STFU

21 minutes ago, MacOne said:

Aye nothing less family friendly than orange.  You are aligning the club with that nonsense, along with one or two others. Anyone would think you had an agenda.

• Blackpool play in tangerine – a tone of orange – shirts and white shorts, with their socks combining both colours.
• Brisbane Roar play in orange shirts – with black diagonal shoulders with a thin, white line under the black – black shorts and orange with black banded socks.
• Dundee United rock tangerine shirts, black shorts and tangerine with black banded socks.
• Houston Dynamo don all-orange kits, with black designs on the necks, arms and sides of the jerseys.
• Hull City play in black and amber (yellow and orange) striped shirts, black shorts and black and amber socks.
• Istanbul Basaksehir FK play in orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Lorient wear orange shirts, with a diamond checker pattern with a subtle wave pattern applied, black shorts and white socks.
• Luton Town play in orange shirts, with white and blue on the trims, blue shorts and orange socks.
• Montpellier play in predominant navy and less conspicuous orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Shakhtar Donetsk rock orange shirts and socks with thin stripes, with black shorts to match.

On the international scene, only two popular countries are among the football teams that play in orange kits

• Ivory Coast play in all-orange kits, with a touch of green on the shoulders.
• Netherlands rock bright orange shirts, shorts and socks, with black designs on them.

 

All the effort you put into that post to prove.....nothing

On 1/12/2024 at 6:49 PM, Oferesbumfiddle said:

Thought Hyde would’ve been able to get a better loan then Brora. Maybe an Elgin level

Brora likely able to make a greater contribution towards wages than many others.

1 hour ago, MacOne said:

 

 

 

Any facts here, or are you all looking for jobs with The Sun? lol

Precisely the kind of dismissive/mocking attitude towards fans views we've seen from the CEO.

Good luck selling marketing opportunities to sponsors/businesses when there's no fans to market them to.

We have a striker that can score goals, it's just unfortunate that he spends most of the game having to drop deep into midfield in order to get involved in play.  Mckay must be the most frustrated player on the park, as well as the one covering most ground.

Shaw must be the second most frustrated due to being played in the middle, instead of out wide where he was way more effective earlier in the season.  He's one of if those gangly kind of runners that make him hard to tackle (similar mould to Daisy and Tokely).

I've not seen much of us this season, but last night we looked very slow on the counter.  This was allowing utd to get players back in numbers.

I'm not a fan of hoofball, but you can't expect to get up the park quickly with sideways passing, and someone needs to tell our midfield there's no rule that says they have to stop at the half way line when in possession.

Our players are more capable than they're being allowed to show, and I'm worried Ferguson is 'doing a Dodds' by not playing a system that suits the players we have available.

Subbing on one of the shortest players in our squad just before a set piece with only 3 mins to go was a bit of a strange one.

The denied penalty claim isn't what cost us the draw, conceding a goal did that.  Unfortunate that 'the best keeper in the league' was caught napping.  Regardless of who else is around him, he should be taking that ball with ease every time.

3 hours ago, Caleyjag said:

When your club care more about headlines than scorelines.

He's clearly misunderstood.  Happens with a lot of genius types.

Even if he was fit I wouldn't want him playing given the circumstances.

Is it not the case that a player is free to speak to other clubs, and can sign a pre contract, in the last few months of their current contract?

Harsh!

1 hour ago, Yngwie said:

Realistically though, is the score going to get into double figures before Rangers hopefully ease off in the second half? 

We should be fine so long as we don't accidentally send out the men's team.

Who's paying for this magical overhaul that's going to save our season and set us on the path to glory in 2024-25?

1 hour ago, Ronaldo said:

I think we are two quality players away from being decent, hope Dunc can find them

Started your new year drinking early?  Or maybe you just forgot to add the additional need for an entirety new bench of players that don't weaken the team when brought on?

Just to keep @Moogthurso happy, I'd not be upset if we offloaded the CEO to free up money for players.

Ferguson's first job was to stabilise the team.  He did that by finding a starting 11 and formation that was working and getting results.  Dodds hadn't managed that.

That has been disrupted due to some of that starting 11 being unavailable for various reasons, and not having sufficient quality on the bench.  We'd already seen frailty with subs at the end if games.

We might have hoped to have got to January without these challenges, but not to be.

Unfortunately, I don't think the January window will bring the changes we'd like to see because we don't have money to be paying players off and bringing new ones in.  The fact we're taking free agents on trial in December indicates the market we might be able to shop in.

Ferguson has, to my knowledge, never talked about promotion play offs and has been fairly clear that he was tasked with survival.

The best we can hope for is that some of these fringe players improve with the game time they're getting and we cobble together enough to be above the relegation spots at the end of the season.  Given how things were looking a few weeks ago, I'd be content with that.

From watching the highlights, on another day it could have been a game with a dozen or more goals.

I don't use it, but the Travel Club seems to be about the only thing ICTFC related that's been run reliably the last few years

Don't tell Bobby Mann!!

I imagine they accepted it, maybe even requested it, just so they could post it online.  Such is the screwed up world we live in, where likes and shares on social media are so highly coveted.

Apparently we're now offering cremation services at the stadium.

https://x.com/FootyScran/status/1732099539027284396?s=20

10 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

That would only work if the ball was on the ground.  And you can't have one law for when it's on the ground and one for when it's in the air!

There are no easy answers - no cheap ones anyway.

Even when on the ground, the length of grass and/or pressure of the ball against it would come in to play.

Referees are no better/worse today than they were before TV, they're just under infinitely more scrutiny post match.

Bring back the days before TV when things like this would be argued out in the pub based on where Bob or Jimmy were sitting in relation to the goal line.  Everyone would then agree to disagree and we wouldn't have pointless postmortems running on indefinitely based on dodgy video screen grabs that could have been from milliseconds before or after an incident and tell us nothing.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a minor misdemeanor.

Surprised we've not had the "Provincial club from the North being victimised because we're an easy target" statement from our club CEO yet!

We have an available squad which lacks any quality in depth at the moment, and that limits our options when it comes time for subs or backfilling for unavailable players.

This won't be the last time we lose a game in this manner as a result of that, but hopefully Ferguson can find a way to improve the situation when the January window comes around.

Unfortunately, the way we're run off the pitch is likely to severely hinder the available finances for that, so it will likely need a great deal of creativity and wheeling n dealing.

There's good argument for both approaches.  The one used is higher risk, but gave better return in terms of game time and a proper look at fringe players.  The cost was entertainment value.

I'm sure Ferguson expected a bit more from the starting lineup and didn't intend to be relying on subs to win it, but he'll now have a better understanding of what he's working with.

2 hours ago, Robert said:

Devine was the captain today despite Welsh starting.

Is Welsh no longer the club captain?

In his absence, Mckay has normally been the captain.

With Welsh unlikely to have been on the park the whole game (Ferguson said post match he got longer than intended) and needing to focus on his own return, and Billy not starting, then I don't think there's anything to read into it.