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:015: Genius pun! Cheered me up like :021:

It shows he cares :clapping03:

I like to see the underdog come good, hope he proves his knockers wrong :clapping03:

What's it all about? 11 men trying to kick an inflatable ball into a net - all this fuss over something so frivolous. (I've just been dumped, can you tell? :009:) Whatever the craic is with our final position, at least we've had a go :clapping03: yeah Brews tactics might not be so hot, McGuires tackling might be a little mental, Duncan might struggle to pass water, Niculae might be as pacey as Roy chubby Brown - but at least they're trying their best eh?! Lets give them all a break. They pull on those shirts every week and try to do us proud. It might not always work out - but at least their hearts are in the right place :003: Nobody really played that badly today - the guys just looked nackered out there. We know they're better than today. Lets just get behind them and hope they can break into the top 6, this is the closest we've ever come and with enough support I really believe we can do it this time! Let the Dons and Jambos fans do the moaning. Fresh slate starting next week! No booing Russel or Rory, no silly shouts at the gaffer or any of the boys from the stands! Our season starts now :003: M'oan the Caley Jags!!!

Todays extremely weak, tired performance was understandable coming at the end of a run of 5 tough games in 14 days. Perhaps Brewster should have been more economical with the resources available and played a second string side away against Celtic to concentrate on todays game, but I doubt many fans would have accepted such a decision. 3-0 flattered Hearts. Their goals were handed to them on a platter. It was reminiscent of our capitulation against Motherwell a while back, our midfield and defense were losing almost every challenge in the game. Their second goal was a good example of this. Duncan had what looked like an easy challenge to make against Nadi who had lost control, but he ended up sliding in and somehow managing to completly miss the ball :029: on todays display he's lucky to be a professional footballer at all, never mind a pay rise. He and McGuire were the worst players on the park. I would play McBain and Proctor in their place next week. Blackie was very ineffective and deserved to be substituted. I doubt he'll even make the squad next week after the way he reacted. On recent form I don't think he'll be sorely missed. Any positives? Imrie had another good game and seems to have a good understanding with Cowie. Roscoe did well to keep his head when the jambos were clearly trying to get him sent off, he kept making surging runs up the wing right to the end when others seemed to have given up. McAllister looked stronger when he came on for a late cameo. His dribble and shot was one of the few decent efforts we managed to muster in the whole game. And it was nice to hear Barry Wilsons name being chanted from behind the goals. Perhaps as a tribute, perhaps as a protest? I wouldn't give up on the top 6 just yet. Our rivals have failed to capitalise on our recent bad form so we're still in touch, and fixture wise we have a very favourable run in. I expect a much improved performance next week after a well earned rest, and hopefully a good collective @rse kicking from the gaffer. It's in the aftermath of days like to today where Brewster needs to earn his bacon.

There would be no-one better than Pele Paterson for that role.

I've always had a soft spot for gazza. Remember him applauding the caley fans at the final whistle in John Scott's ICT jersey?

There's so much garbage being spraffed here. :017: Considering that when Brewster came back we were rock bottom of the SPL with ZERO points and were getting humped by diddy teams rendering us one of the worst goal differences in British football - I think he has done a fantastic job. All the talk was of avoiding the realistic possibility of relegation. In fact, to have taken us from there, to challenging for a top 6 place, and to have tallied more points than in any previous season in the top flight, is an absolutly spectacular turn around. He should be in the running for SPL manager of the season in my opinion. If Brewster had been in charge at the beggining of the season we could easily be challenging for third place right now. It's so pathetic that some posters on here spit the dummy whenever we have a few bad results, completely overlooking what has been achieved. They need to put things in perspective. If there is player unrest then so be it. I hope the manager sorts them out. I'm sure lots of players were happier under Charlie Christie when they had a cooshy number training and team selection wise - but that isn't a healthy state of affairs for the club. If the rot had gone on for much longer we'd have earned ourselves a ticket back to the SFL. If you want to make an omlette you've got to break some eggs. All good managers have feuds with players, if everything was calm THEN I'd be worried. Popular, 'nice guy' managers don't win anything.

Surely it's a risk / reward scenario? Has anyone ever thought of the fact that if Marius, a player known across europe and still only 26, settles and returns to anything approaching his best then he will become an increasingly valuable asset to the team on the park (which I believe he has already achieved) increase the profile and standing of ICT, and potentially go on to attract wider interest (he is now on the radar screen of the national manager and may appear at the european championships) command a transfer fee in the region of 7 figures? And thus render all of those who sniped at his 'bumper' contract buffoons. :003: I don't see any sense whatsoever in constantly trying to knock him down. He's a brilliant player who could easily go on to be the best to have ever worn an ICT shirt. And anyone who claims he isn't doing the business yet should explain how he was an integral part of the side that won 6 in a row and earned the SPL player of the month award. :003:

It was weird seeing Robson playing in that game. I think he scored a perfectly good goal (that got chopped off) against Barcelona in a pre season friendly aswell. Don't know what the wee ginger nutter was doing playing him in central midfield tonight. :rolleyes02:

Has nobody thought of the possibility that tonights unusual starting 11 might have something to do with the fact that we're playing 5 games in 14 days and that perhaps the manager is rotating accordingly?

I can see him becoming the new TCS 'cult hero'.

He usually causes havoc if we take him on against tiring defeners with 15 minutes to go when we're pressing the opposition, but he isn't very effective over 90 minutes. His game is too limited.

Add chicken curry pies to the menu.

Why not? They're a well organized outfit with smart, motivated guys at the helm and a growing, enthusiastic fan base. Just compare their websites http://www.spanglefish.com/invernesscity/ http://www.freewebs.com/clachnacuddinfc/ Which is more professional? Clach are a joke - their finances tell you everything you need to know. They're going nowhere, in contrast to City who could grow into a force to be reckoned with if given the chance.

Did anybody here go to see Mauro Picotto at 'Party in the Park'? What a fiasco that was :rolleyes02: If Clach can't hack it then Inverness City are waiting in the wings to take their place. I'd love to see them in the Highland league.

Fair enough he gets stuck in and he does a job, but half of the time he wouldn't look out of place in the SFL. The players deserve a pay rise but that should be based on individual merit, not on 'levelling things out'. Communism doesn't work.

Davies, McGhee, Burley :crazy07: Levein, Jordan :003: Souness, Burns, Collins :009: Calderwood :008:

I completely disagree with that. Most of the things people are complaining about on this thread are frivolous compared to the anti social behaviour / hooliganism that used to be endemic in British football until fairly recently. You're probably more likely to be assaulted by a steward than by an opposition fan these days. I also take umrbidge at the casual way that some people slur Old Firm fans as if they're a homogenous rabble of walking stereotypes. In doing so you're commiting the same form of blanket group prejudice that you accuse them of.

When McGuire returns I'd love to see us put Proctor at right back and Tokely further up the pitch. He's the most penetrating player we have. He beats his man more often than anyone else, plus his sheer physical presence causes problems and draws defenders towards him, opening up space for others.

I couldn't care less about the Rangers fans in the home end. Anybody who was 'offended' when they cheered Rangers goals needs to get a life. Most of those Rangers fans travel hundreds of miles to support their team every week - should they be locked out to make way for the thousands of 'part time' home supporters who only emerge when we play the OF? I don't think so. It's not like they choose to sit in the home end, they just take any tickets they can get their hands on. It's understandable - wouldn't you do the same if you were in their situation? The police were right to leave them be.

We still need a keeper, assuming Malkowski's going back to Hibs. And a big, commanding centre half should be the other priority, there must be a few of them knocking around in the lower divisions. Perhaps our eastern european scouting network is ready to bear some fruit?

It's clearly an anti-catholic conspiracy. :024:

We should let him take the penalties to get his goalscoring tally up.

Finally we have a manager who knows how to negotiate. I'm sick of us losing our best players for a tuppence, especially to rival clubs who routinely finish below us. It's so ridiculous that the likes of Hibs and Aberdeen, even Falkirk and St Mirren will demand 7 figure sums before they will sell a good player - yet they expect us to sell players of similar quality for pathetic 5 figure sums. Why should a good SPL player for ICT be 100 times less valuable than a good SPL player for any of them? Allowing ourselves to be shafted like this will only encourage more of the same.