Stinky Fish & hard stone Saturday in the Pink

It's off to the bygone land of granite quarries and stinky fish meal factories this weekend as the Caley Jags head for Balmoral Park to tackle Cove Rangers on Matchday Six with League1 business high on the agenda. This will be Cove's 200th League game since gaining promotion to the SPFL. Inverness have made a solid start to the campaign and got themselves into positive figures within two weeks and now sit within the mid table group. On the other hand, Cove have made an inauspicious start with just two points from five games and sit at the bottom. Mind you, with David Eguaibor and his Bro on board adding to the experience of the evergreen Mitch Megginson, they will always pose a threat. However, we have our own threat in the form of Liam Sole. The fleet footed twinkle toed forward is exciting the fans and we can expect the unexpected from the in form player. Don't forget it's a 17:30 kick-off and if you can't make the game, it's live on BBC Alba.

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Caley Jags in the Pink

📺 Game on BBC Alba 5:30pm 📺

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Scotty is the top dog>>>

Congratulations to our Head Coach Scott Kellacher who has been named the Glen’s Vodka William Hill League 1 Manager of the Month for August 2025

In August, Caley Thistle secured league wins against Kelty Hearts, Peterhead, Montrose and Alloa Athletic while also getting wins in the KDM Evolution Trophy against Elgin City and Aberdeen B.

Kellacher said: “It’s always nice to get an award but this isn’t just for me, it’s for everyone at the club. I’ve got a great staff, really good players and everyone has pulled their weight. Everyone works ever so hard, and this award recognises all our efforts.”  

And the laundry award for clean sheets goes to>>>

Goalkeeper Ross Munro has been named the SPFL William Hill League 1 Player of the Month for August 2025. Munro, 25 years-old, kept clean sheets in our league wins against Kelty Hearts, Peterhead, Montrose and Alloa Athletic.

Upon receiving the award, Ross Munro said: “It’s nice to get recognised, but this is a collective award. I wouldn’t have got this award without all in the boys in the squad, the management and the staff.”

This is our Big Boys Squad for League1 business and the team we had out against the Wasps two weeks ago. The Wasps came North on Ladies day but it was the Caley Jags that took the three points with a deflected Liam Sole strike just enough to swat away the Wasps. We were somewhat wasteful throughout the game and by the end of the match had to rely on keeper Ross Munro to keep our noses just in front.

Last weekend we were just as wasteful in the KDM Trophy and had Liam Sole to thank for saving our blushes with a 94th minute corner kick that ended up in the net after Binos keeper Robert Duffy had denied us with a series of wonderful saves during the ninety minutes. Ross Cuningham opened the scoring for the visitors with a stunning strike before Chanka Zimba levelled before the interval. We made heavy weather of seeing off the Binos and the sending off of Stewart Murdoch led to the cavalry charges that eventually paid off with the Sole goal deep into time added on.

Ross Millen remained on the bench against Stirling Albion, so that might mean he is a real thing and he could be included this week again. Paul Allan missed out last week but is back in contention and Adam MacKinnon has been getting more game time recently as he gets up to speed.

Scott Kellacher has plenty of attacking options available to him despite losing Robbie Thompson and Ben Gardiner who have both been loaned out to Brora Rangers until January. Robbie has bagged three goals in the two games he has played for the Cattachs so far with Ben also scoring in the last one in midweek.

Caley Jags will be in the Pink on Saturday and that should brighten up the TV screens>>> LINK TO ICTFC

The kit will be worn by the team for the first time tomorrow in our William Hill League 1 match against Cove Rangers, which is a 5.30pm kick-off live on BBC Alba. 

The club will also have a pop-up shop in Tesco Extra Inverness, Eastfield Way for the in-service days on Monday 15^th and Tuesday 16^th September from 10am until 4pm on both days, with both our new 2025/26 Home and Away kits on sale. 

Ticket's Here

• Adult: £15,

• Concession: £9,

• Youth (12-17): £6,

• Under 12s: Free

ICT Supporters Travel Club 🚍

• Travel Club Bus leaves Sarens PSG Stadium at 1pm???.

• £20 a seat. Book through the Travel Club’s Facebook 

• Or call 07462 218717

Cove drew 0-0 with Hamilton Accies in their last League1 encounter to gain just their second point this season. Their other point came in a 3-3 draw with Montrose a couple of weeks ago. Note that they only had two subs on the bench v Accies, one of which was keeper Bálint Demus. Striker David Eguaibor appears to be a handful for defences having scored all four of Coves League1 goals including a hat-trick in a dramatic encounter against Montrose. He also scored the only goal of the game against Dundee B recently. They lost 1-0 to Elgin City in the KDM Trophy game on Saturday. Blair Yule was against Peterhead and missed the game against Accies but should be back for this one. Cove have a few injuries to contend with and Arron Darge and Declan Glass out and defender Michael Doyle is a doubt.

Mitch Megginson: Mitch’s tally of eighty-six league goals represents just over a quarter of the total Cove have scored during their time in Leagues One, Two, and the Championship, and he has been top marksman in four of their six campaigns to date. Always a danger and still the man that needs shackled.

Tale of the Tape League1:

• Cove 0-2 QotS - Match 1

• Muir 1-0 Cove - Match 2

• Cove 3-3 Mo - Match 3

• Heid 3-1 Cove - Match 4

• Ham 0-0 Cove - Match 5

KDM Trophy

• Cove 1-1 Spartans (Darge ⚽)

• Cove 1-0 Dundee B

• Elgin 1-0 Cove

From BBC Sport

In: Robbie Mutch, (GK Ayr Utd); David Eguaibor, forward (Cobh Ramblers); Justin Eguaibor, defender (Cobh Ramblers); Liam Parker, defender (St Johnstone, loan to perm); Layton Bisland, defender (Arbroath); Mackenzie Strachan, midfielder (Annan). Loan in: Lewis O'Donnell, midfielder (Arabs); Jackson Mylchreest, forward (St Johnstone).

Out: Nick Suman, goalkeeper (Aberdeen); Will Gillingham, defender (Port Melbourne); Myles Gaffney, forward (Annan); Finlay Murray, defender (Formartine); Connor Scully, midfielder. Loan ended: Adam Emslie, midfielder (Aberdeen); Dylan Lobban, midfielder (Aberdeen); Findlay Marshall, midfielder (Aberdeen); Liam Parker, defender (St Johnstone).

League1 Table

Pos	Team	Pld	Gd	Pts
1	Queens	5	4	10
2	Alloa	4	2	9
3	Stenny	5	1	8
4	ICTFC	5	7	7
5	Accies	5	3	7
6	E Fife	5	-2	7
7	Peter	5	-2	6
8	Mo	5	-4	4
9	Kelty	4	-4	3
10	Cove	5	-5	2

Some dates for your diary over the next few months.

First up is the comedy night next Friday night and it's not at the next home game at the Global Energy Stadium in Dingwall. Maybe not as funny, but it will be held in the Kingsmills Lounge at the Caledonian Sarens PSG Stadium.

It's fantastic to see so much now happening at the club since Alan Salvage came to the rescue and at a meeting on Friday Mr Savage put an end to our time in administration and banished our years of anguish and floundering in the doldrums in the bin.

Alan Savage confirmed he has 100% control of the club and that the club is officially out of administration.

Statue incoming!

More to come on this story as the full details of the press conference will be released in due course. Suffice to say it's great news for the club.

He reiterated plans to turn part of the car park into a music venue, replacing the Ironworks, but he believes that could also double up as a conference centre and multiple five-a-side football pitches.

He also has plans to install a petrol station, or an electric vehicle charging station, on the ground around the club, and is in discussions with Highland Council regarding that. Before any of those plans come to fruition though, Savage will have to appoint a board of directors.

He confirmed that Supporters’ Trust chair George Moodie will have a seat at the table, while it was confirmed on Companies’ House that Savage’s wife, Dawn, has been appointed too.

Cove, near Aberdeen, is famous for its history as a fishing village and the local quarrying of hard, export-grade granite, and for the infamous Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory, known as "the stinker".

• The "Stinker":

  From 1894 to 1937, the Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory operated in the area, producing manure and earning the infamous nickname "the stinker" due to its processing smell. The local entertainer Harry Gordon even made a famous parody about it, "A Song of Cove". 

It's said that smell still lingers to this very day and that's where the saying "he's had a right stinker the day min" came from...Right eenufff!

bishbashbosh will be happy we have finally got a game on the telly

14 hours ago, IBM said:

bishbashbosh will be happy we have finally got a game on the telly

Happy days IBM.

Got to watch a granddaughter play for u12 ict girls this morning, then onto watch a grandson play for clach u 12 v Buckie TH, then onto watch 3 granddaughters play basketball for the Bears at the IRA. A quick wash and then out with the boss for a meal in town tonight. By the time I get home, after a couple of pints, I will be giving it 😴, so will watch the recording tomorrow sometime. Wonder if I will make it that far before having a wee peek to see what the score was or someone says “ bad result for ict today” 😡

Ps……… my original plan for today was to watch my grandson play for U 12 Ross County v Falkirk in Falkirk, a good day out and a good fish supper in Pitlochry on the way home, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. 😀

Where's everyone heading pre match?

Had this not been on tv and me only getting back from Orkney last night, I’d have gone through for this.

Looking forward to watching it and hope we keep our good run going and we maintain our challenge at the top of the table.

I hope we use Bavidge in a more central position but Kell has called most things right this season so I’m happy to back his judgement.

The beer is chilling ready for kick off.

Declan Glass returns for Cove.

Yule still out.

Bavidge & B Mckay start.

Big chance to go up to 2nd tonight! Let's go!

bah - cant get BBC Alba over here :( can get other BBC channels but not Alba and all the other channels are not live. Havent invested in VPN for a long time. Guess i got to go watch the Juventus and then the Napoli games this afternoon, then the TFC game ...

You’re not missing much. We’ve all the ball but playing far too slowly so far.

Damp squib of a first half. Really disappointing to watch. Changes needed if we want to make the breakthrough.

FT, a 1-0 win thanks to MacLeod’s deflected shot. We defended very well and didn’t do a lot wrong, but were pretty poor in the final third.

Poor game but a great day for us.

Edited September 13, 2025Sep 13 by Yngwie

Oh and the Iain Vigurs song came across loud and clear on the telly. 😄

A good three points that were deserved despite the poor performance in what was a very flat game.

Edited September 13, 2025Sep 13 by Robert

bishbashbosh might be as well waiting for the highlights tomorrow

If only Kelty had scored we'd be top after 6 games

5 clean sheets in 6 games is incredible 👏

Big game at Queen of the South next Saturday.

My LiveScore app says Billy got booked (not on pitch, 90+4). Not mentioned on the bbc stats.

I guess we’ll see a lot of games like this for the rest of the season where teams sit in against us. Game was crying out for us to get more shots at goal. Thankfully Macleod stepped up to do exactly that. He’s fast developing into a fantastic player! 🥰

Watched the game on Alba. I was dropping off to sleep at times. Very dull first half. Slight improvement in the second. We seem to struggle breaking teams down that sit in. We need to start shooting on sight instead of trying to walk it in. Defence looked solid against a poor Cove attack. Anyway, three points is three points no matter how we do it.

16 minutes ago, Gringo said:

Watched the game on Alba. I was dropping off to sleep at times. Very dull first half. Slight improvement in the second. We seem to struggle breaking teams down that sit in. We need to start shooting on sight instead of trying to walk it in. Defence looked solid against a poor Cove attack. Anyway, three points is three points no matter how we do it.

Playing against a team sitting very deep in defence and who are well organised is a very different art form to teams that are more attack minded and leave space at the back, that is something Palace always struggle with [although Palace are very organised defensively, and arguably did exactly that to Man City in the FA Cup, but I digress]. So patience and persistence is definitely a virtue. I agree on shooting from distance, not least because it might lead to a beaten out ball that can be followed up. We put few high crosses in, in the first half, not surprising perhaps because Zimba wasn't on the field until later [quite like the look of him, could work well as a front two with Bavidge]. Low cross were going into a crowded box. Given that Cove appear to have had as many shots as Caley, that was a game we could have lost in an annoying way. Terrific strike from Macleod, who was well set up by Wotherspoon.

I thought all of the midfield did well, Steward is a hard worker, tackles well and is calm on the ball, ditto Wotherspoon who organises well. I was particularly impressed with Chalmers looked pretty smooth and carried the ball forward although he did get robbed a couple of times in awkward areas of the park. Every time I watch Remi Savage, I am thankful we signed him, and even more thankful he re-signed this summer. We have interesting options in Sole and Longstaff, the more Sole plays hopefully the better his decision making will be, and at this level Longstaff looks classy

Next week away to QotS is a big test, we are definitely the team with a target on our back given our great start, conversely every team will fear us.

Watching a match on TV is always a poor substitute for the real thing. What I mean by that is you don’t get a proper understanding of the team and individuals play and performance. So I appreciate the posts from the guys that attended. Like others here I found it a hard watch. It came across as poor game of football with a lot of poor passing and little quality.

The place is in an industrial estate perched on top of a hill. Throw in a plastic pitch and handful of fans, it is an unattractive place for any away team to play.

The biggest thing for me is taking 3 points from such a venue. Well done to the team, kells and the attending ICT fans. It may prove to be one of the most important victories of this campaign.

bc

Calum's shot was really top class and gave the 'keeper not Mutch chance of saving it! Three points and we move on.

I see what you did there.

Well worked goal. Boom!