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Juanjo is history so Guy Kerr needs to move on up. He has the right shape for a good defender but needs to really believe in himself particularly after his breakthrough at the end of last year. Investing in him if he makes the breakthrough this year will be far better than re-investing in Juanjo despite Juanjo being a decent person.

An interesting challenge - you can be better than Rankin if you try!

We are a club with a small fan base. We are a club with limited resources. If Lionel eez ungry pour le jeu il fait le jersey. Basically Darren Dods came as a squad player and ended up captain and then indispensable rock in the back four. He was renowned for own goals. Steve Watt did not appear to have hunger and believed he was far better than othrs judged him. I hope Lionel proves people wrong and in 12 months they humbly post some pie.

Was he significantly slimmer? If Brew has slimmed him down he might just get back to a good prospect.

I wondered if Burnley had bid for one of our players and this was part of the deal. There again, Owen's probably an old mate of Brews. Either way, this is what we have been asking for so again I hope we make 1-10 August totally positive time for ICT. Everyone stops being negative and gives 100% to everthing they post. Surely that will help the players make a good start? Our first ever visit to a Championship ground for a fixture. Liverpool XI, Burnley, Denmark, Ross County and St Johnstone - not bad!!

Did they have public hangings at the jail?

I have this view that we should declare 1-10 August ICT Let's be totally positive period. If everyone in the club - players, supporters, management, groundsperson - is 100% positive we can perform extremely well. The dandy Dons are already predicting that they will shoot to the top of the SPL and stay there for a couple of months because the fixture list is kind to them. They start off with the diddy team. The last 12 months have seen an outpouring of moaning from probably all of us. Some a lot more than others. However, lets look down the road. Hearts have debts ?30 million more than ours. ?26m more than Gretna. Security of this debt is through an absent landlord. Their supporters do not have the facility to moan at their manager - nobody seems to want it. A lot of their players are on short term contracts. These are negotiated on the basis that regardless of performance or Puppet Manager, Mr Romanov has guaranteed to pick me! Frail may well receive his jotters this week. There again, he might get the job full time if all he does is show Romanov's instructions from the dug out and substitute players when ordered to do so. 1-10 August is therefore ICT 100% Positive Period.

Official website confirms he's off to Fife. We can always look back and respect the enormous work he put into games.

Zibi is back training with Hibs who need him as cover for the big lad off to the Olympics with Belgium. Cuthbert is joining Ken Dodds diddymen.

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.as...07520?UserKey=0 Well known podgy boy has warned his star players they must get in shape like himself. Game on!

.............and 11 George Bests off it!

I have to say I have considerable respect for Andy Millen. To me he was a winner in a fair sense and we will miss him as a player.

We rarely feel bad when an opposing Manager gets sacked following an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the diddy team although Gordon Strachan survived and Martin O'Neill's misjudgement did not harm his career. However, 'Barnes battles for post as boss' http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7463038.stm and I wondered if there was anything we could do to help his cause? Let me kick off and suggest he stars in this year's pantomime at Eden Court. The wicked witch could refuse to come out for the second half.

Honor Fraser came to an early game. Not sure if Bob Dylan has been yet. Dave Stewart is pretty famous both as a politician and front guitarist.

Barrowman may be perceived to be lazy but if his job is to goal hang and tap it in that's what we've been missing. In particular Dennis and Marius had so many chances last year to tap home but missed them. ICT create an enormous number of chances but we do not tap them home.

If anyone heard the telephone interview with Marius tonight on Grampian they would know this thread needs updating. Marius is not interested in any talk of transfers at present because he is getting ready for his imminent nuptials. I wonder how this will be recognised on the front page of this website? Maybe it's time for a Richard Hastings flag. Anyway that's Marius knackered for pre-season training then!

The football stats websites on Google all have him down as a Wicker. Plus Robbie Williamson is quoted as saying 'Borough Briggs manager Williamson told the Wick-born player to express himself on the pitch and his consistent displays helped push the Moray side to the verge of the play-offs.' The Premium site seems to think he's from Wack as well http://www.ictfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News...1300975,00.html

Shows that he worked his socks off with poor support. This was the night Mutu took on the world and lost and Romania somehow snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. But let's not forget they had far more determination to get there than England. The service to Marius was very poor. He played nearly 90 minutes in the tournament whilst big Yan Vennegoor of Humperdinck is just a bench warmer for Holland. Or should I say Mariush? After all the commentators referring to him as Mariush I think Sean Connery should make a comeback with his new Assistant. Take another bow Mariush, you did Inverness and the SPL proud.

If the Courier do poach these stories we need to convince them it was Charlie Bannerman Brew was after not Andrew Barrowman just a slip of the Dundonian accent. After all, Charlie would still be very fast going into opposing boxes and tends to strike against the odds. Charlie is still probably better than Elliot unless Brew can do a Cloughie on him to turn him into a silk purse.

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3721174921 Interesting game of cat and mouse. Paul Ritchie has so far been our best target man and he certainly did not play this hard to get.

Tug, If your theory is correct, and we do not currently know the full story, it does make sense what you are saying. Consider this, Marius might well be on his way and at a good fee, which would suddenly give Brew the chance, in about 4 weeks to buy or obtain by loan three or four quality players which could include a more established goal scorer at SPL level. Brew might not have the final say on Bannerman. The Romania game on Tuesday might be the defining moment as to whether Barrowman comes or not. If Marius were to leave, Barrowman might just see himself as the 'star striker' which is probably unlikely elsewhere because we focus so much on creating chances for the strikers. However, he would really have to prove himself if he took on the top salary and that might be a problem for him. IHE needs to look inside his head. Who knows what will happen.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/footb...down.4186867.jp Ewan's quite a reliable source.

Just apply the Highland Curse!

http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/articles/2/25247

Marius was magic. He played well and kept Inverness above Rangers, Hearts and a stack of Premiership teams without representation at Euro 2008. The commentators seemed to think the game reminded them of England which must be rare at a Euro final. No mention of his goals against Arbroath but his clever goal at Celtic Park was mentioned. Who would have thought Arbroath would get promoted but playing against a Uefa Cup Finalist no doubt inspired them. Little did they know he would play against France later in the season. Clearly his presence in the SPL had an even bigger impact on our League Runners Up, Rangers beaten sadly by Celtic, who we beat, with 10 men.http://www.rangers.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=507064 'There is even an Inverness Caley Thistle player at Euro 2008 - Romania's Marius Niculae.' Patronising bunch of whingers. Apart from Sionko and Gattuso, Rangers find it diffult to associate themselves with Euro 2008 unless they name drop Inverness Caledonian Thistle who in the previous year took 7 points off them. Magic Marius. But for Celtic's Magic a tactical substitution seems to have lead to self harm. 'Maciej Zurawski substituted after 46 minutes against Germany in Klagenfurt and Beenhakker admitted he did not know the forward was injured at the time.' He said 'he often plays like that'.