Kingsmills

Aint that the truth. That boy will be playing at least at English Championship level before too long.

Only if you regard Chick Young as a reliable source !

Just about undertandable from his point of view as he's hardly going to be hot property on the managerial market come the summer.

Maybe I should have been more specific in referring to players coming through our own youth system. I wouldn't disagree with those who are advocating waiting until after the festive fixtures before writing off any lingering hopes of promotion.

Interested to hear from those at the game but it seems that this Ref lost control of a game for the second consecutive week.

Alan Moore was one of those I had in mind.

Given that we're now 10 points behind an ever improving Dundee team it seems very unlikely to me that we are going to buck recent trends and bounce straight back into the SPL. Nor are we likely to be at serious risk of relegation. That being the case, is now not the time to be looking to the future and introducing the likes of Liam Polwarth and Nick Ross to the first team ?

This is not a call for our Manager's head hence the reason I've posted on the non ICT Forum but today's latest failure to turn a half time advantage into three points makes it even more likely that ICT be plying their trade in the First Division next season. That being the case we will, without doubt, be looking for a new manager in the spring. No doubt there will be further financial trimming so we will be shopping in the bargain basement. So, who are the promising young managers either acting as coaches or assistants at the moment or currently doing well at a part time level ?

Think that we probably needed all three points today to retain a realistic interest in the title. W must be coming very close to setting a record for squandering half time leads !

The forwards better be on form as I can see that back four leaking at least three goals.

Works out at ?15,000 per club or enough to run ICT for approximately three days.

I'd be surprised if we won the league this year based on current form but I'd be even more surprised if we ended the season below Ross County.

I too expect Q.O.S. and Ross County to fall out of contention in the new year but wouldn't be surprised to see something of a four horse race involving Dundee, Partick, Dunfermline and ourselves.

I agree with Mantis !

A chance to avenge our CIS Cup Exit. Can't complain about a home draw against beatable opposition.

and Reel ?

Inverurie Locos away would suit me down to the ground only being a 20 minute drive for me.

Yes scotty, i have read the Future thread. Hayes has been our biggest attacking threat. Hayes creates everything going forward, typically beating his man at pace, and delivering a good cross. Sarcasm is hardly an attractive quality.

Even Johnboy is entitled to his opinion however misguided it may be, provided it's expressed in moderate terms.

I agree, Airdrie and Ayr will battle out the relegation spots so that fear shouldn't be an issue. I also agree that we are going to have to string together 4 or more consecutive victories sooner rather than later if we are to remain in the promotion race.

If we are only going to play for one half can't we just occasionally make it the second half ! Begining to look like Butcher's relative success with Motherwell was an aberation and that his records at Coventry, Sunderland, Brentford, Sydney and now ICT are the true measure of his (in)ability as a coach and tactitian. I would dearly love hom to prove me wrong over the coming six months.

I know they only had 20 miles to travel but Dundee are to be commended for taking three times as many fans as us.

I didn't go today as I wasn't particularly worried whether we won this minor cup competition and I'm not exactly devastated that the Trophy is going to Dens Park rather than the Longman. What does concern me is that we've handed Dundee a distinct psycological advantage in what's going to be a tight title race. Particularly worrying that we switched off in the minutes immediately following half time when we knew that Dundee were going to come racing out of the blocks. That said, the first 45 minutes was as good an ICT performance as I've seen for years.

no Is Scotty's post at 114 the shortest ?

We are not the only nation in the world where kids have games consoles !