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Now that the season has finally been ended, we now await a result on league reconstruction. Other than our views on league reconstruction (which are in the relevant thread), we now have nothing to discuss so I thought I'd start a thread regarding building for next season. First things first, I'm worried that Hearts will come in for John Robertson, especially if Hearts the restruction vote and indeed get relegated to the Championship, which would then result in Daniel Stendel resigning. Hopefully the majority of our squad stay so that we can present a strong fight with Hearts and Dundee, in the push for ending as league winners. Imho, we need to sign quality rather than quantity and also utilise some of our promising youngsters in the first team squad. At the moment, we have signed Shane Sutherland and are losing Shaun Rooney to Saint Johnstone and possibly White to Motherwell (taken from Scott Burns Twitter account). My take on what we need in order to compete with Hearts and Dundee, which I'm happy for you to disagree with, add to or even debate Imho, our defence and a 20-25 goals a season striker would be what I'd be prioritising. I do understand that we need money to get these, hence why I said that we need to utilise the youngsters into the first team. Players like Cammy Mackay, Cameron Harper, Roddy Mcgregor and Daniel Mackay (there are probably more that I've forgotten to mention) are, in my opinion, capable of becoming first team regulars and making a difference :ictscarf: If only we had a rich business man/woman that could back Robbo, like Utd (Ogren) and Dundee (Nelms) have

Damn, and there was me trying to please you

OK, I have had good responses to my proposal and will happily concede defeat on the idea as its clear that this site is the preferred option Thanks for the responses and the post by you Scotty ;). I suppose, that's that then so mods, if you feel the need, close this thread ;).

I have been on Facebook and looked for a private ICT fans group but didn't find one so I'm putting out a proposition, that I start one and will be the main mod (I'm currently one on an Andy Murray group and am very fair/lenient) but will add more mods once they become a member and have requested to become one :ictscarf: I am not wanting to create a group and then discover that there is no interest in the group so that's why I have stared the proposition here, at least that way I can guage if its something you guys would like to see :). I know I'm seen as a troublemaker that causes distress in relationships between myself and certain mods/members (not so much lately due to learning a hard lesson), mostly brought on myself due to lack of patience or not backing down when having certain opinions that have been posted.

We don't know that they are definitely voting no That just came from The Daily Record!

How did young Roddy Mcgregor do :), its good to see the youngster get a first team start ?

Quite frankly this has been a dreadful month so the board AND management owe us an explanation as to why we only signed one player yet sold two. We were promised replacements if anyone left so why didn't we, and don't give us some crap about not having money because we did, these defenders did not go for nothing plus we had their wages. On the plus side thiugh, we should see Cammy Harper get some game time and hopefully others to. I think it's safe to say that we are definitely going to have a busy summer rebuilding :( :( :(.

I'm not sure he'll come though.

I wonder if the gaffer will use his Hearts connections to try and get another centre back in, and, no I don't mean Berra, he can go to Dundee lol. This has been a disastrous month whatever happens so the chairman AND management have questions to answer, especially with a vast majority of support turning on them both.

Has anyone considered that we may get a player in exchange ;), God knows who though.

Sounds like McCart to St J is imminent so I'd imagine we will see a centre half coming in by mid week as we can surely not replace him. I do understand that we probably also need a goalscorer but centre half has to be the priority.

If you read my post again, you'd realise that my last one was not rumours so to speak ??. But to answer your question, it's from Pie and Bovril or ICT pages on Instagram.

I was just going to say that (the bit I've put in bold) but was going to say it'll have to be an imminent offer because, if it's not done by end of this week, then we will reject because I recall the gaffer saying that offers will have to be made before the last week to 10 days of the month so we can get replacements in. I'm wondering if we could possibly get someone in exchange but I can't think of any, unless Tommy offers us young Chris Kane or possibly Michael O'Halloran. What do you peeps reckon?

I see St J are eyeing up Mikey Devlin in exchange for Matty Kennedy going the other direction whereas Aberdeen are offering Curtis Main. Would either be worth getting in on loan or would we have to pay some of the wages?

I've heard that the Jai Quitongo deal is off (if it was even on in the first place) and instead we are looking at taking Jake Mulraney and Jack Hendry in on loan ???. Jack would be a replacement option for Jamie McCart if he signed for a club in January and Jake Mulraney just wants to play more first team matches and feels he could offer us something different to what we have already. That's a dream I had last night lol.

According to a couple of members on Pie and Bovril, we have Jai Quitongo and Osman Sow traonongy/on trial with us :O.

Hopefully that is some cash available to Robbo to find replacements for Coll and others who leave :). And before anyone says that Toshney is the replacement, no he isn't because that was one planned before the snake left, according to the gaffer in an interview before the signing.

Once you are a Wicker, your always a Wicker :P.

I see on Dundee Utd forum that Sam Stanton and Osman Sow have been told that they can leave. Worth a punt?

On Pie and Bovril, a well known member on here, "The Scarf" says he saw on Twitter that Cammy Smith is being with us. Imho, he'd be a better singing than Shane Sutherland but, as I've said before, I trust JR in what he does, I think he knows what he is doing and looking for.

The STV sports reporter says we are close to signing two new players :O, any ideas who they could be?

Ousmane Fane.

Our first linked addition is some lad Biggins from Fleetwood, source being the Breathe Caley Instagram account lol.

Out of the first team players, the ones that I can see leave are Coll Donaldson (linked with County), Jordan White (been linked with St M last window so can see more interest in him) and Aaron Doran (same as White but the link was with Accies). Hopefully Ridgers is not linked away, my fear is that due to his performances this year, he may well be linked away :-(. I also see more of the youngsters leave on loan and, I see Mitch Curry is returning to Boro on Jan 25, possibly earlier, which makes sense because he's not played much during his loan spell. Its inevitable that our top players will be linked away so I can't understand why Robbo is confident nobody will leave, especially seeing as a lot of the players are not signing new deals at the minute. As long as we replace the departed players (if there are any) with similar quality then I'm happy :-).

As a lot of you probably know, especially the mods (wink), I have changed a lot since my return to the forum, in that I don't argue with other members or the mods, if they disagree with me etc. So, my question now is regarding a couple of posts I've seen in the Arbroath match day thread, which basically is bemoaning the fact that Robertson is a worse manager since Donald Park left. So, is that a strange statement from the said supporters to say or would you like Donald Park to return (I'm not sure what he is doing now btw) and Kellacher to be binned? My opinion on this is that the posters on that thread are being silly and disrespectful to Scot Kellacher and Barry Wilson. Hope you all have a good new year btw ;).