Scotty

... or hope !!

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Airdrie: Todorov Crowd: 1102 CDN Girl HT: 1-0 FT: 1-0 1st Scorer ICT: Doran 1st Scorer Airdrie: McGregor Crowd: 888 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 3-2 1st Scorer ICT: Samuels 1st Scorer Airdrie: Gallagher Crowd: 925

and we know which end of the table each of those teams were at for most of the season... will give the boy a chance and hopefully be pleasantly surprised

if current way works for you then stick to it ... This is just another option for users to try and optimise mobile experience which now make up more than 50% of our traffic.

Got a hold of the wife's Galaxy S10 for about 2 minutes last night and using Chrome it did seem to offer the option to 'install app'. But i never got a chance to test further. I assume this does the same thing and hopefully it uses the features now built into the forum software itself to display the site better than a standard browser window.

Could be ... I dont use Android so not sure. Will need to see if I can snaffle the wife's phone later and test it

Ok, its not really an app !! but the forum software now has a feature built in that will work on iPhones that are capable of using IOS 16.4 or later and function like a standalone application. It allows you to create a shortcut on the home page of your phone that functions like a native App, sends you notifications and generally utilises as much screen space as possible. You do not have to do this to use the site on mobile, but I have been using it for a few weeks and it seems pretty stable and easy to use and just feels better than a browser window. A few clarifying notes first: If you have iOS 16.3 or earlier then you can still do the regular desktop shortcut I describe below, but you will not get the notifications and it will still open in a browser. The 'app' format (called Progressive Web App or PWA) is an Apple feature for iOS 16.4 and up. If you have android then you may be able to do similar but I don't know as I have never used Android phones, always an Apple guy. This will work using Edge or Safari on iPhone. It does not appear to work on Chrome on iPhone. Thats a limitation of Chrome or Apple, not sure which and nothing we can do to make it work. OK, you made it this far and want the CTO 'APP' on your home screen. Great! Read on... (if any image is too small, please click on it for full size). MS EDGE MOBILE Load CTO in your browser. Click the 'more' icon in the bottom right This will load additional options for Edge. Click on the Share icon and 'Add to Home Screen' and give it a name. This will add the icon to the home page SAFARI MOBILE Load CTO in your browser. Click the 'share' icon in the bottom taskbar This will load additional options for Safari. Click on the 'Add to Home Screen' and give it a name, then click ADD This will add the icon to the home page You can now view the site as an almost full screen progressive web app. Configure Notifications (optional) From here it does not matter if Edge/Safari was used. Go to https://caleythistleonline.com/notifications/options/ on the main site. If using mobile that would be as shown below. Configure the various notifications to send you email or, if you want it on screen, to push it to you where that is an option Next time you get a message or another notification that is pushed to you it will alert you on your phone like a regular app. One caveat - this will NOT (currently) show the number of unread messages or notifications on your app like regular apps. This is a limitation from Apple, not from the software.

Scotty HT: 0-1 FT: 1-2 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Sons: MacLean Crowd: 621 CDN Girl HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st Scorer ICT: Doran 1st Scorer Sons: Lynch Crowd: 555 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 1-3 1st Scorer ICT: Brooks 1st Scorer Sons: Hilton Crowd: 595

Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 3-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer BR: McGachie Crowd: 977 CDN Girl HT: 2-0 FT: 3-0 1st Scorer ICT: Brooks 1st Scorer BR: Watson Crowd: 755 SOS HT: 0-0 FT: 3-0 1st Scorer ICT: Samuels 1st Scorer BR: Peggie Crowd: 814

Kind of had a similar transition at Toronto over the years ... Season tickets started (2007) with really nice printed tickets sent out each year but you could also use an account on the website where you could download your ticket and print a PDF for entry - or have the PDF or a screenshot of it on your phone. Each had a barcode linked to your ticket so it could only be used once. Then (maybe 5 years later) they did away with the printed tickets and allowed you to continue either printing PDFs or using screenshots, and over the last 2 or 3 years they have taken away that as well and now the only way you get in is via the Toronto FC app. You can show a barcode from the app or download to Apple Wallet. It's all linked to a Ticketmaster account (so you can use that app too) and that makes it easy to send your ticket to friends if not using it (no Ticketmaster fees for that fortunately). Downside, from an ICT perspective perhaps - as mentioned - some of the older supporters may not have tech skills or even a smartphone capable of doing this, and from the club perspective, there may be a significant cost in creating a fully digital ticketing system that can scan and verify your ticket in real time and allow some of the expected bells and whistles...

New 2nd kit not for me. Happy with the V neck home kit, looks really good in pictures. Also happy with the vertical stripes red/black from last year as it also looks good and I hope we keep it this year too (given the promise to have 2 years at least for each kit). The orange one, not so sure. It is definitely different and I am assuming the red squares are actually more red than they look in the picture as they seem to be similar to the shorts where the orange border fades away towards the bottom of the shirt ... keeper tops are cracking.

Prefer the V neck myself. Find it very hard and uncomfortable to wear the round neck shirts and tend to stick to polo tops these days. Can see myself getting one of these I think.

Better watch out for that Nairn #4 !!

you are probably right, but then again, depending on who the fan is then they too stand the risk of being accused of just being a boardroom shill by elements of the fanbase. A classic case of not being able to please everyone. I am sure the well-meaning members of the Trust, and anyone else who has been on any supporter's organisation (and not just at ICT) can attest to this. Perhaps what is needed is a bit of both? A fan based rep for the generic or oft asked fan questions and a club official where it needs a more formal answer or may need to be escalated. Email forwarders could handle both people under one address The club have always been pretty parochial and insular with information, and in some cases, that's the correct stance. We may want to know everything and think we have the right, but we do not. Confidential info, personnel information, or business critical stuff need to remain confidential until it can be announced where appropriate. However almost everything else should be up for public consumption and certainly not a secret, but that's seldom the case. When called out about this behaviour, the level (and scope) of insularity then increases exponentially and actually does damage like we are seeing now. We have seen it many times before with different boards so it's nothing new. What's also not new is the fact that it's also pretty pointless trying to "manage" the non-confidential info this way as the flow of info from the stadium can sometimes be akin to water in a sieve. Many of the things raised recently are hardly state secrets (or should not need to be). How about we get back to the way the club used to share some info in a timely fashion and trot out the confidentiality clause only when it really is something that should not be discussed in the public domain. #OpenNESS

Don't care who it is provided they are responsive and handle the contact with supporters quickly and with fairness. Also don't buy the "doesn't get emails" line. It is so simple to set up email aliases, groups and/or forwarders that can deliver or forward email sent to one generic address such as SLO@<domain> to one, two or a hundred other email addresses including personal or internal addresses.

not my experience with Mr. Rae.

Is Keith back? Thought he had moved to Brechin City last September? Although he does seem to have been tweeting about ICT in Apr and June. He was indeed easy to deal with when I last spoke with him.

email address seems appropriate given the speed of response.

nope, communication should not be dependent on membership of anything. However, if the trust can reach a tipping point where it has a significant membership, seen to be representative of the support then they really do need to listen if the Trust speaks with a representative voice. Whether they do or not is another question. I would wager that many of those who don't get a response or who are grumbling may be shareholders. I for one would be happy to proxy my miniscule holding to the Trust for any meetings in future. If you have a few hundred more like that then you take the 10% voting share they already have and make it a little more. That just might be noticed. If we do manage to make it back to the premiership then it is also worth considering that our current method of communication - or lack thereof - may not stand up to UEFA club licensing criteria.

Having been involved in the committee of the Supporters Club 20 years ago, and probably involved to this day in something other than just the website if I still lived in Inverness, I can say that if enough people came forward to want to be involved, then the supporters club/trust (or whatever name it went under) would typically relish the idea of having actual elections. The reality is you get a handful of people, mostly the same people, stepping up to get involved in these ventures. These are typically folk that do have the interests of supporters at the heart of things and are dedicated ICT fans so also try to do what's in the interests of the club. Over the course of a few years they do get questioned about motives and in some cases cant win - being regarded a certain way by both club and supporters alike. I understand when some of these folks get jaded as you can only bang your head against a brick wall for so long, but they keep doing it because no-one else is coming forward. Would be great to see some representation from all parts of the ground and all age groups. I too have been lax in throwing my fiver in, but perhaps I should.

We cant force players or their agents to accept our contract offers, nor to negotiate them when they are coming to an end. The days of Jim McLean style contracts have been over for decades. Its a sad reality but given how we also lurch from year to year financially, offering longer term contracts is also not feasible whether we like it or not. Even if we were in a position to offer long term deals, if a player doesn't want to commit to that length of contract there's not a lot we can do about it. Unfortunately, I agree. As much as it sticks in the throat, players going to County or Killie is currently an upward step. Higher wages, higher level of competition etc. We cant put that ridiculous situation right until we can get out of this division (in the right direction).

Retirement is not an option Gringo! The editorial and moderator contracts on here were designed using an old Jim McLean contract template!!

IT could be ...

@Govan Jaggie - think life happened ... like many people who are no longer around the site.

All ready here. Just coffee for now but the beat up old cup which I have had for years could only be bettered by the one on offer today