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Need to recruit some defensive minded players including cover for the back five With Raven, Horner, McNaugthon and Esson unfit options have been pretty slim of late. How ironic from this time last year when we never had any options to play upfront we now have 3 on the books, recruited another from Ireland and are being linked with Miles Storey. As has been well documented scoring goals has not been the problem, keeping them out however. Whatever meagre resources we have need to used to strengthen defensively.

Mate, I do get what you are saying but football is a business and requires a certain ruthlessness. My concerns are we may have missed the opportunity to build on our recent success and our crowds continue to hover around 2500. Appreciate you cannot drag folk to games and whoever solves the mystery of the disappearing fans will be a rich man, but do we need changes throughout to try and revitalise the club and bring in fresh ideas.

He and many others are nor performing that is why we are enduring such a miserable run, but for some reason he is being singled out by many when collectively including the management they all have been below average.( The exception being Carl Tremarco).

Really Vigurs 3 seems pretty harsh, especially when you tell me that Tansey was twice as good as him with a six. This is the same Tansey who was caught in possession for the 3rd goal and generally overhit all the corners he took on Saurday thereby wasting any opportunity to put County under pressure.

Hopefully look closer to home to find a gem. There must be at least one or maybe two from the Highland League that with full time training, the right coaching and development could maybe make their mark. Appreciate it's a gamble but good players slip through net we just need to identify them.

A small community club, sorry but to my mind that is doing ourselves a massive injustice. We are an established top tier club and should think of ourselves as one. If we accept second best that's what we will get. The balls up with JD Sports and Carbrini was amateurish and I wonder if it was either Motherwell or St Johnstone in our position the outcome would have been the same.

Tickets go on sale when ?

Boden did ok against County and looks like a player that can link up play. Boden and Fisher upfront against Elgin and lets ditch the lone striker role that creates nothing.

Serious question, do we actually have a scouting system that identifies players for us or are they touted by their agents(If they have one).

The back five have looked suspect all season and this has been our downfall to date. Unfortunately due to injuries etc they are guaranteed a start every week no matter how badly they perform, We have to bring in at least another central defender and full back. Also what is the story with Esson is he fit or not, because on present form Fon Williams deserves a rest.

Sorry, but can't agree that the board are doing a good job. We have had probably had the best 5 years in our history yet over this period we have stagnated. If ever there was a time for investment and for us to push on this was it. Players contracts have woefully been mismanaged, with highly marketable players leaving for nothing being a common occurrence. Unfortunately off the field has seen little investment during the last 12 years either, we are still using a portakabin as a ticket office and club shop albeit a club shop that has no official merchandise to sell. The least said about the shambles that is JD sports and the contract we signed the better. With crowds now hovering below 3000 these are worrying times and I believe new ideas are needed.

Typical response from Mr Bannerman

Big ask for someone to come in with absolutely no managerial experience . To me the fault lies with the board who never explored any other experienced options but went for the cheap and easy option.

The same board that got rid of our most successful manager in our history and replaced him with a complete novice on a very lucrative contract. They never steered us to our most successful era through any significant investment it was done on a shoestring by some astute managers. So credit where credit due. The board need to come out and support the manager or admit they cannot take the club any further.

We have to try something different one up is causing teams no problems at all. Why the reluctance to use Boden we have to try anything we can to get out of this rut

So Vigurs is the scapegoat for a really poor performance. Not Fon Williams for being caught out yet again or the defence for being collectively pish and letting macdonald run rings around them for the second or Foran for continually resorting to having no other tactic than trying to hit the long ball,. It's Vigurs fault he got chosen as MOM so let's boo him anyway. Shameful .

Agree totally, needs some games. Thought he looked pretty good at the start of the season and offers us something a bit different than the unconvincing system we are playing at the moment.

You are totally correct it is not one players fault that we are conceding cheap goals, but at the moment there seems to be a consensus that the problems stem from central midfield, one player in particular. Solve the problem move Tremarco from left back into central midfield, plenty of energy, pace and commitment there. If its good enough for Shinnie at Aberdeen, its good enough for the far superior Carl Tremarco.

So what you are saying then, is that playing Vigurs in a central midfield is the reason we have a dreadful defensive record. Nothing to do with not being able to defend set pieces, being caught out for pace at the back and at times some questionable goalkeeping.

Agreed Vigurs does have his faults and lets be honest if he had pace and was the complete midfielder he probably would not be playing for us. But why are we singling out one player when mistakes are happening all over the park. Lets be honest other than Carl Tremarco the rest have been below average for weeks now.

Harsh to single out individual players making mistakes, collectively over the past few weeks they have been shocking and that includes a very inexperienced manager..

Really need to get more from the wide players King and Doran carried absolutely no threat whatsoever. We also need to go with an extra front man to support Doumbouya and disagree with those writing off Boden who deserves a chance. 4 5 1 is not working for us, we need to have a plan B.

Ex player or not, the tackle was reckless and dangerous, but to me his reaction to continue playing instead of putting the ball out of play was unforgivable. It was obvious Brad Mckay was in some distress, yet he decided his priority was to try catch us out by going for goal.

Think that would have been McInnes voted for him, only average today as he could only give them the one penalty.

Absolutely 100% agree Hayes, Maddison , Rooney take your pick they have it down to a fine art, more so than any other club I have seen at TCS. Leaves a bitter taste even now, two days later.