STFU

Listening to Dodds press conference and his head's gone.  His reaction to Coyle's comments are very bizarre!

Time machines at the ready!!

Agreed.  The issues people have with the club right now are way deeper than cost of entry.

I've personally never felt so disconnected.

Money's a bit tight this month, so can't justify the £20 for a 4th round tie against a team we've just seen.

Keeping it positive....I'll hopefully make the next round

Who's written him off?

3 minutes ago, No Shin Guards said:

Give the lad a chance please? 

As I said "we'll see", but people getting all excited because he was one of thousands of youngsters to have been in the Man Utd Academy, and because they found highlights from one game where he scored 75% of his season's goals, is just a nonsense.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny how easily ICT fans are appeased.

Club heading backwards on and off the park, but hey, we've signed a player who's not kicked a ball professionally for over 6 months, but once played in the Man U Academy, joy to the world, just hand us the title now!

Fortunate draw.  We started lively but offered very little after the first 25/30 mins by way of proper threatening balls into the area.

Queens Park were much the same for the most part, and the game mostly played out in the middle 50% of the park.

If the aim is progression (and it clearly is/should be), then today was a bust.  Luckily teams around us didn't take advantage.

Hundreds of players have graduated the Man Utd Academy that have gone on to achieve nothing, and Woods didn't even graduate.

He scored 4 goals in one season, 3 of them in one match (he played 29 matches).

He's been playing amateur football for the last 6 months.

Dodds said we'd only be bringing in players that were better than we had, so we'll see, but I'm not going to be rushing to get the w4nk sock out based on any of the above.

That was kinda my point

Goes to show what a lot have been saying the last few months, and that we are capable of getting results, even with the number of injuries we have.

Hopefully the players can carry the momentum into next week and beyond.  We need a 15+ point buffer from the relegation/playoff spots at the bottom.

Listening to Dodds, it doesn't sound like the CEO is offering any money to strengthen in this window. Can't offer what we don't have, I guess.

A couple of young loan players to develop instead of developing our own is the most we can 'hope' for it seems.

I thought the reason they stopped working with Andy was because they now employed a video analyst to do it?

18 hours ago, Robert said:

Billy’s hat trick: look at the ground he made up to be on the spot to turn his third in after it came back off the post from Doran’s header:

and Danny’s goal:

It’s a pity they’ve not put the own goals on line. I’d like to see them again, particularly the second one. It was a good laugh at the time!

Why, oh why, have we gone back to using the pixelot camera?

15 minutes ago, Gringo said:

Very true. Hopefully after this 6-1 win we'll go on a run of 11 games without defeat.

11 draws?

Apathy is a protest the club will not quickly recover from!

7 hours ago, Gringo said:

I think we deserve to be optimistic after that result - even we only scored four of the six goals. A win certainly adds some much needed joy from the recent dross. A win like can have a remarkable effect on motivation so who knows what will happen. Time will tell. 

If it was just struggles on the park, then I'd be right there with you!

My worry is that if we allow deeply ingrained problems, with team and club management, to be swept under the carpet every time there's a good result then we will just keep spiralling.

That isn't to say we shouldn't have hope, and I'm definitely not calling for booing of players, but Dodds, Robertson, Gardiner, Morrison etc. need to be held to account as they have delivered NOTHING, not even close, to anything they said they would.  Quite the opposite in fact.

That's not grounds for optimism.

2 hours ago, Robert said:

When we pipped Dundee to win promotion last time, how far behind were we on 1 January?

1 hour ago, caley1 said:

wow 1 win by a team we should be beating and we are now going to win the league ? 

1 hour ago, Robert said:

I didn’t say that.

Oh yes you did!!!

If the club aims to be promoted, then we can't have a manager who has, for two seasons in a row, overseen substantial non-winning runs.

It's as simple as that!

16 hours ago, Robert said:

The club has posted information about mascots tomorrow and there is no mention of a pitch inspection, so hopefully the game is not at risk. 

In this day and age, you'd think clubs (not just us) would be more cautious of what information they were providing for minors.  We're told not to put even the most basic of child's info online, but here we have; a photo, full name, age, school and all the interests a potential groomer would need to get chatting to them!

Worried that we seem to be chasing young loan signings.  We already have plenty of prospects in that department, what we need is some experienced players/leaders on the park to compliment them.

Actually, what we need is a new leader in the dugout, but

7 hours ago, bdu98196 said:

Were you really though?

Not in the slightest 

Given how vital Dodds claimed having these youngsters back was, I was surprised to see him comment to the press that they may not even play . Hopes of a double figure victory have been dashed .

We need the game to be on.  It's ok saying it gives players a chance to get back, but going by the recent expert article on the negative impact of fixture congestion on player welfare/health, it doesn't seem a sensible solution.

13 hours ago, buckett said:

There were calls last season for Tokely to be given a shot at management, I think as a result of his extremely insightful comments in the press and on ICTV livestream commentaries.

Who knows, Tokely and Esson could be the killer combination we need!

 

We're currently on relegation form, so it definitely wouldn't be any worse.

I definitely don't subscribe to the notion that football clubs can do no wrong so long as they appear to be acting in self interest

It's also reasonable to question facts being presented by those who have a history of twisting the facts!

The only conclusion I want to reach is that our club is in safe hands.  Do you think it is?

People and businesses on Facebook claiming that they were invoicing and being paid (in part) by the club in relation to the concerts.  Also, and this is undeniable fact, online ticket sales were through the clubs ticketing account and platform.

On the above basis, there is clear cross-trading and it is hard to argue that club and concert companies are unrelated.

As I said previously, Scot Gardiner intimated on the podcast that the club had been paid for services provided.  Further indication that the companies were related and/or offering favourable terms in their dealings.

Baffles me that anyone thinks this is defensible.