MorayJaggie

Biggest crowd Edinburgh City have had at home this season so far is 362 including away support. Average attendance is 300. If we can get a good away support boys might feel like it's a home game. 

I emailed the SLO two weeks ago and posted the response on the slo topic basically no one knows at the club. It's been down since August.

I'd love it if Polly got a Hat trick today. So he can shut kettlewell up after his comments in the p and j. For anyone who didn't read it he said all Inverness fans should remember the contribution his players made to our club. Oh we do Relegation I believe it was.

9 hours ago, caley100 said:

I think that the lack of quality is what irks the average Joe fan, especially the ones who remember the mid to late 2000's  I spoke to two neutral football fans who had been guests at Tuesday's game, They did comment on the lack of quality on show, highlighting our right back and the target man up front, Although they said they thought there was a lack of cohesion within in the team there was no lack of effort.  

Maybe this is us?  Or is it Robbo unable to get the team motivated tactically and mentaly. 

As a group of professional footballers there should be no need for the manager to have them be motivated tactically or mentally. They should be helping him by doing this themselves. After all it is their job. 

Why has it been changed?

Just posted on official ictfc Twitter account

Looking at the attendances in the spfl last night mid week school night in the cold windy wet of a Scottish autumn. Attendances bar Livingstone were actually pretty decent. 12300 at pittodrie, 42000 at ibrox 7500 at dens, 1400 at almondvale (no different from a Saturday really). 4000 in paisley and obviously tynecastle 19000.

Stay strong and your one of our own. It's always hard when someone you know gets the dreaded C news like others have said yourvpost helps to raise the awareness of this type of cancer  and wish you all the best for your up coming treatments. 

3 hours ago, wynthank15 said:

White's professional career stats whilst not prolific are none too shabby either, 216 games of which 72 were sub appearances and 91 goals. We don't know how many minutes he got as a sub or whether he was subbed as a starter but if we assume he was never subbed (highly unlikely) and that he played a full 45 minutes as a sub (again highly unlikely) he has a goals to minutes ratio of 56% or a goal every 178 minutes. Add in the fact that none of the teams he played for were recognised as prolific in terms of chances created I think his goal ratio is excellent whatever attributes his all round game may lack.

Past teams and goals scored for them is irrelevant to current season. The only thing that matters is current form. According to ICTFC website he has 14 appearances with 4 goals scored that's one goal every 3.5 games or one goal every 315 mins assuming he's played full 90 mins every match. So not the one every two game ratio. If this has not been updated since last night then it's 5 in 15. 1 goal every 3 games or every 270 mins again assuming he's played full 90 mins per match. For this to be our best striker it is not going to get us a play off place.  He's also played 6 games more than Oakley who has scored 3 goals and 5 more than Austin who has also scored 3 goals.

Polworth pass to Calder forbid goal was brilliant vision from Polly well done to both great bit of play.

What's wrong with the defence tonight.

Cunty are 1 nil down to falkirk

Doran Oakley and Austin on the bench. White starting.

1 hour ago, Scotty said:

Whilst I do like the good governance approach of taking minimal risks and living within our means, which is what the club has run with for most of our existence (outside the first few years), there does come a time when you need to take a slightly riskier approach.  There was an article this week that County and other Premier sides from last year just got a bonus of £371,000 plopped into their accounts for Celtic's European adventures. How huge would that be for Robbo's budget right about now !!! I take it from the article that Championship teams get nothing? If that's the case then the gulf will widen unless we do everything we can to get back to the top league and survive there. 

 

Did we not get a similar amount last year after our relegation?

19 hours ago, wynthank15 said:

Hi MJ, according to the WHO obesity rates have increased 93% since 1996 and two thirds today of the male population in the UK are classified as overweight or obese (also a WHO stat). If you are overweight you cannot compete at a contact sport (there are a few exceptions) I include rugby, football, boxing, wrestling you are soft, as you cannot cope with the physical challenge, you simply have not developed the necessary amount of muscle which is gained through training, nor the courage to get into direct confrontation. We are told that the youngsters today are spending on average 5-7 hours on social media that hardly leaves time for anything else outside of school and studying.

As regards entitlement, I know of several employers who have offered jobs to unemployed lads, effectively apprenticeships and they cannot find an assistant, the various excuses are 1) the start time is too early 7.00am 2) the work is too heavy 3) The wages are too low, when I started work my annual wage was £600, less than my part time summer job paid me pro rata.

I could also bore you with stories of the Welfare league in this area but I wont bother. Look, I'm not going to tar an entire generation with my comments because there are exceptions but as a generalisation my comments are fair.

PS Add in the attitude of schools today when we can have no winners and no losers and you end up with a generation of non triers where even the losers WIN ie give grades for qualifications which are in fact a FAIL. Sorry, I need to lie down now.

Ok which generation has made the rules and policies to which the younger generation now live by? It's only societies issue that the reap what they sow. What were the baseline figures the  World Health Organisation used to get their data and what kind of cross reference study base did they use? You are also basing your argument on a study from 22 years ago which doesn't really apply to the youth of today as that age group would now be in their late thirties and 40s.  People don't have to accept jobs if they don't like the working conditions. I.e the older shell workers who get pampered off shore moaning about safety, working a 3 on 3 off rota quickly accept the dangerous working pattern when given an extra 15% pay rise. Your generalisation of a generation does not work.

1 hour ago, forresjags said:

Absolutely spot on. White is having a torrid time playing up front on his own with no support and long hopeful balls pumped up to him. . 

Time for  Polworth , Doran and Walsh to step and start creating ,all 3 totally ineffective again  yesterday . 

TBH that was f****ing rubbish and a joyless watch for a decent away support ,Robertson and co need to get their collective fingers out as their is no Brechin safety net this year.

 

Safety net of falkirk this season.

I agree that white is not our answer the games I've seen him play he is never on the end of crosses his positional awareness is shocking. He gets out jumped by players significantly smaller than him in stature and continually has the ball nicked off him. We don't have the luxury of having a striker who can't run at defences who has to wait for the perfect cross or pass to score we don't have the players to provide that. We need a striker like Austin or Oakley who will put in a shift to help mid field to run at defences and take on defenders. It needs to change and it needs to change now as we are becoming detached from the promotion race and if it continues the play off places.

Dropped down to 5th now 7 points adrift of county and 6 of Ayr. Something needs to change up front.

4 hours ago, wynthank15 said:

I would much prefer that our youngsters played the real game at whatever level rather than watch TV or computer games or even watching the real thing. It gives them fitness for future years, discipline, work ethic, teaches them to take knocks fair or unfair and builds a competitive spirit all of which are transferable to other aspects of life. It would also give our country a larger pool from which to develop professional players.

Regrettably, today's society seem to be encouraging the exact opposite producing an unfit, overweight, soft generation with an expectation of entitlement and no competition.

I recall playing against Harmony Row under 15's there were 40 boys all clamouring for a game and their manager picked a team from that group before the game, he could probably have picked any 11 because they could all play.

In the 70's The Scottish Amateur league had 7 divisions each of 16/18 sides, West of Scotland 6 divisions, Scottish reserve 3 divisions, Stirlingshire 3 divisions, Paisley and district 4 divisions. Our club had 73 registered players at training for three sides on a Saturday so the number of sides probably don't reflect the number of registered players.

We need to somehow get back to those days and I firmly believe it starts at the schools.

Are you serious? Soft, expectation of entitlement? Can you back that up with some facts please before you alienate a whole generation.

2 minutes ago, Glover said:

If attendances were at 3500 we could.  The wage budget has gone from £1.6m to £600,000 (?).  1900-2000 season ticket sales about covers it.  Probably can but don't need/want to.  And come New Year we may be looking for a striker and a new midfielder....

As I said can't afford him.

1 hour ago, Alan Simpson said:

OFW a class keeper I'd say he edges Ridgers tbh! A warrior as well played thro back injurys when we were in the prem

Agreed but one we can't afford.

Remember how many matches are postponed due to frozen waterlogged or snowed off every year and then ultimately replayed on a Tuesday or Wednesday night. The winter season does not work. How family friendly it to sit in an exposed stadium to rain wind sleet and or snow as opposed to more Clement weather In  the summer where pre match entertainment can be provided to enhance the experience and create more revenue and be more competitive to families to attend and get youngsters supporting the club.