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This money would only have gone on goodies for the blazers over a period of time so if it means they have to have M & S Merlot with their main course at ?5 a bottle instead of their usual ?100 per bottle, so be it!

With a million pound cheque in his hip pocket! What a silly fellow for not resigning and giving that up.

The Irish managers income was quoted on Radio 4 today as ?3million, part funded by industry!!

It is obvious that pals will be aware of the culprit who threw the bottle onto the park at County so lets hope they will do us all a favour and leave him at home on Saturday or at Pitlochry if he insists on boarding the bus.

A quick scan of the current SFL league will confirm we are title contenders and that with a make shift team, with players who had never seen Inverness before this season, never mind their playing partners!

Do you not perhaps feel it is the manner of your presentation. I accept that your view will not match mine and there it is....no problem...but when I look at your top quote, highlighted above, our result - the Morton result - the Dundee result - the Ross County result, could all be the butt of your views, just substitute the managers name. Perhaps it would help to take a step away and view the league as a whole and our position within that and consider what our management are doing with the players they have. Dundee fans with their team having mega bucks, could maybe utter your top comments but not, in my opinion, ICT fans.

Whoever it may be I fancy English will be his second language.

The EPL have thrown out the OF application for entry on the grounds of them being non viable and not desirable. With Rangers debts listed as ?31mil and UEFA meeting today, maybe three strikes in one day!

Points to ponder. (1) Will he go? (2) Should he go? (3) Show consistency? (4) Other Managerial options? 1) I think he might as he does not appear to have the backing from the Board or the fans. 2) Definitely not! The work is only part done but we will get there if he stays long enough. 3) If you play golf it is you against the course, end of! In a football match it is you against the other team and you are only as good as you are allowed to be, by the opposition. This opposition, in this league, appear to be able to match each other on any given day so a result must have this factored into any critical analysis. We always made the OF look average and always the papers said the OF had an off day when they played us - no they did not, we had an ON day. 4) What yardstick do you use for consistency? Play each game as you did the week before and win 4-1 again? So the rival team this week has not studied and analysed your tactics from last week and taken appropriate action to nullify your strengths? Poor management by them if they have not. 5) Living in the past hoping Pele will return and provide the football from back then is a joke. Players are different from back then - tactics have improved since then - loyalty has now almost disappeared. Management stock will not include any big names now - would TB come to ICT at this time? Of course not, he came to keep us up and enjoy the press exposure playing against the OF, not County. Enjoy TB when you have him folks, he will not be here for long - he will leave, on his terms. .

I don't think it was their Chairman that made the statement, it was Callum with the deep pockets and lack of understanding as to how players are approached!! Dundee Utd did not complain re the unsettling of their player due to Callum's recent involvement into this market. Will he buy big to improve the playing staff - with his wiping off their debts, funding their new buys up to date - why not?? So Starchief, I bet he does unless they are so far ahead they don't need to! Now if we could only get a Callum for ICT. As I understand it, he is not just being the security for the bank providing the cash, he is supplying the money so that if he walks away the club are not going to be left with big debts and little assets. They do not even now have to service big borrowings, just fund their ongoing costs which will, of course, be larger than ours due to the players pool and incomes being higher, if they are successful.

I think this is an excellent post although I accept Rig's point re the season ticket sales. That apart I think the above hits the nail on the head. .

I feel the return of Duff will be like a new signing for the team. He is, in my opinion, an excellent defender just needing the likes of Munro and Rossco to assist in the fine tuning.

I find your reaction to the sponsorship potential statement immature. If anyone were investing money in some way in the club with their clients aware of this, I would suggest our current manager is a more professional mouthpiece for the club than, for instance, Calderwood, Smith or Campbell. I accept that 'points on the board' matters but so does the profile of the management. Many years ago my company had Rula Lenska(spl?), Cliff Thornburn and Kenny Dalglish among our 'mouthpieces' and guess what, we did not want Kenny!! Possibly the most potentially entertaining one we had but he was not blessed with that ability to express himself in company. The point is that 'mouthpieces' matter when recruiting backing and retaining backing as very often they are the public image of the club. We have a very good 'mouthpiece' in TB. .

We're on the turn, young man, no more negatives. We may not win the league but we will be up there near the top. I can feel it in my water!!

Because of our unexpected drop from the SPL - well it was unexpected for many of us - followed by our loss of players due to this relegation, the lack of funds and the poor home form in the first 8 games of the season, it was not too difficult to see where the negativity came from on here and this was reflected at the park, on and off the field. The lower turn out, the booing of the players both on and off the park in a moronic way and the natural disappointment of an afternoon spoiled, gives a feel that all is not well with ICT. We therefore have to blame someone, be it the players (all but one should be shipped out as soon as possible), the management team (they are crap, have been crap and always will be crap, so ship them out) or the Board (all muppets who have no idea and every fan can do better so ship them out) Now the three targets above are all unable to defend themselves against the horrible offerings on here so the fans assume that they are therefore guilty as charged. The players - are not good according to the posters on here as they should play to a standard of top SPL teams without the reward. The fans would, wouldn't they??(Aye right, they would not even give off their spare time to paint the gent's loo) Management team - working with a poorer standard of player, new to each other and the team/area, in a competitive league AND ONLY A FEW POINTS FROM THE TOP AND IN A CUP FINAL! (Yes but..No but..Yes but..) The Board - don't profess to know the workings but I am aware that other football Boards get pelters as well so maybe it is par for the course. I do feel that once the results come our way, we get used to the competitiveness of this league and are still in touch, the fans will return, the offerings on here will be less bitter and match days will, once again, be the tonic to keep us going for another week. Starting on Saturday!! .

Now I wonder if I could have been slightly too generous with my estimate?

Your opening line is bang on , for once :D I wonder if it could be part of a line central to my offering that could be bang on, not once but all the time. .

Scotty, it is because ICT are run by Muppets!! Tell that to people on this forum often enough and they will believe it - easily lead, as my mother would have said. No matter the amount of effort being put into any area of the club, be it ticket handling or whatever, the hard worker must be a muppet and the person making this claim will no doubt have an IQ of 10 but it must be right as they read it on here!! There is some offerings on another thread relating to the waygoing of what was historic posters on here and one wonders if this negitive 'muppet mentality' is helping to drive them away. 'It is all a muppet shambles at ICT'. How sad for the people trying to provide us with a service.

Another option at a corner that is seldom used is the overhit to beyond the melee of players and the ball is then returned into the goalmouth from the far side leaving the defenders to turn, thereby losing concentration. Result? Defenders lose their man, keeper unsure and attacking players have more chance. This plan is OK on paper but very often getting the ball as far as the the six yard box is a problem for the person taking the corner!

Is this not what the club are trying to establish through there legal advisers? If payment has to be made so be it but I would suggest it is financial prudence to take this case to it's logical legal conclusion and if that means haggling over payment until we have to part with the cash, that is business in this day and age. 'It will damage ICT greatly' 'It's all one big cover up' 'it's not how the contract was written/worded' 'I find the club weird' IHE I think hit the nail on the head -' Why don't the club put out a statement' However the lack of statement does not mean the points made, as shown above, are in any way a true reflection of the current situation, what ever that may be. Wait and see.

I would suggest that there are very few club sites you will visit without the fans having a gripe about the 'powers that be' and we are no different. I accept that we were different but as we have taken a tumble all the negatives have now surfaced and as we read your post there appears to be nothing good about ICT only a club to be ridiculed. Well I don't agree!! Maybe I am incorrect to appreciate what my club stands for currently but it is easy to dish the dirt without full knowledge or be wise in hindsight. Either of those two could be the case and I am prepared to wait the outcome in due course. For the record visit the ICT thread on P & B and see how half truths or lack of understanding can undermine a forum or character when the full situation is not recorded - maybe this situation is not much different - differing agendas presenting differing scenarios.

A guy with green tinted glasses and socks! Rig, I don't know to be honest and I must say I thought he had a super game with the exception of the booking. He let the game flow and it had at times a cuptie feel with 'spirited' tackles in and around the 18 yard boxes which he accepted as being in keeping with the event.

Don't think there was anything sinister about this.... The assist. ref clearly had a much better view than the ref... I was pleased he changed his mind after consulting his assistant. With the tackle being out on the wing, miles from any other players and the defender running in at right angles to 'hack' the player down and the ball being at least 10 yards in front of the 'victim' - the ref must have been indeed unsighted!! So unsighted he should not have issued a card of any kind without consultation because if he saw the incident he must have been aware that it was a red and if he did not he should have consulted, simple! He must also have been the only one at Parkhead that was unsighted. The premeditation was there for all to see long before the tackle came in. I would think that any professional player, after a tackle like that, would be halfway to the dugout prior to the ref holding up a card.

Yet the ref awarded firstly a yellow card which was poor show, the linesman called him over and told him it justified a red, which was shown to Mcm-anus, now what did the ass ref see that the ref didnt? answer : the ref bottled it, and was told to send him off by the unbribed assistant. I would love to see the ref's report on this one. No other defender would have been given a yellow for that late tackle (assult) unless wearing OF colours. I would hate to think it is anything other than 'bottling it' by the ref but even 'bottling it' because they are OF players is cheating on the other teams. .

The chairman did not say that the manager was aware of the decision having been taken so the manager would have reacted as always in the dressing room, not realising it was his last game.