IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

READ MA FECKIN LIPS! STILL EARLY DAYS. Get off his back and let him get on with it. Early days - he has been Mr Jekyll and Mr feckin Hyde fer over a feckin year now, pissed off many a player and many a fan with his schizophrenic tactics. Just co ya feel sorry fer him in his personal life does not mean that you cant have a go at him cos he is ballsing it up on the pitch. Get real and stop erselicking the mods. The Fat Slags can look after themselves.

Away with ya - ya feckin creep. Brewster is still on a sticky wicket - Ya can have sympathy with his lack of privacy but the players turned it around cos he changed his tactics due to pressure. He still has a long, long way to go - one good result doesnt do it.

I feel that it is worse when ya get 100 feckin per cent beside yer name. :thumb04: Is it not a bit of a shame that peeple cant stick to sarcastic banter rather than engage in volatile slagging. If this carries on I am going to go to Arbroath or Shrewsbury - at least their grounds are more welcoming. Hang on a feckin second - how feckin come I have got 30% ?

I fair miss watching the reserves and the Under 19's - what is the craic with this lad - please tell me that he has a bit more pace and a bit more movement. Despite some comments to the contrary our coaching staff are producing SPL potential players and that can only be good for the future. So here is to Shane and the coaching staff. :thumb04:

What is the telephone number of the News of the World - I have a comprimising picture of Scotty, Caley D and myself in a naked threesome. I reckon readers would be interested in buying the bed - it was a fecking solid big ******* and is on sale on e-bay.

This thread has signs of deteriorating already - lets just concentrate on the feckin football - fer fecks sake we were on the feckin floor yeterday, in the proverbial brown stuff and we still managed to come from behind.

This is written with my 110% gaurantee but - I am very reliably informed that contact has been made with John Robertson and Duncan Shearer to place them in readiness to take over at ICT. Fro my perspective that would be a shocking decision but well in line with the thinking of the Heathmount Mafia.

I would agree to sticking with a winning 4-5-1 but I am still worried about both full backs away from home and I feel that Duncan has to go back in the "hole". I reckon that would mean dropping McBain - I would put him at left back and hook Hastings. Fer fecks sake - what on earth has Proctor done to gain an instant recall ?!!

Thanks Stan - it looks like Brew may be beginning to think out the tactics a bit more clearly - cant help but think that he may well have been swayed by public - or inside - opinion though. It worries me that Brew is now beginning to come in line with the tactical thinking of many on this forum - Shouldnt that be the other way around !!

I take it that we played a 4-5-1 ? Where did we actually line up - as in tactically ?

Best of luck to a great couple - CCC - dont fret - none of us can pick the feckin in-laws. First born son - Barry Juanjo Carricondo Johndo Bingo Rossco Wilson junior.

Lets look at this from another angle - You are Jim Jeffries. If ICT played the 4-4-2 it would be sweet music. You have the best defence in the SPL and two "rookies" up front. Ya flood yer midfield. Ya play two wide men and push them on to Tokely and Hastings. Nish runs the line, ya concentrate on harassing Black, with a pacy forward in the hole and ya block out the easy ball out of defence - ya push ICT in the long ball option - lubbly jubbly. Ya play it wide and take on the full backs - as most away teams at TCS do nowadays. Ya go fer the jugular from the off - an early goal and ya can assume a bit of control - hold the line but keep the width, ya can afford to let ICT come at you and look at the counter attack. We go 4-5-1 - with pace and width and go from the off - and against Killie we have a real chance. Our defence has to keep a high line - Duff and McBain (at full back) would be an added bonus there. Duncan guards the hole and gives Black more opportunity to play. Play Cowie in a Bazza role (wide right) and play Vigurs or Imrie out wide. we hit from midfield with the ball, rather than hitting the front two. Rooney plays the target man - a la Niculae - and looks to feed pace coming across him and past him.

I sense that you are beginning to catch ma drift dude.

I am not wholly attributing the blame on Brewster. 1. There has been undoubted mismanagement and Brewster has undoubtedly not had the spondoolachs to attract a better class of player. 2. The players have been inconsistent and there are a few who are not up to scratch this season. BUT I am saying that the blame is largely attributed to BREWSTER. I have highlighted inadequacies in his tactics on several occasions and, on most occassions, my observations have been widely supported by others at the games in question. If anything I was one of the few who tried to rally round him at the start but IMHO he is still making the same errors as he was last season. The professional players must be frustrated by this and his attitude towards some must also rankle. The "togetherness" at ICT IMHO has been missing since Brewster arrived. Add 2 and 2 together. And it WILL be the players who turn us round. Brew can either assist or **** that by changing his systems. BUT the players playing for their manager is a big, big bonus. The manager inspiring the players is a big, big bonus. That simply aint happening. Are some players putting in poor performances becos they are not being played in the position most suited to them ? A silly example is - if you were a left winger with a poor right foot but delivered a mean ball with yer left - how would you feel about being played deeper on the right. The fault would be down to the manager more than the player.

Mee - what about a cut price package - Brew, Shearer and Mike Smiff.

I am going to drive up fer this one but I cant help thinking of the Liviscum QF.

Brew's future is always, like any manager, dependant on results and the players busting a gut for him (and for themselves for that matter). I understand your comment about losing faith in his favourites, but he has been criticised by members of this forum for doing that and relying too much on the youngsters. It just goes to demonstrate that opinion can vary among the supporters who all want the same thing - success - so there will almost always be a proportion of the fanbase that disagree with something Brew does! I don't see why last night was a repreive (I'm not aware that Brew's job was partcularly under threat prior to the game) although there is no doubt that the result was a relief for all staff and supporters alike. The forthcoming games are certainly a challenge, but I don't see why he's on a sticky wicket, anymore than he normally is! A run of bad results will always increase pressure, but lets not add to the burden by piling the pressure on before it's even got to the point of being due. The bottom line is that we're through to the QF's of the CIS Cup and we're mid-table in the league. I'm sure we'd all have taken that before the season started. If (and some will think when) we lose the next 4/5 games and end up 11th/12th and out of the CIS Cup, then start cranking the pressure up - I just can't see what possible benefit can be gained from putting the players and manager under undue pressure before the predicament merits it. What a pity this debate hasnt got a thread of its own. It is actually "nice" to have posters supporting Brewster and comong up with rational defences. Sumtimes ya just cant win - but that also comes wiv the territory. Brew is under threat and he does not have the support of some of the players. There have been these "whispers" for some time now and he only survived last season becos of financial issues and the lily livered management. This forum isnt putting the pressure on - in many ways it is self inflicted. The basic reasons that I am voicing MY concerns are becos I fear that we are heading to the position that you have alluded to - we should be thinking about changing it now before we get to that situation. Brew was one of my fave players - a joy to watch - but as a manager he has displayed appalingly naieve tactical awareness, has personalised disputes and shows an unrepenting arrogantness. If we do pull ourselves out of this it will be becos of the players not Brewster. He has not been aided by the ineptness of his management but he is being kept in blind faith and the fear that a manager with some sense will blow the shennanigans at TCS to feckin pieces. Oh how I wish Neil Warnock had given it a go !!

Whatever happened to Billy Bushell ?

As my erstwhile mentor and role model, Coinneach Odhar, once said to me - Johndo my son, you are blessed with immortality and the gift of second sight. The frustrating thing about prophecies is that they may be scoffed at and feckin ridiculed but they will come to fruition eventually So Gough and Hendry - as predicted - both have shown prior interest in the ICT post but Paul Lambert feels like the celestial favourite - but reality suggests that there is a certain Duncan Shearer enconsed in the wings in waiting - and we know how are "old school" management have acted in the past - perhaps he has even been pre-contacted ?

Melon ?

The term "lost the dressing room" is used in football (soccer) to describe the situation where a manager of a club is seemingly very near to being sacked. The team will invariably be struggling on the pitch, the manager will be under a lot of pressure and the signs may be that he has lost the faith and respect of his players. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_the_dressing_room" At the present time the future of Brew is highly dependent on results and is also dependent on the players busting a gut for him. He has to lose faith in his favourites and keep the same team and tactics. Sounds like last night was as much a reprieve and a relief as a victory. Given the run of games coming up he is - to coin another well known phrase - on a very sticky wicket.

Lets face it - none of us have a clue !! Brew may plump fer: Fraser Tokely Maguire Munro Hastings Cowie Black McBain Imrie Wood Rooney He will then play Cowie and Imrie on the wrong wing, hook Rooney before Wood and play McBain in front of Black. I am afraid that playing two up front end up in the hoof tactic. Me: Fraser Maguire Duff Munro McBain Vigurs Cowie Black Duncan Imrie Rooney That leaves us with loads of options to change it.

Dear Naelifts and Mantis, It must be an ageing thing but I agree with a lot that you say. However two wins in tricky away ties should not be totally scoffed at - we are in the QF's and if we get the luck of the draw ya never know. It is a one off game and surely the players - and the fans - can lift themselves fer that. Lets face it - the standard of the SPL has dived as well - If we had left Falkirk and Tynie having won 5-1 on both occasions we wouldnt have been overly surprised. Team selection, formation and tactics let us down on both occasions. The team and the shape appears to be relentlessly altered every week. It is clear that their are disgruntled players out there and the togetherness has been slain. We have players of similiar ilk to many other SPL clubs and, on our day, we can beat most apart from the OF. But we have a manager who has clearly lost the dressing room. Yours sincerely, A wise old man.

Poor Rory was thrown in the deep end by Brewster - and as with a few others Brew decided to stick with him in his usual blind faith style. The lad simply does not have the pace or movement to make it in the SPL - the more he is played at this level the worse his confidence will become. He simply is either cumbersome or, as is rumoured, not fit enough and possibly not motivated enuff. We should have kept to playing him at a lower level - if he started scoring on a regular basis and got his fitness levels up he may have had a chance. Fraid this is his last season at TCS.

I think the bottom line - and I could add this to several threads open at the present time - is that Brew came back to us with a "history" - I believe that there were evidently players who did not welcome his return - it is one thing when you lose the dressing room - it is even worse when you never really had it. In our first couple of seasons we only had a couple that peeple would describe as "SPL class standard" but the team ethos and spirit shone through. In many ways we had a team of journeymen and plodders. The "togetherness" aint there any more and IMHO hasnt been since the demise of Charlie Christie.