IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

3 hours ago, Gringo said:

I wish I was as confident as you that we could beat Montrose over two legs. 

Perhaps we won't need to ?

As Friday 3rd May approaches I am reminded of a night in Perth when Ben Stein emotionally assured me that "It is inevitable that some defeat will enter into even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated, it is only defeated when it surrenders"

Aye he has let us down so many times over the years. Hang on, you don't think nobody else had the bottle? 

Well not everybody has access to a crystal ball Ronnie and, as you are aware, the Seer Society take exception at blatant prophecies. Anyway just going to take the dogs, Dunc and Fergie, for a walk through Stanley Park.

FFS Let sleeping dogs lie and re-energise. It ain't over till the Fat Lady sings.

1 hour ago, caley100 said:

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

Spot on though 

1 hour ago, dougal said:

Looks like you leaving the Market Bar

1 minute ago, Naelifts said:

Well I sheepishly slunk into the stadium today, embarrassed by the fact that I hadnt seen the team this year. Other things had taken priority. Other things were more enjoyable. Other things offerred more value for money......things that had always had to take a back seat behind ICT. I was doing my duty, I felt, to support my team in their hour of need. I will travel to Inverness next week also for the denouement. However, I have to say that the product on offer today was so poor. On this evidence our players simply arent good enough. The loanees arent playing for the shirt.......why should they? It is scarcely credible that, had the penalty gone in, we would have won that game. I am not going to single out players.....that was a shitshow. Inept. If we stay up by some miracle then next year will only be worse again and more fans will drift away. I feel sorry for Ridgers who has to watch this every week.

It's not the players - it's the manager 

53/47 possession - 15 shots, 6 on target and 2 blocked, 8 corners and a missed penalty. Sounds like we were under the cosh and the tactics were all wrong.

Well the true Dogs of War do it in the last game of the season. I suppose Ferguson missed the penalty ??

3 minutes ago, ClickbaitProponent said:

Brings Pepple on who hasn't done anything for us and leaves Roddy on the bench! If we go down at least we should be rid of Dunc and Gardiner.

We are the pepple.

32 minutes ago, ICTPaisley said:

Very smart thinking by Dunc to give Queens Park Sheridan and Welsh

I dont think that anybody would have retained Sheridan but it is not only Welsh that you have to look at for injuries at ICT. 

Unleash the dogs Dunc - three points on the way. 

Benedictus was a canticle but now is a testicle.

Jeezy Peeps mun

Has Devine picked up a knock ?

Please note that Mr Gardiner has changed his Christian name to Oliver

On 4/20/2024 at 12:04 PM, ICTPaisley said:

Do you think the criticism hasn’t been merited then? 

A lot of criticism has been merited but not to the venemous degree of some. I think some peeps think are living on past glories and the expectation that we are a top league outfit. Dunc has always had a tendency to speak before he thinks and is crap at post match interviews. I suspect that he has also been taken back by the abuse directed at him. I suspect that he also realises that he has been used as a fall guy and promised to him about the future are up in the air. He is not an experienced manager and tried to install a play from the back system in a team with no settled formation or understanding of each other. BUT what was the evidence on Friday. He has been too concentrated on defence and has been amiss in how he has played individuals - McKay, Doran, Devine and Lawal being examples. He also did not recognise the importance and impact of contracted players. His dislike of Roddy McGregor is surprising.

We had eight loanees on the park at the end of the end of the Raif game. They may end up saving our season and I would gladly keep at least 4 of them.

1 hour ago, forresjags said:

Result didn't match the performance but more worrying is we finished the game with 8 loan players on the pitch. Of the the 3 left 2 were over 30.  Basically we are going to completely have to rebuild from scratch, maybe need to sign ten or more players in the summer and get them to gel in probably less than six weeks.

 

That is a major concern and probably came about due to the confidence about monies from the Battery Farm. And another reason for taking on Ferguson who would have attracted better players with better wages and prospects. I am afraid that this season was all about survival and that was apparent when we jettisoned some worthies to save on the wage bill.

I don't think that it was because we had a bad 10 minutes. That was simply to be expected. It was a defensive lapse at fault and a rare lapse at that. I am in no doubt that if we had another decent forward to partner Samuel that we would have been in the play offs. I think that Lawal has a lot of potential but not yet playing in a central midfield role. I would take the risk of playing him up front and letting Billy play in a number 10 role. I think his pace will frighten other teams and Samuel has an out card which he hasn't had all season. 

22 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

We were unlucky, weren't we >>>

 

 

Oh dear - same old excuses - same old script - clearly delusional and body language shows that he really doesn't care

3 minutes ago, Douglas Mackenzie said:

Where would we be without Samuel.

Where would we be if we had another forward to support Samuel ?

The way McKay is being played as a number 10 simply is not working as he no longer has the stamina to go forward. Pepple simply is not good enough. I bet a few will think that I have totally lost it but I would play the palindrome up front with the Tinkerville Taz.

23 minutes ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Ferguson doesn't have a Plan B!!

16 minutes ago, STFU said:

Mckay playing his natural position is there to pick up that one off the post.  Why are we playing him in midfield?

So who and what are the alternatives on the bench ??