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Mckay and Anier up front? Check. Comprehensively outplayed by Hamilton? Check. Manager says players lack bottle? Check. Relegated at the end of the season? TBC. Seems all too familiar to Dundee United under Paatelainen last season. https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/mixu-says-dundee-united-lack-bottle-fight/ https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/517819/furious-inverness-boss-richie-foran-brands-his-caley-flops-bottlers-after-defeat-to-hamilton/

A disgraceful performance from ICT. Easily the worst I've seen from us in recent seasons. When push came to shove Accies wanted it more and stepped up whilst we shat the bed. The relentless hoofball to Mckay was painful to watch. Foran had no clue what to do. The line up was bizarre. Four central midfielders, no pace, no width and just generally no clue. Mckay seemed to be claiming he was pushed or something for the opener. Good near post header from a corner. Warren at fault for the second as he misjudged the ball and was out of position. Good cross and finish for the Accies second. The third came from us being piss weak in midfield like we were most of the night. Accies could and should have scored more. It was embarrassing watching us tonight. Just completely and utterly pathetic. Not one good thing can be taken from that game tonight from an ICT point of view.

Confirmed by the club on Facebook (and I assume Twitter but I haven't looked).

Probably in the minority here but Doumbouya isn't very good. Not bothered if he is away. He seems a lovely chap don't get me wrong but as a footballer - meh.

Mckay thrived on the chances created for him by the likes of Doran, Shinnie and Watkins. Time for our current crop of players like Cole, Polworth and Doran (again) to give him the opportunity to fire us to safety.

Would love this to be true but I can't see it. He's still getting games at Oldham as far as I'm aware although perhaps he has dropped out of the starting XI recently. If anything I can't help but feel this is an agent trying to drum some interest in his client like the Simon Murray rumour last week. Still, if it is true and we somehow get him that would be superb.

Smashing post from Chris. Not really much else to add other than something he said at the game about ICT lacking any real control of the ball. Each time the ball fell the way of one of our players we seemed to aimlessly blooter it forward. Partick on the other hand seemed more inclined to take a touch and try and start some kind of passing move to lead to an attack. ICT were exceptionally direct by contrast thumping long balls to Anier to chase. The tippy tappy stuff under Hughes was boring but at least the side under him had a degree of control about it albeit quite toothless with no end product. Under Foran we are almost trying too hard to get the ball forward to get a chance when we might be better served by trying to be a bit more patient and take a touch instead of battering it high and long every time the ball comes near one of our players. I am getting very, very worried.

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2;42 - Gary Warren getting it right up the Jailend

I'd be surprised if we take more than a couple of hundred to this sadly. I wonder what the ticket prices will be like.

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=1957&newsCategoryID=7&newsID=16748

Looks like this will be live on the BBC, Saturday 11th February, with a 12:15 KO.

I've not seen it but apparently Foran, during his press conference, refuted any interest in Murray.

It was one of the most obvious points for a wee rammy. Why have all those police and police dogs at the game if you aren't going to have some of them at pinch points where fans will come together after the game?

RE: Doran and Cole as full backs that's not necessarily what they would need to do if we were to line up along those lines. You could have Polworth, Draper and / or Tansey dropping in to the centre of defence with Mckay and Tremarco going into the wide areas as and when required thus minimising the defensive duties of Doran and Cole. Like I say it's a complete stab in the dark as to how we might approach the game given who we have out.

It would be interesting to try and play three at the back but would an unfamiliar formation be the way to go with such an important game? Fon Williams Mckay Warren Tremarco Doran Polworth Tansey Draper Cole Anier Doumbouya

We're apparently trying to get Simon Murray on a PCA. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/356358/inverness-make-move-get-dundee-united-striker-simon-murray-pre-contract/

Probably more than likely that he is replacing Maddison who has returned to Norwich. He'll get plenty of games for Aberdeen. Would like to think that we would have made an offer but I guess Aberdeen would have been able to pay more of his wages.

Cole and Doran were our two main sources of creativity. They have to start against Partick.

Apparently an old tweet of his slagging off Aberdeen was retweeted a lot and he was getting a load of abuse for it. He's since deleted his Twitter account.

Ryan Christie is rumoured to be heading to Aberdeen on loan. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/757956/Celtic-Transfer-News-Aberdeen-Ryan-Christie-James-Maddison Nothing really of any substance in that piece though.

It was complete overkill at the game. All those police and they still couldn't stop a bunch of lads having a scuffle after the match.

IHE causing it in Elgin - disgraceful*. *This is an ironic post by the way before anyone tries to report him to the police!

I've said it before but Doran could well play a similar role to Andrew Shinnie for us. He has a real creative spark and a keen eye for a pass. Hopefully he gets a run of games and we'll get him back to his peak from a few seasons ago where he was an assists monster.