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2 hours ago, Mr Toon said:
Wasn't at the game .would be very interested to hear what fans thought of the performances of Garrity, McGrattan and Bearne when they got on.
Garrity beat McMillan and got crosses in several times, when no one had gotten by a full back before his introduction.
Hard to judge in a way because the game was obviously done at 2-0 and Partick were happy to let us have the ball so we might not have looked as immediately drastically better after the subs had they happened at 1-0, but regardless Garrity offered more in his first five minutes on the park than Muirhead has in the last five games.
McGrattan was quieter, but to some extent that comes with the territory of playing on the right with O'Connor behind you as opposed to being on the left with Strapp overlapping. He was about score a tap-in at the back post from a corner soon after coming on, but Baird got in the way.
The game had become a frantic mess at the point Bearne came on, but he at least tried to run at the full back and he won a couple of corners, which was again more than anyone in the starting XI achieved.
Garrity needs to start next week.
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Finally makes subs, leaves Tyler fucking French in midfield.
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And that one came from us having no outball because our most advanced player from the previous clearance was Gillespie.
Subs should have been on at half-time if not after 10 minutes, far too late now.
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26 minutes ago, MarkoRaj said:
Surely not. I just assumed it was the same formation as Monday.
Is there at least some fluidity to player positions?
No, and it's gone as badly as you'd think.
I've seen managers get the brainwave to move full backs into holding midfield before and it usually goes terribly, but at least you can often see the thought process in those full backs being good passers of the ball so might be able to spray it around from midfield. I think French genuinely has the worst distribution of any professional footballer I've ever seen including goalkeepers, and he's predictably been even more abysmal than usual.
The goal though is entirely on Power. Absolutely brainless to try to bring it down and take a touch with the ball dropping in that area of the park with Graham a yard away from it him, he was always more likely to lose it than keep it and there's nothing anyone else can do about it once Graham's away from Power. It had been coming though, we've looked lost since kick-off.
The feeling without Oakley has been that we're beaten as soon as we're behind, and we've had even less attacking threat here than we've had in any of the last four games with Gillespie also having no idea what he's doing in an advanced role and no width. With Broadfoot on a booking get him off for Garrity and reshuffle everyone else into their real positions.
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This is a 4-2-3-1 with O'Connor right back, Power and French sitting, Gillespie in the middle of the 3. This seems insane.
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Some exceptional shithousery before we even reach kick-off. Have to respect the pettiness, but will be very funny when we inevitably hear about Morton's cynicism later regardless of the result.
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7 minutes ago, par-adise said:
What if you're playing Aberdeen?
Getting through the final might not be their biggest problem, it's keeping their bottle to get there in the first place that's looking questionable.
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While some of that reflects terribly on the Queen of the South board, Gibson still appears to be in denial about being a dreadful manager. That Bartley has contrived to be even worse doesn't change that.
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14 hours ago, TheScarf said:
a multi millionaire backer who’s written off more millions of pound of losses than anyone could ever imagine.
While this is undeniably an accurate description of Ross County & Roy McGregor, this perhaps isn't the best time to be bringing up millions of pounds of losses. The material difference between the two clubs at the moment appears to be that Ross County's owner is deliberately budgeting for substantial losses and is willing to write them off, while Inverness Caledonian Thistle's directors are deliberately budgeting for substantial losses and have no willingness to write them off, preferring to hope a get rich quick scheme will fill the gap.
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11 hours ago, ICTChris said:
The club is fucked tbh. There’s nothing to be done. If we go into administration maybe something can be salvaged but it’s been decades of mismanagement. We were in a roughly similar position in 2002 but the effective takeover by Tullochs/David Sutherland allowed us to get past it. Something similar would need to happen now but there’s no Tullochs right now.
Genuine questions, how many players are under contract for next season and how much debt is the club in? If the club just slash the playing budget - and indeed the non-playing budget meaning you can say goodbye to a charlatan like Gardiner - so the losses stop piling up this obviously leaves you with the outstanding debt to directors who've been maintaining the losses with loans every season.
That's likely debt you're not going to raise the sums to clear if you end up in League One, but that also changes the whole nature of the conversation about how to be a sustainable club. Rather than your directors being able to continually point fingers elsewhere to deflect from their own role, having seen amazing get rich quick schemes like the concert company and (pending an appeal) now the battery storage blow up in their face, at that point that the debt is the sole issue they have no one else to blame.
If you actually get to a place of breaking even year on year then the debt is the sole threat to the club's continued existence, and rather than playing the victim because of the intransigence of the council or whoever else, current and former directors then have the scrutiny fully turned on them. Are they willing to kill the club by calling in the debt to them personally, a debt that only exists because of their inability to budget properly while they were supposed to be custodians of the club, even with such massive financial windfalls as a Scottish Cup final? The likes of Ross Morrison could hardly play the victim in that scenario if they didn't simply write the debt off.
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1 hour ago, CityDave94 said:
ICT should have filed the battery farm under an artistic statement after all this has succeeded in the past with our joke of a council. The mistake was to mention it had anything to do with sport.
Anyone know what is the point in this expensive white elephant V which pissed off the local anglers and looks like a barely started stone footbridge which ran out of money to complete, which did happen.
There's no place like Inverness.
I walked past that the other day and did wonder what the need for a viewing platform was at a point of the river where footbridges aren't far away in either direction and you can have a nice view walking along the path as it is, with crossing to the islands also an option for a closer look.
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See Abbott has an article in the Independent today which primarily focuses on the Tories & Hester, but also mentions Labour's own failures on racism and sexism, including their failure to act on the Forde Report. Cue a massive amount of blatant lying from Labour figures on TV today claiming the recommendations of that report have been implemented in full, when no such thing has happened to the point that Forde himself went to the media to complain about it.
Meanwhile, Labour are using the Hester scandal to fundraise, sending the following email out:
Abbott is currently suspended from the whip and has been for 11 months.
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A genuine worst football top of all time contender, with no debate to be had about being Scotland's worst ever. Revolting.
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A team with no clean sheets or wins in 8 games against a team who've failed to score in 5 of their last 6 games. The only thing I'm confident predicting here is something hilarious for neutrals will occur, whether through calamitous defending, abysmal finishing or players losing the plot and getting mad red cards.
Would be happy to see us continue with a back three here in the continued absence of Oakley and Wilson. If you wanted to make it a bit more attacking considering our recent lack of goal threat, you could drop Gillespie, move Crawford back and bring Garrity or McGrattan in to play off Muirhead, but I'd be leaving it unchanged. That could too easily turn into a 3-4-3 rather than 3-5-2 with Crawford pressing up the park (if Lawless and Fitzpatrick have Strapp and French pinned back then 5-2-3) and despite their recent struggles, you can't afford to surrender the midfield like that against Partick.
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Tangential to the donation, Lindsay Hoyle is in bother again as the issue came up throughout PMQs. One MP who repeatedly stood to be called on for a question and was ignored for the entire session was... Diane Abbott.
You'd think the MP who's been the subject of the racism scandal the government are denying while other parties try to make political capital out of it would be given the opportunity to speak about it herself, particularly when abuse and threats of MPs have seemingly been a huge issue of late to the extent that Hoyle decreed Parliament shouldn't be allowed to hold votes on issues that might have constituents contacting MPs, and studies over the years have found that Abbot gets almost as much abuse as the other 649 MPs combined. Apparently not!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68513408
Some horrifying accounts of the abduction and torture Gazan medical staff have been subjected to here.
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What in the name of the f**k was Broadfoot doing for that goal? He'd had a good game overall but f**k me, why is he considering stepping up to the ball, getting nowhere near then leaving Shankland in about 8 yards of space?
Couldn't really have asked for a better performance in the circumstances, but what a brutal goal to lose it. Hopefully we can replicate that performance level in the league until Oakley's back, we looked like ourselves again despite obviously missing him and Wilson.
Going to be some laugh tomorrow when the Scotland squad is announced and we realise Clarke was actually there to decide whether Ryan Mullen and Lewis Strapp are only being called up as cover or going straight in as first choice.
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2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:
I'm including him, incredibly. We had a front three of McKay, O'Connor and Vine a couple of times that season, halcyon days.
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Just now, Leith Green said:
Why do the Morten fans particularly hate Shankland?
The only player I've ever seen who was obviously more of a lazy waster than Shankland in a Morton shirt was Barrie McKay.
And he should have been sent off for that.
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Big Bad Physical Morton once again being kicked off the park by a bunch of cloggers, I see.
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Tyler French passing it to Shankland in our own box was extremely Tyler French behaviour, but if that's his biggest brain fart of the night that'll do.
Hearts have settled into this fairly well after looking a wee bit rattled by the pressing in the first 10 minutes, but for all that they've inevitably found a fair bit of space and look like they'll keep finding it out wide to put crosses in Mullen's still not had all that much to do - the one he put behind for a corner was one of those in the category of looks a good save but you look awful if you let it in. The pressure is inevitably going to build but this is about as good as can be hoped for so far.
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I'm not sure how explicit Imrie and Oakley himself have to be in their repeated definitive statements that there is absolutely no fucking chance Oakley is making it for tonight before people accept that he is not going to make it tonight. "End of the month at the earliest" and "I just won't make it, another couple of weeks" out of their mouths and still people are clutching at non-existent straws.
We were probably getting a shafting even with him in the team, but in his absence we need to stop fucking about with Quitongo up front and Muirhead out wide. It's a massive downgrade either way but get Muirhead through the middle, Quitongo and Garrity out wide and try to get into the final third by getting it to the feet of the front three rather than clinging to the forlorn hope that playing off second balls the way we can when Oakley and Wilson are in the team could ever work without them.
We'll more than likely get carved open anyway and with Naismith having watched us once he'll have identified what every Championship manager has in that going down our right will guarantee chances because Tyler French exists, but he's so bad that persisting with Blues on the right to protect him doesn't matter. We know chances will come from that side anyway so we have to hope the rest of the defence and Mullen can deal with covering him, at least switching to actual wingers will give us a shot at creating something in possession.
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All set up for a 5th placed finish in a tournament that should have delivered second at worst, then.
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I was under the impression that in games involving France, the ball clearly touching the grass while in the hands of the try scorer didn't constitute grounding.
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🔴🟡Thistle vs Morton🔵⚪️ 16th March 2024
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Singling out Strapp as a poor performer is an outrageous take. He was the only one of our starting XI to get pass marks yesterday and was our only attacking threat until Garrity came on, subbing him was an admission the game was done.
Looking at the highlights, the first goal is even worse from Power than it seemed at the time. Madness to try to bring that down rather than getting rid of it first time. The second goal is just far too easy.