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19 hours ago, Highland Capital said:
I'm probably now in the Dodds Out camp. Yesterday showed that our awful form is down to a lot more than injuries - those players looked unmotivated, uncoached and devoid of confidence. The problem is though is that punting Dodds isn't enough - there has to be an entire regime change. If Dodds went tomorrow, Robbo would almost certainly be appointed and if it wasn't him it'd be someone else from the Hearts clique. I could quite easily see the club appointing Gary Locke or someone of that ilk even if better candidates had applied.
There needs to be a regime change before the club can move forward. I don't need to be in the Premiership or do well in cups or play in Europe nor do I need the standard to be particularly high but it's starting to become a real slog to be a supporter of this club.
You're not thinking of Craig Levein here?
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10 hours ago, Yenitit said:
We’d happily take Deas and Harper off your hands if that helps out financially.
33 minutes ago, Fifespud said:
Best to wait for the fire sale.Are Inverness Caledonian Thistle in financial trouble again?
What happened this time?
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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.
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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
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7 hours ago, Caley Shaun said:
We're trying but are getting hampered by a donkey.
Did you go to the game Shaun?
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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.
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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?
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1 minute ago, sophia said:
I wouldn't expect Billy to be fit. He seemed to be toiling last Saturday even before he limped off.
That being the case, the good news is that we will be treated to an extended viewing of George Oakley and his commitment to delivering his own version of shuai jiao to the masses.
I do hope Welsh is fit and this new guy Barrett starts as I think Duffy would seem to be a better option than Ram who had to be taken off before he was sent off last week.
Daniel MacKay looked raring to go last week and I'm excited as to what he might bring to proceedings.
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.
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Any word yet on whether Billy McKay has recovered from his ankle injury?
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2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:
We’ve all been there.
The forum needs a strong Shitting Stories Part 2 thread.
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9 minutes ago, Brazilianlex said:
LL Clubs aren’t happy tho.!
Vote was 8 each and only approved by the Chair. Most Clubs that voted for are now pissed off at Maxwell for promising a pyramid working group which has never met and now hearing that SFA and SPFL are going to make a proposal without consultation. The 8 useful idiots have served their purpose.
Nah, can't see that happening if the LL gets fucked over. SPFL clubs will see the possibility of this happening to them next and will also face a backlash from their own fans whom they can't afford to lose. Clubs in the LL and the levels below will go to war with the SFA and the SPFL if they are all relegated down one level. It would be seen as betrayal of the pyramid and just destruction and ripped up season tickets everywhere.
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6 hours ago, Brazilianlex said:
A lot of pressure from who ?
Doncaster and Maxwell who are told what to do by the Old Firm.!No meetings ever held by the promised Pyramid working group but already rumours that these two without any consultation will propose a SPFL League 3 of 4x LL, 4x HL and 4 x B Teams.
I think it gets forgotten that B teams are guest teams who pay to play at level 5 in the Scottish pyramid. Each one has to apply before every season to enter the LL and pay a fee, last time it was reported as 40k. There is no guarentee that all 3 B teams will be allowed to compete in the Lowland League next season.
As long as b teams do not get in the way of LL clubs they will be quite happy to allow them to compete in their league.
16 hours ago, edinabear said:Think if we see Rangers and Celtic finishing in the top 2 places there'll be a lot of pressure to promote them and expand league 2. Which actually might not be a bad thing if it opens up more promotion and relegation places.
If this scenario does come about it could mean the end of B teams in the Lowland League since it goes against the agreement the clubs made allowing B teams to compete in their league. Given the hostility from the SPFL clubs towards B teams especially Rangers and Celtic it's extremely unlikely the member clubs will allow either Rangers or Celtic B teams to compete in their league, even if both parent clubs wave great wads of cash at them.
As I said before as long as B teams don't get in the way of the LL club's SPFL ambitions then they will all get along fine and be tolerated.
Possibility given the current economic situation for clubs currently it would not be a surprise that the entry fee for next season into the LL could be doubled for guest teams.
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There's rumours about a fan driven funding initiative to raise money to put a roof on the West Stand.
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6 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:
What a squad we had compared to now. Think every single one would walk into even our strongest starting 11 this season.....except barrowman.
To think even Robert Eagle would be a stand out if he was in todays squad.
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14 minutes ago, Highland Capital said:
Was that not the game where we had a free kick in the box because Rab Douglas had scuffed out a line in the grass or something?
Aye, got caught marking out his 6 yard line.
It's a shame the old match threads on here have been sent into the big black and this one would have been interesting to read through again given how key it was to what came next such as TB finally run out of patience with LD-Z and Imrie looked done with Inverness. Both got subbed off.
I did find a few threads on CTO. https://caleythistleonline.com/forum/4-caley-thistle/page/259/
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Trip down memory lane here. I never saw these two giants of Scottish football play against each other up in Inverness until Boxing Day 2009, just over one month after Dundee beat Inverness in the Challenge Cup Final 3-2. This one finished 1-1 in Arctic conditions with Griffiths scoring first for Dundee - penalty and then Rooney replying for ICT. The game was remembered for Gary Harkins getting sent off, but I can't remember what for. Understandably not many fans, especially away fans braving the conditions to turn up for this.
Not much in the way of official footage on YT but found this fan effort -
Looking back at both squads it really shows the strength in depth both clubs had even at this level compaired to now.
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This will be my first football match for years so really looking forward to it.
But do we need to bring torches to find our way out of the stadium at the end of the game as the floodlights will be shut off sharpish maybe as soon as the ref blows the final whistle? As reported in yesterday's P&J the leki bills are crippling.
Does anyone think that if Dundee go 3 nil up with ICT playing absolute dogshit will the lights unexpectedly and unexplainably go off even earlier?
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On 28/03/2022 at 23:54, Flybhoy said:
Annfield Park, Stirling.
Hard to believe it has been gone 30 years now, a place I watched a lot of football as a kid and for a ground at that level of Scottish football it was definitely one of the best even if I am biased being a Stirling lad. Only drawback was it's last five years the horrendous early version of a synthetic surface, played on it regularly and it had a bounce like a basketball court and the slightest overhit pass would go skidding by you or out of play, for those too young to recall look on YouTube for games involving Luton Town or QPR in the same era who had virtually identical surfaces.
As a ground though I loved it and get very nostalgic for the place when I see images of it on social media or get called out to do any work at the houses and flats that sit there now.
^^^ Carpet burn thread for this pish.
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This could be against Belgium in an U21's as it was the first and last time Andy Richie represented Scotland.
I'll have a go at who's who -
Back row - Ally Brazil (Ipswich Town), David Dodds (Dundee Utd), Billy Thomson (Partick Thistle or St Mirren), David Stewart (Leeds Utd), Andy Richie (Morton), John Wark (Ipswich Town), Ally Dawson (Rangers), George McCluskey (Celtic).
Front Row - Alan Sneddon (Celtic), Paul Hegarty (Dundee Utd), Jim Melrose (Partick Thistle), Jim McNichol (Luton Town), David Narey (Dundee Utd), Eamonn Bannon (Hearts), Neil Orr (Morton), Raymond Stewart (Dundee Utd).
Anyone else want a guess?
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Found this and chucked it under the phone to pass it on to here, for olde memories from back in the days before the merger, Inverness was just a town and back when the A9 took a full month to drive up and down. Heaven help you if you got stuck behind a caravan.
Looked like a decent Stirling team managed by Alex Smith with experienced Tommy Walker and Jim Shirra and some future top flight players such as Brian Grant, Gordon Arthur and John Pilliben. Included Willie Irvine who ended up having a 20 year career in senior football by the time he moved on from Stirling was averaging almost a goal every two games, can't remember if he ever played in the top flight but scored a few for the likes of Berwick, Alloa and Meadowbank.
Finished 0-0 and went to a replay at Annfield with the eventual winners (Caley) at home to Rangers in the next round.
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"The ICT Thread - The Championship Years"
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It's hardly national news worthy as top clubs often prefer to give youth a chance in the minor cups, injuries or not.