STFU

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

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.

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.

Made a late decision to go after being offered a comp, and was regretting it at half time and almost decided to head home to the warmth. Sheridan is awful. Every move he made was towards our man with the ball, restricting options. Can't recall a single time he ran into space, and if the ball wasn't to his feet he wouldn't move/chase it. Welsh looked like he'd never played before and Delaney was a passenger. Until the subs came on it looked like we were also a poor Lowland League team with nothing to play for. We'd get to the final third, then pass it back, all the way to the keeper half the time. A better team would have taken us apart in the first half, but Cowdenbeath were as toothless as we were Thankfully we had a strong bench and the first 3 subs changed the tempo and the game. Billy's goal was an absolute corker.and I hope we're working on getting Wotherspoon tied down a little longer. Hopefully the game time will have helped the fringe players, and those coming back from injury, but man was it painful to watch. Most important thing is, we're in the hat for the next round. Onwards and upwards.

Confident we can do the business, but a little nervous by mention of 4 or 5 changes, especially involving players who haven't been playing, and unfortunately Max Anderson is cup tied, so not available for selection. Still might stick a tenner on a win by 2 or more.

That cover it?

I hear there's a stadium sized plot available up at Fairways where they were previously hoping for some Battery Storage

I think underpinning the financial future of the club on it might lean things in favour of my interpretation, but you carry on splitting hairs

You're reading that wrong. It's not that the green port will deliver delayed benefit. It will NEVER deliver any benefit for the club.

I know you are just trying to defend the club, and that's admiral to a point, but I'm afraid you are wrong/misinformed on much of what you have said on this thread. Read it back in full and you'll see that there's information and links on things like business and resident objections to the Battery Storage unit, as well as independent consultations that state the application doesn't meet the criteria and the club not taking advantage of pre application advice which would have highlighted issues and allowed them to consider them before proceeding. The concert company stuff is covered above. The CEO told us the green port was going to be huge for the club, but now the chairman is saying he can see no way it will benefit us at all. This is not a case of giving a pat on the back and saying they tried their best, everything above is riddled with evidence of mismanagement and incompetence.

The recommendation to take pre application advice from the planners was not taken up by ILI/ICTFC. Naive, arrogant or both? Having watched the meeting, I'm not convinced the decision will end up going in favour of the club. When all is said and done, the application is to put an industrial operation on a protected open green site and all the noise mitigation and camouflage in the world isn't going to change that. A decision to allow it regardless isn't a precedent that council will want to set unless there's wider reaching benefit which can also be placed as a condition on future applications of a similar nature. A friendly councillor has managed to kick the can down the road by asking for the deferment, even if he also made it obvious that was primarily to buy time for ILI/ICTFC and not so much for the stated site visit.

Tell me you base your world view from information on the ICTFC Twitter feed without telling me you base your world view from information on the ICTFC Twitter feed

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If only we could drink battery acid

I may be dreaming this as I can't find where I saw it, but I recall seeing something from Ferguson that said the team were being trained previously as if they were part-time, and it would take a little bit to get the squad fully up to a fitness level where they could play the way he wants for the full 90mins. That could mean that subs are as much about that transition and not pushing players too hard for 90 mins, as opposed to it being tactical.

It's too easy to scream "big bad council". I doubt there are many of us here would welcome a noisy, potentially dangerous, and ugly development, only 100 metres from our front door (only 30 metres from some offices). And it's not going to do much for their property value. Battery Storage is needed, but they can't just be plonked anywhere because the local football team will gain financially from it. There's an interesting article here - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-66584335

Nairn County ring any bells?