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:015: :015: :015: :015: Nice one yngwie

Lets have a wee "bet" on the game that takes them down or into the play offs. I might even go. :001: League Ross County v Hamilton Accies 13.03.07 League Ross County v Clyde 17.03.07 League Hamilton Accies v Ross County League Ross County v Partick Thistle 03.04.07 League Dundee v Ross County 07.04.07 League Ross County v Airdrie Utd 14.04.07 League Livingston v Ross County 21.04.07 League Ross County v Gretna 28.04.07 14.04.07 fer me. :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: or Robbo the next week!!!!

Absolutely correct - the feckin laff is that Blackie copped a booking that was Rosscoe's. Tokely would have walked - and then put in another cracker before Black was hooked. :017: :017: :017:

:017: :017: Does anyone else agree about Hairy's comments on McSwegan? - a decent shift - feck me!! We "attacked" Killie in the first half? :017: :017: :017: Marcus didnt change his pattern? :017: :017: :017: 2 evenly matched teams? :017: :017: :017: Was there anybody there with any non tinted tactical nouse?

These are not critical but fer open discussion fer voyeurs of yesterdays game - remembering it was do or die!! First half: Dods marking Naismith - Caff on Nish - would it have been more effective the other way round? Were Wilson and Pat O'Linnen playing a tad too much forward and leaving Rosscoe and Fagan exposed.? Where were Duncan and Black playing - looked like me that Duncan was deep - Black in front - Duncan sweeping-Black central. Bayne and McSwegan were both up front - Both were target men. We lost Bayne's movement but did McSwegan actually move? SECOND HALF: Why wasnt McSwegan hooked? When Rory came on - Bayne became the target man and Rory the runner - did yas notice the difference? Pat O'Linnen played deeper and to more effect. Straight from the off Duncan and Black held the same line. Evidently discussed at half time. SUBSTITUTIONS: Shurely Rory fer McSwegan should have been the first: Wilson was fecked - the natural sub would have been Hart out on the right; If Black went should his replacement not have been Rankin - a playmaker. So ya bring on Hart and play him on the left and bring on Zander and play him on the right!! As I said - up fer open discussion - and I challenge anyone to give me a sensible, serious rationale to the contrary.

Oh - and the same goes fer McSwegan - fer different reasons. :015: :015: :015: :015:

Darren Dods was my player of the year last season and would always be one of the first players I would want in my starting X1. He has become a bit of an icon/legend in his time at ICT. But may I now suggest that we banish the revered Machine to the reserves fer the rest of the Season and out of the first team squad. WHY? He has pledged his future to the Arabs - ICT have to look ahead and have the opportunity of trying out other defenders and formations - in the SPL but not under pressure. Why should we keep him match fit and match sharp. He chose to go did he not. Will be another challenge to the constitution of CC. So who agrees with me: TOTAL RESPECT TO THE MACHINE :011: :011: - THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES BUT GOODBYE.

CC clearly has a thing fer Black. In the Cellic game Bazza was clearly fecked and should have been hooked before Black. Even if Black walked Caff would have been the tactically sounder sub - not feckin McSwegan. We had to win yesterday - so that is not a time to mollycoddle yer best player.

Absolutely spot feckin on Scotsman. Will sort out the tactics in another thread but to add to Hairys thread: Fraser :015: :015: Looked really nervous and unsure. Really does stick to his line and his six yard box and looks really suspect on crosses. Agree with the defence. Hastings was superb - Tokely was left exposed by an unfit Bazza. Dodsy had the worst game I have ever seen him play. Duncan was outstanding - MOM. Black was wrongly yellow carded and wrongly substituted. Marcus has potential but was a :015: :015: :015: - defensively he is lacking ++. Bazza wasnt fit. McSwegan was feckin gash. He is lazy and has no pace. He should have been hooked at half time. Zander was played on the right :017: :017: Rory came on as Killie were committed to all out defence.

More Charlie Christie Protection Society antics on here Richard. This game was non controlled by a pathetic Freeland. He let both sets of players off with a spate of late challenges. I will discuss the tactical mistakes later but will concentrate on young Mr Black first. He was persisitently being wound up with late challenges but did not retaliate. He was our ONLY player yesterday who looked like he could get us three points. Tokely should have been given a RED when the **** Freeland decided to book Black. In fact Tokely, Dods, Hastings, and especially Duncan, were dishing out the fouls and giving Freeland dogs abuse. So why werent they taken off? As fer the Killie fans winding Black up - it looked the opposite to me - he was cradling his hands swinging along to them - with a wide smirk - he was feckin loving it. Killie fans knew he was our best player fer fecks sake. And the "Only One Ian Black" response was the loudest of the day from our support who practically all stoood up to sing it. CC then goes on to defend Black in the press - so what does he do - takes off the one player who could have really turned the game. It was last gasp saloon fer us - we had to go fer a win - so take Black off in those circumstances - GIVE ME A FECKIN BREAK. It could have been the making of Black or yet another sore lesson. Do we just keep hooking him every time he gets feckin booked. And did he look pished off or what?

Maybe a loan spell in the 2nd Division next season would help - maybe Ross County. :001:

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Love to see the Pars win - and I will straight back to the Pie and Bovril. :001:

I am reliably informed that Barcelona are looking to Juanjo as a ready made replacement for Ronaldhino or Deco should they leave in the summer.

I have to admit that I am really surprised that Caff has chosen to stay - again. When the "split" fate is decided I would play Caff in front of Dods in every game. He needs the match practice and he has to prove himself.

Personally I see a lot of promise. As said he is only feckin 19 and is learning his trade in the SPL. :025: :025:

Have you got a piccy of the Jeggie stand on fire - all I've got is ma memories.

I went past Borough Briggs recently and it looks like a feckin Bomb Site.

SO: 1. Should we get together and put forward a structured proposal? 2. Would people move from their current seats if they had to? 3. Sited in the Main or North Stand? 4. Designated seats or a "free" section"? 5. What is a "SINGING SECTION" - do other clubs have one - Midden appear to - as do Muvverwell.

Its feckin sarcasm ya stoopid old ****. :001: WELCOME TO GRABE - just think he could have chosen a less emotive thread to introduce himself and in the middle of an internet handbag altercation. :015: :015: :015:

I will be there - and I am heartened by clachers news - It should be relatively easy now fer me and Hairy to kick the shitt out of him. :015: :015: :015:

Fan power and feedback appear to be exerting an influence fer once. Just read the text in CC's comments and feel the reflection of self - criticism seeping in. A fairly equal combination of taking a portion of the blame but also, quite rightly, giving a clear rationale fer his frustration with the fans and players - put in a far less evocative fashion and in a manner NONE of us could argue about. I could be available to help him take his communication skills to a higher level. - BUT WELL DONE CHARLIE CHRISTIE. :001: And WELL FECKIN DONE MAIMIE. It must have placed ya in a rather sensitive position to give such a strong quote to the press - and again the content was fairly divided between constructive criticism and support. :022: But being a born cynic - Please assure me that this was NOT a contrived combination of quotes from two "influential" individuals. As fer the "singing" section - has that ever been formally and "professionally" put forward as a structured proposal or has it always been a hot air / reactive type suggestion? I feel that we should get a SMALL cross-section forum of fans to put together a structured , thought out proposal to the Board. Although I am a distant "influence" my work ensures me that I am adept at writing up protocols, policies and proposals at a senior management level ( my other personna should I add :001:) and I would be happy to draft up a structured proposal - easy enuff in the days of e-mail and fax. But one more thing Maimie - If ya had said " And he fecked the Cellic game up totally" - it may have induced an equally rational response?

I blame that **** Grabe fer all of this. It was feckin harmonious until he came along. :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: Still - could be worse - we could be Ross County. :001:

I still BELIEVE. I still BELIEVE that we can consolidate ourselves in the SPL, win a trophy and scrape into Europe - even if via the Intertoto. Thats what I want to see before I die. :001: It is CC's attitude in the main that I am criticising. He has made some poor tactical decisions this seasons, as many young managers do, But he blames everybody and everything else instead of shouldering some of the blame himself. That is my main beef.