Jaggernaut

To quote Joan Armatrading, Down To Zero With A Word, Leaving.

I see that it's been reported that Livingston are interested in Robbie Deas. He is one of many of our players who are out of contact at the end of the season, and as usual we won't get a penny for him. We're definitely not a selling club, we're a giving away for nothing club.

He hasn't the coaching ability to turn this around. Most good coaches scout their opponents and set their teams up to play against them. Other teams do it against us, and are getting results from it. If he knows teams are going to sit in, or hit us on the break or close us down, he has to come up with tactics to counteract that. I've always said Dodds doesn't have a Plan A never mind a Plan B, when he needs to change things.

For me, Delaney is the better left back, but loses his head too easily. I have never thought that Harper was a left back from the first time I saw him play, he is a midfielder all day long. We were certainly stronger with Deas there, but we lose his CB abilities then.

Dodds keeps saying ' we're a right good team', well sorry Billy, it's the worst ICT team that I have watched. The rhetoric from Dodds about getting into the playoffs and other teams know we're a good team are starting to sound like the noises that Foran was making towards the end, and we know how that season ended!

On watching Dan Mackay's performances this season, I'd be very surprised if he makes the grade at Hibs, he should be ripping up the championship, but he's so predicable to play against.

The standard has certainly dropped since it lost most of its top clubs to the Scottish League, and certainly since we took a lot of the top players when we started our journey through the leagues.

Do we know who the scouts are, or does Robbo identify possible signings? I really hope that someone is keeping an eye on the Highland League, I'm sure there must be a few little gems in there. Didn't we try, unsuccessfully, to sign the Buckie Thistle captain a few years ago? If we can't get players to come up from the central belt, let's look at players on our own doorstep.

We should just send the youth team down, like we did in the Challenge Cup, although they got beaten as well, I heard they put up a much better fight than the first team did on Saturday.

Yes, I noticed that, after the bad pass, Shaw stood and shook his head, then decided to run after their player. It was too late by then, and we were always taught not to hesitate if we made a mistake, and track the player as he might make a mistake or trip and we'd be there to take advantage of the situation. I know Shaw is a young player, and I think he had shown potential over the last few games, so I hope he learns from his mistake and puts it behind him and push on with his development.

We will hear from them soon, when they ask us to buy early bird season tickets. It's the only time the club communicate with the supporters, when they want our money.

I'm really glad to have lived through and witnessed the golden era of the Highland League, in my humble opinion, that was the 70's and 80's. I was a Jags supporter, and would go to all home games when I was a boy, my parents wouldn't allow me to go to away games out of Inverness. So, when the Jags were playing away, I used to go to Telford Street or Grant Street if they were playing that day instead, and in the 70's especially, Caley had a great team, Johnstone, Allen, Fyfe and Park to name a few,and Clach had some great players as well, Wizzy Dingwall, Thomson, Giles and Kennedy. Other strong teams at that time were Elgin City and Ross County, so it's no great surprise that the Highland League standard has been diminished since most of these clubs are now in the Scottish League. What a team the Jags had then, I can still remember how great that side was that won the titles in the early 70's. Reilly, R.Fraser, D'Arcy, Cumming, Bremner & Lazenby, T.Faser or Tichy Black, Stephen, Cowie, Duncan & Maclean. The 12th man usually being Peter Corbett, Alan Maclaren or John Morrison. Halcyon days, sadly missed.

I agree. If he still is, let's see how many season tickets they sell.

Was a 2 4 Now I'm 1 1

Every week I think to myself, this is rubbish, it can't get any worse than this, and every week ICT manage to do it. I have watched football in Inverness for around 50 years, and I can honestly say that I've never seen such rubbish. Dodds needs to resign if he has any degree of respect left for the club. To be beaten at home by the bottom club is unexceptable. We started well, first 20 minutes I thought if we keep this up we could win this, then we went to our default position, lose the ball cheaply, can't string passes together, defend badly, don't work their keeper and revert to Hoofball. I really can't wait for this season to be over. We need a total clear out in all departments, starting with Dodds and his coaches.

I remember it well, what a game, and the Kilmarnock fans were starting all kinds of trouble after they knew they were beaten. I had a little altercation with a couple of them in the main stand, but I sent them homeward tae think again!!!

Yes, I read this article on Facebook today. What an amazing player he was, one of the best the Highland League ever had. I remember a story that was going around after one game. It was against Dundee, and Tommy Gemmel was the player/manager then, and he tried to kick Tichy up and down the wing, as they were in direct opposition, and after the game was over, Gemmel was so impressed by his skills and bravery, that he tried to buy him! But Tichy was a one club man. Brilliant times in the Highland League. I was in school with his brother Lofty, that's how old I am!

Before the Livingston match it was at 2. Sitting in the freezing cold and wet watching the worst football ICT have played didn't help. After the really unexpected result in beating Livingston in the cup, I would put it at 4, in the hope that we can maintain that level of performance. I'm convinced that Dodds isn't the man who can take the team further, we might scrape into the playoffs, but that's as far as we go. Before = 2 After = 4

Oh well, I can certainly forget my new career with the crystal ball! And continue not to play the lottery, and I unfortunately won't be restoring ICT to their former glory. They will have to do that with the tactical genius of Billy Dodds, who, after leading us to triumphant glory in West Lothian, will probably be given a five year extension on his contract! I had a dream that could now turn into a nightmare!!!

I'm not usually one for predictions, but I have this feeling that we are going to get a home draw against Celtic. If it comes to pass that I'm correct, I will definitely do the lottery on Saturday, something I haven't done for 20 years, and if it is a significant sum of money, I will buy the club and restore us to our former glory!

Amazing result. I wonder what the odds you'd get for a 3-0 win for ICT? Where would we be without the youthful Billy Mckay scoring when he wants?

In most cases, improvements are made from the vantage point of strength and success, but we actually got weaker after our most successful period in our history. That, to me, was the start of our decline to where we are now. Our success in winning the Scottish Cup, finishing third and playing in Europe should have attracted a higher calibre of player that came to the club to replace Shinnie, Watkins, Ross and Oferee, but we got Webberburn, Lopez and Co. The dip in quality was woeful, and that was down to a disastrous scouting policy that Hughes had. If we could have kept that cup winning team together for another season, who knows what would've happened, but that, and Hughes throwing his toys out of the pram, kick started our sorry path to decline. Having him on gardening leave for several months, and having to recruit from within the club (Foran), was where it all started to unravel, giving him such a long contract and not relieving him of his duties early enough compounded the ever growing problems at the club. It was a series of blunders that are still having the ripple effect to this day.

They say you can always remember where you were when historical events happen. I was at work, on a sleepover, as I was a support worker, and I could only get updates now and again as to what the score was, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing on Ceefax and folk telling me the score from the radio. It is so many years now, but I can vividly remember it all.

Maybe Aberdeen will come calling now for our Manager of the Month....Please.

Absolutely gobsmacked at this! Obviously the standard of every other manager must have been woeful for Dodds to win this, and whoever the judges were didn't see the awful football that was on show.