bennett Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 A wee break before this game, can we make it two wins in a row? Fodsy Wallace, Danny, Clint, Tav Holt, Halliday, Windass McKay, Kenny, Waggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Will Barton's suspension be served by this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Should be but I can't see him walking back into the team, we're playing better without him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cream Cheese Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Shame. Inverness is such a nice place as well. Hopefully there aren't too many assaults and all damages are swiftly repaired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 34 minutes ago, bennett said: A wee break before this game, can we make it two wins in a row? Fodsy Wallace, Danny, Clint, Tav Holt, Halliday, Windass McKay, Kenny, Waggy I don't think playing Tavernier at LB and 'the Grass' at RB is a viable option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsy Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Five unbeaten for us now, but we were very poor yesterday after four pretty impressive performances, and extremely lucky to get away with a point. Obviously we shouldn't expect to maintain the same level of perfomance for every game, but I'm hoping that having lost our foothold in the game yesterday against a team that just looked more up for it than we were, the players will remember how sharp and aggressive they have to be in every game, and that we'll see a reaction in this game. When we're at our best (i.e. not yesterday, when, unusually, we lost the midfield battle), I think we can match most teams in the league through the centre of the park, with the strength and experience of Warren, Meekings, Draper and Tansey - we dominated St Johnstone, Aberdeen, and Dundee in that area and made life very difficult for Celtic there too. I don't know much about this Rangers team, but on the basis of their results so far, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't at the very least be able to make life very difficult for them in the areas where we're at our strongest. Where we are most limited, and most likely to lose momentum and control of the game, is in the forward areas. The wingers King and Mulraney both have plenty of skill and, in Mulraney's case, pace to burn, but they lack strength and are easily knocked off the ball, and I suspect that they both lack a bit of experience and guile when it comes to decision-making and final balls. The fact that Foran has frequently preferred Liam Polworth, who is clearly far more comfortable and effective in a central role, to Mulraney out wide, suggests that he still has doubts about areas of Mulraney's game. Aaron Doran is another option, out wide or behind the striker, and he is tricky enough to make life very difficult for any defenders, but he probably doesn't have the engine or the game-time this season to be considered for a start. Returning to King and Mulraney, Foran tends to play them on the 'wrong' wings - that is, the right-footed Mulraney on the left and the left-footed King on the right - which means that they have to cut in all the time rather than getting crosses in from near the bye-line, and this seems counter-intuitive given that all three of our strikers are essentially target men who are most likely to benefit from high-pressing and dangerous balls played across goal. Centre-forward is, by some distance, our weakest area at the moment. All three of Scott Boden, Alex Fisher and Lonsana Doumbouya have been given significant game time in the league this season, and so far have two goals between them; one each for Fisher and Doumbouya, and none for Boden. Doumbouya, as the most physically imposing of the three, is likely to start this game, but unless we are able to get out of our own half with some sort of regularity, then his job will be restricted to trying to hold the ball up and trying to make something out of long balls. The danger of having a forward line composed of an immobile striker and two easily-bullied wingers is that we may find ourselves being forced deeper and deeper and just hanging on again, as we did yesterday. I'm a stuck record when it comes to the subject of Iain Vigurs' ineffectiveness over 90 minutes, but I do think that our best chance in this game is to move Polworth into the middle and drop Vigurs. This gives us more pace, strength and ability to close down quickly in the centre; Draper can play the number 10 role behind Doumbouya without having to drop back so much to compensate for Vigurs' lack of presence, thus giving us strength and dynamism right through the centre of the park, and if that isn't proving successful, then Draper and Polworth can swap places, as they did against Dundee. I would also like to see Mulraney and King start on their natural sides, thus giving a line-up of: Fon Williams Mckay Warren Meekings Tremarco Tansey Polworth Mulraney Draper King Doumbouya We've got a reasonable record in these sorts of televised games, and a wee repeat of the December 2006 evening kick-off would do very nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Initially before the baiting commences can I just, on behalf of the ICT posters on P&B, say respects to Ryan Baird and thoughts go out to the family. Speedy recoveries to all the injured parties as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 ICTFC 3 TNFC 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Initially before the baiting commences can I just, on behalf of the ICT posters on P&B, say respects to Ryan Baird and thoughts go out to the family. Speedy recoveries to all the injured parties as well. Where is it OK to go and not return home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebite Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I fancy a more streetwise team than ourselves with a history of doing well against the OF like Inverness to take something here. Rangers weren't very impressive at all yesterday against a mince outfit like us, just papered over the cracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 10 hours ago, bennett said: A wee break before this game, can we make it two wins in a row? Fodsy Wallace, Danny, Clint, Tav Holt, Halliday, Windass McKay, Kenny, Waggy Fodsy? Waggy? Tav? Are you Stuart McCall!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 21 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said: Initially before the baiting commences can I just, on behalf of the ICT posters on P&B, say respects to Ryan Baird and thoughts go out to the family. Speedy recoveries to all the injured parties as well. Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks. The general reaction of P&B to this has been mature and sympathetic and we Rangers fans, who can have a bit of a seige mentality, are grateful. 12 minutes ago, Cerberus said: Where is it OK to go and not return home? That's a point worthy of a discussion but better raised, maybe, in GN rather than here? I think we should draw a line under this as far as the match thread goes. As for the game? We played some good stuff against Aberdeen and we skooshed the second half yesterday. We're brittle, though. I think Windass and/or Rossiter would make a difference to us.so I'd start with Bennett's team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Fodsy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 A wee break before this game, can we make it two wins in a row? Fodsy Wallace, Danny, Clint, Tav Holt, Halliday, Windass McKay, Kenny, Waggy No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 2 hours ago, RossP said: Fodsy? Waggy? Tav? Are you Stuart McCall!? no one ever gives fitba players nicknames.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topgranny50 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Initially before the baiting commences can I just, on behalf of the ICT posters on P&B, say respects to Ryan Baird and thoughts go out to the family. Speedy recoveries to all the injured parties as well. So sad to hear about Ryan Baird RIP true blue teddy bear thoughts and prayers got out to Ryans friends and family gone but us teddy bears will never forget [emoji22][emoji170] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milnzo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 A fitting tribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Looks like we'll be without senderos for this one, lengthy ban from the compliant officer on the way. Oh well these things happen I s'pose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Baird's tribute Facebook page is pure dignity. Posts about tarriers and saying stuff like "No apology for Bloody Sunday".Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Fonners Handsome Brad ---- Gaz ---- Meeks ---- Carlo Drapes ---- Tanz Jake ---- Polly ---- Billy Lon-sa-na (When the crowd say goals) Doumbouya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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