MorayJaggie

Well he rightly got subbed today. Every player upped their game after last week apart from Polly. There was no desire to win balls passing was poor and his work rate low today. Compared to White who I didn't rate but today was outstanding. 

Why can't the team play like that every week. Jordan White today was outstanding. 

Greg Tansey is a free agent he has been released by the dons. 

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16 hours ago, Gregor said:

As you have said yourself you don’t get to as many games now, yet you seem to want to criticise players without actually watching the 90 mins in the stadium. Now I understand you may have valid reasons for not being there.

You have a problem with me using the term Sheep but isn’t that like being a sheep and following other people’s opinions rather than watching the 90 mins and coming to your own opinion.

I agree with you that some are peed off because we have been at a higher level but that is a problem of fans not accepting where we actually are. Expectation sometimes can be a hindrance and clouds ones judgement of players on the field of play. The booing of Polworth when he was subbed yesterday was a disgrace . We have to accept we are playing in the Championship which is a tough league Rangers and Hibs  found that out and took 3 seasons to get back to premiership and they have far bigger resources than ourselves . Now  Dundee Utd are in their 3rd year down here yet some of our fans can’t accept its where we are.

Its clear that some fans on here don’t seem to like our strikers or think they are any good especially White who gets stick constantly.

You quoted Shankland who is having an excellent season but he plays in a team who plays with two up top , he has also been with Ayr last season in a league below getting used to playing with his team mates and being in a winning side. Also Shankland starts constantly which is a massive benefit to strikers. Shankland is proving to be more prolific than ours but that does not prove that ours are duds.

When I last checked  only 3 ( Dobbie Shankland and McKay) players have better ratios than White yet many of our fans say he is a dud when clearly the facts don’t support that particular opinion. However it may be just a preference of a type of player and White doesn’t fit the profile of some folks preference , that’s fine in my book, but some of the abuse he gets on here is incredible when you actually look at what he has achieved in only his first few months with us.

Our strikers are in and out of team as the manager chops and changes the strikers , and I feel we have started with one up top too many times so based on all of this Our three strikers have done well to have the stats they have achieved but it’s still not good enough for some fans.

I stand by my quoting of stats 

 Goals / Starts/ratio

White 9 goals /15 starts:/ 1 goal every 1.66 starts

Austin 4 goals / 7 starts / 1 goal every 1.75 starts

Oakley 5 goals /11 starts/ 1 goal every 2.2 starts 

Most clubs would be happy to have strikers who are scoring a goal every couple of games. We have two who have better ratios than that and one who is just outside of that , but the problem is we only start one of them at a time.Austin is a forgotten man for starting games yet has decent stats, we started the season playing two up and won four games out of five . 

So Mantis do you agree the stats are decent or not.?

I have no problem with yourself or others  having a different opinion to mine, but to keep on just blaming the strikers after every performance is surely not an accurate reflection of the problems of the team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gregor as much as you love Jordan the man love is obvious but he is the 11th best striker in the championship.  As you love stats goal to mins played ratio of 5 goals in 1044 mins played which equates to 1 goal every 2.42 start. Oakley has 4 goals in 640 mins played in championship giving him a goal every 1.82 games. White has played a full 11.6 games with a 5 goal return Oakley 7.1 full games with 4 goal return. White playing a full 4.5 games more than Oakley scoring one more goal. You tell me who is the better striker in this league this season. Previous accolades at different clubs in different seasons with different players make no difference to the here and now. 

The players also know we don't have a depth of squad for them to be dropped. Even if they play consistently rubbish they will still start. 

He didn't do pre game speech in hospitality Graham Rae informed us he has some sort of illness virus.

As has been said above that hurt. First have we dominated having a goal disallowed as the ref positioning was poor to see it had crossed the line and hitting the post at the start of the second half. We played queens of the park until we scored and then same old same old switch off and sit in. Jordan white is not a striker his positioning, passing, forward vision and end product are rubbish and throwing a hissy fit every time he loses the ball for his poor ball control skills was laughable.

Austin although he has been out for a while when he came on started to cause problems on the left wing and got some good crosses in.

Polly was brilliant in the first half but seemed to loose his spark in the second and went back to his huffy attitude.

Tremarco welcome back a warrior to the end. Not sure for queens second but

Ridgers  seemed to be delayed in getting down to the ball. Possibly his view was impeded but some brilliant saves again today. The others not sure if they thought 1 - 0 up sorted yea and medals time.  Walsh who was everywhere today and his sweet strike for our goal loved it. Robbo didn't come up to hospitality today as Graham Rae informed us he was feeling u see the weather not sure what with. 

We need a striker. If we had won today rave was still on but now we will be lucky to finish 5th, promotion is gone. 

15 hours ago, Sean93 said:

Dow signed for peterhead till the end of season. His father in law is the manager.

After being released from county. Peterhead was the only team in spfl he could play for as under their rules no player can play for more than two teams in the same season.

We need a striker not a defender. 

Happy New year all here's to another year supporting ictfc and to the 25th celebrations.

According to ICTFC twitter Tremarco is available for selection tomorrow.

12 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

In  that case J.R. should ensure that he gets a game or two. Otherwise he won't be any good to himself in the long run and if our current main goalie gets  injured then who would we be able to count on?

Dunno !!     I'm only an "out-of-touch" Canuck. Smile.

Is one of the problems not that he has a huge appearance fee in his contract?

Did I just get an early Xmas present from ictfc. How many points is it we get again for a win?

Nick Ross signed for an American club did he not?

Poor response from the club. What was the appropriate action taken? why haven't they outlined the club's stance on this?  As had been said fans actions at Brechin and against Polly (Rightly so may I add) were immediately condemned and blasted all over the media and the action against them outlined in detail. Yet another communication fail from the board. Sectarianism is a blight on Scottish football and for the club to respond in such a weak manner does look like they are trying to keep it quiet. If they want the respect of the fans then they need to be more robust. Quite frankly I don't believe their statement.

22 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

Show me where i said that.

Your apathy for the content of the video implies your acceptance that it is ok.

10 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

Oh dear, grown men on a night out using swear words.

I won't be losing any sleep over it.

So sectarian chants is ok in your opinion? 

Maybe an idea to try and sign Blair Henderson in January he is on fire this season so far.

7 hours ago, Gregor said:

We need to sort out the silly mistakes at the back

The strikers are fine just need to play two of them up top and get decent balls into box.

Been saying this for weeks, on Saturday we needed 3 goals to just obtain a draw, cmon we need to wake up and stop blaming the strikers.

Will say it again Thank God for Ridgers,apart from his dashing out of box on Saturday.

However that first goal was shambolic and we need to be more disciplined as a defensive unit when we are attacking and not through as many bodies forward.

Don't remember any of our strikers scoring to rescue the point on Saturday. So yes we still need a regular striker. And three of our 4 were on the park at some point.

2 hours ago, DWH said:

Great to see a win at last but reading the reports doesn't sound like a great team performance. At least we are back in the top 4 but a bit of a gap to Ayr who seem pretty strong. The Arabs are also beginning to get their act together.

We really need to step up a couple of gears and stringing a few wins together (including the upcoming match at Somerset Park).

Yeah agreed both the next two meetings with ayr are a must win if we want to stay in the title challenge.

Excellent well done to the team today. Need to get Ridgers signed up on longer contract he's been outstanding recently. Great mindset from the team especially after the midweek upheaval to the team. Puts us right back into the promotion chase with county losing and Ayr only drawing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46142675

BBC news report on his contract termination.

Well done to the club on a swift, appropriate communication and decision.

1 hour ago, Gregor said:

Totally agree with you in regards the above statement and thats exactly why I made my original suggestion of changing formation to 352.

We havent tried this system ,so how do we know it wont work until we try it.

 

I suppose the way things are if it brings three points why not. All we would lose is a point but potentially gain 2.