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Find it rather amusing that some fans moan about us not looking at lower leagues in Scotland....then moan their t1ts off the moment we sign a player from the lower leagues in Scotland

Good to see the lads comment on the club website that he knows he will have to work to get 1st team start also good to know that we are looking to bring in another 3 or 4 players

Of those still alive I believe half are very disappointed Celtic never got the treble and the other half are unhappy The Rangers are not getting to Premiership

Our clubs success is built on signing under-appreciated players from the lower echelons and giving them the coaching and platform to develop. Just because we've finished third and won a Cup doesn't mean we should start acting like the 'big' clubs. A classic mistake. Rather than competing for players who are the finished article (a competitive, inflated market), there's much more value in searching for players with work ethic and potential. We have a great coaching team, have faith in them!

I would just like to endorse the comments of both Sneckboy and 12th Man above. More or less from the day it was founded in 1893, the Highland League, and hence the entire North of the country, had a glass ceiling imposed on it because the area was frozen out of the national game by the central belt who wanted to keep it all in their own little kailyard. That attitude still exists and was recently manifested by those down there who wanted Ross County to be relegated last season. That Highland football got to the level that it did in terms of the quality within the HL and the not infrequent cup runs is a tribute to the efforts of many. I do not believe that ICT could have done what it has now without its extremely sound pre-1994 background and the expertise of the many who contributed to that, some of whom are still involved at ICT. To refer to the Highland League as "pub football" in uninformed nonsense. The glass ceiling was finally shattered in 1994 and the two clubs which decided to join together have in the intervening 21 years made this famous Highland League to Europa League, Qualifying Cup to Scottish Cup transition. That would not have been possible unless there had been a pre-existing proud football tradition up here and also the expertise to implement such a massive advance in such a short time. So, for reasons possibly related to youth and a complete lack of knowledge of what happened up here in the Highland League, "I am the Captain" is way off the target and indeed his shooting is so poor that he must instantly accept demotion to Lance Corporal. I would also like to supplement Sneckboy's list of founding fathers with Charlie Cuthbert and Jim Falconer, who is the only one of these four gentlemen who bore the brunt of the merger who is still alive. He must be pinching himself at the thought that, as ICT's football secretary, just over two decades after exchanging team lines with the likes of Rothes and Lossiemouth (no disrespect) he is now undertaking the administrative preparation for an Inverness team to enter Europe. Finally, and I'm not going to argue this one in detail here, I believe that no single Inverness club would have made it to the levels currently achieved. It has been claimed that Caley would have done just as well on their own. I just can't see how that could ever have happened since ICT has long since become much greater than the sum of its constituent parts.

It certainly brings a smile to you face to think that the 2 Highland league local clubs have brought the Scottish cup home to Inverness. A thought worth savouring. The foundation of both clubs and all the fans who have followed since then, has resulted in over 15,000 seeing our great team lift the cup. Highland league to Europa league, wow. Instead of chasing up the abstainers of years gone by, I would rather look after and appreciate the existing fans young and old of today and the years to come.

Just got to scratch this itch - the top-flight in Scottish football is NOT called the SPFL! But, anyway, It’s insulting to suggest football in Inverness started when Thistle and Caledonian merged to form ICT. Furthermore, It’s ignorant and misguided to suggest “some ambitious figures came along” - as if Inverness had previously had no inclination to join the then closed-shop of the national leagues. Thistle were unsuccessful in their bid to join in 1973/74 when a vacancy became available. Purely out of self-interest, the 37 member clubs voted against Inverness (reportedly by 19-18), opting instead for Ferranti Thistle from Edinburgh. There was then 20 years without any further opportunity to apply. It’s totally disrespectful to suggest that the founding fathers of the club - the likes of Jock McDonald and Norman Miller just “came along”! And how dare you suggest that the Highland League is 'pub football'. Many individuals give years of their time to these clubs with little reward or recognition - and indeed are often run more prudently and conscientiously than the likes of The Rangers, Hearts, Dundee, Livingston (that irony will be lost on you, captain). The tone of your post suggests you’re too young to have experienced the pre-ICT days, so refrain from telling others how you think they should be feeling, on a matter in which you are unqualified to comment.

Not, in my view,ahead of the legend that is Jimmy Calder.....who, apart from anything else, unlike Mark Brown,was brilliant at saving penalties and who could build you a conservatory into the bargain......

I notice you haven't categorised Charlie Taylor Rene

Good - Roman Golobart (Wigan) Dean Brill (Luton Town) David Davis (Wolverhampton Wanderers) Aaron Doran (Blackburn Rovers) Dennis Wyness (Hearts) Charlie Taylor (Leeds) Mediocre - Steve Williams (Bradford City) Aiden Chippendale (Huddersfield) Steve Watt (Swansea - played well in his one game against Arbroath and was strangely never seen again!) Kevin McCann (Hibernian) Rubbish - Zibi Malkowski (Hibernian) Phil McGuire (Dunfermline Athletic) Alex MacDonald (Burnley) Jordan Gibbons (QPR) Bajram Fetai (Rangers) Darren Mackie (Aberdeen) Philip Roberts (Arsenal) Tom Aldred (Watford) Andre Blackman (Celtic - On the rubbish list for being more trouble than he was worth!)

Look at all this negativity because we signed him from Cowbenbeath. Mental! Hmmmmm... Actually I agree. If we carry on like this next thing we'll be signing players from the likes of Kendal Town. Now that would just be... wait...

Its just what happens when suffering post season blues

Damned if we look to lower leagues and damned if we dont. Personally I like to think the club is best placed to know what they are doing. We have signed many players from lower leagues before and some have even turned out to be excellent for us.

Clever stuff there IHE, you must be drinking Assam tea to amass such enlightening news. Incidentally I agree with your positivity on Nat's potential. Plenty time yet to bring in a few trialists too

I too greet this with positivity. It is the individual potential that we are looking at not who he has feckin played for. And then look at his pedigree - Academy player of the year at Stoke and called up fer the England Under 19 squad. And the he had a slate of injury problems which clearly hampered his progress (now where have we heard that before ?). He is only 23 and has clear potential. And he has been watched by us for some time and hopefully that means that he will fit into the system quickly and if the job has been done right so will his personality. This is also a young man given another chance on the big stage and perhaps he is raring to showcase his talent and prove that he really has got what it takes. Welcome Nat Wedderburn. As fer Ofere I really do not think that he is any loss. Bad news is that James Dean has just signed a 1 year contract extension at Chorley.

It's a one year deal and the club have a further one year option.

​He's called FakeFan - must be a hint there somewhere. Maybe doogull has forgotten his login details. Anyway, don't feed the trolls. My name, is FakeFan but I'm a inverness born and bred ict fan. Genuinely wanting to know how these people feel. ​Then you better ask them....This is a site for fans of ICT

In my opinion we've never been a club who've been overly indulgent in the loan market, but I'd be keen for Yogi to dip his toes if the talent is available and willing. After all he did help launch the careers of Antony Stokes and Kasper Schmeichel who were both very successful at falkirk, and current Dutch international keeper Tim Krul as well. Over the years we've had limited success in the loan market. Where most would agree that Golabert was a success, there's also the downright rank Berjam Fetais and the completely uninterested Darren Mackies. So lets have a wee survey thingy. In your opinion, who have been our most successful loans to date, our worst and then the ones that were just a complete catastrophe?