to fund it this year of which pretty much 100% went on his salary.

12 hours ago, ictchris said:

There's absolutely no chance we'll get a fee for OFW. 

I'd suggest we'll let him go for free in order to get his huge salary off the wage bill. 

Tough start.

Dundee Utd (H), Dunfermline (A), Morton (H), Brechin (A), St. Mirren  (A).

At least we'll know what type of a season we're in for early on.

1 hour ago, ictfcsince94 said:

Miles tweeting a picture of him in a ICT top, talking about pre-season training...I wonder....

That's a possibility. The boys were back training today and I'm sure I read Aberdeen were back at the start of the week.

Wonder why we haven't announced any of our other signings yet?