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Solid performance overall. Livi started both the first and second halves strongly and Nouble had Harper on toast on numerous occasions. Moyo on the other flank also looked lively but Carson was more alert to him and even when he was beaten the final ball was often dreadful. Holt had an outrageous long range effort from about 40 yards that looked like it was going to sail in over the head of Rdigers but somehow he scrambled back and tipped the ball onto the bar before gathering it up. Deas (I think) had a good header off the bar from a Harper free kick before we took the lead. Carson snuffed out a Livi attack on the bye line and after a couple of quick passes, Scott Allardice sent a glorious pass out to the left flank to the feet of MacKay who got the ball under control before breezing past the Livi full back and he sent a low cross to the back post for Samuels to tuck away from a few yards out. Only other major talking point of the first half was a pretty reckless challenge from Fitzwater on Allardice. It looked really bad at the time and probably should have seen the Livi defender sent off. Again, Livi dominated the start of the half before we got settled down again. The drama kicked off when a long clearance downfield by Ridgers got Samuels in behind the Livi defence and Stryjek came rushing out and leathered him in the face Street Fighter style. Out came the red card and Livi were down to 10. From the free kick harper drew a good save from the replacement keeper before a piece of MacKay magic saw us extend the lead. A raking pass sent Mackay away and he ghosted past Devlin using some kind of elastico type skill that had us on our feet. He drove into the box and stabbed an effort towards goal which looked like it may have gone in possibly with a touch off a Livi defender. It was a stunning piece of skill that I hope we get to see back again. After this we were pretty comfortable and Dodds started top change things a lot to give more players minutes but this led to us becoming a little disjointed as players were frequently moved around the pitch into different positions. Livi started to come back into things and got a deserved goal back when Holt rolled his man at the edge of the box and dispatched a low drive past Ridgers. Then Oakley gave away a penalty with needless pull of a shirt but Holt sent the resultant spot kick well over the bar and we saw the rest of the game out. A deserved win but we almost gave it away at the end. Delaney, Deas and MacKay were all very good and look ready to go already. Others still need a bit more game time to get fully up to speed.

Danny MacKay is set to come back as well it seems. Loan deal being finalised.

Thank you for the kind words

Hello there! We've got another podcast out featuring interviews with Billy Dodds and Sean Welsh! There's also the usual chat from ourselves about how the team is shaping up, we look at how our opposition are coming along (with thanks to numerous posters on P & B) and there's a chance to win a signed Robbie Deas shirt if you follow us on Twitter and like and retweet the pod Tweet below. Cor!

In shock news Danny Devine has been released by Caley Thistle and is apparently on trial at Dundee. May be a different Danny Devine of course...

That statement is utterly nauseating.

What!? The poll is literally in my previous post...

Incredible name

A super scientific poll by The Wyness Shuffle revels that the new shirt is liked by 95% of the support! Disclaimer clearly not all of the ICT support.

Eh what? 🧐

Hi folks, the podcast interview with Scot Gardiner is out. Have a click on the links below or head to Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc directly and grab it there. Hopefully your questions are answered (Disclaimer: I haven't listened to it yet!). Cheers!

Maybe a nice orange effort will get the likes of Alan Douglas back along. I hear he likes teams that play in orange for some reason...

An edit is in progress but I am afraid I don't know what questions have been asked or the answers (obviously) but I am hopeful the guys got as many questions over as possible!

Forza Caley Thistle!

Hi @jagster. Unfortunately the guys were recording when you submitted those questions but the general theme of poor communication will have been raised I'm sure. I think someone else mentioned the match programme as well. Hopefully that was also asked about too so you and others can get an answer

Cheers for that @Robert. Questions add to the list and we'll see what answers the guys get!

Cheers @Jaggernaut. I'll add this in as well. Hopefully get a few of these passed on to SG and get some answers for you!

Cheers for all those @Fraz. Some good ones in there! I'll add them to the list for the guys to pass on to Gardiner.

I've posted this in the podcast thread so thank you for flagging it up here. As @old caley girl says we are chatting with Gardiner this week (it might be tomorrow night). We'd love to get some questions from fans to put to Gardiner especially if you have concerns about certain things and it seems that player sponsorship is one of them so I can make a note of it and ask the guys to put that to SG.

Anyone got any questions they want to ask Scot Gardiner? If so pop them in here or tweet us and we'll ask him as many as we can!

Robertson definitely did well taking some absolute jobbers like Donaldson, White and Chalmers and turning them into good players. Granted he had plenty of misses as well but so did Butcher.

Fly on the Wall definitely has connections to the club but some of the stuff they've posted is a bit hit and miss. Deas being away is hardly the biggest shock. It would be a tall order for us to keep hold of him though I would obviously be delighted if we did. Polly coming back seems a lazy rumour though I must admit, even though he seems to have completely lost his after his stellar debut season with Motherwell, we could be the club to rebuild him. And we could do with a number ten behind Mckay. Other rumours seem to be Pearson coming back which again I wouldn't be disappointed with.

IIRC the new A9 / A82 interchange should include active travel routes but that's likely years away from being built...

Suspect those are weekends reserved for Scottish Cup fixtures so we may have another home fixture to cram in before the winter break for the World Cup. And as noted above we have Cove at home on 2 January 2023.