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Phil McGuire could be a good signing.

Seen a few Hibs fans heading down to my manor this morning.  Also walked past Benji-loon on Princes Street, wearing his Hibs tracksuit.  Surelyhe has other clothes or does he just wear club gear all the time?

COME ON CALEY

Proctor did well when he played.

Central defender please Brew, someone get Bullen's mobile number.

Get him signed.

It's a defender we need, please God let us sign someone reassuringly good by this time tomorrow.

MAR-IUS NIC-ULAE

MAR-IUS NIC-ULAE

MAR-IUS NIC-ULAE

MAR-IUS NIC-ULAE

MAR-IUS NIC-ULAE

Tom Parratt scores an own goal to bring Berwick level with hamilton.

Get in Denzil.

Brewster booted Grant Brebner out of Tannadice, I doubt he'd beat a path back from Convict Land to play for him.

Malky MacKay would be a good signing as would Charlie Mulgrew.

of course he should play himself.

We have just signed the SPL's leading goalscorer (along with Cousin and Higdon).  Get him in the team!

Middletons is a good pub on Easter Road.  Gets a wee bit crowded pre/post match though.

I think I've been in the Royal Nip before, s'alright.

Where are you parking your bus, it's a nightmare to get parked round here (here being Easter Road way).

Kencar, I don't think that Clyde did score the rebound from that penalty, I think Ian Harty skied it over the bar.  From Soccerbase, McBain was sent off in 53 minutes for the foul and Clyde scored through Fotheringham in 36 minutes.

That was the start of the title charge, what a game, what a season  :001:

Will Brewster be registering as a player?  I think he should, he is obviously still good enough and we need all the help we can get at the moment.

It will be interesting to see how he plays alongside Niculae.  I haven't seen Niculae play as of yet but he seems to be a similar sort of player to Brewster.  Perhaps Brew can help Niculae.

They have spoken to several potential candidates. 

If that were true I would agree with you  :023:

Neil Lennon's agent confirmed that they were approached.

Geoff Brown, St Johnstone chairman, confirmed he had been approached regarding Owen Coyle.

Neil Warnock has confirmed that he spoke to the club.

Are these people all part of the conspiracy?

Even if the board wanted to appoint Brewster all along and only spoke to him then they haven't done anything wrong.  The board are perfectly entitled to appoint and approach who they see fit.

I have to laugh at the conspiracism and shrill denounciations of Brewster, the board and anyone else that appears to be rampant on here.  It's a joke.

Chris. It is not a joke, its a very serious matter.

Charlie resigned last Monday and if Brewster was unveiled shortly thereafter there would have been moans and groans but nothing like the level of unhappiness shown at the moment. I believe most people would have said something like this .....

"he did crap at DUFC but he wasnt that bad at ICT. He got the team fit. He talked about loyalty but we can forgive him because DUFC was hs 'dream job'. We need someone who can settle in quickly and he knows everyone."

However, the simple (alleged) "truth" - coming from normally reliable sources - is that everything last week, including the fans' meeting was just smoke and mirrors designed to give the impression of transparency in a process that had already run its course. It backfired when Warnock was embraced by a large number of ICT fans as their preferred choice and once again, the ICT PR "machine" proved to be powered by an 18th century steam engine !!!

Brewster is probably not getting an entirely fair hearing because of that but as I have said, I personally will give him a chance and be happy to eat humble pie if he exceeds my expectations as that will mean my team is doing well. I hope others will do the same if results go in the other direction.

The nasty taste that this debacle leaves in the mouth is that for the first time in more than 13 years I have serious reservations about the board of our club. If they wanted to appoint Brewster then why not go ahead and do it. Instead, we were strung along with a false process and treated as idiots and as CD said elsewhere that just seems to make the chasm between "them" and "us" even wider.

It is a joke.  What have the board done wrong?  They have spoken to several potential candidates but have done for Brewster who is a very strong candidate as has been discussed on this thread and others.  Brewster was always going to be a candidate and was probably always the favourite for the job.  This doesn't mean that having the fans meeting was 'smoke and mirrors' to distract fans from the heinous truth.  The Board never said that they would abide by what a small number of fans at the meeting or what a website poll said, thank God.  They are perfectly entitled to consult the fans and entitled to listen to the views they hear or not.  There was no 'false process' - the board sought to speak to other candidates.  The reason Neil Warnock 'emerged' as favourite is because people mistook a few quotes in the paper for a serious desire to come and manage us. 

People are letting themselves believe wild theories and are going completely over the top. 

I don't think that Brewsters record at Tannadice makes him a bad manager overnight. From all accounts the players at Dundee utd didn't share the good attitude that Brewster found with our players and didn't take well to the new regime that Brewster put in place with regards to training. He also went from a working environment in which he was happy and relaxed to one in which he was under huge pressure and had a very poor relationship with his chairman, who constantly undermined him in the press. I spoke to a member of the Caley board back when Brewster was in charge and he waxed lyrical about how well Brewster had settled into Caley Stadium, how well he got on with everyone and how good his relationships with all the board, club staff and players were. I don't think it's a secret that he didn't have anywhere near as good a relationship with the equivelents at Tannadice.

In his previous spell in charge of Caley he did extremely well, the facts back this up. He has been criticised for his style of play, but I think this is not a fair criticism. We played some good stuff under Brewster and had some excellent results and performances, some of the best since we got into the SPL. What we need at the moment is for some belief to be instilled into us, for us to be better organised at the back and for us to sign a ******* defender. When Brewster took over in 2004 our performance levels increased almost straight away.

Also, he doesn't have that bad a record when it comes to signing players. He signed Christian Kalvanes, Noel Hunt, Craig Conway and Lee Wilkie for Dundee utd, all of whom have been good players for them (from an outsiders point of view of course, I'm willing to be corrected by the Arabs on this). He also brought in Craig Dargo on a free transfer for us and he went on to score 30 goals in two seasons.

Finally, he can still do a turn on the pitch which could be vital in the short term. We are in a dire situation and need any leg-up we can get at the moment. If Brew helps us gets points on the board leading from the front on the park then we can't complain. However, in the long run I think that Brew's coaching and influence (seen in the positive impact he had in his partners at Hibs, Dunfermline and Caley, O'Connor, Crawford and Dargo) can give Niculae a helping hand as he seems to be a Brewster type player.

I have to laugh at the conspiracism and shrill denounciations of Brewster, the board and anyone else that appears to be rampant on here.  It's a joke.

I live about 200 yards away from hibs stadium count me in.

First game of the season, bring it.  :crazy07:

I believe all this as gordyfromsneck is a proper old-school poster from the good old days.

I'm just a little bit dismayed at the incredibly negative comment on this forum about the return of Craig Brewster and I believe that at least some of it may be the result of misunderstanding and misinformation.

I believe that there's a lot of (unjust) anti Brewster feeling because the nature of his departure in January 2006 has not been fully understood. Weeks before he left, he was unfortunately "ambushed" into indicating that he was at ICT to stay. Then a very persuasive Eddie Thomson came in with an offer he couldn't refuse. I was there when Brewster made that first statement - which was solicited rather than volunteered -  and he really couldn't have said anything else, nor could he have read the future. Then when he did leave, it was only after a great deal of persuasion, a great deal of thought, yes, a very good financial offer but who wouldn't be influenced by that? Then most of importantly of all, he refused to leave unless Caley Thistle got very generous compensation. This last fact is not very well known and the cash concerned created that year's profit.

There are also complaints about his record and his style of play. His results at Inverness were pretty good and you cannot take into account his poor statistics at Tannadice. He did not suddenly become a bad manager overnight, but he did move into a much less positive football environment overnight. I don't believe many of his United players (despite their hefty pay cheques) were prepared to put in the work he demanded and I think that when he went there, working under Eddie Thomson was not quite what he expected.... as many other managers have found. On the other hand the Brewster - ICT combination has already been proved to work.

If there is concern about his style of play, don't panic. You may very well find a positively different and more experienced Craig Brewster from the one which left 19 months ago. But he will certainly not have changed in his desire to produce a fit team.

I also think that some of the anti Brewster sentiment has been generated by the fact that the new man will NOT be Neil Warnock. For some reason a lot of fans seemed to be drawn into a storm of pro Warnock hysteria... but on the basis of what? A statement from Warnock which smacked seriously of the shop window? Did the directors ever really rate him as a realistic option? Would his financial requirements have been realsitic? How big a risk would there have been of him being away in months to the Premiership or the Championship? Does he really know much about Scotland outside the Old Firm?

If fans feel deprived of their high profile manager, think back to Jim Leishman and Sergei Baltacha. These were both high profile managers taken in by Thistle and Caley in the early 90s and both proved to be failures. Apart from the refusal of both to relocate to Inverness, neither understood football at the level at which they were managing and this was the main reason for their failure to produce. I believe Neil Warnock may well have fallen into the same trap and then we might well have got a lot more of the dressing room dramatics which someone at Wednesday night's meeting said they witnessed on U Tube.

Craig Brewster is here... or at least he will be on Monday. I don't really see much reason for Caley Thistle fans not to get solidly behind him and the team who really do need to feel a positive message from their supporters and not carping about the new manager.

Excellent post.  Some of the stuff on here about Brewster has been an absolute joke.

It was Brewster who gave Ian Black hsi debut in the side and signed Craig Dargo.

robbo gave black his debut back in the pittodrie/brian prunty era

Robbo only gave hima  few sub runouts.  Brewster gave him his first start.

I started boycotting when we re-signed Barry Wilson, have I missed anything?

Interesting.  His former mate Lambert turned us down before of course,.

Also, a lot of ***** is talked about loyalty in football.  I remember Richard Hastings saying he was leaving to better himself at a bigger club then signing for County which lead to huge bitterness, yet he's fully accepted back now.  I also remember barry Wilson being booed everytime he came back with Livingston and him taking the **** out of our fans after he scored against us, anyone bothered about that now?  I also remember the same vitriol being poured on Pele and Robbo when they left, indeed did some people refuse to go tot he pre-season game against Aberdire when pele was boss?

If Brewster signs and then we win on Saturday I'll happily kiss his big grey mush, 'judus' or no. :crazy07:

1.) How organised we were! Fair enough we were but it was dull as **** to watch. Trying to beat teams on the counter attack at home produced truly rubbish football to watch. It was a great idea away from home and worked well but it seemed to be our ONLY tactic

I'd take being dull as **** over relegation.  I think that we are seeing reverse rose-tinted spectacle syndrome regarding Brewsters brand of football.  We produced some fantastic displays when he was manager.  4-1 v Livingston, 2-0 Hearts, 3-2 v Dundee in the top six 'decider', wins over Hibs, the televised game against Celtic where we gave the eventual champions a pummelling and almost took the points.  Listening to some posters on here you'd think that we drew every game 0-0.  It was Brewster who gave Ian Black hsi debut in the side and signed Craig Dargo.

2. He's more experienced now!! Aye at losing :023:

Brewster will have gained experience at Tannadice, he had to deal with different players, different situations and he will (hopefully!) have learned from the harsh experience he had there.

3.) He wouldn't be so quick to leave us again. This is the one that truly stumps me. The nature of football is that the better you do the higher up the food chain you go whether that be as a player or manager. If you are doing well you attract attention from bigger fish that's always been the way of it and always will.  If he's doing well there is no way that Brewster would turn down a move to say Celtic or Rangers is they came knocking 18 months down the line

That is true of any manager.  If we appointed Warnock it would be more of a factor - clubs from all levels of English football can probably offer more money than us and if he had even a few montsh of success teams from the Championship would be sniffing around him.  As a smaller club with fewer resources than a lot of our rivals that is something we will have to deal with.

One factor is that we are in a dire situation NOW.  We can't afford for a manager to spend time getting to know the players.  After the Dundee utd game we play Hibs, Celtic and Hearts - we are in a dire situation and need to get going soon.  Brewster knows the players (10 of the 13 who played on Saturday played under him) and can hopefully slot in without disruption.

Owen Coyle has had a huge budget in the First Division and failed to win the league.  I think that St Johnstone had a better squad than Gretna last season but their inconsistency cost them.

He could be a good choice - he has signed some good players and has his team playing attacking football with a degree of success. However I could understand if he wanted to stay at McDairmid and try and finish the job he's started with St Johnstone.

Don't know if I'd want to pay ?100,000+ for him either.