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I'd be happy with the Palace home and away kits too. As said above, just replace the yellow piping with black.

3 hours ago, caley100 said:

What about Billy Mackay ? 4 seasons, 4 different teams, 4 relegations!!!!!!!        Feck them    Macgregor and his wasted millions.  

Rumours about Billy going to Hibs next season. So if Lennon quits too that will be them doomed to return to the Championship.

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by this situation. More signs of letting things slide. So much for engaging with the fans.

Well it will be like the announcement at the end of last season, too late to save things again. If it's the big A word then it will confirm what I said more than a year ago and that the slide into that situation was allowed to happen by the previous Board because our lofty ambitions in the Premier League could not be sustained.

3 hours ago, Weekend Hacker said:

Then perhaps some light is at the end of the tunnel....  Shame the highlights didn’t show the incident which led to the free kick and goal at the death.  It looked soft, but then I’m biased but I’d love to see it from a couple of angles.

I was speaking to a Pars fan on Sunday morning who was in the South stand yesterday and he told me that their player dived. It certainly looked soft from our angle.

Potential fixture farce looming if not played tomorrow night then.

A bit of a stroll in the park tonight. Brechin were pretty woeful and it should have been a lot more if more final passes in the box had found a man with space and comically Chalmers' backside not got in the way of one goalbound shot. 

It was good to see others get a run out with Calder, Chalmers and Seedorf doing well. Austin also showed more promise towards the end after he came on. The big worry is the injury to Coll Donaldson, which looked similar to the one he was out with recently. He seemed to catch his studs in the heavy turf when the condition of the pitch started to deteriorate with all the rain and sleet that fell most of today.

As said above stage one completed; getting distance between us and Dumbarton. Stage two in progress; overhauling Falkirk with a game still in hand. Stage three is to start reeling in QotS and others above from this Saturday on. The only way is up now!

14 hours ago, Ladyf said:

April fools day!

Spoil sport. Just when the posters were having some fun too.?

I suspect the same team that has started the last two matches will start again v Brechin. That 11 were the only players in the Aquadome competition pool this morning undergoing water resistance training. They were noisy, lively and the banter was good which was great to hear - their spirits are obviously high with this current run of form. 

Aside from the mystery "incident" in the main stand, the mini pitch invasion after the goal did bother me in terms of the possible repercussions for the club.    

Yes, I agree with the above. An all round better display than Saturday, but I still think the midfielders need to create better chances for our strikers to kill off the opposition. Austin and Oakley didn't get much service tonight and along with Mackay had to drop back to get the ball.

A good step in the right direction though - step 1 in moving closer to the top end play off zone. I'd settle for a point from St Mirren although 3 would be a great bonus. Then that would set us up for taking 3 from next Tuesday's game and opening up a gap between us and Falkirk.

Oops one too many celebratory drinks or predictive text. You know what I meant. It's the Fourth nay the Firth, or more precisely the County of Ross.

Was driving through Perth after the match listening to Off the Ball and a discussion about the slightly delayed "live" transmission on Alba. Tam Cowan said that Vigurs had missed the penalty on the live radio broadcast before he'd taken it on Alba.

6 hours ago, Caman said:

Never feel sorry for someone from south of Drumossie Brae. 

........ or north of the Beauly Fifth?

3 hours ago, CableGuy said:

Ah well just in from Perth .... We won the cup....and tremarco scored think that's about all I remember about the high points. Great performance by young mckay tremarco and Donaldson though. Daniel made all the difference 

Still in Perth, but ditto the rest.

Apart from the Challenge Cup we should also be concentrating on winning the two games in hand to Falkirk and overhauling them.

2 hours ago, AlexJones said:

Players don't become rubbish overnight. The margins in this league are small. FWIW I think our recent slump is down to tactical decisions. During our winning run Bell was by far our best attacking player IMO and a reliable goalscorer / defender from the front. He shouldn't be out on the flank, he should be our first choice center forward. Oakley will almost certainly make it (reminiscent of a young Adam Rooney) as a top flight player one day, but he isn't mobile enough to carry a threat as a lone striker. A Bell / Oakley front partnership is our best combination.

At the other end of the park, Ravens departure and subsequent back 4 reshuffle (Warren back in as center half, McKay shunted out to full back) also set us back. Donaldson / McKay were a promising partnership, would go as far as to say they looked like 2 of the best young Scottish center halves in the country during our clean sheet marathon - hard to believe now though. Warren is still a useful squad player, and not quite ready for the glue factory just yet (am I alone in thinking he could do a job further up the park? Certainly our most dangerous player from set pieces) but Donaldson / McKay are our best combination. Our back 4 should be built around that foundation.

 Play your best players in their best positions!

 

Alex, I can't help but agree with you on all points.

Bell and Oakley up front makes sense. Young Daniel and Austin (if he ever gets fit) could be back up for them and Doran or Mulraney.

I also said earlier in the season that Warren could still do a job for us up front at the time or now at right back in view of the short comings of Seedorf and McKay in that position. (Roberto) Carlos Tremarco is our best option at left back with Calder just in front. Time to rest Chalmers too and make Trafford the anchor man in midfield. 

So my picks for our next game v the Arabs would be:

Ridgers

Warren - Brad McKay - Donaldson (hope he's fit) - Tremarco

Doran - Trafford - Vigurs - Calder

Bell - Oakley

Subs : Esson or Cammy MacKay, Seedorf, Chalmers, Polworth, Daniel MacKay, Mulraney & Austin or Elbouzedi

Yet another GAME OFF thread - all too ridiculous. I make that only one league game and the Irn Bru semi played since losing to Falkirk at the end of January. 

I'm not a great advocate of summer football but what has happened this year will strengthen the case for it. There again it could just be down to a winter of freak weather. 

2 minutes ago, ICTPAISLEY said:

Surely glory hunters wouldn't be daft enough to choose ICT as their team. 

If your looking for an extra because your a season ticket holder your in luck. They go on sale a day before the general public. 

I'd count my other half as a glory Hunter as she only goes to cup semis, finals and European ties.

Wow, on sale a day earlier to ST holders! I'll need to get there early to beat the rush.?

Not a big place that might just fit in a coach load of fans. A good atmosphere and very popular though with music performance students from Perth College UHI show-casing their talents.

I'm struggling as it is to get enthusiastic about going to this. Reminds me of the dilemma I had about whether to vote in the EU referendum. Nothing to do with my trip to Rome for the rugby next weekend either. Only the chance to catch up with my Perth resident daughter that swings it for me.

Apart from the article on the back page of the IC rag today promoting free tickets for kids under 12, I'm not aware of efforts even to get ST holders to go never mind attracting the occasional glory hunters we need to help make up the numbers.

9 hours ago, RiG said:

Yup. We only have two free midweeks between now and the end of the season. Last thing we need is another midweek game.

......... and most of them away too.

At this rate we might just have one league game in six weeks since the beginning of February then have to play twelve in the next six.

5 hours ago, PerfICT said:

We can't blame the pitch or the referees, guys. We are bang average and the reasons are various: small core support, poor club management over past 2.5 years, poor recruitment, poor discipline, hangovers from previous regimes etc. My concern  is not this season, but whether we can sustain another year as a full-time club. That is where we are at - either next season or the next, we have to accept the real possibility of having to go part-time. That is the magnitude of the failings over the last 2 seasons.

Could not have put it better myself. As I suspected last season I felt the board were quite content to let us slip back because financially we could not sustain our success. At this rate we will be a Highland League club within 5 seasons. 

Well my decision to leave at half time to go and watch the rugby was the right one. I just had a bad feeling from early in the game that it wasn't going to be our day. Can't see us get anywhere near the play offs now. Our defence was shocking and we clearly missed Coll Donaldson. Looking forward to Dublin and Rome in the next few weeks.

Well at least it's been made known now, it's in Perth and it's on a Saturday. KO time is a mystery though. Looks like I'll be staying at daughter's in Perth that night and hopefully celebrating in the Cherrybank Inn after the match.