dead_ball_specialist

I didn't call for Charlies head and I didn't say the players were rubbish. And I agree that there are some irritating fans who shout abuse to certain players, who we'd all like to shut up sometimes. But for the most part, our support is very good compared to other Scottish clubs. How many players have been spat out by other clubs and come into their own here? The likes of Wyness, McBain and Bayne were given plenty of patience, support and encouragment by the fans as they found their feet. What I said was that I wish Christie would stop bitching about the fans and start appreciating how much time and money we have contributed to the club over the years. Appreciation is a two way street. Yes the players work hard, but it's their job! They're extremly well paid to do what they do. Fans are paying £300 a year (and thats a **** of a lot of money to some people) and sacrificing an afternoon a week to come and support them - and Charlie has the cheek to belittle us and call us 'ungrateful', for not applauding him enough. Who does he think he is, Jesus? It's disgusting. Who paid for his house, his flash car, his fancy suits etc? US. He doesn't seem appreciative of this fact at all. I have no sympathy with his argument whatsoever. He should try working a 12 hour shift in a factory, or a rainy afternoon on a building site, or slaving in a kitchen for the minimum wage like the ordinary Invernessians who pay his fatcat wages. Has he ever had a real job in his life? Footballers aren't Gods, they're workers like everybody else and don't have the right to expect us to bow down to them. They provide a service as entertainers and if their product is poor they should be slagged off. If Charlie hired a joiner to do his kitchen and the guy did a sloppy job - don't you think he'd complain? Of course he would. What makes his job so special that he's beyond reproachment of any kind? If anyone is out of touch and in need of a reality check it's Charlie.

I remember Pele using Tokely as a centre half, he can play the position - but he's much more useful on the right because of his attacking threat. Surely there must still be some monster centre halves floating around the lower divisions.

Wilike was awful yesterday. If it weren't for his size he'd be playing in the juniour leagues. Can't believe 'Berti Basset Scotland manager' picked him. It would have been interesting to have put Zander Sutherland on against him - he might have been able to run through his legs.

Surely we should have our 'auxillary' coaching staff doing the dirty work. If you're up for having a go at the linesman or the ref - get the goalkeeping coach to do it. Who cares if he gets a 5-game touchline ban?

Yes, Richie Hart won the 'super shooter' competition and Mark Brown won the 'keeper keepie uppie' competition.

He's talking b"llocks, there was plenty of backing yesterday. Even McAllister and Rankin who had very poor games were warmly applauded as they came off. Relative to other SPL clubs I think ICT fans are pretty reasonable. Try listening the the vitriol that comes from the Hibs / Aberdeen / Motherwell sections. Interesting to hear IHE's pop psychoanalysis of Christie. I also think he's starting to sound like a man with delusions of personal grandeur... as if he's doing an 'amazing' job taking into account he has to work for such a small, mickey mouse club, with such rubbish fans. When the club is doing well it's because of him and the players, when the club is doing badly it's because of the fans. "Narcissists appear to lack humility and are over self-centered and ungenerous... They characteristically but usually unwittingly exploit others and take them for granted and expect others to serve them without giving much in return. Their self-conceit is viewed by most as unwarranted. It smacks of being uppish and superiour without any substance to justify it." Sigmund Freud When you're playing shockingly bad football it's only right that the fans groan. You can't expect positive feedback and sychophantic applause ALL the time, we're not Americans. When you've got folks paying fortunes of their personal money to support a bunch of guys, some of whom might be earning 3 or 4 times what the average supporter is earning, and some of them aren't at the races - OF COURSE those supporters are entitled to moan. Charlie has got it entirely back to front. If there's a lack of appreciation, it's from him! Relationships are reciprocal. He and the players ought to be grateful to the fans who shell out their hard earned money to come and support them every week and pay their wages. I get the impression he's aloof and thinks that the fans are there to serve his and the players egos - rather than them being there to serve the fans. He gives the impression that the fans are 'privileged' to be watching ICT playing SPL football. Surely when half of those fans have spent thousands of pounds of personal cash supporting the club they've contributed more than their fair share to ICT getting up the leagues - and they're deserving, not 'privileged'. I for one, am sick and tired of his arrogant sniping. If the fans aren't good enough for you Charlie, then feck off and find a club more worthy of your 'amazing' talents.

Morgan can't play left back, last time it was tried was the 3-0 home defeat against Falkirk. A straight swap with Caff coming in for Munro is the simplest and most sensible solution. It'd be absolute stupidity to make radical changes to our defensive system going into such an important game against such a potent attacking side. Up front, on the other hand - perhaps it'd favourable to mix things up and create some chaos. Bayne and Rory aren't working as a partnership. We should stick Richie Hart up front - he's played there before, you can rely on him getting stuck in, he can beat a man, he can pick out a pass, and he knows where the net is.

Rory did OK considering he's still a rookie, he's not match fit, and he got no service. Yes he had a couple of bad touches and a daisy shot - but he had a couple of decent dribbles, some good headers and pressed their defenders. Rosco, Dodds, Hastings, Bazza and Patelinen all played pretty well - and Blackie was excellent, especially after he was booked.

Elgin trying to be the new Blue Brazil?

As a commited anarchist, it's something that I'll probably have to deal with at some point but so far I haven't seen any serious action. I was going to go down to the G8 protests in Stirling but couldn't really be bothered. French students, the world champions of rioting, have claimed that lemon juice ameliorates the affects - not sure I'd like to try that one though. Fight the power!

Perhaps a new Inverness team could replace them?

McAllister has been getting himself into plenty of goal scoring positions, it's only a matter of time until he starts hitting the net. Were Craig Dargo, Graeme Bayne and Dennis Wyness as good as he is when they were his age? I don't think so. It'd be ridiculous to expect him to be playing at their level at this stage in his development. Wyness, Dargo, Bayne and Rankin didn't all exactly 'hit the ground running' when they started out for us, but look at them now. Orthodox football theory says that ideally you want a 'big man - small man' partnership up front. Perhaps that's where we're going wrong at the moment, we're playing with two big men. :024: ??? The simplest solution might be to bring in Gary McSwegan for either Bayne or McAllister. Alternatively we could play Richie Hart or Barry Wilson up front, both are the kind of players who could fill the 'run off' striker role, and of course - both know where the net is. The most important thing is that we don't resort to long ball tactics against the Tims, that'd be playing to their strengths, and wouldn't really test their legs, which is surely what we ought to be doing given the fact that they've just played 90 minutes against AC Milan.

Cantona http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbpmCowmVUc Fowler Bergkamp Wright http://youtube.com/watch?v=MMSxjESTBHM&amp...ted&search= le tissier http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-b01xfi1yI Beardsley http://youtube.com/watch?v=AShplA9Vc9I Zola http://youtube.com/watch?v=sebknBlUWd4 Ferguson Giggs http://youtube.com/watch?v=JrM7HyptOKk Shearer http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1DVd3DM-9Y Collymore http://youtube.com/watch?v=zrlfyHz_djU Barnes http://youtube.com/watch?v=dzGouuyt2Cc Peter Beardsley is probably the best one I've found so far... What a player! What a haircut!

Barry Wilson at his peak was better than Robson is now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrShK-NVMIU Probably only students will appreciate this one... "The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside." absolute class :015:

Campos, Rui Costa, Figo, Kluivert, Davids, Brolin, Maldini, Cantona, Ronaldo, Wright. Wasn't all that long ago. Hard to believe that Brolin and Wright used to be legends, it shows how much standards have improved in the last few years.

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He hasn't really been tested yet. I don't think Hibs, United or even Celtic managed all that many shots on goal. That said his 'average goals conceded' stat must be the best of any keeper playing in the league at the moment. Let's see how long he can keep that going. Hopefully he realizes that the other teams will be looking to catch him out dribbling now that they've seen him at it, so he won't try it again for a wee while. The last thing we want is our own Jorge Campos (remember the Mexican keeper at US 94 who thought he was a striker?) :018: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WELh6HlmPcE

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When Glen Hoddle was Spurs manager he's supposed to have registered himself as a player, claiming that he could play as an 'emergency sweeper' :024: perhaps Charlie should do the same.

A pair of gloves he's just been spitting on for 90 minutes.

Glass houses people. Barry Wilson is one of the worst (or best depending on your perspective) divers in the country, a master of the arts of 'holding your face as if you've been elbowed' 'jumping over the keeper and rolling over a couple of times' and 'writhing in agony on the turf, then getting up and sprinting 50 yards'. Think he's cleaned up his act recently - getting too old for all the Steven Segal stuff perhaps. :016:

He's always been a decent anchor man, but also has more quality going forward than he gets credit for - his goal was no fluke, he's connected like that loads of times. Remember his goal against Falkirk at the end of last season? Maybe he should be given a chance from some of our direct free kicks? Wilson has been pretty wasteful recently, maybe it's time to give someone else a go.

That's a bit harsh. He contributed as much as Bayne yesterday.

All I know of Archibald is that he was world class in Championship Manager 3 - He was at Partick Thistle, who Eidos made the best team in the world for some reason. So for that reason alone he's probably well known to millions of football fans. Any other geeks remember that game?