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Nope. Doesn't do it for me at all. Very underwhelming.

Yes I heard about that. Just when you think things can't get any more odd at Almondvale...

Around about 1,500 last season. Not nearly enough to sustain full time football. And here was me thinking it was 3 blokes and a dog. Their crowds were never that great, even when they were doing well. There was always something a bit plastic and unreal about the club, it's not suprising they've ended up in this mess.

"...Massone told BBC Scotland that a fund-raising appeal to supporters only generated ?149.50" :lol: As much as that, eh?

On the contrary, papalazaroo is anything but a County fan! Like myself he used to post on the old board back in the days of Sportnetwork, and I can promise you that he's ICT through and through. However, given his history with Mike Smith, it's a little suprising to see him come out in support of the guy.

I don't know that I would be able to be in the same room as him and remain civil.

Good luck guys. My boss is the captain of Stirling Albion, so I've got quite a big interest in them!

They like him 'cos he got us relegated. WOC - it's a bit like bank managers or chairmen of big corporations that screw up - they just get offered another job with loads of cash again. Go figure! At least in financial services if you're that incompetent at the job you risk being struck off by the FSA as an unfit person to carry out regulated financial activity. In football there's no such regulation: you can get yourself some coaching badges and call yourself a coach or manager even if you have no tactical awareness or man-management skills whatsoever and you can fail miserably in every job and still keep finding more work. It just confirms my previous suspicions that it's a mad old world that we live in!

Is this the luckiest man in Scottish football? Keeps making a pig's ear of whatever job he finds himself in, yet for some inexplicable reason he keeps getting jobs. Go figure...

Disillusioned? Yup, but I've been disillusioned since the day the club brought back Brewster. Angry? You bet. I believe a lot of what some people perceive as "negativity" is really anger and frustration; it certainly is in my case. Relegation was avoidable and if certain people had done their jobs properly or taken action when it needed to be taken we would have avoided it. It just seems that the people in charge of the club have kept on repeating the same mistakes over and over during the past few years. We just never ever seem to learn, and this is where it's got us. It was a real nice club we had once...

This is up to his usual trite standard. The "prodigal son" remark shows how little he understands or bothers to notice what actually goes on at ICT.

I couldn't believe how good Zadi was today; it was like watching a completely different player. I was really impressed with the whole team today and it felt great to leave the stadium happy at the end of the game!!! :thumb04: :018:

Wow, that brings back a lot of memories! Seems like a very, very long time ago now! Lots of people in those photos that I haven't seen in a while.

Hello Ralph, I was just thinking we hadn't seen you around for a while, but of course there's not very much for you to talk about round here these days... I guess the good folks on Over The Bridge can look forward to your company now.

Marginally, yes. And that's saying something...

It has always bugged me about Strachan that he never, EVER gives the other side any credit for anything. He is possibly THE most irritating person in Scottish football, and being able to take even a point off Celtic and send him into one of his little tantrums gives me an immense amount of pleasure.

What is the world coming to!!

Malpas is not a particularly good manager, but in the past he has been a decent assistant. Some people are just not cut out for management per se, but make excellent assistants.

Most managers have a mixed record to some extent. The important thing is that Butcher gives us a better chance of survival than his predecessor did and will hopefully kick a few backsides, wake a few players up and get us performing again the way we know we can. He knows the Scottish game well and this should be to our advantage.

Yup, I would agree with all that. We've never had a manager who's coached at that sort of level before and I think his experience and knowledge will be quite useful to us.

I'm quite happy with this appointment: I think Butcher will shake some life back into the team. The people talking about relegation are getting a bit ahead of themselves. We have time to pull ourselves off the bottom (we're only two points behind Falkirk after all) and the players to do it as well. The Brewster era is finally over, we have a fresh start now. Let's just see what happens before making dire predictions about the future, eh?

You took the words right out of my mouth, Don. It's the 21st century, for heaven's sake. If you need to get between Inverness and the south there are trains, there are buses, there are even flights in and out of the city. It's not like Inverness is a day's journey across the desert. The club should be doing everything in their power to promote Inverness as a modern city and a pleasant place to live and work. Like you, I'm sick fed up of the club being its own worst enemy in this regard.

That's as maybe, but he holds a mighty strong grudge when it suits him!!

I wouldn't put it past our board to make a completely inappropriate choice; they certainly did the last time. Hopefully though, they will actually choose someone capable of doing the job this time round. I don't mind too much who it is as long as he's got the experience and ability to get us out of the Brewster-shaped hole we're in.

Earlier on Scotland Today named Butcher as favourite to get the job. Whether we can believe that remains to be seen...