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  1. Looked like a rhetorical statement rather than a real question, in direct reply to the post above it. @lizi's post did refer to poor officiating on numerous occasions which is up for debate but as it is the match thread then I think that's fair. We don't like to see dangerous tackling go unpunished or being encouraged at best. Any ICT unfair bias is also up for debate as well, my personal viewpoint is that lack of quality officials as well as the hindrance of VAR on 'top level' ones is affecting the overall standard.
    5 points
  2. Over the season, you would expect things to balance out, so our league position after match 36 should reflect our overall performances across the season rather than any individual refereeing decision. We can all point to refereeing decisions that went against us whilst we tend to forget those that went for us (apart from Meekings’ hand ball!) but when it happens at key points in the game and seems to affect the outcome, it is only human nature to point to it. I’ve left games convinced we’d had wrong decisions, only to find out later that they were correct. Officials have a difficult job and I’m sure not many of us would want it. I don’t believe any referees deliberately make wrong decisions (and I laugh at the Old Firm conspiracy theories), but some are clearly not up to the job. As said in the posts above, it seems that poor decisions may have cost us two points on Saturday. However, Saturday’s result on its own will not determine where we finish in the league. If we feel an injustice, we should be using that to galvanise the players to get three points tomorrow.
    4 points
  3. I would say we were denied a pretty clear penalty for handball when it was 0-0, and in saying that I am not saying officials are out to get us nor am I trying to deflect from the team’s deficiencies, I’m just telling it like it is, as are others. Is that allowed?!
    4 points
  4. I didn't accuse anybody of anything. I asked a question in order to open it up for discussion. Given the club's social media posts from yesterday it seems to be a mindset they're trying to encourage. As you are someone who tends towards defending/supporting all the club do are you in agreement with them? I'm all for calling out poor refereeing, but I don't buy into the intimated (by some) conspiracy that they're out to get us. These things tend to even out and the biggest factor in us being where we are in the league is that our football just isn't very good.
    4 points
  5. Welcome - Leeds supporter! My beloved nephew, sadly deceased, was an avid Leeds supporter (despite living in Nottinghamshire), so I’ve also supported Leeds from afar. You are welcome here any time and I hope you keep in touch with us ICT supporters.
    3 points
  6. Some posters on here here need to get their facts right… so I’m correcting you because you are very wrong! In 1995/96 - by which time the merger had been done and dusted several months previously - Inverness District Council voted to award the club £900,000 from the council budget towards the approach road to the stadium - a road which has now paid for itself many times over by opening up the entire Harbour area. However the Council - note the Council - got itself into the most terrible mess because a group of councillors and officials tried to stop payment, hence putting the entire stadium project in danger. With time running out before IDC went out of existence in favour of Highland Council on 1st April 1996, it looked as if the grant couldn’t physically be paid, making court action apparently unavoidable, until HC CEO Arthur McCourt managed to have the money paid from the Inverness Common Good Fund. The reality here is that Inverness District Council were most definitely the “bad guys” back then when they almost secured the demise of the club because a stadium was an SFL membership condition, and when a solution was eventually found, the spin off for the entire city was enormous. Best to check what really happened when you are intent on stirring
    3 points
  7. If 'LeedsSeasider' has read this thread he's probably thought, Jesus I'm giving those bumpkins a wide birth from now on.
    2 points
  8. 2 points
  9. Thought the purpose of town-twinning was to provide jollies for Councillors, VIPs etc., all sponsored by the generous Council Tax payers!
    2 points
  10. Don’t think anybody has said that, have they?
    2 points
  11. Dougal - you are flogging a dead horse. The days of 1994 are long gone. Give up, or move to Ross County.
    2 points
  12. Why wouldn't County fans have an IV postcode?
    2 points
  13. Had we scored three in each half Arbroath could have no complaints, plus the penalty.... I'm not sure why some people bother to say they are fans of a club but prefer to criticise everything about it. Is it a sort of Pie&Bovrilism. It's OK to compliment them from time to time. Trust me, it doesn't hurt. Yes there are glaring issues that need resolved, but constant grind is like listening to a spotty teenage keyboard warrior.
    2 points
  14. Hi everyone, I attended my first Caley game last weekend on a complete whim as I was visiting close to the area. My hometown is Blackpool and I support Blackpool (I loved seeing Nathan Shaw score that third goal as a product of our academy) but as life has taken me around a bit I now live in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, not far from Leeds. I also follow Pontefract Collieries home and away because of this. 8th tier of English football. I wanted to join the site to firstly say I really enjoyed the hospitality of your club. We spoke to a few locals around the city before and after the game and they were very welcoming us of foreigners. Secondly, the football was brilliant. Now, I know I may come in to some criticism for this but it was like watching lower league English football but with an immaculate pitch. However that is EXACTLY what I want to see in a football match. Lastly, and my only criticism of your wonderful club would be the home atmosphere. I expected booming when the third goal went in last week but it fell flat. Even at 2-0 up it was very quiet. I’d love you to create more of an atmosphere. Get that drum banging and get singing guys!! It’ll make a massive difference to your results! I’ll be forever keeping my eye out for your results now. Hope you manage to string a few wins together and get up the table. Come on Caley. Cheers
    1 point
  15. Lizi's line at the end of her post saying that we had "once again" been let down by poor officiating did prompt my question, but I'd also just listened to Ferguson's post match interview and seen the twitter posts by the club yesterday which come across as an attempt to distract attention from the long term issues. Terry Butcher was very good at getting everyone fired up on the back of any injustice, but never blamed it for our league position or cup performances etc. He was also one to call out our own poor performances. Under Dodds, and now Ferguson, it's all about how great the team were and lack of luck or poor decisions being what's cost us. Deflection from the real issues.
    1 point
  16. Tbf, when we were **** under dodds the referees were often cited along with injury crisis any time we had more than just Welsh and doran out. It seems to ba a default for many fans rather than accepting its the team, manager, coaches that are failing over 36 games not individual decisions in ever undesirable result.
    1 point
  17. Kevin Clancy is supposed to be a Premier League ref and regularly the VAR expert - well he certainly wasn’t showing any expertise at Arbroath. He allowed thuggish tackles which caused ICT players injuries. He missed a studs up on Alex Samuels ankle which should have been a red card. He missed two hand balls which should have been penalties. If he had had words early in game re heavy tackles, some of the injuries could have been less serious. Once again ICT let down by an incompetent referee, plus the linesmen/assistant referees should have gone to spec savers. Well done Cameron Harper to even out at least some of the anomalies.
    1 point
  18. Is this why Dougal wants an affiliation with FC Augsburg?
    1 point
  19. Sorry I’m not following you if it wasn’t for the amount of incomers there would be no ICT so I applaud them fervently. My gripe is the lack of invernessian input or support so I’m targeting the locals that don’t attend or engage. Dougal
    1 point
  20. No. The idea we spend money on players for a jolly over to Germany on what will undoubtedly be a loss msking trip just to facilitate a fan going on holiday is wild. Anyways, we are so ***** why would a top tier German club want to play us. Probably need to get them agreeing to that before anything else.
    1 point
  21. I agree with many things you've posted, dougal, but your comments on this thread are nothing but bigoted nonsense, and have no place on here or anywhere.
    1 point
  22. We slide back, to where we rightfully should be based on our income and fanbase. Which unfortunately some seem to be unable to comprehend. We are a championship club and there are plenty around bigger than us who'd love the peak years we enjoyed - morton, Ayr, falkirk, Dunfermline etc. Anyone who actually thinks we were ever a permiership top 6 club longterm is deluded.
    1 point
  23. So having risen as far as you believe the club is capable, you find it acceptable that we now slide back to....where? It's the desire of those running the club who seem to have delusions of grandeur, not the majority of fans. It is they who openly admit that they are running the club in a manner that requires Premier League income. It is those egos that are chasing ill thought out money making schemes to support that (all the while alienating fans and local businesses) while we play in the Championship, and in doing so are threatening the club's very existence.
    1 point
  24. Sorry paisley I genuinely respect you but I won’t let it go I will take this one to my grave and nothing will change me even over exuberant moderating on here! I never picked the name the board did. I think it should have been Inverness United or city or plain Inverness. When you have more County fans that have an IV post code than ICT fans then there is something fundamentally wrong with the DNA. Dougal
    1 point
  25. Ironically, Big Dunc's last club often refers to itself as FGR. https://www.fgr.co.uk/ And of course there are plenty with just initials and city name - AC Milan, PSC Eindhoven, AEK Athens, etc etc....
    1 point
  26. Let it go, ICT sounds like a class in high school. What other teams limit their team name to initials? Caley, Thistle, Caley Thistle. All fine in my opinion.
    1 point
  27. Hold on til I get my rod...
    1 point
  28. I can understand incomers or non locals calling the team Caley, however invernessians who do so are complete and utter halfwits. Dougal
    1 point
  29. Nope, carry on with Caley if you want.
    1 point
  30. Here's our own copy of the game with less faff
    1 point
  31. Welcome but it’s ICT not Caley. Caley were killed off in 1994 we are the newco similar to Sevco who are the old Rangers. Both predominantly blue but different entities Dougal
    1 point
  32. Ict away so took grandkids to county v livi. wouldn’t have noticed Carson was playing juring the game but I spotted him in the pre match warm up 10 yards in front of me. livi captain Andy shinnie hooked at half time ( not a patch on the player he was for us). Replaced by Daniel Mackay, who didn’t really contribute much. carsons moment came when livi got a free kick wide left, he set him self up directly in line with penalty spot about ten yards outside the box. Crossed in, county centre half headed ball out and from where I was sitting Carson didn’t have to move just wait for ball to bounce perfectly in front of him to volley. He had enough time to think will I hit this left top bins or right top bins. He swung his right leg and ………….. if the county player wide right hadn’t controlled the ball it was going out for a throw in practically level where Carson was standing. Not a slice more a shank. that’s how I remember him for us, dynamic but no end product. Some of his crosses into the opponents were let’s say not very good.
    1 point
  33. But we are not bottom nor are we currently going down. The idea its gung-ho balls to the wall approach would be heavily chastised by fans loosing games in that vain. It's a point away from home and we've maintained the gap and amazingly even being crap we are only 3 points from 5th. Promotion play offs are gone but everyone other than top 4in this division can still go down!!!
    1 point
  34. 0 points
  35. Do some people really think that we are the only team on the receiving end of inept officiating and that we find ourselves where we are as a result?
    0 points
  36. You are certainly more local than the site admin, moderating team and the majority of predominant posters on here anyway. Respect Duke Regards Dougal
    0 points
  37. Thats inevitable though, we were never going to exceed that anyntime soon although another national cup final last year is pretty exceptional. Not sure what fans expected - challenging for the Premiershiptitle, a European trophy? In context there are plenty professional clubs in Scotland who have had less success in the last 100 years than we have in 30. The more I see the glaring sense of entitlement on here and whinging about refs and 'deserving better' the more I see how SG thought an orange strip might be popular in certain sections!!!
    0 points
  38. We're bleeding like a stuck pig, but we're not dead yet and Scot Gardiner is hatching a plan to save us. What's not to be upbeat about?
    0 points
  39. The club has been on a terminal decline since winning the Scottish Cup how you can’t see that is beyond me. Question when you become a site admin or moderator is there a test you take to see if you pass regarding how big a happy clapper he or she is? I admire your stance but I see no positives at present. Dougal
    0 points
  40. Jesus Christ! The playoffs were dead and buried at Xmas! we will be in League 1 next season
    0 points
  41. Starting X1 and result from yesterday.
    0 points
  42. The Caley thank you very much.
    -1 points
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