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Given the logistics involved and the weather warnings issued by the met office the game should have been called off yesterday on safety grounds. An extremely poor show from both the SPFL and Queens.

Absolutely disgusting !! No consideration for travelling fans.Travel Club bus left at 8.30 drove through horrendous conditions only to be told game off when we reached Stirling .Whoever is responsible needs to get their act together and get this sorted out.

Storm Bert Incoming? ***GAME OFF*** We are scheduled to take on Queen of the South at Palmerston this Saturday afternoon should Bert allow a window of calm to let the game go ahead. Two wins on the trot for Scott Kellacher and his administration hit squad have given the Caley Jags a glimmer of hope of avoiding relegation to League2. I'm sure Scott would rather that we played this weekend to keep us on a roll, but Bert might put a stop to that. The sad news that Dumbarton have also entered administration has given us further incentive to maintain our form and focus on gaining another place in the table. It's not the way we would like to escape relegation, but the antiquated rules in operation hit those that can ill afford them and that's the sad state of the game outside of the top table. Anyway, should the weather relent, then Palmerston it is for us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Match/Ticket/Supporters Bus Info & Preview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our Season so Far on the park INVERNESS CT: D L D D W D D D L / W L D W W Our season got off to a slow start with a draw at home to Dumbarton followed by a penalty defeat at Annan. Another two draws against Montrose (h) and Kelty Hearts (a) before our first win of the season over Queen of the South at the Caledonian Stadium. We beat Stirling Albion 3-0 to send us into a fourth Rnd tie away to Livingston thanks to a brace from Adam Brooks and a strike from Adam MacKinnon. That was followed up by us throwing away a two goal lead at Alloa to end up with a 2-2 draw six minutes later. A Danny Devine volley and Calum MacLeod with his first goal for the club were the scorers at Recreation Park. Last time out we had a disappointing 1-1 draw at home against Cove Rangers who opened the scoring through Adam Emslie. James Nolan on loan from Manchester United's youth squad levelled the game before the hour. Next up was a home game against Stenhousemuir. Quite frankly this was a dull game with neither side able to score although Musa Dibaga did make a wonderful penalty save in the first half. Relegated Arbroath was our final game of the opening round of fixtures and despite creating enough chances, we came away from Gayfield with our second defeat of the League1 campaign. Away from League duty last weekend, we put up a good fight against Livingston in the Challenge Cup at Almondvale but lost out 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after it finished 2-2 over the ninety minutes. Paul Allan and Charlie Gilmour were our scorers during the ninety minutes. Our first game in the second round of fixtures turned out to be Duncan Ferguson's last stand. It ended like his first game in charge, a win as we defeated Annan 1-0 at home. Administration and management removal followed by five players being released and fifteen points being wiped off our total. First game after Admin was at Dumbarton with Scott Kellacher as head coach and Billy Mckay his assistant on and off the park. Alas it ended in a 3-1 defeat after a promising first hour. Kelty Hearts came North next and went away with a point in a 1-1 draw. Kell's got his first win in week (unlucky for some)13, a deserved 2-1 win at top of the table Cove Rangers. Alloa were up next at Inverness in matchday 14 and another 1-0 win thanks to a second half strike from Charlie Gilmour. Our first win of the season was in the Duncan Ferguson era on Matchday5: A first half goal from Billy Mckay in a turgid encounter was enough to secure all three points. A bit of pinball around the visitors goal ended with Billy scoring from close range. Referee Gavin Duncan was the focal point of many a strange decision as he ignored two big penalty claims for the hosts, and a brilliant goalline clearance from an Adam Brooks effort kept Queens in with a chance. Despite a late flurry from Queens we held on for our first win of the League 1 campaign. The downside of these industrial challenges today was that both Duffy's left the field injured, Flynn on a stretcher. Duncan Ferguson was also red carded for continually questioning the referee's decisions. One in particular when Brooks was booked for simulation instead of being awarded a penalty. Baffling incompetence from the ref! On the plus side, the pitch looked in fantastic condition. The points were more important than the performance. However, it was encouraging to kick-start our season today and put us only three points off the pace in the table. Billy Mckay beavered away on scraps and got his reward in the first half and Brooks was unfortunate a couple of times. Musa Dibaga did not have too much to deal with, but he seemed to read situations well and took the pressure off the defence with some good catches under pressure, especially when Queens were hurling massive throw-ins into our penalty box in the final quarter of the game. Devine and Savage were solid in the heart of the defence but it was disappointing to lose both full backs to injury. That goal was Billy Mckay's last goal for the Caley Jags and his 113th for the club. Time for some more now the shackles are off. This is how the table looked after Matchday5 Team Pld Gd Pts 1 Kelty Hearts 5 5 9 2 Stenhousemuir 5 3 9 3 Alloa Athletic 5 2 9 4 Queen of Sth 5 1 7 5 Inverness CT 5 0 6 6 Montrose 5 0 6 7 Annan Athletic 5 -4 6 8 Dumbarton 5 0 5 9 Cove Rangers 5 -3 4 10 Arbroath 5 -4 3 Here's the scheduled fixtures and the current table after Admin for Inverness & Dumbarton Pos Team Pld Gd Pts 1 Kelty Hearts 14 10 22 2 Arbroath 14 1 22 3 Alloa Athletic 14 5 21 4 Stenhousemuir 14 2 21 5 Cove Rangers 14 4 20 6 Queen of Sth 14 -3 18 7 Montrose 14 1 17 8 Annan Athletic 14 -15 14 9 Inverness CT 14 0 4 10 Dumbarton 14 -5 0 Queen of the South's tale of the tape at Palmerston (7 games). Home wins: 5 v Cove Rangers 2-1, Annan Athletic 2-0, Arbroath 2-1, Montrose 1-0, Dumbarton 2-1. Home loss: 1 A 5-1 hammering from Kelty Hearts on 5th October. Home draw: 1 A 1-1 Draw with Alloa Athletic on 9th November This was Queens last starting XI in a 2-1 defeat at Dumbarton last week. Michael Ruth opened the scoring in the second half but ten minutes later Queens thought they had secured a point when Kyle Doherty netted. Alas for them, and us, Tony Wallace won the points with a 95th minute winner. McKechnie and Hewitt both have three League goals, as has our own Danny Devine. Queens have scored 12 League goals, the same as Inverness. The main difference though is 11 of those have come at home.

That’s a disgrace with the distance involved. Everyone knew there was weather expected and last season games were called off for travel reasons. The team are there as they traveled last night.

Never mind Annan Athletic, we are only a mere 18 points off the top of the table, and we are Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Anything is possible (except controlling Bert). C'mon Caley - we love you

Montrose won 2-1. Leaves us still 10 points off Annan but with a game in hand.

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Fortunately, I cancelled last night, as I got several messages saying trains I had booked were cancelled, so got those refunded and avoided the Hotel costs. not much I can do about the flight costs, but hey ho....presumably the match when it is played will be mid-week, so depending when, I might come up all the way by train and stop in Dumfries

NAPs is cancelled this week folks for obvious reasons

Absolutely disgraceful - incompetent if not downright negligent. Who schedules and arranges pitch inspections - the SPFL or the home team? In a just world, there would be a strong case for compensation for wasted time and money.

I don't care what anyone thinks/says....with a good run of form we can claw back the 18 points between us and top of the table! At the very very least we are capable of finishing in the playoffs.....C'mon ICT let's keep this run going

FFS: Does that mean I'll have to do a preview now. C'mon Bert...

With the length of the journey, the team may well have travelled down today. The amber warning applies to part of the A9 (and doesn’t come this far north so hopefully we miss it) and Dumfries is looking to be wet tomorrow on my weather app and it’s been above freezing today. With it being a plastic pitch it may well be playable. We have some momentum just now so I hope the team is already on route and the game is on.

Is it really that surprising?

I'd like to hear from Foran. I don't blame him for being a headstrong rookie manager with no support. I think he put his heart and soul into the club. It didn't work. He lost his job. What are his thoughts now? What's he been doing with himself. Would he ever return to football?

I think that we have to be brutally honest and face the fact that football crowds in 2024 will never again be like those from the last century. Going to the footie was a really big weekend event when I was younger, the highlight of the weekend, before a more sedate day on a Sunday. The crowds were huge at games. TV coverage was very limited, but even at home, when the results came in silence was demanded while people checked their pools coupons. Nowadays it is just one of the very many weekend opportunities available both in the real world and virtually, and people just don't want to commit so much time and money to one event. I have no idea what wages are for the boys at our club, but I don't think clubs at our level can afford to use high pay as a way to lure players to their club. We must accept that players have to really want to play football as a career, whatever the wages are, and that they cannot expect to be paid more than other young people earn in the area where they live. This does make attracting players difficult, but we have to live within our means. When big money becomes the over riding incentive to any player, then something is lost - the main incentive should always be the possibilities on the pitch.

Agreed, but with the observation that these factors are not all independent of each other. For example, a poor chairman appoints a poor CEO, who makes bad decisions. Or a poor chairman appoints a poor manager, who.... In the end, it all comes down to the stewardship of the club by successive boards of directors, which, to use a word which is indisputable and not defamatory, has failed.

The fact that so many different “single” factors have been put forward by various people suggests to me that the decline of Caley Thistle has been a perfect storm of a number of adverse influences all operating in the same negative direction. You then need to consider that top flight football in the remoteness of the Highlands is, especially with another nearby club benefiting from even more external funding than Caley Thistle has, an extremely fragile business, so you also then have a scenario that is very unstable indeed, making disaster that much easier to happen.

Still ploughing my way through “The A Team” epic even including a drive down from Ullapool last night. The Dale Stephen section was excellent and stresses the feel of ICT getting back to being a family again.

Game is off

The Met Office have now issued an amber warning for Dumfries and Galloway from 0700 to 1200 tomorrow.

No matches called off (yet) and ICT have just posted their match preview a few minutes ago. All very surprising when the police are advising against travelling tomorrow.

Interesting also that they have a supporters trust rep on the club board yet many of their fans saying they had no idea that they were in immediate risk of administration.