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lol, you gurny old get, this is who you remind me of... :015:

Bamba makes Andrew Allen look like Jaap Stam. :017: Steven Watt will probably be signed. I suspect the reason he never got any games was part of a grand plan to secure his services on a free. If he'd played and done well Swansea would have wanted a fee - if they'd been willing to let him go at all.

I can't believe the negativity here. He's not exactly over the hill ffs! Look at Dean Windass scoring in the playoffs today, Hulls best player at 39! Or a little closer to home look at Brewster still doing the business at 40. Bazza and McBain are well into their mid thirties and producing the goods. Dennis's game is all about vision, control, skill, anticipation, receiving and holding the ball, reading defenders and his team-mates. He hasn't lost any of these qualities. We are very unlikely to find another player who can play like Dennis in the transfer window, certainly not within our price range. So letting him go would be a very foolish mistake!

Negative football is an art, not many teams would be capable of keeping as many clean sheets as the huns have in europe this year. Even Man U resorted to it on tuesday. It's not always the teams with the best attacking football who win. Defending is half of the game afterall. Will be interesting seeing them line up against **** Advocattes team in the final, they must have a chance given his tendency for weird eccentric team selections and tactics in big games. :029: Then we can look forward to a possible european super cup of Rangers Vs Man Utd next season. An intriguing prospect indeed. :024: I loved Graham Roberts comments on sky sports last night. "Some of the fiorentina lads were having a go in the papers, saying rangers were a small team. I can tell you from experience jeff, Rangers are at least FOUR TIMES bigger than fiorantina. :015: A hun to the core, carrying on from his "we battered em" "they said it was gonna be men against boys, they were right. Clyde were the men, they were the boys" comments after clyde beat celtic.

Vetle Anderson had some good games, especially against premier league teams. His biggest flaw was trying to play too much football, even in his own penalty box. :024: I think the fact that he was coming to the end of his career when he was signed also makes it a bit harsh to select him!

Charlie Christie was a brilliant servant for ICT in our march up the leagues, and could easily have made it at a higher level if he had possessed more ambition as a young man. Unfortunatly he didn't really cut it as a manager. I think some people have distorted memories as we certainly didn't play better football with him at the helm, it was long ball most of the time. Far more so than now. He singled out Bayne as a key player in his system on numerous occasions, at times selecting him ahead of Wyness and even Dargo. :017: During his tenure standards of professinalism dropped, and fitness levels plummeted as evidenced on the park when we let diddy teams boss us late on. The Partick Thistle debacles were a case in point. He didn't really do anything on the signings front either. He signed Counties 2 outstanding players but that was a no-brainer which didn't require much imagination. If he fancies another craic at managment he should find a highland league job and work his way up the ladder from there. It's all about ambition. If he wants to make it he will have to leave his comfort zone, something he was unwilling to do as a player.

Dennis Wyness

Scott Mclean was sh*t hot before he got injured. He was never really the same player afterwards. Wayne Addicoat, Marco DeBarros, Sandy Robertson and David Bagan were all pretty good early doors for ICT but seemed to fade away somehow. Eoin Jess (linked to seria A leaders Parma, ended up at bradford) is probably the worst offender. Then again, pretty much every aberdeen youngster of the last 20 years has been over-rated and totally flopped. It wasn't so long ago Phil McGuire was supposedly being looked at by Liverpool :015:

What a hard life Blackie must have. I feel so sorry for him. :violin: It must be so hard for him to decide how to spend all the money he gets for kicking a football around for a few hours a day. His problems make everyone elses look so trivial. I don't know how craig brewster sleeps at night quite frankly.

Do you have anything positive to say about anyone you miserable old git? :003:

A deflated ego is probably exactly what Ian Black needs at this point in his career. He's been coasting for a couple of seasons now. No doubt when he eventually returns to the team he will be hungrier, more industrious and less petulant than before. Next season might well be when he finally realizes his potential and becomes the top class SPL player we saw glimpses of when he first broke through and earned his call up to the scotland future team.

We've always been rewarded for showing patience with Wyness in the past and I have no doubt we will be again. Even when we were in the lower leagues he had plenty of doubters, more fool them. You don't score over 10% of the goals in a clubs history without being a bit special. He is in no way, shape, or form past it. He is as pacy and mobile as he ever was. And even if he wasn't, his strengths have always been his skill, intelligence and positioning - not pace. I think his recent goal drought is purely down to nerves and lack of confidence. Postponing the decision whether to award him a contract was supposed to bring the best out of him, but it has had the opposite effect. As others have said, where are we going to find a player with the same qualities that Dennis offers us? They don't grow on trees, and now that we risk losing Niculae in the summer we'd be mad to let our next most creative striker go aswell. That isn't to say that Brewster won't have a few aces up his sleeve come the transfer window, I'm fairly optimistic given his previous signings. But he should at least hedge his bets and not try to change too much too soon, that's one of the areas where he fell down at Utd.

Is a 1-0 defeat at tynecastle really such a terrible result?? :017: Are we better than the old firm now?? Let's keep our feet on the ground guys. :32: Sorry if I sound like charlie lol.

This is a poll.

As a season ticket holder I think he's worth every penny.

I hope he stays for the rest of his career

Shouldn't the club check to see if Marius is willing to take a pay cut before deciding whether or not we can keep him?

Remember when he and Paul Dalglish were the superstars of the scotland U21s? Burchill was 'our michael owen' :015: Just shows how bad scottish football was not too long ago. :33:

In the first ever league fixture played at the caledonian stadium there was a guy in the albion rovers team called 'Willy Waters'.

I think you are over-generous wyness legend. While he has been a good servant, and always showed an abundance of enthusiasm in the threads in which he has played - I feel that IHE simply lacks the quality to post at this level. He is far too predictable and one dimensional. Whenever he is selected for a thread, the fluidity and overall quality of discussion diminishes and we seem to resort to the ugly spam-ball game. Other notable weakness' such as his tendency to score numerous verbal own goals and his egotistical refusal to pass the discussion to others, aka 'discussion greedyness' have dragged us down and cost us valuable points. It's also rumoured that he is responsible for a great deal of bad blood in the dressing room and has hurt our team spirit. His disciplinary record has also brought the club into disrepute. I think for all of these reasons combined he should be released at the end of the season, although to be fair, he could probably still do a job for a lower division forum like over the bridge where I expect he would likely work up a good understanding with like minded posters of similar ability.

As the saying goes, if it ain't broke.... Fraser Tokely Proctor Munro Hastings McBain Wilson Imrie Cowie Niculae Wyness

Craig Brewster is a good manager who sets higher professional standards than any gaffer ICT have ever had. I expect us to hit the ground running next season (for a change) after the players have been through a full Brew pre-season. Not sure what it will take to silience the doubters though. How about a top 6 finish?

Today we recorded our best result ever against Killie, our bogey team. A complete turnaround from our 4-1 capitulation of a few weeks ago. If the 2 games were a cup tie we'd win on away goals. Surely that's a decent result??!! That's three excellent perfomances on the bounce. If Brewster was personally blamed for all of our bad results, doesn't he deserve at least some credit for our good results?? :023:

The only talent in chester is the female cast of hollyoaks. :011:

Definitely the most skillful ICT player since marco de barros.