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Finally managed to see a game on TV. The Celtic goal was down to a lack of awareness in central defence...we actually had a one-on-one early in the second half that was, to my eyes, wrongly called offside. ICT looked confident and composed. First half we were playing some lovely one touch stuff in the middle third and the defence, on the whole, seemed to be well organised. Celtic were made to play today. Second half we started flinging a few balls into the penalty area (Tokely) and there's the problem. I've seen 2 games this season (1st game v Aberdeen away and this one on TV) and even on that very limited visual evidence I see we need a commanding central defender and a genuine final 3rd threat. The last will never be bought in because the type of player we need is out of our budget, but the defender is an absolute must. I've said it before, Black must be tearing his hair out that there's no-one ahead of him able to make the runs and make a target. Finally, on a big stage, at Celtic Park, ICT looked at home. Ball on the deck, nice runs and competing with 'Champions'. What happens at TCS is anyone's guess. Yep...but...50/50 that an away team in Glesga will never be given.

(Oh yes!) This is one of the saddest threads I've read on this site in a while... Not only are the grassroots supporters able to articulate a better club image than the paid custodians, they've backed it up with some outstanding designs as well. Well done Gringo (Jr)! Meantime the 'powers that be' play around with the club image like it's some Barbie re-make. Stripes!!!!

err...so who did you think they'd be playing? Barcelona?

Every football club goes through a Berti Vogts phase. But evidence suggests that if the 'pwers that be' have the cahones to act, it can be turned around. Forget Highland reserve, act ruthless, act now and get Robertson back!

The alternative - and an increasing view on this forum - would be to say "I am to blame for this mess", what would you think he should do then?

There's a restaurant in Edinburgh where you only pay what you think the meal is worth. So here's my idea: PAY ON EXIT. Pay what you think the match and team's effort was worth. Result: a full ground every week and a motivated bunch of players. (The only problem I can see would be when Aberdeen visited)

From what I've read, heard and seen...the answer would be yes.

Having no words to express how pee'd off I am by this result I shouldn't bother being on this forum tonight... I am now in the BREWSTER OUT camp. Sorry Craig, learning your trade at ICT will only drag us down...we are a good team in need of a BOSS.

Really? I thought Norway were the more likely to take something. Huffing and puffing ain't threatening. They knew our game plan and snuffed it out. End of day they had more chances...despite the fact we had more possession. Whatshisface Iwojima will never again pull on a Scotland shirt. Offside, blind linesman, perfect ball along the deck, 6 feet out, no keeper, no defenders, middle of the goal, skew it wide...a You Tube classic!

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I'd need several fingures to explain 110% effort...

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Last time I was ironing crack in a Greenock bar a punter's chair bounced... your move. (Back on topic: Happy with that draw.)

Good pics my insectoid chum but I'm a tad confused by Pic 1 ... were you in the 'home' end? I see the main stand on the right, so the away support are opposite and to the left...by my reckoning that means you're standing with the Lichties. Maybe it has all shifted round since my last visit in 2002...a day when you single-handedly 'charged' the home support when we went 2-0 up...so I can't imagine you're snapping with the enemy! Yours, Confused

I've missed the TCS matchday experience for a while now. Away days being the only opportunity I've had. I am really astonished at some of the reports that have appeared on here about what it is like to go to see ICT at home. It sounds horrendous and I'm really sorry to hear it. If this was any other entertainment business I'm fairly sure the shutters would have been down long ago. The following is an observation from a long way away but I'm wondering if ICT isn't just being run as a few folks' weekend hobby. No business plan, no real progression strategy let alone any sort of profit motive, lacking in even the most basic customer care....just keep it on the tracks and it'll be backslaps, handshakes and right guid swally at the club on a Saturday afternoon. After all, the big boys are haemorrhaging cash so we must be doing ok if we are surviving with meagre resources. Think SPL, act Highland League. It must give a few local blazers in a small luncheon club pond a sense of real kudos to be associated with brand ICT. I wonder what would happen if one investor made ICT their sole business interest. Make money, keep the customer happy, make money, follow a transparent business plan that we can all measure. But then I woke up...

Seem to remember we finished above Falkirk Falkirk 38 49 -4 Hearts 38 48 -8 Inverness CT 38 43 -11 St Mirren 38 41 -28 Kilmarnock 38 40 -13 :thumb04: Of course those promoted clubs havent gained on us whatsoever Wanderer have they? Or we could just use a side thats now extinct as the yardstick on how far we've come on all aspects of running a club, that way we'd look like Real Madrid and nobody could criticise a thing. Lovely...Kilmarnock were apparently relegated last season. Suggest you give Mr Jeffries a call Clach...and another of your wonder teams, St Mirren, finished below us...1 out of 3 certainly proves your case. But that Club Shop...dammit, you're right, that would've made the difference!

Seem to remember we finished above Falkirk, I notice you don't mention Gretna...now who's being 'irrelevant'? Still think a club shop would've guaranteed a top 6 place though.

So where did we finish against those coming up behind us? A good question. 05/06 +25 points (Falkirk), [currently +4 points] 06/07 +10 points (St Mirren), [currently +3 points] 07/08 +30 points (Gretna), {er, that's enough stats - ed!} If only we had built a shop. Mods - can you reinstate the 'Ignore' button on this damn site.

Disgusted at the result today. Mr Brewster I spent a lot of the pre-Aberdeen match defending your reputation to hardcore ICT fans...and was ecstatic last weekend. What happened today was wrong wrong wrong...you are now on notice...officially 6 games away from losing my support.

Kicking was fine and he was winding up the Dons fans and then the players with some lengthy preparations. Got a bollocking from Munro (who didn't?) for not kicking quickly from hand when we had a chance to break quickly. But overall put the ball back into play or to safety well. Cross balls? Hmmm the jury's still deliberating. I agree with a lot of the above. It was a great day out - passion, commitment and we made Aberdeen look very ordinary in the first half, Calderwood was puce with his team's performance. I also think Langfield was looking really edgy in the Aberdeen goal. Not much more to add to all the above other than to thank the team for an outstanding performance and I've rarely seen an ICT team look so together and elated and in tow with the support at the end of a league game.

Well said, what many of the regulars on this forum have to realise is that they are a very small group of people whose views to not represent the views of the ICT Support in general. Very far from it in my opinion. Brewster is doing a good job, he has made some good signings with room for more before the season begins - particularly with the money raised through the sale of Niculae. He deserves our full support for the first full season of his second spell in charge. He deserves the recognition that it is not an easy job sourcing and attracting quality players to Inverness, given our geography and financial limitations. This should be a supporters forum and would maybe attract a wider membership if it was - it has become a forum on which a small bunch of individuals who believe they have the managerial ability of Alex ferguson constantly deride the club. Let's give Brewster and the club the support they deserve. Perhaps it is an element of the "support" who should be put under scrutiny. Since 2003 87.6% of the posts on this website have followed a fairly predictable format: Phase 1: One of the usual suspects starts a pointless thread along the lines of "Who should we sack first? Brewster or Niculae?" (If they can work out how to do a poll we get that as an added treat.) Phase 2: The linguistically-challenged see an opportunity to add to their post count with a one word reply and...well...don't disappoint. Note: statistically 75% are guaranteed to spell that one word wrong. Phase 3: One of the 'holier than thou' pitch in with a variation on "Well, these guys have families...this is all a bit unseemly." Phase 4: follows on fairly swiftly with a mix of mods and 'the serious' defending folks' right to free speech (Caley D normally uses this moment to warn that there is a drawn line at which warnings will be handed out.) Phase 5: Some serious-minded punter suggests 'we get back to the topic' (and the rest of us sigh with relief!) Phase 6: Party Time! This is the moment the nutcases decide to get busy because we all know the thread is doomed to get locked pretty soon. Phase 7: is the earnest Mod v Habitual Offender 'conversation'...(there must be a way of doing these exchanges without scaring the horses!) Phase 8: sensible people avoid the thread, others go to the pub...meantime a half-dozen try to type 'useless' and 'season ticket' without the benefit of opposable thumbs. Which phase do you pack in your reading?

Agreed GJ but the fact is the vast majority of youngsters in UK get nosebleeds if they move 10 miles from their mammy's steak n chips. Contract with Real Madrid? Nah I'd rather hang out with my mates at some dodgy provincial 'nightclub' week after week. Stevie Crawford on the other hand would probably miss his local bowls club.

...you've obviously led a very sheltered life if you think that's worthy of a tut or two. Excellent effort Dougie!!! :clapping03:

Can't decide if it's a committee's second choice, i.e. the strip of several choices that most didn't like least, or the choice of a madman... We have Barcelona style stripes to play around with and they go for this crap. :029:

consigned to the anals of history. ...truly the darkest of dark holes. :014: