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I suppose that 5% win rate as Forest Green Rovers manager is pretty impressive when you think about it.

I see Jake Davidson won promotion with Hamilton Accies and was relegated with ICT.

Fair point. But there doesn't seem to be much sense in keeping these stands open when they are barely half full most of the time. Maybe we could save some money by getting rid of a certain CEO...

The difference between us and Falkirk going down is that they will still get backed by crowds at least double what we are getting (or rather claim we are getting). I haven't made a home game this season but the highlights show a very sparse home attendance. At times it barely looks like it is into four figures. A slide into League One is only going to see that reduce further. Probably time to think about closing the North and South stands given the average away crowd in that league will be something like 17.

At least some people on the pitch showed a bit of fight.

If you're tagging MacGregor as injured best do the same for Doran. Nine months out apparently.

If the club have any sense they won't bother with an interview. They'll post a video apologising for the cluster f'ck of a campaign they've overseen and make a commitment to get fans back by doing things right on and off the pitch instead of chasing daft get rich quick schemes that would make Zack Morris blush.

The Samuels sub and his mood at coming on summed up the farcical Ferguson reign. A manager woefully out of his depth having to turn to a player he's completely marginalised over the last few months in a desperate attempt to save his skin with said player completely demotivated. Another masterclass from Big Dunc.

BBC Alba cover League One and show games at half five so don't expect all kick offs at 3pm.

Ferguson should be fired immediately and he can f'ck off down the A9 along with Gardiner.

What a bunch of frauds this mob are. Truly spineless performance.

Usual mix of bad errors at the back and negative football from Ferguson. His pig headed refusal to change his approach to games got us into this mess and will see us relegated to a division we will struggle to come back from. He'll ultimately go down as one of the worst appointments in the clubs history.

Apologies for the triple post but... "We've got 90 minutes to get one goal". What is this guy on about? We've got 90 minutes where we could get two goals and stay in the Championship without the fear of extra time and / or penalties. Why is he not thinking about getting anything more than one goal?! Bizarre comments.

It was most likely because we were 2 - 0 down, were chasing the game and he left on two absolutely abysmal performers in Anderson and Longstaff. Nothing against Samuel or Pepple whatsoever. Maybe Ferguson will ditch playing five defenders for a game we absolutely have to win but I suspect we all know the answer to that.

We were absolutely honking for the first hour or so. We were fortunate to only be 2 - 0 down at half time with Hamilton being denied what looked like a stonewall penalty for handball. Ridgers was perhaps unlucky for the first but was really poor for the second. Another goal conceded after we fail to defend a set piece. Standard. You have to say fair play to Ferguson for sticking with the setup that has seen us end up in the playoffs and somehow expect it to this absolute gang of a squad into a cohesive unit. Still though, it was a nice finish from Pepple from a Harper cross, one of the few times the latter didn't hit the first man with his delivery, and we looked better for the final half hour but didn't have any real quality up front to grab an equaliser as Hamilton seemed content to sit back and defend their lead. Pepple put in a great shift after coming on but I felt the game started to turn when Lawal was subbed on. Gilmour, Anderson and Longstaff must be our worst midfield in a long time. All they can do is pass the ball five yards to a team mate. None of them seem capable of carrying the ball forward. Lawal was an immediate upgrade on the, I assume, not fully fit Gilmour. He simply has to start on Saturday. If he doesn't Ferguson should be fired immediately. We've given ourself a chance but if Accies score first that'll be the game over. Despite a healthy amount of possession we don't do much with the ball and certainly don't have the guile to create enough chances to score 2 or 3 goals.

I nominate @RedCard...

I've often parked in the Sainsburys car park behind the ground. It's about a 5 - 10 minute walk from there to the ground. There's a three hour limit IIRC so you should be fine. Also a Morrisons nearby too which I am sure people park in.

I suspect a lot of them are working at the weekends.

We were honking today. Dunfermline had the deckchairs out and still easily handled our limited attacking threat. In a game we simply had to win we probably had 3 good chances over the ninety. We needed to be XL Bully's but instead we got a group of Chihuahuas. I hope I'm wrong but I can't see that side today beating Montrose over two legs.

Pretty sure the guys on the podcast didn't criticise him for fist pumping at the end of games rather doing it when we lost and hadn't played particularly well. Which is a little odd.

I thought we deserved the win and whilst we were pretty sound defensively I was disappointed at how toothless we were going forward. We didn't create much of note. Neither did Queens mind but very little to show from an ICT perspective. Cracking free kick by Harper. It was in as soon as it left his boot. Only other real chance of note for us was perhaps the Mckay opportunity when he passed up a 1 on 1 in the second half. Queens were desperately poor though. Whilst we had little attacking threat for most of the 90 minutes the home side were seldom able to muster a shot. Sheridan had a well struck effort saved at the start of the second half and Paton almost snatched a late equaliser when the ball dropped to him in the box but it seemed to roll down his shin instead of connecting with his foot and Ridgers saved easily. Gives us a real chance to avoid the playoffs now but it's far from over.

Ferguson has been in charge for 25 league games and won 31 points. An average of 1.24 points per game (PPG). Imrie has been with Morton all of the season, 30 games, amassing 40 points an average of 1.33 PPG. Davidson has been in charge for 12 games, collecting 19 points from 12 games an average of 1.58 PPG. Scott Brown has been in charge for 10 games, bagging 18 points, an average of 1.8 PPG. So Ferguson is clearly performing the worst out of those 4 managers on a PPG basis.

New podcast out featuring an interview with Ross Draper which is nice

Went back through the thread to see what my thoughts were on Ferguson coming in. Can't help but feel we need to empty him now to have any chance of avoiding relegation. He's absolutely clueless.

He's on a 3 year deal. https://ictfc.com/duncan-ferguson-appointed-manager-of-ictfc/