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Not going. Too expensive, impossible kick off time and a distinct hate of being ripped off. We play Celtic 3/4 times a year, it's nothing special. If the club want to squeeze every penny, fine. Will watch it on Sky. TiredOfBeingRippedOffICTSC

Fraser is potentially a great ICT keeper. If he is half as good as Campos we will all be singing his name from the rooftops. Watch this space as far as 'Ike' is concerned.

Not exactly a big name signing but I reckon it would be a good one for our needs. Bullocks pretty experienced, ok he isn't the best but he's not shocking either. Mike stays as first choice but he does need experienced competition and Bullock would provide that. I'd be happier knowing Bullock was on the bench than Jon Smith, for the simple reason he has experience and is proven at this level

Really not too bothered about Dods leaving... he wasn't particularly brilliant when he joined us, alright, he's had a couple good seasons here but he's been surrounded by solid defenders and a top notch keeper. I'd be more worried if Munro or Hastings left to be honest. As for conflict of interest, absolutely. McCaffrey has to play in the cup game and if he does well, keep his place. An ideal opportunity for Charlie to prepare for next season and have a valid excuse for dropping Dods. Opportunities have to be given to those guys who are staying. What do we gain from keeping him in the team?

Hastings physical presence?! Caff surely has more of a presence than Hastings! t Tokely has struggled so much recently we should be looking a new right back, never mind trying to accommodate him in a position where his mistakes would be even more obvious and taken advantage of.....

Whatever happened to the Tennents Sixes? Did anyone here ever go to one? I'm watching Indoor football on Eurosport at the moment and it seems like a good day out, loadsa football, family focus, fans nip away for a beer between matches, all good fun. Something that would be a good end of season event I'd say, in the SECC, a couple a pitches set up and a good days end of season football with focus on fun. Bit of a fun day for fans and players both

... has apparently signed for us. BBC Football Gossip

Atmosphere on Saturday was great, as I've said already. We must have the most pedantic supporters in the Scotland, not content with trying not to be tagged with Rangers we have to deny any involvement with either one of Caley or Thistle for fear of upsetting anyone. Also within the PC brigade we have those who reckon our fans can be too loud, scare the kids, if you sing you're a casual... etc.... etc... I don't really sing at games, used to in lower league games when most of the chants then were Caley based. Since that group has dispersed over the last few years (pre-BENI or whatever that annoying guy with the drum decided to call it) the PC brigade has taken over and we seem to have this confused identity of a family club who want a great atmopshere but no loud shouting or swearing, thank you very much... Is it any wonder attendances are down?? Who would want to go to Caley Park after reading threads like these?!

I'd take Levein or Burley. Whole thing leaves me a bit disillusioned with Scotland..... again....!

I'm sure he played and maybe even coached with Utd in the 80's. I'd be gutted if Smith chooses Rangers, and it looks like he will. F**k him, he's gonna make his bed and when it implodes around him, as it will, he has to lie in it. It ain't the 1990's, with Celtic flirting with going out of business, Murray throwing the megabucks around, players way above the Scottish league standard coming to play here because of the ££££. It's a different league Walter and one you will be able to do sweet FA in with this Rangers squad. 3/4 years turnaround perhaps but would he get that amount of time? Nae Chance!

Thought they were good craic, was sitting near them and definitely an improvement on other games I've been to. Lads were up for a laugh, sang and enjoyed themselves. If people didn't like them, then move... Also, if you're complain about singing 'inappropriate' songs then maybe you need to decide whether football grounds are the best place to go? I'm sure we did sing 'the Caley boys' to tune of 'Billy Boys'. Not heard it for years though which probably isn't a bad thing given the alignment with Rangers... Wasn't it a Caley favourite pre-merger if I remember right?

Great result, team looked up for it, happy tonight! Here's hoping it ain't a flash in the pan, congrats to everyone involved tonight!

Tedious, yes. Topical, definitely. I've said my piece already, let's see how CC goes over the next month or so. If the slump continues and the quotes remain similar, I seriously don't see a future for Charlie as manager. Which would be a helluva shame.

"We should enjoy the moment because for 100 years we didn’t have this. It’s amazing how quickly people have taken it for granted." Agree with that, but not to stop striving to be better. “The best thing we could have done is avoided relegation by one point in our first season and two points in the next." Bullsh1t. That shows no ambition. You could argue realism but it really isn't what you want to hear the manager say. "Too many can lean towards wanting to be better, rather than remembering how well we’ve done,” he complains." Complaining that we want to get better?! Hopefully that is just the journo's take. “It’s the Highland mentality, disappointingly, that there are as many people wanting me to fall flat on my face as take this club on." The Highland mentality, IMO, is settling for much less than you are entitled too and is borne out by everyone with any ambition always having to leave the area as Inverness/the Highlands have traditionally been totally devoid of any real opportunities. So Charlie thinks the Highland mentality is to knock things down? I think anyone with any ambition gets support, Charlie is arguing that he isn't getting enough praise but see's avoiding relegation by 1 point as success?? Bad article for CC, if he is reading this he'll probably ignore this and keep thinking the world is against him. I'm proud of where ICT are and how quick we got here but this isn't the limit of our ambitions. We're as good and potentially as big as 3/4 of the clubs in this league, if Charlie is gonna keep with the small town attitude then he probably hasn't got the ambition to take us further.

Positives: Didn't lose, Dunfermline haven't made up any ground on us Negatives: Sounded like complete garbage, draw a much better result for Dunfermline than us... Survival is now the focus for the season.

The SPL and the Premiership are light years apart and to compare them nowadays is just impossible. Our peers really are the Dutch, Belgian, Swedish, Portugese leagues and I'd say we perform quite well compared against them. As for takeovers/investments... A Premiership club increasingly seems to be the fashionable plaything of the ultra wealthy. A high profile opportunity to raise their own stock, make new contacts, an ultra expensive hospitality box if you like!! If I was a Chelsea/Man U/Liverpool etc fan at the moment I'd be more than a bit concerned about what the future holds once the Premiership is no longer fashionable. Remember how good the Serie A was a few years ago? The same decline will happen to the Premiership. It's just a lot easier (apparently!) to buy an English club then anywhere else in Europe...

I don't think of Black as a promising youngster anymore, he's a first teamer now, IMO. Zander Sutherland seems to be the most talented of the youngsters. I really rate Rory McAllister as an potentially a great old fashioned centre forward, a much more skillful (and clinical) version of Bayne if you like. Mike Fraser seems to be a pretty competent keeper too. If these guys realise their potential then we possibly have the backbone to the team for the next few years.

Don't see a problem with him speaking out, I'm sure he's spoken to CC and he has obviously just responded to a journo who has aske dhow he feels about being regularly subbed. No problem really, didn't take a rocket scientist to work out he would be pissed off at being continually subbed. Think Charlie has to realise he is our biggest goal scoring threat and perhaps start hooking Bayne at the 60 minute mark for the trickier Wyness or the more skilled McAllister. Never understood why with 20 mins to go the paciest player and top scorer is taken off and slower players with poorer goal ratios are put on...

Of course they are entitled to their privacy and unless they do something which attracts attention then that should be respected. However, in this country anyone coming into professional football has to be aware, and accept, that the press are continually on the look out for 'dirt' on them. It's just the nature of the industry and something players need to be clever to avoid being caught in it. I work in the licensed trade and I don't have anything in my job description which says that if a fight breaks out in my club I need to get involved in breaking it up. But my staff and I help out the stewards, if they need it, because it is expected of us within the industry. I think the same thing goes with media attention in football, it is just expected that it will happen and players have to deal with it.

Of course players are entitled to a private life. I don't understand why this shouldn't be discussed though... Tokely is in a public position and like it or not, when he misbehaves it is newsworthy. Whatever happened it appears 1 thing is clear, Tokely has over reacted aggressively to a situation. I say that because I have never heard of Sandy Grant, a respected businessman, getting involved in a public slanging match while Tokely does have reputed' previous' in such matters. What the argument is about is pretty much irrelevant and I'd imagine will be dealt with internally. Bottom line, IMO, is that anyone in a public position should watch their step when out and behaving in anyway which attracts negative attention, which this undoubtedly has, has to be addressed by the club. Besides, if I ever got into a public slanging match with my boss I'd expect to be severely reprimanded if not fired...

What was wrong with the long ball is that we became predictable, defenders knew all they had to do was nullify Brewster and suddenly we were toothless. It just wasn't effective IMO. ICT up until his arrival had always been a passing team for me and suddenly all we were doing was throwing high balls up to Brewster. No wonder people stopped going to watch us and performances were completely rightly slated for being boring. Also, since when has the long ball ever 'brought a bit of gloss'?? Or do you mean Brewster himself??!!

Agreed. If he was as good as everyone makes out why had he the illustrious club list of Dundee Utd, Ionikos (who??!) and Dunfermline on his CV? His tactics were 1 dimensionsal, all aimed at hitting long ball up to him and either him scoring or Drago feeding off the scraps. Good player, effective at his one trick, yes. Great, no. If the club allow him to play again for us I'd be considering whether I would go watch and support a ICT team with Brewster in it after the way he treated the club. Have some self respect ICT and tell him to Get tae feck.

Jonathan Smith or James Calder I'd imagine. Don't really know much about either of them tbh, except that the one time I saw Smith play he looked tiny!

With the gas pipe still there no 'heavy' structure can be put down, I'd guess, so only something similar to what we have at the North and South ends would be allowed? That rules out offices, sports facilities, etc, surely? It would be great to build a multi purpose stand with office space, gym, corporate facilities, proper press boxes/camera points, shops and even a bar but I don't think it can happen until the gas pipe is moved...

Mark Brown has been selected for the Scotland B squad to play ROI in Dublin on Tuesday. Paul Gallacher is the other keeper in the squad. A big opportunity for Mark with a few A squad players (Webster, Scott Brown, Boyd, Maloney) in there so looks like Uncle Walter is really looking to decide which of his fringe players can make the step up to regular squad players. Bit surprised to see Boyd in there mind... The 2nd and 3rd keepers jerseys must be up for grabs??