Savage Henry Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Obviously we all (including management and players) want to finish as high as possible. I don't think there's evidence that anyone lacks ambition. Are we really a better team than the majority in the bottom 6? Several of them have excellent managers e.g. St. Johnstone & St Mirren. I think we might achieve a 9th place finish but am not putting any money on it. Seems to me Ross County are a decent Championship side making heavy weather of being in the Premiership. Which is what you’d expect. We’ve added two or complementary players plus Donaldson, but it’s the bulk of the Championship winning squad. There’s a huge difference between the Championship and the Premiership, cup games be dammed. If they stay up, they’ll improve a couple of other poisons - keeper, fullback, wing - and more likely do better. This season is purely about staying up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossCountyFan14 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Agree for the most part with what most here are saying, I think we can all agree that a) the ‘style’ of football is guff to watch. b) we recruited poorly not signing a winger in particular and kept a championship squad when improvements were needed. C) we could be doing better but could be doing a lot worse. I don’t think swapping managers now will be helpful with no window for a new gaffer to craft his own squad. But i definitely think we should have a plan in place for who we want to bring in instantly if we do change in before or during summer. Who? We can all look and admire what livi are doing on a shoe string budget and say why can’t we do that but that is so rare that we can’t expect to replicate it every season. I get you can’t have a negative mindset and small ambition but there has to be some realism involved also. If we can grind out a 9th / 10th finish then I’d say we achieved what we needed to this season and look to improve that over summer. Our form isn’t great but need to look at the positives imo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rcfc fan Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I’d keep the managers in place they’ve done fine the only gripe I have is not signing a winger in the window although Stewart and gardyne returning could ease that situation , they are rotating the squad well when players are performing poorly in what is a tough league where I’d imagine we have one of the smallest budgets 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spain Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I see our co-managers inistence on wasting Stewart on the wing at Mullin's expense early on during the season has fooled numerous people into believing he's actually genuinely a winger. And a left-sided one at that. He's absolutely not. We have two wingers (both right sided incidentally) - Mullin & Gardyne. And with Gardyne being unlikely to be back before the split there is simply no defending the dereliction of duty that was failing to bring in another winger. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagdhu Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 On 19/02/2020 at 16:07, Rcfc fan said: I’d keep the managers in place they’ve done fine the only gripe I have is not signing a winger in the window although Stewart and gardyne returning could ease that situation , they are rotating the squad well when players are performing poorly in what is a tough league where I’d imagine we have one of the smallest budgets Interestingly enough, I have it on very good authority that we have a budget well within the Top 6, and has even rivalled that of the fourth placed club a few seasons back. Make of that what you will..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, stagdhu said: Interestingly enough, I have it on very good authority that we have a budget well within the Top 6, and has even rivalled that of the fourth placed club a few seasons back. Make of that what you will..... I think out budget has been clipped compared to the free spending days of Adams, McIntyre and Coyle. It's just not sustainable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Comrie said: I think out budget has been clipped compared to the free spending days of Adams, McIntyre and Coyle. It's just not sustainable. By most accounts you spent just shy of £200k on transfer fees alone in January. That to add to the £5m worth of losses, without a single year of profit, you've accumulated in the last 6 years, before the latest accounts are added. But yes, Ross County are no longer spending beyond their means. Edited February 20, 2020 by RandomGuy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty-RCFC Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 13 minutes ago, Matty-RCFC said: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie52 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Classy, but makes a change from misogyny... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Les Westander of County Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 18 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: By most accounts you spent just shy of £200k on transfer fees alone in January. That to add to the £5m worth of losses, without a single year of profit, you've accumulated in the last 6 years, before the latest accounts are added. But yes, Ross County are no longer spending beyond their means. Things took a weird turn after you posted this. Lesson: don't cast aspersions on County's financial prudence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 If the bottom six stays as it is, we would be due home games against Killie and Hearts with away games against Hamilton, St Mirren and St Johnstone.Which means we will be getting the unlucky 18/20 split of home to away games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 that's okay - we don't have rotten Away form any more now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 (edited) If there is no sign of this outbreaks relentless march across europe slowing down in the coming weeks then I personally think the season should be stopped with no more football played until next season. Peoples lives are far more important. There are people out there who will I am sure make greater sacrifices than those who may not receive a medal for coming first or getting relagated. . Edited March 15, 2020 by silver 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagdhu Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 I think if it comes to it, they should stop the season as is and have Celtic and Dundee Utd as champions, with the usual divisions for the European spots. Stops the inevitable but justified cries from their supporters or indeed wider footballing community and should set a precedent should similar events occur in the future. With regards to relegation, just don’t have it. Keep all teams in the Premiership as is, and add Dundee United. Then, when virus permits, have a playoff with the teams who currently sit in the Championship playoff spaces and the winner gets promoted, making for a 14 team league next season. Balance the leagues by promoting an extra side from both the Highland and Lowland leagues into League 2 and shuffle the rest to suit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagdhu Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Have also heard suggestions of promoting the top four from the Championship, creating a perhaps permanent 16 team league from here on in. Sounds great in principle, should certainly add some more excitement and intrigue to the league, but what will happen with the gap that creates in the Championship? Lineage the three lower leagues into two and supplement with some HL/LL/Junior sides?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossCountyFan14 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I think if it comes to it, they should stop the season as is and have Celtic and Dundee Utd as champions, with the usual divisions for the European spots. Stops the inevitable but justified cries from their supporters or indeed wider footballing community and should set a precedent should similar events occur in the future. With regards to relegation, just don’t have it. Keep all teams in the Premiership as is, and add Dundee United. Then, when virus permits, have a playoff with the teams who currently sit in the Championship playoff spaces and the winner gets promoted, making for a 14 team league next season. Balance the leagues by promoting an extra side from both the Highland and Lowland leagues into League 2 and shuffle the rest to suitYou can’t just end the season on assumption, it isn’t mathematically over. You either have to void the season or carry it on once all this is finished.Imo it’s a great chance to expand the league and transfer to summer football 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie52 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 9 hours ago, RossCountyFan14 said: You can’t just end the season on assumption, it isn’t mathematically over. You either have to void the season or carry it on once all this is finished. Imo it’s a great chance to expand the league and transfer to summer football The SPFL/SFA can do what they think is best, there’s nothing to stop them at the moment. Whichever course they decide on there will be fans and clubs that are unhappy. They control Scottish football and they take the decisions. They could halt the league as it is and decide the latest position is the final. They could work out points per match played and decide final places on that basis. They could do promotion and relegation on either of these situations although play-offs would be difficult. They could void the league, expand or contract leagues, continue the competitions at a later date, change to summer football. The reality is we have no idea what they will do because they don’t know what will happen. Can we play again within 3 months, 6 months etc, we just don’t know. Even if they make a decision just now they might be overtaken by events. it’s a bugger right enough.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Zero debt yet again. Tough one to take for the ICT spiceboys on Twitter who are convinced that County are the SPFL team teetering on the brink due to Covid 19. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/parent-firm-helps-keep-ross-county-debt-free-193797/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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