Johnboy

This one's quite interesting....

CD : Found something you could play at the Morton game! We're going wrong

Exactly.... And the fact that they are considering an appeal kind of begs the question : Is Inverness Caledonian Thisle FC being run and administered by fit and proper persons?

Of course they don't Johnboy why do you think FIFA ruled in Marius favour. So an appeal would be a complete waste of time (and money)

It's this sentence here (from the club) that is surely key in this matter : ?There is no right of appeal to Fifa. In our view it was fairly clear we did not initiate the transfer, the transfer was initiated by the player himself. Presumably if the club are going to pursue this they will have something in writing from Marius to back up their claim. Sorry Caley100.... we are saying the same thing. Your post went in as I was typing mine.

So really your bottom line here could be aimed at any supporters of any other club, who's team aren't enjoying much success : Quote : Criticism is fine, a bit of venting is acceptable....we all do it, and I think it can be quite healthy. However, some of the mindless crap, slaggings and abuse dished out at players, manager etc is quite disgusting, unmerited and uncalled for. I just can't see how the support can be blamed in any way for the team's poor run of form at home. The mindless slaggings etc, are part and parcel of the game, and have been for a long, long time..... Maybe the supporters feel it actually helps the players to give them a bit of stick! Better to have a few thousand turning up week in, week out to occasionally vent their spleen on the players, management etc, than not turn up at all.

I agree with your comment that "for the most part the players are generally giving their best" but are you seriously suggesting football supporters in Inverness are in some way different from football supporters anywhere else in the country - maybe even anywhere else in the world?

Very good! But there's no substitute for British humour. Especially for the West Yorkshire contingent!

It's not very funny if you're not registered with facebook.

This site needs a "pot...kettle" smiley! Well Butcher's bizarre team selections certainly haven't always worked. Who's to say Renegade's would do any worse?

DC; Renegade: Fair enough, you don't rate Butcher as a manager; I have doubts myself. But can either of you explain why it would benefit the club more to sack him now, accrue extra debts for the club paying off his and MM's contracts and leave a replacement (probably of equally or more dubious pedigree) to fashion a winning side out of TB's signings, rather than accepting we're going to have a poor season and allowing TB and MM to walk away at the end of the season at no extra cost to the club? And if you can't, don't you think it's potentially counter-productive to be so relentlessly critical of the management team? I'm not having a go: I've just not been convinced yet by any of the arguments in favour of changing the management team mid-season. P.S. Apologies for not being able to quote properly from multiple posts in one reply - maybe some kind person less technically inept than me will explain it some day... I think most of us have come to accept the fact we are stuck with TB and MM till the end of the season. I just don't see why that should completely absolve them of any criticism regards the players they have brought in, the players they have let go, the tactics and team selections they adopt. Their shortcomings are there for all to see..... The buck has to stop with them - there is nowhere left for them to hide.

I won't be going unless I get a personal assurance from TB that Nick Ross will be in the starting line-up.

I came across this article in the Scotsman on substitutions a while back.... SOMETIMES we seem to be in danger of doing our sportsmen some disservice. We forget that for the most part they tend to be very young and have a lot to learn. The fact that they are often grossly overpaid shouldn't be allowed to cloud our judgment. They're only paid what some people are prepared to pay them. This train of thought trundled into the station recently when two footballers, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, were taken off before the end of matches in which they were taking part and Rooney started to throw boots about and Ronaldo looked as if someone had stolen his fruit gums. In neither case, I would submit, were the reactions all that surprising. Most people who played football in their youth and can still remember the experience, will realise, if they put their minds to it, how they would have felt themselves had they been out there all fit and healthy, enjoying a game of football when, suddenly, someone told them to stop what they were doing, get off and have a bath. It must be particularly galling if you can play football like Rooney and Ronaldo. Of course, football has come a long way since the days when jackets doubled up as goalposts and the athletes involved were wont to relax with a fag at half-time. Now it's all diets and physios and at the top end of the scale it has become a squad game. Footballers have had to accept that, having assembled considerable numbers of players at great expense, managers feel more or less obliged to do a bit of tinkering now and then. In Rooney's case, the early departure seemed to be because a change in the pattern of play had been deemed necessary, while in Ronaldo's, the aim was to keep him fresh for an up-coming midweek European tie. Worthy causes on both fronts, no doubt, but try telling that to youngsters raring to go. Come to that, try telling it to the people who have paid to come along to see them. I often watch the comings and goings in the latter parts of matches, when players are trudging off and bounding on in endless relays and think back to my boyhood when I watched the Hibs and wonder how I would have reacted had anyone dared to take off Gordon Smith. I'd probably have emigrated. Fortunately, in those days, the only ways to leave the field before the end of the game were by the referee's decree or by stretcher.

This argument's getting boring now.... Can we change the subject? Does anyone know why young Nicky Ross seldom gets a game for ICT?

Thanks Caleyrule.... He's hardly likely to resign before his contact has run out.

True....

Yes... that's how I remember him..... Much too much of a lightweight to make any kind of an impression on our style of football, that we've come to know and love so much.

Interesting first post..... Pray, tell us more....

Just watched him pick up the MoM for Wigan against Man City on Sky TV...Fantastic player. Was there talk of him coming to ICT a couple of seasons ago when he was at St Johnstone, or did I just dream that?

Site back to normal now? Or at least as normal as could be expected given contributions from people like Renegade and the Immortal Howden Ender....

I understand the winner from Romania has yet to receive his prize.

Alex : Surely a corner has to be taken from the side that the ball went out? The referee was a complete balloon.... the ball was already out of play, when Rooney reached it. I thought he was trying to kick it off the perimeter wall but he missed, and so it was deemed to be kicking the ball away. Tokely also got booked for nothing more than going for a 50:50 ball. I thought he won it fair and square.

Good luck, I hope your lot can sustain the level of performance they are at just now. The Highlands deserve an SPL club and at the moment we don't appear to be anywhere near that quality. Now feck off back to yer sisters bed ya tink. Good to note that following all the talks that took place with the police, club management, Supporters Trust, etc, offensive, racist posts regarding our distant cousins in Dingwall now seems to be a thing of the past! Well done 5th Stand... Keep up the good work... :025:

Not even on the bench today..... One of the most promising young players I've ever seen at ICT... He is a rare talent....A guy who can go at some pace with the ball at his feet, but yet always has it under control - he can take a full back on, and beat him on the inside, or the outside - skin him for pace, send in a decent cross, or get to the bye-line and cut the ball back.... this guy reminds me of some of the great old fashioned wingers from a bye-gone age... George Best, Willie Henderson, Jimmy Johnstone....Oh and what about Davie Cooper and Trevor Francis.... Surely TB can remember these two? Maybe part of the problem is players like Nick Ross don't quite fit in with the coaching methods in today's ultra boring game, dominated by tactical gobbledygook, that is slowly, but surely choking the lifeblood out of this once great game.