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  1. 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??
    4 points
  2. I think both keepers are pretty evenly matched. OFW certainly looking a safer bet right now given that we're actually getting to see him play and Brill has been out for some time. Mindful of Hughes saying that he couldn't offer Vincent a deal because of his injury record the same might apply for Brill. Deano however is unquestionably the more handsome of the two but OFW paints. It's a toughie...
    2 points
  3. Just back from Dundee - that game made my eyes bleed. Disappointed not to have held on, but given the chances Dundee wasted in the second half and the eccentric performance of the referee (more on that later) I will take a point. We looked in control in the first half, but still lack anything in the final third. Two wingers, but no actual striker didn't work today. I thought that Storey and Roberts worked hard, and once Fisher is back from injury it will be interesting to see if having a target gives us more of a threat. Draper showed how to finish a 1 on 1, but apart from that we didn't really test Bain. In the second half we started on the back foot and defended deeper and deeper. If it hadn't been for some pretty excellent saves from Fon Wiiliams, some good last gasp challenges by the defence and some frankly pathetic finishing by Dundee we could easily have lost that. Ironically, the goal came when it looked like we might just hold on. Yet more points surrendered late in the game. Positives were Fon Williams saves, Roberts and Storey worked hard and Tremarco had a pretty good game at left back - he seems to have found an attacking threat from somewhere. Negatives - time wasting from the point we scored, surrendering the iniative from the start of the second half, and sitting back and defending far too deep. I thought Dundee generally niggled, dived, acted and winged their way through the game. And that pitch was appalling- I've seen flatter tattie fields. And given they have had issues with water logging, who thought watering one end of the pitch at half time was a good idea? And now we come to the referee. This is the same clown that Yogi got banned for saying he was out of his depth. Well, he still is. About the only thing he got right was the Tremarco clash with Stewart - in so much that both players got the same punishment, but it could easily have been two reds instead two yellows. The rest of the time his decisions were baffling. And how the feck was that fat fecker Hartley not sent to the stand for catching the ball ( which was still in play) after Storey had skinned their full back?
    2 points
  4. No? That's good to know! Cheers
    2 points
  5. 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!
    2 points
  6. I see you have no takers. But I agree that these are just the sort of things we should have some info about, but don't. We don't because nobody knows although I would doubt we would get better trading terms with EU countries than we do now. Michael Gove has said that officials keep telling him that EU regulations mean he can't do certain things that the Government wants to do in line with manifesto commitments. If he, as Government Minister doesn't know the extent to which the EU impacts on everyday life, how on earth are we supposed to? I guess it comes down to a gut feeling about whether you feel the general principle of cooperation and increasingly closer political and financial union with our European neighbours is a good thing or not. On balance I think it is and so if the vote was today I would vote to stay in the EU. But I'm open to arguments which might give a good case to leave!
    1 point
  7. Jock Watt in average font size and successful attachment on the same post shock. And a piccy of Jock and Scarlet together
    1 point
  8. Mutombo got a knock in training on Friday and (as I understand it) a late decision was made not to risk antagonising it by including him in the squad. Don't think it's serious. Ferguson has had an ongoing issue which they have been working to resolve all season. He's been on a new course of physio treatment which I believe is going well and he's started back getting game time with the development squad.
    1 point
  9. Dundee are alot like us this season. Win one week and slip up the next. To be honest I am quite happy coming away from Dens park with a point. Yes I would have liked all three but the way Dundee came out in the second half it could have been alot worse for us. Alot of credit has to go to Fon Williams he made some wonderful save to keep it at 1-1. We have lot of players out at the moment and yet we are still picking up points which is good in my eyes.
    1 point
  10. Part of me hopes so, but I would have preferred 'anti-relegation management'
    1 point
  11. 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.
    1 point
  12. Nah, that was a McManus OG that one Alex!
    1 point
  13. Tonight, Sat 27 Feb, Dani Lopez scored again, his 3rd since Joining Arenas Club de Getxo, in a 2-1 win over Real Madrid (reserves). Pity he didn't score so regularly when he was with us!
    1 point
  14. Sat 27 Feb 2016 Scot Premier B Mckay (Ross Co 0 - Dundee Utd 3) SL1 R McAllister (Hat trick) (Peterhead 4 - Brechin 1) S Sutherland (Peterhead 4 - Brechin 1) EL1 S Winnall (Crewe 1 - Barnsley 2) Highland League M Laing (Inverurie 2 - Deveronvale 2)
    1 point
  15. Deano - it was never like this before the merger
    1 point
  16. On balance I would take a risk on Brill. In my view, while Fon Williams is a decent 'keeper, Brill is a better one.
    1 point
  17. 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.
    1 point
  18. Not sure Hughes encourages crossing, tbh. From what I've seen this season, he's much keener to play narrow and for the wider players to cut-in and retain possession rather than go on the outside and hit a cross (presumably becuase that gifts away possession more often than not). I don't subscribe to that philosophy because good crosses can creat goals (Tremarco against Motherwell, Roberts against Aberdeen, Williams against DU, as stated above). you need a bit of both to keep the opposition guessing. Vincent is a really importnat player for the style of football that Hughes plays - you need loads of movement to always have an out-ball and Vincent does that fantastically. His workrate is the highest in the team and it creates space for others. This has been missed when he is absent. That said, he has spent a lot of time on the treatment table, which is never attractive to managers. I still think (no evidence) that Hughes' comment about playing through knocks was aimed at Vincent; if the player thinks the same, a parting of the ways was inevitable.
    1 point
  19. I have heard tales that Dundee have far greater resources at their disposal, courtesy of their American backers (a good source tells me that Rory Loy is on £3k/week, for example!) and so I'm not surprised that they could offer higher wages to both. I like both Vincent and Williams, and I'd be disappointed if either left. However, part of my anxiety is that, whilst it's possible we could replace them with superior players (maybe, in Ryan Williams/Liam Hughes, we already have) they are proven commodities - we know what we are getting from both. Vincent, it must be remembered, was signed by Butcher for a particular role - to play in an advanced midfield position and bust a gut, doing the running so that the likes of Doran didn't have to. And he did that very well until that injury. When he came back, Hughes had come in and Vincent certainly took some time to adapt to the new style - but he has managed it and was playing well this season until he got injured again. He has a great engine and has a wonderful knack for being in the right place to pick up the second ball. The downside is very much the injuries - he's only played 67 games in 2 and a half years, which isn't great, and he has had too many periods where he has been unavailable for 2-3 months at a time. Williams is actually quite a limited player, but one who works so hard that he is a far greater asset than many naturally gifted contemporaries. And players with his sort of pace don't grow on trees. He does feel to me like a jack of all trades and master of none though - not quite good enough at beating a full-back or crossing to be an out and out winger, not quite robust enough for central midfield, not defensively savvy enough for left-back (though I thought he might grow into that role given time). But you can trust him to put in a shift and do the job he has been given. To lose either would be a shame. But neither are anywhere near irreplaceable.
    1 point
  20. 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.
    1 point
  21. I'm sure you would, but you can always hope that your reading age may, one day, progress to higher things.
    1 point
  22. Again, I have no issue with the Gellions running a bus, Dows running a bus....or even the health food shop on Baron Taylor Street running a bus! They're free to do that and we'll see if there's the demand across the support for it (which I'm not sure there is but we'll see). We all know how hard CJT find it to fill a bus at times, so surely if you're on the board of CJT, your job should be to fill it's bus. Attempting to run a bus for somewhere else would that would potentially harm the amount travelling on the CJT bus (and not to mention the missing out on revenue) so would undoubtedly be a conflict of interests. If you're on the CJT board, you're attention should be with the CJT bus. I don't think that's too much to ask.
    1 point
  23. It'll be interesting to see if any extra people start attending ICT away games as a result of the Gellions running the bus (and I'm skeptical there will be). If it was a cheaper option then they might attract a few, but not for £20. Again, we'll see how long this 'allies not rivals' mantra lasts. Could it not also reach the stage that our already small away support could disperse across both buses, thus meaning that neither bus reaches a quota allowing it to run? Only a matter of time IMO.
    1 point
  24. Indeed I was. I have no issue with with the Gellions (or anyone else) running their own bus. Allies not rivals? Really?! The Gellions were happy to waltz in when the Stirling bus kerfuffle was going and attempted to advertised itself as being different and essentially better (singing is allowed!). There's no doubt that one will take business away from the other and so forth. Someone on the board of CJT while also actively organising a bus for the Gellions has a conflict of interest and as far as I'm concerned in a dereliction of duty. Does the CEO of Coca Cola work part time making arrangements for Pepsi?
    1 point
  25. Why's someone who's wanting join the CJT board trying to run a rival bus?
    1 point
  26. 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!
    1 point
  27. If professional polling companies are making sufficient errors, for instance in their sampling procedures before the General Election, for these to make headlines, what chance do you have just by taking a flavour on a football forum or in the workplace etc? Pollsters often use samples as large as 1000+ which they go to great lengths to make representative of the electorate as a whole. So in the absence of such rigour, it's not surprising that you get the kind of "there's loads of boys at my work who say they won't go to the Caledonian Stadium" assertions which people like Dougal take to be as accurate as what they read in the Beano or the Dandy. Sampling is a very complex procedure, and I'm interested in Sneckboy's anecdote that every single one of the 32 unofficial club Scottish Referendum polls returned a yes. Here, and indeed on football forums, the typical, or rather disproportionate, demographic is indeed young, white, possibly predominantly working class males which voter analysis did indeed later show was where the bulk of supporters of separation originated from. Now I don't know whether robbylad's anecdotal flavour of the IN/OUT situation originates from a similar source or demographic. But if it does, then we have an interesting scenario. Because if similar population samples, albeit unrepresentative ones, are showing both support for Scottish separation and for European exit, then that might suggest that the SNP are barking up the wrong tree by adopting a European stance which is more contrary than they think to the views of their core support. The implications for any demand for a second Scottish referendum subsequent to a Scotland IN/ UK OUT scenario are also interesting, as is the question of how many INNERS would be annoyed enough at an OUT vote to be prepared to change their views on the Scottish question in order to remain in Europe under the highly altered scenario of a separate Scotland.
    0 points
  28. Why is it so difficult for the club to actually tell us what's wrong with our injured players? I have found the silence this season bizarre and a little bit insulting. Do any journalists even ask the question of the manager or do they not even know who any of our players are in the first place! Apart from the infamous diving Draper obviously. I get the whole siege mentally everybody hates us but we are the fans and shouldn't be excluded.
    -1 points
  29. You have to applaud the Gellions for starting such a venture. Inverness must be the only town/city till now that doesn't have a supported club running from a local boozer. Cant help thinking that caleyjagsforever must be silently seething not that they would admit it though Gives the day to day punter a choice which is a good thing Putting it simply if you want to bake cakes and sing shania twain songs you go with caleyjagsforever but if you want the traditional football experience you go with the gellions Dougal
    -1 points
  30. It actually costs CJT to run buses so I cant see how they are missing out on revenue
    -1 points
  31. if we do not win today our top 6 place is over for the season
    -1 points
  32. Even got on soccer am show boat I'm sure theirs lots more
    -1 points


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