Nelson

McKenzie is signed too. I’m sure Rose was quoted as a 2 year deal too, but not 100% on that.

Would be interesting to know how long he’s been carrying the problem. He’s been off the pace since before Christmas, but you’d think a knock that’s serious enough to affect him for this length of time would require some kind of rest/rehab. Naming him as a sub who can’t manage 30 minutes for us seems a bit pointless. If I’m honest, I just don’t think Brown fancies him that much. It’s a shame as he’s got obvious quality, but his reputation for inconsistency is well earned. I thought it would be a no-brainier that we’d offer him terms in the summer, but I’m not at all sure now.

Pretty nuts to think of the good quality Ayr teams that have gone up to Inverness over the years and been consistently scudded only for us to dig out a win with a team that would struggle most weeks in League 1. Ferguson really needs to take a look at himself.

Brown’s interview certainly seems to confirm that he consciously chose to fill the team with runners. Can’t argue with the logic in many respects. Murphy is a good player who doesn’t have the legs to play wide of a midfield 4, particularly away from home. Dempsey hasn’t been at the races for a while now. Don’t know what the script is with Chalmers, but he is probably the one player who hasn’t reacted at all to Brown. Maybe he’s signed a pre-contract elsewhere, or maybe Brown just isn’t able to live with the compromise of increasingly occasional flashes of quality but a general lack of work rate and defensive ability.. McGinty is the only one who I think is really hard done by - one mistake after months of consistency and he’s dropped. Can’t argue with the result though, but I doubt we’ll get away with that approach very often.

4 points off either play off….

Give us a break, we’re eating some humble pie here. My jaw hit the ground when I saw our lineup, but can’t argue with the result. I think there’s more than a suspicion though that Inverness must be really, really bad.

That result defies the laws of physics. Inverness must be absolutely awful.

Brown is a jammy b*****d!!! Which is fine with me….

Amartey on for Bryden…. Chalmers just seems to be bombed out completely.

It’s a glider.

Can only assume he’s diabolically off the pace in training.

Dropping your club captain for one mistake when he’s been about our most consistent player for months now is just absurd. Chopping and changing isn’t going to settle anyone down and will only encourage more mistakes.

Honestly no idea how that will line up. 4-4-2 with Bryden and Willoughby wide? 3 at the back with McKenzie at left wing back?

I’m starting to lose faith in Brown already. WTF is that starting line up all about?

Those clubs are a harsh lesson in what happens when you spend money you haven’t got! I remember us having to pay juniors little more than beer money back in the mid 2000s just to make up a team. Buying short term success that leads to that is pointless.

Dunfermline were always going to get stronger as they got players back from injury. Inverness will no doubt kick us off the park again today (for the 300th time in living memory) and Morton will do likewise, so we’ll really need to take big points against Airdrie, Queens Park and Arbroath. In the end, you can only spend the money you’ve got, but I really thought the Rangers windfall would give us some room to bring in some quality in the transfer window. Not sure we’re helping ourselves at times though - the starting lineup at Dunfermline was a joke. Hopefully Brown has learned that it’s ok to put an extra man in the middle of the park some of the time. Chalmers has been pretty poor since about October, but he is surely a better option than Bryden. Clarke looks an absolute bombscare too, so hopefully we can bury the hatchet with Albinson.

That Airdrie result certainly puts our weekend efforts into some perspective. It’s going to be a very long couple of months. We definitely need to get out best players on the park though - that starting lineup on Saturday was horrific.

Watching the combined efforts of McAlear, Smith, Senga, Sylla and one or two others of late has really made me appreciate what a decent player Andy Murdoch is. I guess the club has a decision to make for next season given he’s coming off his 2nd serious knee injury, but I wouldn’t be too quick to release him if we think there is a chance he can get back to his best.

There’s simply no individual element of his game that can sustain him at championship level. He’s just a generally tidy player who generally works hard. I liked the look of him when he first signed, but maybe that was because he was playing next to Andy Murdoch and Kerr McInroy who maybe made him look better than he really is. He’s been nowhere for over a year now, so wouldn’t be rushing to offer him a new contract in the summer.

Just seems to be part of Bullen’s legacy that we can’t tell the difference between trying hard and playing well. McKenzie always tries hard, but rarely plays well. Static and ineffective doesn’t cover it. Bottom line is that we simply can’t go away from home to places like east end park with a midfield of Murphy, McHugh, Dempsey and Bryden. Add in Sanders who has been woeful and a one paced right sided centre back attempting to play left back and the only surprise is that some people are surprised that we were never in the game. I can only assume there has been a total bust up with Albinson as no way should be be sitting on the bench - Clarke is nowhere near ready for championship football and looks petrified by every cross ball that comes his way. And fair play to Ben Dempsey for achieving a level of invisibility that is so complete that he never gets criticised, presumably because no one notices he’s actually playing.

Other than a fundamental lack of quality throughout the team?

It’s a pretty dreadful team on paper to be fair. Not sure why we dropped Willoughby and kept McKenzie in the team. Bryden at right midfield is just howling. Was hoping we could make it to half time at 1 nil and make some changes, but that’s the game gone now. Harsh lesson for Brown - we conjured a win from somewhere on Tuesday, but should have been more ruthless with his selection today. 3/4 players on the bench that should probably have started. Not sure why we bothered with McGinlay if he can’t come straight in ahead of Musonda.

The dodgy mobile phone footage is clear enough.

Apologies, Adeloye’s goal. Was the keepers ball but he isn’t at all keen coming off his line. Same at the first.

Keeper made a couple of great saves, but was very poor at the 1st and 3rd goals. I suspect the ship has already sailed, but I’d put Albinson back in.