Scarlet Pimple

Well, could be an opportunity for Caley to score---that is, if Killie are committed to pressing troops up front to try to score again, leaving gaps in the fence. Scotty how is the weather in Toronto? Are you expecting any problems from "Irend"? Another nice day looming here in Vancouver area--finally!

SHOOT! I can't leave me post for one minute and these guys score on us.

Here in Canada I am alwyasconfused because I have almost forgotten how to spell words in Oxford English. "Anmerican " English is so popular in the U S and a combination of both is popuar in Canada . Sigh.

Obviously it would appear that Terry has ordered all the players to shoot on site. Shoot! By the way, the word SHOOT is used in North America as an exclamation of frustration.

C,mon Gregory---rummel 'em up meboy.

Good morning all. I note that the BBC text shows ICXT as having the bulk of the play. Would anyone care to comment on that report?

Exactly IHE...Exactly.

For one mopment IHRE I thoughtthatthat was Mahonio's mother about to kick the baLL.. gREAT PICTURES OH GREAT oNE.

Caley D you make some interesting points.But I don't entirely agree with everthing that you write. One thing is clear, however, and that is that we have no choice but to allow Terry to complete the season without calling for his head because he must have a fair chance to do his own thing and we have to wait, if necessary holding our noses, for the end-of-season outcome.Only then can we see if his policies have real merit. Cheers--better days ahead.

Sorted You are asking quite a few questions.But you probably also feel that you do know the answers don't you? Terry acted in haste before the season started and we can now see the result... he has started the process of repenting at leisure, not enough older timers with experience to steady the team, young players without experience now feeling confused, lack of leadership because of the foregoing, and so on. In the circumstances what can a leader on the park say or do? Also injuries, defeats sapping the morale and confidence,Terry's s possible raging rants in the dressing room at half time and after the game possibly adding to the depression of young men far from the emotional support and comfort of their native home towns, which, in turn could lead to thius and that. Terry really created this problem so he now has the responsibility of fixing it.. Unless, of course, the players themselves do not have the character to up their game and play out of their skins, in which case what is he going to do? I think he had better consult a psychologist because, if he were to continue to berate these young men, then he could lose even more positive energy from the team. I have only seen one game on the TV so many of you might say ..."what do you know" which is fine, but I would answer that on that performance alone I would point to three things as prime causes of the decline--apart from injuries, that is :- 1. Lack of urgency and the pass back instead of pass forward mentality. 2. No obvious passion and spirit. --(they are not local boys are they--most are from a long way away from Inverness). 3. Poor Management tactics--Rangers were given far too much respect and were allowed to play fancy passes all the time without any serious attempt to tackle or stop them. What? Is this the modern game now--"no tackling allowed,because our defence is sooooo good that there is no need for it?" The Pimple's solution?--review all of the above, Terry, and at all times concentrate on pep talks that will encourage the players, not put them down. Otherwise.......?

Lack of urgency--that is what I think is part pof the problem too. I saw the Champions' League game last night of Villa Real versus Odense and every player on each team went nuts wnenever a ball came to the,--none of this poking it forwrd to admire it then looking up to see who is available etc. before deciding who to pass it to. The ball either went with them at full speed down the poark or was delivered very hard to the intended player. The pace of that game was very high indeed and the sens eof urgency and immediacy was alwys there. Terry I think you may have mad an awful bloomer by getting rid of the core of this team with such haste. But good luck anyway. I will repeat my prediction --not much improvement until game 13 has passed.

So you think Golobart will be here as well next season do you? Not at all sure about that.

Who knows,Caley Rule? Maybe Terry is tuning up Aldred and trying to raise his confidence level as well, and being made Captain is an accolade any which way you look at it don't you think? Unless that player doesn't have humilty of course? Anyway, Terry is the boss and it is up to ALL new recruits to ICT to follow orders and become better professionals. He does not have to demonstrate much to them but they do to him. Hopefully very well right now, methinks.

Right on IHE--just what I have been trumpeting for quite a long time.Bring on the intant video.

Strongly disagree with the panel.Still shocking--OF bias.IMHO Since Tokes had to move one of his legs acoss the other to get the ball should he have walked out onto the park with one leg tied to the other to avoid the future possibility of it looking like a scissor motion. Also I do not think that he wrapped his legs round the player and squueezed them closed so , again how on earth could it be a scissor motion . But the sending off was the most shocking decision ....ach! I am flipping quitting whilst I am ahead,,ffs. And King Beastie can't you tell when one of my Pimple granchildren has taken up the pen and is just joking.? :biggrin: All right, have it your way, Terry comes from Norwich-- Ipswich or Norwich, same difference to an elderly Pimple. WICH is the message I am trying to send.

man-marking their players which would , at least, have harried them into not making such great passes and how else could Caley Thistle have got the ball off them if they did not, or could not get close enough , to tackle them as they gotthe ball.

How could we have someone showing up with the ball in attack if we continue to sit back against a superior ball-playing team like the 'Gers? who had the bulk of the play by far? If we are relying on this strategy of "fall back and mop up what comes at us", then our team will fail. It's Rangers, if anything, that does not have "anyone " in attack. We have a forceful player in Tade, Jonny Hayes, Foran etc--all they need is to get the ball more frequently. We could have reduced the tempo of Rangers' game by

Yes! But if it is denied ICT should demand an English panel of judges to review the evidence and continue to make a stink about it with a view to embarrassing all of these neanderthal dopes in Glasgow. The panel of judges could easily be drawn from Norwich because it ios a sleepy town on the East Coast where the word bias has never been heard of. Don't you think that cameras /video now have to be introduced into Scottish Fotball. ? Anybody agree with me on this pressing issue?

Adam was not that slow at all--when he got going, with his strength and constant movement, don't you think he was hard to stop? I think he could try to be quicker off the mark but were our players faster than a speeding bullet yesterday?--what I saw was that Rangers had about 70-80 percent of the ball over the whole match and when virtually all of ICT players got the ball, they stopped , looked around and then played the pass as if there was all the time in the world. They were lucky that the Rangers players relied almost solely on their passing skill and ball control and did not think it necessary to tackle the ICT players at all. In fact, I thought the whole team over the match lacked urgency and pace and until they realise that when they get the ball they must be ready to run, dodge fast and get their passes off crisply and dynamically they will struggle I think.It was a pretty lackadaisical and hesitant performance on the whole wasn't it? OPINIONS?

Which allows me a operfect opportunity to harpo on again about the ABSOLUTE necessity of introducing real-time video so that the refs can cede the decision to two indpendent observers sitting inn the box looking at a TV to decide if an infringement did happen or not. In Candian ice hockey they have it all down to a tee. Any decision involving a goal (or indeed any other challenged infringement) which is the subject of controversy etc is immediately referred "upstairs" to the guys in the booth in the rafters who review the video from all sides plus from a camera lodged in the back of the net AND one suspended right over the goal line of the net. When the decision is finally signalled by the ref no one seems to ever have a complaint recognising that the booth vieres are neutral and the process could hardly be fair I suppose expecting the Scottish League officials to seriously consider stepping into the 21st century technological age is something of a pipedream. But any rational person can see that in this League you have two super teams whose financial impact on the league , Scottish football and the SPL far outweighs their actual importance to many teams and fans and so the chances of their getting favoured treatment at the hands of officials on the pitch is much higher than otherwise it might be. If this is correct, there is fat chance that thse two teams will ever support any such motion to be put forward by the beaks, even if it is pointed out to them that their doing so will go a long way to lifting these prevailing suspicions about bias by refs . So the English fellow who tried to change the size of the SPL down to 10 teams will continue to be happy and quiet as the controversy continues to swirl around his curly top. Maybe he could spend some time in thinking about getting rid of penalties altogether. Now that would be be the biggest boon to this game since I watched Caley at Telford Street lisping at the feet of my faither "Dad, who's that funny little man who runs around with a toy in his mouth but never gets a kick at the ball"?

Aint no polar bears in Greenland 'cos, now the Arctic ice is all melting, the swim from there is too far. Soon, there will be no polar bears left at all in the North. :panda02: now in China though.

Caley 100. Exactly what I said in the matchday thread. He looked like Superman with his arms outstretched forward and legs strung out behind them and almost parallel--so obviously a dive.

Green dot for Mr Tade today for trying and absorbing the enemies resources of energy. And a green dot for Mr IHE for being a sober-sides, steady as she goes, common sense and totally droning-on poster now. He will be on the BBC soon. The Pimple telt ye, IHE, that you are very good at posting funny pictures like the ICT Puppet Training one which was Hi-larious but are you sure that your new role will nolt tell on you?

What is more to the point is ....what is the club going to do about it? A P P E A L ? If the club does not appeal this ridiculous incident then why? A P P E A L? And are we going to keep on allowing this double penalty to the team stuff? A p p e a l? The way some of these convoluted rules are playing out these days only offers stultifying nonsene to the game and just chokes up the fans and creates no worthwhile FAIR entertainment. At least that is MHO. Get rid of penalties all together and open up the game where everybody knows they can play with abandon, without fear of draconian penalties being heaped on a team at the worst possible moment. Terry now says that the team cannot tackle now in the box for fear of getting a red card--bl..oo.d y nonsense. I mean, that first penalty today sunk any chance that Caley Thistle had to get on top of the Rangers and was a sickening game turner. Really mad I am,so I will quit whilst I am ahead. Cheers folks.

Up at 4.30 am to look at this game. First penalty against Ross Tokely. Disgraceful The video I was seeing was from a camaera at the side of the goal looking straight at the two players coming towards me. Ross was keeping up, made his tackle which was perfectly timed and brilliant and the man falls over his legs as he went down. Tne club has incontrovertible evidence that a clean tackle was made and the penalty was a bloody farce. When Ross was then red carded I could hardly contain myself, and in utter disblief I let out a loud expletive and got bollocked later by my wife for waking her up "in the middle of the night". The second was another fake. Looking at it again in my mind's eye I see two men running towards me shoulder to shoulder and the next thing we see is the Rangers' player with arms stretched out like he was in Swan Lake at Covent garden and his As for the alleged penalty claims against Caley Thistle I confess I did not see the first one but the second one was not deliberate and the ball nounced off his left arm whilst his heed was turned slighly to his rightTo be honset I think it cvaught him by surprise and he seemed confused for a moment if anything. Rangers played some really nice passing all day --why? Because ICT are still will standing off all of their players giving them oodles of time to pick out a fast and accuratye pass. Terry , have you heard of man-marking AT ALL? If you do not use it, how are you going to stop the opposition (especially Rangers and Celtic) from keeping control of the ball? Did you actually see any Caley player going in for a hard, or any, tackle so how are you going to get the ball off their toes if you don't get into their faces? The possession that Rangers had, made them look very good and, yes, they can play nice football but they are weak up front and lack penetration. Had ICT got a goal first then I feel they could have won the game. Tade--tied up the Rangers' defence but still does not quite seem to know what to do with the ball when he gets closer to the goal. The suggestion that he be brought on as a tough sub in the last part of the game to run the defence ragged is excellent. Tansey--a very nice player but his tendency to commit deliberate fouls will have to be curbed. That last heel flick in the second half was not necessary and he should cut out the "unprofessional fouls" right now. His 15 -foot-over -the -bar free kick in the second half was a total waste of a decent chance and a neat flick over the defence into the box would have been a far better option. That blooter matched the one that Tade also put over the bar so Terry , can you please ask the players to practice keeping the ball DOWN as they approach the goal. Jonny is effective on the wing but is being sussed out by the opposition. So, if he were to cut into the box more often, I feel that he would create more havoc. Doran has pace and seems to know in which direction the goal is but is his distribution yet up to snuff? He is eager and wants to run when he gets the ball but I am not sure that he quite knows where he wants to go when he gets it? What I am struggling to express that is he seems to lack poise and that is just youth I am afraid. Ross seems to have a spark though and is willing to work that's for sure. I just hope that it all starts to click soon although my prediction is that we will have to wait until 13 games have passed before our hopes and dreams may be realised.