Is this the 'forgotten' tournament? When's the draw for the 1st round?? According to the fixture list the 1st round is supposed to be on 7/8 Aug - not a lot of time left for folk to make arrangements. (No change there then... :023:)  :024:

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Seek and you will find - looks like our sites fixture list is all to ****!!!  :023:

1st Round Draw has been made....

Dundee v Ross County

Raith Rovers v St Johnstone

Peterhead v Cowdenbeath

Forfar Athletic v East Fife

Montrose v Stirling Albion

Elgin City v Brechin City

Arbroath v Alloa Athletic

Clyde v Queen of the South

Hamilton Academicals v Ayr United

Queen's Park v Stranraer

Morton v Livingston

East Stirlingshire v Dumbarton

Albion Rovers v Berwick Rangers

Stenhousemuir v Airdrie United

Byes - Dunfermline, Partick

Ties to be played 14-15 August

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Away to Fort WIlliam, Next Tuesday (7th Aug) - not sure of time

Pictures from Trevor Martin now added to gallery - Clicky Clicky

Hopefully I got them right this time.... :015:

I believe the 2nd Round draw is today at 12.30 and we are one of the seeded teams so we should get a 'smaller' side.

Fingers crossed for County at home  :022:

ICT Vs Arbroath  :021:

Dundee United Vs Ross County  :015:

Motherwell v Raith Rovers

Queen's Park v Hibernian

Dundee v Livingston

Peterhead v Kilmarnock

Dundee United v Ross County

Montrose v Falkirk

Gretna v Cowdenbeath

Stirling Albion v Hearts

St. Mirren v East Fife

Berwick Rangers v Hamilton Academical

Inverness Cal. Th. v Arbroath

Partick Thistle v St. Johnstone

That will do just fine.

We should win this about 8 - 0.

Dundee V Livi and Partick V St Johnstone look like interesting ties .... Peterhead V Killie also has a giant killing feel about it

.... especially if Pele has anything to do with it!

seeding is blatantly designed to stop the spl sides knocking each other out before the later tv rounds, which is a shame, i dont like it

Soemone mentioned the Inverness Cup earlier in this thread. Now there's a competition which has gone into steep decline in recent years. Even though that is clearly a symptom of the huge progress the game in the Inverness area has made in recent years, as an Invernessian I regret its recent obscurity.

Who could forget that legendary final at Grant Street in December 1995? Almost 3000 packed in to watch Caley Thistle beat County 5-2... hat trick from Man of the Match Iain Stewart but Daisy Ross was outstanding that day. It was also a debut for both Brian Thomson and Mike Teasdale.

Then there was also another superb final around 1992 when County beat Caley (and I mean "Caley") again in front of a large crowd at Kingsmills.

HOE through Roy MacLennan took over sponsorship of the competition in 1993 because I remember the sponsorship being marketed as "a compeition for the new Caledonian Thistle club to play in next season". I recollect that one well since my then 7 year old son attanded the draw with me and was asked to pull out the home teams. An apprentice Howden Ender at the time, he was delighted to take Caley from the hat at the first attempt.

I think the Inverness Cup also produced one of the most boring matches I have ever seen.. Caley v Clach at the Caledonian Stadium about seven or eight years ago. We were all just praying for a goal... for ANYONE to stop it going to extra time.

Unfortunately in recent years the competition seems to have suffered frequent delays and for some reason some ties don't get played until the next season... the whole thing seems to have become relegated to the sidelines. A casualty of progress I suppose.

I remember seeing ICT vs County at TCS in about 2000 ish.  Pretty good game actually.

Has the date for the game been confirmed as the 28th or 29th yet?

Yes

We're playing United reserves on tuesday 28th, so I'm assuming it'll be the 29th  :symbol_question:

According to the Arbroath web site the match is on Tuesday 28th with a k.o time of 1945.