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In our 4 SPL seasons we have had 20, 18, 19 and this year will also be 19 home games so exactly 50% - as it should be !

holy **** ... with some of these suggestions, I would rather keep Brew :001:

not bad if I say so myself ..... some common sense in our fixtures from the SPL .... I need to go lie down.

I am thinking his sights might be set higher .... He did his UEFA pro license in 2007 and this will be required by all managers in the English Premiership by 2010 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Pro_Licence_in_England

You'd rather listen to the **** after-match interview :symbol_question: :015: :015:

I actually have more bad feeling about Paterson moving to Aberdeen than I have about Brewster or Robbo moving to DUFC or Hearts. At least in Brewster and Robbo's cases, they were moving to clubs where they were regarded as legends and to jobs they could quite legitimately call their "dream" jobs. Its a shame that in both cases the dreams were bad ones !

Steve Nicol (good record over here in MLS), supported by chairman Warren Buffet

Robbo had a good managerial record for us in the 1st division but his SPL record was worse than CC or Brewster. Having said that, I think any current or former ICT manager would have struggled at that time ... promotion to a higher league, close season wrangles with Partick disrupting preparations, playing at pittodrie, players getting used to the SPL etc etc etc. I have no knowledge of his training methods or his relationship with players but 'awayupingorgie' has a point. He did bring a number of good players to the club and they did seem to perform for him. Although it is also true to say that when Brewster arrived the fitness levels increased dramatically to the point where commentators were making reference to it regularly. I interacted with him personally on 2 or 3 occasions. Once I remember was at the stadium where he was ripping the **** out of Parkie. I was introduced as the "internet guy" and he spent the next while talking about training and stuff and making the point that Parkie was the computer geek in their relationship and had everything from the games/training fired into his computer for comprehensive analysis. One of the other times was at the end of season supporters club do where he turned up at the Corriegarth and got the craic with a lot of fans. He lost his club blazer to 'The Fly' that night. As a manager, I dont know - I dont think he had enough time in the SPL with ICT to show what he was capable of so he would be just as much of an unknown quantity as Brewster. If he could recreate his Div1 record then yes he would be good but if he carried on the way he started in 2004 then not so much !!!! There is no point in comparing his ICT record with his record at Hearts, Livi, County or anywhere else because each place had its own 'problems' to deal with that were not necessarily of his own making (a bit like Brewster if you give him at least some benefit of the doubt). As DoF I believe he could bring players to ICT that we might not get otherwise purely because of his contacts and record as a player - Scottish International, Hearts legend etc, and I also believe that he might bring some much needed PR to the club as he seems to know how to handle fans and the media. The red flag for me - and I am maybe doing him a disservice - is wondering whether he could/would be his own man given the well publicised orion connection. I dont think Grassa is doing a bad job, and if you speak to him personally he will usually shoot from the hip ... none of this carefully prepared statement malarkey. If he does have a weakness, then maybe that is the lack of contacts that someone higher profile might have .....

Announcement is at 10PM tonight. No game this weekend, first game on 19th April. Believe it or not there is a formula (the "fixturing golden rules") for working all this out !!!! it just defies explanation. The only thing I can remember reading is that "where possible" each team should play an equal amount of home and away games but if that is not possible then over the course of TWO seasons each team should play 38 at home and 38 away. This is because - depending on how the table finishes - it is not always possible to give each team an even split of 19/19 (as we saw in our first two seasons). Looking at the last 4 seasons it should mean a home game to finish with and maybe even a home game immediately following the split ... although I think there is also another part of the formula that says if your last game (of the season) is at home, your first game (post-split) cannot also be at home ...... all very confusing and nonsensical because of the split. Remaining Games Gretna - A-H-A : post split should be H (giving 2H/2A over season) St Mirren - A-H-A : post split should be H (giving 2H/2A over season) Kilmarnock - A-H-A : post split should be H (giving 2H/2A over season) Hearts - H-A-H : post split should be A (giving 2H/2A over season) Aberdeen or Falkirk - H-A-H : post split should be A (giving 2H/2A over season) Previous seasons 2007/8 pre split - 16H / 17A, post split should be 3H/2A = 19H/19A 2006/7 pre split - 17H / 16A, post split - 2H/3A [h,a,a,h,a] = 19H/19A 2005/6 pre split - 16H / 17A, post split - 2H/3A [a,h,a,h,a] = 18H/20A 2004/5 pre split - 17H / 16A, post split - 3H/2A [a,h,h,a,h] = 20H/18A If I was guessing, I would say this seems logical for us - but whoever said the SPL was logical :004: h - Gretna a - Hearts h - Kilmarnock a - Aberdeen / Falkirk h - St Mirren

just to clarify the situation. As far as I am aware, there is no law that says you can or cannot post links to p2p websites on this type of website. However, the SPL and its media partners have - in the past - got very upset with p2p sites that are providing coverage, and also with fan sites who allow linking. Because we wanted to protect this site from any potential hassles, and also respect the copyright of both the SPL and their partners, we implemented the 'no links' rule as one of our site policies. We did relax our site rules at the beginning of this season to allow youtube links because they do not stream live footage. When copyright issues arise over youtube footage after the event, then that is between youtube (Google) and the complainer so as far as we are concerned, there is no problem in posting youtube links or links to other sites similar to youtube. With regards to p2p sites then the situation currently remains the same in that we will remove these links from our public forums when posted. We do not make a distinction between direct links to the actual feed/coverage or links that take you to another site that then offers the feed or a direct link to it within its site somewhere. Believe me, given the hassles of trying to get coverage over here I would love to allow them on the message boards, but currently we do not. As with anything else, this particular forum rule is under constant review and may change in the future. With regards to personal/private messaging - I have said before. we do not monitor these in the same way as the message boards and the content of them is not public so if you choose to send a link to another website to a friend then so be it. We would however ask that you do not send direct links to individual feeds.

and soccerbase and wiki are both totally reliable of course !!!! Keogh came to us as a striker but when he couldnt score goals he was tried out as an attacking midfielder and was more successful in that position .... If it wasnt for injury, I think he would have had a decent career with us.

care to explain this ? I dont think many of us have ever not 'believed in the team' even when they make it difficult .... and CB didnt exactly 'keep by our side' when he went to Tannadice .....

The fact of the matter is that - like almost every workplace - there is a lot more going on in the background than we the fan/customer ever see and football is a funny workplace because it has fans as well as customers clamouring for every little scrap of info they can lay their hands on. You dont see many message boards dedicated to the goings on at your favourite DIY or Electronics shop and then dissecting whether this worker or that worker had a good day or not !!! In the case of ICT, some rumours come out, some dont, and usually the rumours that do come, come from one side so are somewhat skewed (or spun) in the direction the person releasing it wants us to see. As much as I am still extremely skeptical of the abilities of the current manager (and no, I dont believe I could do any better - but then again, I did not apply for the job !!!), I can believe that the above comment is true - or at least has the possibility of being true. If it is then it may vindicate Brewster's handling of that particular incident. There have also been other incidents that merit some explanation ... Wyness, Rankin, etc - and there are suggestions that there maybe more to both of these stories than meets the eye. At the end of the day, I doubt we will ever hear the full story of each individual incident, but with them seeming to come one after the other and being added to the perceived problem of poor tactics and team selections, you end up with the situation we are in now - with many fans having no confidence in the manager despite some factors which may not be his fault. The manager has to try and regain that confidence and hopefully he will see that surrounding everything in a veil of secrecy (which has lifted somewhat in the last week or two) is not the way to do it.

Happy for Motherwell, in fact happy when any team gives one or other of the forces of darkness a doing . The only downside is knowing that this means Traynor's show will be half full of bleating ****holes from one side and half full of condescending p****s from the other side ... but thats no change to most weeks !!!!!

Yes, well done to County today but it was humorous to hear Charles Bannerman talking of the fans going wild in what has to have been the most silent match report I heard all day ... were you behind glass Charles ?

He certainly did himself no favours today ....

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The 2 goals make the result somewhat respectable, but they dont make things alright ... the previous 71 minutes have been embarrassing to listen to

and when it comes ... its McBain :001: 0-1

commentators disagree ... all I can say in response is "Tumilty refereeing"

As much as I am frustrated by Brew in general, its not his fault we have squandered a lot of chances today - thats down to players hitting the woodwork or missing 'easy' chances. As for the system - doesnt sound like 4-5-1 ..... its more like 4-4-2 as Imrie is up front with Wyness and at times sounds like 4-2-4 as the commentators have noted that both Paati and Wilson are playing quite far forward as out and out wingers

Ref awarded it but linesman flagged him and made him change his decision as he thought it was outside the box. Osman (who would have had an instant red card if the penalty was given) was booked and Tokely was also booked (presumably for complaining to one of them about the decision reversal)

to be fair - commentators said it was a tight angle, but he should have buried at least one of them. no penalty.

Wyness misses his 4th chance of the match - sorry, but if the commentators are correct, Denzil just isnt doing it today !!!

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