Juanjo Nostalgia

A truly wild career trajectory. To be fair to him, I can imagine a worse life than getting paid to play football and then using that as an opportunity to travel and live all over the world! That said, not a lot of goals for a 6’5” centre forward….

Five/six of those players have had a decent amount of first-team football. Add in Wotherspoon (who to be fair might not be “match fit”) and that is a shocking result. Billy Dodds really did leave us with a terrible squad.

A three-year contract…. Have we learned nothing from the whole Dodds saga?

Robbo (rightly) gets a lot of flack at the minute because he’s drawing a salary and nobody knows what his job is. But… - he’s got a decent record as a manager (including as our manager) - him becoming permanent manager would presumably mean we go from three big off-pitch salaries to two (surely we wouldn’t hire another “sporting director”?) I think there would be worse decisions than giving it to him for the rest of the season.

Caley to lose Dodds to stay Fans to tweet Repeat, repeat

Hilarious soundtrack choice - I kind of love that!

- last season’s team wasn’t good enough - losing Deas has been a massive downgrade to our defence, and that’s not hyperbole - we’re not in general agreement

As I said in another post, last season’s team wasn’t good enough and was already a big downgrade on the season before. That is not the bar that we should be aiming for. Even if it was, saying that we still have “all but one of that regular back four” ignores the fact that the one we have lost is Robbie Deas, who was by a long way the best defender in the team if not the division. What we have in defence this year is a massive downgrade on what we had last year.

How did this delusion fly under the radar? Sophia, have you been on the drink with your good pal Billy?

Seems odd bringing in another CM. Reckon that means Welsh and/or Roddy will be out for longer than we realise?

Saying we’ve had a big downgrade from last year doesn’t tell the full story. Last year’s squad was already not good enough, and was a big downgrade on the season before (remember Broadfoot, Chalmers, McAlear, Sutherland, Walsh, etc.) Two years ago we came 3rd in the league. Last year 6th. Continuing that pattern… 9th this year?

Ram was never as good as his very cool name made us all hope he would be. Surely, SURELY, we will sign another defender?

Had planned to go to this, but got offered a ticket to the rugby so am going to that instead. Says a lot about Caley this year that I’d rather watch a warm up game against Georgia.

All good answers!

By no means am I complaining - but does anyone know why we wore last season’s away kit instead of the staunch orange number last night?

There’s no way we could have kept him without getting promoted. He’s too good for the championship.

Equal parts proud and bitter seeing Robbie Deas playing so well at Killy. Both Old Firm teams toppled already and their fans love him! I reckon he’ll end up at a higher level still.

We can’t fill 2 CB spaces with actual centre backs, let alone 3! Agree that we wouldn’t miss playing our current wingers though, and think Billy McKay would be better suited to playing as part of a front 2 than on his own. Interesting idea. All hypothetical though as I’m not convinced Dodds understands our current formation, let alone changing it.

I feel like Delaney has somehow gotten away with less criticism for his defending on that goal because it’s the fifth game in a row where we’ve done something that stupid. Striker is unmarked in the box for so long, he hangs back off him and then lunges towards the other player at the last minute, getting caught in no man’s land. Really poor. Surely we cannot be planning to play him at CB this year.

We have signed not one but two centre backs! https://ictfc.com/three-ictfc-academy-graduates-sign-deals/

That’s two people on this thread who have tried to compare Luis Longstaff and Charlie Gilmour to James Maddison. Maddison has a proven track record of playing at the level that Spurs will need him to play at. Longstaff and Gilmour have had one season each in the Championship - which ended in relegation. We haven’t picked the cream of the crop from Cove, it’s silly to pretend that that’s what we’ve done.

Mulgrew clearly capable of playing at a high enough standard. But, as we all saw last season, capable of being absolutely awful if he doesn’t feel like turning up. To be fair to Billy Dodds, players do often seem to have quite positive vibes about him. Maybe he could tickle Mulgrew’s ego enough to get a tune out of him.

Credit where it’s due - there’s something really refreshing about hearing Billy be honest about a poor performance. Doesn’t stick in the throat like the usual “we were just unlucky, I’m so proud of my boys”.

Ridgers Davidson Devine Duffy Harper Carson Gilmour Longstaff Brooks Shaw McKay Think that’s our best team, short of Welsh and McGregor who I think are injured. 2-0 to Queens Park

A big striker might be a good signing. We’ve all seen over the last couple of years that Dodds’ natural tactic is hoof-ball, which doesn’t work with only Billy McKay up front. If Ludovica can be a target man and people like Brooks, Samuels and McKay can play off him, then hoofing it might actually work. The fact that he’s signed for another club this summer (and then presumably been released) doesn’t fill me with hope. Nor does the fact that everyone who has seen him play says he’s awful.