Savage Henry
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10 minutes ago, Lanky Highlander said:
Wonder when new season’s kit gets released?
The away has been at the club since before the Livingston game, so as to avoid this year’s “too dark” nonsense. I read into that it would be yellow or white.
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4 minutes ago, Fide said:
Absolutely tremendous socials from the club here
Have you pinched someone from Motherwell? Excellent stuff which makes our humourless social media guy look even worse, although he’s now in charge of Morten for some reason. Also he does nothing but score against us.
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6 minutes ago, Rugster said:
Who should we have handing over the official banter years baton from Falkirk to Caley?
Caley have Hibsed it.
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14 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Sorry lads, you'll have to come back tomorrow, the Boys Brigade have booked it..
The “Boys Brigade” made up of Kelty’s reserves. Which is what happens whenever ICT tries to use the Highland Academy.
I am beginning to think the folk running ICT may be out of their depth here, but their own incompetence may just have saved them.
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Just now, Matty-RCFC said:
We will play Raith, Hamilton, Stirling and Stranraer in this season’s League Cup Group Stages. Given how the fixtures tend to fall, I suspect it will be:
Stranraer (A) - July 13th
Raith Rovers (H) - July 20th
Hamilton Academical (A) - July 23rd
Stirling Albion (H) - July 27th
Could be wrong, of course.
That group has surprise knock out written all over it. Ross County vs Raith is the new Scotland vs Israel.
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2 minutes ago, pub car king said:
f**k sake Ross County, that's just cruel and unreasonable punishment
Just think of us as Israel.
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Just now, tree house tam said:
Shite league cup group
Home before the postcards?
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1 hour ago, Skyline Drifter said:
As it should be. Interesting there's no quote and we've not previously heard this definitively I think unless it's referring to his comments on selecting all four for the March friendlies when I think he did say that.
I'm not sure Greg Taylor's quite as sure a selection as that article implies but I do expect him to go. The other left out will be one of the centre backs (Souttar probably) or Jack or Doak or Forrest unless Armstrong's injury doesn't quite clear up (same also true of Souttar of course).
I want to know if anyone actually thinks Zander Clark has been an outstanding performer this season. I think he’s been only slightly less ropey than Kelly.
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1 minute ago, Doc Holiday said:
Is it common place that clubs pay for housing? Are these players living rent free in effect? I understand it would be the case for short term deal loan players etc.
It is for County and Caley, just because of the location. Not really much they can do about that. County haven’t had a problem getting folk from Southampton to relocate.
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15 minutes ago, placidcasual said:
Mets blow another save yesterday. It's almost impressive to have a payroll this size and still be so bad.
My fantasy team is suffering. It may even be terminal.
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2 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
Bit of devil's advocate, but this is birthday card/Facebook pish. If the went down the route of playing part time local lads who only want to play for Inverness the goodwill would last about 3 games into the new season after you've just been scudded by Kelty and Annan.
From the outside, the team training away from the town isn't exactly outrageous, multiple other sides do it already with Queen of the South probably the most similar in that they're a bit out the way, on low crowds trying to sustain full time football.
So what is it you want to achieve with the boycott? Is it for the team to train in Inverness, but then Gardiner and the chairman remains? Or full on regime change, however if a new board comes in and communicates that training at another location could save so many hundreds of thousands a year and have you back challenging for the Championship would that be acceptable?
It’s a false dichotomy, certainly. There’s a hangover at County - and you’re seeing it with Cowie - whereby the “local” players get an easier time of things. The call used to be “get the local lads on”, essentially because they care more, or that was the thinking I suppose.
At the same time, it seems self evident that a football club is part of the local community and having the players living and working on a daily basis in that community is common sense. ICT are, currently, as a club, absolutely terrible at community engagement, whereas the team across the Kessock bridge are somewhat better.
A final point, being in the third division isn’t that bad. It’s quite a laugh, and in some respects a lot more fun than VAR and the Daily Record and Thursday kick offs and the arse cheeks and all that comes with top flight football.
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I get the club hasn’t got the best of finances, but where has this talk of administration come from? As far as I understand it, there is some hefty financial backing which at least alleviates some of the financial strains. Duncan Ferguson isn’t even being paid by the club - a fact of which Gardiner seems strangely proud.
Anyway, we have our monthly works trip to the stadium on Friday and it hasn’t been cancelled yet. In fairness to Gardiner, he usually attends and is very open about goings on.
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5 minutes ago, Brashy's Boots said:
If Stevenson is here, and I'm delighted if he is, is it a case of Dick in or Dick out?
You’d want to hold on to him as long as you can, surely?
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13 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
The logic seems to be that the club must remain full time, it absolutely must, but the club can't afford to be full time, it absolutely can't.
Oh, and a bit of Doncastering there. Is Inverness that bad? He makes it sound like some sort of penal colony located somewhere on the Kamchatka Peninsula, rather than a nice wee growing city, located in the north east of Scotland, with road, rail, and air connections. Maybe he should stop making it sound like its such a punishment that even Fife is preferable, and it might be easier to attract players?
It’s quite clearly the first steps in moving the whole kit and caboodle out of Inverness. I don’t see any other way to see it.
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1 hour ago, ICTChris said:
Off topic but a few years ago we stopped at Bruar while driving up the A9, it was during a heatwave and it was roasting. The main reason we went there was to get an ice cream. We got our ice creams and sat in some shaded area outside and I noticed one guy, sitting in the direct sun, no shade, big red baldy bonce - he was eating a full roast dinner, with all the trimmings. Gravy, yorkshires, parsnips, roast potatoes, the lot. Amazing stuff. I think about the guy from time to time, what a way to live your life.
I believe Charlie Adam does some punditry now and again. So that’s how he lives his life these days.
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13 hours ago, ICTChris said:
The community engagement side is run by the ICT Trust, who do all the schools outreach, the summer courses, the Inverness Football Memories etc.
The Trust guys are doing a stand up job. County have nothing to compare.
On the other hand, the community stuff between the actual clubs is night and day - absolutely no connection except with ex-pros and old boys. Partly this is because Caley’s team is made up of eleventy three loan players, but a little PR training wouldn’t go amiss.
Oddly, Gemma Fay was really on the mark on this on the Scottish Football podcast.
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On 24/05/2024 at 09:20, scottsdad said:
Watched the last part. The questions now really hang over his missus.
How does she explain the tattoos? It was 100% her making funeral arrangements, so not so innocent here. Why did she keep the poodle muzzled? And (the wife noticed) why did her accent change from time to time also?
That whole documentary was weird. The tattoos thing is just plain insanity, but just as mad is making the real life folk act out wee recreations.
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On 26/05/2024 at 17:31, Florentine_Pogen said:
Just discovered that the BBC have put their 1987 dramatisation of John Le Carre's 'A Perfect Spy' on iPlayer. This is a 'must watch' for any Le Carre fan. I believe it is his best book by far.
Peter Egan, Ray McInally, Alan Howard & Jane Booker are all excellent.
ETA - And Rudiger Weigang as Axel.
Cheers for this.
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1 hour ago, 54_and_counting said:
Where abouts was this, off work till next monday so fancy giving this a blast, spy stuff is great viewing
BBC iplayer - it’s real life Le Carré
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1 minute ago, Tony Wonder said:
I really liked Cowie at Hearts. He was a decent player with a great attitude, but he also seemed like a thoroughly good guy. Wish him well.
That precisely it. People want good things to happen to good people, and football is no different.
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12 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
It's pointless using the games against Raith, IMO. The quality gap on show was too large.
I'm just finding the hype/belief in Cowie surprising. He has 4 wins in 15 in the league, one a win against Rangers that will be a struggle to repeat next season due to the situation Rangers were in. Lost 7 of the 15, and his points average was roughly what County managed this season anyway.
The way he conducts himself. The way he speaks. The respect players have for him, and, late goals notwithstanding, the massive improvement in performance by the end of the season. The gap between County and Raith is no bigger than between County and Partick. The level of professionalism is like and night and day.
I believe in Cowie because he’s such a good bloke as much as anything. Can’t really say that about at least one and possibly both of the last two.
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Simon Murray scored 23 goals this season in a team creating next to no chances. He’d do a job for about eight or nine teams in the division.
There’s a reason he’s being linked with a move away, so if it happens I doubt you’d be paying much of a fee.
edit: I’m also fairly sure he’s got another year to go.
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Let me revise. Could see Celtic going for him.
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28 minutes ago, The DA said:
I should have put quotes around 'the most successful club in the world'.
Simply around club would have done.
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"The ICT Thread - From the Premiership to the Seaside"
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Guid, dishonest laddies.