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‘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

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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

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Move over rangers and make space!!

I’m at the gate of stick with and accept what we have or ‘walk’. If their is no change (off the park), then it’s a permanent goodbye. I’m in the veterans cat and the winter games now are a real challenge. Doddsball and continued Pravda exec excommunications policy certainly ain’t for me! bc

Don’t know if MM would or could generate the enthusiasm to return! I do like the idea of MM with possibly G Warren as a trainee manager as no 2! MM is his own man, never suffered any fools gladly, stood no nonsense, (from anyone), has no loyalty to the club or has any qualms about telling people straight what he thinks. This probably eliminates him as the current mob in control of the levers couldn’t stomach such truths! No question we need a ‘reset’ both on and off the park. Difficult to guess what is the most pressing. As IHE put earlier this week maybe we need to go down a league to clear out the dross and the malaise of the supporters and backers of the current regime. The trust are culpable here imo and can’t dodge their part in where we are! If the Match Day Experience survey is the confined limit of their imagination on improvement, then look forward to more of the same for the next few seasons! bc

Could be inspired and just save Doddsie, CEO and Chairman through the current crisis. Mulgrew maybe past the top flight, but would strengthen and improve (imo) our weak and leaking defence. He also had a decent left foot so that carries a threat we are also missing. From the above three’s position it’s not a risk. Dodds is under pressure from the CEO and Chairman and he knows it! The bad results and flack from some fans is beginning to hit home. Throw in the ridiculous Robbo situation, Gardiner and Morrison know some of the others in power and influence are looking on at them with more scrutiny and may be questioning how long to they need to change the fortunes of the club. Both Gardiner and Morrison would throw Dodds under a bus if they thought it would save their own (Thump like ) skins. Football however as we know is s strange game. I recall positions where the manager is under pressure and looked doomed, however a win at a crucial time manages to settle things down and they live to limp along. (Broon as the Scotland manager stick with me as a case)! It will be the “others” with power at the top will press the button for change. Our gripes on this modest little outlet means Zipp. This Saturday will be a trigger for me and my scribble above. It’s a case of if you want change now, do you want home win??? bc

Reap what you sow. Trouble is what will be left of the club could be an empty husk when this lot move out! My fear is a Thames Water type comparison is lurking in the background. High wages to a select cliche and running debt catches up. An invidious position. You seem to be close to the know, so maybe you can advise how much of the cup run money went on paying of debt and the current team? As a supporter of the team(s) long before the merger, I can simply say I have never felt so alienated from the club and don’t know if I truly want to watch the ship burn and sink further! bc

Says it all really Satan, what a sorry state we are in when we’re so crap the chairman is immune from criticism or has no fear of any challenge to his position cause no one would touch it with a barge pole. Doesn’t fill me with much enthusiasm when it comes round to him assessing the Trust match experience survey recommendations. Hay Ho, least we won the Snecky Cup! bc

And here's me thinking SG is the puppet-master. I’m away out to Morrisons to buy scissors !! bc