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One thing Butcher did very well was find players (or his staff did ) in the lower leagues and came up with some real gems , as yet Yogi has not made a signing of note and as we lose players that is a worry

Its all very well finding players but finding players that;ll fit into our system and budget is probably a different proposition. If the right person isavailable then get him on the books. If he's not then do the best with what we have. Under other managers we had a habit of paying wages forpeople who didn't have what we needed. Lets steer clear of doing that again.

 

 

Yes agree Alex but I think that is what Butcher did well , finding players that fitted in and were within budget, our current squad is most made up of these type of players that he found 

One thing Butcher did very well was find players (or his staff did ) in the lower leagues and came up with some real gems , as yet Yogi has not made a signing of note and as we lose players that is a worry

 

Again Board no conviction too scared to give decent contracts to all players so we lose players and do NOT replace them

There have been a few fairly daft and unrealistic comments on here since full time tonight but this one really must take the biscuit for its utterly crass cluelessness.

In a sentence, there are some people complaining that a club with a turnover of less than £4 million (which would fund just over 34 minutes of the EPL on Sky/BT) but is still now enterting a third month unbeaten in all competitions, isn't consistently churning out victory after victory in the upper reaches of the SPFL Premiership against rivals with player budgets often several times as large.

Does Brian have the remotest scooby about the board's strategy to fund a team which is now heading for its third season in the top six on gross revenues of less than £4 million derived from crowds which fail to hit 3000 with alarming frequency? Clearly Brian does not.

I am fairly sure Brian is not suggesting that we sign RVP or Harry Kane but a lower league striker with a bit of experience , the fact that we have a couple on trail now means we intend to sign one , why now one month after Billy left when it was fairly obvious that he would be leaving.

As Kingsmills said we are the only side in the league without a recognised striker, yes the club are doing brilliantly on the the field but it's a very fine line , look at Motherwell flying high for seasons and now facing relegation if we don't replace players we lose we could head the same way.

As you seem to know more about the boards strategy than most , what is is, lose our players and not replace them ?

Whats wrong with good old fashioned positions?

 

Keeper

Sweeper

Centre Back-----Centre Back

Right FullBack-----Stopper-----Left FullBack

Defensive MidFielder

Right MidFielder-----Centre MidFielder-----Left MidFielder

Attacking MidFielder

Right Forward-----Second Striker-----Left Forward

Striker

 

What happened to the good old fashioned Centre Forward ?

Totally agree we get well and truly shafted every time. To me this is really short sightedness and horrendously bad management not protecting your prize assets. If we are to be taken seriously as a top six club this needs to be rectified now by the Chairman and the Board. It is unforgiveable that players like Graeme Shinnie, Don Cowie, Ian Black, Johhny Hayes, Adam Rooney etc can leave for feck all because our Board of Directors cannot manage contracts.

How are we really ever going to progress when the rest of the SPFL see us as a soft touch.

 

Its not only us look at Dundee Utd losing GMS to Celtic, even Celtic with their finances might lose Commons on a pre contract. All the board can do is offer players contracts if the decide they don't want to sign them there is not a lot the board can do. 

I am not sure how a young lad looking to increase his earnings in a relatively short career is unforgivable, perhaps he wanted to stay in Scotland. 

Considering the baltic conditions I believe that the initiative did add a decent number to the crowd, 

While I was hoping that Yogi would prove me wrong when I doubted him never in my wildest dreams did I think he would prove me this wrong!!!

 

He stuck by his footballing philosophies and they have come to fruition big time, great passing and movement and we totally played the Saints off the park, the idea that Billy couldn't play in his system has now also be totally dispelled.

 

Full credit to Yogi and his coaching staff along with players who must have worked so hard to get used to this system.

 

Ain't Sneckie beautiful ?

 

In parts it is IHE, unfortunately a lot of it is a showdown of the town it once was.

 

Parts of the centre are an eyesore such as Church Street and Union Street to name two. 

And if the leagues go over to Summer football  how will  removing the grass and replacing it with this type of pitch  be a good thing?

 

 

Do you forget what our summers are like over here Scarlet 

There would be less need for questioning decisions if video playback was allowed.

 

It would make life easier for referees, players and fans...............come the revolution!!!

 

I am not one for video playback let the game flow!!!!

 

A Hungarian lad was telling me that in their game with Romania last year Collum was the ref and it was one of the worst displays by a ref he had ever seem and that he managed to upset both sets of fans with his incompetence.

 

Fans from every club in the country have been saying how bad Collum is for years why has it taken the authorities so long to do something about it?

 

Scottish football would be a far better place without him being a part of it.

 

I accept that refs make mistakes, they have a split second to decide but his constant holding up of the game by dishing out cards is unacceptable.

 

Its pity more ex footballers couldn't be encouraged to be refs, guys that understand the game.

Who knows whether this will work but credit to the club for trying, wilh some good football on show this season and the club trying a number of new incentives they can't do much else to try to get the crowds up. 

Terrbile decision for the penalty,  Draper made it easy for the ref no complaints from me for that one. 

 

Hopefully a wee dip for the team after a great start 

Not to shabby a performance at all and unlucky not to take a point at least. A tale of 2 strikers, Gudette who is on form and Billy who can't buy a goal at the moment.

Better be careful about giving away free kicks on the edge of our box that Guidette looks a bit handy from there 

I am hugely encouraged by his start this season.

 

I don't quite get how some are still trying to find negatives, the team with one of the lower budgets in the division sitting 2nd, the players appear to have bought into his style of play, chances are now being created for Billy and once he takes one he will start banging them in again.

 

Negatives? nah not for me I will just enjoy it.

 

 

 

While it might not be have been the large majority that voted yes it was still a large percentage of the country that voted for an independent country, for a lot of these people this dream will never die, do you give up in something you believe in passionately Charles?

 

 

 

 

Passing through Dingwall earlier this morning, I spotted this house with a large Yes placard still in the window along with a sign saying -

 

"Day #35 and still no extra powers"

 

Must be owned by the guy I saw a couple of seasons ago storming out of Victoria Park when County went 2-0 down against Celtic and could hardly have been back over the bridge before Grant Munro scored en route to a 3-2 County victory.  Or alternatively, Alex Salmond has rented the place as a holiday home.

 

Either way, this gives an excellent insight into the Nationalists' "Plan B" (they've got one at last!!!!      ) to undermine the process of enhanced devolution and display the said cynical contempt for the Scottish people as they pursue an outcome which these same Scottish people have told them they do not want. If they don't like the answer, it was their decision to ask the question.

 

 

What utter dross Charles, I hope you teaching was not as blinkered as your politics. Have you ever tried to get your point across without sarcasm? 

 

 

 

They voted to keep it because of much the same reasons the vote in the referendum was NO.

 

 

I'm still trying hard to express the two word, two syllable sentence Y-O-U L-O-ST (so go away, stop bothering us and let us get on with our lives) in even simpler terms. I've even been through the whole process from the SNP getting a Holyrood majority, deciding to have the referendum according to their rules and then attracting 20% fewer votes than NO - and still they don't seem to get it.

I can now see the SNP continuing their cynical contempt for the Scottish people by creating as many difficulties as possible over further devolved powers - simply as a means of continuing their attempts to fan the flames of grievance and dissatisfaction. I actually think that the SNP would be perfectly happy for further devolution to be derailed or delayed simply to give them an apparent excuse to greet and girn as they seem to have been doing since Edward Lonngshanks was a boy.

As for the AV referendum... it was 68-32 against for goodness sake. It wasn't even close!

The more this post- referendum nationalist bellyaching keeps going, the more the nationalist tone reminds me of Germany after the First World War!

 

 

"Cynical contempt for the Scottish people" more so than the 3 amigos that gave the vow?

 

While it might not be have been the large majority that voted yes it was still a large percentage of the country that voted for an independent country, for a lot of these people this dream will never die, do you give up in something you believe in passionately Charles?

 

You seem to think that the SNP's quest for a referendum was the wrong thing to do, I would have thought that even the most ardent no voter would have thought that this was a success if only to get the people  politically engaged like never before, including the younger generation, along with shaking up Westminster parties. 

Well done Caley...a profit is a profit,   however does £28K represent a 1st team footballers wage?   In other words hard to see any additions to the squad now without someone going first, and I suspect without a run in the Scottish Cup, more than one might have to go in the summer to balance the books

 

Also shows that even minor improvements to the ground are not affordable

I wouldn't imagine 28K would cover a 1st team wage 

An excellent 3 points today - well done!.

Collum must have been told to keep his cards in his pocket this week after his efforts last Saturday - which has gone under the radar - as it was played abroad!

He was reffing the Hungary v. Romania Euro 16 Qualifier. TWELVE yellows!

 

Willie Collum.jpg

I actually say a post on twitter from a Hungarian guy saying it was the worst ref he had ever seen,

I see when he won today he had an Orion Group sponsorship logo on his blue top and he had that very nice Callaway blue and red tour bag in tow ;-)

 

Orion have sponsored him for a number of years, nice to see they loyalty through the barren years being rewarded. 

Great 3 points, dire first half, better second half.

 

 

Service to Billy needs to improve or he will be wanting away shortly, can only keep his international place if scoring and if he aint getting the service he can't score regularly.

 

Harsh to criticise Yogi when flying high in the league and another 3 points and I have only managed the last 2 games but some off it has been very dull in these 2 games

One thing for sure judging by the reaction to my post some off the regular posters Have had their feathers ruffled !

 

Congratulations you have won the feather ruffling contest for September 

Disappointing result and, by the sound of it, performance.

 

Even more disappointing that Yogi is talking up the performance and describing the Rangers as a great and massive team. They are in a lower league, we have better players, we are the better team and not that much changed from the side that thumped them 3-0 two years ago.

 

We gave them 'respect' they no longer warrant and we paid the price. A the Premiership team we should have been up and at them from the start rather than treating it as though it was the Rangers team of a decade ago playing the ICT team of the same era.

 

To be honest we were not as negative against Rangers sides 10 years ago as we were last night, baffling tactics 

First game I been to this season due to being overseas...shocked at how negative we were against a side that were there for the taking. While the initial results have been excellent I haven't been sold on Yogi's strategy yet, and last nights result didn't sway me either. Its how we do over a long period thats important but for me the jury is still out. 

 

Its ok pointing the finger at the ref, who was poor, but our tactics got us what we deserved last night.