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A dreadful game of football. The standard of freekicks was unbelievably bad from both sides.
The first half we looked a side short of confidence but grew into the game in the second half.
Christie was excellent when he came on an time for him to get a start.
Billys lack of goals is a real worry but no faulting his work ethic.
Horrible way to loose a horrible match.
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Reserved judgement until after a good few listens, and a after a good few listens I think its excellent and gets better each time you hear it.
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Okay then , let's go with where was the Thistle Club.
I am not sure all ICT fans will remember that fine establishment Kingsmills
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the best way to surprise Hibs might be a 4-4-2 as nobody will think Yogi is daft enough to try it a 3rd time
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For some reason I picture CB writing these posts in a Union flag onsie while sipping tea from a Charles and Diana mug,
Gordie... I am a republican
I find this presumption of Royalism a bit bizarre.My apologies CB just in jest anyway
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For some reason I picture CB writing these posts in a Union flag onsie while sipping tea from a Charles and Diana mug,
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Talk about overreacting....
Not quite sure how its overreacting!!! I just hope the players and management are hurting as much as the fans today and go and put things right starting on Wed.
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Never a red, refs performance almost as bad as ours...not quite though
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Really is incredible what a difference a manager makes, same players and you just know these last two results wouldn't have happened under Butcher, might not won but certainly wouldn't have been humiliated.
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ffs I thought things couldn't get worse than last week,
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Nothing to do with being half asleep for the final, the same tactical naivety that seen us taken apart last week in full effect again. Shocking first half.
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What about Nando's, ok there is not one in Inverness but we might attract more players
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I wonder how much Bennett's departure from the board had to do with this, I believe him and Mr Savage are good friends? Agree with Kingsmills that there is no place for a shirt sponsor meddling in board matters if indeed that is true
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What a fantastic achievement, simply breathtaking to win the match in the circumstances we did.
Every one of the lads along with management take great credit against the odds with some terrible decisions for the ref.
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We will never get a million for Mckay, football works in a funny way, play for Celtic and your value is much, much higher, the likes of Celtic can also afford to run down bids for players that don't meet their valuation.
ICT are run in a very astute way and if the club were offered £300K I think they would way up the fact that they will get nothing for him in the near future and take it, bidding clubs know we are not cash rich and bids will reflect that.
As for where he is in comparison to Wyness and Rooney I think a more natural goal scorer than Rooney and certainly a harder worker, difficult to compare him with Wyness as played in different divisions but both quality finishers, although Wyness was very much a confidence player and if that dropped so would his finishing.
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Great performance and result and to be honest not one I really expected.
Very encouraged by Yogis willingness to use local youngsters, they should be the lifeblood of a club like ICT.
I hope that we can hold onto Mckay in the window as I think we can have a great second half to the season but his goals are crucial.
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on a slight tangent from this...hypothetical for you guys on here :-
euro millions jackpot of say 50-60 million pounds comes your way....... would you donate some to the club and how much ? would you attach strings?
personally I would happily pay 5 million to the club on the understanding I could have a family seat for life/100 years ( ie 2 tickets to pass down) and complimentary access to food drink at half time
If you won 50-60 Million would you be that worried about free food and drink
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Thanks for that link Alex. Had a read of it.
Briefly what do you think are the top five compelling reasons for the yes campaign and independence. Or alternatively someone else like Charles could briefly state the top five compelling reasons for staying part of Britain. Many Kiwis ask me to summarise/explain the main arguments of both sides of the referendum question as they cannot find them clearly articulated anywhere. I have to tell them I can't find them clearly articulated anywhere either.
It seems to most Kiwis that I meet that the whole referendum question suffers from poor quality debate and presentation of ideas.
OK... here we go.
* I would much prefer to benefit from the security and stability of being part of one of the world's leading nations than turn the clock back 300 years to become a small, one trick pony of questionable viability, whose principal claimed asset is going to run out sooner rather than later. Britain has been incredibly successful since it was formed in 1707/1801 and I would want to remain part of that. Small nations have shown themselves to be uncomfortably vulnerable during hard economic times. That is a risk I simply don't want to take for what i see as no benefit.
* I am perfectly happy as I am so have no desire to change - as, for instance, are the people of two other major nations Germany and Italy, which underwent unification in the second half of the 19th century, much later than Britain did. The yessers keep quoting the Czech Republic and Slovakia but fail to acknowledge that Czechoslovakia was merely a contrived political expedient at the end of WW1.
* In common with many Scots I have a strong feeling of British indentity which I do not want to lose. It is also increasingly apparent that this is also felt by the younger generation who are the ones who would have to live with the consequeces in the event of a yes vote.
* Britain offers massive benefits and economies of scale in areas ranging from defence to pensions and from consular facilities to currency which I do not want to lose. All of this is hugely important and not to be thrown away on the say so of a group of people who ideologically want a separate Scotland - irrespective of the consequences.
* The separatist lobby have utterly failed to show any credible evidence for what they think would be so much better. Meanwhile they accuse Better Together of "scaremongering" and the like when they quite simply are pointing out a whole range of very obvious problems which are totally avoidable by staying as we are.
* Scotland has a number of serious problems such as health and welfare liabilities in certain areas as well as unpleasant sectarian issues. Separation would mean that these problems become a much bigger part of 5 million population Scotland than 60 million population Great Britain. In particular as a Highlander, I have no desire at all to have my entire existence governed by the central belt.
Charles your last point about the unpleasant sectarian issues may well be valid, but do you not think there are more serious problems with religious and racial divide in the South of England, something I definitely do not want a part off. And do you seriously think that health and welfare problems are exclusively a Scottish problem, they are a UK problem caused by the policies of successive Westminster Governments.
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Thanks for that link Alex. Had a read of it.
Briefly what do you think are the top five compelling reasons for the yes campaign and independence. Or alternatively someone else like Charles could briefly state the top five compelling reasons for staying part of Britain. Many Kiwis ask me to summarise/explain the main arguments of both sides of the referendum question as they cannot find them clearly articulated anywhere. I have to tell them I can't find them clearly articulated anywhere either.
It seems to most Kiwis that I meet that the whole referendum question suffers from poor quality debate and presentation of ideas.
OK... here we go.
* I would much prefer to benefit from the security and stability of being part of one of the world's leading nations than turn the clock back 300 years to become a small, one trick pony of questionable viability, whose principal claimed asset is going to run out sooner rather than later. Britain has been incredibly successful since it was formed in 1707/1801 and I would want to remain part of that. Small nations have shown themselves to be uncomfortably vulnerable during hard economic times. That is a risk I simply don't want to take for what i see as no benefit.
* I am perfectly happy as I am so have no desire to change - as, for instance, are the people of two other major nations Germany and Italy, which underwent unification in the second half of the 19th century, much later than Britain did. The yessers keep quoting the Czech Republic and Slovakia but fail to acknowledge that Czechoslovakia was merely a contrived political expedient at the end of WW1.
* In common with many Scots I have a strong feeling of British indentity which I do not want to lose. It is also increasingly apparent that this is also felt by the younger generation who are the ones who would have to live with the consequeces in the event of a yes vote.
* Britain offers massive benefits and economies of scale in areas ranging from defence to pensions and from consular facilities to currency which I do not want to lose. All of this is hugely important and not to be thrown away on the say so of a group of people who ideologically want a separate Scotland - irrespective of the consequences.
* The separatist lobby have utterly failed to show any credible evidence for what they think would be so much better. Meanwhile they accuse Better Together of "scaremongering" and the like when they quite simply are pointing out a whole range of very obvious problems which are totally avoidable by staying as we are.
* Scotland has a number of serious problems such as health and welfare liabilities in certain areas as well as unpleasant sectarian issues. Separation would mean that these problems become a much bigger part of 5 million population Scotland than 60 million population Great Britain. In particular as a Highlander, I have no desire at all to have my entire existence governed by the central belt.
Charles thanks for that, I was in the undecided camp but if thats the best the no campaign have to offer then I am voting Yes
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I'm really struggling to be reasonable about this, I'm still in disbelief that he was the best candidate we could find.
Levein would've been my number one choice way ahead of Hartley, with Shields 3rd and the rest equally unwelcome.
If at some stage it turns out Craig Levein or Hartley were realistic options and we just plumped for the cheaper candidate in Hughes, I'll go buy a Real Madrid top and none of you will ever hear from me again
To be fair I think you have to be in on the interview process to decided who the best candidate is
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I'm really struggling to be reasonable about this, I'm still in disbelief that he was the best candidate we could find.
Levein would've been my number one choice way ahead of Hartley, with Shields 3rd and the rest equally unwelcome.
If at some stage it turns out Craig Levein or Hartley were realistic options and we just plumped for the cheaper candidate in Hughes, I'll go buy a Real Madrid top and none of you will ever hear from me again
I agree completely, I can't honestly believe he was the best we could of found, I would of taken Hartley, Shiels maybe Levein, Laszlo or anyone as bad ahead of Hughes, don't want to believe he is our manager so I'm off to a dark room, in a dark house and I won't be on here for a while :?
Do you not think he deserves a chance??
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At the end of the day whether we were positive/negative or undecided on the Hughes appointment I believe that through the years the board have got the managerial appointments right the vast majority of the time. For that reason alone they have my support on Hughes appointment and like any manager that comes into ICT Hughes will have my full support from day one.
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Disappointed to hear Hartley is out of the running, a good upcoming manager and I was looking forward to seeing what he could do with us.
If it to be Yogi good luck to him ICT seem to bring the best out in managers (the first time around)
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I agree, when it was announced Pawlett was out we have a real good chance to go at them, even no more so when Hayes went of injured. Dornan on the bench was a bad decision in my opinion. In Hughes defence perhaps the recent 5-0 losses and changes in defence made him go with this.