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Bob, I think you’ve posted on the wrong website

Good morning. Any Caley Jags in London or Southeast of England? Recent Caley Jag convert here. Watched 4-0 win over the Queens last week. Took advantage of the Black Friday hospitality package. Watching the footy was part of a city break I booked on a whim to Inverness. When I planned my Inverness trip - i did so without checking footy fixtures first. That was after - when I was looking at what I could do that would be interesting to see and do. I came to Caley Jags as 'merely' an experience to see two teams I have always seen as exotic by their names. Was happy to see that they both were playing each other and I could get tickets. Before I saw the Black Friday deal - was going to get a turnstile ticket anyhow. I honestly walked up to the Caley Stadium not knowing anything much - apart from the intriguing name of the Club. Great to see that the supporters trust chairman now has a seat at the Club Board table and is a Club potentially going places. I'm no glory hunter though. I am in Stepney, east London - any other Caley Jags in London or the Southeast of England? Perhaps form a little crew or group of us?!

Further to that: the whole idea of the offside law is to prevent poaching. If a player is clever enough to time his run so the average linesman can’t tell the difference, then what does it matter.

Going back in time to my referee course in a bygone era it was instilled into you as a ref and linesman that a player was not offside if they were level with the defender. To me that goes along with the whole body scenario. If the difference can’t be identified by a linesman’s (assistant referee 🙄) eyesight then the attacking player is level and shouldn’t be deemed to be offside. The important thing was that it was always incumbent on the linesman being level with the last defender to give an accurate decision. I always thought it was a simple rule that I never had any problem with, but it’s been so messed about with that some of the VAR decisions are just plain ludicrous. Granted, previously, there were wrong decisions aplenty but I feel there have been just as many wrong decisions since its inception. VAR destroys the flow and spirit of the game and I’d be happy to see it gone tomorrow.

I presume that is a typo and it should be 15th Dec!

Mantis, I agree the TV and armchair viewing has ruined football along with the massive wages! I only watch ICT if it's on TV and I can't make the game. Even the last Scotland game I only watched the last ten minutes after checking the score. You can't beat being at a game for the banter and hopefully the goals!

Yeah, a few folk staggering out of the Nip Inn and tripping over the pavement would create havoc with the traffic right enough.

I see it in action as I live near Hearts & Hibs, and I have a mate who's willing to drive down to Englandshire as he's Liverpool daft, while I get to drink. So I would scrap it altogether, but then I'm a complete grump for anything that encourages armchair "supporters" so I would scrap satellite TV and all the nonsense of televising live league football, etc etc etc, and go back to at least 1992 when that obscene orgy of greed began over the border.

Greetings to you and welcome to the forum. Seems it's not gonna happen even if they do win the Highland League. Our derby rivals are Ross County anyway - a sorta Gretna-esque team based 12 miles north of Inverness, currently in the Championship but staring relegation in the face. Ironic if we pass each other at the end of the season but serves them right for not harvesting local passion!

I'm in the south-east of England. My story of why is in the fairly recent thread "Why suppport ICT?". I'm a former West Ham season ticket holder (gave it up after 26 years at the end of 2023/24) and am enjoying ICT's season far more than WHU's.

Welcome to the forum. Like Snorbens above, I too am Inverness born and bred, but living in Berkshire, near Reading for more years than I remember (about 60 I think). There used to be a few more of us. Now I see Eagle for Caley every year or two but not many others. I still follow all ICT's matches, and have several 'converts' at my golf club who do likewise. I nearly went up for the QotS match too, but took the cheaper option when I saw that it was on BBC Alba. I hope to get up later in the season, especially if they do the hospitality at half price again.

Welcome to the forum and to the club. There's a lot of history for you to catch up on - much of it documented here! I'm Inverness born and bred, but have lived in the London area since starting work in 1978. Used to go and see Arsenal when I was first in north London, but couldn't feel involved. Have been a resident of St Albans ("Snorbens" to the locals) for 41 years As Gringo said, there are handful around - the clues are in their usernames!