Scarlet Pimple

John Robertson must have suffered a lot this season and he certainly tried very hard.

Therefore award John the Managership again ,and soon, to make it clear to him that he is appreciated. Bring in new management after such a disappointing season would seem to me to be premature. After all,what has J R done wrong? He sweated blood for the team and only got angry when it was clear that terrible refereeing was about to blow him and his best efforts away.

Perhaps the best course is to assemble videos of all the crap refereeing and then request a meeting with the beaks with the view expressed that ICT can play a big part  in the development of better quality decisions. NO SCREAMING, NO VITRIOLIC REMARKS ,,JUST PLAIN ,CALM ,SOLID COMMON SENSE. THEY WOULD HAVE TO LISTEN WOULD THEY NOT?  If they didn't, JR could publicise this as one of the reasons the team was sunk before they started.

ETC.,

WEll…...at least it would have to be with Satan in charge! Of course that  then raises the ugly thought of what we would have to do with John R.

 Hostility would then be part of the ticket price and would waken up all the fans who proclaim to be supporters but have rarely showed up this last season.

Good or bad, one can be better than nothing.

Since the footie is now finished here is  something completely different for you to muse over If you are thinking of  emigrating from Scotland to Canada you will need to be reasonably well-off with the prospects of a good job being quite excellent because the cost of housing alone here is daunting? But you can hitch hike and thumb for lifts as you cross the country except that that process might take you many months. With a family that option is a non starter though.

The following news article comparatively sums up the two main cities in Canada re costs of renting an apartment within their environs  and that alone should give you cold feet. Except that, outside those two cities, costs are less depending on whether you opt for a city job elsewhere or just want to work anywhere, including the country towns etc. To put it to you straight there are many Provinces situated over a huge territory of West to East of well-over 2000 miles and ,eventually, you might find your niche . Bring money with you of course and if you have a family you will need to chose your spot carefully to ensure the kids go to good schools.

Nevertheless this is a country where nobody generally gives a coon's ass from whence you come. Racism is at a very low minimum. For one thing we all have to get along to make the process work and people who look different to you  are often very interesting and have some great immigration stories to tell you. If  you live  just outside Vancouver and you ask another Canadian where he or she comes from the answer might just  be "Burnaby "or "West Vancouver"  (two municipalities within the city boundary.)Smile. Except if you get to know them well then they know what you are wanting as an answer etc. And in any case nobody cares a hoot from whence you originated because we have all been immigrants at one time in the past  ( a great leveller) and all of us have come from somewhere because of the circumstances that stifled us in our home countries probably, or just a wanderlust in our minds. There is no doubt , however, that this is a land of opportunity and if you are not a hard worker the odds of success may well be  minimal...!

https://www.straight.com/news/1242951/two-bedroom-apartment-listings-vancouver-are-now-neighbourhood-3000-month

This photograph is of Burrard Inlet where all the sea traffic, tankers ,etc., enter the Port of Vancouver from the Pacific Ocean to the right of the picture. Sea planes also regularly fly in and out of this part of the ocean.

Now , as for rents well, they simply have paralleled the cost of house building in the city and these prices are very high nowadays compared to when I arrived here. You can convert the Canadian dollars that are quoted in this article by dividing the quoted sum by today's exchange rate ,   1.66 ,  to yield the amount in pounds. Salaries are generally high to counter this shocking statistic. But, then , look again at the view in the morning when you get up which is always inspiring, right?

Any questions just fire away.  Cheers

Scarlet

Merge with Clachnacuddin,  hand-off the criticism, and use all of the town's junior players' resources to bring on these youngsters  for ICT exclusively.

Old loyalties are like old soldiers--they fade away. And ICT are, frankly, at the crossroads as I see it.

Innovation is imperative for this club's survival.

Not only that, but surely the citizens of Inverness should then support the team on every alternate Saturday. If not, why not?

Mc ART- - Ideal signing and hopefully he will develop further into a very valuable player who will relish being with the club that offered him the main chance ; and stay a longer time than most of the others.

To build this club back up for a stable future you need quality, resilience, development and the cosseting of these younger players. Also a touch of tough love.  All of which, in turn, should help with the development of their loyalty and their appreciation of what ICT is all about.

I hope.

Well , MAYBE COUNTY ARE TRYING TO SWALLOW ALL OUR PLAYERS SO AS TO GIVE US A REAL HEADACHE NEXT TERM BECAUSE THIS WILL, INEVITABLY LEAD TO MORE WORRY AND MONEY EXPENDITURES ,ETC.       JUST A THOUGHT?

Aye !  IHE.

And he IS a breath of fresh air which, for me at least, does tend to soften the blow of another season without a really successful outcome Also he can certainly can take it on the chin without flinching and doesn't over-react.

Correct Jaggernaut.        BUT...……..

Alan..why don't you exaggerate the positive and avoid the negative completely. It's how to win friends and influence people . Yessssssssss!

I promise that your feelings about ICT will change for the better and you will  garner soooooo  many "likes" that your life will change.  And you will become the top banana on here.

Och, IBM, You will be the first to know when the guys in my consortium of spies based in Fort George advise me of developments.

Might be a whiley though……. 

And this guy is only 63, bejabbers !    Wait until he gets past 80....OMG! And his mind starts to go as well. 

Believe it or not I can step down from my house into the garage  with my car keys in my pocket and then I forget what I am in there for..... I then have to phone IHE to see if he can remember  why I am there and I forget his cell phone number. And then...………………….

Just so long as John Robertson doesn't leave......eh?

I'm now used to watching ice hockey players at the top level of the game and watching how they perform as  associated with how fit they are.

The top, highly motivated, players  are in the gym  daily and work out with their individual coaches on engaging in very strenuous  routines which embrace top physical equipment that does cost thousands of dollars.  No doubt Caley Thistle  can't afford this type of equipment but how strenuous are the work-outs that the individual players do  since they are also full professionals with, presumably, no other outside jobs so should they not be in top condition?

On the ice, the pace can be torrid and the positioning of each player carries expectations and skilful instructions and demands from the trainers and their assistants. There is huge money involved , of course, and it's at that point that comparing the two types of game slows to an agonising crawl.However, IMHO,  top fitness for our team, perhaps beyond their normal expectations, can pay high dividends by the end of the season. And unless we can entice the crowds back to more than a mere few then where do we really go from here? The coffers won't be filled and the wages will remain low and the players will wonder about their futures.

And what about the dodgy officiating and decisions that seem to enrage the average , but fair , punter? Unless some form of instant review (i.e. by TV or by access to a large computer) is introduced then it may take a long time for the beaks at the top of Scottish Football to stop yawning and really get a grip of this very poor situation. Whether these beaks are biased or corrupt is not the point. The point is … when are they going to change the system?

So, compare ice hockey :-  There are cameras everywhere following every move of the action (even including close-ups of these moves ) and if the senior referee is  undecided, even after consulting the other two refs (total of 3 refs on the ice), then he can phone the Head Office of the National Hockey League in Toronto thousands of miles away and request an immediate review on the screens of the bosses. Within a minute or two the decision is handed down from Toronto to the senior referee on the ice and that's that. Often the decision is not what the refs may state or want but it's "Over and out'." Generally it's a very fair route to go. A few within the home crowd may mumble but accept it because it is as good an outcome as can presently be devised because, also, the film can be played back by Toronto in slow motion! And the risk of inflaming the tempers of the average over 20,000 fans in the rink is far too high to not have top experienced officials sitting in the judges' seats.

Here , in Scotland, no matter how bad the refereeing,  who does a review instantly at a senior level ? No one!!!  Is  this not unfair and pathetic in a time period where the computerisation of sport is now well-advanced? Anyone  agree with me? Crucial decisions HAVE to be made on all this as I see it.

Yeah , but it's still an interesting list isn't it?

Right-on, Kingsmills. We should just run them ragged--and all in the first 45 minutes.

I hate to admit it, being a stoic auld fool nowadays, but I'm really getting butteflies in my stomach. And I might have to turn to IHE offering my trembling hand  to grasp the  pick-me-up  or summat. that I just know he will offer.     But is he awake  yet....?

Cable Guy. Tut Tut!

Re your comments about opinions - all of which , apparently, you think stink--      so that's your opinion then is it...?       

Well, Caley are not the worst but who is then over the last season?

Ross County were somewhat worse than ICT etc.:-

https://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/sport/football/spfl-dirtiest-teams-most-yellow-and-red-cards-in-scottish-football-2018-19-1-4922782?page=1

Enjoy! SP

It's not the first time that we have fallen under the ref's decision in similar cases but apparently he was not a good referee anyway. But if high heels were the reason for the sending off then our team has to keep that in mind and come our wearing plimsoles.

Either way, it is what it is and we will have to get over it but deffo no appeal should be made since I don't think for a minute that the Beaks care a hoot about such an appeal from ICT.  And let's not forget that they favour bad refs …..so...…?

Donview - - haven't heard from you for a long time. Glad to see you are still alive and kicking. With your propensity for mild and modest humour still intact too. Wheee!

Why did we play more defensively today than aggressively in order to try to score? One goal and the team would have bean home and dry?

And some live and die by the motto that attack is the best form of defense...….?

Since I've lost touch with all the footie things, apart from Caley Thistle that is,  then all this cloak and dagger stuff and "he says  she says" , most of which seems non productive and even against the existence of Caley Thistle, seems mindless and counter-productive to any real thought of progress In the Capital of the Highlands relating to the major development of one really strong and impressive city team.

Financially, a merger just seems to be a no-brainer which will strengthen the hopes and progress of a merged team tremendously. I am not putting down past loyalties to one team or the other but, individually, neither Caley nor Clach can make any real impact in the Scottish Leagues without it IMHO.

If Clach had the potential resources to do this then they  would have  taken action to achieve this before now. They can now (IMHO) be only a feeder team to Caley from this point and so why not jump on the bandwagon and merge forces so that the whole of inverness is behind them? Why not?  Such a joining of loyalties and energy from both sides could make such a difference in the income of the club, support for the team and set the tone for future goals and how to achieve these goals and earn respect from the upper echelons of Scottish Footie in spades.Plain as a pikestaff!

Maybe ICT could meet up with the movers and shakers of Clachnacuddin and work out a formula to achieve this. Great Oaks from Little Acorns grow. Aye!

Does this only service the needs those fans who use Twitter. Or will older , but passionate, fans like me have no access to the commentary, etc.?

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

This would increase the chances of getting into the Premier league as a permanent home, better teams would be visiting Inverness and it would do absolutely no harm to the status of the Highlands and Inverness in particular.

Serious replies welcome...no abuse please. 

It isn't that easy, surely, to just get rid of the "poorer" players and replace them with better ones at the drop of a hat?

The former need to still be paid their full contractual dues if the deal was for another season or more unless  their contracts are about to expire. And if you bring in a better player is it not likely that he will be asking for a higher wage than what has been paid to the "non-performer" just released?

Especially when it seems that ICT doesn't have  the resources at their disposal to just run wild signing better players. If the club is able to get promoted this season then the pressure on it financially will surely ease but how long will take  to accumulate extra finance to ease that pressure?

ICT may get better crowds initially in the Premier League but if they don't get on a winning streak right out of the gate then how long will it likely be before the crowds start to disappear?

These prices are something else, Scotty. Excellent.

Portland ,Oregon, is the one city in The U.S. situated  directly south of Vancouver, Canada, right close to the West coast, that I would not mind at all living in. House prices are also much lower compared to the average price of a smaller, detached house in Vancouver these days of about $1,000,000 Can. With a younger, dynamic population, totally clued in and very progressive, it's a wonderful place to settle in. Very near the Pacific Ocean with easy access to all the major transport facilities. I am sure that as a holidaymaker arriving from Inverness you would receive a fine welcome and enjoy a surprising and great holiday.

Cheers Scarlet.