IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

My messages are rarely wrong - so stick Lionel up front and well away from our feckin goal. :( :019:

Surprised that Foran lasted so long - reckon he must have got a real bollicking on Saturday.

10 men in the last 20 yards - It will make ma nite if Jimmy hits the feckin winner - and I have just had a "message".

Now - when have we been in a situation like this before ?? I suppose we could learn how to play in the Quarter Final !!

QUESTIONS: What exactly are we going to learn playing this system and this selection ? Is this likely to happen again in the SFL ?

Preferably as far as Hamilton.

The only way to describe tonite so far is "brewsteresque" B)

Eagle simply had to be hooked but how Stratford has survived and then played alongside Duncan B) I take it that Jimmy will be in left midfield - that may be worth a try but I would have preferred McBain. Shurely he aint playing all three in the middle Surprised at Foran as he looked absolutely fecked in the second half on Saturday. This looks ultra defensive - hope we dont concede early doors - but who knows - get it on.

Please please tell me that BBC sport has got it wrong B) Inverness CT 01 Esson 02 Proctor 03 Bulvitis 04 Munro 05 Golabek 06 Djebi-Zadi 07 Duncan 08 Stratford 10 Cox 11 Hayes 09 Foran Substitutes 16 Allison, 15 Ross, 12 Rooney, 13 Barrowman, 14 Sanchez

Feck me Hairy - good job ya were'nt at Airdrie - I might have been called to do a Clinical Risk Assessment by now !!! Foran will be dropped cos he looked totally fecked at the end on Saturday - nae 20 minutes from the end - and with Rosscoe rested it will probably be Proc at full back which may allow for Duncan and McBain to come in. Rooney should start as well.

Of course it was a serious question ? It just didnt look like it in regrad to our tactics at Airdrie ? So = pray tell - who spied on Airdrie ?

I feel that there are a few of us who have suspected that all along - I was merely trying to state that "judging" Butcher could only really begin now. The settling in period is over and the transition period has come to an end. In many ways, as I previously stated, he was entitled to give his signings a fair crack of the whip and the record this season - point/wins wise - is acceptable. I am glad that he has come out with this statement and I hope that he will ring the changes - but if he thought that NINE of them (I would have absolved Esson, Tokely, Munro and Golabek) were sub standard and we were a goal down - why didnt he consider hooking Eagle and Stratford at half time !! He did change the tactics and that helped.

If I was the manager I would be looking through here - it is the fans feedback - he may decide it is bull of course and that is his entitlement. I hope that TB would be only too able to give a rationale if pushed. I am not wholly criticising Butcher here but it would be worth the expense to send one of the coaches - or even Grassa -to watch other games - especially in the 2-3 week period that we play them. Terry caught sight of a lot of the SPL action due to the National position - He probably still does but I felt that it was glaringly obvious that we hadnt done our homewrk on Airdrie.

Nice to see that you agree with me.

After Saturday it aint worth the rush, the time or the expense - I will wait and see what the selection and tactics are.

Good spot - and Foran knew it - if he had been alert it was a tap in. Vigurs went for disciplinary reasons not footballing ones - sometimes that has to be done.

Definitely a hump back bridge and a derelict castle - with an attitude problem. What a shame he isnt going to contribute to the discourse. :023: :D Probably missing Over The Bridge and yet another pre merger ersehole.

Sounds like a hump back bridge and a derelict castle to me.

Are we actually keeping an eye on the other SFL teams - and if so who and how ? I thought that we played into Airdrie's strengths other than going at their weaknesses - and they must have been apparent to many who attended the game. Apart from the big centre half they had no aerial cover at the back - so what do we do and where do we play Foran. Their keeper was small and unsure on crosses - so did we test him ? did we pester him at corners ? Their full backs were woeful defensively - so di we use our wide players to their best ? I could go on !!!

I think that it is more about taking a deep breath and taking everything into perspective. Butcher was dragged in to all of this at the end of the Jan 09 transfer window and had to manage a team built by incompetent others. He has probably had limited funding again this season and he aint been helped by the apparent loss of form of Foran and the injuries to Imrie and Eric. He has brought in players and quite rightly has given them the first chance - but now is the time to restock and rethink. I always thought that this would be a struggle and I think that a few are still harbouring the anger and disappointment of the Brewster debacle - it is Brewster and the muppets who took us down - not Butcher. We do not have the god send to simply go back up - we have to fight for it and I feel that the passion is sadly lacking in some quarters - again that is for the manager to sort out. But we have lost only one of 10 competetive games this season - sadly the worst possible home defeat of the lot - but who wanted it most on the day. We are in the semi of the Alba Cup and just off the pace in the league. We have had five clean sheets and only conceded 8 goals in 10 games - we have played 4 of our 6 league games away from home - the Tinks have played 4 of their 6 at home - we have also played Dundee, Dumfermline and the Tinks. It all goes down to the old story - creating and scoring goals and our home form. Raith and the Tinks will have their bad patch so I would rather have them just ahead than Dundee or Dunfermline. We are the favourites and teams like Airdrie will always raise their game against us - we have to get a mean streak and start killing those teams early doors. We have got our problems and thay are plain to see - now is the time for Butcher to stand up and be counted - he has no more excuses from here on in. Lets hope he is up to it - I think that he is.

Sounds a bit like a late night encounter in the Greig Street Toilets.

Feck me - not bad going fer an old git - ya will be in yer feckin pit fer days. :cdn-flag: :thumb04: It is days like Airdrie that make you think twic about travelling. It can be soul destroying to watch an ICT team lacking in passion, skill and committment. It looked like men against boys on Saturday and the result should have mirrored that. It was also like watching a game down the park on a Sunday morning. We have just witnessed the worst midfield performance that I can remember. I was all set to travel to Fir Park but I am having second thoughts. I think that I need - nae the club needs - a press release from Butcher giving his take on Saturday and his plans for Tuesday. Without it I aint travellin 400 miles.

Eagle doesn't really have the pace to go past someone whereas Hayes does. We should create a hybrid of the two as I think Eagle has a better cross on him. Agree - appoint a Mad Scientist and make an International winger called Frankie Stein.

I am NOT losing faith but I am beginning to question some of the tactics and the selections - I am waiting to see whether he will change them - that is the crux of the matter.

For once your rationale actually brings some sense but the system is too radical a change. Unfortunately it is too early to make mass changes but a few of the players are - or should be - in Last Chance Saloon. I would have hoped that Butcher may use the Well Cup Tie to have a look: At Motherwell I would go: ESSON TOKELY MUNRO BULVITIS GOLLY DUNCAN or McBain PROCTOR COX HAYES ROONEY SANCHEZ / BARROWMAN (45 mins each) I do feel that Eagle and Stratford should face the chop and Foran should be rested - then we look at how these fare aginst SPL opposition. Then against Plastic Whistle we consider the same but may have to take Foran and Sanchez back but on a "warning".