Juanjo Nostalgia
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https://ictfc.com/club-statement-15/
Absurd statement - clearly drafted in a hurry and not checked over by anyone remotely sensible.
QuoteBritish employment law does not allow our club, or any other for that matter, to do anything outside of UK employment law.
No shit, Sherlock.
QuoteMost clubs are unaware of this fairly recent UK employment law development
What they’re referring to is procedurally unfair dismissal, failure to comply with the ACAS code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures. That code was published in 2015.
More fundamentally:
- Even if you have to invite him to a meeting, etc. that doesn’t stop you having an unofficial conversation. You know, like a decent human being.
- The accounts don’t line up. Did they tell him he wasn’t being kept on by email, or did they invite him to a meeting by email? If the second, why did he think/tweet the first?
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Obviously there are two sides to every story, but that sounds like really poor form from the club - a failure from start to finish.
- after Shane being out for a whole year, they still haven’t “got to the bottom of the issue”
- club seem to have chosen and then stuck with a physio who’s not up to scratch (not even speaking to Shane for 3/4 weeks, giving opinions without having met him or seen a scan(!))
- Shane/his family having to pay for his own specialist treatment and surgery - club have had a duty of care to him for a year!
Not renewing his contract is harsh but obviously that’s a business decision which they’re entitled to make, but failure to look after him up until now is inexcusable. Sounds like he’d potentially have grounds for an employment tribunal claim.
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2 hours ago, NorthStand10 said:
Whichever side of the Dodds debate you were on it’s time to get behind the club, supposedly we all want the same thing. Ultimately, next season presuming there’s not another valid excuse for having a below par season we’ll see what he’s made of - everyone should hope the club is correct in their decision.
Agree with this. Thinking Dodds should have gone already doesn’t mean I want him to fail in the future.
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3 hours ago, NorthStand10 said:
Tumilty is a right back
2 hours ago, Jaffa said:Also don't think hes a huge improvement on our current right backs
Mea culpa!
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Deas is a top class player - easy to imagine him performing well at Killie and then moving quickly on to bigger and better things.
We are going to need to bring in a reliable CB. What do we think the odds are of Reghan Tumilty? Can’t imagine he’ll stay with Hamilton in league one.
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What’s Partick’s chat in terms of contracts for next year? Got to imagine that some of your players have put themselves in the shop window for premiership teams since Doolan came in.
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Excellent day out yesterday. Fair play to the boys for putting in an admirable performance in tough circumstances. A few assorted thoughts.
The strategy in the first half was extraordinarily disciplined. Almost a basketball-style half court press, and it worked very well. Apart from the goal and one defensive slip up, Celtic really didn’t threaten that much. Allardice in particular was fantastic - covered a lot of ground and was so composed, even with very good players running at him in the box.
All of that said, the price for that discipline was that we didn’t even dream about attacking. There were points where Henderson and McKay had space to run into but chose to turn round and pass backwards. Hard to watch, especially as we were never going to keep a clean sheet for 120 minutes. Would have been interesting to see when we did start attacking if we hadn’t conceded.
Goal Down at half time the boys obviously decided to have a go. It was pretty turgid stuff going forward though. McKay seemed like he wanted to buy a free kick more than he wanted to actually score. The less said about Shaw’s whole performance the better - I wonder if it was the occasion and his nerves got the better of him like at the start of the season. I thought Shaw through the middle and McKay on the left was clever for the first half press system, but they should have swapped back in the second half.
Wallace Duffy was unbelievably good both in defence and going forward. I’ll hold my hands up and say I (like many others) would have started Carson at RB, but Duffy was Caley’s man of the match for me. He was willing to take his man on, he played a lot of good through balls (unfortunately mostly to Shaw) and, of course, THAT cross.
Speaking of THAT cross, THAT goal! Caley fans were absolutely buzzing, and for about five minutes I genuinely believed we were going to win the cup. One of my favourite ever football moments. Danny McKay loves a big occasion. I wish him well at Hibs and if I ever get the chance to buy him a pint I will do.
Lastly, credit where it’s due to all the Caley fans. I’m Glasgow-based so take no credit personally, but it was a good turnout for the distance (and we all know about the kick off time) and it seemed to me that we had more fun than the 40k Celtic fans did.
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50 minutes ago, btb said:
When did the Cup Final Singles trend die out?
We had a rather unseemly uptempo version of "Oh, When the Saints" in 1987.
We have two this year!
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1 hour ago, Central Belt Caley said:
Any pub recommendations in Glasgow for tomorrow? Thinking of avoiding round about the ground as they’ll no doubt be jammed full of Tic fans
Depends how far you’re willing to walk, but lots of good options in and around Shawlands, which seems to be close enough to walk to Hampden but far enough away to avoid being overly full.
Other option is city centre, but there’ll be plenty of green and white there too. Best shout to avoid them would be the Shuffle’s shindig at the Ferry
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Going down
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I heard that Ange’s first act as Spurs manager will be to break the club transfer record signing Nathan Shaw.
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41 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
If we win this game, it will be the biggest upset in Scottish football history.
I love the sound of this, but is it true? Darvel beating Aberdeen got a lot of hype, but I think it was explainable by the fact that Aberdeen players were essentially downing tools to get Goodwin out. Any other contenders? Super-Caley-Go-Ballistic is the other one that comes to mind!
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There was so much more hype before the final in 2015. I guess the drama of the semi-final, doing well in the league, etc. all contributed - but surely the primary factor was that it was our first ever Scottish Cup Final, and as a team barely 20 years old. For example, my Auntie (Invernesian, lives abroad, not particularly into football) came to the final in 2015 but didn’t even know that we were in it this year until last week.
I’m in Glasgow so don’t have the best read, but I honestly felt like there was more excitement around Inverness for the play-off final last year than for this.
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Does anyone know the best way to take home a corner flag from the cup final? Asking for a friend…
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How long before QP run out of other places to play home games and start coming up the road to play at Caley stadium? We could use a bit of extra revenue!
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1 hour ago, virginton said:
The fact that you dropped points to lots of shite teams, over the course of three months the season, and ended up with a lower points total than other teams in the division, all entirely contradict your claim that you had 'the best team in the league'.
Fair point! I guess I meant the highest ceiling/best potential - us on our best day was better than anyone else on theirs.
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1 hour ago, virginton said:
I agree, but by the same token not being promoted last season through the play-offs is not a failure - or at least not one that could be pinned on the manager. A top 4 budget should get you a ticket to the play-offs but no entitlement to go on and win them.
Aye, but if we didn’t shit the bed for three months in the middle of last season we would have won the league. We had the best team in the league that year, comfortably beat Killie, Partick, Arbroath, etc. over the course of the season and then chucked away points to the likes of Hamilton. It was a golden opportunity of a season wasted.
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Can I interest you in Scottish Championship Manager of the Month for April, one William Dodds?
I’ll also pay his train fare from Inverness to Mount Florida.
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For anyone wondering, 6th in the Championship is our worst ranking in the pyramid since 2001/02, which was equal. We haven’t been lower than this since 1998/99 when we were promoted from the second division as it was at the time.
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Some “highlights” this season:
- struggling our way past Brechin and Stirling Albion in cups
- getting pumped at Firhill twice
- that night at Cappielow
- losing to Motherwell was fair enough, but the way we played that night might be the worse I’ve ever seen us
- losing to Hamilton four times out of five, including twice in one week
- a recruitment policy that brought in Steven Boyd, George Oakley, Ryan Barrett, Daniel Mackay, Max Ram…
But Billy Dodds will get a new contract on the basis of three results against Livingston, Kilmarnock and Falkirk.
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On 15/04/2023 at 21:21, sophia said:But we won against Morton, Raith, Arbroath and Cove so double down as you will and fair play to you for spinning it.
My prediction was based upon bolstering our confidence levels with the run of fixtures such as they were and here we are with the prospect of a heightening of our collective expectation.
Why would you want to believe that we can't prosper?
Its ok to change your position in the face of facts. For instance, there is one prominent poster on here who prematurely wrote off Cammy Harper and then defended their position by claiming it was justified as an improving Cammy was playing in a different position. The better policy would've been to accept the circumstance and learn.
I'm delighted that Cammy scored the winner today from left back.
Hi @sophia, just wondering if you’re willing to admit you were wrong here?
”It’s ok to change your position in the face of facts…”
Looking back, I did change my position. I initially said we might finish above Morton. Then I said we’d finish behind them.
What’s your latest position on Billy Dodds?
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2 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:
So not the same lineup then?
Are they not reading and writing in full sentences yet in Ayr?
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Same lineup as the semi-final, but with Carson starting instead of Duffy. Roddy MacGregor and Austin Samuels to come on as early in the second half as we can get away with. Need them match-fit ASAP
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Player: Billy McKay
Young player: Jay Henderson
Goal: Billy McKay’s second against Livingston. The replays don’t do it justice, but from where I was sat I had the perfect angle and it was incredible.
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"The ICT Thread - The Championship Years"
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Scot Gardiner to himself after a busy day pissing off our best players from each of the last two seasons: