dead_ball_specialist

If Dennis Wyness is binned I will seriously consider not be renewing my season ticket. I find the very suggestion that the club could do something like this (not to mention the way they've gone about it!) absolutly outrageous on almost every level! As a footballing decision, to get shot of our most skillful attacking player and all time most prolific goalscorer - with nobody to replace him - is just crazy! He is certainly not past his best, and whenever he has been given a run of games he has done the business. Secondly, I am disgusted and offended that loyal ICT legends who have served and entertained us through the years are being treated so disrespectfully and unprofessionaly. If everything that has been written here about contracts being offered and withdrawn at the last minute is true then our club is being run by a shower of absolute b@stards. And to cap it off, I am wary of the fact that our flair players seem to be being shipped out one by one (Wilson, Rankin, Wyness...) leading to inevitable long ball dross, goal droughts, and losing runs. Brewster is doing exactly what he did at Dundee Utd. I am starting to believe those who suggest he hasn't got a clue what he is doing. His decisions make absolutly no sense!

I will be p*ssed off if the club decides to let Wyness go. He's the best forward at the club, period. Give him a run of games and he scores goals. Beyond that, he's the kind of player that fans pay to watch. If the manager has decided to bin him then I would have serious doubts about where he is leading us and what kind of team he is trying to build :017:

I wouldn't sack Brewster but I think we need somebody with a football brain like Steve Paterson involved at the club in some capacity.

Kris Boyd should start every game for Scotland.

Agree with Gringo Jr, the team is missing Bazza. Nobody more so than Roscoe.

We need to get Proctor into the back 4 asap. IMHO he is our best defender, he reads the game beautifully and wins almost everything. His distribution is also a class above the others. The only question is who do you drop? I would play him in place of Tokely, who should be pushed further up the park as he is arguably our most penetrating attacking player. When he gets forward things happen - why don't we just leave him up there???? :029: I'd also stop playing Marius as a striker, he'd be far more effective as an attacking midfielder with the game in front of him, rather than with his back to goal. He's a playmaker not a poacher. And he would still provide a goalscoring threat, as most of his goals come from outside the box, or from getting on the end of set pieces - both of which he could still do. So who should partner Wyness? Bayne is not good enough to take us to the next level. Andy Barrowman is the obvious solution. A target man like Bayne, but who also has pace, is comfortable with the ball at his feet - and most importantly scores goals! Drop the underperforming Russel Duncan and play Blackie in the anchor man role. He is just as good as, perhaps even better than Duncan at closing down and challenging opponents. I think this is his forte, more so than his attacking play. And he'd contribute far more to our fluency than Duncan when we have the ball. Play Niculae in Blacks attacking midfield position. Fraser Proctor McGuire Munro Hastings Black Tokely Sutherland Niculae Bannerman Wyness

Barrowman is better.

Couldn't agree more. He was our best player in our pre season games by a country mile. Give him a chance, what do we have to lose? It wouldn't even be a gamble - he has done well in his previous outings in the SPL. IMHO he is the most exciting talent on our books.

There weren't really that many poor individual performances today. It was a very slow, scrappy game played in sweltering heat. Neither side managed to play with much fluency and it was a lucky, scrappy goal that won it. Unfortunatly it was for Falkirk. Overall we created the most chances but that's football. The home support was pathetic. So impatient, so abusive, so negative. Every time Russel Duncan played a square or backward pass he got a mouthfull, even when he had no other options available! The same story with Rory, he came on put himself about, always made himself available - but one miscontrol and it was 'get off the park!!!' time. In fact no home player was immune. Honestly, with supporters like these who needs away fans? How is this kind of reception going to help a team low on confidence and struggling to find fluency? We are on a bad run but the margin between success and failure is very slim. This is the same team that won 5 games in a row, and came back to win from 2-0 down against Celtic only a few months ago. We could easily have won today if the luck had gone our way. This was not a 'disgraceful performance', or 'absolutly pathetic effort'. Stop being such drama queens and get a grip! The top 6 dream is over and it's time to focus on securing 7th place and rebuilding for next season. I'd like to see Brewster give some of the youngsters a run out over the next few weeks.

They're obviously trying to attract huns fans to improve their gates.

I don't have a problem with him trying to make as much money as he can from his remaining years as a professional footballer. He's behaving as any sensible person would in the same situation. Realistically he isn't going anywhere unless he gets a significantly better offer from somewhere else, which he won't. But for the time being he's playing a game of brinkmanship, feigning a position of strength, hinting at moving to a bigger club etc. It's all part of the negotiating game. What would annoy me would be if the powers that be caved in to him, and ended up paying over the odds for his services. It wouldn't be Duncans fault, it'd be the clubs fault, and it'd set a terrible precedent for future contract negotiations. This would be the worst possible outcome.

Sounds a bit fanciful Alex. Alan Savage has never had any trouble in that department before, and why would Romanian property developers care if a Romanian footballer was playing in Inverness? Get real, your conspiracy theory is silly. :rolleyes02: And is it really reasonable to argue that the whole system been changed to accomodate Niculae? I don't think there's any evidence for this theory either. We have changed from a 4-4-2 to a 4-5-1 recently, Brewster said that this is the system that Ionikos often employed during his time there to great effect. We won 6 consecutive SPL games with it - you could just as easily argue that the system was designed to accomodate Don Cowie and John Rankin, because they played their best ever football for ICT in it.

This is a milestone for the club (please no smartass comebacks about millstones and necks!). To have a player called up for a first class national team (Romania are ranked 13th in the world, and before anyone mocks the system, a look at their recent results show they are there on merit) is something we could hardly have imagined only a few years ago. I'd love to watch the game to see how our man gets on, but not sure how it could be accessed. I suppose eurosport is our best hope, but even that's a long shot. Does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps the club could arrange to have it streamed online or something?

You couldn't be more wrong, if you wanted the ball to fall to anyone outside the box it'd be Duncan. That's one skill that he certainly has in his locker. Which makes it all the harder to understand why he often struggles to execute simple 15 yard passes. :029:

I'd like to see a system where all the leagues are joined together in a giant ladder, like in England - it's possible for teams way down in the Conference, the Unibond league, the Doctor Martins league etc, to work their way up to the big time. It wouldn't exactly be rocket science to work out a structure which would allow Highland league, Junior or even North Caledonian league teams a path to bigger things. Break down the walls!

Aren't there programs that change your IP address every time you log onto the internet? I think my old Norton security software did something like that. So it's still possible to beat the system :024:

"Deano scores, we're on the pitch, Deaaano scores, we're on the pitch!" Shame he never actually put the ball in the net for us, would have been a magic moment - like Keoughs first goal :crazy07:

I get the impression that CB is too arrogant to give a f*** about a fan forum, let alone try to sabotage it. But it wouldn't suprise me if the players and their mates tried to vote themselves up. I know I would :004:

There have been a few purple patches when he's looked the part, but this season he's been attrocious. That said, quite a few of our current players have gone through spells when they were the weakest link and bounced back (e.g. Hastings and Fraser) patience has been a virtue for ICT in the past, but Duncan has had long enough to improve his game, and for whatever reason, still fails to perform at an acceptable level on a consistant basis. For that reason he doesn't deserve a pay rise. Is he any better than when we first came up to the SPL? Not really. He may even have gone backwards. I respect the service he's given to the club, and would love to see him succeed. But realistically he hasn't given any indication that he's going to get any better - and it wouldn't be particularly hard to find a younger player who's able to perform the same role at the same standard for less cash.

I don't think the powers that be would move the goalposts like that. :32: If Gretna are booted out then it wouldn't change anything other than allowing an extra team to get promoted from division 2 to fill the space that they would vacate in division 1. (could be good news for Peterhead if they keep their run going?) and the same goes for division 3 (elgin perhaps? mmmm probably not :016:) It'd also open the door for a new team to enter the SFL, possibly another HL team. Which would open the door for Inverness City (or possibly their main rivals Thurso) to step up to the HL. While it's a shame for Gretna - every cloud has a silver lining.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIBIfJE7o4A :024:

I think Zibi gets a bit of a hard time of it on here. :018: He only actually made one mistake for us. :024: Sounds like he's been outstading in the reserves. Hopefully he'll get the chance to prove the moaners wrong at some point.

We're not that much better to be honest. Lets not start getting delusions of grandeur. We're a wee club ourselves afterall.

A good example of braindead knee-jerk legislation. I guess AC Milan and Inter wouldn't make the grade if they applied to join the SPL now. What a joke.

It's what you do ON the park that counts in my opinion. So long as your ground meets the minimum health and safety requirements there should be no problem. You shouldn't need to have X thousand seats, it's nothing but a cynical barrier to legitimate competition erected by self preservationists. If Gretna manage to pull themselves off the bottom it will be a remarkable achievement and it'd be a shame if their players and fans were robbed because of off the field politics.