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We won against Dunfermline in the third round of the Scottish Youth Cup. 2-1 after extra time. Goals by Stark and Brown. The team : Hoban, C.Brown, Howarth, Stark, Gilchrist, Rennie (Blackett 80), MacLennan, Macarthur (Hull 108), Macrae, Sutherland, Wilson. Dunfermline have made a report : http://www.dafc.co.uk/fixture.php?SID=U20s&D=2015-11-01&ID=913.

Thank you to everyone at caley. I visited for the first time on Tuesday night you have a wonderful friendly club from the stewards, programme seller and helpful lady in the ticket office. I was sat with two die hard fans who welcomed me and made me feel at home. The result was disappointing although for the first 15 minutes I thought I would get a winning start. With quality like young Ryan Christie get players wide and give him the space to weave is magic in the middle and with 20 mins to go players started to realise that Miles Storey can be a match winner if he is given the ball on the floor. Come on all you locals fill the ground and get behind the boys. Good luck for the rest of the season.

To conclude, a point is good result given our latest form and we didn't have a natural striker in the team, give them some credit!

I cannot believe how negative some posters have been on here. Considering the players available, we played okay and certainly deserved a point if not all 3. Dundee were poor but we were up for the game and after we equalised, we were the team that looked like we wanted to win it more. Both penalties were soft but the sending off was very harsh. Debateable decision for our offside goal as well and some equally debateable offside decisions throughout the game. I thought Danny Williams had an excellent game. He is not a natural forward so did get caught out at times but he showed skill, drive and energy as did Vincent so for those saying they were poor, all I can say is you are badly wrong. While not yet back to our best, I think this was a promising display and a gutsy one as well. Some posters need to stop carping about everything that goes wrong and simply get behind the team. I will now be singled out by some no doubt as a ridiculous happy clapper but could care less if that is what happens. Proud of the team yesterday. Finally, some posters have already mentioned the refereeing. Yet again, the general standard of officiating was poor. Clear fouls, usually on ICT players missed, Dundee players being allowed to referee the game by shouting in agony when tackled to enable ref to give a foul and really just week and poor officiating. Something really has to be done about this otherwise referees will continue to get slaughtered for poor performances. The remedy is in their hands and while most fans accept referees can make mistakes, we should not be subject to the levels of incompetence we see every week.

Well then me might as well all give up hope of seeing fans through the gate! Clubs like ours aren't going to get anywhere without the help from the sfa! And honestly can anyone see the club going rounds the schools telling the kids to go when it's the adults that have to take them! I dunno what else teams can do to bring people through the gates other than drop prices! Also, as stated somewhere before, you can go and watch German clubs and many other clubs around the world for less than a tenner a game, nobody wants to pay through the nose to watch football...other than the die hard fans or those with money burning a hole in their pocket

Yesterday was our first penalty since the Scottish Cup semi against Celtic! Probably wasn't a pen, but we've had stronger claims turned-down in the interim, so no complaints from me. Impressive 'match' penalty stats we've got. (i.e. during a regular 90 mins) We've only got one single miss throughout all the current players in our squad. ...and I keep repeating this every time I update this, but it becomes a stronger claim each time - it's fantastic to have such a reliable taker as Tansey!

i look at it slightly differently ... Before and after the approach from Dundee Utd ... Just saying

size isn't everything

Sat 31 Oct 2015 Scottish Premier A Rooney (Celtic 3 - Aberdeen 1) B Mckay (Dundee U 1 - Ross Co 0) SL1 R McAllister Hat trick (Stenhousemuir 4 - Peterhead 3) Scottish Cup R2 replay D Khutsishvili (Forres 2 - East Kilbride 3) EL 2 A McDonald (Stevenage 1 - Oxford Utd 5) National League South B Greenhalgh (Concord R 1 - Maidstone 2) Danske Bank Premier C Allen (Glentoran 1 - Coleraine 1) Dafabet Welsh Premier J Oswell (Newtown 4 - Gap C Q 2) Highland League A Macleod (Clach 6 - Strathspey 1) Z Sutherland (Inverurie 0 - Brora R 1)

I thought that was much improved..certainly compared to the last 3 games! Other than the pen and one or two other moments I thought the defence were better and fin Williams much better! From midfield to the two at the top it was a far better display! Vincent looked more comfortable and like himself for 70 mins in the centre, polworth had a better game, tansey looked himself playing the ball forward especially from such a deep position and it was also a good penalty! Vigurs also had some good passes although I think draper would have to play if fit! Then williams and Christie showed signs of wat they're capable of going forward. Williams with some great runs off the ball that only his first touch let him down on but certainly a threat! And Christie really put himself about and of course won the penalty! Big boost seeing warren back, foran took part in some parts of the warm up although that only told me really he's more involved with the coaches! Everyone else bar doran seemed to be walking about with no limps which hopefully means some players back in the next few weeks! By no means a totally dominant display or cause to get excited but certainly an improvement and hopefully we can keep it up!

Gary Warren now on. welcome back !!!

Glory hunters! Pure and simple... We're no more immune to that than any other club in the country! Loads of new posters on this forum in the build-up - never to be heard of again. Literally thousands of 'fans' who attended that day who had never been to the TCS before. Literally thousands of fans who attended that day who have never been back to (or indeed, ever been to) the TCS since. We don't have 15,000 fans - we've 4,000. And if that doesn't increase after last season, then it simply never will. Inverness potentially has a much bigger fanbase in my opinion, but it will take time. Too many folks in Inverness and area are Rangers/Celtic/Aberdeen fans, the club needs to get ICT into the mindset of kids in the schools now more than ever while we have had some success, forget bigger attendances for the next few seasons and look at the bigger picture and look to get these kids growing up as Caley fans, then who knows, maybe you then have a club with an average attendance of 6-7000 in 10-15 years time. It may never happen but that's where I see potential in the club, more so probably than any other club in the country.

...I think we should concentrate on actually getting into the penalty area to start winning penalty kicks than worrying about who's going to take them!

I'd leave it to Tansey. He likes the responsibility of dead balls so obviously has the confidence in his own ability required I'd make young Ryan understudy. The added responsibility would be great for his development and I think the added goals would increase his self confidence further.

Scrappy draw against a poor Dundee side who weren't really in it until the Raven tackle (not a penalty) on Greg Stewart. Good to see Gary Warren back but most surprising as he isn't back in full training yet. Ryan Christie and Danny Williams were our best performers but had too many poor touches in the final third. It should have been Vincent or Polworth who got hooked instead of Williams as they were pretty ineffective in the second half. Vigurs looked out of sorts again and I don't know what Nat Wedderburn has to do to even get a sub appearance. Poor crowd too and I can see a further nose dive in attendances if we keep this up.