big cherly

Agree!!, Yesterday’s man and too tarnished by showing he would rather get a purse by commentating at Dingwall knowing it would irk the ICT fans (basically giving them ‘the fing-ir’)! What that action and image did whilst being the ICT ‘Director of football’ as our team went on defeat-after-defeat won’t be forgotten or forgiven by me! Know it’s interim and CC is their as a crutch to share any flak if results are poor, however knowing JR previously had to take ‘time-out’ due to pressure, is this a responsible decision by the those that made it? Smacks of self preservation for me! bc

Yes to your posts and position (and mindset of the powers). I just think everything the fans and trust could do has been done. The only thing that registers with the powers is unfortunately money and it’s reducing that source will get hopefully some of the other board members to act! bc

Can’t agree, it’s the strongest card the fans hold. The alternative is what, more of the same of the current system and structure? Ask the board nicely via the match day survey the fans would like a win? bc

Also who backed that decision and who registered any objection?? bc

Understand (I think) what you mean, but maybe ‘ICT was the better team on the day but couldn’t score’ more accurate! Nothing (on or off the field), to back up ICT are superior to RR just now. bc

Yes, says it all Mantis. Ultimately this is the only measure that will register with the lot in the boardroom. It’s the only power the fans have to force change! bc

Hard to be objective or see anything positive when we’ve just lost again on the back of a disastrous start of the season. I’m not going to defend the players, manager, CEO or any other official here (the results lay bare our shortcomings). Their is an air of resignation and acceptance from most of the fans that irrespective how much they complain or register their dissatisfaction the club batten down the hatches and adopt a bunker mentality and ignore any criticism. I wasn’t at the match but taking in the comments from the fans that were, the performance of the team was good and should or could have taken something from the game if we would have put the ball in the net, (their goalie had a good match by all accounts)! The defence appears to be improved and tighter which is where bulk of our losses came from. So there are signs of the team getting it finally together. It wouldn’t surprise me if we carried this over to next Saturday and finally get a win!! I don’t take BD’s line he wants the win for the fans, it’s to save his own skin. A win against DU keeps BD secure for now. I’m all for getting rid of SG, but unless the Chairman and Board have the courage and conviction to challenge him nothing will change. Slow signs of improvement by all accounts, but far too late!! bc

I don’t believe BD is the root problem here, merely a symptom and part of a deeper problem in the declining fall of the club as a whole. Sure BD has been found out to be a poor to average ex-player manager that was/is unable to get (imo) average players to compete above their abilities. His shortcomings in any structured patterns of play just compounded the problems. The results, (facts) speak for themselves. Simply BD was available, local and cheap, so the fitted the ‘Powers’ specification! DB reign is already slipping away, it’s just a matter of time now! The problem in getting a manager that can get better results that doesn’t bury the club deeper in debt, (love for someone to prove that wouldn’t be an issue). A better game plan will reduce the goals lost and improve the chance of wining (not hard right now I know). It’s not too late to still make a fist of it and maybe get into the playoffs, however I believe that’s a stretch too far. Being ‘safe’ from relegation this season would be a success for me! Anyway, back to my main point. As long as the club maintain the same strategy then we will end up with a short term fix. I don’t think I’m the only person that believe the club has to look at what is realistic with the expectation of the fan base and income from merchandise and ‘other’ sources. Ventures so far (concerts) have done more damage than good with local businesses and put the club on the back foot! Throw in an incomprehensible communications policy just exasperated the aging and reducing core fan base to alienate a good number. Getting them back will be a challenge, but it must be done. Others have already said it on the forum, and I have to concur, I can’t see the board in its current structure being able to have the backing of a good bulk of the support to have faith in them to make a success of things. It may take the courage of other board members with imagination and new contacts for funds-investment to step forward and propose a different route from the current path. Certainly a reset of fan relations would be a simple and welcome gesture. This would require the CEO and possibly the chairman and the SLO to change roles, but they may recognise the clock is now ticking on their tenures and a managed change may suit everyone! The fans have to also come to terms with where ICT are and what is achievable in the current and next 5 years. Everything about ICT right now says Championship. Progression will be slow and based on youth players coming through better than the past (how I don’t know), and a steady and imaginative way to increase our fan base. Really putting this up as ration assessment where I am rather than just ‘let’s get rid of the manager’. Results are everything in football so just hope any change is thought through long term. bc

‘And the band continued to play on the Titanic’! bc

We all get frustrated when our team and club is in the precarious position we find ourselves now. I’m no different from anyone else in that respect. I’ll take you comments with the respect of someone that has put in more any any I can recall on the forum. We’re all in the same boat, just I sit in a different area (so to speak). Genuine good luck with the Open meeting, I hope it enables us to move forward. bc

Yes, thank you, where to start! - I take full ownership of all questions or posters I raise and don’t hide behind any veil. Not frightened to challenge laziness or incompetence or personal jabs as you have. So if my posters irritate you and ‘others’ of a sedate sensitive disposition then that gives me more satisfaction and know I am achieving the level of debate on the matters I believe are necessary! Wish I didn’t, but what the hell, if we can’t ask difficult questions of our club and selves in our current position, when can we?? Woe is me, bc

Kind of agree here. Was listening to the bbc radio yesterday Dundee United - Dunfermline game, and it seemed that it was a training match for both teams. Dunfermline knew they’d loose and put out a pub team ‘level’. Mickey Mouse cup for M-M teams and is treated like such! No wonder the fans don’t turn out for these nothing tournaments. bc

Again you pump the same theme. ‘Only the Trust is mature enough to represent the fans’. And the rest shut up! I joined the Forum as I considered it a conduit free to ICT fans to communicate anything regarding the team and club they support. - Now if the Forum is solely for the purpose of unofficially promoting the Trust’s ‘Line’ and it’s members recruitment campaign, then fine I know I’m an outsider and not welcome! I like to remain free to give my opinion be it confrontational, stupid or thought provoking on the club’s future progression. So here’s a simple question to whoever can speak for the Trust. ‘Did the Trust vote and back/support the 2 year contract extension for the manager’. That would help me clarify my misinterpretation of the Trust! bc

Do you speak on behalf of the Trust, or are they so aloof that unless you’re a trust member then you don’t count? We are where we are with the Trust being a formal part of that broken decline over the past years. Radical change is needed, not more appointments, surveys, committee reviews or SLO emails Until the trust is transparent and in communication with all fans then for me, it remains part of the problem. bc

Too complicit, compliant, frightened and too late! A mealy mouthed timid ‘can the club possibly look at getting a win’ - ‘that will help us get more signed up members’ Change will only come when it hits them in the pocket. Nothing else counts to this lot! The most visible way is low attendances. But the way things are going that’s already happening! bc

We have the Inverness Cup in the cabinet. Silverware already festooned with ICT colours!! bc

Yeah, Listened to what Stevie said, also the hanger - on media pals. Almost as if ‘nothing to see here gov, move along’. Willie I’m great Miller, “Fans are fickle but thick, they’ll be back as soon as good old dodsie gets a win under his belt”!! bc

Take the positives out of today. Dodsie believes the team is not far off a victory and is expecting the team to ‘click’ and go on a run of 9 or 10 good results! No reason that could not be next Saturday! There was no Coonty home game today so Robbo would have been at Gayfield today to add value! bc

Not me, I didn’t agree with giving Dodds a new (any) contract. However the ‘powers’ pulling the levers seen something in Dodds that satisfies their interests and gave him a 2 year contract extension! As such I respect that’s their prerogative and accepted it (still do)! I don’t like, (or understand), the system or game plan Dodds plays as it’s too boring (back line and goalie square passing for 70 odd minutes or so a game), but I was prepared to give him 18 months of the 2 years to turn things round. So far the only thing constant with the club is a seamless continuation of last season’s fare. (I exclude the cup run as that was a freak. We were lucky in the final Celtic didn’t really turn up at tall)! So where am I now on Dodds giving the results (that’s all that really counts)?? I expect the team will eventually cut out the defensive blunders and will form something more of a threat up front! We’ll loose more than we will win, but I doubt if anything more than a bottom half of the table is our lot. Realistically I don’t think there is any manager we can afford to encourage to come north! Paying off Dodds would severely dent the coffers and put the club in a more vulnerable position. I think it suits the current ‘powers’ to stick with what we have and keep things ‘calm’ until they can make a structured exit. The backbone of all clubs is the fans, and the reality is we just don’t have near enough to trigger or finance a better product. Only Arbroath has a lower fanbase than us and they are part time!!! So in closing, I believe we stick with Dodds and hope he manages to keep the club in the 2nd division (as it will always be for me) bc

The ‘powers’ will pay no attention to anything written on the forum. (I doubt if they have any minion even read and report back). That’s not to say the forum doesn’t provide a platform, it does, but it has no influence in the machinations of ICT decision making! If you want to get your message elevated to where it would register with some of the board power-players that may begin to think the way you do then there two options that has been previously proposed:- 1) Protest. Last Sat was a damp squib because it was not sufficiently organised or backed with enough fans. 2) Hit them in the pocket! Slower but more effective if again enough fans do same. You have of course to ‘ride’ the diehard fans that will deride your position and stance. Throw in sooner or later Doddsie will win a match and the air is sucked out of any action against him! just my tuppence worth!! bc

HT 1-1 FT 2-3 CT Shaw DU Cudjoe 2457

Pravda, for those under 40, this was the fore runner to ‘spin’. I spent a lot of my youth being shown pictures of Latin American and African tribal camp kids in ‘tic’ tops declaring their long lasting admiration and loyalty for ‘their’ team. Even thou they could not speak or understand a word of English. Or pick Europe out a map never mind Scotland!! Ahhh, blissful, ignorant happy daze!! (Spelt right). bc

I’m just concerned Hibs might come in for Doddsie now!! Gardiner will be doubling his contract to frighten-off potential suitors! bc

Can someone tell me where the happy clappy section of the ground is? I’m fed up being berated by angry cursing miserable old gits when I cheer the team. No aspersions on the type of coarse fans I’d leave behind (Some old Howden Shed guys could come to mind but I’m not sure). So reading other posters there is a more pleasant area in the ground where the finer quantities of the sport is appreciated! bc

He hopefully is negotiating a good fee for Shaw plus a couple of the surplus Coonty players before the transfer deadline. Shaw gets to play at the level his ability deserves and we get a couple of 34+ seasoned veterans to ‘strengthen’ our team. Why do you think robbo’s been up in Dingwall. He’s been working hard on vital relationship with Sir Roy on what players he would like at Dingwall. As we desperately need the money, clearly this was robbo’s instruction from his employers! bc