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And Relax! We have all been on the emotional rollercoaster in a turbulent season that saw us go from potential promotion candidates to administration casualties, relegation favourites, possible liquidation fatalities before we pulled through with Scott Kellacher lifting the spirits sufficiently to enable us to retain our League1 status as Alan Salvage dug deep to stabilise our off-field activities and leave us all with fresh hope and a renewed vigour for next season. Aaaaand breathe! For the first time this season we can relax. Relax in the knowledge that Scot Gardiner is gone, Duncan Ferguson and his Duncball tactic is a fading memory, Bar94 is thriving thanks to the Supporters Trust, the ladies toilets are working again, the feelgood factor is back and Administration is on the verge of departure. Enjoy Montrose away, for the pressure is off and it's time to rejoice in our new found joy. The joy of having a football club to support and one that will rise again from the burning embers of near extinction. Mon the Caley Jags. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Match/Ticket/Supporters Bus/Info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Final quarter of the season: W L D L W L D W ? Let's forget the rest of the season: Despite injuries, suspensions and administration taking it's toll on the squad we dug deep with a superb penultimate game win over the Smokies. The last phase shows we only had three wins, but all were emphatic and vital. A 4-1 win in the re-arranged game at home to Stenhousemuir and a brilliant 3-0 win at Cove plus last weeks superb performance against Arbroath. A disappointing home defeat to Annan was followed by another disappointing home draw against Alloa. It got worse the week after as QotS battered us 4-1 and following the win at Cove, Kelty dumped us 0-2 in the Highlands, that was another three points that went abegging. We almost pulled off a good result away to Stenhousemuir after the Kelty game but a 91st minute own goal left us with just a point after Billy Mckay had scored his first goal for three months, but what a strike it was, earlier in the second half. Them's the breaks, as disappointing as they are. With three minutes to go, we were sitting in 7th place in the table until Montrose equalised against Dumbarton and Stenny levelled with us. We did get up to eighth in the table last week though after a swashbuckling performance in a 3-0 win over Arbroath and that is the one that makes the final game against Montrose more relaxed with safety guaranteed. Billy Mckay with another stunning strike along with goals from Keith Bray and a Paul Allan penalty dribbling over the line. Waaahayyyyy! Three games with Montrose this season. Both fixtures in the Highlands ended 1-1 and we pi$$ed off Gardyne the Gudgie with a comeback win in early December. Webster and Lyons had Montrose two up before we mounted a comeback. Longstaff scored after the hour before Montrose were reduced to ten men with Steeves sent off. The comeback was completed when Paul Allan scored twice in the 88th and 94th minute, direct from a corner. Limbs! Latest Caley Jags News: Marcus Gill will fill the breach once again with Musa Dibaga still unavailable. A clean sheet for young Marcus last week and another this week would be nice to round off the season. Inverness look to be coming out of administration soon and 32year old Danny Devine is keen to stay on. Adam MacKinnon is our only player with a contract for next season at the moment although with the feelgood factor surging through the club he feels that many might consider it prudent to return next season. Pos Team Pld Gd Pts 1 Arbroath 35 16 63 2 Cove 35 16 54 3 Queen o Sth 35 5 54 4 Alloa Ath 35 9 51 5 Stenny 35 2 50 6 Kelty 35 -7 41 7 Caley Jags 35 5 40 8 Montrose 35 -7 40 9 Annan Ath 35 -25 36 10 Dumbarton 35 -14 20 Last Six: W W L L D L Despite faltering over their last few games, Montrose have made the 'cut' and will play in League1 next season as well. A 3-1 home win over Annan was followed by an excellent 3-2 win at Ochilview. Two defeats at the start of April, at home to Arbroath (0-1) and at QotS away (2-1) before drawing 2-2 at Dumbarton with a 2-1 defeat at Alloa allowing us to jump above them in the table, albeit on goal difference. Owen Stirton, on loan from Dundee United, is their top scorer with nine goals in just thirteen games. That's a good return from the young striker. Blair Lyons has seven. Callum Sandilands is another hungry young forward. Good experience through the Gable Endies ranks as well. Gardyne the Gudgie is still at Montrose as is Matheus Machado. Wiki said: The first Montrose Football Club was formed on 25 February 1871 after a meeting of local young men seeking to organise the practice of the 'national game of football' on the Links of Montrose. The variety of football played at the time did not resemble the modern game (nothings changed) and was more akin to rugby. Friendly matches amongst club members and townsfolk, Montrose Academical, Arbroath and Aberdeen University were played over the next few years before the club was dissolved. On 8 September 1877, a new football club was formed at a meeting at Montrose Academy. During the new club's annual meeting on 13 October 1879 at the Town's Buildings, the committee unanimously resolved to change the rules of the club to those of General Association, with an association rules match amongst club members played later that week on 18 October 1879. The club played their first external association rules match against Arbroath Wanderers on 8 November 1879. Given the fact that the Montrose side were unfamiliar with new rules of the game, the team unsurprisingly lost 4–0. They are the 18th oldest association football team in Scotland still in existence. It's rumoured that they still don't know the rules

Given where we were when Scott took over and all the constraints he has faced due to the administration process, to finish 7th is just an absolutely brilliant achievement. Many congratulations to Scott and all the team and backroom staff for rediscovering the togetherness.

Oh, and are we about to discover that Scot Gardiner placed a pre-order of 50,000 copies for the club shop?!

Brilliant , winner of post of the season for me!

Noticed that Montrose had a young midfielder with the wonderful first name Lancelot. He showed a bit of talent for a 17yo, but couldn’t prevent his team from being put to the sword. (Sorry!)

I’m glad that Billy had the season’s final say in terms of goals. It’s been quite a tough one for him. What a season!

Is it was written in crayon?

Have a guess and you’ll be right!

Personal experience? bc

Great end to the season : huge congratulations to Scott, the players and the rest of the staff for keeping us in the division. Here's to ICT being League 1 champions in 12 months time : we're on our way back!!!!

I'm hopeful we will have more than that tbh

That was the season that was. No words to describe how proud I am of the team and (post DF) management/coaching. Wouldn't wish what they've had to go through on any team (well maybe 2) but they will have learned a lot about themselves and what can be achieved by pulling together as a team. Avoiding the play offs means they will all now get a thoroughly deserved full summer break. Hope to see many of them pulling on the Caley Thistle shirt again next season.

Well done to caleycalum but what a tight finish. A poor season for me, but I’m glad to have sneaked in to the top ten right at the death! Thanks to Gringo for running this and looking forward to next season.

First draft of Montrose game report And that's a wrap!

Well done Kell, Billy and all the players on a tremendous achievement. Getting 7th given where we were and how we were playing at the time of administration is amazing. Here’s to next season!

Billy McKay won’t want the season to end: that’s 3 in 3 as we go 2 up. Gardyne hooked: I wonder what reception he got from the travelling fans…..

Just seen the big eejit on Football Focus with Moyes and others at Goodison and he came across as the same brainless loon that blessed our club in the final part of the Gardener era. Heaven help any club that takes a try with him as manager. bc

That would be 50,000 more copies than he wanted of "Milestones and Memories".

Elgin 3.8 Good luck ladies

He blessed me with his presence last week at half time when he came over and we had an intelligent conversation on the 1st half v arbroath. Must admit I was wondering why he shaved off the beard. Looks like you nailed it bc.

Enjoy the game Hedgehog along with all our away supporters I hope you all have a great time and the team finish with another three points to end our very different season. I will have my ear to the radio as us elders say

Thanks for all the previews and reports again this season: always informative and entertaining.

I was responding to another thread when I was reminded that I had meant to post a little more about my son's training. As i noted above, he does it three times a week, plus we have him in a dedicated 'striker school' for the next 8 weeks, with one or sometimes two games during the week so he could potentially be playing or training 5-6 days a week in May and June. However, this is at a local (grass roots) club rather than the professional team (TFC). He was with "TFC Juniors" from age 5, which is the starting pathway to the professional academy, but they mothballed that program at the start of COVID and when they re-opened the youth training, the TFC academy now starts at age 14 with nothing below that. They recommend you go to a local grass roots club and the one we are at is affiliated to and has close ties with TFC but is not TFC. They all follow the same national training curriculum, and his club employs professional coaches, but this is where I think ICT actually do better than people give them credit for. The structure, framework and dedication of individuals is there, it just needs a bit more attention and maybe some resources to hopefully take it up a notch. Many teams are shutting down youth systems as a cost cutting measure but I am glad we are not one of them.

Yeah, BMO field is getting temporary stands for the World Cup to take it up from 30K to 45K. They are building a second tier above the supporters' section where i stand right now and also at the other end which is currently open as they need that for the longer field for the Toronto Argonauts (CFL). Hoping to get tickets on the back of being an inaugural season one TFC season ticket holder since 2006 but its FIFA not MLS doing ticketing and right now, they are punting tickets to those who buy Club World Cup tickets which seems to be failing miserably to sell on its own. I just want one or two games at BMO filed if I can afford it to say I have been South End of stadium. Tier 2 would be brand new (and temporary). The ball shows my current season seats. https://www.bmofield.com/events/fifa26 https://www.bmofield.com/assets/doc/BMO-Field-Renovations-Renderings-March-3-535d66de4d.pdf My fear is that all the current issues will make people want to go to games in Canada or Mexico instead of USA and it's going to be nigh on impossible to get tickets. Public transit and traffic is a nightmare in this city and only going to get worse so if I dont get tickets I may head out of country for a month, organise to rent out my house, and use that to fund it I started off going to see the Lynx @ Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke (near the airport) when I first moved over. Think of it like watching ICT from the Bught Park shinty stands. They were the only option, and they were really really bad as were some of the teams they played. I remember one team in particular because of the name ... the Rochester Raging Rhinos but they were quite good. Neither exist anymore however. Nowadays, if you dont want to go see TFC then you have York United or Hamilton Forge who are both Canadian Premier League teams in the Toronto area as well as a few other lower tier teams kicking around.

Hamilton @ 10

....plus Keith Bray from Dunfermline and James Nolan from Man U. Not forgetting Connall Ewing from Ross County.

A loan that has worked out well for both teams, we were lucky to get him and the two Alfie's from Aberdeen.

Derek McInnes said tonight that Brannan has had an excellent loan spell with us and will be promoted to Killie’s first team squad next season.

Oranges v apples though? That was one off. This great escape started in October

I much prefer clawing back 14 (ish) points from December against Dundee to eventually win the league by 12 points.

Razor, Josh Reid. Looks like he came through the rc academy. He is 22 now so was at County since 7 years old Youth career 2010–2020 Ross County Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 2020–2021 Ross County 20 (0) 2021–2023 Coventry City 0 (0) 2023 → Stevenage (loan) 1 (0) 2023– Ross County 25 (0) 2025– → Partick Thistle (loan) 9 (0) International career‡ 2022– Scotland U21 3 (0)

Interestingly, on the news coverage tonight the reporter at the stadium also stated that one of the previous four or five interested parties was now looking at possibly coming on board with the new regime. We shall see.

The dice have been cast and we just have to see what happens. I suspect there will need to be a bit of compromise on the part of AS to get it over the line. If Ross Morrison has lost his preferred creditor status, then his vote will carry the CVA. I can't see the Supporters Trust members blocking any request to relinquish the voting right. Even if they do, then if AS gets to a point to carry a 75% vote, he could just right it out of the articles. The Football Trust shares aren't, in my understanding, transferable to FC Inverness, but AS could be given control via directorship. It's still not a given, and I still have massive reservations for the medium to long term, but to steal a quote from a favourite book of mine....

Hope it's not scenario 2 for the travelling support. Worst one I have seen was aberdeen v hearts , long ago and nothing to play for. The work organised a north of Scotland 5 a side tournament in Aberdeen. We, inverness, put in 1 team but aberdeen diluted their team of current highland league players and entered 5 teams. The prize was hospitality at Pittodrie. We won with ease. We were met off the train, told we could have 1 pre match drink, cup of tea at HT and one drink after game, and then back to train. After the first drink one of the boys went up to buy a round, to be told by the bar man that the hospitality was all day to 18.30. Well that started it.... I wasn't drinking as was the goalie. So 6 guys remained in the bar while we 2 watched the game. One even ventured up to our box with 5 mins to go to ask what the score was. At the final whistle I went to bar to see our guys p1ssed as farts arm wrestling at the table. At 17.15 the shutters went down it was getting so rowdy. We heard on the Monday that the guy who met us at the train station was up in front of the bosses as it was the biggest hospitality bar bill ever the company had to pay. Ps.... I scored 20 odd goals and got player of the tournament trophy. Only saying. The train on the way home was worse, after 1 of our guys karate chopped the ariel off the taxi he was in. Great days though.