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What exactly was wrong with it then? With regards to Storey Hughes showed a stunning lack of knowledge as to when he could and couldn't sign a player and we ultimately missed out as Aberdeen stole in and signed him whilst we dallied because we didn't know if we could offer him a contract or not. He repeated the same mistake at Raith by not signing a goalkeeper when they didn't have one spare because again, he didn't know the rules. As I've said before there was a lot of great stuff about his time at ICT and there is no doubt that Hughes brought us our most successful spell, I don't believe I've ever denied it, but there were a lot of problems that came with his tenure and these are problems that you never acknowledge when this topic crops up which makes it very hard to take anything you say seriously given your inability to be even remotely objective about the guy. ETA: I've given myself a warning for going OT.

I think Alan makes a fair point. Players do often fit better at particular clubs and at ICT, for the most part, there isn't too much pressure on the players a lot of the time, they don't have their every move criticised and in a lot of cases they can perform (or not) and not feel too much in the way of wrath from supporters. You need only look at the likes of Meekings, Ross, Williams and Vincent who all went to Dundee and all have either moved on or are seriously struggling for form and incurring a lot of stick from supporters. In recent seasons perhaps only Christie, Shinnie and Watkins have really gone on to better themselves after leaving ICT. Most other players have seen their careers stall or go backwards again.

This sounds like a very good idea.

There's literally no point discussing anything about John Hughes with you as you've shown time and time again you cannot be objective about the guy. All the best.

We're top of the league, Saturday 3pm kick off in Dingwall a few miles up the road (for most of our supporters). If we can't get a decent crowd along for this then there is something far wrong.

I think it looks just enough of a genuine attempt to win the ball to save him from a red card. That said, the referee was so bad I wouldn't have been overly surprised if he had booked Polworth and given Partick a free kick.

No point doing any kind of massive post now that the highlights are up. Great to see them capturing Mckay dishing out some telt to Storey after his penalty miss though I did feel for him a wee bit with the abuse he was getting. It's not his fault Hughes is a moron who doesn't understand the transfer market and when he can or can't sign players. Agree with Manny, it's a penalty for a needless foul by Welsh. Surprised at just how bad Partick were. They were absolutely howling and all the booing you can hear from the highlights is coming from the away fans (save for the penalty award on Welsh). Well taken goals from White and Rooney plus the slightly iffy penalty from Welsh had us home and dry and we inevitably took our foot off the gas in the second half. Nice finishes from Spittal and Doolan though they come from pretty poor defending from us so I can't imagine Robertson will be happy. Really weak header from McCart and just a complete inability to clear our lines for the Doolan strike. Good performances from the likes of Rooney (before he went off), Welsh, Doran, Polworth and White. Hopefully whatever happened with Rooney and Polworth injury wise isn't too bad but it looks like Oakley will be a longer term absentee given the force with which he threw down his hair band. Not good going into the game next week as I think he could have been a great option for us up front. A few folk said Ntambwe should have been sent off for a shirt pull. I don't see it myself. Just seems to be two players grappling with each other until Ntambwe stupidly slides in and wipes out Polworth. It is probably just enough of a genuine attempt to play the ball to allow him to stay on the pitch for a little bit longer anyway before he was subbed off.

He had, allegedly, completely lost the dressing room. One thing to remember is that looking in from the outside this might be a bizarre move but in the same way that Hughes left ICT and McIntyre left Ross County those with little knowledge of the circumstances will not understand why these kinds of moves had to happen.

That flick from Doran BTW

A simply stunning ICT performance of yesteryear. A return to the reliable 4-2-3-1 setup and philosophy of sitting in, absorbing pressure and hitting Dunfermline hard on the break. Going into the game and seeing the line up I wasn't expecting much at all but needless to say by full time I was eating humble pie and it tasted great. Pretty standard defensive set up with Chalmers and Welsh shielding in front of them. Doran started on the left, Walsh right and Polworth behind White. For most of the first half we were probably second best although Chalmers (possibly White?) had a good chance with a header from a Walsh cross and the latter linked with Doran to tee up a good chance but his low drive was well saved by Robinson. Dunfermline forced Ridgers into some good saves with the pick of the bunch coming from a fierce drive by Hippolyte. The second half saw ICT tear Dunfermline apart by allowing them to come on them before clinically hitting them on the counter. The opener however came after a free kick found its way to Walsh on the Pars left flank and he stood up a cross to the back post where Rooney ghosted in to steer a header into the net. We extended our lead with a quite brilliant counter attack. Dunfermline failed to make one of their many crosses go anywhere useful and Donaldson cleared the ball to Oakley who brought the ball down and quickly fed Doran who galloped down the right wing and picked out Polworth darting into the box with a quite delicious cross which was sidefooted in to make it two. The game was killed off when Ridgers partially sclaffed a clearance up the pitch in the general direction of Doran. As the ball sat up nicely for him Doran cheekily backheel flicked it over his head and into the path of Oakley who bench pressed the Pars defender and raced towards goal and cooly slide the ball past Robinson. A deserved three points and a really good defensive performance from ICT coupled with clinical attacking play. Mckay and Donaldson mopped up pretty much everything that came towards them and Rooney, whilst not great in the first half, really grew into the game after his goal. Tremarco was very solid at left back as well. Welsh looked like the gritty midfielder we have been missing and whilst perhaps not as good as a peak Draper he gives us a bit more bite in the centre and allows Doran and Walsh to be more creative and fire in crosses like they did today as well as releasing Polworth to play further forward. White struggled to begin with but like Rooney grew into the match the longer it went on as he dropped deeper to link with the midfield and build counter attacks. As has been mentioned on here before it may be that this season we are a more successful team away from home than in Inverness where we might be expected to dominate the opposition. Based on today it seems very much like this is a team that would excel sitting in and hitting on the break and we're unlikely to do that much at TCS. Hopefully Robbo keeps the 4-2-3-1 going forward. A 3 - 0 win away from home against a fellow promotion challenger is not to be sniffed at.

Not sure if that helps?

I've mentioned it before but we have a very "raw" team to say the least.

Massive fan of supporters clamouring for a fourth stand/standing area when we can literally cram all of our supporters into one stand at the minute.

I've noticed that if you want to filter the threads you want to view (say by looking only for ones you've posted in) the ability to "Sort By" - "Custom" generates a message saying "Oops something went wrong. Please try again."

Unless I'm being whooshed he signed a revised deal to stay at Partick.

Hasn't Robbo said recently that we need players to leave before we bring anyone in? ETA: He has -> https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/1547292/no-more-inverness-arrivals-unless-players-leave-says-robertson/ However if we were to sign a player or two I think we need to strengthen central midfield and maybe get a winger in as well. Can't see it happening.

Signed something in the region of 25 - 30 players during his short spell there. An incredible turnover of playing staff.

Might have a better chance of scoring if we take penalties with our eyes open...

Lazy copy and paste from P & B. We were really poor yet again. Far too narrow for most of the pitch with an alarming reluctance to take opposition players on until Calder came on in the second half. This coincided with our best period of the game where Parry was under real pressure from a number of crossed balls and he was made to pull off some smart saves from close range. Opening goal was pretty straightforward as Mckay strode in to meet a Polworth corner and channelled his inner Laporte and battered a header into the net. The Alloa equaliser came from what looked like a pretty debatable free kick. Zanatta drove between two ICT players an then threw himself to the ground. Nice cross sent to the back post and it looked like it ended up in the net thanks to a deflection off Donaldson or Oakley. Second half kicked off with some absolute madness from Karadachki. After wrestling with Oakley and conceding a free kick he then spent the few seconds leading up to the free kick grappling with Donaldson before dragging him to the ground and conceding the penalty. Welsh stepped up to send the keeper the wrong. Calder then won a penalty after he went down in the area. Looked a bit soft to me. He just seemed to run past the Alloa defender and then fell over. No ICT player seemed to really want to take the penalty, Welsh was off the pitch at this point having been subbed, so Donaldson stepped up and rattled the bar. Parry then, as mentioned, pulled off a number of good saves to deny Doran and White and ICT were made to rue their wastefulness when Rooney channelled his inner Ross Tokely and decided to hack at some Alloa attacker multiple times before bundling him over in the box for the third penalty of the day which was dispatched by Flannigan. Zanatta could have won it for the visitors but his tame shot was right at Ridgers. All too familiar a tale for ICT fans. Dominate the game in terms of possession but tend not to create much and when we do we are wasteful in taking those chances. Very little width for most of the game until Calder came on and gave Tremarco someone to link with ahead of him instead of having to turn back inside all the time. Welsh had a decent game and we definitely lost a bit of composure in midfield when he went off (presumably due to fitness issues). Donaldson, penalty miss aside, was good at the back but the rest of the squad is quite poor. Austin, Oakley and White all continue to work hard up front but none of them look like they will be particularly prolific for us this season. Rooney was really poor. Defensively naive and poor bringing the ball out from the back.

At least our supporters aren't over reacting to yesterdays result.

FWIW I appreciate the club is short of cash and things need done around the ground to make things better. If that means a company comes in, does a bit of work and their reward is some free publicity to big them up I don't have an issue with that provided the club still maintains good communication links with the fans about, you know, football. To (allegedly*) not publicise the fact there was a game on the other night is really quite disappointing. *I stress allegedly because I'm going on what I've seen folk say on social media.

The Inner Moray Firth Special Protection Area (SPA) lies about 2 - 3 km to the east of the proposed waste facility. That might be what you are thinking about? It's designated for a range of seabirds, waders and raptors. I doubt there will be any significant issues arising from traffic even if it does get the go ahead.

Given the club (apparently) didn't notify fans of the game against Lossie the other night but found time to talk up some company who cleaned gutters or something I don't think communicating with fans is ranking highly on their agenda right now.