Renegade

Not a new striker, but I did notice this interesting line on Over The Bridge just now. If that's his attitude, I don't want him back!

One of those sneaky ICT 'dump dwellers' must've pulled the modem out!

Where have I said I don't want Polworth retained? I said I was surprised he was being retained, considering he hasn't made a start in months and his appearances off the a bench which he now sometimes fails to make are becoming more and more sporadic. Will he get a chance now though? He's had a couple of decent games yes, but by the same token he's had a couple of shockers and with more players brought in now, one would presume he's now further down the pecking order. A player of that age needs to be playing and should we stay injury free, chances will become more and more limited for him. Maybe signing him up and sending him out on loan to a Division One side, would be the best option.

Didn't we get about £250,000 from Dinamo Bucharest for Niculae?

Maybe the general consensus is that Richie Foran won't be back soon and having Polworth and Horner would be decent enough to come into the squad if Richie is unavailable but also as you say squad depth is quite important too for european football. I wonder if it suggests that talks with Nick Ross have stalled. He was going to be the next one to open talks seemingly and doesn't appear on the list. It could possibly give credence to the rumour that James Vincent would be leaving at the end of the season as well.

Very pleased that it looks like Raven and Watkins are sticking around and pleased that Devine could be as well. I'm surprised Polworth and Horner are being retained though. Presumably Hughes has one eye on Europe and thus the likelihood of needing a bigger squad.

While it looks like only a matter of time before he does sign, at this moment he hasn't officially done so yet.

What's this about some Canadian guy who funded a trip to Dingwall to see if he could get a trial at County as it was his dream? Imagine your dream being to have a trial at County! God almighty! Also, I have to echo some of the comments earlier about OTB. I never noticed it much before they got promoted, but especially this season, some of the poster's obsession with ICT has become very weird. Some posters on there (especially one named 'FrankTheTank') seem to talk about nothing else but ICT, while others seem to be absolutely seething at us. They even think that any negative posters have to be, and I quote, an ICT troll! I even saw a while back someone saying that the shadows talk was cringeworthy, before launching into a big rant about 'mongrels' and 'sewer rats'. One even made a list of why County were bigger than ICT that included the fact that we'd been relegated from the SPL and they hadn't!

The Courier article today suggests that Danny Devine is keen to sign a new deal. Interestingly, it also says that Tarmo Kink has not signed officially at this moment.

I heard somewhere he's been very poor for Elgin. Strange, as I thought he had potential if he was played up-front and not wasted out wide.

Eh? No Christie in the stating XI?! Don't think he's played that well in the last two games.

Not a striker, but I see the young Aberdeen midfielder Craig Storrie is out of contract at the end of the season. I remember seeing him for the Scotland in the Victory Shield at the Caley Stadium a couple of years back and he looked really good. I think he'd be worth a punt actually, still only 19.

I've never understood why you can have the old style terracing in in the lower league but not in the top tier. Especially after some of the 'bigger' teams have been down there. What's a bigger match: a cold Tuesday night match between ICT and Kilmarnock with 2,500 in attendance or a sold out Edinburgh Derby title decider at Tynecastle. One allows standing and the other doesn't. Madness. If standing areas are so bad, why do they allow them at concerts?

Charles Kennedy is not a 'turncoat Tory'. I have it on good authority that he hates the coalition and was against it from the start. If any of the LibDems do keep their seats in Scotland, one would presume that he would be the most likely to do so. As we all know, up here people vote more on the person than the party (most of the time) and seemingly as your local MP, he's one of the better ones.

It wasn't our biggest ever. Niculae went to Dinamo Bucharest for £250,000(ish).

Esson Raven Draper Meekings Shinnie Tansey Williams Doran Ross Watkins Ofere Subs - Mackay, Devine, Ferguson, Polworth, Kink, Christie, Tremarco

Might be an idea to move Draper into the defence at the expensive of Devine (who was rubbish on Saturday). Might be an idea to have a bit of height in there to combat Nade.

James Vincent scored a penalty in his first game against St Mirren. Duncan Shearer scored on his debut as well, as did Andy Barrowman. Chris Hogg also scored his only goal for us on his debut.

HT - MFC 0-1 ICT FT - MFC 0-2 ICT MFC 1st scorer - Sutton ICT 1st scorer - Ross Time of 1st scorer - 31

Well I'll be the first to admit that I don't know who he is! Scored 24 times in 85 games for Malmo according to Wikipedia though which isn't a bad return. Seems to have been in the wilderness since then mind. He was linked with a move back to Malmo in January as well apparently. Good to see a player with a bit of height brought in as well.

Did you ever think that maybe Watkins is staying and Hughes is turning him into a striker so then we would need a winger. When we have the likes of Danny Williams, Nick Ross, Aaron Doran and even Ali Sutherland at a push, do you really think we need another winger? This^ Did you ever think that maybe Watkins is staying and Hughes is turning him into a striker so then we would need a winger. The thing is though, is I'm not convinced Watkins is a striker. He tries hard and all that and he's alright to fill in for now, but I don't think relying on him for the rest of the season is the way to go. I think I also prefer him out wide as well. Interesting comments on Prince Rajcomar of Curacao and Tarmo Kink being signed up. Seemingly the Serbian boy is only 19 so one would ordinarily presume he'd be more our type of player. Guess he mustn't have impressed then.

Hughes seemed to suggest recently that there was a few targets who fell through, most likely from pricing themselves out. The comments earlier seem to suggest that he would have at least crossed Hughes' mind but for one reason or another didn't sign him. I wouldn't at all be surprised if he wanted a fairly big wage as well. Would he have been a good signing? He may well had have. Would he have scored goals? He might have. Then again though, he might be well past it. He often did have a weight and effort problem as well at times if I remember right as well. What we really need now is an out and out striker. For the life of me I can't understand this Tarmo Kink move at all. Everywhere seems to suggest he's a winger, which we've got more than enough of.

Esson Raven Devine* Meekings Tremarco Draper Tansey-------Christie Ross-------------------------Williams Shinnie Subs - Mackay, Polworth, Horner, Sutherland, Ferguson, Brown, Baptie *If Devine is out, move Draper to centre-back and bring Polworth on. Stick Hoban onto the bench as a third keeper (he travels anyway so may as well take the spot).

Looking up to see what other fans thought of Kink and this was interesting - http://www.wfcforums.com/archive/index.php/t-41104.html?s=ca6bc3ad4d463697427fc082eb987da3 We often hear about the camaraderie and all that stuff, doesn't sound like our type of character if that post is correct. Also, most of the research I've done seems to suggest that of late he's more of a winger/attacking midfielder than a striker. I wouldn't have thought he'd be the type of player we'd be needing at this time.

Absolutely right. I'm starting to get quite bored of this constant "they hate us", "the commentators/press/referees are biased against us", "we were last on Sportscene cause they hate us" clap trap that permeates from ICT fans whenever something doesn't go our way. Some people are starting to sound like OF fans and it's fast becoming cringeworthy and tedious in the extreme.