V Queens Park (H)

[ICTPaisley]

1 hour ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Giving it a miss today. Watching shinty instead. The Arnie line of 'I'll be back' may not be the case for me. 

Wish the team well though. But can't abide by someone like Gardiner in charge rolling out the red carpet for his mates. 

Shinty Jeezo 

[robbo1985]

Who made the really bad error for the goal? 

[Duke of Inverness]

58 minutes ago, robbo1985 said:

Who made the really bad error for the goal? 

Scot Gardiner in giving Dodds a new 2 year deal. 

[Stephen Malkmus]

Gardiner should call Dodds into his office, sack him, and then resign 

[Douglas Mackenzie]

Same old I'm afraid, although we had nice touches in first half and were unlucky twice to  Billy Mackay shots.Defensive error cost us  a goal yet again and thank goodness for Billy Mackay,Shaw and Davidson and young Bray in second half.We will have to sharpen up if we are going to make anything of this season with Dundee U,Queens, Partick and Dunfermiline all pushing for for top.Not a lot else you can say other that Queens were running rings round us for most of second half.Standside linesman had a poor game missing too many incidents.

[Yngwie]

20 minutes ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Scot Gardiner in giving Dodds a new 2 year deal. 

Yeah the way Dodds instructs the defenders to make basic errors is something that he needs to change. A better manager would ask them to defend properly instead!

[Stephen Malkmus]

2 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Yeah the way Dodds instructs the defenders to make basic errors is something that he needs to change. A better manager would ask them to defend properly instead!

Are you aware of the concept of 'coaching'?

[BallisticSheriff]

I really really am not looking forward to the coming season, certain of more of this sort of results. Sorry for raising my voice.

Edited August 5, 2023 by BallisticSheriff

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Two visiting Dutch visitors concluded that the referee was poor. We cannot blame him for our 70 minutes of lacklustre play. However, hopefully that is the end of our pre-season friendlies or else we will be bottom after the next two away games. 

[caley1]

Yet again another shambolic display by a team that you Billy Dodds has put together . Time to go ,along with your CEO who between you are making a total mess of the club .

[Jaggernaut]

What an abysmal performance, but it's what I expected when I saw the formation and team line up. We were so light in midfield, only Carson and Gilmore in the CM, we really needed another in there, and it just shows how tactically unaware Dodds is, that he never changed a thing at half time. In my opinion we should have started with one up top, Mckay, Samuels is just not cutting it for me, and then one in behind, Doran or Bray, and have another CM in the middle. We don't have Welsh or Allardice now and we get over run by our opponents in there. And there is still far too much of the 'punt the ball anywhere up the park', just hoping that one of our players get onto it, which rarely happens, while our opponents pass the ball through us. Queens Park were by far the better team, and the ref was one of the worst I've seen. I fear that this is going to be a very long hard season, and if we can't win our home matches I dread to think where wins will come from.

[bdu98196]

Unfortunately missed this game as on holiday. Can anyone confirm if we have an injury crisis yet please?

[bdu98196]

46 minutes ago, Stephen Malkmus said:

Gardiner should call brother Dodds into the lodge sack him, and then resign 

Ftfy

[big cherly]

2 hours ago, ICTPaisley said:

Shinty Jeezo 

Can’t be worse than crying at the the crap on show today!

Edited August 5, 2023 by big cherly

[+TheCaleyOne]

What a start to the league . Can't remember us getting more that 2 passes put together and why do we play with more urgency for the last 10 minutes of the match, play like that from the start! The only positive from today's game for me was Keith Bray looks a good prospect for the season.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

11 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

Unfortunately missed this game as on holiday. Can anyone confirm if we have an injury crisis yet please?

Yes - Dodds is still uninjured.  

[Jaggernaut]

12 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

Unfortunately missed this game as on holiday. Can anyone confirm if we have an injury crisis yet please?

It looks like Nicolson out for season,  and Roddy Macgregor is having an operation on is ankle on Monday so I believe, don't know what's the story with Welsh, but he's missed the last couple of games. 

[Jaggernaut]

11 minutes ago, TheCaleyOne said:

What a start to the league . Can't remember us getting more that 2 passes put together and why do we play with more urgency for the last 10 minutes of the match, play like that from the start! The only positive from today's game for me was Keith Bray looks a good prospect for the season.

I said the same thing to my son, if we score, we will throw the kitchen sink at them in the last ten minutes, why don't we start like that? Dodds couldn't pick his nose, never mind the correct starting eleven. Bray should be a starter every time, he has energy and desire.

[bdu98196]

18 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

It looks like Nicolson out for season,  and Roddy Macgregor is having an operation on is ankle on Monday so I believe, don't know what's the story with Welsh, but he's missed the last couple of games. 

Thank **** we have Panos on board, that seems to be making all the difference to our advising the club on how to manage players on an individual level and mitigate injuries. Least we won't have to pay him a significant day rate as a third party consultant

[Robert]

3 hours ago, robbo1985 said:

Who made the really bad error for the goal? 

Harper, uncharacteristically. He should have done a simple pass back to Ridgers but hesitated and lost possession.

That was a very disappointing afternoon. We started fast but from about the fifth minute Queens Park started to dominate possession and just seemed sharper than us. Both teams had chances before we gifted the goal.

The early goal in the second half really killed it and we only started showing some urgency after Bray and Hyde replaced Gilmour and Longstaff.

Davidson got what turned out to be a consolation.

Both ‘keepers had good saves and on another day there would have been more goals.

As others have said, Bray was the pick of the players, followed by Shaw, Mckay and Duffy.

For me Samuels spent too much time on the deck after contact from QP players and whilst his pace is an asset I don’t think he’s the right option as a starter right now and he should be used as an impact player off the bench.

I need to see more of Lodovica before forming an opinion on him. He’s a big lad and deceptively quick but the jury is out.

I’m forming the opinion Carson is a better right back than central midfielder but that was maybe as we tended to be outnumbered so he was fighting an uphill battle.

QP deserved the win but the ref should have stamped out the time wasting. How many times did they kick the ball away, get a second ball on the park or dawdle at kick outs? It’s not an excuse but the authorities should make refs clamp down on it.

Our home form let us down last season and hopefully we don’t repeat that this year. Two big away games now in which we need to pick up points. 

Edited August 5, 2023 by Robert

[Duke of Inverness]

1 hour ago, big cherly said:

Can’t be worse than crying at the the crap on show today!

It wasn't. I enjoyed the shinty. Refreshing afternoon and positive. Can't say I'm in any rush to waste my money watching ICT, with a crap head coach, narcissistic CEO and feeling peed off at 4.45pm. 

Plenty more to do on a Saturday afternoon folks. Give it a try. 

[Caleyjag]

I have a little good news for fans who couldn't make the game - Iain Auld was covering the game on Sportsound, hopefully this carries on throughout the season.

[DWH]

FFS : yet another home defeat....

Really don't think I could stomach another season of mediocrity (at best).

Was thinking of Ayr away...but think I'll give it a miss..

[forresjags]

Absolutely dominated by QP , who passed it around us for fun and imo did us a favour by time wasting and not going for a 3rd or 4th goal. Could have been embarrassing today.

We really are devoid of any fresh ideas and the opportunity for change in the summer has been a badly  missed one.

Barely 2000 for an opening day fixture ,sez it all really, nobody gives a toss about the clubs current set up.

[DWH]

2 minutes ago, forresjags said:

Absolutely dominated by QP , who passed it around us for fun and imo did us a favour by time wasting and not going for a 3rd or 4th goal. Could have been embarrassing today.

We really are devoid of any fresh ideas and the opportunity for change in the summer has been a badly  missed one.

Barely 2000 for an opening day fixture ,sez it all really, nobody gives a toss about the clubs current set up.

Yes. I really get the impression that Dodds & co seem to happy with a little above garbage..