Hiro

Good god. Another missed Penalty, this time Donaldson.

Poor result. Fringe players did themselves no favours against what was pretty much a Pars colt team.

1 hour ago, MorayJaggie said:

What chants other than your crap your pish or is that to extreme for you. To many happy clappers in our support willing to sit and just say well done next time. And folk saying it's the fans fault for a professional to have a bad performance are deluded. That's the problem the fan base doesn't show enough emotion. So feel free to confront us. And see who gets battered.

Some level of whataboutery here. You know fine well what the chants were. Criticism of a poor performance is all fine & well and go with the territory of being a professional footballer. However chants of personal nature about a players sister and family are completely unacceptable.  If you can't see that then perhaps you need to step away until you grow up a little bit.

0-0. Sounded like no Plan B after we struggled to break them down.  Can't understand why Doran was kept on bench for so long? No need for both Chalmers and Trafford in the centre of the park today.

HT: Falkirk 0-2 ICT

FT: Falkirk 1-2 ICT

Falkirk: Haber

ICT: Polworth

Att: 3895

27 minutes ago, Hiro said:

He deserves credit for turning things around over the last 6 months but Robbo has to carry the can for that one.  We were on an 18 game unbeaten run and the system was changed to something designed primarily not to hammered. We very much got what we deserved with that.

This defeat has further reaching consequences than just this 90 minutes.

1) the club has been deprived of much needed revenue from the next round particularly if we got a glamour tie that could have been shown on TV

2) how does this affect the players just a week from the season opener.

 

Home tie v Celtic we've missed out on. With TV that could be £50k of much needed ££ that we won't get.  Very frustrating, big performance required next week to get the season properly started

He deserves credit for turning things around over the last 6 months but Robbo has to carry the can for that one.  We were on an 18 game unbeaten run and the system was changed to something designed primarily not to hammered. We very much got what we deserved with that.

This defeat has further reaching consequences than just this 90 minutes.

1) the club has been deprived of much needed revenue from the next round particularly if we got a glamour tie that could have been shown on TV

2) how does this affect the players just a week from the season opener.

Had my concerns when I saw the team and they've been proved right.  Neither Trafford or Chalmers are doing anything defensively which means Hearts midfield are waltzing through.  White not pacy enough upfront so Hearts defence can stay high and squeeze us.  Change of shape needed now before this gets more embarrassing.

Decidedly dodgy start. Can't get a grip of the ball at all.

Surprised that Austin has been dropped to bench. Understand why we might put an additional midfielder in but Austin's mobility will be missed.  

I see we've just signed Sean Welsh.  File that one under odd.  I wonder of that means we have reservations over the fitness of Angus Beith.

Not sure where else to put this but I see that Highland Council is to award Colin Baillie the Freedom of the City of Inverness. 

Highland Council Announcement

A very well deserved accolade for someone who has put his heart and soul into improving the prospects of young people on Inverness, whether that be through teaching, Boys Brigade, Inverness Harriers or Rugby. 

I'm sure we all have plenty of stories but up until the age of around 16 I was terrified of the man.  Being hauled into his office for some form of misdemeanor was never fun even though by that stage he was mellowing.  Once you hit 5th year and became a 'young man' it was interesting just how much his attitude towards you changed and he eventually showed his softer side. A thoroughly decent man and one I'm delighted that has been bestowed this honour.

36 minutes ago, ictchris said:

I think these kits are great.  The home one reminds me of Genoa and Calgiari, away one is excellent.  I may even buy one.

Anyone know if they do baby kits?

They generally do for the home kit.  It's a full kit with sizes starting from around 12months

4 minutes ago, Alan Simpson said:

Your trying to tell me that fckin home top looks decent are you residing in new Craig's by any chance??

I've made no comment on your opinion so I'm not trying to tell you anything. 

14 minutes ago, Alan Simpson said:

Negative, negative,  something contrary.....

Fixed that for you.  You can just copy and paste it to the rest of your posts, it'll save you time.

Better images here.  Must say the away shirt is a belter and the home is far better than I initially thought. Definite grower.

1 minute ago, CaleyD said:

Youth's had Macron (generic) kit.

The Errea deal is for 4 minimum years.

Ah, that makes sense.  Need to get that young out of youth kit however.

Could be a potential change of manufacturer?  The club has put out an image of Daniel McKay officially signing his contract and I couldn't help notice he was in a Macron polo shirt with the ICT badge on it.   

1-0 full time.  We've taken it to the last day, can't ask anymore than that.

Still 0-0 though we're getting on top.  Should be winning this as Livi have rested most of their usual starters.

Deal for the stands fallen through?Perhaps our old benefactor has pulled another of his tricks to 'save' the club.......

9 minutes ago, johnnykanu12 said:

Pretty sure we got 400k for Niculae?!

€400k.  The club reported it as undisclosed but Dinamo Bucharest actually posted official documents publically onto their website after a dispute with us over releasing his registration.

9 hours ago, IBM said:

Come over for the weekend and take your son over for his first ICT cup final.

At the rate we're going it might be his only one never mind his first 

Not to say I hadn't given it thought though, he's just a little too wee.

Sensible location and date but the kickoff is a little odd.  There's no restrictions to showing a 3pm kickoff as its an international weekend so seems slightly random.  It may stop myself and others getting to the game. A 3pm kick off would let me fly into Glasgow/Edinburgh, get the train to Perth and then fly home same day.  Its probably not possible with that time. 

Interesting game, just a couple of things to talk about....

1st half

Odd start to the game.  Crusaders played some decent stuff for the opening 10 mins and we looked like a side who hadn't played in weeks.  Once we got to that mark we took control though.  Crusaders had actually started with a relatively conservative line-up with 1 up top and leaving Whyte & Owens on the bench. Despite this we were able to cut through at will with Polworth in particular finding pockets of space in which to play in Mulraney.  

I felt we were pretty wasteful at times and should have been 4 or 5 up by the time the half time whistle went. Even though we were dominating it was concerning how much space Crusaders were able to get down the right hand side of our defence. I lost count of the number of times Heatley/Murray found space in that channel.  I'd really like to see us move Mckay back inside to partner Donaldson and new right back. 

2nd half

Not sure what was said at half time but the team came out thinking the game was done.   No urgency at all and it bordered on being unprofessional. You can give Crusaders some credit for changing it up but if we play like that against a Championship team we will be on the receiving end of a shoeing.

The sending off was a little strange. I'm pretty sure that for his first booking it was Vigurs that committed a foul, it certainly wasn't Mckay. In saying that though the 2nd booking was monumentally stupid. The Crusaders bench unsurprisingly had a part to play in that, Baxter is known for his whinging and theatrics to refs. 

Player wise: Ridgers was excellent as was Polworth.  Donaldson was OK but seemed to spend time worrying about Warren.  Bell and Chalmers despite his goal had poor games.  Chalmers seems to let the game pass him by a little too much for my liking, never seems to take it by the scruff.   Mulraney was dangerous as ever although the final ball swung from outstanding to atrocious with nothing inbetween.  Oakley is a strange player, despite his size he can't win a header and struggles with his first touch.  However he's a lot quicker that I thought, has decent movement and runs the channels well. I' not sure what type of player he'd be best beside.

Glad to the win but we made hard work of it. If we hadn't held on we would be asking questions about the mental capacity of the side.

Pleasing first half.  They had a decent start but it's as comfortable as I had expected.  Polworth has been outstanding but thats partly a reflection of Crusaders naivety.