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Is it not also the case that SKY salespeople are hitting their sales targets and therefore more and more past/prospective fans are able to sit in the comfort of their home as an option? Early kick off, adverse weather, make the most of £52 per month Sky payment, may all have taken their toll on the numbers at the match. How to overcome it? Manage expectations - we are a wee club with a wee fan base and are performing like it some games and like world beaters the next - this is part of the romance (not a bad word for the 14th Feb eh!) of supporting this club. Expect great play from them each week? Stand back and wonder why they are up here in the Highlands plying their trade instead of the English lower reaches where they would be paid a darned site more. We are what we are ... magic, crap but always, always surprising!! Not a bad reason to support them!!

Don, I accept your point BUT all the media have used the fact that JH got up and ran immediately after the tackle as PROOF that it was not a red card! Lie down like a wounded soldier and you are more deserving of an award than if you play fair and try to play on. Seems strange to me!

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One of my memories was of Mrs Rodgers and her female pal offering the referee some 'advice'!! This created more laughts than the show in the Empire Theatre and I assume must have been more entertaining than the match. Memories? How small the keeper, Ecky(?) McDougal was in goals - the train passing behind the goals and the guard waving a lily white table cloth out of the back of his guards van and the walk along Grant Street - scary for us young guys from up the hill.

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It is so strange how we all view the same game in a different way. I only watched it in Alba and I accept you normally miss players running off the ball on TV but the Alba camera was so far from the action that the full park was covered and any runs were seen. Mind you, it was difficult to see any runs from the team on Saturday or any constructive football, the little we saw of this came from the opposition, we were just what we are... a bottom of the league struggling side. I am normally a very positive ICT supporter but there is a lack of fight, imagination or construction about our play. It looked as if the heads were down even after we scored and that included Jonny Hayes after his wonderful shot. As others have stated .. hearts in the mouths every time the ball came towards our 18 yard box. It is not that long ago when no team and I mean no team, troubled our defence in the latter stages of a game. We looked as if we could play another 90 minutes back then - now? we run out of steam at 40 minutes and hang on from the 80th to the finish.. if we are lucky. Very disappointed but we did get the points.

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Against a move Cost of buyout of new contract. (Maybe clause in contract allowing him freedom for reduced amount) Leaving adopted 'home' For a move Bigger club Bigger support Better catchment area for attracting players Support have more loyalty to manager than ICT fans offer ('Sack him' one week - 'magic manager' the next) Hibs post will offer a better platform for 'moving on up' within the game

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I also think that this is a positive move by the club BUT for a different reason to most posters on here. We are now entering a more positive phase for ICT, both in players returning after injury and the calibre of the games we are about to face. This could see us propelled up the league and sitting in the attention area for any club board wishing to change their manager. Should this scenerio come about and the money offered attracts him/them, ICT could, due to this extension of the contract, perhaps enjoy a greater financial reward for being forward thinking. Maybe, just maybe, this is a win win situation all round.

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I do not feel that TB has to justify himself to any fan! Some changes to our settled squad were for cash, some to strengthen the squad and some to reduce the payroll and yes, our current first team is not TB's current first team choice due to injury, however to state that this is an EXCUSE when it is an obvious FACT, disappoints me! Could it be that we are reaping the harvest we should expect being such a wee club, so far from the central belt and the pundits favourite to go down this year. What top class players can we attract? Perhaps TB should be applauded for doing what he is doing with the players he has but that is not the way of the ICT fan ... they want to shake their heads or ask for an apology or offer a veiled threat 'other fans would be calling for his head' Well here is one fan who is aware that the reduction of money on offer is reflected in the play on the park, for all teams in the SPL. It may be that our manager will create a much better team by managing/training the current squad but I don't see a large ability gap between us and the current fifth place team.

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