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3 pointsNothing to see here to be honest I was a massive Jambo fan when I was young and long before Inverness had a team in the big boys leagues. When I moved to Inverness from Grantown on Spey to work for BT, I always favoured the underdog. At that time it was Clach. I even travelled to Glasgow in 1975 to watch them in a Scottish cup tie against Dumbarton when they played at Boghead. It was a pretty dreich day when we got to the station at Glasgow but were told the game was still on. Off we hopped to Dumbarton to be met by a sign at the station that the game was off. Meh! Clach eventually lost the replay 2-1. Some team Clach had back then before half went to County and the other half went to Caley. Scottish Cup (3rd Round) Wednesday, January 29th, 1975 Boghead Park. Att. 4,000 3:00 PM Kick-off McDonald Allison A. Kennedy Stuart Giles Corbett MacIntosh ⚽ McLaren C. Kennedy McLennan Stevenson As fickle as I was back then, I was nearer to Kingsmills and also took in many of their games. The big one being the 3-0 thrashing of Kilmarnock in the Scottish Cup 1985 at Kingsmills Park. Inverness Thistle 3-0 Kilmarnock is a result still considered to be one of the worst in Kilmarnock’s history. Thistle were in the Highland League and Killie were struggling. The win earned Inverness Thistle a money-spinning tie at Celtic Park in the next round, where they lost 6-0. The ground was demolished in the 1990s. (Jimmy Calder, the young brickie from Grantown was a reserve striker for Thistle in that game.) Having coming out of Parkhead at the end of the game, a Glasgow cabby shouted over to me "what was the score Jimmy" 6-0 I retorted "who fur" was his dense reply??? Oddly, Caley were my least favourite Highland side but I did the odd bit of glory hunting for the big games. Anyway, when the Caley Jags entered the Leagues I would go to Inverness or Dingwall on alternative weeks before my son said that's plenty, I'm no going back to Dingwall unless we are playing them. The Jambos were relegated to second choice by now and my main focus was Inverness Caledonian Thistle. So much so, that I went on a (family) holiday to Denmark which just so happened to coincide with Craig Brewster's Caley Jags pre-season tour....... in Denmark. Talking of Brewster, enjoyed siting a banner made from the best wallpaper on the bank near the bridge with paint declaring Brewster Out. Looked good on Sky TV for the televised game that day. Caley100 and Zogg were the other perpetrators. 👀 My other son moved to Guildford with his work and when he was on the forums he was known as Guildford Caley Fan. He kept asking me how the games were going from afar and that is when Guildford Caley Fans very own match reports were born which resulted in me being asked if I could help out with doing some articles for the website. I thought hey ho, I'll just make them a wee bit bigger and they have since grown arms and legs and after something like fifteen years you seem to have drawn the short straw and are unfortunately stuck with me. He is now known as Crusher but is not a regular visitor on here now. So that's me, seen us through the highs and lows from nothing to Scottish Cup winners to administration and back (just). Always support local and since we have a team in that bracket since 94/95 that is where my allegiance lies. Met many good friends through my association with this forum. Cheers all. ps, still enjoyed yesterdays result at Ibrox though3 points
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3 pointsWatched the game on Alba. I was dropping off to sleep at times. Very dull first half. Slight improvement in the second. We seem to struggle breaking teams down that sit in. We need to start shooting on sight instead of trying to walk it in. Defence looked solid against a poor Cove attack. Anyway, three points is three points no matter how we do it.3 points
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3 pointsI guess we’ll see a lot of games like this for the rest of the season where teams sit in against us. Game was crying out for us to get more shots at goal. Thankfully Macleod stepped up to do exactly that. He’s fast developing into a fantastic player! 🥰3 points
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3 points3 points2 points2 points2 points2 pointsA good three points that were deserved despite the poor performance in what was a very flat game.2 points2 pointsOh and the Iain Vigurs song came across loud and clear on the telly. 😄2 points2 pointsFT, a 1-0 win thanks to MacLeod’s deflected shot. We defended very well and didn’t do a lot wrong, but were pretty poor in the final third. Poor game but a great day for us.2 pointsVisit our website for full details of how to enter this amazing prize draw: WIN Both New Home & Away Shirts! As announced earlier to our members, the Inverness Caledonian Thistle Supporters Trust is holding an online prize draw to raise much needed funds, and you could net yourself a win! 💥 PRIZE: New ICTFC 2025/26 Home & Away Shirts! Any size, adult or child. 🎯 Every online prize ticket you buy helps support fan-led initiatives and strengthens the Trust's standing with the football club and the local community. 📅 Enter Now! 🏷️ Tickets only £2 🎉 Draw takes place on Wednesday 1st October 👉 For your chance to win, please follow this link: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/inverness-caledonian-thistle-shirts-draw Look the part for 2025/26. Two Shirts, £2, One Lucky Winner! 🔴🔵1 point1 point1 pointYup - that's why I took the league table widget off the side of the page. The third-party we use has not deducted the 5 points. Our internal tables are correct though. Personally, I have never seen the point of deducting 15 points in the season you were struggling and 5 in the season where you were trying to get back on your feet, it seems like an unnecessary slap when you least need it ... but it's what happened to others too. Just happy that this early in the season, Kells and the boys have done so well that the 5 points is merely a footnote now. We are on an even keel with everyone and will be at the right end of the table come May 2026.1 point1 pointCalum's shot was really top class and gave the 'keeper not Mutch chance of saving it! Three points and we move on.1 point1 pointWatching a match on TV is always a poor substitute for the real thing. What I mean by that is you don’t get a proper understanding of the team and individuals play and performance. So I appreciate the posts from the guys that attended. Like others here I found it a hard watch. It came across as poor game of football with a lot of poor passing and little quality. The place is in an industrial estate perched on top of a hill. Throw in a plastic pitch and handful of fans, it is an unattractive place for any away team to play. The biggest thing for me is taking 3 points from such a venue. Well done to the team, kells and the attending ICT fans. It may prove to be one of the most important victories of this campaign. bc1 point1 pointPlaying against a team sitting very deep in defence and who are well organised is a very different art form to teams that are more attack minded and leave space at the back, that is something Palace always struggle with [although Palace are very organised defensively, and arguably did exactly that to Man City in the FA Cup, but I digress]. So patience and persistence is definitely a virtue. I agree on shooting from distance, not least because it might lead to a beaten out ball that can be followed up. We put few high crosses in, in the first half, not surprising perhaps because Zimba wasn't on the field until later [quite like the look of him, could work well as a front two with Bavidge]. Low cross were going into a crowded box. Given that Cove appear to have had as many shots as Caley, that was a game we could have lost in an annoying way. Terrific strike from Macleod, who was well set up by Wotherspoon. I thought all of the midfield did well, Steward is a hard worker, tackles well and is calm on the ball, ditto Wotherspoon who organises well. I was particularly impressed with Chalmers looked pretty smooth and carried the ball forward although he did get robbed a couple of times in awkward areas of the park. Every time I watch Remi Savage, I am thankful we signed him, and even more thankful he re-signed this summer. We have interesting options in Sole and Longstaff, the more Sole plays hopefully the better his decision making will be, and at this level Longstaff looks classy Next week away to QotS is a big test, we are definitely the team with a target on our back given our great start, conversely every team will fear us.1 point
Three Points on the Road The Caley Jags were involved in the final game of the day in League1 which was being screened live on BBC Alba at 17:30. This was Cove's 200th game in the Leagues since they came into the SPFL set-up. Our brand spanking new pink kit got it's first airing today. Declan Glass and Michael Doyle being out was obviously a smokescreen as they both start today but Blair Yule and Aaron Darge are still missing. The Caley Jags started with Liam Sole, Alfie Bavidge and Billy Mckay up front with Ross Millen, Paul Allan and Adam MacKinnon on the bench. Also plenty of attacking options on standby. With most early results favourable for the Caley Jags, the opportunity was there to tuck in behind new leaders Stenhousemuir with Alloa and Queen of the south both losing. A pretty grim first half of few opportunities with Bavidge making a hash of the best opportunity, skying a cross over the bar from ten yards. Calum MacLeod scored the only goal in a tense second half with a deflected strike and that was enough for the Caley Jags to move up to second place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A bit of a cagey opening to the game with Cove content to give us the ball and watch us fail to make much headway. Alfie Stewart was the first to have a proper go after winning the ball in midfield and driving forward before firing a powerful left footer a yard wide. Although we dominated the early possession we only had a shot from Bavidge thereafter that was easily plucked out of the air by Robbie Mutch. Glass only lasted seventeen minutes before hobbling off to be replaced by Mylchreest. Alfie Bavidge missed a great opportunity minutes later when he blazed a low Calum MacLeod cross high over the bar when he really should have been making the keeper work. Cove had their closest effort from a set piece when a Jackson Mylchreest glancing header went a few feet wide with keeper Munro scrambling across his line to cover. To be honest the rest of the half was poor, lacking in quality and urgency and there really was nothing to see here. HALF TIME: 0-0 Joe Chalmers curled an effort closer than the keeper anticipated methinks eight minutes after the restart. Either way, it was still wide with Cove also looking to be more of a threat this half already. Cove were unfortunate not to benefit from a ball ricocheting around inside our box following a corner. On the hour the changes came with the introduction of Zimba and Longstaff for Bavidge and Mckay who had been increasingly ineffective. The deadlock was broken when a great ball in by MacIntyre was fed out by Wotherspoon for Calum MacLeod to rifle a shot goalwards. It took a deflection off a defenders boot and ended up high into the net. Paul Allan replaced Wotherspoon for the final fifteen. Plenty of graft over the final minutes but not enough guile. Sole turned and shot with five minutes remaining but it was an easy gather by the keeper. Cove went up the other end and Ross Munro had to look lively to deny Lewis O'Donnell. Either side of the keeper and he might have been in trouble, fortunately it was straight down his throat. It all ended a bit frantic and we all held our breath when Danny Devine and David Eguaibor clashed in the box. The referee kept us all waiting before he eventually booked the big Cove striker. FULL TIME: 0-1 Three in a row for the Caley Jags. Once more, we seemed to make hard work of a simple task, but the three points stuck with us and with other results falling kindly we now sit second in the table. We did just enough to get the win but the performance was disappointing. Maybe we were lulling the rest of League1 into a false sense of security. Another difficult away game next week at a ground that we often struggle to take points away from. It's a visit to Palmerston to face Queen of the South who will be smarting after losing out to East Fife earlier today. Great to see Liam Sole engaging with the fans as he left the field to be substituted. Not his best day on the park, but he knows how to keep the fans happy. Calum MacLeod was TV MotM. 🏆 Pos Team Pld Gd Pts 1 Stenny 6 2 11 2 ICTFC 6 8 10 3 QueenS 6 3 10 4 E Fife 6 -1 10 5 Alloa 5 1 9 6 Acccies 6 3 8 7 Head 6 -2 7 8 Mo 6 -3 7 9 Kelty 5 -5 3 10 Cove 6 -6 2 Date: 13/09/2025 Venue: Balmoral Stadium, Cove Attendance: 0456 Referee: Alastair Grieve Cove Rangers: 0 Manager: Paul Hartley Lineup: Mutch, Bisland, Strachan, J Eguaibor, Doyle, Harrington, Glass (Mylchreest 17), D Eguaibor, O'Donnell, Megginson, Parker Subs (not used): Demus; Ochmanski, Donaldson, Milnes Scorers: none Booked: Mylchreest (22), Megginson (45), Parker (86), D Eguaibor (90+6) Sent Off: none Inverness CT: 1 Manager: Scott Kellacher Lineup: Munro; MacLeod, Devine, Savage, MacIntyre, Sole (MacKinnon 90+3), Chalmers, Wotherspoon (Allan 75), Stewart, Bavidge (Longstaff 61), Mckay (Zimba 61) Subs (not used): Ross; Millen, Strachan, Robertson, Alonge Scorers: MacLeod (66) Booked: Stewart (80), Sole (90+5) Sent Off: none1 point1 pointAh brilliant! Does this mean we can have our 5 points back now?1 point1 pointHad this not been on tv and me only getting back from Orkney last night, I’d have gone through for this. Looking forward to watching it and hope we keep our good run going and we maintain our challenge at the top of the table. I hope we use Bavidge in a more central position but Kell has called most things right this season so I’m happy to back his judgement. The beer is chilling ready for kick off.1 point1 pointMy story is simple. Born in Lewiston. Reached 16 and struggled to find work other than family farming which didn't really appeal. I spent a year learning the noble art of stone walling on a YTS (Do you remember those?). On day release at college, I walked past the army recruitment office and found myself applying for the Queen's shilling - all these years later, I'm still taking the shilling. I've been all over the world but always found time to take in games, home and away, sometimes involving 1000 mile round trips. My dad used to take me to watch Caley at Telford Street until the merger then it was a natural progression to carrying on with ICT. My claim to fame is during my final year of my degree, I had to undertake a sports psychology study of the first team - including the likes of Bobby Mann, Charlie Christie, Barry Wilson etc. I scored a first for my project - and that was my love for the club cemented. A proper family club that I am glad to see has regained the ethos that made the club great in the first place - long may it continue!1 point1 pointFor most on here my story is well known. However, there are a quite a few now that don't know the history, in fact, some probably weren't born when I went to my first Caledonian game. My interest in the club started back in 1978 during a motorcycling holiday. We'd entered Inverness from the North and as we came over the Caledonian canal I saw the Telford St ground to my right. Once at the B&B I asked the land lady what she knew about the club. I was then informed that Inverness actually has three teams. The penny dropped when I recalled seeing these Inverness clubs in the Scottish Cup. Anyway, I'd challenged myself to watch a game at Telford St but they were never at home when I returned. In fact I saw Thistle and Clach before the famous Caley. Bringing up a family and working curtailed long trips away and it wasn't until Jan 1990 before seeing first Caley match. This was Airdrie away. A Scottish Cup Tie that Caley should have won 2-1 if it wasn't for all that injury time. Sat 1st Sept 1990 was my first home game. A 4-0 win over Rothes. I was given a tour of the club and my eldest son and I were guests of the club. An amazing day. With the advent of the internet I found this very forum and it wasn't long before I was visiting the Caley Inn where we met @Scotty and others. I always remember him introducing himself and he mentioned to this giant of a man - [Big Stew ❤️] - that I was English. I nearly shat myself as he approached but, wow, what a man he was. Never let me buy a drink and ruined my liver. Mrs G and my two boys were with us at the time. So many friendships have stemmed from that day and some are, sadly, no longer with us. Travelling from Coventry a home game was always a weekender. Some away games could be done in a day depending how close to Glasgow / Edinburgh they were. Too date I have been to 213 games and there was only one season when I never went to a game. My record: P 213; W 97, D 50, Lost 66, F 367, A 264 There were also nine other games that I'd travelled up for. 8 were postponed and 1 when the train broke down at Beattock. And, before you ask....No...I'd don't have a figure for the total miles travelled.😂1 point1 pointHappy days IBM. Got to watch a granddaughter play for u12 ict girls this morning, then onto watch a grandson play for clach u 12 v Buckie TH, then onto watch 3 granddaughters play basketball for the Bears at the IRA. A quick wash and then out with the boss for a meal in town tonight. By the time I get home, after a couple of pints, I will be giving it 😴, so will watch the recording tomorrow sometime. Wonder if I will make it that far before having a wee peek to see what the score was or someone says “ bad result for ict today” 😡 Ps……… my original plan for today was to watch my grandson play for U 12 Ross County v Falkirk in Falkirk, a good day out and a good fish supper in Pitlochry on the way home, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. 😀1 point1 pointNot 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.1 point1 pointI 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.1 point1 pointI 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.1 point1 pointI too am an Invernessian now living in Forres. But I was down in Sheffield - torn between Blades and Owls - when ICT Were formed as a result of the merger. I was also from Dalneigh so I was a Caley fan. I remember my first game - a win - against Buckie Thistle standing at the Howden End aged 7 with my Dad. This was around 1962 and the team I remember featured the Van Dijk -like Alan Presslie, the goal machines Chic Allan and Davy Johnson, the Neild brothers, and later on, my school mate Gordy Fyffe. Returning to Scotland in 1997 my first ICT game was like a dream. I went alone and delighted in the familiarity of supporting my home team. For the last 10 years or so illness and disability have reduced my supporting to the armchair variety but having been an early Internutter alongside the late Gordyfromsneck and Mr Biro I delight in keeping connected via CTO and now the Supporters Trust. All the best to supporters old and new wherever you come from.1 point0 pointsSky showed us being top of the table when they did the results and tables earlier: they’d forgotten the 5 point penalty!0 points0 pointsbah - cant get BBC Alba over here :( can get other BBC channels but not Alba and all the other channels are not live. Havent invested in VPN for a long time. Guess i got to go watch the Juventus and then the Napoli games this afternoon, then the TFC game ...0 pointsThis leaderboard is set to London/GMT+01:00
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