Recreation Ready

A spot of recreation is on offer as we head to Clackmannanshire to face fellow title contenders Alloa Athletic at the Indodrill Stadium in a catch-up game held back from the recent historic International week, and what a week that was. The Wasps have been on fine form recently with twelve points over the last six games, just one less than the Caley Jags and could jump into second place with a win on Tuesday night. Both sides have conceded just eight League1 goals and something is going to give. Inverness won the first encounter this season at the end of August but made hard work of it. A solitary strike by Liam Sole was all we had to show for our endeavours and we ended up just doing enough to take the points as the Wasps made a late bid to earn a point.

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Scottish Cup v Tranent Sold Out

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🐶Including Dugs🐶

Our team in the 4-0 execution of Queen of the South last week on the telly.

Since we last met League1

1. ICTFC 1-0 Alloa

2. Cove 0-1 ICTFC

3. QotS 0-2 ICTFC

4. ICTFC 4-1 E Fife

5. Accies 3-1 ICTFC

6. ICTFC 2-2 Kelty

7. P'Head 0-1 ICTFC

8. ICTFC 1-0 Monty

9. ICTFC 1-0 Cove

10. ICTFC 4-0 QotS

We should be set up nicely for this one after dominating Queen of the South on Saturday in the televised game. A sensational volley from Liam Sole set us up to cruise to the win in possibly our best performance of the season. Further goals from Zimba, his 11th of the season, MacKinnon, his first of the season and Alfie Bavidge rounded off the scoring a minute after coming on. Superb all over the park.

No tickets left for Tranent in the Cup. Not even for dogs woof woof. Game is a total sell out. No space at the inn...

Tickets

• Adults:  £20

• Senior Citizens (over 65):  £12

• Juveniles (under 18):  £6 

• Disabled:  £12

• Carers:  £12

Stalemate on the road at Cove for this squad last weekend.

Wasps L1 since 30thAug

1. ICTFC 1-0 Alloa

2. Alloa 0-1 Mont

3. Alloa 2-1 Cove

4. Head 2-1 Alloa

5. QotS 1-0 Alloa

6. Kelty 0-2 Alloa

7. Alloa 1-1 E Fife

8. Alloa 0-0 Sten

9. Alloa 3-0 Kelty

10. Mont 0-4 Alloa

11. Cove 0-0 Alloa

A couple of highlights: A 4-0 mauling of Montrose away and a 3-0 kicking of Kelty Hearts. Lowlights defeat at home to Montrose. Overall, top four credentials right there.

Alloa have one of the better squads in this league with the experience of Connor Sammon always a threat and Calum Gallagher and Luke Donnelly have done the rounds as well. Luke Rankin is top scorer overall with 6 strikes.

• Top League1 scorers for the Wasps

• Dave Devine: 4

• Kurtis Roberts: 3

  Alloa have kept a 4th successive clean sheet in the league for the first time since 2004!
  Liam McFarlane's phenomenal 50% clean sheet rate far exceeds any other Alloa keeper in the past 15 years🔥
  Alloa now have 10 clean sheets in total this season & are 8 games unbeaten

  Chanka Zimba and Liam Sole said HOLD MY BEER 🍺🍺

  
  The Wasps will be looking to sting the Caley Jags>>>

  

	Team	Pld	Gd	Pts
1	ICTFC	14	18	29
2	Stenny	15	7	26
3	Alloa	14	9	24
4	E Fife	15	-2	22
5	Accies	15	18	21
6	QueenS	15	-2	21
7	P'Head	15	-5	20
8	Monty	15	-15	15
9	Cove	15	-10	9
10	Kelty	15	-18	9

I agree with commentator, last second penalty, var would have given that all day long.

No excuse for linesman as said.

How did the linesman not see that ... I could see that all the way over here in Toronto 😜

Totally agree about penalty shout.

Alloa's goal was as sloppy as a sloppy thing that had won first prize at a sloppy thing contest for being a sloppy thing.

That translates to sh!te defending.

Looks very much like we should have had a penalty there. We got a bit of luck though with our goal, the Alloa keeper seems to have made a mess of a very saveable shot.

Decent result though, away to a team packed with internationals!

15 hours ago, Caleyjag said:

Only if my 1-1 prediction doesn't count? 👋😆

Oh, I didn't see that one 😁. Oh well we're in the minority to get it bang on 😂.

On 11/26/2025 at 6:57 PM, bishbashbosh said:

I agree with commentator, last second penalty, var would have given that all day long.

Be careful what you wish for!

It's always tempting when you are wronged to think VAR would be the answer to your prayers, but as someone who has been to a lot of English Premier League games since it came in I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat (in it's current for at least). Goals are no longer celebrated as the VAR check hangs over them, and by the time it's complete the moment has gone. It's something for armchair fans only. I'd make it a challenge system like cricket or tennis, it might work then.

2 hours ago, The Hammer said:

Be careful what you wish for!

It's always tempting when you are wronged to think VAR would be the answer to your prayers, but as someone who has been to a lot of English Premier League games since it came in I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat (in it's current for at least). Goals are no longer celebrated as the VAR check hangs over them, and by the time it's complete the moment has gone. It's something for armchair fans only. I'd make it a challenge system like cricket or tennis, it might work then.

VAR is only as good as the officials. If you don't have strong officials on the park AND in the VAR room then you get the same inconsistency as you get without it. It should be a tool to assist the on-field decision not to replace it.

For me, I can live with VAR. I have seen it benefit my teams and I have seen it penalise my teams - both correctly and incorrectly in my opinion but overall, I am slightly/cautiously positive to its effect. The one thing that bugs me more is the current offside stuff. I really can't see someone as offside because a nostril hair is further forward than the opposing player's right toe. Full body only IMHO. Yes, that will likely penalise and benefit my teams in the same way as VAR but if the ref cant reasonably be expected to call it on the field we probably should not be reviewing it.

Scotty, the thing with offside is that it is (theoretically) a black and white decision. If you're using technology you can't getaway from the 'hairs breadth' decision. Even if you were to introduce a margin for error there will still be points where you're a hairs breadth from the limit of the margin.

Oddly the "semi-automatic" offsides seem to be universally accepted, even though we just see the image a few minutes later with the plane of the offside point. That image isn't superimposed on the video of the incident so we all just accept it as correct, and it thereby seems less controversial.

I hear what your saying, and you are probably right, but it does just get annoying (to me at least) ... although if it is to the benefit of your own team then I am sure we are all saying 'thank **** for that!" so it is still that double edged sword.

On 12/1/2025 at 10:02 AM, The Hammer said:

Be careful what you wish for!

It's always tempting when you are wronged to think VAR would be the answer to your prayers, but as someone who has been to a lot of English Premier League games since it came in I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat (in it's current for at least). Goals are no longer celebrated as the VAR check hangs over them, and by the time it's complete the moment has gone. It's something for armchair fans only. I'd make it a challenge system like cricket or tennis, it might work then.

Not wishing for anything Hammer just stating a fact.

I would get rid of it as it as only as good as the referees managing it.

Last few years, when ict were playing away I watched Scottish premiership football at Dingwall with var.

Var decisions are great when they assist the team you want to win and Shyte when they go against.

I see it in action as I live near Hearts & Hibs, and I have a mate who's willing to drive down to Englandshire as he's Liverpool daft, while I get to drink.

So I would scrap it altogether, but then I'm a complete grump for anything that encourages armchair "supporters" so I would scrap satellite TV and all the nonsense of televising live league football, etc etc etc, and go back to at least 1992 when that obscene orgy of greed began over the border.

Edited December 2, 2025Dec 2 by The Mantis

Going back in time to my referee course in a bygone era it was instilled into you as a ref and linesman that a player was not offside if they were level with the defender. To me that goes along with the whole body scenario.

If the difference can’t be identified by a linesman’s (assistant referee 🙄) eyesight then the attacking player is level and shouldn’t be deemed to be offside. The important thing was that it was always incumbent on the linesman being level with the last defender to give an accurate decision. I always thought it was a simple rule that I never had any problem with, but it’s been so messed about with that some of the VAR decisions are just plain ludicrous. Granted, previously, there were wrong decisions aplenty but I feel there have been just as many wrong decisions since its inception. VAR destroys the flow and spirit of the game and I’d be happy to see it gone tomorrow.

1 hour ago, CaleyCanary said:

Going back in time to my referee course in a bygone era it was instilled into you as a ref and linesman that a player was not offside if they were level with the defender. To me that goes along with the whole body scenario.

If the difference can’t be identified by a linesman’s (assistant referee 🙄) eyesight then the attacking player is level and shouldn’t be deemed to be offside. The important thing was that it was always incumbent on the linesman being level with the last defender to give an accurate decision. I always thought it was a simple rule that I never had any problem with, but it’s been so messed about with that some of the VAR decisions are just plain ludicrous. Granted, previously, there were wrong decisions aplenty but I feel there have been just as many wrong decisions since its inception. VAR destroys the flow and spirit of the game and I’d be happy to see it gone tomorrow.

Further to that: the whole idea of the offside law is to prevent poaching. If a player is clever enough to time his run so the average linesman can’t tell the difference, then what does it matter.

5 hours ago, The Mantis said:

I see it in action as I live near Hearts & Hibs, and I have a mate who's willing to drive down to Englandshire as he's Liverpool daft, while I get to drink.

So I would scrap it altogether, but then I'm a complete grump for anything that encourages armchair "supporters" so I would scrap satellite TV and all the nonsense of televising live league football, etc etc etc, and go back to at least 1992 when that obscene orgy of greed began over the border.

Mantis, I agree the TV and armchair viewing has ruined football along with the massive wages! I only watch ICT if it's on TV and I can't make the game. Even the last Scotland game I only watched the last ten minutes after checking the score. You can't beat being at a game for the banter and hopefully the goals!