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Disappointing not to beat Cowdenbeath and we are unlikely to progress in this competition. However, there are positives to take. We need to find our scoring boots but we have now played 180 minutes of competitive football without conceding in open play and we have another 90 minutes of football under our belts. Decent preparation for the vital league campaign ahead.

Just appeared: no Buchanan so I’ve just changed by NPL prediction: https://mobile.twitter.com/ICTFC/status/1316065630697775106?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^profile%3AICTFC|twcon^timelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaleythistleonline.com%2Ftopic%2F33786-inverness-ct-v-qos-matchnight-thread%2F

Yeah that's my point. We could have easily charged for it between say five and ten quid but we seem to have wanted to do it for free but not being allowed, decided bizarrely that it's better for nobody to see the game at all than charge. 🤷‍♂️

If we are to take the club statement at face value it's because of rules the SPFL have set for the competition (See Section 10 of the competition rules). For the group stages a minimum charge for the group games applies (See 21.4). That said, there are options to charge less than the "Board Minimum Recommended Price of Ground Admission" but it needs the agreement of the away team as well. So we could have charged whatever we wanted with the agreement of Cowdenbeath. In fact, given the definition of "match ground" in the rules it might even be argued that these rules don't apply seeing as no one would be getting admission to the ground itself.

Disappointing the club haven't even addressed the issue surrounding the lack of a stream for the game. A simple "not ready, working on it, hope to be ready for the first home league match" type of message would have sufficed. Meanwhile Cowdenbeath have confirmed it will be a closed door match so no stream from them either.

I'm happy to help out with the results @Scotty.

I would like to help out as well.

That's the way I read it too. You can just imagine the melt down from some on this site had they been charged for the game and there were problems with the streaming. The quality of streaming from some games has been variable if you listen to some fans so better to get it right than short change fans for a substandard product.