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Darren Dods !

Agree with KB here ... If Eck gets us through the WC qualifiers and into the tournament itself then he will already be lauded as a hero because we havent been to any major competition since 1998 .... If he then manages to take a team that is currently performing well and manages to get us to the second round (or beyond) then he will become the 'best manager' the country has ever had and would literally be able to pick any job in the UK. Fanciful perhaps, but the euro campaign has shown that we have a good squad, and if we can perform for the next two years the same way as we have for the last two then he may well have the players to do it !

The 65K for Rankin would not even be matched I fear as it seems apparent that ICT want rid of him rather than being in a position where a team come in and offer either over the odds or at least what he is worth because they want him. Still think selling him on would be a big mistake as someone is going to get a bargain. It seems clear from reading the Partick fan's Bebo entry and Caff's response that he too has decided he will move. Thats a shame because I think most ICT fans do like Caff and appreciate what he has done for us over the years. There can be (and has been) a roiling debate over whether he is good enough for the SPL or not but until or unless he got a run of games in the first team there is no-one who can say for sure. The player himself has been incredibly patient on the sidelines so I would wish him the best of luck if he decides his future is elsewhere. The Richie Hart and Ian Black ones, I think, are paper speculation. However, that is not to say they arent true or could happen. I think Hart will go because his contract finishes at the end of the season and a few have already speculated that he will not be offered another. Allowing his contract to lapse may be the easy way to get rid of him after the cocaine incident as there can be no 'unfair dismissal' or other such claims. He had a contract, it expired, it wasnt renewed. If thats the thinking, I can understand it but will be a little disappointed as he is a decent and committed player. Blackie - where do you start ! This guy has the potential to be one of the best Scottish midfielders in the SPL but as with most talented players he has a bit of attitude and gets wound up from time to time. We have seen it on the pitch in previous seasons with his bookings and we have seen it a couple of times now either off the pitch or behind the scenes with the reported half-time walkout and the shirt throwing incident previously. The player himself seems to have worked hard on controlling his temper on the park and has only been booked once this season (i think - need to check). To me, that says he is at least trying. If he got pissed off at being subbed then I can also applaud him for that as it seems to show he cares about what happens in the game. I cant condone the 'walkout' and agree that some repercussions had to come from that but if the ultimate repercussion is that we let him go for being passionate about the club then it is a huge, Huge, HUGE mistake. I said in another thread a week or two ago that it was too early to judge Brewster and that a lot of what he did in the upcoming transfer window would speak volumes about how he would shape the team ... it appears that the transfer window may indeed be a big one for ICT and if we lose Caff, Rankin, Hart, Black, & McGuire without replacing them with players of equal or better quality then that will speak volumes to me .............

WTF ?

11 starts, 38 appearances from the bench. the rest of the post I agree with.

you could be right - just re-read the rules and it does say best 8 runners up and not 8 runners upo from 6 team groups ...... so from europe's 9 groups, 8 of the teams will go to stage 2

only 1 team qualify, no playoff for the second placed team in this group (see earlier attachment) ..... makes it clear what we have to do !!!

cant get it over here :008: no on TV, blocked on BBC, and Fifa.com not streaming to North America

posting removed and topic closed due to the abusive comment by IHE. congratulations on lowering the tone once again IHE .... and just when many of your posts were starting to actually make sense.

commentators making the point that ICT seem to have "gone back to basics" which made them hard to beat in previous seasons .... sounds like we are solid enough at the back today but nothing much happening up front ......

The penalty loss was against the Germans perchance ? :015: :015: :015:

I vote for IHE

yup. thats what i thought when i read the team lines .... we dont know the details of the"walkout" so unless/until we do I cant criticise Brewster for this one ..... incidentally - just announced, Mark Brown replacing Boruc in goal for Celtic today. originally listed as a sub, it seems something happened to Boruc in the warmup and Brown will start.

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training advice from a man who does his ligaments in 5 minutes after starting a training regime. classic. keep it up Immortal one :rotflmao: PS - on a serious note, I do agree with you about the training though :022:

every football forum does !.

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and lets not forget that Rankin can score - usually crucial - goals !!! If one of his goals meant we finished the season even one place higher in the table thats worth a six figure sum !!! I can see the arguments for letting him go as we do have too many midfielders and he is one we might get some cash for but when you are talking of selling someone for 20, 30, or 40k but know that they have the potential to earn you two or three times that amount if given the chance then it doesnt make any sense at all. There are at least 4 or 5 people I would let go before him.

nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_nati...l_team#Managers Based on managers who managed 10 or more games for the national side .... Mcleish (10 games) - 70% winning record McColl (28) - 60.71% Docherty (12) - 58.33% "Selection Committee" (254) - 58.27% Ormond (38) - 47.37% C. Brown (70) - 45.71% Smith (16) - 43.75% Stein (7 + 61) 42.86% + 42.62% McLeod (17) - 41.18% Roxburgh (62) - 37.10% Beattie (11) - 36.36% B. Brown (28) - 32.14% Ferguson (10) - 30.00% Vogts (31) - 23.33%

bad decision IMHO.

Based on the attached document and the rankings released today by FIFA (we slipped 1 place to 14) the 6 pots will be as follows SEED 1 - POT 'A' Italy Spain Germany Czech Republic France Portugal Netherlands Croatia Greece SEED 2 - POT 'B' England Romania Scotland Turkey Bulgaria Russia Poland Sweden Israel SEED 3 - POT 'C' Norway Ukraine Serbia Denmark Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Finland Switzerland Belgium SEED 4 - POT 'D' Slovakia Bosnia-Herzegovina Hungary Moldova Wales FYR Macedonia Belarus Lithuania Cyprus SEED 5 - POT 'E' Georgia Slovenia Albania Latvia Iceland Armenia Austria Kazakhstan Azerbaijan SEED 6 - POT 'F' Liechtenstein Estonia Malta Luxembourg Montenegro Andorra Faroe Islands San Marino Englands defeat this week saw them drop from pot 1 to pot 2 with Greece going up to pot 1 Turkey, Bulgaria and Israel all jumped from pot 3 to pot 2 at the expense of Norway, Ukraine and Serbia DrawRules.pdf

Didnt see this mentioned on the official site but the Highland News is reporting that Brew has brought back Peter Davidson as fitness coach. Brew got a lot of credit for the fitness level of the squad in his first stint here but a lot of that was down to PD ...... this is one signing we can all be happy about ! Brew told the HN that he's brought back his former fitness coach Peter Davidson to Inverness. He said: "I'm delighted to have him back. He worked well with us before and he's here on a part-time basis for a couple of months and then we'll take it from there." Davidson worked with Brew and Malky Thomson, both at Inverness and then at Dundee United. ARTICLE

Levein is one I could live with too ... if and when McLeish decides its time to move on, until then, I am happy with what we have.

we will have to agree to differ on this one .... but I can agree with that last part !!!