CityDave94

I'll take note of what you say and keep an eye for any mention of our support unrest in the popular media. I don't have a full opinion yet on how good or bad a football manager Billy Dodds is right now, after going to a few games I should see a pattern. I don't form an opinion from newspapers or socia media, I always prefer to see things for myself. One thing though its quite surprising how inexperienced he is as manager at his age. He's a late starter, regardless that he had previous yeras ago as an assistant manager and a contentious role as caretaker manager at Dundee. So he has a large learning curve ahead, increasingly harder to adapt to the older you get. Yeah, Dundee fans hate him because he objected to the CVA that saved their club. if we ended up in that situation would the same happen? I can see why Dundee supporters are concerned for our club's future given who is involved at our club. Did similar thing happen at Dens in the run up to administration in 2010 where fans were kept out of the loop and not invited to meetings?

There is a demand for Rangers news and this money spinning idea of theirs might work because they are in that very strong position and have friends and allies in the media. Media can quickly cover the cost by increasing the Rangers news articles and writing any old shite which will get lapped up. Inverness Caledonian Thistle??? Yeah. You see where I'm going here.

Good post. I used to go and watch Caley and I knew a few of the supporters, many had 'big teams' along with a local team to support. Thistle and Caledonian tended to draw folks from areas close to their grounds rather than the whole of Inverness. It was well known that a good chunk of Caley fans also supported Rangers and for Thistle fans it was Celtic. Those Celtic fans would not support a team in blue and a club that had members who greeted each other with a funny handshake and a rolled up trouser leg. So when after the merger happened those supporters weren't lost to football they simply continued supporting their big team. 'Its a shame that many of them went to less and less games and ony showed up in numbers to protest when they realised the merger was serious.* I would often go to midweek games league or cup and if they were against the likes of Rothes or Deveronvale you'd be lucky to get over 200 for those games and they weren't alone, Highland League attendences started to drop off during the 90's. Clubs that had never been in financial trouble suddenly started struggling. I believe Thistle were doomed anyway and would not have survived to see the new millenium. edit: * the part about attendances at Telford Street isn't a criticism as more and more people during the 80's and 90's moved away from the trad' 5 day working week to working Saturdays. I would say that would be a valid contributing factor to declining attendances not just in Inverness.

If one or two more 1st team players get injured in this cup game supporters would be absolutely raging at him on why he took the risk in the first place for a competion that is a lot less priority than the league. Focus on the league we need to get back in the mix for the title and playoffs. Every manager we have has had has used cup competitions to give players off the bench an opportunity to impress. Remember Yogi resting players for a Celtic game so they would be fit and rested for the Scottish Cup Final, protecting our best players. In this case we can't afford to lose anyone else to injury.

Majority of football fans in Inverness by quite some distance support one of the two arse cheeks.

I do. I would like us to win it.

What do you think about the decision to choose a team of mostly youngsters against Hamilton in the CC, is this the correct decision by the management team? Had a read of an article the P&J https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/inverness-caledonian-thistle/5125135/caley-thistle-fans-get-behind-clubs-decision-to-use-u18s-for-spfl-trust-trophy-tie-with-hamilton/ and it looks like most supporters who gave their opinion were in favour.

Dodds in the Courier today saying he will be continuing to scour the free transfer market to bolster the squad during the January window. Certainly someone up front and an attacking right sided midfielder should be high up on the list. Attacking options priority.

The accounts are due on the 28th February and the statement on the 3rd March. We will see where the club stands then. Here's hoping for transparency.

An ICT 'B' team playing Hamilton on Saturday. Probably won't end well.

Not under the A9 its not.

Who would know?

The statement itself probably could have been worded better and more to the point but fair enough warning for any travelling support not to expect a similar starting 11 to the Dundee game. Erm... it was considerate to let us know though. Maybe the game will get called off anyway with all that snow and ice incoming.

I'm quite sure Billy Dodds didn't write the club statement and ...........nope not quoted either. Looks to me like its this writer Alan Potts that's making a big deal of it, must be a slow day in Glasgow. I find it amusing when media feels it has to translate an official club statements for those readers with high foreheads and sore knuckles. The statement is there in the article for anyone who wants to step up a level of reading. What did the ''proper channels' of the SPFL do wrong here?

It's hardly national news worthy as top clubs often prefer to give youth a chance in the minor cups, injuries or not.

You're not thinking of Craig Levein here?

Are Inverness Caledonian Thistle in financial trouble again? What happened this time?

If there really is a lot of behind the scenes shenanigans and it doesn't get sorted out pronto it could send the club tailspinning right back to the very same position the club started out just in time for the club's 30th Anniversary. Personally I've always been in favour of an Inverness minded management team and players.

Might get back into visiting grounds around the country again. The one true litmus test of looking after the football supporter is the food available, so mainly finger pointing at the pastry delights of each ground which is the cornerstone of any food catering at a any football ground, so why not start at Inverness my home city. If there's one thing that can be said about it after scoffing a steak pie which apparently a first glance was a reasonable £2.50. On first eye to pie observation the pie looked overcooked and the lid appeared to have sunk down to about half the hight of the sides which didn't bode well for the contents. Probably unneessary because it goes better with a scotch pie I without consideration covered the lid in brown sauce, I quicky realised that this was a no no for a steak pie and such a blasphemy will not be repeated. Taking the first bite I wasn't wrong about the pie being overcooked, not just overcooked but heated up far too fast The outside of the base wasn't soggy just lacked the strength to hold the contents hence the arse started to fall out of it as soon as I took that first bite, thank goodness for the tin foil cup it was sitting in. The contents were just two small pieces of steak both about the size of a finger nail and the rest was all hot gravy, is this normal in the current economic climate, I felt burned? Taste wise it was a bit meh but let down by a lack of filling and that most of the inside of the pastry wasn't cooked properly hence it behaving like how we hope the England defence ends up vs Senegal later today. it was a good start for comparison's sake if nothing else, however there surely can't be much worse than this. Plenty of better snack choices on the way to the stadium of better value, a couple of garages and also a couple of burger vans in the car parks of both Wickes and B&Q so no surprise the one queue was very short. I forgot my phone so was unable to take a photo of the stake pie so you'll have to take my word for it. Rated 4/10

Did you go to the game Shaun?

Good to be back at the Caledonian Stadium. It wasn't a classic game by any means and thought both sides had their moments but generally cancelled each other out, but for one moment of class. Clean game as well. Can't argue with the score, the McMullan's goal was a peach and ended up making the difference in the end. For me McMullan deserved man of the match not just for his goal but for his workrate just ahead of Mulligan of Dundee and Devine for ICT who was solid. Impressed with both Mulligan and Williamson at Dundee, especially Josh Mulligan's work rate in the first half, worked his socks off. Dan MacKay and Nathan Shaw for Inverness impressed me. Dan MacKay was the only player that caused Dundee problems with his movement and pace especially in the first half, he also drew a few fouls for trips and jersey pulling shame his passing and end product wasn't great,. What I saw of Shaw was he didn't put a foot wrong, he's going to be a very good player in the future. Dundee look like they have the framework of a decent group of young players to build around. it will be interesting to see if Boyer strengthens in January, might have to the way Queen's Park are going. Thought I recognised Scott Paterson as one of the Dundee coaching staff. For the patched up Inverness side I didn't think we had a bad game, just lacked overall quality with the players available. Once players return from injury I'm quietly confident that a lot of this lost ground in the table will be made up.

Dundee have a poor record in Inverness, can't remember any league wins, a few draws and couple of cup wins that's it. Poor record overall for Dundee vs Inverness CT That run is going to end at some point. Will it be today?

Looks like deciding the starting 11 will be left until the very last minute. Googled - Ryan Barrett I wanted to see what kind of player he is and position and accidentally discovered he was on £35,360 a year, £680 a week at Newcastle Utd. So got distracted by that. So in discovering that rabbit hole and poked my head down it to see more I discover that Ryan Christie was on even more with us in 2014 - £37,960 a year. Now Christie is on 33k a week with the Cherrys. https://salarysport.com/football/player/ryan-christie/ Sorry, I have a habbit of not being able to walk past a rabbit hole without taking a look. Didn't fall down it, I'd miss the match and the rest of the day.

Any word yet on whether Billy McKay has recovered from his ankle injury?

The forum needs a strong Shitting Stories Part 2 thread.