Renegade

I see Ronaldinho is desperately trying to have one last rendezvous in football with his agent attempting to flog him to clubs in Australia. Christ knows what his wage demands would be, but I reckon we should offer him a deal.......you know, just for the lols and that! Imagine the worldwide press coverage! This'd be the most bizarre football story since Carlos Teves was linked with Limavady!

Could be of course, that Swindon don't wish to extend his loan but instead wish to sell him, but for a price.

HT - ICT 1-2 Ross County FT - ICT 4-2 Ross County ICT 1st scorer - Wedderburn Ross County 1st scorer - Gardyne Time of 1st Goal - 7 1st yellow - Draper

That table can't be right. Fon Williams has saved two, Brill saved two in the Hearts shootout, while did Kyle Allison really have two penalties taken against him? He only played once! For some reason, I always felt safer with Mark Brown in goals. Could in part be due to his defence as well mind, the Tokely-Dods-Munro-Hastings backline was probably our best defence until last season.

HT - Accies 0-2 ICT FT - Accies 1-3 ICT Accies 1st scorer - Crawford ICT 1st scorer - Tansey Time of 1st Goal - 11 1st Yellow - Draper

Jim Calder was a fans favourite and a good keeper for us, but he never played in the top flight and even then was he as good as Brill, Brown and Esson amongst others? Perhaps strangely it was Mark Brown I went for. I think a lot of people forget how good he was for us. Unlucky not be capped.

How many ICT games have there been since the merger? We must be approaching 1,000 by now?

No-one at the game was surprised by the added time as as well as the usual stoppages and time wasting, Fon Williams was down for ages. Seeing the penalty appeals back, none were penalties, including ours. Would have been nice to see it out but defending as deeply as we did for half an hour and attempting to run down the clock was always going to be risky. We invited Aberdeen onto us and were punished. All in all, pleased with a point though.

HT - AFC 1-1 ICT FT - AFC 1-2 ICT AFC 1st scorer - Rooney ICT 1st scorer - Storey Time of 1st goal - 12 First yellow - Warren

Fon Williams Raven Devine* Warren Meekings Williams Tansey Wedderburn Polworth Storey Sho-Silva Subs - Esson, Horner, Mutombo, Tremarco, Draper, Vincent, Foran * Should Devine be out, bring in Tremarco as the third centre-back and bring Lopez onto the bench.

I'm sure Hughes looked to bring McAllister back when Mckay went but couldn't manage it. Probably for the reasons stated.

HT - ICT 1-1 DUFC FT - ICT 2-1 DUFC ICT 1st scorer - Warren DUFC 1st scorer - Mckay Time of 1st Goal - 12

Aye but don't you know that the selection of sweets and drinks at the stadium isn't very good and no-one in Inverness is smart enough to commit a terror attack....?

Putting the outlandish conspiracies aside, whether the terrorist threat is overstated or not is neither here nor there. We all know how serious threats and unattended bags are taken. Imagine if the match had been suspended or abandoned. Can you imagine what that would be like? People would be going mental at the stupidity of some people of leaving their bags lying about. Imagine the inconvenience of people travelling and for nothing, as well the possibility of losing money from the TV coverage. The idea as well that this is justified in post #2 because the selection of sweets etc. at the Caley Stadium isn't very good is simply laughable, as is the idea that they could've checked the bags or even asked nicely what was in them! Bombs aren't diffused by polite requests!

As mentioned in the Development League thread, we have Swedish centre-back Benjamin Omerovic on trial and played against Partick this afternoon. Initially my thinking is that we don't really need another centre-back but I see he is left-sided so it is a slightly different option. Seemingly his last club was Nykopings BIS in the Swedish Division One. STV have included a video of him. I'm always a bit dubious of these types of videos, but he does seem to be a ball playing centre-back which would fit into our style of play, as well as being a bit taller than Warren, Meekings and Devine. https://vimeo.com/146131686

Do we *really* need a left-back? Williams, Tremarco and Roberts can all naturally play there, while Raven, Wedderburn and probably Polworth (he played a half as a right back against Forres) can fill in there if necessary. With all the injuries at the moment, maybe another winger is something we could do with. Doran's obviously out long term and Mutombo doesn't really do it for me.

Bizarre language. How could anyone with any interest in Scottish football over the last couple of decades not recognise Duncan Shearer?

Agree with a lot of this. We seem to trying to play in a way that's so pure, anything that's considered un-footballing is looked upon as something we shouldn't do. Long throws are unpure, long range shooting is unpure, counter-attacking is unpure, wingers beating a man and crossing into the box is looked upon as embarrassing. It makes no sense. We seem to be playing with the mentality that possession is everything. It isn't. Something you want to control in the game yes, but it isn't the be-all-and-end-all of life. For my money, our best defence is Raven-Warren-Meekings-Williams and it's time we went to it. I don't have a problem with Meekings at right-back per se, but I would only really put him there in emergency situations. Again yesterday I was really impressed with Liam Polworth and those calling for the inclusion of Wedderburn were proven right. I thought he had a good game and should always be the go-to man whenever Draper is out.

HT - ICT 1-0 KFC FT - ICT 2-1 KFC ICT 1st scorer - Tansey KFC 1st scorer - Magennis Time of 1st Goal - 12

Go to any railway station in Britain, no-matter how small and you'll hear announcements about unattended bags. This is no different. Irresponsible behaviour IMO and no sympathy from me and certainly none had they taken it out for a controlled explosion.

Why are you so keen to sign Darren Murray? Seemingly on his trial he didn't really impress. From what I've been informed about Wedderburn is that as he's come from part time football, the plan was to have him play half the season in the reserve team to get up to speed and then break into the first team. Again, I was very impressed with him in the Astra games and I do feel that there's a player in there. Much the same could be said for Vigurs, who doesn't look fully fit to me. Think this is the beginning of the end for Dani Lopez and possibly Mutombo, but I'm led to believe that loan extensions are being sought out for Storey and Sho-Silva.

HT - Hearts 1-1 ICT FT - Hearts 1-2 ICT Hearts 1st scorer - Sow ICT 1st scorer - Warren Time of 1st Goal - 7

https://youtu.be/xLw73qBUMYw

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