Dan Clark

Farid El Alagui is having a trial stint at Dunfermline after the former Hibs and Falkirk striker failed to win a move to Inverness Caledonian Thistle. (Herald)

I doubt we could afford him nor do i think he would come but Kenny Miller as player manager would be good for this club both as a player and i would think he would have many contacts in the game

I am not a big poster on forums but as a life long fan I feel the time has come to express my concerns. As a club what we have achieved over the years has been fantastic with many happy and good memories especially winning the Scottish cup last season. I am now going to reverse back to Terry Butchers reign a the club and this was when my concern started. Going back to 2010 approx that is where I see the change starting to happen. Esson Proctor Tokely Golabek Duncan Foran Munro McBain Ross Sutherland Shinnie and that is just to name a few of players you could say had Caley Thistle blood in them. I put Esson and Foran in as i feel now the same applies to them. From then to now the club has lost all its local players or players who would be committed to Inverness. The club has completely lost its identity over the years. Looking at the current squad we have hardly a local player left in it. What this does is make it harder to keep players at the club as most players now at the club have no association or ties to Inverness. We are basically a club paying their wages to play football and in my opinion the players will give their all but ultimately will be looking to move on to other clubs. What has happened now is just about each season we are loosing players left right and centre and have to rebuild every season. John Hughes Inherited quite a good team and I thought had had taken the club even further forwards but this season I feel we are in free fall. Again going back to players we have lost a lot of good players over the last season or 2 but the players brought in have been poor well not just poor very poor. I will give exception to Miles Storey as i think he has done well but again it looks like he will not be around next season well not at this club anyway. It does really worry me for the season ahead. Firstly I do believe we will be an Spl team next season and we should make enough points to avoid the play off position. With players leaving in a few weeks I am terrified at the quality of players we might see at this club next season. We for some reason have a very unbalanced squad in regards to positions both in Butchers and Hughes reign. We always seem to have to rely on 1 striker. A team should have approx 2 gks, 8 Defenders, 8 midfielders, 4 strikers. Take away some defenders and strikers and add midfielders and you have Caley Thistle WHY ???. We used to play wonderful attacking football that was a join to watch but again since Butchers days and now Hughes we seem to be set up so defensive. Our tried and trusted 442 was replaced with 4231 and since then i have found it hard to watch at times. Our strikers sorry our striker is running around like a headless chicken getting zero support from anyone. You could put Messi, Lewandowski, Vardy any top striker in this team and they would not get many goals. There is just no support. More often than not when we do manage to go forward the ball seems to end back at our own gk. To sum up my whole rant ditch the 4231 formation once and for all and go back to 442. 4231 might be a good formation for some away games but at home 442 should return. The big question is can Hughes bring in the quality that this club is starting to desperately need and sort the way the team is playing and get players up the park. Or do we start a fresh page some people are saying Foran but i dont think he is the answer but 100% he should be in the management set up ie assistant or coach if we did replace Hughes. One thing for sure is we need to find some local players or bring on our own youths so we have some Caley Thistle blood back on the park. I fear we may never hear hes one of our own sung at the stadium much longer if not.

Attacking midfielder Liam Hughes has paved the way for a move to Inverness Caledonian Thistle, cancelling his contract with Cambridge United.

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/invernessct/6877762/Oferes-set-to-return.html

Mixu new Dundee United manager http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/exclusive-mixu-paatelainen-named-new-6625082

Could someone send me a link also please

As Butcher says himself he is breaking all records this season

Need to watch what i put here so hope i am not breaking any rules. game is available live online. message me for more info

just wondered what peoples thaughts are of trying to get our own song made. if anyone is up for writing one or help with one then i might be able to get one recorded. i am pretty sure i could get the silencers to do a caley thistle version of i can feel it which was the sportscene theme tune. if you go to youtube and type the silencers - i can feel it, you will here the song. i think it would be a class tune to put our own words to it. i will leave it open for everyone to discuss and if its something that appeals to people and they want to do a caley thistle version then i will try and get it recorded for us when we have a finished product.

i agree prices to high and it takes far to long to get food. i had an issue where one sat i got a coke and when i got to my seat i found there was no syrup left and the coke tasted of fizzy water. rather than going back down as game was about to start i waited till the end of the game where i told them and i was told i would get one free next time. couple of weeks later i ordered a pie and told them about the coke but was told i could not get it because the supervisor at the time did not know anything about it. because of the queue behind me i did not want to hold things up more so i ended up buying my coke which i was not happy about. its not about the money its just the first one was not drinkable and i told them and was told i would get another next time. when the time came i didnt get one.

no i actually posted 10 mins before u

Both players have been released from st mirren. could dennis still do a job for us and would camara solve our lb problem till the end of the season

Not that this is going to happen but i would line up with ESSON TOKELY BULVITUS MUNRO McBAIN HAYES DUNCAN FORAN IMRIE ROONEY BARROWMAN

He has signed a new contract for us but i dont know how long for

he is back at hibs looking for a new club. i would not mind him here till the end of the season. i feel we could do a lot worse.

does anyone have stats etc of all the managers ict has ever had. i think at this particular time it might make some interesting reading. if someone can do this then that would be great and i will thank you in advance.

with the way things are at the club at the moment i cant believe he is not pulling on the boots again. i think he is still by far our best striker and rooney etc i think could play really well off him. i dont know how to do a poll but can someone do a poll for me and see what everyone else thinks. I also think brewster might be the man to keep us in the spl. In that i mean brewster the player not the manager. also with him playing he might see the lack of service up front and do something about it. I know there was talk about a bad shoulder and i dont know whats the postion is with his shoulder but he is playing reserve games. in my opinion as i have said regardless of his age, shoulder etc he has to get the boots on again and start getting this team moving again.

could somebody list the other spl sides forum websites especially hamilton and st mirren. thanks

fraser tokely munro duff duncan proctor wilson cowie black imrie rooney

I have been told that Michael will be signing for hibs at the end of the season. This comes from someone with a good contact at Hibs and the same person told me about Rankin just a day after Mixu arrived there. I think Donald Parks appointment there is the worst thing that could have happened this club. I hope this rumour does not come true but i am worried as this came from as i said a good contact within Hibs.

I have watched rory over the last couple of seasons and he is far from spl standard. He is that bad i felt even i could have done better than him today and i have not kicked a ball for years. I have seen no fight whatsoever about his game. You need to fight for the ball and want it but rory just does not do that. It worrys me when i see his name on the team sheet or even on the bench for that matter. The most worrying thing is most fans can see rory is not doing a job for us but our own manager cant. I am one of the people who does not rate Charlie Christie and i think this is the season that will prove me right. Overall i am worrying about this season and i would be surprised if we finish in the top 10 this season.

A couple of seasons back Livingston had this guy in central defence and i thought he was a good solid defender. what happened to this guy and does anyone else think he could fill that gap in defence for us

I think you mean the west side of the stadium

hope he makes a good impact at hibs as it might give us more of a chance of holding onto brown