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Barrowman as the lone striker for a home game....no thanks.

:sleep01: Still going with this campaign.. Aye, he'd give much more down the flanks than Eagle would/does.

Not too bad a selection but if it were me playing that team, Proctor would be on the right with Hayes on the left. Also don't fancy one up front and would go for Rooney, Foran and Sanchez as out and out strikers.

For ages, and you can look back at my old posts if you like, I thought Duncan was rubbish. I still don't think he's particularly amazing, nor quite as good as McBain, but what I would give to have him back in the first team you wouldn't believe. He might be a poor passer, but he has the experience and hold the ball up well, which is desperately needed at this time in ICT history. Stratford for me aint good enough at all. I was also told a few weeks back on the grapevine, that Duncan aint happy right now, due to constantly being on the bench. Unless he get his place back soon, it looks like he may well be away.

Nah, if Butcher's still in charge, he'd just bring in more garbage.

After a right shocker, it's time to change it around and first and foremost, bring back attacking football. 3-5-2 for me: ------------------------------------------Esson--------------------------------------------------- ------------Tokely-----------------------Munro----------------------Golabek------------------ ------------------------------------------Duncan------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------Cox--------------------------McBain-------------------------------- ---Hayes-------------------------------------------------------------------------Djebi-Zadi--- ---------------------------Foran-------------------------Rooney------------------------------- Subs - Allison, Sanchez, Barrowman, Proctor/Bulvitis, Eagle If ICT want to win the league this season, attacking football has to return. I'm going with a very attacking 3-5-2. Esson is goal, Tokely moves into the right side of midfield, Golabek on the left, with Munro in the centre playing a sort of sweeper/libero role. Tokely and Golabek should go forward at times, taking turns about, with Munro and Duncan hanging back. Duncan comes in for Stratford in a sort of holding role at the back of the midfield. Cox stays in alongside McBain. Experience is needed in the midfield, and Duncan and McBain can provide that. The job of Cox and McBain should be to ping the ball out wide to Hayes and Djebi-Zadi. Hayes is on the right wing constantly making long runs up the wing. He could also try cutting inside and having a shot. Djebi-Zadi is re-introduced and once again I've placed him at left-wing. He should use his height and pace to run at the opposing full-back as Hayes would do on the right. Again, attacking was always his strongest point and in this position, should he make a blunder, it wouldn't be as suicidal as it would be at the back. There are also players back to cover him. Rooney starts up front with Foran. The tacics once again are simply keeping the ball down as much as possible, playing the ball wide as much as possible.

From what I've seen, bar Cox and Hayes, most of Butcher's signings have been pretty poor.

See My Comments On this Thread. Hardly Boo Boy Material Are They?

lol....you have to accept I'm very biased but how do you think Utd, L'pool, Arsenal, Chelsea or for that matter the Old Firm got success? There isn't a club who have won anything who haven't bought a player to make them better. wasn't it hoped Marius would do this? If Caley came about a ?10m windfall should they stick it in the bank and not spend it to help secure promotion? Being a loyal fan of an unsuccessful team is laudable.......but we all like a day in the sun. After nearly 40 years of spending money following a team with little to show for it I'd love a few shiny trophies..at City AND at Caley. In recent years there have been too few 'surprise winners' of trophies. The Old Firm have it sown up here and apart from Pompey winning the FA Cup it's been fairly predictable down south What about Brian's Clough's Nottingham?

Please explain how this thread is "shockingly bad".

He once played for the Samoan U20s, apparently there was a lot of effort put in to actually get him to play for Australia. His brother, Chris Cahill (I think that's his name) is actually the captain of the Samoan National Team. Still don't see what Fijians and Samoans have to do with ball control though.

And u think shipping in some Fijians/Samoans/(watever crazy idea it was) would have better ball control than the current crop? <_< Tim Cahill has excellent ball control.

And another thing, one of the reasons why players seem so poor at controlling the ball these days is probably cause it's far too light. These new balls cause far too many problems.

Is it just me do most of the ICT team are completely unable to control the ball? Most of them, when the ball comes to them, it just pings often and they seem to be unable to trap it and control it at all. A couple know and have known how to do it. Barry Robson could do it, Black could do it and from the current line up, Cox seems pretty capable of controlling it pretty well. The rest seem know hee haw about what to do. It's about time they started practicing this at training. Discuss.

Even though he's just gotten injured, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Duff's the next one out the door.

Why should the fact that he was a great player mean that they'll be successful? From what I gather he's pretty inept at managing.

One of them in the shop told me a few weeks back that they were going down to one member of staff and keeping the shop open as normal for a few more weeks.

Do we have to turn every thread into a Lionel bashing one?

Eagle's okay, has a decent cross on him, but has times when he seems to disappear. Think Imrie starting on the left and Hayes on the right and switching them around every so often as Nakamura and McGeady would be very beneficial.

What time do you mean? I looked but I didn't notice a Harrison on the list. There's a goalie called something Harrison at Clach just now, could it be the same guy?

Going by that list then the ICT with the best goal ratio must be John MacDonald. Two appearances, one goal. No mention of a John Calder like I was thinking for that keeper I was thinking of, but there is a Niall Calder. Don't know if he was any relation to Jim.

a bit more than a handful of times for some of them .... but judging by your list, I would say perhaps you didnt follow our early seasons too closely ? No, I never saw any of the first season, so from the list I saw I just put up the names of those I hadn't heard of.

Correct me if I'm wrong but was there not a short time Golabek filled in at right back. That came into my head the other and couldn't remember if it happened or not. I do however remember Golabek seeming to have long spells at left midfield, especially in the first couple of seasons in the SPL after Hastings returned.

Is Lionel as nuts at centre-back as he is as a left-back?

No it isn't cause Smith is in that picture as well. Fraser and Brown are both there with Smith in nezt to them (he was third choice in 06/07). I know it's him cause a - I know what he looks like and b - he was only about 5"10 so is quite noticable for being a shorter keeper. This other guy is standing next to him and has black hair and looks about Fraser's height (about 6"4). I also seem to recollect seeing the name Calder on the bench on a few of the reserve team line ups from that season.