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Always agree with you Scarlet!

You're a wise old man.

Just like maself!!!

Robbo - he was the manager when I first came onto this forum to share my wisdom.

Ah well, here we go again, just for old times sake:

I am optimistic about this appointment. Robbo knows his football and I don't believe he has been out of touch.

He was new to management when he first joined us, yet his notable success resulted in Hearts poaching him.

He's gained a few years' experience since then, so hopefully he'll produce the goods.

Incidentally it was refreshing to note that The Worm's recent visit to Inverness didn't attract any ill-guided speculation and rumour about his interest in the vacancy. He ain't interested!!!

I don't think it's bitter at all - just honest.

And I always had the impression that JH was an honest guy.

I suspect it'll be many years before ICT reach the heights that he took us to and I'll always remember him for those achievements - undoubtedly our best manager so far!

And didn't he achieve his highest finish in Scottish football when he was with us?

For a while ICT was good for John Hughes and John Hughes was good for ICT.

Don't forget that!

16 hours ago, 12th Man said:

Locally we can beat the 3.68% national average.

 

That's nothing!

Ross County can bring 150% of the population of Dingwall to a Cup Final!

I think there's an extremely bad parenting issue in this story, which no-one seems to have acknowledged!

They should take a look at that fellow MacIntyre - he seems to be doing no bad.

Dunno if United could match his wages though!

He's going to Liverpool!

I still see football as a bit of a tribal thing. You know, local lads playing with passion for their home-town team.

For this reason, and the fact that he's a competent enough player, I'm sorry to see him go.

There's few enough local lads in the team as it is.

I'm always amused by the way the M-word in a post inspires the Red Mist in one or two posters!!

To answer the OP's question, I was against the merger and I was in seventh heaven when ICT won the cup.

Being against the merger didn't stop me supporting the merged team - to me they were just Caley with a bit of baggage added on!

Others I know who were against the merger feel the same, while others just don't care. There are a few I know who detest the merged team and will have nothing to do with them at all, yet they were passionate Caley supporters back in the day. It's hard to believe that they wouldn't be even a wee bit moved by the Cup win, but there you go. Hope this answers your question!

A lot of huns greetin!

Can we PLEASE stop going on about a few grumpy guys from 20 years ago, half of whom come to games anyway, half of whom have left Inverness, and a further half of whom are no longer with us - while the rest meet in a blue and white telephone box on Telford Street or a black and red one on Kingsmills Road!

 

Anyone out there who has chosen not to follow a route which has taken Inverness football from a century of going nowhere in the Highland League to Europe and the Scottish Cup Final in 21 years is perfectly entitled to take that view. But it's equally clear that their absence hasn't exactly been a handicap.

In fact you could almost argue that once that kind of Luddite mentality departed, the scene was suitably set for real progress to be made.

 

Now if we could perhaps set Dougal's wind-up aside and focus on Hampden Park in less than 48 hours' time.....

Hang on now, has anyone actually mentioned any of this??

Except, of course, one Mr Charles Bannerman who clearly revels in the old Merger debate!

Move on Mr. B., let it go!!!

And yes, it IS becoming entertaining!

But hang on. Let's not rise to Dougal's bait. 

Hmmm!!

Would you believe it - another merger thread!!??

Well, they never achieve much but at least they're entertaining!

Just hope we can afford to keep him!

Quite often.

So there you go, County1966, nothing to worry about!!!

He is an ideal manager for a club with a tight budget, where the players are not superstars, and have something to prove.

He will bring out the best in them, so long as they remain subordinate to him. His way is the only way.

He does not have such a great record in bigger clubs where the players are less likely to look up to him.

I think he requires complete subservience from his players, which is consistent with IHE's cut-and-paste (above), to succeed.

Any rebellion or revolt and he will fail.

It wasn't a miss, it was a save.

I spent a bit of time watching him yesterday to see how he fitted in with the rest of the team.

At the moment he doesn't, well, not very well anyway!

He can't yet match the intensity of the passing game that Yogi has championed, which is quite understandable as the rest of them have had a whole season to fine tune it.

He strikes me as lazy too, or maybe not fully match-fit.

He does seem to be getting more aware of what's expected of him though and yesterday there were wee flashes of teamwork from him, something I haven't really noticed previously.

Still, if he can bumble around for 90 minutes and score a goal a game, that's good enough for me.

Keep him!

 

I always had a soft spot for Celtic as they were my boyhood "Big Team".

Not any more!

That was about as low as they could get, and I can't see how I can now consider them with anything but contempt.

Fortunately justice was done today and a major embarrassment to Scottish football averted.

Ironic thread title! There are plenty Inverness fans who have never had any affiliation for either of that pair.

Your casual reference of supporting Celtic but have changed to ICT suggests too much time interchanging clubs on a PC game - rather than having to literally live out the reality of supporting a wee club like us versus the sickening institution that is Celtic. The religion, bigotry, self-righteousness, and many more unmentionables, make that club one of whom nobody can be proudly associated. There is simply a HUGE cultural divide!

It is inconceivable to me that one day, you support Celtic, but the next, Caley Thistle!

 

Damn - musta been sitting at the wrong end!

Although I've generally enjoyed your posts Sneckboy, I am aware the vitriol is not far below the surface! But hey, even vitriol is entertaining!

I assume from your rhetoric that you're young and weren't a fanatical Caley supporter in the mid 1960s, like what I was.

Like many from that era I now despise the Old Firm, but hate one just a little more than the other.

Eventually I'm sure you'll grow up and be a wise and pleasant gentleman like myself!!!

I always had a soft spot for Celtic as they were my boyhood "Big Team".

Not any more!

That was about as low as they could get, and I can't see how I can now consider them with anything but contempt.

Fortunately justice was done today and a major embarrassment to Scottish football averted.

Falkirk will be much happier to have us than Celtic in the Final.

We have a pitiful record against them and the Cup is by no means won yet!

I just hope we're not complacent.

He's no the first top-scoring Caley player called Billy to end up at Wigan!!

 

Not really as I've never been wrong.

 

           Wrong again!!!!

Not ironic but a big surprise that it is Caley D's comment that has brought the older fogies like Buckett  back to life and back on here. I miss these former  regular posters and the challenges they posed.   Ha! Ha!  Good to see you posting again and you won't return to OOR WULLIE's seat  too soon again.

 

Sometimes a bit of extreme audacity screams for a reply!

Old fogie indeed! Thanks Scarlet!!   

Come on people....there's no shame in admitting when you're wrong 

How ironic that CaleyD of all people should make a statement like that!!!