dead_ball_specialist

He's trying to write like Graham Spiers but doesn't quite manage to pull it off. Give him credit for showing a bit of ambition. Pretentious guff like this could easily win all kinds of literary awards.

I agree. WTF do Tibet and Cuba have to do with inverness caley thistle?

Steve Paterson or Derek Adams.

Then again, he might do an Alan Smart on us.

He signed Robson, Mann, Stewart, Thompson, McArthur, Teasedale, Wilson, Tokely, Munro, McBain, Hart, Wyness, Sheerin, Brown, Ritchie and many other terrific players for a combined total of less than what Brewster paid for Dougie Imrie. When he left we were flying at the top of the first division, playing fantastic football, and were enjoying the best start to a season in our history. His record speaks for itself.

I'd love to see Partick get promoted, they're the kind of team you wish you could play every week. The self-hype and sour grapes only add to their entertainment value. Unfortunatly, I doubt they'll even manage to finish above Ross County.

Why not start with the same team that played so well on saturday?

Best home performance of the season today. I was delighted to see sweeping changes to the starting lineup, I would be happy to see the same 11 next week. Morais looks like he could be a terrific signing for us. His pace, control, passing, crossing and finishing were all top class today. Let's hope he can play with that quality every week. Mihadjuks looks like a sturdy, no nonsense center half. For once there were no gaping holes in our box. You can't judge after one game but it looks like we may have finally found a replacement for Dodds. He also used the ball well, usually opting to pick out a simple pass to a midfielder rather than dilly dally himself into trouble or senselessly hoof it up the park like we've often seen from ICT defenders this season. Not sure why some posters seem to be picking on Djebi-Zadi, I thought he had a decent game but perhaps his reputation goes before him. He certainly didn't allow Partick to create anything down the right while he was on the pitch. Fraser had a good game between the sticks, I can't remember the last time he kept a clean sheet. Perhaps some bench time has done him good. Finally, it was encouraging to see that we didn't miss Ian Black (or Dougie Imrie for that matter) at all today. While Blackie is obviously a talented player, IMHO we often seem to play better when he's absent.

Would a team of Brewsters rejects actually beat us? They'd certainly give us a run for our money. ----------------ridgers-------------- paatelainen--mcaffrey--rankin---- wilson---hart-----juanjo----morgan ---bayne---wyness---mccdonald---

He's scored 70 goals in 96 starts for rangers and 7 goals in 14 starts for scotland yet he struggles to get a game for either. The second top goalscorer in the history of the SPL (currently behind only larsson) is about to move to the english first division for pennies. It's a funny old game, especially on a day where spurs just spent 15 million quid on jermaine defoe. This could be the beginning of the end for Walter Smith. The huns fans worship Boyd. Who are they going to replace him with? Another Walter smith special is lined up no doubt (eric bo anderson, peter van vossen, oleg salenko, marco negri etc)

I agree with that, Steve Paterson assembled a fantastic squad of talented, hard working footballers who almost anybody could have inherited and achieved success with. Robertson also signed some good players in his stint. But the squad has started to wither away, and the buck stops with the manager. Alan Morgan, Dennis Wyness, Richie Hart and Barry Wilson were all talented, hard working players (like most pele signings) who did an excellent job for ICT but were foolishly jettisoned leaving a void that hasn't been filled.

Save your money for the replay. (if we are lucky)

----------------------------Esson---------------------------- ---Proctor----------Duff-----------Munro-------McBain---- ---Tokely--------Duncan---------Vigurs------Sutherland- -----------------Wood------------Barrowman--------------- Our current system is comprehensively failing, we really need to ring some changes. Black, Cowie and Imrie have been off the boil for a while now and all need some bench time. Zander Sutherland will add a hunger and a fresh impetus to our midfield. We couldn't score in a brothel at the moment, he would at least cause opposing defenders some problems and create some chances for our strikers. Our 'settled back 4' is awful and quickly needs to be unsettled. Hastings is going through a bad spell, Roy McBain is an accomplished left back who would bring more to the side going forward. Easy switch. Proctor and Munro aren't working as a partnership, Duff was excellent in his previous spell earning several MOTM awards and improving every week, only Brewster will know why Proctor has been played ahead of him in recent weeks but whatever he was trying to achieve has failed. Again an easy switch. Perhaps playing Tokely on the right wing with Proctor in behind him would be a gamble, but I don't see what we have to lose? Quite frankly, our results (L L L L L L) literally couldn't be any worse. Tokely is probably our most dangerous attacking player. If he had a solid right back behind him that would give him liscence to concentrate on getting up the park. He'd also add a steel to our midfield that we've perhaps been lacking. In summary Tokely on the right wing would help us both defensivly and going forward (in theory) perhaps he has had a couple of mediocre performances in midfield in the past but give him a chance to settle there and I'm sure he'd do a job.

It's deja vu all over again. When the lights went out in the first half they should have just left them off, we wouldn't have witnessed the dross that was to come and could all have gone home happy. There really was nothing between the teams in the first half. We looked solid at the back, and we played some good football without really threatening to score. But as always we conceded right at the start of the second half. I actually said to my mates at half time "what are the odds of us undoing all that good work and conceding our trademark soft goal in the first 5 minutes?" Wham bam thankyou mam that's exactly what happened and as usual, as soon as ICT fall behind we panic, lose our shape, lose our composure and completely capitulate. Does Craig Brewster actually do post-match interviews or do BBC Scotland just use a tape recording? He says exactly the same thing every week. The man is utterly monotonous and boring, no wonder the players always come out half-asleep following his half time team talk. Ian Black and Don Cowie were hardly in the game. Perhaps they weren't really fit, perhaps they aren't bothered about playing for ICT, either way they were 'pants' (Players Aren't Trying Sufficiently) Any positives? Roy McBain had an excellent game out on the right (why on earth was he playing there?) and created our best chance of the match (a sitter for Vigurs) with an excellent dribble and cross. Ryan Esson kept the scoreline respectable. Russel Duncan worked harder than anyone on the pitch, he covered so much ground (covering for out of position defenders, fighting the midfield battle, supporting attacks) it was as if he was doing 2 or 3 jobs at once. If every ICT player played with his commitment we would be in the top 6. Andy Barrowman had a fine game as lone striker. He worked hard, put in some good challenges, forced errors, and usually held and distributed the ball well, although he received poor service and little support throughout. Fair play to him, I thought he was a waste of space but on todays showing he could do a job for us. One swallow doesn't make s summer though (I'm sure lots of ICT fans remember Rory McAllisters dream game against celtic a while back where he looked like a superstar) It's all very well putting on a performance in front of the live TV cameras but he has to try that hard EVERY week.

I hope we don't draw QOTS in the cup.

John 'jelly belly' Beaton is probably one of the most universally liked characters in inverness football. He would probably be a better DOF than Bennet but that isn't saying much. I still don't understand how on earth Grassa got that gig.

1) Steve Paterson 2) John Robertson 3) Derek Adams

Marius Niculae was top of the SPL individual shots on goal stats but most of the time he couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo. Quantity doesn't mean anything unless it's accompanied by quality.

It'd be interesting if we had a 'stand up if you hate brewster' chant. I wonder how many fans would stand up?

---------------------Esson------------------------ --Tokely-------Duff------Munro------McBain--- --------------------Duncan----------------------- ---Sutherland------------------Vigurs----------- ---------------------Black------------------------ ---------Rooney------------Wood---------------

What little hitler deleted the anti-brewster chants thread? Thanks a bunch.

To the tune of 'there's only one dennis wyness' There's only one Craigey Brewster, One Craigey Brewster, We used to be alright, But now we're sh1te, Walking in a Brewster blunderland

Imrie's off, thank f*ck for that... For some reason I have a good feeling about our chances in this second half. I predict 4-2 Inverness

I'm actually pretty pleased that we're trying something new. 4-5-1 just wasn't doing it for us. It might not be such a bad formation for attacking, it'll give our full backs licence to get up the park. Let's wait and see how it works out before we pass judgment.

I have a feeling Craig Brewsters post match interview will go something like this... "I thought we started brightly... The boys looked up for it... There wasnae anything between the teams... Then they go up the park and score 5 goals... It's frustrating."