RednBlackComeback

I always thought it was Gudgie ?

Maybe the question should read 'What areas do not need strengthening?'

Wow, next Sunday just can't come soon enough! I can't wait to see ICT in action again !!

Thank you Ryan Esson for making the score look respectable. If it wasn't for you we'd have been staring at a 6 or 7 goals against!! Hayes was easily our best player and Foran did ok too. We rallied for the last 10 minutes, as Partick sat back, but truth be told had we equalised it would have been completely undeserved. WTF has happened to this club? It was only a few months ago we had a squad including the likes of Black, Cowie, Rankin, Wilson, ...... That team has been well and truly dismantled and we've paid the price for that with relegation and now struggling in the 1st division with a team full of fairies ! ICT is now a feckin shambles on and off the park. The only thing holding this club together is TB's PR ! What feckin state will the club be in come the end of the season when TB & MM depart along with half the current squad who's contracts are up? Doesn't bear thinking about does it? :024: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008: :008:

No doubt the SFA will make scapegoats of Burley & co and they'll get the boot in a few days. IMHO it's Smith and Peat and, well probably the whole of the SFA, that should be resigning....(no point in half measures!!) For once tonight I actually agreed with Charlie Nicholas !!! The way the game is coached from a young age in this country needs to change. Our players have much less technical ability than any of the top nations. Or is it that our players do/did have the skills but have them coached out? Ronald de Boer also talked a lot of sense re the coaching side of things. He said that a 10 year old should be taught ball skills, not how to win a championship....that comes later. It should not matter that a 10 year old is not physically strong or extra tall, as if they have the ball skills at an early age then their strength can be gained at a older age. Tonight, strangely enough, I'm left feeling sorry for Burley ??? He admitted he's made mistakes, but at least he's admitted it! He's had to deal with two of his top players flicking the v sign to the Scottish public. He's had a 'player' take the huff and walk out on the national team (if Boyd ever plays for Scotland again I'll be disgusted). He's had Peat blame everyone but himself..... FTSFA!

Oh, and did anybody else think that the best entertainment today was the kids match at half-time? They showed more inventiveness and technical ability than any of the 'professional' players! They even managed a few shots at goal!!

Can't say I've been impressed by any of the signings. Admittedly I've only been to the home games so can't speak for their away displays? After today's performance I'm questioning their commitment to ICT?

Question is......who were those 11 eejits dressed up as ICT players on the park this afternoon?

A disgrace! I don't think any player gets pass marks the day. It was like a return to the dark days under brewster's management. A derby match ???? FFS did anyone tell the players that? Why weren't they up for it? Are these new signings here to play for the jersey or are they just here cos Butcher's here? The team's got no bottle at all!!

I've always been a non-smoker but there were times last season during ICT matches when I really felt like taking it up !!

Fair comment. Hows about a word with TB pre-match? or some banter with subs at the half-time kick about - Crossbar challenge maybe?

I'm not sure if the half-time scores were read out or not? (from my seat in section B of North Stand the sound quality was poor and it was difficult to make out what was being said. Could just be a broken tannoy speaker?) but I would like to hear the HT scores. Always raises a cheer when its announced RC are getting beat! I can see the benfits of having a pitchside presence. Maybe a short interview with some of the players during the pre-match warm-up would be good? Interspersed with a bit music it'd definitely be an improvement on what's gone before. ;)

A real toothless performance. First half we should've been at least 2 up but squandered great chances. Second half we could've played all day and never scored. Agree with Robbo, I couldn't see where a goal was gonna come from either! Maybe with so many new players they need time to gel. I hope so or it's gonna be a looooooong season!

Would have to be Tokely. When he's on one of his marauding runs down the right wing you just never know what could happen ! :015:

It's only the 1st Division we don't need a pre-season. We'll walk it anyway !!

:lol: Brilliant thread. Surpassed in hilarity, just, by the 'test new photos' thread.

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I wonder is there a deadline for all the players who've been offered contracts to give the club their answer? If they're no gonna sign then other signing targets will obviously have been indentified and TB will need to contact those players before they're snapped up by other clubs.

I also seem to remember a great performance against celtic when he played on the right ! I'm pleased he's staying.

Wow. I really thought we had a ready made replacement for Ian Black with Iain Vigurs !! :024:

Aye, and if Well want him they'll have to pay for him. That would be too tempting for the ICT board to turn down wouldn't it?

I think we can safely say that Butcher won't be linked with that job !

If the game had finished 0-0 we'd all be calling him a hero right now !!

We lose 9-8 and Hamilton beat St Mirren 14-10. We stay up! I'm off to the bookies now to see what odds they'll give me on that. :puke03: