Caley Mad In Berks

The most sensible post on this thread by a long way. Some folk just seem more obsessed with off field matters than what happens on the pitch

First time I've seen him live. Indeed the first ICT game I've seen live in several months. Totally agree with Snafu. He looked great in first half and I feel he can only get better with regular matches.

Well, I ploughed through all of this. Some interesting insights into the Butcher days, but generally pretty light weight imo.

I have one from the home game v Astra Giurgiu on 16 Jul '15, but not the away game. If that is what you're looking for drop me a PM.

Well, that is my hope of a 'local' match at Sutton United later in the tournament knocked on the head. Whilst I am generally in favour of blooding youngsters, I do think we might have fielded a stronger team tonight to ensure going forward in a competition we won last year. Not a lot left to win this year, except the championship and the Scottish cup of course. Maybe I won't hold my breath.

And I notice one of our ex youngsters, Andrew MacRae, released at the end of last season, I believe, scored a hat-trick for Forres yesterday

I think we all would have settled for that after last week's debacle. Well done boys.

Yes, Dean Ebbe has scored at least 8 goals so far in 2018, 3 of them in Europa league matches.

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Competitive? Wasn't it a friendly?

As they say, "There's no 'full' like an old 'full'. Don't take offence, I'm only 'fulling' around.?

A fair point you make. There does seem to be some inconsistency in the moderating in this instance when only one person is taken to task for 'personal' insults.

Maybe it should have said "are demented"?

Must say I would have expected a statement on the club website thanking Gary for his loyalty to us over the past seven seasons. Our best ever signing in my opinion. For him to just go without even a mention seems a poor way to treat our club captain. I did think he might have had a chance of Rice's job, but apparently not. Good luck to him wherever he ends up. Top man.

Yes, an absolutely outstanding performance from Scotland, and richly deserved. One to tell the grandchildren about.

Callum Ferguson scored two more goals last night (7 Jun) for Cascadia in the CONIFA World Cup.

And he scored his first goal for them last night, 3 Jun.

Graeme Shinnie also played, for the full 90 minutes I think.

His overseas experience didn't amount to much. He got fairly little match time whilst he was there, and even that was mostly as sub. Although I quite liked Nick, I can't see him improving our sqaud greatly.

I have always liked Warren. In my opinion he has been the best signing the club made in the last decade or so. My reading of the report indicates to me that the club is treating him entirely fairly. Whatever transpires I wish him all the best for the future. Top man.

I wish her well, and we now seem to be very adequately covered at 'the top end' business wise which I hope will provide long term stability. I'm assuming we are sorted on the football management side too, although I'm not sure how long Brian Rice's contract is for. So, maybe just the playing side to be firmed up on, with one or two suitable new signings, or loanees, and we should be well prepared for the new season, and be able to have a concentrated crack at promotion right from the start. I feel a lot more confident about 2018/19 than I did a year ago. If we can keep the momentum going which we discovered in the last third of last season, there is no reason why we shouldn't do well, despite the Championship now being considerably stronger than it was in 2017/18. Onwards and upwards

A lot of talk about Mutumbo in this thread. I'm not sure what has happened to him. I know he joined RNK Split in Croatia in 2017, but whether he is still with them is unclear. Split's results are easy enough to find but finding their goalscorers in 2018 is extremely difficult. The usual websites I used when I was following exICT scorers more diligently than I do now don't seem to include them. And Mutumbo's Wiki page doesn't appear to have been updated in a year.

Still, I think his (Tansey's) penalty record has been the best that ICT has had in the past decade or so.

In fact, I wouldn't be that worried about any of our former players now at County, taking a penalty against us, apart from Tansey, who was decent.

Yes, I agree with Caman, discipline should be better. We just need Polworth and Warren to keep their cool and it should be miles better than this season. Couldn't be a lot worse mind you. I think it was the main thing which contributed to our dismal first half of the season. So, onwards and upwards!