RossDee01 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Hartley please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie_93 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 (edited) If the previous manager hadn’t signed Boyce I doubt he would’ve lasted this long. Even if he did insist on playing him at centre mid for 4 months. Edited September 25, 2017 by Staggie_93 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Caley being honking and Boyce being on fire at times masked a lot of issues within the team and some truly bizarre signings (Gobern, for example). I don't think Roy trusted Jim with his cheque book in January again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spain Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Cumdog35 said: What are they expecting? Crazy decision. Tactics. I've always felt that we should have some. This has been a long time coming, absolutely clueless and has spent an absolute fortune to just keep throwing players out in a random selection until something got a result. He'd been marked for off since last season and was one game away from going, but luckily for him he scraped a few results together to see out the season. Goodbye Jim and your Tactical Tombola. You will not be missed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd String Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 County need a manager who has played at the highest level, cut his managerial teeth at the low levels and is available to take over straight away. So Barry Ferguson it is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoda Posted September 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2017 Surprised he's gone this early but relieved that it's happened sooner rather than later. Of course it's a "gamble", every time a team replaces a manager it's a "gamble". McIntyre was in the job, what, three years? The League Cup win was incredible. Genuinely a tremendous achievement. But that's not a reason to keep him in charge. He didn't know what his best system or team was (like stretches of last season, and indeed, for half of his first season). The midfield was never properly fixed - Jackson Irvine's incredible work rate pretty much kept the whole thing together in the middle of the park, but then he left and was never replaced (and the system took forever to change). County leaked goals last season but that's not been fixed over the summer. He brought in some real quality players: Davies, Irvine (although he was at the club on-loan before JM arrived), Schalk, Fraser, Naismith. But he signed a lot of absolute shit. Derek Adams levels of absolute shit. That first January transfer window was ludicrous. Abdoulaye Meite FFS. Terry Fucking Dunfield. Tim Fucking Chow. The money he must have pissed up the wall! Last January was staggering. He spent months trying out a 4-4-2 without any natural wide players. Gets to January, signs a couple of wingers. Then goes 3-5-2 and plays Ryan Dow as a wing-back Boyce bailed him out last season. And even then, McIntyre tried shoehorning him in as an attacking midfielder, to the detriment of Boyce and the team. A lot of good memories but also a lot of dreadful memories. The football over the past few months has been piss poor. He could have gone months ago but managed to get a winning run going to finish 7th. JM was capable of putting this little winning runs together but he was equally adept at throwing together a run of defeats. The inconsistency in performances and results was so frustrating. The Scottish football press will have a good whinge over the sacking but they don't know what they're talking about. A brief glance at the results and remembering back to that one time you watched County last season might leave you pondering how Uncle Roy could be so callous to sack the manager who brought the League Cup up the A9. But it has been on the cards for some time. Was always a matter of "when" not "if". 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 26 minutes ago, yoda said: Surprised he's gone this early but relieved that it's happened sooner rather than later. Of course it's a "gamble", every time a team replaces a manager it's a "gamble". McIntyre was in the job, what, three years? The League Cup win was incredible. Genuinely a tremendous achievement. But that's not a reason to keep him in charge. He didn't know what his best system or team was (like stretches of last season, and indeed, for half of his first season). The midfield was never properly fixed - Jackson Irvine's incredible work rate pretty much kept the whole thing together in the middle of the park, but then he left and was never replaced (and the system took forever to change). County leaked goals last season but that's not been fixed over the summer. He brought in some real quality players: Davies, Irvine (although he was at the club on-loan before JM arrived), Schalk, Fraser, Naismith. But he signed a lot of absolute shit. Derek Adams levels of absolute shit. That first January transfer window was ludicrous. Abdoulaye Meite FFS. Terry Fucking Dunfield. Tim Fucking Chow. The money he must have pissed up the wall! Last January was staggering. He spent months trying out a 4-4-2 without any natural wide players. Gets to January, signs a couple of wingers. Then goes 3-5-2 and plays Ryan Dow as a wing-back Boyce bailed him out last season. And even then, McIntyre tried shoehorning him in as an attacking midfielder, to the detriment of Boyce and the team. A lot of good memories but also a lot of dreadful memories. The football over the past few months has been piss poor. He could have gone months ago but managed to get a winning run going to finish 7th. JM was capable of putting this little winning runs together but he was equally adept at throwing together a run of defeats. The inconsistency in performances and results was so frustrating. The Scottish football press will have a good whinge over the sacking but they don't know what they're talking about. A brief glance at the results and remembering back to that one time you watched County last season might leave you pondering how Uncle Roy could be so callous to sack the manager who brought the League Cup up the A9. But it has been on the cards for some time. Was always a matter of "when" not "if". Spot on. I'll give Dunfield a pass (even though he couldn't) because that was the epitome of a desperation signing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartTaylor Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 What Yoda said. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 22 minutes ago, yoda said: Surprised he's gone this early but relieved that it's happened sooner rather than later. Of course it's a "gamble", every time a team replaces a manager it's a "gamble". McIntyre was in the job, what, three years? The League Cup win was incredible. Genuinely a tremendous achievement. But that's not a reason to keep him in charge. He didn't know what his best system or team was (like stretches of last season, and indeed, for half of his first season). The midfield was never properly fixed - Jackson Irvine's incredible work rate pretty much kept the whole thing together in the middle of the park, but then he left and was never replaced (and the system took forever to change). County leaked goals last season but that's not been fixed over the summer. He brought in some real quality players: Davies, Irvine (although he was at the club on-loan before JM arrived), Schalk, Fraser, Naismith. But he signed a lot of absolute shit. Derek Adams levels of absolute shit. That first January transfer window was ludicrous. Abdoulaye Meite FFS. Terry Fucking Dunfield. Tim Fucking Chow. The money he must have pissed up the wall! Last January was staggering. He spent months trying out a 4-4-2 without any natural wide players. Gets to January, signs a couple of wingers. Then goes 3-5-2 and plays Ryan Dow as a wing-back Boyce bailed him out last season. And even then, McIntyre tried shoehorning him in as an attacking midfielder, to the detriment of Boyce and the team. A lot of good memories but also a lot of dreadful memories. The football over the past few months has been piss poor. He could have gone months ago but managed to get a winning run going to finish 7th. JM was capable of putting this little winning runs together but he was equally adept at throwing together a run of defeats. The inconsistency in performances and results was so frustrating. The Scottish football press will have a good whinge over the sacking but they don't know what they're talking about. A brief glance at the results and remembering back to that one time you watched County last season might leave you pondering how Uncle Roy could be so callous to sack the manager who brought the League Cup up the A9. But it has been on the cards for some time. Was always a matter of "when" not "if". Yeah but Jim Delahunt says that you lot are idiots (not literally) for getting rid of him and he clearly knows what is going on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebonce Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Sergio Lobera pls 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Well known central belt manager goes to the highlands, wins the league cup, retains premier league status...and gets sacked along with his likeable, ex-Rangers, occasional media contributor assistant...For the first time in a long time I can't fucking wait for Sportsound tonight.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Surprised he's gone this early but relieved that it's happened sooner rather than later. Of course it's a "gamble", every time a team replaces a manager it's a "gamble". McIntyre was in the job, what, three years? The League Cup win was incredible. Genuinely a tremendous achievement. But that's not a reason to keep him in charge. He didn't know what his best system or team was (like stretches of last season, and indeed, for half of his first season). The midfield was never properly fixed - Jackson Irvine's incredible work rate pretty much kept the whole thing together in the middle of the park, but then he left and was never replaced (and the system took forever to change). County leaked goals last season but that's not been fixed over the summer. He brought in some real quality players: Davies, Irvine (although he was at the club on-loan before JM arrived), Schalk, Fraser, Naismith. But he signed a lot of absolute shit. Derek Adams levels of absolute shit. That first January transfer window was ludicrous. Abdoulaye Meite FFS. Terry Fucking Dunfield. Tim Fucking Chow. The money he must have pissed up the wall! Last January was staggering. He spent months trying out a 4-4-2 without any natural wide players. Gets to January, signs a couple of wingers. Then goes 3-5-2 and plays Ryan Dow as a wing-back Boyce bailed him out last season. And even then, McIntyre tried shoehorning him in as an attacking midfielder, to the detriment of Boyce and the team. A lot of good memories but also a lot of dreadful memories. The football over the past few months has been piss poor. He could have gone months ago but managed to get a winning run going to finish 7th. JM was capable of putting this little winning runs together but he was equally adept at throwing together a run of defeats. The inconsistency in performances and results was so frustrating. The Scottish football press will have a good whinge over the sacking but they don't know what they're talking about. A brief glance at the results and remembering back to that one time you watched County last season might leave you pondering how Uncle Roy could be so callous to sack the manager who brought the League Cup up the A9. But it has been on the cards for some time. Was always a matter of "when" not "if". Was away to come on this thread and ask for county fans opinion on the sacking and this post answered it before I had to.Excellent summary. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdong1929 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 (edited) Yoda nailed it. Would add the treatment of some players (Boyd being the worst/best example), and the favouritism shown to certain players regardless of form and ability to play the role they were being shoe-horned into by the Jimbola. Some saying it feels early, but it's been coming for over a year now. Feels like a scratch that has finally been itched (maybe overly flippant analogy - essentially its something that's been nagging for a long time). Edited September 25, 2017 by dingdong1929 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty-RCFC Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Does this mean we will maybe get to see our team play something other than 442 or 352 this weekend?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I wasn't expecting that to happen so soon but County have been burned before by giving underperforming managers too long to turn it round so it's entirely understandable to make the decision now. Thoughts on Owen Coyle? He's a c**t. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spain Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 (edited) Further to yoda's excellent post, Craig Fowler gets it spot on for The Scotsman Edited September 25, 2017 by Spain 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayser78 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkboy Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 20 minutes ago, Spain said: Further to yoda's excellent post, Craig Fowler gets it spot on for The Scotsman That is so unexpected to read in a national paper, someone who has actually looked at County and McIntyre's reign on more than a surface level. Top stuff, can only hope some of his colleagues read it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 27 minutes ago, Spain said: Further to yoda's excellent post, Craig Fowler gets it spot on for The Scotsman The Terrace guys are good guys tbf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie_93 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 (edited) Interview with Roy McGregor - https://stv.tv/sport/football/1398512-ross-county-chairman-why-i-made-judgment-call-on-mcintyre/?utm_content=buffer97b9e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Edited September 25, 2017 by Staggie_93 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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