Bridge_Ender

Yesterday was one of the best football days I've ever had. From the journey down to the craic and banter at the Ship Inn (great effort by all involved there, cheers!) to watching the team play with complete freedom and score 7 in the process while backed by a large, noisy crowd just there for a party, topped off by the pitch invasion at the end and Terry coming out to cheer with the crowd. It really reminded you what following a team is all about and makes all the bad days worth it when you can enjoy days like yesterday! Huge well done to all involved and here's to keeping the party going next week!

SFL have confirmed it will be Inverness for sure.

They are a Senior side who play non league football. Senior teams are all full members of the SFA which is what you have to be to be in the Highland League and (I think) East of Scotland and South of Scotland leagues. Junior clubs would have to become senior clubs and join the SFA should they ever want to be play in the SFL, hence the touchy subject of junior sides playing in the Scottish Cup which some smaller Senior clubs believe hurts them financially as they go through the process and pay the fees to be members of the SFA while Junior sides can now wander in, like Irvine Meadow this year, and get a big game and the financial windfall while adding nothing to the Senior game. ;-)

They aren't a senior club Yes they are, same as everyone else in the Highland League. They just don't play in the Scottish League. Encouraging piece though and nice to see Foran is looking to stay, from the tone of the article anyway. Would imagine the Celtic 'rumour' stems from the fact it is a Dublin paper and their focus on Scottish Football will be predominantly linked to what happens at Parkhead? Contract renewals must surely be the highest priority for the board and management at the club now?!

Job done! Incredible achievement really, quite astounding. Doing it whilst playing the right kind of football as we used to enjoy under Pele too. Fantastic season!!

Nothing much... :P

tick tick tick.....!!!!!!!!!!

How about for when the teams are coming out? Gotta be timed well so the players are just emerging at the 59 seconds mark!

Just a thought, with absolutely no background knowledge or info, but is the terracing definitely available and not condemned or anything? It's a pretty old ground with not much, if any, investment over the last few years. Can't find anything on the Ayr site about it one way or the other.

Was great to see McBain yesterday and even better to see him play so well. Also think he'll slot in at left back next Saturday and put in a great shift there too. It possibly may be his final appearance though unless he gets a run out in the final game or Butcher has a huge change of heart. Heard a rumour he's agreed to move over to County and good luck to him if he does, he's been a absolutely tremendous player for ICT over the years.

We only need 10? That's belief for you!

Absolutely brilliant!

From the Club site: The total Stadium cost was to be just short of ?5 million and a complex web of mutually dependent funding relied on the Council releasing the ?900,000. On Monday December 19th (1995) a final vote secured the funding. A condition was the incorporation of Inverness into the Club name, a matter already considered at the Members' Club meeting the previous June. The first competitive game as ICT was an extra time League Cup defeat away to Clyde with a total of 5 league games played at Telford Street as Inverness CT.

Dundee won't lose today but can well see Morton drawing with them. County will potentially drop points at Airdrie who had a great result on Wednesday and will try to keep that going while I think, understandably, County have their eye on other things now. Today may well be the day but Dunfermline aren't going to get anything from, particularly with Munro and Cox out of the side. A draw wouldn't be catastrophic but with those 2 out of the side we are missing two very hard working defensive players who probably don't get the credit they deserve. I don't think anything will be be decided for sure today (quite happy to be proved wrong though!)

If Savage bought into Clach maybe HC could use him to put down a 3g surface at Clach Park instead of paying back whatever ?000's Clach owe HC? A community facility at an established football ground which could make money through the week at evenings and weekends as well as providing training facilities for ICT, Clach and potentially also a home for Inverness City. Social club would very probably become a viable business again so facilities such as these are major income generators for the 5 a side companies, for example. Makes sense to me.

Don't particularly care about his past record... He's doing the business for us and on the verge of achieving something truly remarkable - promotion from Division One at the first attempt. Really do not understand what people hope to achieve by being negative and knocking things constantly...

SPL is the only place to be as far as football and the future of the club is concerned. Division 1 has been enjoyable this season, or since November rather, as we have been playing good football and winning matches. If we had maintained our poor start to the season and had been out of the running for promotion a couple months back would anyone be enjoying Division 1? I doubt it!! Division 1 has been fun this season but that's simply because we are winning regularly and showing good football IMO. The matches are still over priced, the stadiums are half empty and often decrepit, the quality of the football in general is pretty poor and the food/catering is pretty ropey at best in a lot of cases. If we don't go back up this year we'll lose a lot of the players responsible for our entertaining football and as a few people have stated above, a long term rot will set in. As far as the future of full-time professional football is Inverness is concerned, it's a total no brainer. It is vital ICT are a regular SPL club.

Think it was 10 games you had to be involved in and I'm sure he played more than that so I guess he would be entitled to one. 15 appearances, 13 in the league yielding 3 goals, 2 in the cup and 1 in the league according to Soccerbase.

Don't imagine a single Football Club in the UK arranges supporters buses to games, bar the odd one off special occasion. That is what Supporters Clubs are essentially for I would argue. It is advertised but I dont believe it is as well advertised as it could be. Again, we are happy to display any information the supporters club send us about this service or any other events (which Kath normally posts herself in the forum). Had a wee look for where it is advertised and can't find anything on this site bar travel directions to TCS. I don't buy a match programme and don't recall seeing posts on here regarding it, which to me would be the logical place on the only ICT fans site. Not a criticism of CTO in any way as it is up to the bus organisers (Supporters Club) to promote it. A simple sticky post every time a bus is running is surely not a big ask from them. It would possibly get more people to join the Supporters Club if the service was more widely known about with knock on effects for attendance at fund raising events if it wasn't the same members being aware of events every time?

I went on the bus years ago in Division 3 and 2 days. Moving away from the area, etc. meant I no longer used it after that. Was a great service then, even with the Perth stops which just became part of the journey. Think that was probably before the ban on alcohol on buses as there certainly were a few beers sunk on the bus then, particularly when the 'cage' buses were running (small downstairs area at the rear of the bus)!! It's a great service for those who use it and I can't imagine it'll cease to exist as there was a bus before this Cath lady ran it and I'm sure there will be one after it. I don't mean that to sound like I'm belittling her efforts, I simply don't know her! Having said that, JDM makes a good point about it being poorly advertised. I couldn't find out how to get in touch about it for the Morton game either and ended up making alternative arrangements before the late minibus was arranged. A simple forum post or even a match programme advert would be something for the next organiser to consider.

Oooft. Bet you were up all night thinking up that one, lol.

Anyone heard if the West 'Stand' will be open for this one? Whatever happens it should be a full house!

I think County will dominate the local news for the next wee while after yesterday. Which suits me just fine as it takes the spotlight and the subsequent media pressure off of us and lets us get on with winning this league without extra scrutiny.

I think our result, but only just. Simply because it was the first and put Highland, and more importantly Inverness, football on the map. Take nothing away from County today, couldn't see the game as I was at work but by all accounts they deserved it. Absolutely delighted a team from the Highlands has reached the Final for the first time, pretty gutted it wasn't us though as we have certainly had the opportunities in the past. I definitely won't be going to Hampden to support them but I'll probably watch it on the TV and if they win it fair play to them. It won't bother me too much, as long as we win the league and get back to the SPL. County's cup run has kinda put their place in Scottish football in perspective for me, they are still very much the wee club from the North and seem to enjoy playing up to that Community club/small time team coverage which the media are falling over themselves to give them. Very reminiscent of ourselves after the first Celtic result although ICT are well past that stage by a good few years now.

As it stands 69 points will win us the league. That's the absolute maximum County and Dundee can reach. Having a cushion of 16 goals on Dundee and 25 on County may well prove to make the difference and if Morton take anything from County and Dundee this week we could effectively be Champions next Saturday as a draw for either would mean they could reach 67 and if we beat Dunfermline we'll be on to 67. Basically, the games this Tuesday (Morton - County) and next Saturday (Morton - Dundee) make what is happening in Greenock almost as important as what is happening in Inverness. As Sir Awex says, squeaky bum time...