Ask yourself this question - Which was the best ever season for a ICT supporter?
Go on, think about it.
The answer for me is the season that we won the 1st division championship and Bells cup. The next best season is the time we got to our first Scottish cup semi-final and the next is the year we beat Celtic in the famous Scottish cup win.
What do all these games have in common? They were all when we were in the 1st division.
I think the board have realised this and are determined to get us back to that level. Not as easy as you might think, we do after all have a good squad of players.
The first and most important step is to get in an incompetent manager, but who to get?
Well Craig Brewster of course - the man with the amazing record of 2 wins in 28 games at DU, if that isn't relegation form then I don't know what is.
He does have one drawback though - he is a great player. Don't worry, as soon as he arrives he will retire and concentrate on just his coaching 'skills'.
The next problem is Donald Park, I mean with him there we might win too many games as he knows what he is doing, has the experience and the players like him. Not a problem, he will fall out with the manager and leave due to 'family reasons'. Great that means we can get Malky back and re-unite the management duo who did so well at DU, heck we may as well go the whole hog and get all the fitness coaches they had there too, after all you can't put a price on relegation.
Next. get rid of one of our best players (Rankin), who I heard in a rumour didn't get on with Park, but wait a minute he signs for Hibs, so maybe it is someone else at the club he doesn't get on with, mmm wonder who that could be.
What else can we do? Well don't offer players like Black a contract extension until it is too late and other clubs can come in for him. With the team doing so poorly some of the fans might not be happy and might ask for a change of manager,mmm Barry Wilson seems popular with the supporters, best get rid of him too as some might ask him to become the new manager. Hopefully he will get the assistant managers job at County and then we can say we can't afford to bring him back.
Wont the fans become suspicious though if the manager keeps picking strange formations and playing most of the players out of position? No, we will just stick to our stance of "that's what the manager gets paid to do" and "a good player can play anywhere on the field"
So, I for one applaud the forward thinking of our current board members. 1st division here we come!!