Scarlet Pimple

Would be nice to get speedy Miles Storey back in, flashing balls over into the box for Anier to latch onto. In the video the latter player was composed and cool and his goal was a well controlled and precisely directed beauty . Let's give him a real chance and feed him the ball to see what he can achieve. On a lighter note I thought that a beard didn't really suit Richie--maybe if it had been trimmed instead of being wild and woolly he would have looked better but, anyway, his face is so fit, youthful and fresh looking that no beard is going to make him look more mature and/or dominating. The board supports him both now and for the future and so should we.

Fool

Yep! That's a photo of the Ebbe and flow of Anier's Estonia ice, Yngwie. At least Richie is trying... it's a new day and a well-worked win at Elgin will work wonders at Inverness.

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Squish

Court

seduction

holidays

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horn-rimmed spectacles

Try -11 degrees C. below freezing which is forecast for Thursday night for us here in the West Coast of Canada. I saw one small bird and a crow outside since the deep freeze started 30 days ago. The rest of them must all have beetled off to South America or something. And yes, I did put out some seeds after all for the wee one, but I think the crows will be O.K. since they all go to MacDonalds for their evening meal about 4p.m. The United States, all of them including California who are cheering because they have hardly had a drop of rain for 3 years, have been submerged by blizzards of snow and cold even worse than us. Oops! there goes a triumvirate of brass monkeys going like the clappers to get home before the freezing catches up with them. Gotta go.

blindly.

Agreed. It's the injuries that unbalanced the team ....?

Spiritual

Put-down comments are not boden well for his future. So maybe he just needs ....a GAME?

As for the critics it must be remembered that all this information and disinformation does tend to ebbe and floe.

Correct me if I am wrong but did I see a report that Mulraney did not shine in Dingwall a couple of days ago?

Away in a manager.

Doofer's Dad's thoughtful summing up says it all. That's a great post. The Board will not sack Richie for a variety of reasons. e.g. promises, pride, low Bank account, high-priced but unpredictable other Managers who could in any event just turn out to be a real liability anyway.. But I would not be surprised if he resigns at a future date just to allow everyone else to save face if things get worse and worse. If the team is relegated the crowds will surely still come if they continue to get better and keep on working hard? He's a decent lad is Richie and he's had very bad luck as well including character-less referees who don't feel the necessity to award penalties to ICT when blatant hand balls in the box occur with some regularity. If these penalties (as per the rules) had been given with alacrity where would we be now? That tells me that the High Head Yins don't particularly care for the unpredictable and sometimes very hard working and brilliant ICT taking trophies and high league positions away from the Terrible Twins and other teams. Sorry, but the deck does appear to be stacked against the very dangerous and exciting ICT. Particularly after the Scottish Cup win so that now people are always looking over their shoulder wondering what the fabled ICT will do next? The wee team frae the Hielans are now so unpredictable with their dogged persistence and often great football that the pundits don't know what to expect and keep looking over their shoulder expecting anything to happen these days. I have accessed the SPL site daily for years and I sense this strongly. We have earned their respect AND a degree of surprised affection that we should capitalise on too. We now have to explode out of the rut of near despair and get on with it and fight for redemption without a backward glance. But, if the underdog falters and falls down at any point then he will also be kicked! Time for Richie to harangue the troops, excite them and inspire them. The team has to grit their teeth and work harder. The Manager must forget relegation and work harder in the face of adversity. The Board must show faith in them and remind them of it repeatedly. And, last but by no means least, the fans musty continue to show faith in them and show up as well to put their money in the till.

Then cast your mind back to earlier days when fans were saying .." It's so refreshing now that Richie's style of attacking play is so different from that of J Hughes." What has happened to change these feelings I wonder? I've seen some great football on some of the highlights so why is all lost in the minds of the moaners and groaners? Truly, is it really ALL Mr. Foran's fault? Or are the players, perhaps, not buying into his instructions because they are not taking him seriously or don't fear or respect him as much as they should because they think he is still a rookie manager? Isn't this as much of a major change for them as it is for Richie Foran? Going from Hughes to Foran is like going from the ridiculous to the ...? Or is it forgotten that the team has suffered some major, devastating and team upsetting injuries this season which have thrown them right off track? Which, in turn, has now sadly affected their confidence and the fluidity of the team? And the team has suffered some bad luck also, e.g. penalties not given by refs when they should have been, etc., this season. So the team as a whole is probably down and disjointed at this point and not liking it any more than the fans. Thus is it not the time to really get behind the team and be fair to Richie by at least allowing him one full season at the helm before calling for his head on a platter? Without the backing of the fans he's like the players brought in who don't get a chance to play and remain on the sidelines or on the bench etc., so never get the chance to develop and boost their confidence levels. So his head is going down ( post match interviews) and you can't blame him for that in my mind? All of which seems to me to be counterproductive in terms of training the employees to be ready for the inevitable injuries and bad breaks that come with the territory and leads to the undermining of the team's solidarity and so on. And who is to say that any other Manager would be able to make that much of a difference, better than what we are encountering in the present situation, than the man in charge right now? The Board is NOT going to sack Richie just because the team gets relegated so any chance of having him dumped before the end of the season is fantasy. Financially alone that would not be a wise decision and we all did previously realise that he was not a fully experienced Manager so we had to expect the possibility that this might not be the most successful season ever? Do you think it is possible that the Management did not understand the possible negative consequences of the appointment as well? Of course they did but I feel sure that they also did understand the possibility of future success with Richie once he DID have experience and that was reason enough to award him a four year contract because they knew that Rome wasn't built in a day, funds were dangerously low in the club and he was committed to living and working in Inverness over a long term---not like previous Managers whose loyalties lay in self promotion, self advantage and self aggrandisement.

Oh, and I have always liked Polworth . He has heart and a desire to succeed which I wonder has possibly been drained out of him for lack of recognition. If the present crop of current consistently selected players are not cutting it then Mr Foram has to be ruthless and try some others and give some of the former group a rest.

I agree with giving Fisher a real run out to allow him to fit in and develop. He's pacy and has a cracking shot on him. And giving Monsieur Doumboya a rest may well be a realistic and timely decision. He has offered the odd neat move but he is no Jimmy Johnstone and is not consistently dangerous is he?