Matchday Thread ICT -V- Dunfermline

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Hallelujah - good swops but what about the system - thank feck fer telepathy.

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I have a vision and it is Andrew Shinnie.

[Scotty]

I know .... just dont like the idea of thinking Aberdire are our saviours

Defending a 0-0 is never a good idea ... for one, I am not sure we can do it, and if nothing else it gets pretty frustrating for fans to watch ..... attack is the best form of defence has always been my mantra

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Foran - yellow - caught out fer pace - dare you to make a feckin sentence out of that ?!!

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RYAN ESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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Andy Barrowman and Liam Buchanan on as subs - WTF - the PTSD is hitting me hard !!

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BLOW THE FECKIN FINAL WHISTLE PLEASE

[Caley Mad In Berks]

No fingernails left now. Starting on the toenails. Fortunately I had the foresight to trim them before the game and have them here in a little bowl in front of me.

[+Fraz]

And breathe......... !

[Pele_Is_God]

We are staying up we are staying up!

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YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Tug]

SAFE

and to be honest would probably not have picked up any points in the prediction league either...lol

[Doofer]

I have never been so happy with a 0-0 draw. Massive weight of the teams shoulders. Lets hope we build for next season.

[Yngwie]

Phew!

Relief!

Whisky!

[Govan Jaggie]

Failed to beat the team at the bottom of the league all season sums it up. Safe though.

[ubern]

sh1te game, sh1te season but we're safe. roll on next year and battering the staggies.

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To be honest the only positive that I have taken from this season is that we ultimately did not have depend on anybody else to survive. And - cue criticism - but that was not due to the way that we were set up to "compete" tonight.

[ICTodd]

A big relief tonight!!!! No changes in the performance it seems and a goaless draw with Dunfermline at home (albeit they're fighting for their survival) is poor at best, but hopefully we can change it in the summer and approach the SPL!!! with a bit of realistic optimism and none of this 'top six' rubbish! :bouncyblue: :bouncyblue:

[+bughtmaster]

Just as good as a five nil win for me, WE ARE STAYING UP, That's all I really wanted tonight.

Wasn't going to make the top six in the prediction league anyway !!

Hip Hip Hooooooorrraaaaaay !!!

[+Gringo]

Oh joy...another season in the SPL

[kencar]

Well I'm glad we are safe but that was feckin grim. Only entertainment came from the mascots dancing at half-time.

[Govan Jaggie]

Was the crows really 6036?

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3036 I think.

[hislopsoffsideagain]

What a hideous game, between two utterly dreadful teams. Steve Paterson's ICT side from a decade ago would have walked all over both these sides. This was the sort of match which makes me think that, in the event of a goalless draw, neither team should get any points. I feel ashamed that we felt the need to take the ball to the corner flag at the end, rather than go for a winner - there are 2 games left for goodness sake, it wasn't the last match of the season. So little happened that the BBC highlights will have to show the minutes silence and the mascot's outstanding half-time antics just to make up a full 5 minutes of action.

I can't even say that we were set up to play negatively and go for a draw - we're not well organised enough to manage that. It was the same plan as last week, and the week before that, and the week before that...they say a fool is a man who makes the same mistakes over and over again, but expects different results. Well, the punting high balls at a 5'8" centre forward hasn't worked all season, but we were at it again. Doran and Shinnie looked like they had instructions to get to the byline and cross high balls - to our 5'8" centre forward who had to win a header against to 6ft-plus centre backs.

I'm pretty sure that we weren't playing on a potato patch tonight, but you'd have though otherwise given the abysmal first touches and rotten passing on display for the most part. Foran had a shocker; Tansey played one beautiful Hollywood pass to release McKay in the second half, but that hardly made up for all the much shorter passes he gave straight to opposing players. Graeme Shinnie, like every other time he has played as a wide midfielder this season, looked like a defender who doesn't know how to play as a wide midfielder. Bizarrely, our Plan B in the first half appeared to be to punt high balls at him instead of McKay! I thought Nick Ross at least showed some good touches, and I was disappointed when he was subbed. I felt McKay offered very little, and Tade caused the defenders more hassle in 3 minutes than McKay did in 87.

Our defence were solid enough, but still managed to gift a few chances. None of the back four looked comfortable on the ball for a second, and when Dunfermline pressed high up the pitch we gave the ball away very cheaply. Ryan Esson probably gets my MOTM, simply on the grounds that his handling was assured.

So that's one win in fourteen, and no wins in our last eight home games since 21st January. At least this season is over for us. But I've yet to see any reason why next season won't be just as bad if big changes aren't made.

[GC35]

Did anyone else think it was very strange that Butcher and Malpas were almost invisible during the game tonight? Butcher was shouting instructions from the dugout but was very reluctant to venture out of it. Malpas, who is normally always visible, was also keeping a low profile. Jeffries on the other hand was out all of the time. Did the game mean more to him??????????????

Any thoughts? Has there been a huge falling out in the dressing room? Or am I reading too much into it?