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Stinking second half performance, we just sat back and made no effort to go forward. Dundee could and should have won by 4 clear goals. One man saved us from a hiding today and that was Fon Williams.. Another tactic being used today by all our players was time wasting at free kicks, goal kicks, throw in's etc. every opportunity was taken. I have got to say it is not something that I ever associated with ICT and who is responsible for it--Management or Players??

Aye in footballing terms but the A96 is still as bl@@dy slow....

I think I'm one of the most optimistic/positive guys you could meet but for some reason I'm just not getting that feeling this season. It seems to have been a struggle all along from that Richie Foran goal where we managed to beat the mighty Nairn County 1-0 in pre season with a full strength squad right up to beating the Dons 3-1 I just don't see us as a top 6 team i think of Yogis signings like Sekaja, Sho Silva and Lopez and think WTF? Mutombo has done ok as did Miles(who wears a magic hat) Storey originally , there has obviously been injury problems along the way though we have pretty much had our strongest squad with the exception of Doran and More recently Meekings and Vincent for some time now Down at Stirling a few weeks back we looked really poor against a team that were approx 30 places behind us at that time and even after beating them up here we still seemed to plod along with the pissy passy this way and that way stuff with little or no end product, I don't ever seem to recall as much frustration in the North stand over the last 20 years as I did that night. Who knows maybe we expect too much these days ? Many times At work I've had people saying to me that the first season or two under Hughes is great and then it usually goes awry when he takes in his own players Fisher Ryan Williams and Liam Hughes the verdict is out yet as they haven't had time But what really seems to get to me is the sheer lack of entertainment this season. Week in week out we sit in the stands hoping for something as most fans do yet more often than not at the end of the game we all seem to be glad it's over and rarely seem to see huge grins on the faces with a Lets go to the Caley club to celebrate attitude. I could well be talking bulls*** as I've had copious amounts of jd and Coke with a few lagers on the side but right at this moment I'd love to be sitting at Kingsmills again watching the 3-0 demolition of Kilmarnock or even down at Parkhead watching us getting beat with Mo Johnstone scoring or dare I say it even the game where the other lot drew with st Johnstone . There seems to be a lack of excitement and enjoyment this season, maybe it's a come down after last season which was pretty special but I don't see anything that will bring fans to the ground . I don't think I've ever written so much some will agree with some of it some will disagree and TBH I've pretty much forgotten where I started . Never drinking again!! I think I've prob said that before as well p.s. Back to the Nairn county game I enjoyed the pies the weather was great The football was shoite but I was still optimistic. Where did that go??

Attempting to pass the ball into the net wasn't our undoing. It was desire from around a half hour onwards to time waste, defend and drop deeper and deeper for the remaining hour. For the first time in my football going life, I witnessed a keeper booked for time wasting in the first half! We invited Dundee onto us and for most of the game our goal lived a charmed life. Inviting a side featuring the likes of Harkins, Stewart and Hemmings to attack us was always asking for trouble. We were punished as a result.

I'm in Rome for the rugby but kept trying to get updates from Dens with no success. Went from ecstasy in Stadio Olimpico to big disappointment when I eventually got the result from Dens. Still, 3 points on Tuesday at Tynie and we're back in the Top 6.

Nah, that was a McManus OG that one Alex!

Late goals R us, but not many complained when Jordan Roberts scored that cracker at Motherwell, or was that one too late too be counted. It's going to happen when teams sit back and try to hold what they have, the pressure builds, goals are conceded, shit happens. It is however frustrating when it goes against us.

The negativityis mind blowing. We are three pts of 4th with game in hand over St J. Two in hand against RC. 5 pts clear of 11th with 2 games in hand.

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Ross Draper makes it 0-1

Interesting article but I would dispute the suggestion that Inverness was spared bombing during WW2 because it was "so far North". Inverness would have been reachable from German bases in Norway but the Luftwaffe didn't visit simply because it didn't house anything of sufficient industrial or strategic significance. Further North than Inverness, Invergordon was attacked because it was a naval base. They tried to get the naval fuel tanks beside where Invergordon Academy now is and hit one... number 13! Scapa Flow in Orkney was an even more important naval base and it was attacked quite often, although never very successfully by air. Fighter cover for Scapa was based at Wick aerodrome so Wick was also attacked. They had difficulty finding the aerodrome but on a couple of occasions in 1940 the town itself was bombed and there were several fatal casualties, including children.

Nae bother Gringo, just delayed the pain of getting it wrong again this week :) Stenhousemuir home win @ 2.25 ta...

Well not quite. Caley had 5 goals chalked off, including the one he illegally scored, for The Legend not being a registered player in the final derby at Telford Street, so that makes it 4-3 Jags across the four games.

As you wish. The merger's history. Two fine clubs with a proud history merged and we now have a bigger and far more successful club. It's called progress and is something we should celebrate.

Feck me all we need now is fer Doofers Dad to quote and reply.

Pardon me if I nitpick benevolently and only slightly about this and Kingsmills' post which has just gone up. The original name was indeed Caledonian Thistle, first publicly mooted in December 1993 and agreed soon after as the only politically acceptable solution to one of several problems which threatened to sink the m****r deal, and with it SFL football for Inverness. The "Inverness" was added in the summer of 1996, not as a quid pro quo for the £900,000 Common Good Fund grant but for the earlier Highland Regional Council agreement of 1994 to grant a 99 year lease of the current stadium site. That agreement had included a "best endeavours" clause about the name - in effect once any addition at all became politically possible, which happened to be in 1996. The £900,000 CGF grant wasn't actually given by the District Council but by the new Highland Council as one of its earlier acts after it was formed in 1996. There had been a very belated IDC agreement late in 1995 to award that money from their own funds, but opponents within the council fought a temporarily successful wrecking campaign on this, based on QC's opinion of what the word "payable" meant in an IDC motion to pay the money put down by David Stewart. This delayed payment past IDC going defunct on the formation of HC which, in the face of earlier threats of possible legal action, very quickly - and indeed willingly - agreed to pay this from the CGF, control over which also transferred to them in April 1996. As for what this money was for, let's start with HRC's planning committee's requirement that the club also paid for an access road for the stadium. This resulted in a severe curtailment of the stadium itself and road + stadium being classified as a single entity - the "stadium project", with a budget of £5.4M, and defined as such by then Chairman Dougie McGilvray. Hence, when the £900,000 application came along it was in practice for the global project, but was presented as being specifically for the road to make the request politically more acceptable. But one way or another the road from roundabout to stadium, which was put there at ICT's expense to allow access to the stadium and which was then "adopted" by the Council, has indeed been of massive economic benefit to the area by way of it being linked by an extension to the Harbour which opened up the entire seafront. Councillor Clive Goodman was, I think as Chairman of the Harbour Trust, the first publicly to moot this extension and illustrate its potential benefits, and that was certainly one "Eureka moment" during what was a very tortured process.

You are dead right! Apologies....31 years on my memory fails me since it was indeed the other way round. It was Jags who took the early lead and a Caley wag - hence obviously not Dave Williamson! - who came away with the one liner in question. However I think my memory is intact enough to be able to help you in your request for a Caley victory in that era. I think it was April 1986 in a midweek game at Telford Street and it was Caley 7 Jags 0. I had the misfortune of having to interview Jock McDonald about Jock having been shafted by Wallace Mercer in an attempt to get into the Scottish League... just AFTER that game On the other hand, two and a half years later at the same venue it was Caley 0 Jags 3 in a qualifying cup final replay.

If regulars from the CJT busses start to join the Gellions bus wouldn't that mean lost revenue for them? If they don't make any profit from the busses already then surely it'll mean even more money is lost.

I'm starting to get a bit tired of this attitude that the merger is something to forget, something to cover up and something to feel embarrassed by. The merger is an interesting historical event that took place here and that's something to be remembered. Mergers are nothing new on football, but ours is one of the few that's happened (probably worldwide) in the last few decades and it's undoubtedly been a big success. That's something to be celebrated......as are the achievements of the two clubs that came before.

You are perfectly free to move on from the past. We all have that's why we support the merged team but you are in no position to dictate to those of us who spent years or even decades standing on the terracing at Kingsmills and Telford Street that we should forget or ignore the past. ICT is now in our hearts us oldies just as much as the rest but young man we will continue to nurse our memories of two clubs both dating back to the 1880s there is nothing incompatible about looking to the future while, at the same time, respecting the past. By the way, this is a largely friendly forum of like minded people so nobody is likely to 'hate you' for your views as much as some of us may disagree.

Move on from the merger, therefore make thread bringing up the merger? Ok.

I applaud your intentions, DEANO96, with your posts and enthusiasm - and I don't want to moan - but....at 20 years-old, you weren't born when the merger happened! I'm also not suggesting you can't have an opinion on it, but you've only ever known ICT as a club...and I can understand it must be boring and frustrating to hear us 'oldies' referring to it! Obviously, football existed before that. For many of us, brought up visiting both Telford Street and Kingsmills, it still is, and will always be, a sore point. One cannot lose their affiliation to the club they initially supported - and I'm sure you'd still fondly recollect Inverness Caledonian Thistle if they were part of a Highland United FC in future years, and It would be illogical to discount ICTs achievements (pre-Highland United merger) as having no significance to you. You must respect that supporting Inverness Thistle or Caledonian was a major aspect of 'our' growing up and was part of one's identity, in a then, much-smaller Inverness. Granted, some have embraced the club as simply 'Inverness' - but for others. it remains a 'waste' of two historic clubs, regardless of the success of the merged team. An opportunity arose; and the time was ripe to 'go for it' - a single Inverness club was always going to be successful with an application in the then climate. But in a relatively small time-scale, since the clubs merged, the goalposts have moved. Any team can now progress on merit. I've no doubt that Caledonian and Inverness Thistle would both eventually, individually, have made it into the SPFL. Just gutting!

Opening line of opening post = "Well I certainly do not want to be in the bottom six after the split as that could be real bum twitching stuff."

It always has and always will be a bonus but we need to avoid it this season. There is no reason why we can't. The best way of avoiding being in the bottom two this season is NOT being in the bottom six.

Willie Deans front right and Brucie front centre.

And who sat on one of these ?

Lets just stick to plain old "Caley" - it has been the predominant chant for almost 150 years.

No you're right I wasn't, and I don't know what it was like for those who supported these teams so I can't judge how people felt about it. But unfortunately I'm one of these young a***holes that likes people to move on from the past! And it winds me up to hell when people mention this merger and more so when I say "Caley" or "the jags" and someone tells me it's "Inverness" or "Caley thistle". So as much as people will hate me for it and disagree, the club and the fans have to move on from then and only look forward! You may still feel upset or angry about the merger but like everything else in the past...its history. now I haven't meant to upset anyone about this topic but there is one or two out there who won't talk about anything other than the merger so for those people they now have these new clubs to go and watch!

I sometimes wish the Directors had chosen a simpler name for the club, trying to write a song to include Inverness Caledonian Thistle aint easy.not sure why Inverness Utd wouldn't have fitted the bill. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. i'm sure our name must pop up in football quizzes from time to time off the top of my head i can't think of a longer one.

So 7-4 aggregate over three games

Nowt to do with your memory you just consistently post pure p1sh, any normal person would do some research at least if you weren't even at the game What an embarrassing mess!!!!! Dougal

Fair enough you could argue it is but it is one establishment I've not had the misfortune to enter in years Even in highland league days it seemed to attract some of the biggest roasters in Inverness Suppose it's a good place to store the cake ingredients though what with its catering facilities Dougal

Deano - it was never like this before the merger

Storeys last goal was 2nd Jan, vs the Scum, when he diverted a shot into the net, before that it was 29th Nov vs Ceptic, pretty shyte stats really! If Yogi thought he was going to be our saviour this season its not looking good. Which brings me to another gripe, Injuries. We have had so many injured, key players out this season i cant believe its just bad luck. Is it training systems or crap training facilities? but to have this many injuries is very mysterious, I've never known any Caley -thistle team to have this many players sidelined.

if we do not win today our top 6 place is over for the season

When the f*** are they gonna learn? Everyone's fed up of this s***! If you're gonna try and walk the ball into the net every week then you need to learn how to defend for 90 mins! One or twice is bad...we've dropped that many points from goals in the last 5 minutes that we could've been pushing hearts! Yogi has to get this sorted...and soon! We have to hope that hibs poor defence carries on next week other wise we could be in trouble!

Guilty consciences - the remorse they feel to previous offences must eat away at them not that they will ever admit it though of course As time goes on I don't even feel any empathy towards them just embarrassment Dougal