Renegade
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That was the one that could have been a penalty, but it would have made little difference to the outcome (or none had Ambrose taken it! ). In saying that though, Hooper could have stood somewhere else, and arguable was there to impede Buffon, which in itself is a foul. Also, the first Juve wasn't given when it initially crossed the line. Had the ball then been cleared then it would not have been given. To me that suggests it was no fix.
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No he would and should (and maybe should have) deal with it(or dealt with it in this case) accordingly. A new free kick or penalty though can't be given though until the ball is live. I was at a game once where something like your scenario happened. In the build up to a corner, one the defending team's players, basically clothes-lined WWF style one of the opposition and he was sent off before the corner was taken. While it was a foul in the box, a penalty couldn't be awarded due to the fact that the ball wasn't live.
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I think the reason there was no penalties was because the majority of the pushing, if not all of it, was because it was before the ball was live.
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He never talks about ghosts anymore. He always used to put up pictures of doors and stuff and say "look at how many ghosts there are in these pictures!" and there was none! My personal favourite was when he put up a picture of a spooky figure walking in the woods and claimed that this proved beyond all reasonable doubt that ghosts were real. The "spooky figure" turned out to actually be a statue of the Gruffalo!
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Character assassinated? I like every other right thinking person, thinks it's stupid to boo your own players, particularly even before they've come onto the field. I was saddened to hear some people with an IQ somewhere around room temperature booing Rory McAllister when he was warming up and came onto the field a few years ago. I cringed when people booed Lionel Djebi-Zadi against County, no-matter how bad a performance he put in. In saying that, that's not to say that people don't have the right to complain. Philip Roberts is a player who often comes on, as was the case in the cup game at Kilmarnock and watched, for the best part of an hour, the action going on around him. It was the same in December away to St Johnstone where he came on and simply looked like he couldn't be bothered. His performance that day made Claude Gnakpa look like Gregory Tade. As fans we have a right to criticise the attitude of a player, when it's glaringly obviously that they couldn't care less. Booing before he goes on the field though, is not the way to do it.
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IIRC I remember Butcher saying a while back that ICT do do a huddle kind of thing, but they do it in the changing rooms.
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In other news, ghosts aren't real!
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There was a good ICT chances as well in the second half that was never shown, nor was McKay's shot before Nick Ross's goal. Going by the highlights, which also should a couple of Celtic's half-chances, it looks like it was one-way traffic for ninety minutes when it wasn't at all.
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Interesting to read the comments about a lack of a Plan B. Obviously there's benefits to having a settled team, but there are times when they've become so settled that opposition will know exactly what the team will be, who will play and how to play against them. In the season in the First Division, ICT would often start 4-2-3-1 and would change to a 3-4-3 if they were chasing a game. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, but the intent was there and it was certainly better than doing nothing (I seem to recollect this being the case in the 4-3 win over Raith where Foran scored a last minute bycycled kicked winner and it was also a system Charlie Christie used from time to time when needing a goal). Something like this needs to be done again. The same type of thing can be said for substitutions. There was a time earlier in the season where Sutherland came on as the first substitute as a winger on about the 80th minute and did so for about seven weeks running. Team's are obviously going to cotton onto this and will react accordingly. Philip Roberts now seems to have taken that first substitution mantle. We never seem to be a team who springs a tactical or substitutional surprise. The last four games, ICT to me have been calling out for Conor Pepper to come on as an impact player with pace and enthusiasm to run at the opposition and give the team a bounce. Philip Roberts is never going to be a man to change a game. There's been many times, we've needed a player like Pepper to come on and get at the opposition, giving 100%. Roberts seldom seems to give more than ten.
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Well he must be saying an Anglicised version of his name then, as he is a Welsh speaker. If his name was pronounced "tudder", it would be spelt Tydyr. The letter Y has an "uh" sound in Welsh, while the letter U has more of an "ee" sound. Hence why the Welsh pronounciation of Wales (Cymru) is "Kum-ree" and not "Kum-ruh". Another thing that I've always thought about, is what his name actually is. Is his surname "Tudur Jones" (in Football Manager and on the ICT Youtube interviews, it's down as a double-barrled name), or is his first name "Owain Tudur"? Or is Tudur his middle name? Or is it his mother's maiden name, like in the Spanish speaking world? It's a mystery to me!
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One for thing's for sure, it's not pronounced Owen Tudor!
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Funnily enough I was going to start a thread on this! As the way it is written is nothing like how it's pronunciation. The correct pronunciation is O-Ine Tid-Ear Jones, with an emphasis on the "Ear" part. I've had a Welsh person teach me to say it!
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I think the game was a bit closer than the 3-1 suggests and it was encouraging to see, even against Celtic, that the team are very keen to keep the ball on the deck and get it forward, particularly from Jones who was a cut above the rest. Another case though of ICT failing to take their chances, particularly the two golden ones in the second half. Thought as well, that as the game went on, it was calling for Conor Pepper to come on and run at them, as well as giving ICT a bit of a bounce. Philip Roberts was the wrong option. All in all, a disappointing result, but a generally encouraging display.
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Ah Rangers Media, that online bastion of good humour and high intelligence! And anyway, why would Terry Butcher want to leave a club second in the Scottish Premier League to take over these Third Division new boys?!
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I think it was against Aberdeen he came on as a striker and IMO did very well, probably because that's his position. How Butcher though thinks he's a winger beggar's belief!
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He's a twit. That is all.
