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Not a very exciting story for me! Born in Inverness always lived here. Always liked football but really got into it when Euro 96 was on, in November my uncle asked what I wanted for my birthday i said to go to a local football game, (didn't even know who the local team were!). We went to a game mid November for the home Ict v County derby and I was hooked from the first minute and had a season ticket ever since.

Stinky Fish & hard stone Saturday in the Pink It's off to the bygone land of granite quarries and stinky fish meal factories this weekend as the Caley Jags head for Balmoral Park to tackle Cove Rangers on Matchday Six with League1 business high on the agenda. This will be Cove's 200th League game since gaining promotion to the SPFL. Inverness have made a solid start to the campaign and got themselves into positive figures within two weeks and now sit within the mid table group. On the other hand, Cove have made an inauspicious start with just two points from five games and sit at the bottom. Mind you, with David Eguaibor and his Bro on board adding to the experience of the evergreen Mitch Megginson, they will always pose a threat. However, we have our own threat in the form of Liam Sole. The fleet footed twinkle toed forward is exciting the fans and we can expect the unexpected from the in form player. Don't forget it's a 17:30 kick-off and if you can't make the game, it's live on BBC Alba. There's a lot to get through in this preview so click on the link to take you to the full preview on Caley Thistle Online ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Match/Ticket/Bus/Info Caley Jags in the Pink 📺 Game on BBC Alba 5:30pm 📺 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Curses Caution Scotty is the top dog>>> Congratulations to our Head Coach Scott Kellacher who has been named the Glen’s Vodka William Hill League 1 Manager of the Month for August 2025 In August, Caley Thistle secured league wins against Kelty Hearts, Peterhead, Montrose and Alloa Athletic while also getting wins in the KDM Evolution Trophy against Elgin City and Aberdeen B. Kellacher said: “It’s always nice to get an award but this isn’t just for me, it’s for everyone at the club. I’ve got a great staff, really good players and everyone has pulled their weight. Everyone works ever so hard, and this award recognises all our efforts.” And the laundry award for clean sheets goes to>>> Goalkeeper Ross Munro has been named the SPFL William Hill League 1 Player of the Month for August 2025. Munro, 25 years-old, kept clean sheets in our league wins against Kelty Hearts, Peterhead, Montrose and Alloa Athletic. Upon receiving the award, Ross Munro said: “It’s nice to get recognised, but this is a collective award. I wouldn’t have got this award without all in the boys in the squad, the management and the staff.” This is our Big Boys Squad for League1 business and the team we had out against the Wasps two weeks ago. The Wasps came North on Ladies day but it was the Caley Jags that took the three points with a deflected Liam Sole strike just enough to swat away the Wasps. We were somewhat wasteful throughout the game and by the end of the match had to rely on keeper Ross Munro to keep our noses just in front. Last weekend we were just as wasteful in the KDM Trophy and had Liam Sole to thank for saving our blushes with a 94th minute corner kick that ended up in the net after Binos keeper Robert Duffy had denied us with a series of wonderful saves during the ninety minutes. Ross Cuningham opened the scoring for the visitors with a stunning strike before Chanka Zimba levelled before the interval. We made heavy weather of seeing off the Binos and the sending off of Stewart Murdoch led to the cavalry charges that eventually paid off with the Sole goal deep into time added on. Ross Millen remained on the bench against Stirling Albion, so that might mean he is a real thing and he could be included this week again. Paul Allan missed out last week but is back in contention and Adam MacKinnon has been getting more game time recently as he gets up to speed. Scott Kellacher has plenty of attacking options available to him despite losing Robbie Thompson and Ben Gardiner who have both been loaned out to Brora Rangers until January. Robbie has bagged three goals in the two games he has played for the Cattachs so far with Ben also scoring in the last one in midweek. Caley Jags will be in the Pink on Saturday and that should brighten up the TV screens>>> LINK TO ICTFC The kit will be worn by the team for the first time tomorrow in our William Hill League 1 match against Cove Rangers, which is a 5.30pm kick-off live on BBC Alba. The club will also have a pop-up shop in Tesco Extra Inverness, Eastfield Way for the in-service days on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th September from 10am until 4pm on both days, with both our new 2025/26 Home and Away kits on sale. Ticket's HereAdult: £15, Concession: £9, Youth (12-17): £6, Under 12s: Free ICT Supporters Travel Club 🚍Travel Club Bus leaves Sarens PSG Stadium at 1pm???. £20 a seat. Book through the Travel Club’s Facebook Or call 07462 218717 Cove drew 0-0 with Hamilton Accies in their last League1 encounter to gain just their second point this season. Their other point came in a 3-3 draw with Montrose a couple of weeks ago. Note that they only had two subs on the bench v Accies, one of which was keeper Bálint Demus. Striker David Eguaibor appears to be a handful for defences having scored all four of Coves League1 goals including a hat-trick in a dramatic encounter against Montrose. He also scored the only goal of the game against Dundee B recently. They lost 1-0 to Elgin City in the KDM Trophy game on Saturday. Blair Yule was against Peterhead and missed the game against Accies but should be back for this one. Cove have a few injuries to contend with and Arron Darge and Declan Glass out and defender Michael Doyle is a doubt. Mitch Megginson: Mitch’s tally of eighty-six league goals represents just over a quarter of the total Cove have scored during their time in Leagues One, Two, and the Championship, and he has been top marksman in four of their six campaigns to date. Always a danger and still the man that needs shackled. Tale of the Tape League1: Cove 0-2 QotS - Match 1 Muir 1-0 Cove - Match 2 Cove 3-3 Mo - Match 3 Heid 3-1 Cove - Match 4 Ham 0-0 Cove - Match 5 KDM Trophy Cove 1-1 Spartans (Darge ⚽) Cove 1-0 Dundee B Elgin 1-0 Cove From BBC Sport In: Robbie Mutch, (GK Ayr Utd); David Eguaibor, forward (Cobh Ramblers); Justin Eguaibor, defender (Cobh Ramblers); Liam Parker, defender (St Johnstone, loan to perm); Layton Bisland, defender (Arbroath); Mackenzie Strachan, midfielder (Annan). Loan in: Lewis O'Donnell, midfielder (Arabs); Jackson Mylchreest, forward (St Johnstone). Out: Nick Suman, goalkeeper (Aberdeen); Will Gillingham, defender (Port Melbourne); Myles Gaffney, forward (Annan); Finlay Murray, defender (Formartine); Connor Scully, midfielder. Loan ended: Adam Emslie, midfielder (Aberdeen); Dylan Lobban, midfielder (Aberdeen); Findlay Marshall, midfielder (Aberdeen); Liam Parker, defender (St Johnstone). League1 Table Pos Team Pld Gd Pts 1 Queens 5 4 10 2 Alloa 4 2 9 3 Stenny 5 1 8 4 ICTFC 5 7 7 5 Accies 5 3 7 6 E Fife 5 -2 7 7 Peter 5 -2 6 8 Mo 5 -4 4 9 Kelty 4 -4 3 10 Cove 5 -5 2 Some dates for your diary over the next few months. First up is the comedy night next Friday night and it's not at the next home game at the Global Energy Stadium in Dingwall. Maybe not as funny, but it will be held in the Kingsmills Lounge at the Caledonian Sarens PSG Stadium. It's fantastic to see so much now happening at the club since Alan Salvage came to the rescue and at a meeting on Friday Mr Savage put an end to our time in administration and banished our years of anguish and floundering in the doldrums in the bin. Alan Savage confirmed he has 100% control of the club and that the club is officially out of administration. Statue incoming! More to come on this story as the full details of the press conference will be released in due course. Suffice to say it's great news for the club. He reiterated plans to turn part of the car park into a music venue, replacing the Ironworks, but he believes that could also double up as a conference centre and multiple five-a-side football pitches. He also has plans to install a petrol station, or an electric vehicle charging station, on the ground around the club, and is in discussions with Highland Council regarding that. Before any of those plans come to fruition though, Savage will have to appoint a board of directors. He confirmed that Supporters’ Trust chair George Moodie will have a seat at the table, while it was confirmed on Companies’ House that Savage’s wife, Dawn, has been appointed too. Cove, near Aberdeen, is famous for its history as a fishing village and the local quarrying of hard, export-grade granite, and for the infamous Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory, known as "the stinker". The "Stinker": From 1894 to 1937, the Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory operated in the area, producing manure and earning the infamous nickname "the stinker" due to its processing smell. The local entertainer Harry Gordon even made a famous parody about it, "A Song of Cove". It's said that smell still lingers to this very day and that's where the saying "he's had a right stinker the day min" came from...Right eenufff!

I was born in Cheshire in the North West and have moved around the country a fair bit. One of these moves happened in 2001 when i was just about to leave for High School and moved to Caithness on the very North Highland coast. I grew up a Man United fan and my only football game i'd ever been too was at Crewe Alexandra my home town. After moving to the Highlands me and my dad went to watch ICT play Ayr United with just over a 1,000 supporters and three parts of the stadium being terraced. I Remember Barry Robson was playing as someone made an unsavoury comment to do with his hair and thought it was aimed at me haha. We continued to go to the odd game and then decided to go to the promotion game vs St Johnstone in 04. We hadn't bought tickets and only found out it was sold out listening to Moray Firth on the way down. We were distraught and annoyed at my dad for presuming but we ended up having a great day. We spent the day with about 50-100 others standing next to the A9 watching partly from the Bridge. When Caley were promoted and they opened the gate we ran inside to see the trophy lifted. From then I was hooked and went to a few games in the top flight when Caley returned to Inverness for half a season. Their first full season in 05/06 saw my purchase a season ticket with my mate from school and we travelled down from Caithness on the bus for every home game. My mate stopped going and my sister took his seat eventually and we both continued to be season ticket holder until 2012. By that time I had moved to Stirling for university and continued to travel up by train for home matches, while adding some away days to the card. I wrote match reports and previews for this site. After i graduated in 2012 my family moved back to Cheshire for a few years temporarily as part of my dads job. I had to give up the season ticket but i continued to go to the big games with the League cup semi win over Hearts with nine men and the final against Aberdeen. I returned a year later for the Scottish Cup semi vs Celtic and subsequent final vs Falkirk. I missed the small trip to Europe and will remain a regret as not sure if that will ever happen again. I came up for the final vs Celtic 2 years ago and met my sister at Hampden before returning home with her to see her get married up here. My family moved back to sell our house in Caithness but loved the lifestyle of the highlands too much to leave Scotland and ended up moving slightly further South to a small place near Portmahomack not far from Tain. I regularly come home to visit and even my sister moved back here with her wife after covid. I came up for the final vs Celtic 2 years ago and met my sister at Hampden before returning home with her to see her get married up here. It gives me the great opportunity to get to a home game and I am currently up North and attended the Alloa match 2 weeks ago. I am in my mid 30's now and live in Ipswich, I have made lots of friends through going to watch Ipswich Town and becoming a ST holder there. I went to some fun League 1 matches that reminded me of some the grounds in Scotland that i went with following Caley and eventually got to take in the premier League last season albeit for one season. I have a mate through Ipswich, who is also a Caley fan and happened to be working in Glasgow on the week of the famous Scottish Cup upset. He bought a ticket for the away end and ever since has been hooked. He has also done the NC500 but has not been to many matches in the highlands so I am trying to get a small band of Ipswich supporters that I am close too, to come up and see the highlands and take in a game for a long weekend. Ever since the first time I went to watch I was hooked and continue to support the club afar with the Wyness Shuffle Podcast being a great listen to keep me connected with everything Caley Thistle and hope that the bad times are behind the club and that soon it can again punch above its weight and give some of the more established names in Scottish football a bloody nose once again.

If you're at a loss tomorrow afternoon as we're away, the U14 Blues have fantastically reached the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup (their Scottish Cup) from 198 teams. Any support greatly appreciated, 2.05pm at Millburn Academy astro.

Loving both kits this year! This is a sidenote, but something I've been wondering for a while. Why do the players never seem to have names on the back of their shirts anymore? Most other teams in league one seem to manage it. Perhaps understandable this season with everything going on, but we didn't have them last season either. Is it purely a cost issue, or something else?

This is a link to the Press Conference:

Cracking strip. Different from anything else out there from other teams. Actually prefer it to the home strip TBH! bc

Quite striking I think.

I got into Caley Thistle back in 96 when the new stadium went up. At the time I was living in Tain and I only knew one other Caley fan in my school. Everyone else was County daft. It wasn’t exactly easy being the odd one out, but back then we always seemed to get the better of them, so I didn’t mind too much. If anything, it made the wins even sweeter. My dad was the main reason I followed Caley. He’d been an old Caley fan before the merger, so he sort of nudged me that way. He used to take me to games, and that’s where it stuck. I’ve been in Paisley for about twenty years now, but I still get to my fair share of games. I still try and head north a couple of times a season. Being a Caley fan has never been the easy choice – and it still isn’t – but that’s what makes it. You take the rough with the smooth, and when the big moments come, they mean ten times more. For me it’s always been about more than just football. It’s family, it’s identity, my connection to the Highlands and it’s that little bit of pride knowing you stuck with your team through everything. The one thing that really annoys me is missing out on those first two years, and not seeing Telford Street.