Renegade

I'm absolutely dying for it to be Crusaders. Fly from Inverness, so it's pretty convenient and a great city to visit despite it's old reputation. 

2 hours ago, tm4tj said:

Perhaps they have, has anyone got any solid proof of this.

I can't say I do, but I have heard a few stories of disharmony behind the scenes, including arguments in the changing rooms and altercations between coaching staff and the players.  Also, I noticed Bobby Mann tweet yesterday about one of the coaches 'backstabbing' Robertson.  I wonder what that was all about?

Someone just texted into Off The Ball calling for Yogi to get the Scotland job! 

Perhaps similar things have happened in the dressing room of late and this is them boiling over into the public sphere...

Has anyone else spotted any Young Team graffiti around Inverness lately?  I've spotted it in two different places.

5 minutes ago, Fraz said:

I've never understood why our support are so antagonistic towards some of our players. For some reason some players get it far worse than others and Polworth is one of them. 

We seem to always have some players fans seem desperate to fail.  I remember Wedderburn was absolutely hated by some people, yet he wasn't really that bad.  Tremarco was another one for a long time.  Bizarre.

I noticed a scuffle going on involving Polworth but didn't see what initially happened.

TNS are actually in England.

I think it's quite clear that Raven's legs are going and he probably doesn't have much more than a season left at this level.  Despite this though, I wonder if we could get a couple more seasons out of him by moving him in-field.  Remember when the same happened to Tokely, Butcher moved him to centre-back (granted he was tall enough to offer something from set-pieces).  Could a similar work with Raven?  Raven originally started out as a centre-half and could he move back there,  as a kind of ball playing partner to Warren, similar to what Josh Meekings did?  Another option would be to have him sitting in-front of the back three or four breaking up play. 

8 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

When, like Ross Tokely, Grant Munro or Dennis Wyness they have represented the club for a very long number of years or, like Charlie Christie, they have played with distinction for Thistle, Caley and the merged club.

The cup winning team will be long remembered but that alone doesn't make club legend status. By your critetia, the likes of James Vincent and Edward Offere would be club legends. I don't think the status is as easily gained as that.

This I agree with.  I've noticed some fans, especially younger ones, have a very low bar for what a club legend is.  I've even seen it argued that everyone who played in the cup final is a club legend - they aren't.  In fact, is winning the Scottish Cup the club's greatest ever achievement?  I don't think it is.  While it is the most glamourous, is it *that* difficult to win?  Considering Falkirk, who could well have won that day, didn't play a top-flight team until the final, suggests that isn't.  IMO winning the league and in the manner that we did it in 2004 and 2010 was far more difficult and far more important achievement.

I honestly reckon Djebi-Zadi is better than Joe Chalmers.  At least Lionel was fast and had a bit of flair going forward.  Chalmers is dreadful, absolutely dreadful and could easily be one of our worst ever players.

When we were in Division 1 on 2009/10, I remember many people saying (possibly correctly) that the team we won the league with was better than the one we were relegated with.  Yes there was a few of duds like Lionel Djebi-Zadi, Andrew Barrowman (before he was punted) and Daniel Stratford, but it did include Jonny Hayes, Adam Rooney and Richie Foran, all of whom were probably the best players in the league at that time.  Remember as well, the team we were relegated with had the likes of Felipe Morais in it, who was certainly no dud.  Can't say the same about this season - Foran's flops last season would absolutely gub the current team.

Imagine we plonked back in the Premiership tomorrow, who would you keep?  Tremarco definitely, along with probably Connor Bell, Iain Vigurs and Owain Fon Williams as well as probably Seedorf and Trafford.  The rest would be out of their depth in the Premiership, including Raven and Warren, both of whom look like their legs have gone.  People can constantly make excuses about poor Robbo and his budget, but that doesn't account for signings players like Joe Chalmers, Coll Donaldson, John Baird, Alex Cooper and Mark Ridgers all of whom were known to be absolutely rotten.  I refuse to believe they're the best players we could find.  As well as that, George Oakley and Felitciano Zschusschen look absolutely garbage, especially the latter.  Is this the worst Caley Thistle team ever?  I'd say yes it is and the manager must take some of the blame.

2 hours ago, Laurence said:

Richie will do well at Elgin I am sure , I think there is potential in the lad

Yeah, we all saw lots of good things in our worst ever manager.

11 hours ago, Caley Mad In Berks said:

I noticed Dean McDonald's name crop up on the "Remember this guy" thread.  I checked him out for interest.  He has had at least 12 clubs since his decidedly unsuccessful spell with us 10 years ago.  His best spell was a couple of seasons at Farnborough in 2009/11 where he scored 45 goals, would you believe, in 90 appearances.  This gained him a trial at Swansea City, but no contract. He moved clubs frequently after this, turning up at Dulwich Hamlet last season, a reasonably successful, London based, Isthmian league side. He scored half a dozen goals for DH, (all of which I missed ,btw, in my 2016 year end stats of ex ICT goal scorers).  He has now moved on to Merstham FC in the same league.

He had a trial at Celtic around the time he was at Swansea as well as I recall.  Very odd though that he's never managed to stay at any club for any length of time.  He's had 17 clubs and is still only 31.

6 hours ago, IBM said:

He was another one that looked good on video 

Remember the Dean McDonald Rule folks. There was a video posted at the time (that might still be on YouTube) where he looks absolutely incredible. The player we saw a handful of times off the bench for us was......well not very good. 

The poor spelling and grammar in the thread title makes me sad.

1 hour ago, Keybaird Warrior said:

I know eh? It wasn't even his squad etc etc. Worst manager ever etc etc. 

I never said any of that.  Just this subject has been done to death.

From what I remember, Hughes told the Hartlepool board at the end of that season that wanted to replace the entire the coaching staff and about 90% of the players.  They decided just to get rid of him instead, but they had missed staying up quite narrowly after being miles behind when he took over.

9 minutes ago, Keybaird Warrior said:

The seeds were sewn when the club got rid of a Scottish Cup winnng manager. 

Oh Jesus, not this again.   Zzzzzzzzz.

Have we really become so bad that people are saying Calder wasn't that bad because he put in one good cross?  Good Lord...

I saw Elbouzedi driving into the car park yesterday.  The most thrilling moment of the day.

I know it's an old cliche, but really what do they do in training?  Yesterday, the entire team looked unfit, poor on the ball, poor awareness, no drive and as static as a bunch of statues.  I'm not someone who calls for the manager's head when they've essentially only just come in the door, but it clearly isn't working.  Whether it's his fault or the players or both, they obviously aren't reacting to his methods and no-matter what ideas he has, they seemed to be doomed to fail.  I think the time has come for Robbo to stand aside, where he can leave with his integrity intact and for the good of everyone else.  It might not even be his fault, but something isn't working and it's time for someone else to come in and bring new ideas to the table.

Zchusschen is of course the man who Robbo said was a striker who'd make a 'big difference' and 'would reach the top of Scottish football'...

I started to notice it the other week at Paisley, but I'm starting to see the Calder the Dundee fans talked about turning up again.  Definitely has some ability but a poor poor attitude.  He did nothing when he came on.  Either tell him to buck up or get lost.

37 minutes ago, scottishhighlands said:

i no the real reason how he got sacked but will not talk about it on here 

Thanks for that.