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3 minutes ago, TopSix said:

Create an account! 

No need.  I'm listening on a PC, and I don't have an account with either Twitter or Periscope.

Just go to https://twitter.com/ICTFC and click on the image in the tweet which says "updated link for live audio".  

So, what would your tactics be?  

Two-goal advantage, so an early goal for us would just about kill it. 

But an early goal for them would make it a very long afternoon, so you don't want to leave it open at the back while you're going for that goal. 

But you also don't want to hang back and let them come onto us - that's dangerous.

Or, since you can't tell which ICT team will turn up - the motivated, confident team or the disorganised shambles - do you just say "Keep it tight and keep moving forward"?

9 minutes ago, caleyboy said:

 it's about time the inverness football community got together and build from the foundations up.

Agreed, although I am sure that there will still be local opposition.

I don't know how far back you go, but in HL days it was like George Orwell's "1984", in which there are three superpowers, with two always allied and at war with the third.  But the allies and enemies are constantly changing.

In Sneck, whichever two teams that weren't doing so well would float the idea of a merger to go into the Scottish League. But the team which was doing best would say "No way!  We will do that on our own.". 

And so nothing happened for a long time, until 1994.

1 minute ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

Putting individual loyalties aside (smile) why don't Clach conjoin with Caley Thistle and form a really solid, successful, upwardly mobile unit

I'm sure the idea of Clach as a feeder team for Caley Thistle was around back at the time that CT was created.   It could still make sense, although the question of how closely they would "conjoin" would come up.  I assume you mean that they would still compete in the HL.

Many people would want Clach to retain their own identity and ground.   Selling their ground for redevelopment might be an obvious idea, but to me it doesn't appear to be ideally located for either residential or commercial development.

I suspect that the current Board at ICT has enough to do in working out how to keep the club afloat, without spending time considering the pros and cons of a merger with Clach.  But if someone is working on long-term planning, then it should certainly be an option to be considered.

5 hours ago, Jack Waddington said:

Would they be playing at the TCS or a groundshare with Clach?

What would it do to the pitch if two teams were playing frequently on it?  And it would require the Highland League and the SPFL to liaise over scheduling of fixtures.   

OTOH, Clach would want money for a groundshare....

But I've read the P&J article, and it all makes sense.  Keeping the lads together instead of loaning them out, and taking part in a competitive league, would be great if we could somehow pull it off.

2 hours ago, Scotty said:

Great Idea. We have always said this site is a fans' resource so happy to feature anything that is of use or of interest to fans. it does not just have to be previews and reports. Away day info or guides would definitely fall into that category. 

A friendly gesture would be to include a section for fans of away teams visiting Inverness.   Edit: sorry, have just seen you said "could include home as well".

First thing I would do would be to look and see if other clubs have done their own guides - might save you some work, although you could add any information particularly relevant to ICT fans  (eg "IHE is banned from this pub").

Hmmm - a quick search for "fans guide to scottish football grounds" has thrown up these - don't know how good they are:

https://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/scottish-spl-premier-and-football-league-clubs.html

https://www.scottishgrounds.co.uk/

https://footballtripper.com/europe/scotland/

1 minute ago, Satan said:

Penalty...

Scored!  Jordan White can walk on water...

1 minute ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

He is listed on the BBC site

He wasn't when he came on - they have just now updated it.

2-1 now.

May need to keep that up our sleeve in case we need to claim the match

Ayr have just brought on McCowan (?sp), whom the Beeb say is not listed on the teamsheet.

Can someone please check if he was on the teamsheet handed in to the referee?   (I assume that this is still done.)

Sounds like we got a break there - but it's 2-0!

Love the way the BBC commentary team has had to change tack and acknowledge that there is another team as well as Ayr on the park.

25 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Here's hoping we take a decent lead home...

...especially given our home record.   5 league wins out of 18.

3 minutes ago, WYNESS101 said:

If the Highland or Lowland team wins the final, they are promoted to League Two, with the team finishing 10th being relegated to either the Highland or Lowland league.

Aye, but how do you interpret that?  It's ambiguous.  Common sense says that a relegated team goes into the geographically-closer league, but as Kingsmills says, the problem with common sense is that it's all too often uncommon!

Would surely go into the Lowland League, restoring it to 16 teams after Selkirk resigned in August.  Leaving the Highland League - not for the first time - with an odd number of teams.

My wife's Stenny-supporting relatives will be having squeaky bum time at Brechin just now.

If Stenny win or draw, they end up 9th, and Brechin go down.  Brechin win, and it's the other way round.

Stenny were 1-0 up, but Brechin equalised and Stenny have had a man sent off.   Classic last-day drama.

1 hour ago, Jack Waddington said:

Interesting to note that the Adult North Stand goes up by £13 outwith the EB Offer, whereas the Main Stand goes up by £16 outwith it...

And the Senior goes up by £13 for main stand, but £9 up for the North.

Would've thought they'd be consistent in price increases...

They are - all just over 5%.

46 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

The club is heading for exactly the level it should be at based on the attendance figures it gets compared to others in Scotland. Its a fact we should all get used to. Until some bluesky thinking is shown and something to engage the people then we will end up stalling at our natural level. ... The club through various administrations seems to successively get further away from the community each time, the matchday experience is getting less fulfilling each season and the catering and overall facilities are dropping in quality. 

So the obvious thing - I'm teaching Grandma to suck eggs here - is to look at what other clubs do.  I've just returned from a visit to Scotland, where my wife's relatives regaled me with tales of how wonderful the new chairman at Stenhousemuir is, and what he has done for the club. Making a small profit, 6 or 7 of the first team squad already signed up for next season even though they may well go down, lucrative advertising around the pitch, shirt sponsors for the next four seasons, and so on.  (I'm leaving the artificial pitch out of this, since it's so controversial. It's not new anyway - but it has brought in money for them over the years.)

Our new CEO, if he still stays in Edinburgh, is ideally placed to see what Central Belt clubs like Stenny - who have local rivals, just like we do with Ross County - do to keep going.  In fact, thanks to geographical distance and also the difference in league positions, the likes of Stenny shouldn't see ICT as direct competition.  So I don't see why we can't actually approach the Chairmen of clubs like that and say "Can we come and talk to you?".

In addition, the ICT fans who live in the Central Belt may see things that our Board in the Highlands don't.  If you see any ideas that might work for ICT, feed them in to the club.  (Or to the Supporters' Trust, although I see no sign of what it is doing at the moment.)

Some of the things are obvious - bdu98196 mentions some above - but some might not be so obvious.  And I think there is a difference between keeping the club financially viable - a problem to be solved every day - and establishing the club within the community, which is a much longer term activity.  I hope the Board recognises that and is planning for both.

Thanks!  A wee bit before my time 

49 minutes ago, Tichy_Blacks_Back said:

An article that links an Inverness Thistle connection to one of this week's Champions league semi final pairings 

OK, I give up.      Neither Spurs nor Thistle ever won the European Cup?   Thistle used Ajax to clean the team bath?

Well done, lads!   Level on points with Ayr, but 5 goals behind on GD.   Ayr at home to Alloa next Saturday.

Ayr now winning 2-1, so we need to win too.

1 minute ago, jed5697 said:

No shots on target in the first half. I would like to think that is addressed in the second half. 

By replacing Polworth with Austin? 

And Ayr have equalised, so we are now one point behind them.  Time to get the finger out...

Partick 1-0 up on Ayr puts us into 3rd place by one point - but it's vital that we pick up all three today.

Laurence, Kingsmills was in no way attacking your credibility.

He was pointing out that, contrary to your statement that the Bradford City fire had never been investigated, that had in fact been done by the Popplewell Inquiry.

You may well have critical views on that inquiry - many people do - but you can't wipe it from history!

50 minutes ago, MorayJaggie said:

He's been playing in the U.S on loan for past two seasons.

Duh. Of course. Senior moment here