Renegade

My MOTM match was the guitar playing Stirling fan in the Main Stand. *Digs out plastic Barney the Dinosaur ukulele for Saturday*

HT - ICT 2-1 Stirling FT - ICT 6-1 Stirling ICT 1st scorer - Tansey Stirling 1st scorer - Doris Time of 1st goal - 7

Lost by goals that could've been easily avoided, the story of our season. Like someone else was saying, Tremarco was quite good and I honestly think that's his best position. I was also quite impressed with Mutombo. He seems to have lost the headless chicken stuff and now has some idea what he's doing with the ball and when to release it. I think had the game gone on a couple more minutes, we'd have equalised. The kamikaze 50s style 3-2-5 we were playing (which involved Tremarco and Draper playing as attacking wing backs) had Killie on the ropes.

KFC 1-2 ICT KFC 1-4 ICT Balatoni Storey 7th

Trials at Caley Thistle and Morton yet neither choose to sign him, while speculation of joining Derry City came to nothing. He's now signed for another club in Irish League, which suggests really that he probably isn't particularly fantastic. Looks like the talk of being, at best, no better than what we already have were probably quite close to the truth.

Imagine the manager of your club achieving the biggest thing in your club's short history and wanting him gone barely months later. Imagine living in a world of such stupidity and spoiledness. I for one simply cannot fathom it.

Thought you said on P&B that you were boycotting games until Hughes left?

I was under the impression that Esson's first team football days are behind him due to injuries. Won't be surprised to see Brill and OFW (or someone else) as the two keepers next season with Esson the full time GK coach but registered for emergency purposes.

Giovanni Di Stefano?

You're quite taken with Darren Murray aren't you? I'm heard on the grapevine that we were willing to pay a small(ish) fee for him if he impressed in his trial. Seemingly he didn't and so we didn't.

A shame McHattie is banned. He was godawful at the last Killie game at the Caley Stadium!

I was never that keen on Draper at centre-back and the thought of Wedderburn back there against Magennis gives me the boo boo gibbies! Now I've been quite impressed with Tremarco in there in the past but granted, he is liable to dropping a clanger. Is Raven an option though? Seemingly he was a centre-back before being converted to a right back at Liverpool. He'd certainly be steady enough to fill in I reckon.

He didn't try his best at all, he looked liked he couldn't be bothered and bereft of any drive. He may very well have been gifted but the only thing of note (bar a consolation goal against Celtic) was the spitting incident in a reserve game. Spitting on a teenager no-matter what the circumstances was awful and brought some coverage we could've done without. No doubt we'll see him on some of the 'Worst Ever Player' threads in years to come.

And surprise surprise Dani Lopez has left the building. Kenny Crawford from the BBC has just tweeted that his contract's been cancelled by mutual consent. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

IIRC their manager Michael Appleton was linked with the ICT job when Butcher left.

Needing some pace out wide IMO, so I'd like to see Roberts get a start and Fisher partnering Storey up top. With that in mind, I'd go with - Fon Williams Raven Warren Tremarco Williams Polworth Draper Tansey Roberts Fisher Storey Subs - Esson, Sutherland, Vigurs, Mutombo, Wedderburn, Foran*, Vincent* * Should Foran or Vincent be out, bring Brown onto the bench. If they're both out, bring MacRae on as well.

Not a really a big surprise if Stokes turns us down to be honest. I did speak to an ICT fan recently who wanted us to sign Derek Riordan though. ........Nah, you're alright!

Ah another of Mahonio's transfer rumours. When's Andy Kirk signing?

I see Conor Henderson has signed for Grimsby Town (who he was previously on loan at). Also, the aforementioned ex-Man United striker John Cofie (a big lumbering bloke who didn't do anything) signed for Wrexham about a fortnight after his trial with us. He's since been released. Unbelievably, according to Wikipedia, Man United signed him from Burnley at the age of 14 for £1m! Some people may also remember the pacy winger and striker Toby Ajala (not Ayala as many in the press were misspelling his name) who we had on trial a few months, who scored at a reserve game at Grant Street. Looks like he signed for Dover Athletic shortly after his trial with us and has just signed again for Torquay in the last week or so. Midfielder Oliver Norburn, formerly of Bristol Rovers and Plymouth and was on trial in pre-season and played against Forres and St Mirren, signed for Guiseley AFC in November. They play in the National League (previously the Conference). At the time I was surprised we didn't sign him as I thought he looked a decent player. It was never really announced if it was true or not, but there was talk in the pre-season that we had Petershill midfielder Mark Lamont (who'd previously played for St Mirren and Dumbarton and had also attracted interest from Hamilton Accies) on trial. Looks like we might see him in action this afternoon as he later signed for Stirling Albion!

HT - Stirling 1-2 ICT FT - Stirling 2-3 ICT Stirling 1st scorer - Doris ICT 1st scorer - Raven Time of 1st Goal - 9

What about Miles Hippolyte? He's got the pace out wide that we really need especially with Doran out and he's got a great long throw. Seemingly we were keen in the summer but couldn't do a deal.

Also interesting to note that the article says Hughes is keen to sign Abdul Osman from Partick in the summer when his contract expires. Always thought he was one of Gretna's better players when they were in the SPL.

Fon Williams Raven Warren Devine Williams Tansey Draper Wedderburn Sho-Silva Storey Polworth Subs - Esson, Roberts, Vincent, Mutombo, Lopez, Vigurs, Foran

Seemingly Foran played in the reserve game the other day, along with Roberts and Lopez. What's happened to Horner by the way? There's been no word on his disappearance.

Oh please not this borefest again...