About to start. I predict Rangers Colts vs Raith and Partick vs ICT.

ICT v Rangers Colts

Rangers colts at home, that is confirmed.

Wrong it’s us home to Rangers colts

Yes, I was way out with that.

 

Draw is;

ICT vs Rangers Colts

Partick vs Raith.

Just enjoy giving us home draws, don't they

I despise Colt teams. Therefore...

 

Me seeing who ICT got in the Challenge Cup semis pic.twitter.com/skhyFthEOy

— Narey's Toepoker (@Nareystoepoker) November 20, 2019

 

I also despise the Colt teams being in this competition. I hope we utterly pump them.

Agreed. I would be sorely tempted to scratch from the competition in protest were it not for the fact that that would rightly be seen as hypocrisy given that we have effectively inserted our colts team into the Highland League thus compromising the I integrity of that venerable competition.

36 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Agreed. I would be sorely tempted to scratch from the competition in protest were it not for the fact that that would rightly be seen as hypocrisy given that we have effectively inserted our colts team into the Highland League thus compromising the I integrity of that venerable competition.

That's a fair point...

The plus side is that tie may well produce one of our biggest crowds of the feckin season !!

Am sure the uglies will arrive looking for a Cup Final place to go to, plus a feed of biscuits.

12 minutes ago, standbydave said:

Am sure the uglies will arrive looking for a Cup Final place to go to, plus a feed of biscuits.

If they do reach the finals, and assuming they win, wonder if they'll remove the Colt sides cos of how much money goes into their squads....

They will take a decent following with them I think going by the other games they have played in this cup so far. Some extra cash in for us. 

Hopefully we will have more fans in our end than them. 

What a disappointing competition this has been for us in terms of opposition. Not one game against any of the Irish, Welsh or English sides. How refreshing would that have been? And now we get a side from that shambolic excuse for a football club. Hope we pump them but, on current form, that doesn't seem likely. We have until mid Feb to sort ourselves out.

We have an English side in the semi final.

3 hours ago, Gringo said:

What a disappointing competition this has been for us in terms of opposition. Not one game against any of the Irish, Welsh or English sides. How refreshing would that have been? And now we get a side from that shambolic excuse for a football club.

Picking up on that, it feels...off. Rangers are the only side in the tournament who've managed to draw foreign opposition for three rounds on the trot.

Not sure if I'm over thinking it here, but it kinda feels like the SPFL are making sure the biggest fan base goes down south to the national league, to be met by another big fan base, selling out the ground, then ultimately profiting...

Edited November 21, 20196 yr by Jack Waddington
SPFL, NOT SFA!

3 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Picking up on that, it feels...off. Rangers are the only side in the tournament who've managed to draw foreign opposition for three rounds on the trot.

Not sure if I'm over thinking it here, but it kinda feels like the SFA are making sure the biggest fan base goes down south to the national league, to be met by another big fan base, selling out the ground, then ultimately profiting...

The SFA have nothing to do with this competition.

21 minutes ago, CaleyD said:

The SFA have nothing to do with this competition.

Your comment is wafer thin 

18 hours ago, standbydave said:

Am sure the uglies will arrive looking for a Cup Final place to go to, plus a feed of biscuits.

Yes and a lot of them resident in Inverness and the surrounding area too.

1 hour ago, CaleyD said:

The SFA have nothing to do with this competition.

True, apart from appointing referees & linesman and dealing with all player registrations and disciplinary procedures, the SFA has nothing to do with it.

In my opinion its imperative for Scottish football that ICTFC win this, much in the same way that a non-Scottish team winning this competition makes it a mockery, a colt team will do little but compound the argument that colt teams (especially the OF) should be allowed to enter the lower leagues based on being highly competitive and bringing good crowds. So far all other colts have been honking in this competition, so this should be shown as an exception rather than a demonstration of capability.

1 hour ago, bdu98196 said:

In my opinion its imperative for Scottish football that ICTFC win this, much in the same way that a non-Scottish team winning this competition makes it a mockery, a colt team will do little but compound the argument that colt teams (especially the OF) should be allowed to enter the lower leagues based on being highly competitive and bringing good crowds. So far all other colts have been honking in this competition, so this should be shown as an exception rather than a demonstration of capability.

Not sure ICTFC are in any position to be taking a stand against the idea of entering colt teams in the lower leagues given what we did with Fort William!

As far as I am aware we do not have a Colts team in the highland league. We have loaned players to a club upnthe highland league. Nowhere does it say Nairn county etc playing ICTFC Colts. Irrelevant how many players have been loaned out. They play for fort William.

I’ve a good feeling about this cup: fourth home draw in a row. 

We should be able to beat them and get to our second final in three seasons.