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To keep it simple for just you - Yes. Sack them all. Its a tongue in cheek comment - sorry it went over your head. Its making the point the club has to be seen that it will take action and act seriously - we cant let players or fans think this is tolerated at ICT or any other place in Scotland

Why not? If the culprit wont own up assume they are all guilty - not going to get a much better chance to clear them out for free haha. But seriously there will clearly be those who are innocent, however the club has to send a strong message this is not acceptable. The naivety of Austin to share is baffling, even more so that he is a minority player so would he feel the same if it was a racist comment?

Truly shocked by the lack of reaction by fans on here and that it's deemed to be a minor issue. Shouting FTP or anything else religious, racial or sexually orientated are not acceptable in modern society. given the club issued a statement to all fans last year about how to act right now it has to act in accordance with that or will loose (more) fans and respect. If a fan will be banned then a player must be too or more. If as an adult you make decisions to drink and break the law or employer rules then you should be man enough to stand up and take the punishment.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/3631391/inverness-caledonian-thistle-sectarian-players-coach-video-chant Send a strong message and sack them all if the guilty party won't own up. Be doing the club a favour by breaching their contracts with this behaviour and use it as a reason to clear the dross. Shameful and embarrassing. Truely is a new low we're hitting these days.

Strongly disagree, our stats for defence speak for themselves - why change from an effective 4 at the back to a system of 3 which hardly any domestic players are familiar with. We have seen it with Aberdeen in cup finals, Scotland recently that a team with improving performances fall off the cliff. Efforts need to be made to alter the wide players and those up front. We need to try keep the central midfield settled to help work and protect the back 4 where possible. Its about alternating players, positions and combinations along with tactics to try get something or a partnership to click.

Games played - 12 Goals against - 10 - 2nd lowest in League Goals for - 15 - 6th lowest in League Overall position 5th in League Clearly its scoring that is the issue, we need to keep the back line as it is and stay solid but improve creativity and hopefully the goals will come. With only 3 wins in 12 games (25%) we are lucky that everyone else keeps dropping points but reality is we are now 10 points behind Ayr at the top and we need to pick up more points. While its great being unbeaten in 12, we would be just as well off by winning only 5 and losing the other 7 at which point there would be outcry that Robbo wasn't improving anything. We need to find a solution that works otherwise we could go through the season and are in danger of being a team of invincibles that may not even make the playoffs!!!

Given the positivity around the U18 squad, the big question has to be where next for these guys? The first team isn't performing poorly but we lack goals, however all to often we have seen the door to regular first team appearances seem closed to youngsters at our club over the years. We need a mechanism where these guys can get chances going forwards rather than bringing in guys released from elsewhere who may be not significantly better players but costing the club more. Also we need to look at who the outstanding talents are or may be and look to get extended contracts in place - we as a club cannot afford our best youth talent to walk away for nothing or pitiful sums to other clubs if they start to shine, equally we shouldn't be just releasing them because we have no mechanism between youth and first teams - even if its signing with a view to several seasons of HL or L1/L2 loans.

In that case its a pretty sad state of affairs that the 7th (depending on which survey) largest city in Scotland by population can't sustain enough fans to support a full time football team playing at the top level. In terms of fan attendance V's city population our percentage must be very low in comparison to other clubs and sadly prolonged Championship football will do little to improve on that statistic.

Yet again our club doesn't play promising home developed talent enough, we have seen that consistently over the years with only Christie, Ross & Polly ever getting sustained match time. Given our current rate of 1 goal per game, its the right time to try giving something new a try - as said if Danny doesn't play then how does anyone know if he is good enough. Worst case we still don't score goals and can revert back to the status quo - perhaps that might be the boot that some of the more comfortably established guys need to know they have a challenge for positions!!!

Along with Tansey, Mckay, Fiasher, Storey and Draper all leaving with injuries that needed treatment at their new clubs (some are still recovering) it does ask questions about that period of the clubs history and whether there is a link between our teams sudden dip in performances and the injuries many first team players seem to have had. Whether that's management, player or physio decisions that these guys played we may never know.

Goals win games and sadly averaging just over 1 goal per match isn't going to win you the league. A solution to the creativity and goals has to be the priority - whether that's getting by until Austin & Oakley return and hoping one of them goes on a run of sustained fitness and goals or a gamble is taken in Jan to bring someone in.

No. Might be favorable for some home fans, but kills any away travel. The idea that by moving to a Fri night will reduce the competition of other activities I think is unlikely as every option whether it be shopping, movies, theater or even kids activities/sports can be equally scheduled on a Fri night as a Sat. What we need is regular Sat 3pm games, with the removal of TV options at any times on a Sat around those games as this provides too much of an alternative option/distraction for football fans affecting footfall. Televised football should be seen as a nice novelty not the norm.

Since this thread is a farcical discussion of Usain Bolt, its maybe time the who topic bolted from here to General Nonsense (utter shyte)

Think that confirms my point, seeing NR sign for Brora. Players who have for various reasons ended up without a club and are having to take any offers available to keep fit and in the game. I'm sure NR could do a job at a higher level - even with us

This is where we should be looking and focusing, contact the agents/players stating we have £XX pw. Want to play, get fit and in the shop window for a move in Jan or next season then this is your chance. Some may grab at it and end up with a hungry player that we may not have managed to afford otherwise they can sit and drift into obscurity and get ready for a life of unskilled low paid work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45481218

Other than running fast, he's 32 and has scored 2 goals in a friendly playing for a professional team against some part timers. I'm not sure other than the positive media coverage whether he would bring a lot to a team at a higher level - marketers dream, but professional player to elevate clubs to the next level on field, not so sure. Football is littered with players who have great pace, some have made an impression on the game and others less so. Look at Jake who was 10 years younger, maybe not quite as fast (but its all relative really as he looked like a whippet against opponents) and probably has more technical ability - he never really made it at ICT and is nowhere near the Hearts starting squad.

Its been a long time discussed about the requirement for overhaul of youth development and it not improved over the years as we still have players of limited technical ability, however we also have guys who lack the fight and desire we used to see. Money from club football is a bigger motivator than the pride of playing for your nation. Club football makes all the money, influences player decisions and in Scotland seems to drive the SFA/SPFL - what we need to see is a greater distribution of the club funds back into the SFA for investment in grass roots as clubs cannot be trusted to do this themselves. Without the funding being sustainable and substantial each year there will be no improvement in facilities, coaches and ultimately players. Look at the Dutch where the top clubs are handing over European prize monies to erradicate plastic pitches and improve facilities - can anyone see the top Scottish clubs doing this or even every club offering a set % of income to be used in a centrally controlled fund?

Wont get a winning team on the park if the club has no funds to pay for it and as long as it keeps treating fans with contempt then the inevitable risk is revenues (through ticket sales, mech and sponsors) and footfall will continue to drop. There is a link between success and having a well run club. Other than being a user on CTO, I have no other connection and not clued up on the ICT/CaleyD issues, but given the club has no official fan site which it directly runs or manages, I'm not sure that to try distance itself and not work to resolve the issues/relationship is really building the necessary bridge between the 2 groups. The club should be looking at this forum as a valued platform to promote the club rather than suggest it wont play with us as they don't like one of the kids. All very childish IMO and not how a professional organisation should operate.

Wonder how the club will spin this - no doubt it will be his fault for not leaving due to greed of wanting to see out his legally binding contract that the club offered. Afterall that's how we dealt with Warren & Raven and tried to spin it about OFW before. I'm sure as usual though there will be some on here who see his return in the same way.

There's probably not much significant investment around any Scottish football, however any increases in ST, fan footfall or even sponsors (of any level) may look at what JR has done over the later part of last season and early this with a view that its a good time to become or get re-associated with the club. Signs that things may be moving in the right forwards direction and the potential benefits that any promotion (or serious challenge) may bring to all parties. Time will tell overall but this bit news has more positives than we've seen out of the club recently.

Hopefully the stability of appointment will encourage investment into the club, clearly Robbo has improved the team over his tenure and right now the 18 game unbeaten league run is half way to being 'invincibles' but there is still work to do if the club are to get out of this division. Clearly creativity & goals are the weak area and if this helps to get a better quality of player or funds to improve then this is positive. Its a move which will hopefully prove fruitful for both parties as progress at the club will further boost the profile of Robbo and ultimately depending on his longer term goals could allow him to built a successful long-term tenure or advertise his capabilities for larger projects in the future.

There's a 5 page thread here where users were asked to provide questions, most sensible (some not) and this statement doesn't address these or make reference to when they will be answered only that they need to be submitted by other means. Through a position or post that the club hasn't bothered with a press release on, only to have it hidden away in reams of text, hopefully this is just advising the role being filled and it gets the level of announcement that it deserves so fans on all platforms (not just this forum/thread) get visibility of primary contacts.

I'm not sure that DUtd are in a position financially to pay compensation, if you read posts from DUtd fans many think the club is close to the edge financially and this may be their last year of being able to afford a promotion worth team (based on the players being established and on paper one of the better squads). Its more likely they will go for a free option and look at guys like McIntyre. If however they do approach Robbo and he is interested and have the cash given our financial position could we really turn down a high 5 or 6 figure fee? Our challenge would be who or where next but it would probably be from within the club.

It will be an associate of the board members. Won't be impartial and doubt it'll be someone with the fans best interest just an intermediary to tick a box.

Just as well we have organisations who know no shame, otherwise this could have been seen as embarrassing Doncaster must be made of Teflon as he rides through these issues time after time with his position unchallanged